July Favorites - 2016

[sabre14]

The Good:
1. Wasn't That Drunk
2. Record Year
3. The One You're Waiting On
4. Bluebonnets (Julia's Song)
5. Outskirts Of Heaven
6. Head Over Boots
7. 21 Summer
8. Road Less Traveled
9. Parachute
10. Holdin' Her
11. Church Bells
12. It Don't Hurt Like It Used To
13. Peter Pan
14. From The Ground Up
15. Sierra
16. Lovin' Lately
17. How I'll Always Be
18. Oughta Miss Me By Now
19. Song For Another Time
20. Without A Fight
21. 80s Mercedes
22. Sellout Song
23. Undone
24. Southern Boy
25. Girl Next Door
26. Make You Mine
27. Sleep Without You
28. Summer
29. Where Do You Go?
30. Hometown Girl
31. A Little More Love
32. Do You Wish It Was Me?
33. Unlove You
34. I Met A Girl
35. Night's On Fire
36. I Know Somebody
37. American Country Love Song
38. Noise
39. Running For You
40. Livin' The Dream
41. Are You With Me
42. Sober Saturday Night
43. Roots
44. Lipstick
45. Think A Little Less
46. It All Started With A Beer (good song, just ready for a new single)
47. You Look Like I Need A Drink (see above)

The indifferent:
1. Wanna Be That Song (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)
2. Castaway
3. Wasted Time
4. Middle Of A Memory
5. If The Boot Fits
6. Rock On
7. Lights Come On
8. Saltwater Gospel
9. Crazy Last Night (whistling needs to go)
10. Lonely Girl

The Bad:
1. Fix/Vacation (tie)
3. H.O.L.Y.
4. She's Got A Way With Words
5. Dance With Ya
6. Room To Breathe
7. Tuxedo
8. Different For Girls

[someguy]

Turn it up:

1. Unlove You
2. Record Year
3. Church Bells
4. 80s Mercedes
5. Girl Next Door
6. Make You Miss Me
7. Just Around The Corner
8. It Don't Hurt Like It Used To
9. Parachute
10. Wasted Time
11. Sierra
12. It All Started With A Beer (getting tired of it, though)
13. Noise
14. Castaway
15. American Country Love Song

Turn it off:

1. Fix
2. Rock On
3. Dance With Ya
4. Tuxedo
5. If The Boot Fits

[keelhauled]

Good:

Wasn't That Drunk - I love fiddles and good lyrics

Roots - Restrained production and a glaring lack of electronics mean it's dead on arrival in today's country

Record Year - Somehow Eric Church is the most unpredictable yet reliable artist in the industry

Bluebonnets - Texas artists keep me sane

Outskirts of Heaven - Too country for the suburban soccer moms

The One You're Waiting On - Music Row will truly be dead when Alan Jackson follows George Strait into retirement

Holdin' Her - I would not have believed redemption was possible for Chris Janson, but here we are

Parachute - Radio has grudgingly acknowledged Chris Stapleton is a country artist who exists, so now they are free to ignore him

Head Over Boots - Alan Jackson had the right of it when he said Jon Pardi was one of the few new "country" artists playing country music

I Met A Girl - What did he do that Mo Pitney didn't?

Mediocre:
American Country Love Song - It's better than "Real Life." That's something, right?

Church Bells - Three singles into "Storyteller," we finally get a song that tells a story

Night's on Fire - Well, I like the line about the blackbird...

Sierra - I hate songs that dance around profanity. Just use it or don't, they sound stupid the way it is

Without a Fight - Just because Brad's music hasn't declined as badly as others' doesn't mean I can't be disappointed

Middle of a Memory - The fact I don't have a viscerally negative reaction to a Cole Swindell song confuses and infuriates me

H.O.L.Y - Takes a revered place among FGL's discography as not being actively offensive to musical decency

If The Boot Fits - The Granger Smith I knew and loved died somewhere between Texas and Nashville. Luckily, Music Row's clone has a passing resemblance, if I squint hard enough


Bad:

Different For Girls - Dierks Bentley makes a record breaking fall from grace in the space of one album

She's Got a Way With Words - Blake Shelton, on the other hand, took the better part of his career to reach such a low. But perhaps I shouldn't judge, seeing as I don't think I've ever stayed awake all the way to the end of this song

Fix - "Sexhales." End of story

Lights Come On - Bad rock combined with bad country does not lead to negatives canceling out

Wasted Time - No, a banjo break does not make a country song out of a pile of electronic trash

Vacation - Stop, stop, country radio is already dead, there's no need to flay the corpse

[tim]

Top 10:
1. Bluebonnets (Julia's Song)
2. Sober Saturday Night
3. Record Year
4. 21 Summer
5. Are You With Me
6. It Don't Hurt Like It Used To
7. How I'll Always Be
8. Make You Mine
9. Girl Next Door
10. Head Over Boots

Bottom 5:
1. Vacation
2. Move
3. H.O.L.Y.
4. From the Ground Up
5. Waisted Time

Guilty Pleasure of the month: She's Got A Way With Words

[Ten Pound Hammer]

TOP

1. Bluebonnets (Julia's Song)
2. Without a Fight
3. Head Over Boots
4. Record Year
5. Castaway
6. Outskirts of Heaven
7. Lovin' Lately
8. Wasn't That Drunk
9. H.O.L.Y.
10. A Little More Love
11. 21 Summer
12. You Look Like I Need a Drink
13. Girl Next Door
14. Rock On
15. Wasted Time
16. Unlove You
17. Peter Pan
18. She's Got a Way with Words
19. Humble and Kind
20. Church Bells
21. American Country Love Song
22. Lights Come On
23. Noise
24. Middle of a Memory
25. Livin' the Dream
26. I Met a Girl
27. Different for Girls
28. The One You're Waiting On

MIDDLE
1. Night's on Fire
2. If the Boot Fits

DON'T SHOOT ME, I THINK THIS IS A GUILTY PLEASURE
1. Vacation

BOTTOM
1. Fix (although I have to admit I hate it a lot less than I used to)

[sabre14]

Jun 30, 2016 22:45:08 GMT -5 keelhauled said:

I Met A Girl - What did he do that Mo Pitney didn't?

He signed a recording contract with Warner Music Nashville.

Mo signed one with Curb Records.

[someguy]

Jul 1, 2016 18:50:30 GMT -5 sabre14 said:

Jun 30, 2016 22:45:08 GMT -5 keelhauled said:

I Met A Girl - What did he do that Mo Pitney didn't?

He signed a recording contract with Warner Music Nashville.

Mo signed one with Curb Records.

He also recorded and released a Sam Hunt song as his first single.