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Post by bboat11 on Oct 8, 2019 6:11:49 GMT -5
 Hello everyone!!! I've been teasing this one for a LOOOOONG time, and in compliance with all the new rules I made to reduce the clogging problem on the rankdown queue, I have decided it is time for me to go ahead and do this!!! Toby Keith is one of the most iconic, outspoken, and ubiquitous country superstars of my lifetime, and that of most of us on Pulse. He kept bringing HIT after HIT for basically my entire life, until just a couple years ago. Now, it is time for us to compare those hits to see which one is Pulse's favorite! He may not be the most consistent artist, but he has a TON of incredible music, for which he doesn't seem to get enough credit around here. I have included all of his singles (except for "Wacky Tobaccy" and "That's Country Bro", because ewwwwwww...) I hope that this rankdown will help build a bit of an appreciation for some of his most iconic jams that tend to be underrated! The Song List:
1. Should've Been A Cowboy 2. He Ain't Worth Missing 3. A Little Less Talk And A Lot More Action 4. Wish I Didn't Know Now 5. Who's That Man 6. Upstairs Downtown 7. You Ain't Much Fun 8. Big Ol' Truck 9. Does That Blue Moon Ever Shine On You 10. A Woman's Touch 11. Me Too 12. We Were In Love 13. I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying - ft. Sting 14. Dream Walkin' 15. Double Wide Paradise 16. Getcha Some 17. If A Man Answers 18. When Love Fades 19. How Do You Like Me Now?! 20. Country Comes To Town 21. You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This 22. I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight 23. I Wanna Talk About Me 24. My List 25. Courtesy Of The Red, White, And Blue (The Angry American) 26. Who's Your Daddy? 27. Rock You Baby 28. Beer For My Horses - ft. Willie Nelson 29. I Love This Bar 30. American Soldier 31. Whiskey Girl 32. Hey Good Lookin' - Jimmy Buffett ft. Toby Keith & others 33. Stays In Mexico 34. Mockingbird - ft. Krystal Keith 35. Honkytonk U 36. As Good As I Once Was 37. Big Blue Note 38. Get Drunk And Be Somebody 39. A Little Too Late 40. Crash Here Tonight 41. High Maintenance Woman 42. Love Me If You Can 43. Get My Drink On 44. She's A Hottie 45. She Never Cried In Front Of Me 46. God Love Her 47. Lost You Anyway 48. American Ride 49. Cryin' For Me (Wayman's Song) 50. Every Dog Has Its Day 51. Trailerhood 52. Bullets In The Gun 53. Somewhere Else 54. Made In America 55. Red Solo Cup 56. Beers Ago 57. I Like Girls That Drink Beer 58. Hope On The Rocks 59. Drinks After Work 60. Shut Up And Hold On 61. Drunk Americans 62. 35 MPH Town 63. Beautiful Stranger 64. A Few More Cowboys 65. Don't Let The Old Man In
The deadline will be set for 1 month away, on Saturday, November 9th!!!! That should be enough time, because until recently Toby has always been one of those artists who didn't exactly have very many "small" hits... Anybody who has any experience at all with country radio in the last 25 years should already know the majority of this list. Lol
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 8, 2019 6:13:24 GMT -5
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Oct 8, 2019 7:19:10 GMT -5
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Post by RobbyFlorida on Oct 8, 2019 8:11:44 GMT -5
I’ll do this. It’s ironic though his heyday was during the middle to the end of the time I loved country radio (Late 80’s-2000). I know all the radio hits some I love but I never purchased an album not even a greatest hits. Maybe after listening to these songs I’ll get his 35 Biggest Hits off iTunes . Oh wow! just looked him up on iTunes and found a preorder for a new greatest hits of his most recent songs after 2008.  |
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 8, 2019 8:23:12 GMT -5
I was beginning to wonder when this was gonna happen! I may not be quite ready until the deadline comes as there's still a bunch of rankdowns I want to do; however, I already know about 80% of these songs so this shouldn't be too hard.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Oct 8, 2019 9:31:06 GMT -5
I was literally just thinking the other day about how we needed to do a Toby Keith rankdown sometime soon, and here it is! I'm definitely excited to see how this one shakes out because he has a ton of classics but also a lot of sludge, so it will be fun to find out where everything ends up.
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Post by ClevelandRox on Oct 8, 2019 9:41:59 GMT -5
Woo wee!
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 8, 2019 14:57:33 GMT -5
I’ll do this. It’s ironic though his heyday was during the middle to the end of the time I loved country radio (Late 80’s-2000). I know all the radio hits some I love but I never purchased an album not even a greatest hits. Maybe after listening to these songs I’ll get his 35 Biggest Hits off iTunes . Oh wow! just looked him up on iTunes and found a preorder for a new greatest hits of his most recent songs after 2008. I would definitely recommend you do this! His 35 Biggest Hits album is literally one of the most perfect hits collections I have ever purchased, in terms of how well it represents the bulk of an artist's work. Literally the only problem with it is that it came out just a few years before his radio career ended, so it doesn't quite get his whole career. When his new hits album comes out it would be a great addition if you want his big hits since the 35 Biggest Hits album, but I probably wouldn't recommend it as an individual purchase when the 35 Biggest Hits album is much more representative of his career. |
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Post by RobbyFlorida on Oct 8, 2019 15:02:38 GMT -5
I’ll do this. It’s ironic though his heyday was during the middle to the end of the time I loved country radio (Late 80’s-2000). I know all the radio hits some I love but I never purchased an album not even a greatest hits. Maybe after listening to these songs I’ll get his 35 Biggest Hits off iTunes . Oh wow! just looked him up on iTunes and found a preorder for a new greatest hits of his most recent songs after 2008. I would definitely recommend you do this! His 35 Biggest Hits album is literally one of the most perfect hits collections I have ever purchased, in terms of how well it represents the bulk of an artist's work. Literally the only problem with it is that it came out just a few years before his radio career ended, so it doesn't quite get his whole career. When his new hits album comes out it would be a great addition if you want his big hits since the 35 Biggest Hits album, but I probably wouldn't recommend it as an individual purchase when the 35 Biggest Hits album is much more representative of his career. Thank you Sir. Definitely get the 35 I’ll listen to the previews of the new one. I only recognize Red Solo Cup |
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Post by tim on Oct 8, 2019 19:01:03 GMT -5
Already getting a head start on this one and looking forward to revisiting some of his earlier material from the 90's. I will admit that I'm rather ambivalent about including "Hey Good Lookin'" in these rankdowns because it would be the same as including something like George Jones' "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair" for every artist that was featured in it and I have a feeling we're going to see this song pop up again in another artist rankdown...alas I can also see one's point for including it. Nonetheless, I'm excited this is happening and expect the results to be quite varied!
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 8, 2019 20:39:47 GMT -5
Already getting a head start on this one and looking forward to revisiting some of his earlier material from the 90's. I will admit that I'm rather ambivalent about including "Hey Good Lookin'" in these rankdowns because it would be the same as including something like George Jones' "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair" for every artist that was featured in it and I have a feeling we're going to see this song pop up again in another artist rankdown...alas I can also see one's point for including it. Nonetheless, I'm excited this is happening and expect the results to be quite varied! He had 66 singles, and I adamantly wanted to get rid of both "Wacky Tobaccy" and "That's Country Bro" rather than picking one over the other, but wanted to keep it at 65 songs... Lol!  So that's why "Hey Good Lookin'" made an appearance. |
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Post by gonecountry on Oct 8, 2019 21:30:35 GMT -5
Hell Yeah! But That’s Country Bro >>>>>>>>> Shut Up And Hold On
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 14, 2019 17:17:02 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2019 17:35:43 GMT -5
Thanks but I’ll pass.
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Post by ChicaCherry콜라 on Oct 17, 2019 11:56:40 GMT -5
I'm going to try my best to accomplish this. Might not make it in time but Toby used to be my all-time fave back in middle school so this would be a fun trip to take.
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 17, 2019 12:46:15 GMT -5
Okay. I'll see if I can start on it this week...oh, by the way, I made a Spotify playlist for y'all! The only song missing is "A Few More Cowboys".
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 28, 2019 2:54:07 GMT -5
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Post by LBTrocks on Oct 29, 2019 21:54:18 GMT -5
Due Nov 9th? lol that's cute!
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 29, 2019 22:54:52 GMT -5
Due Nov 9th? lol that's cute! Gurl, you're practically Pulse's biggest Toby Keith fan. How many of these songs do you realistically not know??! |
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Post by LBTrocks on Oct 29, 2019 23:29:05 GMT -5
Due Nov 9th? lol that's cute! Gurl, you're practically Pulse's biggest Toby Keith fan. How many of these songs do you realistically not know??! Knowing all the songs helps but it doesn't make it a breeze lol, a lot of listening and re-listening is going to be involved in this. I'll see what I can do, but I'm just thinking of the other RD's due within the next week or so and I'm skeptical that I will have time to get them all done! |
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Post by gonecountry on Oct 30, 2019 6:54:13 GMT -5
Gurl, you're practically Pulse's biggest Toby Keith fan. How many of these songs do you realistically not know??! Knowing all the songs helps but it doesn't make it a breeze lol, a lot of listening and re-listening is going to be involved in this. I'll see what I can do, but I'm just thinking of the other RD's due within the next week or so and I'm skeptical that I will have time to get them all done! Agree, I know most of these songs inside out but this rankdown is going to take some work and the final placements are going to be challenging - except for Shut Up and Hold On (I will go on record that I love That's Country Bro when compared to Shut Up). Toby's music from the mid-90's to late 2000's is so deeply interwoven into my life, picking one song over another will be tough. I don't know how I can do a rankdown for Toby w/o "I Can't Take You Anywhere" and (to a lesser degree) "Santa, I'm Right Here" as they both felt like singles to me based upon how much I heard them.. |
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Post by bboat11 on Nov 2, 2019 19:54:07 GMT -5
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Post by gonecountry on Nov 7, 2019 12:18:18 GMT -5
Just submitted. That was challenging. I'm sure I ranked Trailerhood higher than anyone else.
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Post by LBTrocks on Nov 9, 2019 19:31:51 GMT -5
bboat11 extension plz lol. I'll get this in tomorrow sometime. ChicaCherry콜라 wants to try to do this as well, FYI.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Nov 9, 2019 20:57:35 GMT -5
bboat11 yeah I need an extension too plz. I completely forgot about this. 
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Nov 9, 2019 23:10:26 GMT -5
Would it be okay if I submit some time tomorrow? I wasn't able to finish my list tonight.
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Post by taylor on Nov 10, 2019 13:25:54 GMT -5
I'll try sending in a list :)
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Nov 10, 2019 16:33:42 GMT -5
As of the deadline, we officially have double digits for the participant list!!! However, there are still several people who want to join, so I am going to extend this a little bit  I will push it out 2 more weeks so that it does not conflict with the next Reba album rankdown. Our new deadline is Saturday, November 23!!!! I still hope to finish revealing both this one and Reba before Thanksgiving, so don't look for any more extensions after this!  This is in regards to revealing over 60 songs in a 3-4 day period, meaning maybe 20 reveals per day?  Thank you so much for the extension, by the way. I still plan on submitting either tonight or some time tomorrow since I'm finally off from working nearly two months (we started classes a week later than normal this semester, so to compensate for that, Fall break was nixed!  Good news is this will not happen again in the future. ) |
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Post by bboat11 on Nov 10, 2019 17:54:43 GMT -5
As of the deadline, we officially have double digits for the participant list!!! However, there are still several people who want to join, so I am going to extend this a little bit I will push it out 2 more weeks so that it does not conflict with the next Reba album rankdown. Our new deadline is Saturday, November 23!!!! I still hope to finish revealing both this one and Reba before Thanksgiving, so don't look for any more extensions after this! This is in regards to revealing over 60 songs in a 3-4 day period, meaning maybe 20 reveals per day? Thank you so much for the extension, by the way. I still plan on submitting either tonight or some time tomorrow since I'm finally off from working nearly two months (we started classes a week later than normal this semester, so to compensate for that, Fall break was nixed! Good news is this will not happen again in the future. ) Lol yeah, when you put it that way it might be a bit too much for me to promise... But either way, at least y'all can plan on enjoying some reveals around Thanksgiving rather than having to submit during that family time :) |
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So that's why "Hey Good Lookin'" made an appearance.
I still want to finish reveals before Thanksgiving regardless.
Good news is this will not happen again in the future.