Top 5/Bottom 5: Joe Nichols

[Ten Pound Hammer]

By request of sabre14:

TOP
1. Brokenheartsville
2. I'll Wait for You
3. Sunny and 75
4. Another Side of You
5. The Shape I'm In (probably also the best Peach Pickers song)
6. Cool to Be a Fool
7. Size Matters (Someday)
8. What's a Guy Got to Do
9. It Ain't No Crime
10. Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off
11. The Impossible
12. To Tell You the Truth, I Lied (had to include something off his little-known debut)

BOTTOM
1. Take It Off
2. Hard to Be Cool
3. Believers
4. If Nobody Believed in You
5. I Hate the Way I Love You (is it just me, or does he sound kind of like Jeff Carson on his early stuff?)

[sabre14]

Thanks Ten Pound Hammer. For some reason it occurred to me tonight that Joe would be good for one of these, lol. :)

TOP:
1. I'll Wait For You
2. Brokenheartsville
3. Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off (total guilty pleasure, lol. Love the melody)
4. Sunny And 75
5. Yeah
6. She Only Smokes When She Drinks
7. Size Matters (Someday)
8. The Impossible
9. What's A Guy Gotta Do
10. Another Side Of You (just listened to this for the first time in ages and this definitely did not get enough credit)
11. It Ain't No Crime
12. Hard To Be Cool
13. The Shape I'm In
14. If Nobody Believed In You
15. Cool To Be A Fool

BOTTOM:
1. Take It Off
2. Gimme That Girl (still don't know why this was a huge hit)
3. Believers

[tim]

TOP
1. Sunny and 75
2. She Only Smokes When She Drinks
3. I'll Wait For You
4. Yeah
5. The Impossible
6. Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off
7. Size Matters (Someday)
8. Brokenheartsville
9. What's A Guy Gotta Do
10. If Nobody Believed In You

and if I were to ever make a list of my all time favorite country songs, I'm pretty sure "Man With A Memory" would be up there. Lord, what a great song that I can always just get lost in.

[Deleted]

Joe is one of those artists that I've been meaning to hear more of, the only albums I've heard of his are "It's All Good", and "Crickets", plus his cover of "My Old Friend The Blues". I'm seeing him in concert tonight (hopefully, if the rain doesn't start....).

Top
1. Brokenheartsville
2. If Nobody Believed In You
3. Footlights
4. My Old Friend The Blues (anyone who covers Steve Earle is aces in my book)
5. Old School Country Song
6. Another Side Of You
7. The Shape I'm In
8. I'll Wait For You
9. It Ain't No Crime
10. Billy Graham's Bible
11. Size Matters (Someday)
12. Yeah
13. The Impossible
14. Sunny and 75
15. She Only Smokes When She Drinks

Bottom
1. Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off
2. Take It Off
3. What's A Guy Gotta Do

[Andy]

Top Original Songs (no particular order)
Brokenheartsville
Man With a Memory
She Only Smokes When She Drinks
I Wish That Wasn't All
If Nobody Believed in You
The Shade
Things Like That (These Days)
Billy Graham's Bible
Old School Country Song
Old Things New
I'll Wait For You
Real Things
Ain't Nobody Gonna Take That From Me
Who Are You When I'm Not Looking
Another Side of You
My Whiskey Years
An Old Friend of Mine

Top Covers (no particular order... Joe has great taste in music)
Revelation (the first time I heard this I was blown away, or at least by the opening verses)
Should I Go Home (Or Should I Go Crazy)
Farewell Party
If I Could Only Fly
No Time to Cry
My Old Friend the Blues
Footlights
Life Don't Have to Mean Nothin' At All

[gonecountry]

Top

1. Tequila makes her clothes fall off
2. what's a guy gotta do?
3. it ain't no crime (highly underrated)
4. another side of you (highly underrated as well)
5. someday (size matters)
6. yeah
7. brokenheartsville
8. let's get drunk and fight
9. I'll wait for you
10. cool to be a fool

Bottom
1. Believerzzzzzzzzz
2. take it off
3. gimme that girl (highly overrated)

[Ten Pound Hammer]

I don't know what happened with "It Ain't No Crime". This was its chart run:

45-40-34-30-24-26-26-23-18-18-20-18-19-20-19-17-16-17-18-24

Good head of steam (outside the one 24-26 blip), but once it got Top 20 it just hit the wall. What happened?

(Also, how can Brent Rowan constantly manage to turn a song with only three instruments in it into a total Liddell-ian brick wall of noise? He did the same thing with Blake Shelton's "Don't Make Me". And don't get me started on his boneheaded idea to use so much Auto-Tune on "Gimmie That Girl"...)

[sabre14]

Jun 12, 2015 22:47:11 GMT -5 Ten Pound Hammer said:

I don't know what happened with "It Ain't No Crime". This was its chart run:

45-40-34-30-24-26-26-23-18-18-20-18-19-20-19-17-16-17-18-24

Good head of steam (outside the one 24-26 blip), but once it got Top 20 it just hit the wall. What happened?

(Also, how can Brent Rowan constantly manage to turn a song with only three instruments in it into a total Liddell-ian brick wall of noise? He did the same thing with Blake Shelton's "Don't Make Me". And don't get me started on his boneheaded idea to use so much Auto-Tune on "Gimmie That Girl"...)

If I recall, the chart was pretty weak in terms of audience totals in January/February of 2008, so that I'm sure helped contribute to "It Ain't No Crime's" hot start - in fact I know for sure the first two to three weeks of that year had a massive amount of new additions to the Billboard top 60, even more than usual (tons of Christmas singles in late 2007).

In the end, I just assumed that "It Ain't No Crime" really didn't create enough buzz one way or the other and stations juts didn't really convert it into anything past medium rotation.

It was definitely one of Joe's underrated singles and one that you didn't ever hear again after 2008, or at least that's how it went for me.

[Ten Pound Hammer]

^ I noticed that the charts in early 2008 were kind of screwy in general. Lots of unusually big jumps. I noticed that due to the Christmas songs, Big & Rich actually re-entered at #48 on 1/19, which may be the highest re-entry for a song that fell entirely out of the 60 due to Christmas. FIFTEEN Christmas songs fell out that week (literally 25% of the chart!), and it just seemed to have a ripple effect. And yet the last two Christmases, none even hit Top 40...

[Kanenrá:ke]

Top 10 Singles
01. The Shape I'm In
02. Brokenheartsville
03. She Only Smokes When She Drinks
04. Another Side Of You
05. The Impossible
06. Sunny And 75
07. I'll Wait For You
08. It Ain't No Crime
09. Hard To Be Cool
10. I Hate The Way I Love You

Bottom 5 Singles
01. Believers
02. Gimmie That Girl
03. Independent Girl
04. Take It Off
05. Cool To Be A Fool

Top Album Tracks
01. If I Could Only Fly
02. Man With A Memory
03. My Whiskey Years
04. This Bed's Too Big
05. Billy Graham's Bible
06. Revelation
07. Don't Ruin It For The Rest Of Us
08. Talk Me Out Of Tampa
09. Somebody's Mama
10. You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet

He has a ton of great album tracks and it was honestly harder narrowing down the album tracks than the singles!

Albums:
01. Real Things (Might be my favorite album by a male artist of the 00's, if not very close to.)
02. Man With A Memory
03. Revelation
04. Crickets
05. III
06. Old Things New
07. Joe Nichols
08. It's All Good

[someguy]

I'm not a huge fan of his work, but I only know his radio singles.

Top:

1. Yeah
2. Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off
3. Hard To Be Cool
4. What's A Guy Gotta Do
5. Brokenheartsville
6. She Only Smokes When She Drinks
7. It Ain't No Crime
8. Cool To Be A Fool
9. The Impossible
10. The Shape I'm In
11. Sunny And 75

Bottom:

1. Believers
2. Another Side Of You
3. Take It Off
4. If Nobody Believed In You
5. I'll Wait For You

[phil1996]

Top 10 Singles
01. Cool To Be a Fool
02. She Only Smokes When She Drinks
04. Sunny and 75
05. The Impossible
06. Yeah
07. Hard to be Cool
08. It Ain't No Crime
09. Shape I'm In
10. Another Side of You

Bottom 5 Singles
01. Believers
02. Gimmie That Girl
03. Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off
04. Take It Off
05. I Hate The Way I Love You

Top Album Tracks
01. Billy Graham's Bible
02. Man With A Memory
03. Let's Get Drunk and Fight
04. Old School Country Song
05. Smile On Mine
06. Revelation
07. Footlights
08. Just Let Me Fall In Love With You
09. Somebody's Mama
10. Crickets

[gonecountry]

There usually doesn't seem to be so much common disdain for the same songs across members, but right now Believers and Tske It Off seem to be in everyone's basement

[sabre14]

Jun 15, 2015 22:44:17 GMT -5 gonecountry said:

There usually doesn't seem to be so much common disdain for the same songs across members, but right now Believers and Tske It Off seem to be in everyone's basement

"Believers" is just too boring and uninteresting (even with intentionally inspirational lyrics). I had to listen back to it to even remember it, and I usually remember everything, lol.

"Take It Off" is the essence of "generic fluff."

[Ten Pound Hammer]

The thing I remember about Believers is that Bob Kingsley somehow got it in his head that Phil Vassar wrote it. No idea where he got that blatant misinformation from.

[.indulgecountry]

Guess I'll be the first to admit that I love "Believers" #unpopularopinion

Top
1. Yeah
2. Sunny and 75
3. Brokenheartsville
4. Believers
5. Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off
6. Hard to Be Cool
7. The Impossible
8. If Nobody Believed in You
9. What's a Guy Gotta Do

Idk what would go in the 10th spot, I'm not terribly familiar with the rest of his singles.

Bottom
1. Gimmie That Girl (I don't totally hate this but meh)

[Andy]

It didn't quite make my top list because I was trying to keep it a manageable length but I enjoy "Believers" too.

[gonecountry]

We got two believers!

[gardyfan]

I'm not sure I understand the disdain for Gimme That Girl. I heard him do it in concert before the album came out and it was obvious to me it was going to be a big hit.

[sabre14]

Jun 16, 2015 17:41:02 GMT -5 gardyfan said:

I'm not sure I understand the disdain for Gimme That Girl. I heard him do it in concert before the album came out and it was obvious to me it was going to be a big hit.

I think its generic, and lyrically vanilla. There's nothing special about it. I don't even think its that catchy.

I thought it could definitely go top 10 when it came out, but hitting #1 and being one of the biggest hits of 2010 I did not see coming.

[gonecountry]

Jun 16, 2015 17:41:02 GMT -5 gardyfan said:

I'm not sure I understand the disdain for Gimme That Girl. I heard him do it in concert before the album came out and it was obvious to me it was going to be a big hit.

I saw Joe in concert this weekend. It's sounds better live and less processed. Not my favorite by any stretch, but it was more enjoyable than I thought it'd be.

[someguy]

Jun 16, 2015 18:01:17 GMT -5 sabre14 said:

Jun 16, 2015 17:41:02 GMT -5 gardyfan said:

I'm not sure I understand the disdain for Gimme That Girl. I heard him do it in concert before the album came out and it was obvious to me it was going to be a big hit.

I think its generic, and lyrically vanilla. There's nothing special about it. I don't even think its that catchy.

I thought it could definitely go top 10 when it came out, but hitting #1 and being one of the biggest hits of 2010 I did not see coming.

Agree with all of that, plus the spelling of the title drives me crazy.