Rock Band Weekly: Country Pack 4

@CaptainProtonX

'Fancy' that.

@Nard Dog

You really have to grow up listen to it or enjoy the culture surrounding the music. While country music is almost exclusive to the USA something like Metal is a music genre that is heavly embrassed by people worldwide and by different cultures.

@That Burning Sensation

Country music is really like any other popular genre found worldwide. There's plenty of crap to sift through (that many times seems to be the most popular), but maturity is rewarded with some real quality songwriting.

I'd make the argument that country has produced more such artists than metal, but honestly I don't know enough metal past the most popular ones.

All that being said, I want a track pack from the Highwaymen (Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings & Kris Kristofferson)

@Nard Dog

I would seriously consider cutting off a piece of my body (waist, up, mind you) for Highwaymen tracks; you get that many talented people in one room (I don't care what type of music you "normally like"), and it makes for good music.

...and this is coming from a guy that's ANXIOUSLY awaiting the day I can play good metal for my niece--once her mom approves *sigh*.

@bgardner

You are not alone on this.

@That Burning Sensation
thanks glad to see more

@That Burning Sensation
ill listen can to any but country.

@bgardner It was one thing to not like music but when people say they hate a certain type of music it is really because they hate the people that listen to that type of music.

When you think about it country is just pop for rednecks, same level of creativity in the lyrics with 2 main themes (pop = sex/love, country = heartbreak/america), one main singer in a band of rotating faceless musicians, and an over produced sound so everything ends up the same.

@bgardner Really, people don't hate country, they hate the slick country-pop. Most people I know love at least Johnny Cash, and stuff lie the O Brother soundtrack. The thing is that doesn't sell well and the authentic stuff these days is hard to find (at least for a rock guy like myself.)

@FriedConsole

Yeah I agree. Its a passive-aggressive way to hate a group of people. ie "I hate rap" (translation - I really don't like Black people). In this case I just hate the music. I do like Cash or Hank Williams, but only sorta.

@bgardner

COL. Hans Landa: Consider for a moment the world a rat lives in. lt’s a hostile world, indeed. lf a rat were to scamper through your front door, right now, would you greet it with hostility?

Perrier LaPadite: l suppose l would.

COL. Hans Landa: Has a rat ever done anything to you to create this animosity you feel toward them?

Perrier LaPadite: Rats spread disease. They bite people.

COL. Hans Landa: Rats were the cause of the bubonic plague, but that’s some time ago. l propose to you any disease a rat could spread, a squirrel could equally carry. Would you agree?

Perrier LaPadite: Oui (Agrees in French)

COL. Hans Landa: Yet, l assume you don’t share the same animosity with squirrels that you do with rats, do you?

Perrier LaPadite: No.

COL. Hans Landa: Yet, they’re both rodents, are they not? And except for the tail, they even rather look alike, don’t they?

Perrier LaPadite: It’s an interesting thought, Herr Colonel.

COL. Hans Landa: However interesting as the thought may be, it makes not one bit of difference to how you feel. If a rat were to walk in here, right now, as l’m talking would you greet it with a saucer of your delicious milk?

Perrier LaPadite: Probably not.

COL. Hans Landa: l didn’t think so. You don’t like them. You don’t really know why you don’t like them. All you know is you find them repulsive.

@P7

Both country and Assjack versions.

@P7 Hell yeah some 'Smoke And Wine'

@P7

This.

The Straight to Hell album would be awesome.

I don't hate country, I just hate pop country.

@bakedbeans6
It'd be kick ass. Except for the censoring.

Not sure I want to be singing "put the [ ] in Dixie" We need a "grown-up" Rock Band.

@P7 Some Jr is good too. I don't mind some country, but am not a fan of the genre as a whole. No I did not steal your avatar, this is the first I have seen of you here. Fallout FTW!

@P7 I must not have listened to country music in a while but I don't recognize any of those songs.

@VaultBoy
Heh, no worries. I haven't posted any comments since the comment system change. Not sure why. Saddest thing is I ended up signing in with my old account rather than the newer one I had been using.

If Fallout 1/2 & Fallout 3 can co-exist, I'm sure our avatars can!

@That Burning Sensation

yeah but you still have to add points to sony, you can't buy it with real money, so even though they're using real figures, it's still monopoly money.

@(Unverified)

I guess my point is that Sony is using direct measure of US currency. If you want to get technical about it; paper money is just "monopoly money" without any REAL value (like let's say gold/silver). Which is really in of itself a superficial arbitrary measure of value. . . . . aaaaanyway, Buying points is like wanting to buy a hamburger but instead of handing them US dollars, you go to the bank and exchange you US dollars for pesos. It's an unnecessary process is what I'm saying.

@That Burning Sensation

Just a note: U.S. currency has not been backed by gold/silver since 1973.

@(Unverified)
That's not actually true.
If you have your credit card info in your PSN account but don't have enough funds in your wallet and you attempt to purchase something, Sony will take the exact amount needed from your credit card to complete the purchase. This way you will never end up with extra dollars that you cannot use. Effectively this is real money, not a "Sony points" system which is what you were implying.

@That Burning Sensation Lets just hope we never have to resort to trading in Bottle Caps.

@That Burning Sensation
http://www.sequester.ca/
try him he is a one man band

@Courtney

Seems to me like a lot of "classic" stuff, rock or country or otherwise, has been slow to arrive. The issue, as I understand it, is how easy it is to use the master recordings. So even classic country is going to suffer the same problems as classic rock: the older technology is just more difficult to translate into something usable for RB purposes...

@def PD

Same. I do it for the friends. A bigger, more diverse track list is much better for a party and will get more people into it then if I only had metal songs or something. That's the reason I have Lady Gaga and Shania Twain downloaded. Or, at least that's what I tell myself...

@Uncle Jesse

We had a bunch of neighbors over for a barbecue and RB party last week and they selected more country than anything else... I had never really played some of them, and had downloaded the songs just for the selection variety. Glad I did, it were fun.

@superdarrin and I'm an idiot who misread that the tracks ARE available, just sold separately. Don't mind me.

Never understood why having variety in the setlist is such a terrible sin.