I Like It, I Love It - A Tim McGraw Rankdown (#1 Revealed!)

[kansasmeetsmo]

Jul 31, 2017 23:19:02 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

There's still time to submit if anybody else is interested!!!!!!!!! I've already gotten two last-minute submissions today from Troublemaker and cerulean

I don't think I will be able to make this deadline. I have been too busy trying to keep up with that Martina Rankdown, and well obviously just life in general. Hey at least I've got my priorities straight we, Martina before Tim. I'm kidding about that last part, but I feel like you would still agree. I'm still hoping to follow along, if you want to go ahead and tag me, that would be great.

[bboat11]

Aug 1, 2017 2:34:12 GMT -5 kansasmeetsmo said:

Jul 31, 2017 23:19:02 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

There's still time to submit if anybody else is interested!!!!!!!!! I've already gotten two last-minute submissions today from Troublemaker and cerulean

I don't think I will be able to make this deadline. I have been too busy trying to keep up with that Martina Rankdown, and well obviously just life in general. Hey at least I've got my priorities straight we, Martina before Tim. I'm kidding about that last part, but I feel like you would still agree. I'm still hoping to follow along, if you want to go ahead and tag me, that would be great.

Ssssssshhhhhh, we're in enemy territory... It's not safe here... Lol!

Well if you do manage to put a list together at some point in the next 12 or so hours, we would love to have you join! I will be sleeping for at least 8 of them ( ), so it's not like that will affect when the rankdown starts. But either way, I will tag you so you can follow along :)

[kansasmeetsmo]

Aug 1, 2017 2:39:44 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Aug 1, 2017 2:34:12 GMT -5 kansasmeetsmo said:

I don't think I will be able to make this deadline. I have been too busy trying to keep up with that Martina Rankdown, and well obviously just life in general. Hey at least I've got my priorities straight we, Martina before Tim. I'm kidding about that last part, but I feel like you would still agree. I'm still hoping to follow along, if you want to go ahead and tag me, that would be great.

Ssssssshhhhhh, we're in enemy territory... It's not safe here... Lol!

Well if you do manage to put a list together at some point in the next 12 or so hours, we would love to have you join! I will be sleeping for at least 8 of them ( ), so it's not like that will affect when the rankdown starts. But either way, I will tag you so you can follow along :)

I will try and make that happen...oh and okay...glad I was warned. Whew, don't want to get myself into too much trouble. 😉

[bboat11]

The submission period is officially over! Men and women, boys and girls, here is our final list of participants :)

1. bboat11
2. countrymusicjunkie
3. austin
4. Kanenrá:ke
5. Kentucky25
6. someguy
7. rgreen0625
8. toomuchboy
9. @anythingbutmine
10. @adam1995
11. tim
12. castleoblivion26
13. Cody Wants Out...
14. zaclord 🌈
15. fearlessarrow
16. sabre14
17. CoJoFan
18. .indulgecountry
19. Troublemaker
20. cerulean
21. kansasmeetsmo

Following along:
Leo ✔
If anybody else sees this and wants to be tagged, let me know.

This has turned into a very solid turnout, and I am so happy that you all have decided to join in!

In addition, I have received album tracks from the following people:
1. bboat11
2. countrymusicjunkie
3. rgreen0625
4. Kentucky25
5. austin
6. @anythingbutmine
7. tim
8. castleoblivion26
9. someguy
10. zaclord 🌈
11. Cody Wants Out...
12. Kanenrá:ke
13. .indulgecountry

If anybody else would like to submit their album tracks, please do so by the end of today. They won't really affect my ability to start the main rankdown, so I'm willing to flex that deadline a little bit. But I would like to at least have those calculations all finished up and ready by the end of the day.

[bboat11]

Some questions!

1. What will be #1?
2. What will be #76?
3. What do you think is a lock for the top 5?
4. What is a lock for the bottom 6?
5. What will be the most polarizing song? Least?
6. Which will be higher: "One of These Days", or "One of Those Nights"?
7. Which will be higher: "My Best Friend", or "My Old Friend"?
8. Which album will be eliminated first?
9. Do you think your #1 could be THE #1?
10. Any other random thoughts/predictions?




Bottom 6 coming in a few hours! Get your cowboy hats ready!

[countrymusicjunkie]

1. What will be #1? Live Like You Were Dying

2. What will be #76? Lookin' For That Girl

3. What do you think is a lock for the top 5? Live Like You Were Dying, Please Remember Me, The Cowboy In Me

4. What is a lock for the bottom 6? Lookin For That Girl, Truck Yeah, Over And Over, Suspicions

5. What will be the most polarizing song? Least? Most-Kristofferson, Least- Everywhere

6. Which will be higher: "One of These Days", or "One of Those Nights"? One Of Those Nights

7. Which will be higher: "My Best Friend", or "My Old Friend"? I really hope My Old Friend will be higher but I have a feeling it wont be.

8. Which album will be eliminated first? Southern Voice

9. Do you think your #1 could be THE #1? I highly doubt it.

10. Any other random thoughts/predictions? Even though I predicted Live Like You Were Dying to win, I'd really love to be wrong. I would like to see something less predictable be #1.

[kansasmeetsmo]

Aug 1, 2017 15:32:09 GMT -5 countrymusicjunkie said:

4. What is a lock for the bottom 6? Lookin For That Girl, Truck Yeah, Over And Over, Suspicions

Wow, do people really hate that song. I can see how it could be polarizing, I would just rank about 20 songs below it even if I was making a more objective decision.  I really like "Over and Over", but probably because I like Nelly and feel obliged to support people from my home state.  The fact that he has a St. Louis Rams jacket on even makes me like the song even more.(Before they moved to LA, yes we are still bitter about that here.) So you could say my judgement is clouded.  Just like the way I feel like, I always have to appreciate Sara Evans music just because we are both from central Missouri.

*Man, I have got to start editing these post before I hit the submit button.

[.indulgecountry]

1. What will be #1? Honestly dunno lol
2. What will be #76? Truck Yeah or Feel Like a Rockstar, I hope
3. What do you think is a lock for the top 5? Just to See You Smile, Humble and Kind, Something Like That... maybe, idk lol
4. What is a lock for the bottom 6? Truck Yeah, Feel Like a Rockstar, Over and Over, Lookin' for That Girl seem most likely
5. What will be the most polarizing song? Least? "Last Dollar (Fly Away)" has always seemed to be a polarizing one. Also "It's Your Love." Least would be the stuff that most people hate like Truck Yeah probably.
6. Which will be higher: "One of These Days", or "One of Those Nights"? Nights
7. Which will be higher: "My Best Friend", or "My Old Friend"? Best Friend
8. Which album will be eliminated first? Gonna guess his debut album
9. Do you think your #1 could be THE #1? Just to See You Smile maybe
10. Any other random thoughts/predictions? nope.

[Cody Wants Out...]

1. What will be #1?

- *whistles* There's no way to know. I could see "Don't Take the Girl", "Just to See You Smile", "Where the Green Grass Grows" or "Live Like You Were Dying" taking the crown...or something completely different.

2. What will be #76?

- It's gotta be either "Truck Yeah" or "Lookin' For That Girl".

3. What do you think is a lock for the top 5?

- I think one of the Tim and Faith duets will be in the top 5 and a single or two from Everywhere.

4. What is a lock for the bottom 6?

- See #2 + possibly Def Leppard and one of the singles from his debut album.

5. What will be the most polarizing song? Least?

- My brain is coming up with nothin'.

6. Which will be higher: "One of These Days", or "One of Those Nights"?

- Probably "Nights".

7. Which will be higher: "My Best Friend", or "My Old Friend"?

- "Best".

8. Which album will be eliminated first?

- Probably debut.

9. Do you think your #1 could be THE #1?

- I'm thinking top 20 will be the best it'll do, but it wouldn't hurt to dream.

10. Any other random thoughts/predictions?

- I can't wait for this to start!!!

[kansasmeetsmo]

Let's give this a shot.


1. What will be #1?
Life Like You Where Dying
2. What will be #76?
Truck Yeah
3. What do you think is a lock for the top 5?
Live Like You Are Dying, Just to See You Smile, Something Like That, Where the Green Grass Grows, and Not a Moment Too Soon
4. What is a lock for the bottom 6?
Truck Yeah, Feel Like A Rockstar, May We All, Nine
5. What will be the most polarizing song? Least?
Do You Want Fries with That, or Last Dollar (Fly Away)
6. Which will be higher: "One of These Days", or "One of Those Nights"?
Nights
7. Which will be higher: "My Best Friend", or "My Old Friend"?
My Best Friend
8. Which album will be eliminated first?
Emotional Traffic?
9. Do you think your #1 could be THE #1?
I have hope for Indian Outlaw, but I would only give it like a 15-20% chance.
10. Any other random thoughts/predictions?
Not really, it was just hard for me to rank; because I was not nearly as familiar as I thought I would be with the songs. Some of my rankings are really a shot in the dark after my top 45.

[fearlessarrow]

1. What will be #1?
I'm thinking "Live Like You Were Dying" will get tanked by some low ranks (overplay could kill the song) so I'm going to say "Just to See You Smile".

2. What will be #76?
Hopefully "Truck Yeah" but I have a feeling it would be "Lookin' For That Girl". I think "Truck Yeah" will have a little bit more passion ranks than "Lookin' for That Girl".

3. What do you think is a lock for the top 5?
"Just to See You Smile", "Live Like You Were Dying", and idk about others. "Please Remember Me" and "Where the Green Grass Grows" could also be likely contenders for the top 5. I feel like the top 5 will all be his older stuff (pre-Let It Go) although it would be interesting if his more recent stuff snuck in ("Diamond Rings and Old Barstools" seems like the best candidate). Seriously though, this question is too hard lol

4. What is a lock for the bottom 6?
"Truck Yeah", "Lookin' For That Girl", "Feel Like a Rock Star", "Nine Lives", "Southern Girl"

5. What will be the most polarizing song? Least?
Most: "Last Dollar (Fly Away)"
Least: No idea...

6. Which will be higher: "One of These Days", or "One of Those Nights"?
"One of Those Nights"

7. Which will be higher: "My Best Friend", or "My Old Friend"?

"My Best Friend"

8. Which album will be eliminated first?
His debut? If not, maybe Let It Go or Southern Voice.

9. Do you think your #1 could be THE #1?
It has a shot, but I don't think so.

10. Any other random thoughts/predictions?
One of the songs here was #1 on country radio (on Billboard) when I was born, and I'm hoping that song can make it far!

[cerulean]

My answers to all those questions pretty much mirror everybody else's. I have a really good feeling now that my #1 might take the top spot and my #76 will be #76, but we'll see.

I'm curious where the Tim/Faith duets will fall and which one is going to be the highest ranked. I really want it to be "I Need You" but I actually found them all really hard to rank amongst Tim's solo hits.

[Troublemaker]

1. What will be #1?
Live like you're dying
2. What will be #76?
Nine Lives or One of his earlier songs
3. What do you think is a lock for the top 5?
Humble And Kind
4. What is a lock for the bottom 6?
Truck Yeah, Feel Like A Rockstar
5. What will be the most polarizing song? Least?
Do You Want Fries with that
6. Which will be higher: "One of These Days", or "One of Those Nights"?
One of Those Nights
7. Which will be higher: "My Best Friend", or "My Old Friend"?
My Best Friend
8. Which album will be eliminated first?
His debut album
9. Do you think your #1 could be THE #1?
NOT A CHANCE!
10. Any other random thoughts/predictions?
I'm horrible @ this...

[bboat11]

The Tim McGraw rankdown is now entering it's presentation phase!!!!!!! Anybody out cattin' around, looking for something to do??? Look no further, this is where you want to be for a little while. The bottom-6 will be beginning very soon!

[Deleted]

Yea get this started please. I want to stop looking at the messy 2012 Alt one, lol.

[fearlessarrow]

Aug 1, 2017 22:32:53 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

The Tim McGraw rankdown is now entering it's presentation phase!!!!!!! Anybody out cattin' around, looking for something to do??? Look no further, this is where you want to be for a little while. The bottom-6 will be beginning very soon!

Me! I just finished doing a preliminary list for the Words album rankdown so great timing!

Aug 1, 2017 22:34:13 GMT -5 @walker9 said:

Yea get this started please. I want to stop looking at the messy 2012 Alt one, lol.

I was looking through recent posts and yeah that got messy real quick... 

[LBTrocks]

Didn't bother with a list but I might follow along every once in a while.

"The Cowboy In Me" would have been my #1

[bboat11]

Before we begin, let's take a look at all of his albums. Tim has recorded 14 studio albums, and has released 3 Greatest Hits albums, a #1 hits collection, and lots and lots of other compilation albums that Curb records has released through the years in an effort to prevent Tim from leaving the label, and then continuing to try to make money off of his name now that he has successfully left the label. Here they are!

[bboat11]

Yeah, I'm not sure what happened to his first 2 albums in the above post... Editing now

[castleoblivion26]

Aug 1, 2017 22:32:53 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

The Tim McGraw rankdown is now entering it's presentation phase!!!!!!! Anybody out cattin' around, looking for something to do??? Look no further, this is where you want to be for a little while. The bottom-6 will be beginning very soon!

I'm here, just hoping those are not hints for the bottom 6

[bboat11]

Also, we have a special treat tonight... Joe Nichols is here to announce our first elimination!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!! *fans self* *swoons*

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Truck Yeah?

[fearlessarrow]

Yeah! (which probably means Truck Yeah!)

[bboat11]

76. "Truck Yeah"
Album: Two Lanes of Freedom
Country Airplay Chart Peak: 10
Year: 2012





Total: 1470
Average: 70
Std Dev: 9.02 (3rd smallest!!!!!!!!)

rgreen0625 - 40
austin - 54
@anythingbutmine - 58
toomuchboy - 66
CoJoFan - 69
countrymusicjunkie - 69
sabre14 - 71
Troublemaker - 72
Kanenrá:ke - 73
kansasmeetsmo - 73
Kentucky25 - 73
tim - 74
.indulgecountry - 74
castleoblivion26 - 75
Cody Wants Out... - 75
bboat11 - 75
cerulean - 75
someguy - 76
@adam1995 - 76
zaclord 🌈 - 76
fearlessarrow - 76

Leo ✔

For our very first elimination of the rankdown, Tim loses his very first single with Big Machine records! Thank goodness he went on to make MUCH better music with them, because this song is an absolute travesty.

[fearlessarrow]

This is not to put down anyone who uses the word or the phrase, but I personally don't really like using the word "trash" to describe songs because a lot of work goes into creating a song (even bad ones) but this is one of those times where I'd like to use the phrase "Bye trash!"

To clarify: I don't mind if anyone else uses "trash" to describe songs (and sometimes I like seeing it lol) it's just that I personally don't really want to use it to describe songs. So if I call a song "trash" then it's REALLY bad (well, at least for me).

[countrymusicjunkie]

I definitely don't like "Truck Yeah" but I will say it's actually a pretty cool concert song, I enjoy it a lot more live than on the radio.

[bboat11]

I would just like to point out that "Truck Yeah" was actually not in last place until the last couple submissions rolled in. Our next reveal was dead last for pretty much the entire submission process! Lowest standard deviation of the game coming next, folks!

[countrymusicjunkie]

Aug 1, 2017 23:32:20 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

I would just like to point out that "Truck Yeah" was actually not in last place until the last couple submissions rolled in. Our next reveal was dead last for pretty much the entire submission process! Lowest standard deviation of the game coming next, folks!

Has to be Lookin' For That Girl.

[bboat11]

75. "Nine Lives" - Def Leppard ft. Tim McGraw
Album: Songs from the Sparkle Lounge (Def Leppard album)
Country Airplay Peak: - Did not chart
Year: 2008





Total: 1459
Average: 69.48
Std Dev: 7.53 (1st smallest!!)

CoJoFan - 45
Cody Wants Out... - 56
fearlessarrow - 63
zaclord 🌈 - 66
countrymusicjunkie - 67
austin - 67
austin - 67
sabre14 - 68
someguy - 70
castleoblivion26 - 70
Kanenrá:ke - 71
.indulgecountry - 71
Kentucky25 - 71
@adam1995 - 72
cerulean - 74
@anythingbutmine - 74
toomuchboy - 75
kansasmeetsmo - 75
bboat11 - 76
rgreen0625 - 76
tim - 76
Troublemaker - 76

This song appears on Tim McGraw's Greatest Hits Volume 3, but I honestly have no idea why... LMAO I don't think it charted on any charts of any genre. Probably just because the entire album was thrown together as a way for Curb to extend Tim's contract and keep making money off of him for as long as possible, so it didn't really matter what got counted as a "hit".

[fearlessarrow]

I liked "Nine Lives" to some extent... And   at me being the third-highest ranker for the song lol

I will patiently keep waiting for the inevitable early elimination for "Lookin' For That Girl".