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

[bboat11]

"Today, I'm gonna stand out in the rain..."

49. "Let It Go"

Album: Let It Go

Country Airplay Peak: 2

Year: 2008





Total: 916
Average: 43.62
Std Dev: 14.18

austin - 19
bboat11 - 21
castleoblivion26 - 21
countrymusicjunkie - 27
someguy - 31
rgreen0625 - 36
Troublemaker - 37
@anythingbutmine - 38
zaclord 🌈 - 38
kansasmeetsmo - 42
Cody Wants Out... - 46
fearlessarrow - 46
sabre14 - 52
CoJoFan - 53
Kentucky25 - 54
Kanenrá:ke - 55
.indulgecountry - 55
@adam1995 - 60
cerulean - 60
toomuchboy - 62
tim - 63

Leo ✔

Most people seem to like this song, but not love it, so it makes sense to see it going now. It has always been one that I love though... With this, we say goodbye to our 3rd of 7 songs from the Let it Go album.

[sabre14]

"Let It Go" was fine and it was successful at radio...but like any single from late 2007 onward off that record, I held a grudge since "Train #10" or "Between The River And Me" wasn't released.

[castleoblivion26]

I love "Let It Go" and feel like it is one of those songs that gets pushed down the list because of being one of the last singles released off of that album and being released when Tim was ready to move on from the album. So sad to see it this low

[bboat11]

48. "One of These Days"

Album: Everywhere

Country Airplay Peak: 2

Year: 1998





Total: 906
Average: 43.14
Std Dev: 18.12

castleoblivion26 - 6
someguy - 12
Cody Wants Out... - 18
tim - 27
countrymusicjunkie - 28
zaclord 🌈 - 32
fearlessarrow - 35
CoJoFan - 36
toomuchboy - 37
@adam1995 - 44
.indulgecountry - 45
austin - 51
Kentucky25 - 51
Troublemaker - 54
bboat11 - 54
sabre14 - 57
Kanenrá:ke - 57
cerulean - 61
rgreen0625 - 63
@anythingbutmine - 66
kansasmeetsmo - 72

Leo ✔

This is a beautiful song. I may have underranked it, tbh now that I am listening to it again now... But it just does not hold as much legacy or nostalgia for me as most of the other songs in this rankdown, which ultimately hurt its performance on my own list. The lyrics are incredible though, and I especially love how the very last line offers the twist of, "One of these days I'm gonna love me"... Chills!

[countrymusicjunkie]

"One Of These Days" and "Let It Go" are both great songs and they deserved to be much higher in the rankdown.

[bboat11]

Also, with the elimination of "One of These Days", the Everywhere album loses its first song in this rankdown! That means Set This Circus Down is the last album that is completely intact!

Circus has 4 songs in this rankdown. They are "Grown Men Don't Cry", "Angry All The Time", "The Cowboy In Me", and "Unbroken". All of which were #1 hits for Tim. How long can the album remain intact?!! Which song do you guys think will leave first, and how much longer will it be until it leaves?

[kansasmeetsmo]

I heard "Let It Go" on radio the other day, and came to the conclusion that I actually love the song lyrically and the production on it was pretty decent too. However, Tim McGraw's voice and delivery on the song just do not work for me. To me it sounds really grating. I think if pretty much anyone else had been singing it, I would have liked the song a lot more. That's probably just me though.

[bboat11]

47. "Nothin' To Die For"

Album: Let It Go

Country Airplay Peak: 5

Year: 2009





Total: 903
Average: 43.00
Std Dev: 15.13

@anythingbutmine - 18
castleoblivion26 - 22
Kanenrá:ke - 25
zaclord 🌈 - 29
toomuchboy - 31
kansasmeetsmo - 31
Troublemaker - 33
rgreen0625 - 34
CoJoFan - 38
fearlessarrow - 40
sabre14 - 42
countrymusicjunkie - 43
bboat11 - 45
austin - 46
Kentucky25 - 48
someguy - 58
@adam1995 - 62
Cody Wants Out... - 62
cerulean - 64
.indulgecountry - 65
tim - 67

Leo ✔

This is a song that I always forget about! Probably because at this point in the Let It Go album cycle the whole label situation had become downright ridiculous. But I really like this one, so I am glad to see it did decently well in this rankdown. I am okay with it leaving now.

Btw, I love the line, "The graveyard's full of folks who didn't have time to die." Jesus what a powerful line.

[Cody Wants Out...]

"Let It Go" is alright, but it burned on me very fast and I don't consider it one of my favorites. I echo the same sentiments towards "Nothin' to Die For", but to a much lesser extent. "One of These Days", on the other hand, is a beautiful package inside and out, but it can sound sleepy at times if you're tired enough.

I'm hoping Set This Circus Down can last a little while longer before losing a song; all four singles are worthy of no less than top 40 imo. With my luck though, "Grown Men Don't Cry" might leave soon. If not that, then "Unbroken" might.

[bboat11]

46. "It's A Business Doing Pleasure With You"

Album: Southern Voice

Country Airplay Peak: 13

Year: 2009





Total: 901
Average: 42.90
Std Dev: 17.37

Troublemaker - 17
Kanenrá:ke - 20
.indulgecountry - 20
someguy - 24
sabre14 - 24
castleoblivion26 - 27
Kentucky25 - 28
austin - 30
bboat11 - 39
fearlessarrow - 43
countrymusicjunkie - 44
kansasmeetsmo - 46
zaclord 🌈 - 48
toomuchboy - 53
rgreen0625 - 55
@anythingbutmine - 61
@adam1995 - 61
CoJoFan - 63
tim - 65
Cody Wants Out... - 66
cerulean - 67

Leo ✔

"It's a business doing pleasure with you" is quite possibly the best hook I have ever heard for a country song... I have always loved it when songs put a clever twist on a common phrase, and this is the king of those examples. Melodically, however, I can understand why the song is out now. It does not have a lot of replay value for me, despite my love for the lyrics.

"I pray to God this song will be a success!"

[countrymusicjunkie]

"Nothing To Die For" isn't a bad song by any means but for some reason I've always found it to be kind of boring, I think it probably finished abut where it should.

[Leo ✔]

Nobody watched nothing!

[bboat11]

Aug 16, 2017 17:17:48 GMT -5 Leo ✔ said:

Nobody watched nothing!

Lol what do you mean?

[.indulgecountry]

This last crop of eliminations is fine with me. All of these last few are in the meh/forgettable area imo. Not sad to see any of them leave.

ETA: Damn I actually love "It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You" though, lol. That one honestly lasted a little longer than I had expected though, so I can't complain much.

Aug 16, 2017 16:52:06 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Also, with the elimination of "One of These Days", the Everywhere album loses its first song in this rankdown! That means Set This Circus Down is the last album that is completely intact!

Circus has 4 songs in this rankdown. They are "Grown Men Don't Cry", "Angry All The Time", "The Cowboy In Me", and "Unbroken". All of which were #1 hits for Tim. How long can the album remain intact?!! Which song do you guys think will leave first, and how much longer will it be until it leaves?

I feel like that era is pretty highly regarded so I'm not surprised it's the last to lose a song. I'm predicting that the first three singles will all make the Top 20, and "Unbroken" will be the first to leave from Circus, and it'll go out somewhere in the high 20s probably if I had to take a stab in the dark.

[Leo ✔]

Aug 16, 2017 17:19:11 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Aug 16, 2017 17:17:48 GMT -5 Leo ✔ said:

Nobody watched nothing!

Lol what do you mean?

I accidentaly posted one reveal of my rankdown here lmao

[bboat11]

I am going to stop and take a break for now, but I hope to come back and reveal the next 5 later tonight! When we return, 3 people will lose their #76! 7 people will lose top 10s... And we are also going to lose our very first #1!!!

 

 

bboat11 countrymusicjunkie austin Kanenrá:ke Kentucky25 someguy rgreen0625 toomuchboy @anythingbutmine @adam1995 tim castleoblivion26 Cody Wants Out... zaclord 🌈 fearlessarrow sabre14 CoJoFan .indulgecountry Troublemaker cerulean kansasmeetsmo Leo ✔

Start guessing, folks!!!

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So highest SD?

[.indulgecountry]

Mmmm idk about the first 4 clues, but I think the last clue could be for "Like We Never Loved at All" since all I can remember from the video is Faith sitting on the edge of the bed.

[Cody Wants Out...]

Does it matter if it's in any particular order?

"If You're Reading This"
"Meanwhile Back at Mama's"
"One of Those Nights"
"When the Stars Go Blue" ? (I think this is already gone.) or "Where the Green Grass Grows" or "Last Dollar (Fly Away)"
"Everywhere"

My brain is now fried. I know I have more than five guesses here, but I wanna get these right.

P.S. I may or may not have cheated. It also looks like my #1 is safe.

[bboat11]

Aug 16, 2017 18:05:37 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

"When the Stars Go Blue" ? (I think this is already gone.)

Here is everything that is left!

Angry All The Time
Back When
Better Than I Used To Be
Bring On The Rain
Can’t Be Really Gone
Diamond Rings And Old Barstools
Don’t Take The Girl
Down On The Farm
Everywhere
Felt Good On My Lips
For A Little While
Grown Men Don’t Cry
Highway Don’t Care
How I’ll Always Be
Humble And Kind
I Like It, I Love It
I Need You
If You’re Reading This
Indian Outlaw
It’s Your Love
Just To Hear You Say That You Love Me
Just To See You Smile
Last Dollar (Fly Away)
Let’s Make Love
Like We Never Loved At All
Live Like You Were Dying
Maybe We Should Just Sleep On It
Meanwhile Back At Mama’s
My Best Friend
My Next Thirty Years
My Old Friend
Not A Moment Too Soon
One Of Those Nights
Please Remember Me
Real Good Man
Red Ragtop
She Never Lets It Go To Her Heart
She’s My Kind Of Rain
Shotgun Rider
Something Like That
Still
The Cowboy In Me
Unbroken
When The Stars Go Blue
Where The Green Grass Grows

[bboat11]

Aug 16, 2017 17:58:03 GMT -5 @walker9 said:

So highest SD?

Nope, highest SD won't be coming until #31! However, we are only 2 reveals away from the 3rd highest SD, which is #44.

[Cody Wants Out...]

Thanks for the recap of what's left bboat11. I remember seeing a harsh comment towards "When the Stars Go Blue", so I automatically assumed it was already eliminated.

[castleoblivion26]

"One of these Days" :( remains one of my favorite songs ever so super disappointed it is out now, I really did not expect it to be this low

While I like the other songs that have been eliminated thus far that is the one that was most disappointing to see out this early so far

[fearlessarrow]

I'm fine with everything in this set except for maybe "One of These Days". That song deserved top 40.

[someguy]

"One Of These Days" is such a great song. Disappointed to see it gone so early.

[countrymusicjunkie]

That first clue with the family sitting around the table has to be "Back When", "Sitting around the table don't happen much anymore". And the book on the bed clue could be "Can't Be Really Gone", "her book is lying on the bed, the two of hearts to mark her page". I really hope I'm wrong about "Cant Be Really Gone" because that is an incredible song and deserves to be at least in the top 20.

[castleoblivion26]

Aug 17, 2017 1:54:47 GMT -5 countrymusicjunkie said:

That first clue with the family sitting around the table has to be "Back When", "Sitting around the table don't happen much anymore".and the book on the bed clue could be "Can't Be Really Gone", "her book is lying on the bed, the two of hearts to mark her page". I really hope I'm wrong about "Cant Be Really Gone" because that is an incredible song and deserves to be at least in the top 20.

I might just have to quit on here if "Can't Be Really Gone" is out this early. "One of These Days" was hard enough but not that one, that cannot leave this early imo. (wouldn't really quit but seriously, NO!)

[countrymusicjunkie]

Here's my top 20 prediction, in no particular order.

Live Like You Were Dying
Humble And Kind
Diamond Rings And Old Barstools
The Cowboy In Me
Angry All The Time
Just To See You Smile
Where The Green Grass Grows
Everywhere
Please Remember Me
Something Like That
Meanwhile Back At Mama's
Don't Take The Girl
I Like It, I Love It
Better Than I Used To Be
Can't Be Really Gone
Highway Don't Care
If You're Reading This
One Of Those Nights
My Next 30 Years
Red Ragtop

[bboat11]

Sorry for the delay, guys! I'm starting the next set now :)

[Cody Wants Out...]