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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2018 16:30:38 GMT -5
I don't know if this is actually an unpopular opinion, but I hate the cover of Lauren Alaina's Road Less Traveled album. The single covers are great and I think Lauren is super gorgeous, but I do not like her look on that album cover, at all. I was about to deliver a cuss filled post but then you said album cover and I was like "yeah it's pretty awful ". Not one of my smartest moves having that as my profile pic last time lol.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Feb 28, 2018 23:18:20 GMT -5
While I can't fully hate it for the nostalgia, "Keep It Between the Lines" is probably Ricky Van Shelton's worst song. I just don't think that the "repurpose the chorus in three different scenarios" trope that was done so often in the 90s works very well at all on it. What does the third verse have to do with the concept of keeping things between the lines?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 13:40:15 GMT -5
I don't really care for Kacey Musgraves new album that much at all. It honestly bored me a lot.
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Post by zjames on Apr 7, 2018 16:19:06 GMT -5
I don't quite understand the hype and love for Maren Morris. I liked her debut album and I agree she has starpower, but no track from HERO blew me away; everything was mildly good. I was really surprised to see "'80s Mercedes" earn Top 3 performances in the 2016 and 2017 country rankdowns for one of her weakest tracks in my opinion.
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Post by jhomes87 on Apr 12, 2018 0:56:26 GMT -5
I haven't liked anything from Kelsea Ballerini other than "Peter Pan". I am really finding "I Hate Love Songs" to be annoying, and I especially hate her vocals and phrasing on that song, particularly the part where she says "whoops". I think she has a ton of potential (good looks, good voice, good label, etc) to be a star but I don't like most of her music so far. To me most of the stuff on her first album sounded like the type of stuff you'd hear on secondary small market radio stations...just kind of poorly produced and low budget, if that makes sense.
I also haven't liked most of Chris Young's material and I'm not a fan of Carly Pearce so far.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Apr 13, 2018 17:30:23 GMT -5
I thought "Peter Pan" was fantastic, and I like "I Hate Love Songs" on first listen, but I agree, Kelsea doesn't do much for me otherwise.
"Craig" is a fantastic song. I don't care how "non-country" it sounds, I feel that its lyrics are strong and meaningful enough for me to cut its style a lot of slack.
Jeffrey Steele's songwriting mostly fell off a cliff when he started writing for Rascal Flatts all the time. That said, I love "What Hurts the Most".
I liked "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", although I can understand why it bombed so badly at radio.
I liked nearly everything on both Ripcord and Fuse. That said, I still think "Female" and "Coming Home" are garbage.
I think "What Ifs" is a well-written country-pop song and I don't get the hate for it.
All bluegrass sounds pretty much the same to me.
"Tough Little Boys" is not only my least favorite Gary Allan song, but one of my least favorite country songs of the noughties.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on May 14, 2018 16:56:20 GMT -5
Another one: Wild Angels had, by far, the best single choices of any of Martina's albums. I would even put "Phones Are Ringin' All Over Town" as my favorite single of hers.
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Post by bboat11 on May 14, 2018 18:44:45 GMT -5
Another one: Wild Angels had, by far, the best single choices of any of Martina's albums. I would even put "Phones Are Ringin' All Over Town" as my favorite single of hers. Something we can agree on! The way that that album era keeled over and died is totally mystifying to me. Coming off the huge hits of "Safe In The Arms Of Love" and especially "Wild Angels", I think that "Phones Are Ringin", "Swingin' Doors", and "Cry On the Shoulder" all sound like they should have been absolute smashes... High-quality and consistent single choices coming off of her first #1 smash should not add up to a bunch of flops... Lol
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Post by zack97 on Jun 29, 2018 19:03:20 GMT -5
I know it's most posters' favorite album of his, but personally I'd have to rank 'Mud On The Tires' on the lower end of my favorite Brad Paisley albums (I've been listening to his whole discography at random). I don't start really "loving" anything until "Whiskey Lullaby" and that's the ninth track ...
On that note though, 'Wheelhouse' and 'Love & War' are criminally underrated works of his.
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Post by Andy on Jun 29, 2018 19:53:07 GMT -5
I know it's most posters' favorite album of his, but personally I'd have to rank 'Mud On The Tires' on the lower end of my favorite Brad Paisley albums (I've been listening to his whole discography at random). I don't start really "loving" anything until "Whiskey Lullaby" and that's the ninth track ... On that note though, 'Wheelhouse' and 'Love & War' are criminally underrated works of his. I haven't heard Mud on the Tires in ages, but I know for a fact I've always liked it less than albums like Part II and Time Well Wasted. I do love "Celebrity", "Whiskey Lullaby", "The Best Thing I Had Goin'" and "The Cigar Song", but going by memory, most of the rest of the album I can take or leave. I've always regarded the title track as one of his least interesting songs, although that might have something to do with being burnt out on it from overplay back in the day.
I agree that Love & War is underrated, but sadly I've never head Wheelhouse. Will change that at some point.
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Post by edph1 on Jun 30, 2018 19:24:09 GMT -5
I love Little Big Town, but their albums are patchy at best. Also, they rely on Karen way too much!! Kimberly is underrated in my opinion, She definitely deserves a few more songs than the obligatory one song per album.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Jul 15, 2018 12:08:26 GMT -5
I don't see anything wrong with Mitchell Tenpenny's "Bitches" and don't think that song should color perception of him or of "Drunk Me".
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Post by raylatch98 on Jul 16, 2018 18:05:16 GMT -5
A good portion of the new female artists don't impress me all that much (Ashley McBryde, Raelynn, Brooke Eden, and Clare Dunn come to mind right away) and if none of these women saw any success I honestly wouldn't mind all that much.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2018 10:48:35 GMT -5
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Aug 3, 2018 19:06:22 GMT -5
Outside the title track and one or two other songs, Josh Turner's Long Black Train album sucked.
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Post by mamasaid on Aug 4, 2018 0:02:05 GMT -5
Outside the title track and one or two other songs, Josh Turner's Long Black Train album sucked. While I disagree that the album sucked, it is a first album for Josh. He can be a little 'hit or miss', but part of that comes from not buying into the system.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Aug 4, 2018 18:41:39 GMT -5
Outside the title track and one or two other songs, Josh Turner's Long Black Train album sucked. While I disagree that the album sucked, it is a first album for Josh. He can be a little 'hit or miss', but part of that comes from not buying into the system. Besides the amazing title track, I liked "What It Ain't" and "Jacksonville", and "Backwoods Boy" and "In My Dreams" were decent. Other than that, I felt that a lot of the songs tried too hard to have old-style "wordplay" hooks (e.g. "I Had One One Time", "Good Woman Bad", "Unburn All Our Bridges" -- how exactly do you unburn something? By freezing it?), Josh is way too mannered and reserved for "You Don't Mess Around with Jim", "She'll Go on You" was overly cutesy and sentimental (the title always sat wrong with me too -- it made me think of someone being urinated on!), and "The Difference Between a Woman and a Man" is hands-down the worst lyric I've ever seen out of Bobby Braddock. That said, even my own mixed opinion on Turner's body of work as a whole aside, I still feel like most of the song choices were at least things he wanted to do (unlike say, "All Over Me", which seemed wildly out of character for him). I know that MCA reissued the album in 2004 with "Jacksonville", "You Don't Mess Around with Jim", "Good Woman Bad", and "The Difference..." taken off the tracklist. I wonder what the reasoning was behind this? Were other fans and/or critics expressing a similar sentiment toward the album? At the very least, all the reviews I found panned the "Jim" cover.
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Post by Andy on Aug 4, 2018 18:48:15 GMT -5
I agree that Long Black Train is a fairly pedestrian album. His next two albums were big improvements.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Aug 5, 2018 0:01:52 GMT -5
It legit bothers me that Jessi Colter sings "my name is Julie" in "I'm Not Lisa". "Jessi" scans just as well in that line, and there's no rhyme scheme that's being broken. It just always seemed like completely unnecessary poetic license to me.
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Post by sabre14 on Aug 14, 2018 9:49:17 GMT -5
“Hotel Key” is awful.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Aug 14, 2018 11:02:11 GMT -5
"Hotel Key" is literally only their second single after "Song for Another Time" that I've found tolerable.
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Post by carriekins on Aug 14, 2018 11:09:47 GMT -5
"Hotel Key" is literally only their second single after "Song for Another Time" that I've found tolerable. LOL I was going to say that liking Hotel Key was the unpopular opinion. (I also like it, so there's that.)
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Post by sabre14 on Aug 14, 2018 11:24:32 GMT -5
"Hotel Key" is literally only their second single after "Song for Another Time" that I've found tolerable. The subject is boring and it goes nowhere after the first chorus. The same trendy guitar riff the whole song and the vocal delivery from Matthew Ramsey is grating. I get the impression most enjoy it so that’s why I posted that here lol.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Aug 14, 2018 11:28:14 GMT -5
"Hotel Key" is literally only their second single after "Song for Another Time" that I've found tolerable. The subject is boring and it goes nowhere after the first chorus. The same trendy guitar riff the whole song and the vocal delivery from Matthew Ramsey is grating. I get the impression most enjoy it so that’s why I posted that here lol. Based on what I've seen in its single thread, I don't think it's that unpopular of an opinion at all, as carriekins said, lol.
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Post by sabre14 on Aug 14, 2018 11:31:29 GMT -5
The subject is boring and it goes nowhere after the first chorus. The same trendy guitar riff the whole song and the vocal delivery from Matthew Ramsey is grating. I get the impression most enjoy it so that’s why I posted that here lol. Based on what I've seen in its single thread, I don't think it's that unpopular of an opinion at all, as carriekins said, lol. Tbh, I don’t get much of an impression definitively one way or the other from the single thread. I know radio folks looooove them and this song and people outside of Pulse genuinely enjoy it. I don’t even think it’s a decent album cut.
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Post by collinkottke on Aug 14, 2018 11:37:39 GMT -5
"Hotel Key" is literally only their second single after "Song for Another Time" that I've found tolerable. They've only had three singles since "Song for Another Time"...
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Post by .indulgecountry on Aug 14, 2018 11:50:01 GMT -5
"Hotel Key" is literally only their second single after "Song for Another Time" that I've found tolerable. They've only had three singles since "Song for Another Time"... I meant as in I did not care for any of their other singles, except for "Song for Another Time." 'After' did not mean a place in time in the sentence I used it.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Aug 14, 2018 13:35:52 GMT -5
* I've actually liked all of Old Dominion's singles. I don't think "Break Up with Him" is rude or condescending, and I even like "Snapback" for the fact that every rhyme is an internal rhyme.
* "On the Other Hand" and "Forever and Ever, Amen" are sooooooooooo overrated.
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Post by Andy on Aug 14, 2018 18:03:51 GMT -5
* I've actually liked all of Old Dominion's singles. I don't think "Break Up with Him" is rude or condescending, and I even like "Snapback" for the fact that every rhyme is an internal rhyme. * "On the Other Hand" and "Forever and Ever, Amen" are sooooooooooo overrated. I disagree with regard to "On the Other Hand", that's a stone cold country classic IMO, but I'll strongly co-sign with respect to "Forever and Ever Amen." It's an alright love song, but it bugs me to no end that it's Randy Travis' signature song.
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Post by onebuffalo on Aug 14, 2018 18:23:24 GMT -5
I happen to love Randy Travis' first three #1 hits: On The Other Hand, Diggin' Up Bones, and Forever And Ever, Amen. What do you think about Diggin' Up Bones? Had Travis' career ended after Forever And Ever, Amen, he would have had the best short-lived career in country music.
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