The effect of country music on suicide

Subject: RE: The effect of country music on suicide
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Oct 04 - 02:54 PM

Do lemmings like country music? I'd have thought they'd have been more into the traditional stuff.

Subject: RE: The effect of country music on suicide
From: Once Famous
Date: 23 Oct 04 - 03:40 PM

So, it's drunks singing about drunks, Eric the red? That's what I thought. I don't know why you would brag about that. It's not exactly forward thought or really says much about good human character.

And yes, Virginia was once part of England, like many parts of the Commonwealth were. Talk about penal. More like penile. As in shriveling up.

Subject: RE: The effect of country music on suicide
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 23 Oct 04 - 07:12 PM

Then there was the day I was in this train carriage outside Newbury . there wasn't a corridor, and the train stopped and we sat there for half an hour . Just me and elderly couple - both Jim Reeves fans - and they knew all the words of Bimbo......

Subject: RE: The effect of country music on suicide
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 23 Oct 04 - 08:49 PM

'Tis said that suicide is the sincerest for of self critique.

Subject: RE: The effect of country music on suicide
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Oct 04 - 09:02 PM

Might we view it as Darwinian?

However, I am puzzled. I was under the impression that there was a positive correlation between IQ and suicide, and would not one cancel the other out?

Subject: RE: The effect of country music on suicide
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 23 Oct 04 - 09:41 PM

The songs, folk and country, have always reflected the many various aspects of actual life situations---real life. It's just people (folks) looking at their innermost feelings and getting it out where it might get handled. It is also, once again, the money motive in action. Sad people often spend their cash on alcohol. So the vicious circle feeds on itself. Bar owners and booze makers and any other drug dealers know their clientele are often pretty sad people ready to part with the moolah to alter their downer perceptions.

Here in La Salle County Illinois, our congressman Frank Mautino's family controls just about all of the liquor distribution there is in these parts. Interestingly, as I've mentioned before, this county is also the one with the highest rate of per capita alcoholism in the entire United Atates Of America !! If that ain't a conflict of interest, I don't know what is. Again, as with pop, country, folk, classical, whatever---it is the $$$$$ that prime the pump and keep the machine going.

Gamblers die by their own hands all the time---trying to score the big $$$$$. Folks who listen to country music spend big cash--while the pushers of the music live like kings and queens. Still, though, the music reflects what the listeners want to hear---a glamorized version of their sorry lives that makes those lives seem, somehow, cool.

That noted, to me it seems that just "is what is". Stuff goes down and we try to deal with it --- or we don't. I don't doubt that country music causes fragile folks to cross the line and do harm to themselves. Still, the songs are good once in a long while---and real documents of what's happening here and now. It's life turned to art. After all is said and done, it's up to us individually to try to keep a calm and cool vision of what's going down.

And that is why I am voting for JOHN KERRY !!!

If Geo. Bush wins, just too damn many good people with decent instincts otherwise might be tempted to listen to this tripe that is called country music now with dire effects. Oh, the humanity! ;-)

Love,

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: The effect of country music on suicide
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Oct 04 - 06:36 PM

Maybe we can hope Martin Gibson will run true to type?

Subject: RE: The effect of country music on suicide
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Oct 04 - 09:21 PM

He doesn't have the IQ for it, Richard

Subject: RE: The effect of country music on suicide
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Oct 04 - 01:39 AM

Country music is the form of popular music closest to opera. A guy in a costume stands on stage and emotes about amore. That's opera; no other kind of popular music--not even the blues--does it in the same way.