In These Times

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• • 30 Dec 05
  • 11:57 pm

  Lo, how the mighty have fallen. It's curious just how much country music has strayed from its roots and been bastardized by the nefarious Nashville. In the beginning, God created country music and he say that this was good because it was about the things that truly mattered, like humanity. When country music started out, it was down to earth, and about distrusting things that were abstracted from daily life, like the man and his dubious agenda. It's forefathers sang about hardships and oppression that was brought down on them by so-called worldly matters, and are probably turning in their graves …

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• • 31 Dec 05
  • 2:42 am

  Almost sounds like one of those "if we kill them all they can't take our jobs" type jingosims. But more to the point, this is what happens when a redneck gets so hopped up on hooch that he jumps into the sack with a fee-lovin' hippie harlot. It seems to be whining about social justice along capitalist lines--a true contradiction in terms. Now recall that the Ol'-G countrymen from back in the Great Depression days would have been lynched by McCarthy alongside all those fruity, open-minded, liberal Hollywood types. They didn't want dead-end, factory jobs. What they wanted was a chance …

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• • 02 Jan 06
  • 1:47 pm

  crashtech, Those poor girls said that they're ashamed of a single man, not of an entire nation and culture, and now they've been lynched into obscurity. Is that fair? Doesn't freedom of speech have to do with not having to be an expert to express and opinion on something. Your point is as lame geriatric member. When you but their CD, you support their music, not their politics. For politics, we have a things called democracy. Tina, George W Bush is a criminal (and on so many levels). If the grandfathers of country music knew about the eavesdropping that he authorized, …

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• • 03 Jan 06
  • 9:18 pm

  Hey, it's like the only Country singer that I know to be a Rhodes Scholar put it: Eggheads cussing rednecks cussing Hippies for their hair Others laugh at straights who laugh at Freaks who laugh at squares Some folks hate the whites Who hate the blacks who hate the klan Most of us hate anything that We don’t understand

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• • 03 Jan 06
  • 11:14 pm

  That's right. But he was one of the so-called outlaws that Nashville kind of shunned.

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