Top 5/Bottom 5 Kenny Chesney

[bjer127]

Kenny for me has been a roller coaster artist. I started out loving his stuff when I discovered him in '98 or '99. Me and my cousin used to ride around at work and blast his first few albums. Then as the next decade came in, I started to abhore his music with all the beach-themed songs and all the exposure he was getting. But NOW, with current state of country music, I actually see him as kind of a savior, and love his music again. Very weird

Top 10 (couldn't pick just 5)
Back Where I Come From (live version on his Greatest Hits CD)
That's Why I'm Here
A Chance
What I Need To Do
The Good Stuff
The Woman With You
You Save Me
Better As A Memory
Just Not Today
You and Tequila

Bottom
You Had Me From Hello
I'm Alive
Big Star
Beer In Mexico
When The Sun Goes Down


Guilty Pleasure: I actually enjoy Feel Like A Rockstar, hated it when it came out, but for some reason...I dig it now

[zjames]

Top 10
1. Anything But Mine
2. You and Tequila (Feat. Grace Potter)
3. The Good Stuff
4. Never Wanted Nothing More
5. I Go Back
6. Somewhere With You
7. Better As A Memory
8. There Goes My Life
9. El Cerrito Place
10. Don't Happen Twice

Bottom 5
1. She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy
2. Feel Like A Rock Star (Feat. Tim McGraw)
3. Pirate Flag
4. Beer In Mexico
5. You Had Me From Hello

Edit: How did I forget "Somewhere With You"?

[zaclord 🌈]

As much as I love some of Kenny's stuff, he's thrown out quite a few duds as well. I had 10 I felt passionately about on both ends

Top 10
1. There Goes My Life
2. The Good Stuff
3. I Go Back
4. You Save Me
5. Summertime
6. The Woman With You
7. I Lost It
8. Don't Happen Twice
9. Never Wanted Nothing More
10. El Cerrito Place

Bottom 10
1. Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven
2. Shiftwork
3. Pirate Flag
4. Feel Like A Rock Star (Feat. Tim McGraw)
5. The Boys Of Fall
6. Anything But Mine
7. No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem
8. Ain't Back Yet
9. Out Last Night
10. You and Tequila

[Kentucky25]

Top
1. That's Why I'm Here
2. Better As A Memory
3. Sing Em Good My Friend
4. I Lost It
5. Anything But Mine
6. Seven Days
7. There Goes My Life
8. Don't Blink
9. Come Over
10. What I Need to Do

I Go Back, The Woman With You and Scare Me are very, very high honorable mentions

Bottom
1. Pirate Flag
2. I'm Alive
3. Feel Like A Rock Star (Feat. Tim McGraw)
4. Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven
5. The whole "Life on a Rock" album excluding "Pirate Flag" it's too bad not to be number 1.

[sabre14]

So much for not having a billion of these.

Overall I like most of Kenny's singles.

Top:
1. Anything But Mine (Another all-timer song for me)
2. Don't Blink
3. There Goes My Life
4. Down The Road
5. What I Need To Do
6. Somewhere With You (One of those songs that sounds best at night)
7. Don't Happen Twice (Childhood memories of the 2001 summer)
8. El Cerrito Place
9. Better As A Memory
10. The Good Stuff
11. Who You'd Be Today
12. Young
13. You And Tequila
14. I Go Back
15. You Save Me
16. Big Star
17. Grandpa Told Me So
18. Never Wanted Nothing More
19. Live A Little
20. Keg In The Closet (I actually think this song isn't as bad as some make it out to be)

Top Album Tracks:
1. Never Gonna Feel Like That Again
2. Somebody Take Me Home

Bottom:
1. Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (One of my least favorites of the past decade)
2. Beer In Mexico (My vote for most overrated Kenny song)
3. She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy
4. Pirate Flag
5. When The Sun Goes Down (Never hated this song, but radio just would not let freaking go of it)

[someguy]

Kenny is my other favourite male country artist (the other one being Tim).

Top singles:

1. I Go Back
2. Beer In Mexico
3. Never Wanted Nothing More
4. Somewhere With You
5. Every Other Weekend
6. Anything But Mine
7. Better As A Memory
8. Down The Road
9. Young
10. You And Tequila
11. I'm Alive
12. When The Sun Goes Down
13. Out Last Night
14. How Forever Feels
15. Don't Blink
16. No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem
17. Come Over
18. When I See This Bar
19. Keg In The Closet
20. Reality

Top album tracks:

1. Never Gonna Feel That Way Again
2. Just Not Today
3. Got A Little Crazy
4. Hemingway's Whiskey
5. Coastal
6. When I Think About Leaving
7. Being Drunk's A Lot Like Loving You
8. Old Blue Chair
9. Guitars And Tiki Bars
10. Demons

Bottom singles:

1. The Tin Man
2. She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy
3. A Chance
4. Shiftwork
5. I Will Stand

[Deleted]

Top:
1. You And Tequila
2. El Cerrito Place
3. There Goes My Life
4. Don't Happen Twice
5. Anything But Mine
6. Out Last Night (Guilty pleasure)
7. Don't Blink
8. The Woman With You
9. The Good Stuff

Bottom:
1. When The Sun Goes Down (I still can't listen to this due to radio overplaying the crap out of it)
2. Down The Road
3. She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy (why?)
4. Feel Like A Rockstar
5. Beer In Mexico
6. You Save Me
7. Reality
8. I Go Back
9. Never Wanted Nothing More

[Kanenrá:ke]

I'm really not a big Kenny fan at all, in fact he's one of my least favorite artists in country. I do however have a few singles that I did enjoy from him. (Note: I think all of these can be done better by somebody else, he just got lucky in singing them before anybody else got to.)

Top.
01. The Good Stuff
02. You And Tequila (Feat. Grace Potter)
03. You Save Me
04. El Cerritto Place
05. When I See This Bar
06. Somewhere With You
07. There Goes My Life

Bottom
01. Pirate Flag
02. When The Sun Goes Down (Feat. Uncle Kracker)
03. Summertime
04. Out Last Night
05. Feel Like A Rockstar (Feat. Tim McGraw)
06. Boys Of Fall
07. Shiftwork (Feat. George Strait)
08. Living In Fast Forward
09. Come Over
10. Ain't Back Yet
11. Keg In The Closet
12. Beer In Mexico
13. I'm Alive (Feat. Dave Matthews)
14. Live A Little
15. Down The Road (Feat. Mac McAnally
16. Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven
17. Reality
18. Better As A Memory
19. Young
20. Don't Blink

Everything else not listed is purley forgettable for me...I respect what Kenny's been able to accomplish and the fact that he does take some risks but I can't stand his music.

[Spacey_Kacey]

1. El Cerrito Place
2. Sing 'Em Good My Friend
3. You and Tequila
4. Somewhere With You
5. Anything But Mine
6. The Tin Man
7. I Go Back
8. Who You'd Be Today
9. There Goes My Life
10. A Lot of Things Different
11. Seven Days (Prefer Lee Brice's version)
12. To Get To You (55th and 3rd)
13. Don't Blink
14. When I See This Bar
15. Keg in the Closet
16. Me And You
17. The Good Stuff
18. Lindy
19. All I Need To Know
20. The Road and the Radio

Worst:
1. Pirate Flag
2. Ain't Back Yet
3. Boston
4. Round and Round
5. Coastal

Other Bad Singles: Feel Like a Rock Star, When the Sun Goes Down, Summertime, I'm Alive, Everybody Wants to Go To Heaven, Reality, Young
Just a tick above: No Shirt No Shoes No Problem, Live a Little
Surely there are some others in those categories that I like to forget as singles. I forgot a few of those were initially.

Slightly positive on She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy and Very positive on Beer In Mexico

[Deleted]

Kenny is easily one of my favorite artists (along with Tim, Alan, and Keith). My favorite 'era' of Kenny's is from 2000-2004 and he kinda lost me a bit from 2006 to 2010 but he's been on a roll again since the release of "Somewhere With You". I've liked pretty much all of his singles since then.

A top 30 from me:

01 "I Go Back" (probably in my top 3 favorite songs of all time, maybe #1) I still can't believe "I Go Back" never hit #1. It spent 7 weeks at #2, blocked by the overrated "Live Like You Were Dying" (which I like, but I think it's overrated and I think IGB is 10x better). Anyway...
02 "What I Need To Do"
03 "Don't Happen Twice"
04 "The Good Stuff"
05 "Somewhere With You"
06 "You And Tequila" (featuring Grace Potter)
07 "El Cerrito Place"
08 "She's Got It All"
09 "Young"
10 "There Goes My Life"
11 "Summertime"
12 "How Forever Feels"
13 "I Lost It"
14 "Better As A Memory"
15 "Feel Like A Rock Star" (featuring Tim McGraw)
16 "When I See This Bar"
17 "Don't Blink" [not bad, but overrated]
18 "Anything But Mine"
19 "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems"
20 "Keg In The Closet"
21 "Reality"
22 "You Save Me"
23 "Beer In Mexico"
24 "Who You'd Be Today"
25 "When The Sun Goes Down" (featuring Uncle Kracker)
26 "You Had Me From Hello"
27 "The Woman With You"
28 "Big Star"
29 "Me And You"
30 "Live A Little"

Bottom 5:

01 "Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven" (featuring The Wailers)
02 "Shiftwork" (featuring George Strait)
03 "I'm Alive" (featuring Dave Matthews)
04 "Pirate Flag"
05 "Living In Fast Forward"

There are a few of his 90's singles that I'm not familiar with at all, but the 4 I'm thinking of (Grandpa Told Me So, Back In My Arms Again, A Chance, & I Will Stand) all missed the top 10 so I'm not too surprised that I don't recall them at all. I don't think I've ever heard "The Tin Man" either, and really the only other single that I seem to have no memory of is 2002's "A Lot Of Things Different"...which is odd, because even though it peaked at bit lower (#6), I've seen a lot of good comments on this board about that song. I have trouble recalling how the Dave Matthews duet sounds as well but that doesn't bother me because I know I don't like that one, at all.

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Apr 21, 2014 16:07:00 GMT -5 Kanenrá:ke said:

I'm really not a big Kenny fan at all, in fact he's one of my least favorite artists in country. I do however have a few singles that I did enjoy from him. (Note: I think all of these can be done better by somebody else, he just got lucky in singing them before anybody else got to.)

Top.
01. The Good Stuff
02. You And Tequila (Feat. Grace Potter)
03. You Save Me
04. El Cerritto Place
05. When I See This Bar
06. Somewhere With You
07. There Goes My Life

Bottom
01. Pirate Flag
02. When The Sun Goes Down (Feat. Uncle Kracker)
03. Summertime
04. Out Last Night
05. Feel Like A Rockstar (Feat. Tim McGraw)
06. Boys Of Fall
07. Shiftwork (Feat. George Strait)
08. Living In Fast Forward
09. Come Over
10. Ain't Back Yet
11. Keg In The Closet
12. Beer In Mexico
13. I'm Alive (Feat. Dave Matthews)
14. Live A Little
15. Down The Road (Feat. Mac McAnally
16. Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven
17. Reality
18. Better As A Memory
19. Young
20. Don't Blink

Everything else not listed is purley forgettable for me...I respect what Kenny's been able to accomplish and the fact that he does take some risks but I can't stand his music.

Shiftwork and "Come Over" are both so atrocious

[Ten Pound Hammer]

Yeah, I'm a bit of a fan too.

TOP
1. Anything but Mine
2. The Good Stuff (funny how I hated this one when it was out, too)
3. The Tin Man
4. When I See This Bar
5. Down the Road
6. I Go Back
7. El Cerrito Place
8. You and Tequila
9. What I Need to Do
10. I Lost It
11. Grandpa Told Me So
12. That's Why I'm Here
13. When the Sun Goes Down
14. Somewhere with You
15. Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
16. Don't Blink
17. Never Wanted Nothing More
18. A Lot of Things Different
19. Big Star
20. There Goes My Life
21. Don't Happen Twice
22. You Save Me
23. Who You'd Be Today
24. Keg in the Closet
25. When I Close My Eyes

BOTTOM
1. Summertime
2. The Boys of Fall (I honestly can't remember a single word from this song, and for a former Top 10 hit less than 5 years old, much less a #1, that's nearly unheard of for me)
3. Feel Like a Rock Star
4. Reality
5. I Will Stand
6. A Chance
7. Me and You
8. She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy (more of a guilty pleasure really, but boy is it a stupid song)

[carriekins]

Top:

1. Somewhere With You
2. Anything but Mine
3. How Forever Feels
4. Young
5. Better as a Memory
6. The Woman With You
7. Down the Road
8. Come Over
9. Reality
10. Don't Happen Twice
11. Never Wanted Nothing More
12. You and Tequila
13. El Cerrito Place
14. Out Last Night (guilty pleasure)
15. She's Got it All
16. Don't Blink (but it makes me cryyyyyy)
17. Big Star
18. The Good Stuff
19. There Goes my Life (but it also makes me cryyyyyyy)
20. Summertime

Bottom:

1. Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
2. Keg in the Closet
3. Boys of Fall
4. Feel Like a Rockstar
5. Beer in Mexico

[gonecountry]

I like Kenny, he is nowhere near being a favorite, but there is quite a bit of his stuff that I do like...

Top:
1. Young
2. No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem
3. Live Those Songs (from No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem)
4. Living in Fast Forward
5. Out Last Night (this is just a fun song)
6. Beer in Mexico
7. Summertime
8. Don’t Blink
9. Somewhere With You
10. Come Over
11. I Go Back
12. Got A Little Crazy (from Just Who I Am: Poets and Pirates)

Guilty Pleasures:
1. Feel Like a Rockstar
2. Ain’t Back Yet
3. Ten With A Two (Lucky Old Sun)
4. She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy
5. Shiftwork

Bottom:
1. Pirate Flag (this song really annoyed me)
2. Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (like the words, though the song does nothing for me)
3. Never Wanted Nothing More
4. Boys of Fall (I find this totally boring)
5. Better as a Memory (boring)
6. Reality (his voice sounds grating on this one, though in concert it was pretty good)

[tim]

Wow, I actually really miss Kenny. When even he struggles with such greats as "El Cerrito Place" we are in trouble.

Top 5:

1. Anything But Mine
2. What I Need To Do
3. I Go Back
4. Beer In Mexico
5. Fall In Love

Bottom 5:

1. She Think's My Tractors Sexy
2. When The Sun Goes Down
3. The Boys of Fall
4. Pirate Flag
5. The Good Stuff

[.indulgecountry]

Top
1. You and Tequila (but the original by Deana Carter is still way better)
2. El Cerrito Place

Bottom
Basically everything else

Apr 21, 2014 16:07:00 GMT -5 Kanenrá:ke said:

he's one of my least favorite artists in country.

Me too. Aside from two songs (and even those I certainly don't go out of my way for), he's an instant station changer for me. I've never liked his voice or his music in any capacity.

[Andy]

Kenny's not really an artist I go out of my way to listen to anymore, but I grew up listening to his music a lot so I can't deny an affinity for a lot of his songs. I've only heard about half of his albums, the most recent being Just Who I Am from 2007, and only a smattering of his singles since then, so I'm not completely familiar with his output. He has covered some good songs in recent years (You and Tequila, El Cerrito Place, Down the Road, Hemingway's Whiskey, etc.), and I give him credit for taking risks but in all cases I prefer the original versions by the songwriters or by other artists.

Top
1. Anything But Mine
2. The Tin Man
3. Grandpa Told Me So
4. Who You'd Be Today
5. That's Why I'm Here
(rest in no order)
Fall in Love
Never Gonna Feel That Way Again
I Go Back
She Got It All
The Good Stuff
What I Need to Do
How Forever Feels
Somebody Take Me Home
Dancin' for the Groceries
Just Not Today
I Lost It
Don't Happen Twice
Young

Bottom:
Shiftwork (remove the "f')
When the Sun Goes Down (more "meh" than bad, just overplayed)
Big Star (same as above)

Don't actually hate, enjoy it for what it is:
She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy

[countryfan4life]

Kenny has always been one of my favorite country artists and a big reason I started listing to country music (him along with Rascal Flatts and Keith Urban). His voice is also one of my favorites; very clear and distinctive. Everytime I listen to the radio, I know it's Kenny from the first note. I love that about him. I have pretty much loved everything he has done, with some of this island stuff being an exception. I am not as familiar with his older music, but have everything from his first greatest hits album to Hemingway's Whiskey.

Top
Me and You
The Road and the Radio
I Go Back
Young
There Goes My Life
Don't Happen Twice
The Good Stuff
Summer Time
Baptism
Back Where I Come From
I Lost It
7 Days
Somewhere With You
You Save Me
Who You'd Be Today
Better As A Memory
Just Not Today
No Shoes No Shirt No Problems
Down The Road

Guilty Pleasure
Come Over
She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy
Pirate Flag

Bottom: I have liked pretty much everything by him but these are my least favorite
Almost everything from the "Life On A Rock" album. I don't own it but I wasn't crazy over the previews
Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven

[kw9461]

1. That's Why I'm Here
2. Anything But Mine
3. What I Need To Do
4. Don't Happen Twice
5. El Cerrito Place
6. Grandpa Told Me So (hardest song on here to rank, it's almost impossible for me to make it all the way through)
7. Never Wanted Nothing More
8. There Goes My Life
9. The Good Stuff
10. I Lost It
11. Better As A Memory
12. How Forever Feels
13. I Go Back
14. Down The Road
15. A Lot Of Things Different
16. Young
17. Beer In Mexico
18. Live A Little
19. You And Tequila
20. The Woman With You

Album Cuts:
1. Live These Songs (No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems)
2. California (Everywhere We Go)
3. Seven Days (Hemingway's Whiskey)
4. Way Down Here (Lucky Old Sun)
5. Wife And Kids (Poets & Pirates)

Least Faves:
1. Feel Like A Rockstar
2. Shiftwork
3. The Boys Of Fall
4. I'm Alive
5. Living In Fast Forward

[Deleted]

Top
1. I'm Alive (w/Dave Matthews)
2. Somewhere With You
3. El Cerrito Place
4. That's Why I'm Here
5. Don't Blink
6. Better As A Memory
7. Anything But Mine
8. I Go Back
9. Down The Road (w/Mac Macanally)
10. You and Tequila (w/Grace Potter)
11. American Kids
12. The Good Stuff
13. The Tin Man
14. Living In Fast Forward
15. There Goes My Life
16. Who You'd Be Today
17. I Lost It
18. Ain't Back Yet
19. Feel Like A Rock Star (you read that right)
20. When I See This Bar

Fav Album Tracks
1. Sing Em Good My Friend
2. Seven Days
3. While He Still Knows Who I Am
4. Don't It
5. If This Bus Could Talk
6. I Remember
7. In A Small Town
8. Spirit Of A Storm
9. Happy On The Hey Now
10. Round and Round

Bottom:
1. She Thinks My Tractor Sexy
2. Beer In Mexico
3. Reality

Overall people complain about Kennys post 2002 material being too beachy but for my money, he's recorded some of his best stuff during this time period (The Good Stuff, El Cerrito Place, Anything Like Mine, Don't Blink....etc). His earlier stuff (save for That's Why I'm Here and possibly Grandpa Told Me So, I've never heard it, feels vanilla to me) Also he is one of the few artists for me that has sent his best stuff to radio instead of keeping them album tracks

[phil1996]

Top

1. Somewhere With You
2. The Good Stuff
3. Anything But Mine

(gap here because the above 3 songs were absolute perfection)

4. I Lost It
5. I'm Alive
6. Pirate Flag
7. Big Star
8. El Cerrito Place
9. No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem
10. When I See This Bar
11. Living in Fast Forward
12. That's Why I'm Here
13. Wild Child
14. All I Need To Know
15. Out Last Night
16. Beer In Mexico
17. Keg In The Closet
18. Live a Little
19. Don't Happen Twice
20. American Kids


Bottom

1. She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy
2. Ain't Back Yet
3. Reality
4. Better as a Memory
5. Come Over

[countrymusicjunkie]

Top

1.You and Tequila
2.Anything But Mine
3.I Go Back
4.Wild Child
5.Better As a Memory
6.El Cerrito Place
7.The Good Stuff
8.What I Need To Do
9.Don't Blink
10.Never Wanted Nothing More

Bottom

1.No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems
2.Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven
3.Pirate Flag
4.When The Sun Goes Down
5.Shiftwork
6.Summertime
7.She Thinks My Tractors Sexy
8.Feel Like A Rock Star
9.A Lot of Things Different
10.American Kids

[sabre14]

Revised. :)

Top:
1. Anything But Mine
2. Don't Blink (another candidate for "radio overplay...but I love this song so much..)
3. There Goes My Life (see #2)
4. Down The Road
5. El Cerrito Place
6. Somewhere With You
7. What I Need To Do
8. Better As A Memory
9. The Good Stuff
10. Don't Happen Twice
11. Who You'd Be Today
12. You And Tequila
13. You Save Me
14. Save It For A Rainy Day
15. I Go Back
16. Live A Little
17. That's Why I'm Here
18. Grandpa Told Me So
19. Setting The World On Fire
20. Young
21. Big Star
22. American Kids
23. Keg In The Closet
24. She's Got It All
25. Never Wanted Nothing More
26. Ain't Back Yet
27. The Woman With You
28. Come Over
29. Feel Like A Rockstar (it's far from a masterpiece and shouldn't have been debuted the way it was...but I like it for what it is)
30. She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy (after re-listening...I can't hate it. lol, it's fine. It's stupid as hell but the fiddle and melody are really good)

Bottom:
1. Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (can't find the dial fast enough)
2. Pirate Flag (this song's just bizarre really and never quite flowed the way I thought it should)
3. Beer In Mexico (whatever, it's okay, just didn't grab me the way it did for others)
4. Noise
5. I'm Alive (zzzzzzz....)