Alright Already! A 1993 Country Songs Rankdown (TBA)

[Cody Wants Out...]

Welcome, one and all, to the 1993 Year-End Country Songs Rankdown! I've compiled the year-end lists from both Billboard and American Country Countdown, plus a couple of extra top five hits from that year. The messy looking picture up above represents the artists' albums that were prominent a quarter of a century ago in regards to the biggest hits (e.g. "Chattahoochee", "One More Last Chance", "Passionate Kisses", "Let That Pony Run", "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere", etc.).

Note that these aren't the only artists and albums to be featured in this rankdown; in fact, I'll go ahead and give y'all the songs and the playlist so you can go ahead and get started on these. For now, I'll set the deadline for May 6 (the first Sunday of May), but I may end up extending it by a week since I've opened this later than I anticipated. Also note that my rankings for this year have NOT been finalized yet and I'm not giving y'all a whole lot of time to do this.

Most of you guys are already familiar with these rankdowns, but just in case you're a newbie: listen to all 100 songs, make sure you're well-acquainted with them (i.e. don't just base your opinion off of one listen), and rank them from your most favorite (#1) to your least favorite (#100). Once you're finished and relatively comfortable with your list, send it to me via PM (Cody Wants Out... ). I'll respond once your list is in my spreadsheet. Given that there's plenty of time between your submission and the deadline, you can sit back and do your thing while waiting for the results!

HAVE FUN!

Alan Jackson – Chattahoochee
Clay Walker – What’s It To You
Tracy Lawrence – Can’t Break It to My Heart
Sawyer Brown – Thank God For You
Vince Gill – One More Last Chance
George Strait – Easy Come, Easy Go
Garth Brooks – Ain’t Goin’ Down (Til the Sun Comes Up)
Mark Chesnutt – It Sure is Monday
John Michael Montgomery – I Love the Way You Love Me
Doug Stone – Why Didn’t I Think of That
Billy Ray Cyrus – In the Heart of a Woman
Patty Loveless – Blame It on Your Heart
Joe Diffie – Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)
Tracy Lawrence – Alibis
Dwight Yoakam – Ain’t That Lonely Yet
Tracy Byrd – Holdin’ Heaven
Dwight Yoakam – A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
John Anderson – Money in the Bank
Clint Black and Wynonna – A Bad Goodbye
Clint Black – No Time to Kill
Sammy Kershaw – She Don’t Know She’s Beautiful
Brooks & Dunn – We’ll Burn That Bridge
Little Texas – What Might Have Been
Garth Brooks – That Summer
Hal Ketchum – Hearts Are Gonna Roll
Carlene Carter – Every Little Thing
Wynonna – Tell Me Why
Lorrie Morgan – What Part of No
Radney Foster – Nobody Wins
Brooks & Dunn – Hard Workin’ Man
Wynonna – Only Love
Randy Travis – Look Heart, No Hands
Travis Tritt – Can I Trust You With My Heart
Reba McEntire and Vince Gill – The Heart Won’t Lie
Toby Keith – He Ain’t Worth Missin’
Alabama – Hometown Honeymoon
Doug Supernaw – Reno
Lee Roy Parnell – Tender Moment
Toby Keith – Should’ve Been a Cowboy
Reba McEntire and Linda Davis – Does He Love You
Clint Black – When My Ship Comes In
Reba McEntire – It’s Your Call
Diamond Rio – In a Week or Two
Aaron Tippin – Workin’ Man’s Ph.D.
Doug Stone – Made for Lovin’ You
Garth Brooks – Learning to Live Again
Vince Gill – No Future in the Past
Doug Stone – Too Busy Bein’ in Love
Suzy Bogguss – Drive South
Joe Diffie – Honky Tonk Attitude
George Strait – Heartland
Tanya Tucker and Delbert McClinton – Tell Me About It
Alan Jackson – Tonight I Climbed the Wall
Alabama – Once Upon a Lifetime
Vince Gill – Don’t Let Our Love Start Slippin’ Away
Trisha Yearwood – Walkaway Joe
Suzy Bogguss – Just Like the Weather
Confederate Railroad – Queen of Memphis
Larry Stewart – Alright Already
Billy Ray Cyrus – She’s Not Crying Anymore
Tanya Tucker – It’s a Little Too Late
Steve Wariner – If I Didn’t Love You
Mark Chesnutt – Ol’ Country
Collin Raye – That Was a River
McBride & the Ride – Love on the Loose, Heart on the Run
Mark Collie – Born to Love You
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Passionate Kisses
Wynonna – My Strongest Weakness
Brooks & Dunn – She Used to Be Mine
Collin Raye – I Want You Bad (And That Ain’t Good)
Brother Phelps – Let Go
George Strait – When Did You Stop Loving Me
Sawyer Brown – All These Years
Reba McEntire – Take It Back
Garth Brooks – Somewhere Other Than the Night
Mark Chesnutt – Almost Goodbye
Sawyer Brown – Trouble on the Line
Pam Tillis – Let That Pony Run
Collin Raye – Somebody Else’s Moon
Hal Ketchum – Mama Knows the Highway
Alabama – Reckless
Aaron Tippin – My Blue Angel
Diamond Rio – Oh Me, Oh My, Sweet Baby
Billy Dean – Tryin’ to Hide a Fire in the Dark
Lorrie Morgan – Half Enough
Alan Jackson – She’s Got the Rhythm (and I’ve Got the Blues)
John Anderson – Let Go of the Stone
Confederate Railroad – Trashy Women
McBride & the Ride – Just One Night
Ricky Van Shelton – Wild Man
Sammy Kershaw – Haunted Heart
Restless Heart – We Got the Love
Travis Tritt – Looking Out for Number One
Mary Chapin Carpenter – The Hard Way
Lee Roy Parnell – On the Road
Diamond Rio – This Romeo Ain’t Got Julie Yet
Pam Tillis – Cleopatra, Queen of Denial
Restless Heart – Mending Fences
John Michael Montgomery – Life’s a Dance
Hal Ketchum – Sure Love







Garth Brooks - "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)"
Garth Brooks - "That Summer"
cover version of Garth Brooks' "Learning to Live Again"
Larry Stewart - "Alright Already"
cover version of Garth Brooks' "Somewhere Other Than the Night"

Let me know if any of these links get taken down!

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[Cody Wants Out...]

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[Cody Wants Out...]

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[CoJoFan]

Doing this tonight!

[tim]

I'm in! But..I see we're just going to totally overlook that "I Cross My Heart" was released.

[mamasaid]

I'm so in....I have to look some of these up for a new listen, but I already have my #1 & 2

[jhomes87]

I love 90s country, but I'm going to pass on this. I'm just too busy these days to participate in most rankdowns.

[Cody Wants Out...]

Mar 28, 2018 3:18:36 GMT -5 tim said:

I'm in! But..I see we're just going to totally overlook that "I Cross My Heart" was released.

Well...ICMH bled over from '92 and peaked during the Holidays and I promised I'd stay true to the year-end charts (with a couple of exceptions of course).

[Cody Wants Out...]

I forgot, who wants YouTube links?

[bboat11]

Mar 28, 2018 11:01:56 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

Mar 28, 2018 3:18:36 GMT -5 tim said:

I'm in! But..I see we're just going to totally overlook that "I Cross My Heart" was released.

Well...ICMH bled over from '92 and peaked during the Holidays and I promised I'd stay true to the year-end charts (with a couple of exceptions of course).

But not having this song show up in EITHER year is just plain inaccurate... Lmao following the year-end chart is worthless if it means excluding what would have otherwise been one of the biggest hits of any individual year had it not peaked at the wrong time...

Edit: Not to mention you led us to believe that it would be in the 1993 rankdown when tim questioned why it was left out of the 1992 rankdown! Lol

[Cody Wants Out...]

Mar 28, 2018 18:45:31 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Mar 28, 2018 11:01:56 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

Well...ICMH bled over from '92 and peaked during the Holidays and I promised I'd stay true to the year-end charts (with a couple of exceptions of course).

But not having this song show up in EITHER year is just plain inaccurate... Lmao following the year-end chart is worthless if it means excluding what would have otherwise been one of the biggest hits of any individual year had it not peaked at the wrong time...

Edit: Not to mention you led us to believe that it would be in the 1993 rankdown when tim questioned why it was left out of the 1992 rankdown! Lol

Um...the winner of the Alabama RD and the Tanya song you tanked would like to have a word with you.

[.indulgecountry]

Mar 28, 2018 18:48:34 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

Mar 28, 2018 18:45:31 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

But not having this song show up in EITHER year is just plain inaccurate... Lmao following the year-end chart is worthless if it means excluding what would have otherwise been one of the biggest hits of any individual year had it not peaked at the wrong time...

Edit: Not to mention you led us to believe that it would be in the 1993 rankdown when tim questioned why it was left out of the 1992 rankdown! Lol

Um...the winner of the Alabama RD and the Tanya song you tanked would like to have a word with you.

What do either of those things have to do with this? Not including "I Cross My Heart" in 1992 because you were gonna put it in 1993 and then not putting it in 1993 because its run was more in 1992 makes no sense. It needs to be included in at least one, lol.

[bboat11]

Mar 28, 2018 18:48:34 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

Mar 28, 2018 18:45:31 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

But not having this song show up in EITHER year is just plain inaccurate... Lmao following the year-end chart is worthless if it means excluding what would have otherwise been one of the biggest hits of any individual year had it not peaked at the wrong time...

Edit: Not to mention you led us to believe that it would be in the 1993 rankdown when tim questioned why it was left out of the 1992 rankdown! Lol

Um...the winner of the Alabama RD and the Tanya song you tanked would like to have a word with you.

Lol if you're trying to tell me that "I'm In A Hurry" was also excluded from both years because of where it peaked, then I have just as much of a problem with that!

[.indulgecountry]

Mar 28, 2018 18:57:25 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Mar 28, 2018 18:48:34 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

Um...the winner of the Alabama RD and the Tanya song you tanked would like to have a word with you.

Lol if you're trying to tell me that "I'm In A Hurry" was also excluded from both years because of where it peaked, then I have just as much of a problem with that!

Omg this is just as glaring an omission. It's like everything that peaked in December just doesn't exist.

[bboat11]

Mar 28, 2018 19:01:26 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

Mar 28, 2018 18:57:25 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Lol if you're trying to tell me that "I'm In A Hurry" was also excluded from both years because of where it peaked, then I have just as much of a problem with that!

Omg this is just as glaring an omission. It's like everything that peaked in December just doesn't exist.

AND "Two Sparrows In A Hurricane" must be the Tanya song, because it was my #40 in Castle's female artist RD...

[Cody Wants Out...]

STOP PUTTING WORDS INTO MY MOUTH!!!!

I never said ANYTHING about ICMH being in either '92 or '93. Y'all came up with that conspiracy yourselves!

[bboat11]

Mar 28, 2018 19:32:04 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

STOP PUTTING WORDS INTO MY MOUTH!!!!

I never said ANYTHING about ICMH being in either '92 or '93. Y'all came up with that conspiracy yourselves!

Gurl trying to hide the receipts!!

Jan 22, 2018 11:38:04 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

Jan 22, 2018 3:58:53 GMT -5 tim said:

I assume "I Cross My Heart" will be on the 1993 rankdown lol...

Maybe...

[Cody Wants Out...]

Mar 28, 2018 19:53:50 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Mar 28, 2018 19:32:04 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

STOP PUTTING WORDS INTO MY MOUTH!!!!

I never said ANYTHING about ICMH being in either '92 or '93. Y'all came up with that conspiracy yourselves!

Gurl trying to hide the receipts!!

Jan 22, 2018 11:38:04 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

Maybe...

Um, I was just playing along back then. I never explicitly said anything, though.

SPOILER: Click to show

{P.S.}I have balls ya know.

[bboat11]

Mar 28, 2018 20:26:57 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

Mar 28, 2018 19:53:50 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Gurl trying to hide the receipts!!

Um, I was just playing along back then. I never explicitly said anything, though.

SPOILER: Click to show

{P.S.}I have balls ya know.

You don't have to explicitly say something to imply it though. Like, if you meant no, you would have just said no... And especially not put a winky face.

[Cody Wants Out...]

Mar 28, 2018 20:30:34 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Mar 28, 2018 20:26:57 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

Um, I was just playing along back then. I never explicitly said anything, though.

SPOILER: Click to show

{P.S.}I have balls ya know.

You don't have to explicitly say something to imply it though. Like, if you meant no, you would have just said no... And especially not put a winky face.

Okay, I'll give you that.

These last few posts could've been filled with YouTube links instead of something that I started due to my poor communication issues.

[bboat11]

Aaaaaaaaand I just realized that Martina's "My Baby Loves Me" peaked at #2 in December of 1993... After being released in JULY. How does a song climb for an entire half of the year, miss hitting #1 by like 1 spin or whatever crazy metric she lost the #1 spot by, and then not make the year-end chart???!  >    (Not to mention one of the biggest country hits of all time which blocked Martina, Garth's "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association").


No offense, but I am having a lot of trouble with the idea of a year-end rankdown that completely ignores some of the biggest hits of an artist's entire career just because they peaked at the wrong time of the year. Everything that has been mentioned this afternoon/evening belongs in this list more than like 80% of the songs that actually are...

[.indulgecountry]

Yeah, I don't understand what's going on here that so many obvious big hits are left off the list. Some of them should've been in 1992 but weren't, so they should be on here. Big hits from artists like George Strait and Martina McBride have no business getting shafted in a YE rankdown.

Cody Wants Out... your 1992 rankdown had 104 songs on it, so I think you need to just tack on a few extras here as well for the glaring omissions.

[Cody Wants Out...]

Mar 28, 2018 21:05:31 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

Cody Wants Out... your 1992 rankdown had 104 songs on it, so you need to just tack on a few extras here as well for the glaring omissions.

look...



I already got a couple of submissions; if I added more songs on here, then I would have to start. all. over. and go back to square one. I would have to toss the couple of lists I've already received along with my own and create a brand new spreadsheet. I would not be the only one upset over doing something like this.

Chances are, if I add any extras to compensate for these so-called 'glaring omissions', there'll end up being more songs than in the '07 RD as I had almost 130 songs chosen. It hurt me that I couldn't include "Two Sparrows" in either '92 or '93, but I've accepted that fact and have moved forward. Had "I'm in a Hurry" debuted on the charts in September instead of October, I would've included "I'm in a Hurry".

Also, I didn't wanna say this, but "My Baby Loves Me" will be in my '94 RD; it's already on my Spotify playlist and I don't really plan on starting it until the end of the summer.

P.S. 102 in '92, there were 104 in '98.

P.P.S. No one is forcing you to participate, btw.

[tim]

Whoa I didn’t even realize Alabama’s “I’m in a Hurry” and Tanya’s “Two Sparrows” were also left off the YE rankdown. With “I Cross My Heart” and “My Baby Loves Me” also left off that’s four iconic songs that really should’ve never been left out.

And that comment about no one forcing us to participate is kind of uncalled for. I know you put a lot of time into setting these up, but all we’re saying is that’s a lot of glaring omissions that are probably some of our favorite songs still to this day.

[.indulgecountry]

Cody Wants Out... why would you have to throw those lists away? We're talking about maybe adding like 4 very well-known songs to the list, and I'm sure the people who have submitted would have no problem going and listening to a couple extra songs and slotting them into their list where they see fit... and they're more recognizable than many of the songs that did make the list, so it would probably be a small task. The deadline you set is still over a month away and if a few people have already been so proactive as to have already gone through this list, then I'm sure they could find the time to slot 4 additional songs into their list.

Look dude, since you're the one making this an ego thing: no one is forcing us to participate, but none of us agreed that you needed to be in charge of hosting these, either. If you're not gonna do an adequate job of making sure massive hits aren't purposefully left off the final list just because you decided it was okay since they peaked in December, then maybe you shouldn't be running the show.

[mamasaid]

Everyone to their corner! We don't get to tell the RD host how to do his job....participate or don't, your choice. If you want it done a certain way, host your own....

(My kids used to say I was the meanest mom every..)

[.indulgecountry]

Mar 28, 2018 22:39:15 GMT -5 mamasaid said:

Everyone to their corner! We don't get to tell the RD host how to do his job....participate or don't, your choice. If you want it done a certain way, host your own....

(My kids used to say I was the meanest mom every..)

Um, if he's going to claim a bunch of these so that no one else can host them, then I think we should be allowed to have input. No one put him in charge of hosting these YE Rankdowns, and it's not like it's a subjective personal rankdown. I don't think it's asking a lot for him to include a few #1 or #2 hits that should've been considered in the first place.

[LBTrocks]

Mar 28, 2018 18:52:10 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

Mar 28, 2018 18:48:34 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

Um...the winner of the Alabama RD and the Tanya song you tanked would like to have a word with you.

What do either of those things have to do with this? Not including "I Cross My Heart" in 1992 because you were gonna put it in 1993 and then not putting it in 1993 because its run was more in 1992 makes no sense. It needs to be included in at least one, lol.

Yes, this is bothersome IMO. The song has to belong somewhere! lol.

I don't think anyone is trying to boss the host around, rather just trying to make sure that the song list is as accurate as possible for this year's YE chart, and that all artists/songs that should be represented are indeed represented. I know for me, if a YE rankdown is missing songs that said YE rankdown should have in it, it skews the whole thing for me and takes away a lot of the enjoyment. I see little point in ranking the songs in a YE rankdown if the song list itself is incomplete and/or missing certain songs. I tend to agree that the specific songs that indulge, bboat, and tim suggested do indeed belong in here and I don't think it would be that difficult to add them in at such an early stage, but since Cody started the rankdown and this specific thread it is, of course, his decision in the end. 

[Leo ✔]

Mar 28, 2018 22:39:15 GMT -5 mamasaid said:

Everyone to their corner! We don't get to tell the RD host how to do his job....participate or don't, your choice. If you want it done a certain way, host your own....

(My kids used to say I was the meanest mom every..)

I mean, I'm not going to do this one and I shouldn't care about this but something important is that the host should be opened to receive suggestions.
And no, I'm not supporting x or y side, I'm giving my opinion as an experimented hoster.

[castleoblivion26]

Mar 28, 2018 23:10:04 GMT -5 LBTrocks said:

Mar 28, 2018 18:52:10 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

What do either of those things have to do with this? Not including "I Cross My Heart" in 1992 because you were gonna put it in 1993 and then not putting it in 1993 because its run was more in 1992 makes no sense. It needs to be included in at least one, lol.

Yes, this is bothersome IMO. The song has to belong somewhere! lol.

I don't think anyone is trying to boss the host around, rather just trying to make sure that the song list is as accurate as possible for this year's YE chart, and that all artists/songs that should be represented are indeed represented. I know for me, if a YE rankdown is missing songs that said YE rankdown should have in it, it skews the whole thing for me and takes away a lot of the enjoyment. I see little point in ranking the songs in a YE rankdown if the song list itself is incomplete and/or missing certain songs. I tend to agree that the specific songs that indulge, bboat, and tim suggested do indeed belong in here and I don't think it would be that difficult to add them in at such an early stage, but since Cody started the rankdown and this specific thread it is, of course, his decision in the end. 

'm not going to really get into this much and I respect Cody's choice to handle this how he wants but I do agree with everything that LBTrocks says here. It does take away from the enjoyment of the entire experience if songs that should be here are being left off. "Two Sparrows In A Hurricane", "I'm In A Hurry", and "My Baby Loves Me" are three of my all time favorite songs and to see that they won't be included in any year-end rankdown is a big disappointment, and "My Baby Loves Me" was released and peaked in 1993 so it should be a part of the 1993 rankdown not the 1994 one. While I'm not the biggest fan of "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association" or "I Cross My Heart" they need to be in one of the two years as well.

Another thing I want to add is I get it is really hard to narrow songs down but the biggest hits of the year should be the priority in making the lists one way or another. Just my two cents. I respect your choice here Cody Wants Out... but I want to share my thoughts and I'll be participating either way.