Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time

Colter Wall

I’m in my seventies and do like quality music in every genre including Rap, Country, Classical, Rock n Roll, R&B, Bluegrass, Jazz, and all the rest. That’s a great quality I picked up from my Mom who grew up in the Swing era and played Classical piano, listened to the Dick Clark show daily, and generally liked almost all music, good bad, and indifferent. She passed away at age 95, and I love the memory of her playing music from the "Phantom of the Opera" Broadway show on the piano up until her eighties, struggling with Boogie-Woogie style piano playing when I was a kid, and always asking me to play a favorite Santana song on the stereo when she visited. We could all stand to learn something from her.

Being an old fart who generically doesn’t like Rap is just as lame as those same  oldsters who thought Rock n Roll was some sort of unlistenable menace in the fifties. The more things change the more they remain the same it seems.

Mike

Modern Country = Bad Rock n Roll + Twang

Old Country is where it's at. Todays Country is all about pretty boys & gals and pretty faces. Give me some man in black or Hank Williams Sr any day. Good conversation here, and I will certainly look into some of the artists mentioned especially Marty Stuart. 

In the meantime, Classic Rock and some Alternative is where I'm at. 

More Cowbell!

I dunno. Billy May. Prog. Ken Nordine. French Rockabilly. There are a few things that I believe may sound worse. Either way, an aesthetic judgement that I may normally keep to myself. Everybody’s got their thing. It’s one thing to pass judgement on the sincerity of the option, but not the opinion itself. 
 

I have about 6 bands the significant other puts on the do not play with her around list. They are Slapp Happy, The Butthole Surfers, Shake Chain, Marina P, any band with Lydia Lunch, and Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Makers. Judge away.