What was that subby? You got somethin to say?!

Wait, what?

There are various types of music that are not my cup of tea yet I can appreciate certain qualities about them and identify good tunes from the bad but this stuff, mexican accordian music, is the worst. There is nothing redeemable about it and I am amazed that people's ears don't start bleeding with prolonged listening.

Accordion music has been in TX forever. We can't all groove over guitar, drums and keyboards.

Don't get me started on bagpipes. Or the tuba. Or the zither.

Ahn now, "Play that funky music - ah - white boy." Ahna one, ahna two...

I blame the history of Germans emigrating to that territory. I would like to make a formal apology for my people who inflicted this upon our culture.

/Had to suffer through many a polka festival in Central Texas

And now... the eye candy:

It's sucked for a while (new window).

ParadisePornoTheater: Accordion music has been in TX forever. We can't all groove over guitar, drums and keyboards.

Don't get me started on bagpipes. Or the tuba. Or the zither.

Hey, now - tubas are cool!

dionysusaur: ParadisePornoTheater: Don't get me started on bagpipes. Or the tuba. Or the zither.

Hey, now - tubas are cool!

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Now tell me that ain't fun.

The Texas Tornadoes are/were an awesome cojunto group. Subby can suck it.

Come on subby, the tag isn't meant for you. Accordion music is great. Go listen to your lady gaga or something.

Accordions? An improvement over the political situation.

If you don't like zydeco, you might be irretrievably broken.

AddictedToFoobies: If you don't like zydeco, you might be irretrievably broken.

Texas borders Louisiana, the home of kick-ass Zydeco, and it is just now discovering the accordion?

Subby, between the large German population in the Hill Country, Tejano music, and zydeco music, we've had accordions in Texas for a long, long time.

ParadisePornoTheater: Accordion music has been in TX forever. We can't all groove over guitar, drums and keyboards.

Don't get me started on bagpipes. Or the tuba. Or the zither.

haha yes. Accordion music loves Texas. When I used to go to Billy Bob's, accordion music was management's way of getting people out the door near closing time.

John_Denver_Lives: The Texas Tornadoes are/were an awesome cojunto group. Subby can suck it.

So much this. And Flaco Jimenez is one of those musicians who plays every single note just where God intended it to be.

Incidentally, I've discovered that if you stumble on old Hohner accordions like the one in that vid, you'll make a nice profit reselling it on eBay...

Yes yes! It sucks in Texas! Please keep telling people that! Maybe so many folks from the 49 other states would stop moving here in droves if they start believing that.

So much win in this story. Wade Goodwyn, Flaco and Santiago Jr., Conjuto, Zydeco... All that's missing is the Myron Floren cult in New Braunfels.
Flaco once showed me his 4-row accordion. A few weeks back he was showing the i-pad app that turns the i-pad into a button accordion. Scoffers can scoff, but you'll be a poorer man (or woman) if you never know the joys of the accordion.

Don't just blame the Germans. The Bohemians, Poles, Italians, French and such also couldn't live without accordions or concertinas.

Even the original leader of Styx, Dennis DeYoung, started out on the accordion. He's got some Italian blood in him.

There's plenty worth complaining about regarding the current conditions in Texas. Zydeco and Cojunto aren't two of them. A Fig for you white-bread Anglo Waspy Bastards!

/go blow a fox horn if you hate czech musical influence so much

rtaylor92: There are various types of music that are not my cup of tea yet I can appreciate certain qualities about them and identify good tunes from the bad but this stuff, mexican accordian music, is the worst. There is nothing redeemable about it and I am amazed that people's ears don't start bleeding with prolonged listening.



"Chupame cabron!"

Trackball: Yes yes! It sucks in Texas! Please keep telling people that! Maybe so many folks from the 49 other states would stop moving here in droves if they start believing that.

Amen. We have nothing but religious fundamentalists, gun-toting patriots who would love to shoot you if you are the wrong color, and "Oh my god, the horror !!!"... Republicans. Stay away if you know what is good for you. We especially like to pick on Yankees and Californians. Stay away, for your own well-being. Especially, in Austin. We get you to go up to the county just north of us where they will throw you in jail for 25 years for a single pot seed in your car. It may not even be your pot seed.

On the subject of accordian music, I went to see Clifton Chenier at the old Antone's (the one on the north Drag) one night. Seriously one of the best nights of my life. Something about the Zydeco that gets women revved up.
Conjunto, not so much.

The funniest Garfield comics ever :

Trackball: Yes yes! It sucks in Texas! Please keep telling people that! Maybe so many folks from the 49 other states would stop moving here in droves if they start believing that.

I can't fathom ever moving to Texas. It's already hot as hell where I live and I'm quite a bit north of there. Plus your flag should have a picture of a fat Jesus on it.

Damn hipsters.

I am amazed at all the accordian love in here.
My boyfriend is Mexican and loves loves that stuff, especially durangense. He'll go to the concerts and all of that. It drives me absolutely insane! Part of the problem is that I get headaches when the treble on radios is really high, and it's supposed to be really high with that music.

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Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers.

There are people who don't like accordians? Really? Do these people also hate beer? Dancing? Fun?

Cajun-Zydeco music is one of the things that makes me suspect there really might be a Hell, at least the shiatty kind they play at Famous Dave's in an endless loop. Texas politics and Lonestar Beer are also repulsive. Now then, change it to polka music, any good beer, and provide Texas food instead of actual Texans, and Hell winks instantly into Heaven.

Accordions begat Wierd Al and Judy Tenuta, and Texas begat most of the Rooster Teeth crew. And also my hot stepmom. It's enough to forgive the fire ants, humidity, flatness, big dumb hats, baseball sized hail and thousands of miles of the most depressing, hot, dangerous border on the continent.

/Accordions +2
//Texas +1 (but JUST barely)