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re: Did Garth Brooks Rip Country Music's Soul Out?
Posted on 3/9/18 at 7:05 pm to TaTa Toothy
Posted on 3/9/18 at 7:05 pm to TaTa Toothy
Garth took Chris Ledoux’s show and made it mainstream
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Posted on 3/10/18 at 7:46 pm to TaTa Toothy
Garth finished it, it was initiated by Kenny Rogers.
Posted on 3/10/18 at 7:56 pm to FightinTigersDammit
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I was talking about this today with a guy at work, and asked him how many Garth songs will be considered 'country classics' in 40-50 years. My opinion is, almost none.
I think "And the Thunder Rolls" will be. "Friends in Low Places" already is a country classic. "Two Pina Coladas", "The Dance", "Rodeo", and "If Tomorrow Never Comes" may be some day.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 10:29 pm to kingbob
Garth Brooks is the GOAT, IMHO. His self titled 1st album is a classic. Tomorrow Never Comes, The Dance, I Know One, Much Too Young To Feel This Damn Old...all these songs are classics and should be the standard of the evolution of country music into its natural descendent: country-pop.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 10:51 pm to Bushmaster
Ehhh, y'all are reaching
A lot of Garth songs lyrics are still very farm/rodeo in nature
Much too young to fell this damn old, is the best lyrical country song since Waylon
A lot of Garth songs lyrics are still very farm/rodeo in nature
Much too young to fell this damn old, is the best lyrical country song since Waylon
Posted on 3/12/18 at 10:54 pm to FightinTigersDammit
quote:Honestly, one of the worst takes I have ever heard on the entire website
I was talking about this today with a guy at work, and asked him how many Garth songs will be considered 'country classics' in 40-50 years. My opinion is, almost none.
Most of his songs are already 20-25 years old, and if you play them at a party with people who listen to country at all, the people 15-50 can sing almost every word....
Posted on 3/13/18 at 9:44 am to lsupride87
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A lot of Garth songs lyrics are still very farm/rodeo in nature
I don't think that's the point anyone is making. Garth had mega cross over appeal while mostly still holding onto his country/western roots. His first 3 albums are solidly country/western and are classics. His albums after those 3 are a mix of country/western and mainstream pop. And I say that as someone whose favorite Garth song is on his 4th album - Learning To Live Again.
It's not all Garth's fault. He was marketed that way by record producers and country radio. Once his star started dimming, they spent the latter half of the 90's finding the next Garth Brooks, and it killed good country music and lead to where we are today with mainstream country music.
Posted on 3/13/18 at 5:29 pm to LakeCountryRed
"A worn out tape of Chris Ledoux
Lonely women and bad booze
Seem to be the only friends I've left at all"
That's a great line from a great country song
Garth did not start the downward trend in country IMO....Blake Shelton did and then all of the bro-country that came out after and whomever thought it was good to put in rap cadence .....well......he should be hog whipped .
Lonely women and bad booze
Seem to be the only friends I've left at all"
That's a great line from a great country song
Garth did not start the downward trend in country IMO....Blake Shelton did and then all of the bro-country that came out after and whomever thought it was good to put in rap cadence .....well......he should be hog whipped .
Posted on 3/13/18 at 9:00 pm to KiwiHead
Always deserves repeating:
Isbell on this topic,
Isbell on this topic,
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Hate to break it to y'all, but Nashville didn't "ruin" country music. Lotta good burgers in this town; nobody forcing you to eat McDonald's.
Posted on 3/13/18 at 10:05 pm to WAY2GOLSU
Some of you have such strange taste. Garth Brooks and Alabama are probably the two best country acts since the early 80s.
Posted on 3/15/18 at 1:21 pm to Sus-Scrofa
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Sus-Scrofa
Isbell, Stapleton, and Sturgill...are trying to salvage country...with Dave Cobb leading the way.
turn off the radio and use that phone you have...find something good...
Garth didn't kill anything.
Posted on 3/15/18 at 1:29 pm to SthGADawg
everybody in this thread should check out the new album form Whiskey Wolves of the West
you're welcome
you're welcome
Posted on 3/15/18 at 5:02 pm to lsupride87
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Honestly, one of the worst takes I have ever heard on the entire website
I hardly need some tennis player attempt to lecture me about music.
Posted on 3/15/18 at 5:58 pm to TaTa Toothy
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Did Garth Brooks Rip Country Music's Soul Out?
No but Florida-Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, and the new pop country did.
Posted on 3/15/18 at 9:35 pm to TaTa Toothy
No mention of Billy Ray Cyrus? Achy Breaky Heart gave country music a facial it hasn't washed off since.
Posted on 3/15/18 at 9:59 pm to vandelay industries
This thread confuses me.
Garth was a first crossover hit guy. He just hit a spot. Seattle was starting but had not taken off. GNR was flailing, Metallica is metal so they arent for everybody.
Garth was putting out good and well written songs. Is he Waylon Jennings? Nope. Was he Florida Georgia Line? Hell no.
Garth had some solid to great songs early on.
Garth was a first crossover hit guy. He just hit a spot. Seattle was starting but had not taken off. GNR was flailing, Metallica is metal so they arent for everybody.
Garth was putting out good and well written songs. Is he Waylon Jennings? Nope. Was he Florida Georgia Line? Hell no.
Garth had some solid to great songs early on.
Posted on 3/16/18 at 12:57 am to kingbob
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I think "And the Thunder Rolls" will be. "Friends in Low Places" already is a country classic. "Two Pina Coladas", "The Dance", "Rodeo", and "If Tomorrow Never Comes" may be some day.
The Dance and Tomorrow Never Comes are definitely already classics
Posted on 3/16/18 at 6:14 am to BigOrangeBri
I think the dance is really the only one that deserves the "classic" title.
Much too Young and Wild Horses are incredibly good country songs. I dont think Garth oughta hold the title for pushing country down the tubes. He had a bunch of pop music, shania had more than garth. Whoever said the labels trying to find the next garth ruined it nailed it IMO.
Much too Young and Wild Horses are incredibly good country songs. I dont think Garth oughta hold the title for pushing country down the tubes. He had a bunch of pop music, shania had more than garth. Whoever said the labels trying to find the next garth ruined it nailed it IMO.
Posted on 3/16/18 at 9:03 am to LSU alum wannabe
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Garth was a first crossover hit guy. He just hit a spot. Seattle was starting but had not taken off. GNR was flailing, Metallica is metal so they arent for everybody.
I'm assuming your first sentence meant to say Garth wasn't the first crossover hit guy, which is true. Even when he came along, country was starting to gain some crossover appeal. Randy Travis had a couple of corssover hits in the late 80's. Reba McEntire had started gaining some traction. And if I remember right, Alan Jackson's first album was popular before Garth's first one was. In fact, I think Garth's first one was widely panned until the first hit off it exploded - forget if it was The Dance or If Tomorrow Never Comes.
A lot of that is off memory, so my memory may be off a bit. But overall I agree with your point - Garth's arrival was perfect timing, and either The Dance or If Tomorrow Never Comes catapulted him into notoriety. Much Too Young was the first single off that record and barely made a blip on the charts.
Posted on 3/16/18 at 10:00 am to The Spleen
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assuming your first sentence meant to say Garth wasn't the first crossover hit guy, which is true. Even when he came along, country was starting to gain some crossover appea
No. I knew this was coming. You can go all the way back to Cash for crossover. Conway Twitty did with Make Believe. Elvis crossed the other way with rock songs charting country. Country has crossed over to fill voids when pop music had shitty stretches. Disco. 1980’s before late 82-83.
Garth was the first of my era really to crossover. And most successful. But to lump him in with Bro Country is disingenuous. He can sing, he is capable of writing, he can strum a guitar.
No Fences is a damned good album with well written songs.
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