I live very close to the gulf, so yeh I know alot of people that listen to country alot of them are rednecks, so yeh I guess thats what turns me off of country music. =\

i didn't mean it in a Texan stereotype way, although I guess assuming country is omnipresent there was a bit presumptuous... It's like the American misconception that the English are obsessed with tea... okay we ARE but that's a bad example

I know what you meant...besides I was just thinking that I do have a cowboy hat, I've rode a horse before, and I have a BB gun...not quite a shot gun, but whatcha gonna do? lol

No albums from Hank and Dolly though.

I understand where you're coming from. I assume though that these people are listening to the crap on the radio though? I know it's been said, but it's still worth it to look into country beyond the mainstream.

It's only really in very recent years that I have started to expand my musical horizons and these 2 genres haven't really recieved any attention yet. My dad likes country music and everything he would listen to I hated, although I don't know if I would still feel the same now. I can now at least recognise that its probably worthy of a quick explore to see if theres anything I can get into that isnt Johnny Cash. I say that because Johnny Cash is probably all of the country music I own.

I liked the likes of Dre, Snoop Dog and Eminem when I was a bairn and would have it all on my minidisc player during school. I did have a awful taste in music then though to be fair. Since then I've gotten into J5 and some trip hop and thats about it.

So, thank you for this thread!

mini-disk were so kick ass, i wish that would have caught on.

They were alright if you had decent equipment to record onto. My hifi is the absolute doggs bollocks, I will seriously only ever get rid of it when it gives up and dies but it is quite old so it wasnt the best for recording onto minidisc.

Minidisc was great for that, but to buy albums in that format? I never understood why anyone would do that but then again, not many people did hence why it met its timely death.

It shouldn't. A lot of what people call rap is actually rap. Hip-hop is a blanket genre, rap is a sub-genre. Sort of like how all punk is rock but not all rock is punk. Hip-hop also refers to trip-hop, new jack swing, turntablism, scratch, reggaeton, etc.

Awesome thread. I've always been into hip-hop, but it wasn't until recently have I gotten into country. I started with O'Death. :) I've taken some of your suggestions on here, but any more in this genre?

As for hip-hop, it's another genre that's rapidly evolving. I see no one has mentioned Immortal Technique.:eek: If you have, :thumb:

If you haven't:
Cause of Death

And here's another O'Death:
Down to Rest

Great idea for a thread this.

A few of my favourite country tunes;









I don't listen to a lot of hip-hop at all, but I still have favourites;

Dead Prez is killer man!