Top 5/Bottom 5: LeAnn Rimes

[Ten Pound Hammer]

LeAnn Rimes

TOP
1. Probably Wouldn't Be This Way
2. One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
3. Big Deal
4. Something's Gotta Give
5. Nothin' New Under the Moon
6. Nothin' Better to Do
7. Nothin' 'Bout Love Makes Sense
8. On the Side of Angels (I don't remember hearing it on the radio at all)
9. Commitment
10. Some People
11. Blue
12. Crazy Women
13. Put a Little Holiday in Your Heart

BOTTOM
1. How Do I Live (doesn't matter who's singing it, this is still a clichéd pile of dreck)
2. I Need You
3. You Light Up My Life
4. But I Do Love You (don't remember this one either)
5. Good Friend and a Glass of Wine (way too "chick flick"-y for me)
6. Swingin'
7. What I Cannot Change (just couldn't get into it)

[sabre14]

Top:
1. Probably Wouldn't Be This Way
2. Big Deal
3. Something's Gotta Give
4. On The Side Of Angles
5. Nothin' Bout Love Makes Sense
6. One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
7. Nothin' New Under The Moon
8. Nothin' Better To Do (couldn't tell you half the lyrics but it sounded great)
9. Commitment 
10. Crazy Women
11. Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (honorable mention. One of my favorite versions)

Bottom:
1. How Do I Live
2. Life Goes On (it technically charted on the country charts, so I'll count it)
3. But I Do Love You
4. Some People (I really tried to enjoy this song but I always found it uninteresting)
5. Good Friend And A Glass Of Wine
6. I Need You

[recjus85]

Top

1. On The Side Of Angels
2. Unchained Melody
3. Commitment
4. Blue
5. One Way Ticket (Because I Can)

Bottom

1. How Do I Live
2. I Need You
3. But I Do love You
4. Good Friend And A Glass Of Wine
5. Crazy Women

[someguy]

I've been a pretty big LeAnn fan over the years. I've liked the majority of her work, despite not agreeing with a lot of the business choices she has made (all those covers, etc.).

Top singles:

1. One Way Ticket
2. Nothin' Better To Do
3. Nothin' New Under The Moon
4. Nothin' Bout Love Makes Sense
5. What I Cannot Change
6. Probably Wouldn't Be This Way
7. Something's Gotta Give
8. The Light In Your Eyes
9. Commitment
10. On The Side Of Angels
11. Can't Fight The Moonlight (original, not dance mix)
12. Big Deal
13. Unchained Melody
14. How Do I Live (her version pales in comparison to Trisha's, but it's a nice song)
15. Good Friend And A Glass Of Wine

Top album tracks:

1. When You Love Someone Like That
2. When I Call Your Name
3. Gasoline & Matches
4. What Have I Done
5. Family

Bottom singles:

1. But I Do Love You
2. Swingin'
3. You Light Up My Life
4. These Arms Of Mine
5. Some People (not really bad, just kind of boring)

Honorable mention:

Someone Like You - her cover of this is excellent, and I still feel that she should have put it on her covers album and released it as a single.
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[Kanenrá:ke]

Top 10
01. Probably Wouldn't Be This Way
02. Nothin' New Under The Moon
03. Nothing Better To Do
04. Nothin' 'Bout Live Makes Sense
05. Commitment
06. Some People
07. What I Cannot Change
08. This Love
09. Blue
10. What Have I Done

5 Best album tracks
01. When This Woman Loves A Man
02. Fight
03. A Waste Is A Terrible Thing To Mind
04. Wound Up
05. I Dare You


Bottom 4 singles
01. These Arms Of Mine
02. Hurt Me
03. We Can
04. The Light In Your Eyes

Bonus 5 best pop singles
01. And It Feels Like
02. Life Goes On
03. Written In The Stars
04. Last Thing On My MInd
05. Strong

[bigbluenote]

As a huge Leann Rimes fan, I find it quite impossible to list a top 10, even a top 20.
This is gonna sound dumb, but I even made a list of songs, that if I ever had the chance to specifically request songs for her to perform, I have about 60 songs of hers picked compiled from all of her albums since the beginning.

With that said, I can easily list my bottom 3:
1. Good friend and a glass of wine
2. How do I live
3. Rock me

[kw9461]

LeAnn's certainly been a confounding artist, but at her best she is quite good.

1. One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
2. Something's Gotta Give
3. Probably Wouldn't Be This Way
4. On The Side Of Angels
5. Big Deal
6. What I Cannot Change
7. Commitment
8. Nothin' 'Bout Love Makes Sense
9. Some People


Least Faves:
1. How Do I Live
2. I Need You
3. Good Friend And A Glass Of Wine
4. The Light In Your Eyes
5. Crazy Women

[.indulgecountry]

Top
01. Some People
02. Nothin' Better to Do
03. I Need You
04. Nothin' 'bout Love Makes Sense
05. Borrowed
06. Give
07. One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
08. Swingin'
09. Probably Wouldn't Be This Way
10. What I Cannot Change

Bottom
I'm not familiar with most of the songs that came in between Blue and This Woman tbh, but I feel like that's where I'd draw from to fill in this section. But since I don't, and everything from the last 10 years of her career is pretty much great, I can't find anything worth putting here.

ETA: I'm surprised more people don't like "Some People." For me, that is one of the most beautiful songs in country music and her vocal is absolutely immaculate imo. When I first heard that song, I was just blown away.

[Andy]

TOP
1. Probably Wouldn't Be This Way
2. I Do Now
3. Some People
4. Blue
5. One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
6. Family
7. Nothin' 'Bout Love Makes Sense
8. Nothin' Better to Do
9. Commitment
10. Something's Gotta Give

BOTTOM
Can't really think of any I actively dislike.

[tim]

Top:
1. The Light In Your Eyes ('96/'97 was a big year in country music and I always thought this was a great song then and still do)
2. On the Side of Angels
3. One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
4. Something's Gotta Give
5. Probably Wouldn't Be This Way

Bottom:

With the exception of "Nothin' Better to Do," anything post This Woman era. I thought that was going to be the album that would propel LeAnn back into the country music spotlight (a la Tanya Tucker's success in late 80's and early 90's). What followed, however, was anything but.

edit: I forgot to add that while typing up this thread I completely forgot how high "Unchained Melody" charted for her...#3!

[echocountry]

LeAnn Rimes is amazing - I just think when she was 13 to 17 those were her best years!

Top:
Blue
Light in Your Eyes
One Way Ticket
Unchained Melody
Commitment
Nothin' New Under the Moon
Crazy (Patsy would be proud)
Big Deal (fun)
I Need You
Life Goes On (her best pop song?)
Nothin' Bout Love Makes Sense (back to country!!)
Probably Wouldn't Be This Way
And It Feels Like (I just like this song, but it was not released in the USA - Whatever We Wanna CD, 2006)
When I Call Your Name (vince gill cover)
What Have I Done
Bottle

Bottom:
We Can
Last Thing on My Mind
On the Side of Angels
You Light Up My Life
Swingin' (just didn't do it for me)

I like all the songs on the bottom list, but they're not my favourite!

[dub]

A mix of singles and album tracks. I'm probably in the minority but Twisted Angel was probably my favorite album of hers, and I love just about all those songs.

Top:
One Way Ticket
The Light In Your Eyes
Commitment
Big Deal
Life Goes On
Suddenly
Damn
Everybody's Someone
Some People
Help Me Make It Through The Night (my favorite version of this song in existence)
When I Call Your Name
Crazy Women
Gasoline and Matches

Bottom
You Light Up My Life, and most of the songs from that album
Most of the songs from Family

[zaclord 🌈]

Love
01. Probably Wouldn't Be This Way
02. I Need You
03. Nothin' Better To Do
04. Something's Gotta Give
05. Life Goes On
06. Can't Fight the Moonlight
07. What I Cannot Change
08. Nothin' 'Bout Love Makes Sense

Meh
09. How Do I Live
10. Good Friends and a Glass of Wine

Hate
11. Some People

I haven't kept up with anything since the Family era really

[sabre14]

Feb 6, 2015 0:07:55 GMT -5 zaclord 🌈 said:

I haven't kept up with anything since the Family era really

Don't worry, country radio didn't either.



BTW: Glad to see "Probably Wouldn't Be This Way" at #1.

[toomuchboy]

Top:
"Looking Through Your Eyes"
"Probably Wouldn't Be This Way"
"Big Deal"
"Please Remember"
"Looking Through Your Eyes"
"Feels Like Home"
"How Do I Live"
"I Need You"
"One Way Ticket"
"Commitment"
"On the Side of Angels"
"I Dare You"
"Suddenly"
"You Light Up My Life"
"Surrender"