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re: GA/FL Line Pt. 5: Bro Country vs DBT / Who's the one 'pandering' here?. . .
Posted on 12/16/16 at 2:45 pm to SthGADawg
Posted on 12/16/16 at 2:45 pm to SthGADawg
Quick sidebar on Isbell... sorry to hijack your thread Jeff... but I watched the documentary on Drive By Truckers the other night (was from when Isbell was in DBT) - it is a good watch and would recommend it if you are looking for something to watch one night
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Posted on 12/16/16 at 10:31 pm to King of Cloverhurst
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sorry to hijack your thread
No such thing. WE're going to get to the bottom of this thing soon here eventually, man.
I saw that documentary a while back. Was pretty good. And I used to like that band a lot. What do you think of their new album though where they use Huffington Post headlines for lyrics?
Posted on 12/18/16 at 6:57 am to Jefferson Dawg
Songs are good but waaay too political. They were at their peak in the Southern Rock Opera - Dirty South days for sure. New album getting huge critic praise, but I am guessing alot of that is due to the politics
Posted on 12/18/16 at 7:31 am to King of Cloverhurst
Some pretty cringeworthy DBT quotes in there. Glad I've never been a big fan of their music anyways.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 10:07 am to King of Cloverhurst
Yep. They’ve been dipping their toes in the leftist political themes for a while, but decided to go ahead and jump the shark for good on this latest record. They’re basically an NPR caricature show now. The lyrics honestly sound to me like they’re sitting in front of their laptops strumming their guitars while reading social justice articles off Huffington Post or some other far left moronic echo chamber.
Hell, the leader of the band whos in his f’n 50s decided recently that the hipster fantasy camp la la land of downtown Athens ga wasn’t leftist enough, so he moved to Portland, oREgon. Which is basically Mecca for trendy commie SJW know-nothing brooders who take themselves way too seriously and have never had a real job, so maybe we should have seen it coming.
It’s weird though because most people grow out of their naïve idealism and cringe-worthy political stupidity early in life when they eventually have to get a job and some responsibility and join the real world. These dipshits appear to have figured out a way to evolve exactly backwards from that somehow though.
You’d just like to think that they could have a little more self-awareness. I mean this is a band with a catalog of songs observing/criticizing/rationalizing the dominant religion and attitudes, etc of their native region. Yet somehow they can’t see that they, themselves, have adopted a dogma of their own. A hilarious leftist social justice cult dogma to be exact.
It sucks, because they really do have a unique sound.
Hell, the leader of the band whos in his f’n 50s decided recently that the hipster fantasy camp la la land of downtown Athens ga wasn’t leftist enough, so he moved to Portland, oREgon. Which is basically Mecca for trendy commie SJW know-nothing brooders who take themselves way too seriously and have never had a real job, so maybe we should have seen it coming.
It’s weird though because most people grow out of their naïve idealism and cringe-worthy political stupidity early in life when they eventually have to get a job and some responsibility and join the real world. These dipshits appear to have figured out a way to evolve exactly backwards from that somehow though.
You’d just like to think that they could have a little more self-awareness. I mean this is a band with a catalog of songs observing/criticizing/rationalizing the dominant religion and attitudes, etc of their native region. Yet somehow they can’t see that they, themselves, have adopted a dogma of their own. A hilarious leftist social justice cult dogma to be exact.
It sucks, because they really do have a unique sound.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 10:19 am to TMDawg
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Some pretty cringeworthy DBT quotes in there. Glad I've never been a big fan of their music anyways.
I can't bring myself to click that link. It's just too nice of a morning....
You should really give their new one a listen though. Just as a sociological study/experiment or something. I'm really starting to think they may just be putting everyohne on and it';s fake.
Off the top of my head it literally includes the following:
-a black lives matter song
-a 'your an evil stubborn backwards racist if you don't support illegal immigration' song
-a song about people not wanting to take the flag down from the state house in Columbia
-a feminist gender-evolution song where women now do the love-em-and-leave-em sport fricking and drinking on Saturday nights
-and of course several of the usual ones about SOutherners being bitter clingers to guns and religion
-i may listen again later today and dig around some more. This is fricked up man
Posted on 12/18/16 at 11:47 am to Jefferson Dawg
quote:Don't click the link then, it'll ruin that thought
I'm really starting to think they may just be putting everyohne on and it';s fake.
It's embarrassing. They actually talk about several of those topics. Some excerpts include:
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Master songwriters both, Hood and Cooley wisely avoid overt polemics to explore such pressing issues as race, income inequality, the NRA, deregulation, police brutality, Islamophobia, and the plague of suicides and opioid abuse.
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I’m a white guy from the South, do I have the right to be singing about this stuff? What can I do? The only conclusion I could come up with was maybe white guys, with Southern accents, who look like rednecks, need to say Black Lives Matter too.
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"SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA was a pretty political record," Cooley says. "But we hadn’t had our first black president yet. We hadn’t sat in the bleachers and watched the backlash, which, as acquainted as we are with racism, went beyond what anyone imagined it would be."
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I’m sure there will be people saying ‘I wish they’d keep the politics out of it,’" Cooley says, "but one of the characteristics among the people and institutions we are taking to task in these songs is their self-appointed status as the exclusive authority on what American is. What is American enough and who the real Americans are.
I particularly like the capitalization of black lives matter in their press release.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 12:42 pm to Jefferson Dawg
If you want to listen to some good modern country check out Sturgill Simpson.
Live stream
That's all I got for this thread.
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That's all I got for this thread.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 5:43 pm to Barstools
Sturgill is by far my favorite of the new artsy country music. High Top Mountain is fantastic.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 6:25 pm to Jefferson Dawg
This is dbt best album since 2008. Highly acclaimed.
Posted on 12/20/16 at 10:32 pm to djsdawg
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Highly acclaimed.
Exactly
Posted on 12/20/16 at 11:02 pm to Jefferson Dawg
Posted on 12/20/16 at 11:04 pm to Jefferson Dawg
If it sounded like shite, it wouldnt be highly acclaimed. Extra points for pissing off rednecks like yourself.
Posted on 12/20/16 at 11:16 pm to djsdawg
Posted on 12/21/16 at 8:14 am to Jefferson Dawg
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Anyone proposing an “axe-off” has just forfeited their right to call any other human a douche bag ever again. For as long as they live.
it was my best attempt to say that neither of those guys can do anything on a guitar past G-C-Em-D...maybe the same progression in the key of E..throw in a Bm...and there you have it...your theory is still shite...people "know" of FGL because most people...I would say a majority get their musical exposure given to them by terrestrial radio stations...who pump out what Nashville tells them too....once enlightened by somebody willing to challenge what they are listening to...they then leave all that shite behind and start listening to stuff like Isbell, Simpson, Cody Jinks, Turnpike Troubadours, American Aquarium, Blitzen Trapper, Hayes Carll, Jason Boland, John Moreland, Justin Townes Earle, Pat Green, Ray Wylie Hubard, Ryan Bingham, Shane Owens, Shovels and Rope, Whiskey Myers, Whitey Morgan...or any number of ARTISTS out there....
but when sampling a group that knows none of these folks because of where they get their info from...of course they choose what they know.
Posted on 12/21/16 at 8:51 am to Jefferson Dawg
Shitty sounding albums aren't good. New dbt isn't shitty. New dbt is good.
Posted on 12/21/16 at 9:46 am to djsdawg
Me Tarzan. King of jungle. New dbt not shitty. New dbt good. Highly acclaimed.
Posted on 12/21/16 at 9:48 am to djsdawg
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New dbt is good.
What do you personally like about it tarzan? Are there any songs on it you like the best?
Posted on 12/21/16 at 9:52 am to djsdawg
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Shitty sounding albums aren't good. New dbt isn't shitty. New dbt is good.
I've listened...it is shite compared to earlier work...add on that the white guilt lyrics...and its painful...critics are liberals so they like the message...therefore they suck them off...it isn't cause its a great album.
Posted on 12/21/16 at 10:25 am to Jefferson Dawg
Who dbt is?
Me not read thread.
Me not read thread.
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