What is the appeal of Southern Rock?

Deep Eddy said:
It's the great songs.

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I think you're conflating rock bands from the South with Southern Rock. One is creative, exhilarating, and interesting. The other is the aural equivalent of riding around in a Dualie with a rebel flag in the window, rolling coal, getting staggering drunk, and beating up the first minority you see.
 
dmn23 said:
I think you're conflating rock bands from the South with Southern Rock. One is creative, exhilarating, and interesting. The other is the aural equivalent of riding around in a Dualie with a rebel flag in the window, rolling coal, getting staggering drunk, and beating up the first minority you see.
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You are completely off base on that.
 
dmn23 said:
I think you're conflating rock bands from the South with Southern Rock. One is creative, exhilarating, and interesting. The other is the aural equivalent of riding around in a Dualie with a rebel flag in the window, rolling coal, getting staggering drunk, and beating up the first minority you see.
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R.E.M. never inspired that in me. Different strokes...
 
dmn23 said:
I think you're conflating rock bands from the South with Southern Rock. One is creative, exhilarating, and interesting. The other is the aural equivalent of riding around in a Dualie with a rebel flag in the window, rolling coal, getting staggering drunk, and beating up the first minority you see.
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How would we react to a statement like that made against other groups of people? That sounds like something that would be said by someone riding around in a Dualie with a rebel flag in the window, rolling coal, getting staggering drunk, and beating up the first minority they see.
 
gtrjunior said:
Southern rock beats the HELL out of that crap band from the other thread...The Tragically Hip. Now that’s a band and style of music that blows.
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I've never listened to the Tragically Hip until about 20 minutes ago so I haven't spent enough time with their work decide if I like them or not, but if it turns out I don't like them, that doesn't mean they or their style of music blows. It means, I don't like them, nothing more nothing less. Music is not a sport, there isn't a World Series for the best music, you either like it or you don't.
 
Here's the definitely list from the "compendium of human knowledge", so dubbed by a grad student that worked at our library.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_southern_rock_bands

I found 40 bands/artists that I really enjoy and several I even revere on that list, although some are the solo artists from one of the bands I like or another project (e.g.: Allman Bros., Gov't Mule, and Warren Haynes).

TP & the HBs are there too...a lot of great rock bands from the south are/were, however, omitted from the list.
 
Chad said:
Another perfect example of why genre's suck. People are fighting over what bands are "Southern Rock." Listen to the music, like it or don't, forget the stupid labels.
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While you are obviously and 100% correct, we've had at least two thread dedicated to the topic of of the stupidity of labelling music and it's like trying to talk to music deplorables...there ain't no use in talking' sense to 'em.

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Dogsinotpalc said:
Here's the definitely list from the "compendium of human knowledge", so dubbed by a grad student that worked at our library.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_southern_rock_bands

I found 40 bands/artists that I really enjoy and several I even revere on that list, although some are the solo artists from one of the bands I like or another project (e.g.: Allman Bros., Gov't Mule, and Warren Haynes).

TP & the HBs are there too...a lot of great rock bands from the south are/were, however, omitted from the list.
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that list is just crazy. Band of Horses? The Gaslight Anthem? Pantera? I guess maybe Jethro Tull is Heavy Metal.
 
Chad said:
that list is just crazy. Band of Horses? The Gaslight Anthem? Pantera? I guess maybe Jethro Tull is Heavy Metal.
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The Band! They're from Canada except for one guy!!! They're so far north they're not even in the U.S.!

Shitty list is shitty, but I like a the ones I like regardless of asinine labels.
 
I'm not saying the artists are intolerant assholes. But the music clearly connects with those people. I've spent most of my life living in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and northwest Florida. I've seen it. It emboldens them. They identify with something about it. So why is that?
 
dmn23 said:
I'm not saying the artists are intolerant assholes. But the music clearly connects with those people. I've spent most of my life living in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and northwest Florida. I've seen it. It emboldens them. They identify with something about it. So why is that?
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The music may connect with people like that, but not solely to people like that. A lot of very reasonable, intelligent, maybe even liberal people like Southern Rock. When we equate a style of music to a subset of listeners we begin to get into dangerous stereotyping, just as many rap fans have been stereotyped.
 
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