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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 3, 2014 15:18:40 GMT -5
Please pick a song you believe should have gone the distance and why. I will start by saying When I Call Your Name by Vince Gill (#2 in 1990) should have went one higher because of the tight harmony vocals provided by Patty Loveless made this song a masterpiece. Gill's vocals at the time were spot on. BOTH were signed to MCA at the time and should have done a duets CD.
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Post by sabre14 on Nov 3, 2014 15:23:05 GMT -5
Please pick a song you believe should have gone the distance and why. I will start by saying When I Call Your Name by Vince Gill (#2 in 1990) should have went one higher because of the tight harmony vocals provided by Patty Loveless made this song a masterpiece. Gill's vocals at the time were spot on. BOTH were signed to MCA at the time and should have done a duets CD. Okay, this might be a stupid question but how exactly is this different from the #2 that should have been a #1 thread?
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 3, 2014 15:23:49 GMT -5
Please pick a song you believe should have gone the distance and why. I will start by saying When I Call Your Name by Vince Gill (#2 in 1990) should have went one higher because of the tight harmony vocals provided by Patty Loveless made this song a masterpiece. Gill's vocals at the time were spot on. BOTH were signed to MCA at the time and should have done a duets CD. Okay, this might be a stupid question but how exactly is this different from the #2 that should have been a #1 thread? Because it doesn't have to be a #2.
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Post by sabre14 on Nov 3, 2014 15:25:52 GMT -5
Okay, this might be a stupid question but how exactly is this different from the #2 that should have been a #1 thread? Because it doesn't have to be a #2. So even if I pick a song that went to only, let's say #43 on R&R ("Go Home" by Steve Holy), as long as I point out that it has an outstanding story and great production and vocals, that it clearly should have been a #1?
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 3, 2014 15:27:01 GMT -5
Because it doesn't have to be a #2. So even if I pick a song that went to only, let's say #43 on R&R ("Go Home" by Steve Holy), as long as I point out that it has an outstanding story and great production and vocals, that it clearly should have been a #1? If you like. Go right ahead.
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Post by sabre14 on Nov 3, 2014 15:27:51 GMT -5
So even if I pick a song that went to only, let's say #43 on R&R ("Go Home" by Steve Holy), as long as I point out that it has an outstanding story and great production and vocals, that it clearly should have been a #1? If you like. Go right ahead. I believe I just did. ;)
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 3, 2014 15:28:35 GMT -5
If you like. Go right ahead. I believe I just did. ;) Good. Anyone else?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2014 15:33:22 GMT -5
"Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You" Kellie Pickler. This was such an incredible song and her delivery was so emotion and made you feel the pain. Should have been a big old #1 hit.
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 3, 2014 15:37:14 GMT -5
"Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You" Kellie Pickler. This was such an incredible song and her delivery was so emotion and made you feel the pain. Should have been a big old #1 hit. Maybe Kellie Pickler should write with Taylor Swift again so Pickler can get a second top ten. It's a shame she's not a consistent hitmaker. I hope her current label, Black River (owned by the Pegulas who own the Sabres and the Bills and the rest of Western New York) can return her to that region of the chart.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2014 16:49:47 GMT -5
I really thought "All Kinds of Kinds" was highly mistreated. Miranda did a wonderful job singing that one. The music was fantastically simple yet sophisticated. The structure was very modern yet the progressions were very traditional. The storytelling was colorful, to say the least, and it conveyed the message of the song.
When I think of Miranda at her best, it's in songs like that. The way it was regarded both by the listening public and radio really wasn't a testament to the song itself.
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 3, 2014 16:53:57 GMT -5
I really thought "All Kinds of Kinds" was highly mistreated. Miranda did a wonderful job singing that one. The music was fantastically simple yet sophisticated. The structure was very modern yet the progressions were very traditional. The storytelling was colorful, to say the least, and it conveyed the message of the song. When I think of Miranda at her best, it's in songs like that. The way it was regarded both by the listening public and radio really wasn't a testament to the song itself. I agree. However, it was the fifth single from Four The Record. Unless you're Blake Shelton or Luke Bryan, fifth singles rarely top the chart. What about Miranda Lambert's first two singles from Platinum? No #1s yet. Talk about mistreated.
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Post by CoJoFan on Nov 3, 2014 18:33:20 GMT -5
Ok I have a list of songs that I think should've went the distance. I'm just naming these off the top of my head right now. I'm sure I can think of more
Papa Bear- Keith Harling 19 You & Me- Dan & Shay Sometimes- Clay Davidson Lipstick- Rockie Lynne Do We Still- Rockie Lynne More- Rockie Lynne Clockwork- Easton Corbin Used To The Pain- Tracy Lawrence If I Don't Make It Back- Tracy Lawrence One Wing In The Fire- Trent Tomlinson Long, Slow Kisses- Jeff Bates I Wanna Make You Cry- Jeff Bates No Shame- Jeff Bates Long Black Train- Josh Turner Sober- Little Big Town Your Side Of The Bed- Little Big Town Kiss Goodbye- Little Big Town Tell Me You Get Lonely- Frankie Ballard A Buncha Girls- Frankie Ballard Way Out Here- Josh Thompson Wanted Me Gone- Josh Thompson She Ain't Right- Lee Brice Happy Endings- Lee Brice Some Things Are Meant To Be- Linda Davis Independence Day- Martina McBride When You Come Back To Me Again- Garth Brooks
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2014 19:30:27 GMT -5
I really thought "All Kinds of Kinds" was highly mistreated. Miranda did a wonderful job singing that one. The music was fantastically simple yet sophisticated. The structure was very modern yet the progressions were very traditional. The storytelling was colorful, to say the least, and it conveyed the message of the song. When I think of Miranda at her best, it's in songs like that. The way it was regarded both by the listening public and radio really wasn't a testament to the song itself. I agree. However, it was the fifth single from Four The Record. Unless you're Blake Shelton or Luke Bryan, fifth singles rarely top the chart. What about Miranda Lambert's first two singles from Platinum? No #1s yet. Talk about mistreated. As I was reading that, I finished your sentence "unless you're Blake Shelton...you don't like Miranda that much." :kii: Anyway, I agree that Miranda is consistently shafted on the charts. She has the old-school country female singer feel that Carrie really doesn't have (don't get me wrong, Carrie is amazing too, but in her own way). Automatic should have been a multi-week number 1. That song was close to a masterpiece in more ways than one. The only downfall was that it wasn't more melodic throughout. Not a problem for me, but for mainstream listeners I could see it being an issue. Somethin' Bad on the other hand probably wasn't a number 1. A lot of people made the argument that it should have been, consisting of the format's only two female superstars. To me, that's not enough of a reason. I see that one falling off for the same reason Small Town Throwdown did. They both seemed like songs that were made solely for the fact of being collaborations. If you want a wonderful collaboration, look at Remind Me or (Kissed You) Good Night. Kind of derailed the thread, but I think both of our posts are indicative of how Miranda may very well be the winner of this thread, at least speaking from a modern perspective.
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Post by someguy on Nov 3, 2014 19:34:57 GMT -5
Here are some songs that seem like #1s (at least to me) by the way they're remembered today:
Martina McBride - "Independence Day" Martina McBride - "This One's For The Girls" Kenny Chesney - "I Go Back" Reba McEntire - "Fancy" Reba McEntire - "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" Sugarland - "Baby Girl" Shania Twain - "Man I Feel Like A Woman" Shania Twain - "That Don't Impress Me Much" Trisha Yearwood - "How Do I Live" Garth Brooks - "Standing Outside The Fire"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2014 12:37:09 GMT -5
Any of Gary Allans that haven't already (totally not biased at all lol) but in all seriousness i wish Dierks Bentley could have gotten a #1 with one of his singles from Up On The Ridge. Such a great album that was probably hard for Dierks to get out there. I would love for another bluegrass album from him but i fear that the lackluster sales may deter that for a long time
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Post by trustypepper on Nov 4, 2014 14:01:36 GMT -5
I have to agree with an earlier poster who said 'Your Side of the Bed' by Little Big Town. Not only my favorite song of theirs, I think it's one of the best country songs in the past couple years. Glad it saw some success, but it deserved more.
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 6, 2014 14:23:06 GMT -5
My second pick would be the #3 peaking duet between Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss with Whiskey Lullaby (2004). The haunting vocals of Krauss are superb while Paisley's are subdued but interested. It is easily my favorite collaboration of Paisley's (followed very closely with When I Get Where I'm Going with Dolly Parton). Interestingly enough, his duets with Parton, Keith Urban, Alabama, and Carrie Underwood are ALL #1s.
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 9, 2014 15:04:11 GMT -5
You take a classic country story song and give it an interesting twist. That is what you get when you hear Clay Walker's The Chain Of Love from 2000 (#3). That should have gone all the way to the top. Great vocal performance by Walker himself and he tells the story convincingly well. Especially when he pauses at the end and says, 'I love you...Joe'.
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 10, 2014 15:23:19 GMT -5
Stranger In My House by Ronnie Milsap in 1983 should have gone all the way to the top. Its searing quality is what makes the song great. It is easily his most famous recording. It would have extended his #1s streak to 14 (until 1984).
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 15, 2014 15:05:26 GMT -5
Mark Chesnutt's Bubba Shot The Jukebox puzzles me. I was told (in later years) that when it was released, it would be a sure fire #1 hit for Chesnutt. Instead, it peaked at #4 in 1992.
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 26, 2014 9:09:23 GMT -5
Not A Day Goes By by Lonestar (#3 in 2002) was going to be their biggest hit. In reality, how do you top Amazed?
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Post by Todd on Nov 26, 2014 13:03:50 GMT -5
"Crazy" by Patsy Cline (Peaked at #2)
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Post by trebor on Nov 26, 2014 14:14:16 GMT -5
One that comes to my mind and one of my all-time favourites: Dolly Parton: "Coat Of Many Colors" which peaked #4 and is now considered a classic (I mean, if even I know it than it must be a classic). :) LOL
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Post by CoJoFan on Nov 26, 2014 22:16:55 GMT -5
Not A Day Goes By by Lonestar (#3 in 2002) was going to be their biggest hit. In reality, how do you top Amazed? How about Everything's Changed or Let's Be Us Again? 2 great songs by them.
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Post by CoJoFan on Nov 26, 2014 22:21:07 GMT -5
What Might Have Been by Little Texas. Easily their biggest hit and it peaked at #2. Where've You Been and She Came From Fort Worth by Kathy Mattea. Riding With Private Malone by David Ball. Letters From Home by John Micahel Montgomery.
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Post by phil1996 on Nov 26, 2014 23:55:58 GMT -5
Matt Kennon - "The Call" (someone has to re-record this song please) (Every single Gary Allan song) Montgomery Gentry - "Cold One Coming On" Joe Nichols - "Let's Get Drunk and Fight" Eli Young Band - "Radio Waves" Kip Moore - "Young Love" Randy Houser - "Anything Goes" Little Big Town - "Kiss Goodbye" Jon Pardi - "What I Can't Put Down"
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Post by dm2081 on Nov 27, 2014 0:37:09 GMT -5
Jake Owen - Startin' With Me Jake Owen - Tell Me Jake Owen - Days Of Gold Brooks & Dunn - Startin' With Me Billy Currington - Love Done Gone Eric Church - Love Your Love The Most Eric Church - Creepin' Eric Church - Two Pink Lines Trace Adkins - This Ain't No Love Song Jana Kramer - Why Ya Wanna Miranda Lambert - Kerosene Luke Bryan - We Rode In Trucks
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 30, 2014 14:47:34 GMT -5
The biggest mystery in George Strait's career is why Amarillo By Morning stopped at #4 in 1983. It holds up well to this day.
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Post by onebuffalo on Dec 8, 2014 12:47:45 GMT -5
I Go Back by Kenny Chesney should have been a #1. Could not get past Tim McGraw's Live Like You Were Dying. However, Reba McEntire interrupted McGraw's reign with her Somebody.
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Post by codyj100 on Dec 8, 2014 14:01:39 GMT -5
Shania Twain - Forever And For Always - Peaked at #4. If only one song from the Up era were to go #1, that would be it. Wished other singles would have as well.
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