A Terrible Spotify Wrapped

More Monday Memes: Toby Keith, Kane Brown, Super Bowl

 

Still More Monday Memes: Spotify, Florida-Georgia Line, Country Radio

The Crud Report: August 2020

More Monday Memes: Kid Rock, Florida Georgia Line, The Simpsons

Monday Morning Memes: Hank Hill Edition ft. Kane Brown, Morgan Wallen

Monday Morning Memes: George Jones, Aaron Tippin, Spotify

Technology is Your Friend

Farce the Music Christmas Playlist 2018

(playlist below track list)

Emmylou Harris – Christmas Time's A-Coming

The Mavericks – Santa Wants to Take You for a Ride

Kelly Willis – Please Daddy, Don't Get Drunk

Vince Guaraldi Trio – What Child Is This

Sufjan Stevens – O Come O Come Emmanuel

Charles Bradley – Every Day Is Christmas (When I'm Lovin' You)

Tanya Tucker – Merry Christmas Wherever You Are

Swamp Dogg – An Awful Christmas and a Lousy New Year

Jericho Woods – Dance Around the Christmas Tree

Old 97's – Angels We Have Heard On High - Bonus Track

George Jones – Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus

Boo Ray – All Strung Out Like Christmas Lights

JD McPherson – Every Single Christmas

Kacey Musgraves – A Willie Nice Christmas

Chris Isaak – Mele Kalikimaka

Etta James – O Holy Night

Monday Morning Memes: Kane Brown, Spotify, David Allan Coe

Farce the Music Halloween Playlist 2017

Here's a new Halloween "mixtape" for 2017, featuring 33 creepy-ass country, 

Americana, R&B, and rock tunes for your listening displeasure. Spotify playlist below.

Alice Cooper – Welcome To My Nightmare

Dusty Springfield – Spooky

Ruston Kelly – Black Magic

Rockwell – Somebody's Watching Me

Emmylou Harris – Bad Moon Rising

Ryan Adams – Halloweenhead

White Zombie – I'm Your Boogieman - The Crow: City Of Angels/Soundtrack Version

Johnny Cash – Thirteen

Ozzy Osbourne – Bark at the Moon

Tiger Army – Oogie Boogie's Song

The Pine Box Boys – Mr. Skeleton

The Doors – People Are Strange

Michael Jackson – Thriller

Lonesome Wyatt – Evil One

Los Straitjackets – Theme from Halloween

Prince – Batdance

Greensky Bluegrass – Bring Out Your Dead

Marilyn Manson – Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Rick James – Super Freak

Okkervil River – Satan Is Real

Misfits – Last Caress

Stevie Wonder – Superstition

Squirrel Nut Zippers – Hell

Lefty Frizzell – Long Black Veil

Rob Zombie – Superbeast

George Thorogood & The Destroyers – Purple People Eater

Those Poor Bastards – Is This Hell?

Screamin' Jay Hawkins – I Put a Spell on You

Buck Owens – (It's A) Monster's Holiday

Band of Horses – Is There A Ghost

Missy Elliott – Get Ur Freak On

Childish Gambino – Zombies

Queens of the Stone Age – Head Like A Haunted House

Come on, Spotify!

 If Sam Hunt is "Country Gold," then these are also correct...

(That one's real; the following are fake)

The Roots of Modern Mainstream Country

The Roots of Modern Mainstream Country

The roots of modern mainstream country music run deep… well, not deep, but long. All the way back to the 70s anyway. You hear the disco beats of ABBA and others in the slick sounds of Chris Lane and Thomas Rhett. There's not a ton of 80s influence in the current sound - though you'll hear a little hair metal flourish from time to time. The 90s is where 2010's country really finds its 'soul.' From the chillaxing flow of Jack Johnson to the gleeful boy band harmonies, to the danceable pop rock of Sugar Ray, it's undeniable that the generation of music the most popular artists and songwriters grew up on is a huge influence on their sound.

So what about country music? Is modern country influenced by any of that? Well, sure. If you call Shania Twain and Rascal Flatts country. (Yeah, we have a few outliers with a semi-traditional sound, but even Jon Pardi only releases his most dance floor ready tracks to radio)

Check out this Spotify playlist if you don't believe me. You'll hear some really familiar sounds if you're a consumer of iheartradio's commercial country soundscape. If you're not, you'll just get a knowing laugh out of it. Oh, and don't think I'm saying all this music is bad… I like some of it; it's just not necessarily the well a genre called "country" should be drawing most of its water from.




Here's the tracklist if you don't wanna put your ears through all that.

Smash Mouth – All Star
Drake – Take Care
Everything – Hooch
John Mayer – Your Body Is a Wonderland
Britney Spears – ...Baby One More Time
Sugar Ray – Every Morning
Shawn Mendes – I Know What You Did Last Summer
Winger – Seventeen
Kesha – TiK ToK
Lil Wayne – A Milli
Rascal Flatts – Prayin' For Daylight
*NSYNC – Bye Bye Bye
Limp Bizkit – Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)
Katy Perry – Teenage Dream
Jack Johnson – Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
Nelly – Country Grammar (Hot Shit)
Eminem – The Monster
Zedd – Stay (with Alessia Cara)
Montgomery Gentry – Hell Yeah
Bloodhound Gang – The Bad Touch
Dave Matthews Band – Ants Marching
The Pussycat Dolls – Don't Cha
Warrant – Cherry Pie
Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud
Crazy Town – Butterfly
ABBA – Dancing Queen
Calvin Harris – My Way
Shania Twain – That Don't Impress Me Much
Nickelback – Something In Your Mouth
LFO – Summer Girls
Ariana Grande – The Way
G. Love & Special Sauce – Cold Beverage

Spotify Playlist Memes: Luke Bryan, FGL, Country Radio

These are created from actual Spotify playlists. Just read the track titles.

Blue Christmas: A Farce the Music Sad Christmas Playlist

 

There's nothing like a sad Christmas song to mirror the dull, cold weather outside this time of year. Sure, Christmas is a joyous time of year, but not for everybody… and if you're like me, a little gray feels just right mixed in with the green and gold and red. The Spotify playlist is below.

Elvis Presley – Blue Christmas
Joni Mitchell – River
Hayes Carll – Grateful For Christmas
James Brown – Please Come Home For Christmas
Dolly Parton – Hard Candy Christmas
Marty Stuart – Even Santa Claus Gets The Blues
Tift Merritt – I'll Be Home For Christmas
Johnny Cash – Ringing the Bells for Jim
The O'Jays – Christmas Ain't Christmas, New Years Ain't New Years Without The One You Love
Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison – In The Bleak Midwinter
Sufjan Stevens – Did I Make You Cry On Christmas Day? (Well, You Deserved It!)
Darlene Love – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Bob Schneider – Fairytale of New York
John Denver – Please, Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
Cat Power – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Willie Nelson – Christmas Blues
John Prine – Christmas In Prison
The Civil Wars – Tracks In the Snow
George Strait – What A Merry Christmas This Could Be
Kacey Musgraves – Present Without A Bow
Marvin Gaye – I Want To Come Home For Christmas
Corb Lund – Just Me and These Ponies (For Christmas This Year)
Jimmy Witherspoon - How I Hate to See Christmas Come Around
Asleep at the Wheel - Christmas in Jail

Farce the Music Halloween Playlist

 Here's a new Halloween "mixtape" for 2016, featuring 20 creepy-ass country, 

Americana, and rock tunes for your listening displeasure. Spotify playlist below.

The "track listing"

1. The Pine Box Boys - It's Comfy in My Coffin
2. Joe Buck Yourself - When Evil Comes to Town
3. Danzig - N.I.B.
4. Johnny Paycheck - (Pardon Me) I've Got Someone to Kill
5. 16 Horsepower - Low Estate
6. Lonesome Wyatt & Rachel Brooke - Evil One
7. Willie Nelson - Gravedigger
8. The Goddamn Gallows - 7 Devils
9. Type O Negative - Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)
10. Graham Lindsey - Death Trip Blues
11. King Diamond - Welcome Home
12. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Long Black Veil
13. Rob Zombie - Superbeast (Kraddy Remix)
14. Johnny Cash - Thirteen
15. Lincoln Durham - Bones
16. Ralph Stanley - O Death
17. Marilyn Manson - I Have to Look Up Just to See Hell
18. Th' Legendary Shack Shakers - Agony Wagon
19. Alice Cooper - Sick Things (Live)
20. Rachel Brooke - Knoxville Girl

10 Best Kane Brown Songs of All Time!

 Kane Brown might be new on the scene, but he's already got a ton of killer songs! 

Here are his 10 best, in a Spotify playlist! Enjoy!

FTM's Best Songs of 2015 Playlist

Here are the songs from our top 40 songs lists (and a few extras) in a Spotify playlist: