Jack Kukoda

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Time To Get Real

Filed under: Miscellaneous — By Jack at 10:07 am on Thursday, March 16, 2006

What I tell people the first CD I ever bought was: Pearl Jam’s “Ten”

What the first CD I actually bought was: 3rd Bass’s “Derelicts of Dialect”

Why would I share this with you? To illustrate that my taste in music is sometimes questionable. Also, that I’m a poseur. Anyway, as someone who knows a thing or two about shitty music, I’d like to bring this guy to your attention. Some of you may have heard of Cowboy Troy, but he’s new to me. And he’s horrible. Really, really horrible. Listen to his song “My Last Yee Haw” if you dare.

I used to think nothing could be worse than the rap/rock hybrid of Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock. I was wrong. It’s called “Hick Hop” and it’s a combination of horrible rap and horrible country. I have nothing further to say on this subject.

Cowboy Troy’s MySpace Page

His Website

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Comment by Keith Reams

March 17, 2006 @ 4:37 pm

What’s crackin man. Keith Reams here. Derek Olson turned me on to your website. Nice work.

Anyhow, I had to comment on this Cowboy Troy guy. I’d seen him pop up in various places over the past month or so (CMAs, commercial w/ Wynonna Judd promoting Nashville Star, etc.) but had never heard his music until just now when I followed your link to his myspace page. Tears welled in my eyes when I listened to “My Last Yee Haw.” I’m not trying to be funny. His music truly makes me sad. I got flashes in my head of everything I hate (15-minute parking, George Bush, cell phones in gyms and libraries, etc.), and experienced a dark spell of referential mania in which I was convinced that the entire world is against me. Cowboy Troy is so profoundly bad that he temporarily affected my psyche deep to the core. You hit the nail on the head with this one.

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Comment by Jack

March 18, 2006 @ 12:39 pm

Hey Keith! Good to hear from you. Sorry to drive you close to madness with that link, though. If you want to go really nuts, go to Cowboy Troy’s official website and see how seriously he takes himself. He also raps in Japanese and Mandarin. Good Lord.

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Comment by Chris

March 27, 2006 @ 12:06 pm

You should never be ashamed that your first CD purchase contained such memorable tracks as “Brooklyn-Queens”, “The Gasface”, “Product of the Environment” and “Steppin’ to the A.M.”. Long live MC Serch and “Prime Minister” (Sinister) Pete Nice.

And yes, I did pay money for “The Cactus Album (Revisited).”

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Comment by Jack

March 27, 2006 @ 1:38 pm

Chris, I bow before your 3rd Bass knowledge. Pop goes the weasel, indeed.

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