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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Oct 14, 2014 12:04:01 GMT -5
Agree about "People Loving People." Did Garth record the vocals on his iPhone? Well, the last Gorillaz album was recorded entirely on an iPad… One more: Patty Loveless in "Keep Your Distance. The first line, "If I cross your path again…" She Auto-Tunes just those two words, and nothing else in the entire song. Why?
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Post by Todd on Oct 14, 2014 18:23:13 GMT -5
"If You Talk In Your Sleep," by Elvis features this chorus:
If you talk in your sleep, don't mention my name And if you walk in your sleep, forget where you came
It may not be grammatically correct, but it gets the point across. You do what you gotta do to make it rhyme, I guess.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Oct 15, 2014 1:16:42 GMT -5
The majority of Rodney Atkins' singles would be so much better if the backup vocals weren't so prominent. His backup vocalists usually have better voices than him though, lol. The random woman's voice near the end of "Take a Back Road" is like my favorite part of that song, for instance.
There's like a jarring (at least to me) key change or tempo change or something when the second verse kicks in on Tim McGraw's "Kids Today" that I don't care for.
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 17, 2015 19:06:04 GMT -5
Josh Dorr - "Save Your Breath" "save your breath girl, you're gonna need 'em"
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Mar 18, 2015 4:33:33 GMT -5
Another one that bothers me is that Thomas Rhett and Chase Rice both say "man on the moon" instead of "in" in "Make Me Wanna" and "Ready Set Roll" respectively. So they're doing things with Neil Armstrong? (Granted, this is the least of the latter song's problems...)
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Post by bjer127 on Mar 18, 2015 8:06:42 GMT -5
Cole Swindells debut album. Production wise it is a mess. Little explosions and sound effects everywhere. They drowned out the fact that his voice is not that strong at all. Most of the album sounds like a video game. As I do when albums come out I spent time listening to it and I remember immediately going back to listening to the Outsiders album lol
It's a shame to because the YouTube demos cole recorded before the album dropped were very good. His traditional songs were sparse. Then the production just ruined it. Oh well
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Mar 18, 2015 12:44:15 GMT -5
That's what happens when you get a first time producer. The production's going to be off. Unless it's Charlie Worsham's debut, which was quite well produced for a first time producer.
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Post by Sean on Mar 18, 2015 13:06:30 GMT -5
Probably just me, but The Band Perry's "You Lie" always bothered me because they use two different definitions for the word 'lie'. "You lie like a priceless Persian rug on a rich man's floor/penny in the parking lot at the grocery store/etc." - using 'lie' as being defined by an object staying in one specific flat/horizontal position "You lie like the man with the slick back hair who sold me that Ford" - the definition of lie that fits the song properly (a person scheming/being purposely helpless to a situation) I mean, I'm horrible at grammar and I still absolutely love the song, but that has just always bothered me!
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 19, 2015 17:14:46 GMT -5
Not a production issue, melody or lyric issue, but I always hated the way Gary said "sexy" in "Summer Nights". It absolutely annoyed the living heck out of me. Also when he says "scream" in the second verse.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 19:00:00 GMT -5
Not a production issue, melody or lyric issue, but I always hated the way Gary said "sexy" in "Summer Nights". It absolutely annoyed the living heck out of me. Also when he says "scream" in the second verse. Ugh, I forgot about the second-hand embarrassment Gary's vocal inflections give me in that song. I also can't stand his phrasing in "Me And My Gang." It sounds so awkward.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Mar 20, 2015 11:15:59 GMT -5
Not a production issue, melody or lyric issue, but I always hated the way Gary said "sexy" in "Summer Nights". It absolutely annoyed the living heck out of me. Also when he says "scream" in the second verse. Oh God yes. The thought of Gary LeVox, the least sexy man in Nashville, pretending to even know what "sexy" means. Still not quite as squicky as LMFAO literally shoving their wangs in your face while shouting "I'm sexy and I know it", but damn close. Also, that song gets too high for even him on the last verse. You know your song is in too high a key when even Gary freakin' LeVox has to strain to hit a note with that dog whistle of a voice he has.
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Post by sabre14 on May 12, 2015 21:23:48 GMT -5
Very, very minor offense. I really enjoy "When You Lie Next To Me" by Kellie Coffey, but there's a couple times during the hook line of the first and final chorus when she whisper's while singing. She's got a great voice and proves it during the rest of the song but it always bothered me just a little bit that she delivered those parts that way, lol.
Again, I still like the song. :)
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on May 17, 2015 20:45:57 GMT -5
^ That drove me crazy when that song first came out, but I've grown to tolerate it.
Another distracting element: that @#$@#! triangle ding-ding-dinging away all throughout "Gonna Get a Life" by Mark Chesnutt.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2015 13:00:25 GMT -5
Miranda's recent music has a lot of loud, misplaced guitar solos.
The ones in "Bathroom Sink" & "Priscilla" particularly annoy me.
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Post by Uncle Lumpy on May 27, 2015 14:16:30 GMT -5
The "doo doo doo's" , "uuuhhhs" & "oooohs" in "Sing Em Good My Friend" by Kenny Chesney. Good song but very distracting.
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Post by sabre14 on May 27, 2015 14:22:24 GMT -5
The "doo doo doo's" , "uuuhhhs" & "oooohs" in "Sing Em Good My Friend" by Kenny Chesney. Good song but very distracting. How about the 'Ha, ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha' in "Last Dollar (Fly Away)". :)
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Post by Uncle Lumpy on May 27, 2015 14:25:00 GMT -5
(Glares) Now I have it in my head. Thanks! Yeah , thats just one of the problems with that train wreck of a song. Ha!
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Post by sabre14 on May 27, 2015 14:28:38 GMT -5
(Glares) Now I have it in my head. Thanks! Yeah , that just one of the problems with that train wreck of a song. Ha! I only find the need to bring it up because I heard it on Y2Kountry this morning and even though I actually kind of like the song , there's literally no reason for that part. I'm confident less would hate it if they just took it out, lol.
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Post by .indulgecountry on May 28, 2015 2:20:40 GMT -5
Even though it doesn't bother me at all and it's still my favorite Sara Evans song (and therefore my favorite country song), the way Sara's voice overlaps at the end of "Coalmine" was kind of a strange choice.
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Post by sabre14 on Aug 23, 2015 13:15:15 GMT -5
The whistle before the first chorus of "You Gonna Fly" always seems to jar me. I was downright startled the first time I heard it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2015 13:22:57 GMT -5
Love the album and don't mind the song, but when Kip Moore says "a little touching" in "Wild Ones", I just cringe
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2015 13:29:20 GMT -5
For me in the last year. Brett Eldredge Lose My Mind. That whole chorus doesn't flow well at all and the production is just all over the place.
Even though I love Love Me Like You Mean It by Kelsea Ballerini the whole Love Me, Love Me in the beginning is just so distracting.
For another song Little Big Town Pain Killer the whole Drink it away at the end of the chorus is so annoying.
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Post by sabre14 on Aug 28, 2015 23:44:53 GMT -5
I know it's nowhere near Christmas so I have no clue why I just thought of this but I cannot listen to the second chorus of "12 Redneck Days Of Christmas" when Jeff Foxworthy nearly runs out of breath -- something about it is too cringy to hear. And yes, I know a certain joke can be easily inserted there: "hey, I can't listen to the entirety of that song."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2015 14:24:00 GMT -5
-"Smoke Break" has grown on me considerably, but I absolutely hate the obnoxious guitar solo before the bridge; it sounds so misplaced. - The jump from first to third person is a bit jarring -LBT's "Painkiller" really bothers me, mostly because I swear it reminds me exactly of something I've heard before, and I can't place it.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Oct 10, 2015 23:07:10 GMT -5
Thought of a couple examples on Garth songs: his drummer, Milton Sledge, was kinda lacking at times. I notice this the most on "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)" and "Fever". On those songs, the drumming is way too soft and measured (straight 1-2-3-4, no fills or anything). I think that harder-edged songs like that really need a strong, driving rhythm section, and the under-drumming on those two in particular really softens them a little too much. I remember Double Live having stronger drums on at least "Tearin' It Up and Burnin' It Down", so I would say the blame is probably more on Milton Sledge's lackluster playing than on Allen Reynolds' production, as the guitar parts on both songs still have the right "punch" to them.
"Fever" also has the best example of that annoying screechy parrot voice that Garth did now and then (i. e."I know you think he's crazy, well, I think YOU'RE RIGHT!").
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