Top 5/Bottom 5: Montgomery Gentry

[sabre14]

Sure, why not.

Top:
1. Speed (also one of my Dad's favorite country songs)
2. Something To Be Proud Of (total sucker for story songs like this)
3. Back When I Knew It All
4. She Couldn't Change Me (sure didn't take her that long to not enjoy the west coast...Still love the song though)
5. Hillbilly Shoes
6. What Do Ya Think About That
7. Lonely And Gone
8. She Don't Tell Me To
9. My Town
10. Lucky Man
11. Gone
12. Cold One Comin' On
13. Roll With Me
14. If You Ever Stopped Loving Me
15. Daddy Won't Sell The Farm
16. While You're Still Young (grew on me, so I'll add this one)

Top Album Tracks:
1. Scarecrow
2. Twenty Years Ago (phil1996 nailed these)

Bottom:
1. Oughta Be More Songs About That (what a horrid lead single. I like the message, but it was so slow and lacking a flow)
2. I'll Keep The Kids (don't like self-pity)
3. Where I Come From (just too average)
4. So Called Life
5. Hell Yeah (too overplayed in my neck of the woods. Wouldn't care if I never heard this again)

[Kentucky25]

Top
1. Speed
2. Something to be Proud Of
3. Lonely and Gone
4. She Couldn't Change Me
5. I'll Keep the Kids
6. She Don't Tell Me To
7. Long Line of Losers
8. Back When I Knew it All
9. Roll With Me
10. Lucky Man

Bottom
Hell Yeah
If You Ever Stop Loving Me

Nothing really stands out that much to me as something I haven't liked from them.

[someguy]

I'm not a huge fan of theirs, but they do have some songs I enjoy.

Top

1. My Town
2. She Couldn't Change Me
3. Roll With It
4. Lonely And Gone
5. Gone
6. If You Ever Stop Loving Me
7. Something To Be Proud Of
8. Speed
9. Back When I Knew It All
10. One In Every Crowd

Bottom

1. Oughta Be More Songs About That
2. Hillbilly Shoes
3. So Called Life
4. While You're Still Young
5. Hell Yeah

[Ten Pound Hammer]

Montgomery Gentry

TOP
1. Something to Be Proud Of
2. Gone
3. Lonely and Gone
4. While You're Still Young
5. I'll Keep the Kids
6. She Couldn't Change Me
7. Hillbilly Shoes
8. Speed
9. Back When I Knew It All
10. Roll with Me
11. Some People Change
12. Cold One Comin' On
13. Self Made Man
14. Lucky Man
15. Back When I Knew It All
16. …screw it, everything else that was a single

NEVER HEARD
1. So Called Life

BOTTOM
1. You Do Your Thing (so slow and boring, with the super-limited non-melody of Casey Beathard to boot)

[Deleted]

Really loved MG during their prime, but IMO their quality started to fall off noticeably around 2007 or 2008 (which was just before they went from B-list to barely-cracking-top-40 status)

TOP 20:

01 "Speed"
02 "Something To Be Proud Of"
03 "She Couldn't Change Me"
04 "If You Ever Stop Loving Me"
05 "My Town"
06 "Cold One Comin' On"
07 "Gone"
08 "Lonely And Gone"
09 "Daddy Won't Sell The Farm"
10 "Back When I Knew It All"
11 "Hillbilly Shoes"
12 "Lucky Man"
13 "Where I Come From" (sub-par lyrics but I love the production)
14 "Roll With Me"
15 "Some People Change"
16 "One In Every Crowd"
17 "She Don't Tell Me To"
18 "So Called Life"
19 "While You're Still Young"
20 "Self Made Man"

BOTTOM 5:

01 "Oughta Be More Songs About That" (terrible title, terrible single...I honestly don't really remember how it even goes, I just know I don't care for it, at all)
02 "You Do Your Thing"
03 "What Do Ya Think About That" (they shouldn't end songs with "about that"...they generally don't go over very well with me, lol)
04 "Long Line Of Losers" (this marked the end of their "major success" at radio and it's not all that surprising...just a terrible single choice)
05 "Hell Yeah" (just super obnoxious and way over-played)

I left out "All Night Long" and "I'll Keep The Kids" because I can't remember how either of them goes and didn't feel like looking them up just now... But basically, if I liked them, I would have listed them (I've heard them before but they apparently left 0 impression on me, and of course it doesn't help that neither song made the top 30 at radio) Actually most of their songs that didn't make top 20 at radio--including "While You're Still Young" and "So Called Life"--barely stick in my memory.

[Andy]

TOP (no particular order)
Cold One Comin' On
Something to Be Proud Of
I've Loved a Lot More Than I've Hurt
My Father's Son
Lonely and Gone
Scarecrow
Daddy Won't Sell the Farm
Speed
My Town
If You Ever Stop Loving Me
I Ain't Got It All That Bad
Tattoos and Scars
Twenty Years Ago
Lie Before You Leave
All I Know About Mexico
For the Money


BOTTOM
What Do You Think About That
Merry Christmas from the Family (props for recording this, but sorry, you guys are no Robert Earl Keen)
Gone
You Do Your Thing
Lucky Man (not bad, but I've heard a million variations of this theme, and this song does nothing to stand out. They also recorded a song entitled "I Ain't Got It All That Bad" which is very similar but much more interesting in my view)
She Don't Tell Me To (not bad, just meh)
Hell Yeah

MG seems to get a lot of hate in the blogsphere but I actually think they're one of the better mainstream acts of the early '00s. I genuinely like most everything they put out.

[tim]

Random act, but here goes...

Top:
1. Speed (I can get lost in this song)
2. Didn't I (I guess no one remembers this...)
3. My Town (remember hearing this when I was in boot camp and just loved it...also the piano intro is great)
4. Lonely and Gone
5. She Couldn't Change Me

Runner-up: Something to Be Proud Of

Bottom:
1. You Do Your Thing
2. What Do You Think About That
3. Long Line of Losers
4. Gone
5. Hell Yeah

[ryanroberts]

Big MG Fan. Love pretty much everything they have put out, but have enjoyed more of their album cuts when it comes to my favorites.


Top:
1. If You Ever Stop Loving Me ( Love the sound of this one and the music video that accompanied it)
2. Redder Than That
3. All I Know About Mexico
4. If A Broken Heart Could Kill
5. Tattoos & Scars
6. Where I Come From
7. Something To Be Proud Of
8. Speed
9. Lonely & Gone
10. If It's The Last Thing I Do
11. Rebels On The Run
12. I Don't Have It All That Bad
13. You Do Your Thing
14. Hillbilly Shoes
15. Long Line Of Losers

Bottom:
1. Back When I knew It All
2. Roll With Me
3. One In Every Crowd
4 & 5 are My Town & Hell Yeah. Not bad songs, although just tired of hearing them. As far as the first three go, I believe all were on the same record and I didn't really care for that era other than Long Line of Losers.

[Deleted]

Jun 3, 2014 23:29:38 GMT -5 tim said:

2. Didn't I (I guess no one remembers this...)

I know some people here ranked album tracks as well but most of us did only their singles, and "Didn't I" wasn't actually a single. It got some unsolicited airplay and charted on Billboard (#45 peak) back in 2002 but it was from the We Were Soldiers soundtrack and not an officially promoted single from any of MG's albums, so I think that's probably why it didn't turn up on any lists in this thread :)

I quite liked the song, although it's been forever since I've heard it.

[tim]

Jun 4, 2014 16:39:54 GMT -5 jhomes87 said:

Jun 3, 2014 23:29:38 GMT -5 tim said:

2. Didn't I (I guess no one remembers this...)

I know some people here ranked album tracks as well but most of us did only their singles, and "Didn't I" wasn't actually a single. It got some unsolicited airplay and charted on Billboard (#45 peak) back in 2002 but it was from the We Were Soldiers soundtrack and not an officially promoted single from any of MG's albums, so I think that's probably why it didn't turn up on any lists in this thread :)

I quite liked the song, although it's been forever since I've heard it.

Yea I should've * asterisked that one as I don't usually include non-singles on these lists. That said I've always considered it somewhat more than an album cut (or one from a soundtrack rather) for whatever reason considering they released a video for it. Great song though and one I've always remembered from MG.

[Deleted]

Since a lot of old "Top/Bottom" threads are being revived lately, hope no one minds if I bump up another :)

Top
1. Hillbilly Shoes
2. Cold One Comin' On
3. Speed
4. Lonely & Gone
5. All Night Long (w/Charlie Daniels)
6. Gone
7. Roll With Me
8. She Couldn't Change Me
9. If You Ever Stop Loving Me
10. What Do Ya Think About That
11. Back When I Knew It All
12. Self Made Man
13. While You're Still Young
14. Daddy Won't Sell The Farm
15. Some People Change
16. Hell Yeah
17. One In Every Crowd
18. Lucky Man
19. My Town
20. Something To Be Proud Of

Album ratings
1. Tattoos & Scars
2. My Town
3. Rebels On The Run
4. You Do Your Thing
5. Some People Change
6. Carrying On
7. Back When I Knew It All

Top Album Tracks:
1. Tattoos & Scars
2. Lie Before You Leave
3. Scarecrow
4. I Never Thought I'd Live This Long
5. Twenty Years Ago
6. Rebels On The Run
7. My Father's Son
8. Clouds
9. I Like Those People (w/Charlie Daniels & Randy Owen)
10. Trying To Survive
11. Wanted Dead Or Alive
12. Free Ride In The Fast Lane
13. Your Tears Are Comin'
14. I Aint Got It All That Bad (w/Hank Williams Jr.)
15. Merry Christmas From The Family

Bottom:
1. Oughta Be More Songs About That
2. She Don't Tell Me To
3. So Called Life


Overall one of my favorite acts (somewhere in my top 10)

[zaclord 🌈]

Ugh, some of my all-time favorite country songs are from MG. It's too bad they haven't put out any quality material (except "Where I Come From") in years.

Love
01. Something To Be Proud Of
*** Merry Christmas From The Family
02. Back When I Knew It All
03. Speed
04. Some People Change
05. If You Ever Stop Loving Me
06. Where I Come From
07. Hell Yeah
08. Gone (Scotty McCreery kinda ruined this one for me...)

Dislike
01. Long Line of Losers
02. What Do Ya Think About That
03. You Do Your Thing
all of their singles (except Where I Come From) since they left Sony

[phil1996]

Top Albums

My Town
Some People Change
Hillbilly Shoes
You Do Your Thing
Rebels on the Run
Back When I Knew it All
Carrying On
***(Decent sized gap here)***
Folks Like Us

Top 20 album tracks

I've Loved a Lot More Than I've Hurt
Twenty Years Ago
Rebels on the Run
Scarecrow
That's Just Living
Lie Before You Leave
Tattoos and Scars
Didn't I
It's All Good
For The Money
Redder Than That
Clouds :(
Better For It
My Fathers Son
Missing You
We Were Here
Ain't No Law Against That
One Trip
Damn Right I Am
If You Wanna Keep an Angel

Top 20 singles

Something to be Proud of
Lucky Man
If You Ever Stop Loving Me
Cold One Comin On (HOW wasn't this a hit)
Lonely and Gone
She Couldn't Change Me
Roll With Me
My Town
Hillbilly Shoes
While You're Still Young
Speed
You Do Your Thing
She Don't Tell Me To
Some People Change
Daddy Won't Sell The Farm
One in Every Crowd
Self Made Man
Gone
Back When I Knew it All
Hell Yeah

Bottom Singles

Oughta Be More Songs About That
Headlights (these are the only 2 singles of theirs I disliked)

[sabre14]

You already made this thread, phil1996. :)