[kj] (OT) Worst Singers

[Alexander Smith]

Go get the new FOLSOM PRISON box set and watch the DVD. Johnny Cash is  
awesome. It is indisputable.

Alex in NYC


On Nov 15, 2008, at 12:51 AM, Chris Mccool wrote:


>

> Yeah, i like Johnny Cash,but i really don't get the "Worship" factor  

> either.Just looks like a bus that everybody thought was hip to climb  

> aboard which is really more of an insult to him and his music more  

> than anything.Guess that's what happens when you're dead.People that  

> never gave a shit before will eventually turn around and love  

> you.Fogerty though...man,i've always loved him and alot of the stuff  

> that he did with Creedence Clearwater Revival.I'll tell you somebody  

> that i don't get at all though and that is John Lennon.It seems like  

> everybody sees him as this genius/guru/world healing prophet and  

> i've always just seen him as a selfish,dirty,hateful ass hippie  

> pretending to be all wise and kind.I can appreciate the sentiments  

> of one or two of his songs,but damn....i'd take Mccartney over him  

> any day.

> --- On Fri, 11/14/08, GREG SLAWSON <gregslawson at msn.com> wrote:

> From: GREG SLAWSON <gregslawson at msn.com>

> Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Worst Singers

> To: "gathering" <gathering at misera.net>

> Date: Friday, November 14, 2008, 11:22 PM

>

> Fogarty is cool Steve Earle is good and has decent politics, but I  

> have to make yet another ultra-embarrasing confession (even more  

> emabarrasing than the "I don't get Tom 'criticts worship me'  

> Waits")--I never could figure out the worship of Cash. He always  

> sounded like a guy talking to me. My wife likes "Folsom Prison  

> Blues" though...

>

> From: bq at soundgardener.co.nz

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:42:53 +1100

> Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Worst Singers

>

> I dig John Foggarty, Johnny Cash, Steve Earle, and I like the  

> southern sound of some Pantera / Corrosion of Conformity / Down.

>

>

> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net 

> ] On Behalf Of Chris Mccool

> Sent: Saturday, 15 November 2008 15:35 p.m.

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Worst Singers

>

>

> What about Merle Haggard,Waylon Jennings, or Dwight Yoakam?I don't  

> care so much for George Jones,but i'm down for the three above.I  

> should have included Hank Williams Jr. on my worst singers list  

> though.I hate him more than life itself.

>

> --- On Fri, 11/14/08, GREG SLAWSON <gregslawson at msn.com> wrote:

>

> From: GREG SLAWSON <gregslawson at msn.com>

> Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Worst Singers

> To: "gathering" <gathering at misera.net>

> Date: Friday, November 14, 2008, 10:01 PM

>

> Hey, I'll defend some country music (i.e., everything ever emanated  

> from George Jones' mouth), and I don't really get Elvis Costello,  

> but I'll give you this one--I HATE the White Stipes!

>

> From: folkdevil_23 at hotmail.com

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:37:44 -0800

> Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Worst Singers

>

> Country music, the white stripes and elvis costello all in one  

> sentence. What are you trying to do to people?!

>

> "

>

> From: gregslawson at msn.com

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:25:39 -0500

> Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Worst Singers

>

> No, you're thinking of Tammy Wynette (sort of the grandma of female  

> country voices). I did have a chance to see Loretta Lynn recetnly  

> and didn't --although I hear she' s pretty over the hill, but a few  

> years ago did an album w/the White Stripes or something. Also,  

> Emmylou Harris does quite a bit of stuff w/rockers (Elvis Costello,  

> Jason, Steve Earle)...

>

>

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