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[Blackrat]

So much evil in the world!

(Actually, I kinda dig Rick.)

I have to admit, I rather enjoyed the song too, now that I heard. I don't sing along songs I don't like, even if I know them by heart

 

[trappedslider]

According to Itunes,I currently have 1.9 days worth of music..I used to have more but I deleted all of the files on an old external,so I lost a lot of music. I don't even know if I have any CDs lol

 

[Scott DeWar]

Today I realized, I have never before actually heard the original Rick Astley version of rickroll. I usually keep the voice down on my computer and only turn it on if I need it. So whenever I've been rickrolled, I never heard the song. But I've read the words so often that I know the "famous part" by heart, just like I imagine quite a few people do. So today, driving home, I was listening to the radio and was singing along "never gonna give you up..." etc, when I realized what song it was, and that I have never before actually heard it. So, a radio station, Radio Nostalgy (translated from finnish) is actually the first to really rickroll me!

my hat is off to Radio Nostalgia!

 

[Scott DeWar]

Oh sure, absolutely. What else, right? Except that I don't use iTunes and never heard of Copperhead Road before. On the plus side, I know more metal songs than 99% (but not 99.5%) of people.

Copperhead road is what some of call rock-a-billy or hillbilly rock.

[video=youtube;xvaEJzoaYZk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk[/video]

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

More hillbilly rock than true rockabilly. Rockabilly is a lot more stripped-down and closer to Rock &
Roll's roots than is hillbilly rock.

Some of Rockabilly's modern standard bearers would be Stray Cats/Brian Setzer, Imelda May, and Katmen.

 

[Scott DeWar]

What do you classify the 'Steve -n- Seagulls'?
[video=youtube;e4Ao-iNPPUc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc&list=RDfvrogxMHmlg&index=5[/video]

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Hillbilly rock, to be sure...with an extra shot of hillbilly. The on trick they missed was using the tractor as part of the rhythm section.
[video=youtube;a1ThSi1wbqU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1ThSi1wbqU&sns=em[/video]

BTW, if you liked Steve 'n' Seagulls, you might want to check out Austin, TX's Bad Livers:
[video=youtube;Fd1bkL1EFGI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd1bkL1EFGI&sns=em[/video]

 

[Mad_Jack]

Rick Astley's sort of like Nickelback - they're not actually bad, but what starts out as kinda catchy and kinda not-exactly-terrible music ends up becoming so heavily overhyped and overplayed that it turns into a cliche and causes a backlash, and then it becomes the "in" thing to mock them, and then there's a backlash against that, and then they can only be mocked ironically... And then finally it becomes okay to admit that it might not have been as good as everyone was programmed to believe it was, but it wasn't as terrible as everyone made it out to be either.

I've heard Copperhead Road done by some other singer, but can't remember who.
I'm a bit more partial to Brickyard Road myself - I lean less toward the rockabilly/hillbilly rock and more toward the southern hard rock/proto-metal like Skynyrd and Molly Hatchet...

[video=youtube;U7rQ94zdIxI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7rQ94zdIxI[/video]

 

[Scott DeWar]

I consider Lynyrd Skynyrd as rock a billy.

[video=youtube;ye5BuYf8q4o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye5BuYf8q4o[/video]

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Nah, that's southern rock.