Country music would have to my least favourite genre of all time- no really- I hate it! It probably came from my dad playing ‘Conway Twitty’ and ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ in the car as a kid. I just can’t stand it. That said, I’ve made an alternative country mix. For those times when you have to listen to country but you just can’t go there. Yee haw!
Ween - Piss Up A Rope
Pretty hard to define these guys. Experimental/alternative/psychedelic rock and just to confuse everyone even more in 1996, they released 12 Golden Country Greats - a full country album. And it’s gold! They do country better than country artists. This song cracks me up.
Kill Devil Hills - Drinkin’ Too Much
I saw these guys supporting The Living End. Weird line up but they were amazing. Picture- a band of odd-ball country hicks. Hmmm doesn’t sound so appealing does it. Trust me- they had such a fantastic energy on stage. This song was definitely the crowd favourite. All the alco's- charge your glass, sing along and feel the desperation ‘everything I touch turns to shit, but you are the exception to it’Primus - Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver
If you're ever in need a good old hoedown, this is the song. I remember seeing the video clip late at night on Rage, half asleep and thinking ‘am i dreaming or is this song for real?!’ Always a party favourite of mine.
Puscifer – Cuntry Boner
Honestly, I just wanted an excuse to post this song. If you’re not into the words ‘f*ck and 12 inch plastic pole in the same sentence, probably not the song for you. Ah Maynard, never scared to piss off a whole genre.
Nice work. I'm with you on the fact that Country is the lamest genre of music going round, however I don't mind the occasional bit of Conway AKA "The Twit"'s stoic sincerity in song. Mmm, righteous.
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