Martina McBride Album Series Rankdowns

[BackwoodsBarbie]

Nov 21, 2017 2:29:45 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Nov 21, 2017 1:51:34 GMT -5 BackwoodsBarbie said:

I was hoping that any other song that made it to top 5 would win but even me ranking Wild Angels low didn't help so I guess the right song won this rankdown.

I like Cry on the Shoulder of the Road a lot. I like it more and more each time I listen to it. I was surprised when I saw that this one peaked on #26 because it such a perfect country song with great melody, instrumentation and vocal performance so it would deserve better both on charts and in this rankdown.

From what I have heard, "Cry On The Shoulder Of The Road" was off to a great start (I think Martina said the fastest start ever up to that point in her career), and was really acting like it would be a big hit, and then Jim Brickman released "Valentine" to AC radio and it cannibalized all the interest in Martina's current single, thereby ending "Cry On The Shoulder"'s chart run prematurely.

Oh that makes more sense now.  It also makes me a little sad that Cry On The Shoulder didn't live up to it's full potential because it's a great song and I like it a little more than I like Valentine.

[BlueShades874]

The top two are such a strong couple of singles! Wild Angels is such a great song. I recall reading in the notes on her Greatest Hits album that My Baby Loves Me was just a few spins away from hitting #1, so Wild Angels was almost her second #1! Safe in the Arms of Love has always been a favorite of mine and it was easily my #1. Such a fun video to go along with it as well!

[codyj100]

Okay, that seemed like the fastest reveal ever. But, I enjoyed seeing the results. I've been busy, so it was nice to get caught up quickly. I think it was probably a given that "Wild Angels" would be the number one spot. It's interesting nonetheless to see how everyone feels about each song. I just don't see the love for "Cry On The Shoulder Of The Road." Then again, that's just me. 

[born]

I missed this, are you doing more bboat11?

[bboat11]

Feb 5, 2018 3:58:01 GMT -5 born said:

I missed this, are you doing more bboat11 ?

Aww, that means a lot coming from you! I just took a break from this because I was busy with George Strait followed by 2017 Country, but I am actually planning to open the next Martina album within the next week or two

Edit: So thanks for bumping this!!! Lol

[bboat11]

Waking Up Laughing

I have been feeling lately like it is time to start our next Martina album So here we go! This is the album that y'all voted to do next, back when we finished the Wild Angels rankdown!

For our next rankdown, we take a jump into the later years of Martina's career. Waking Up Laughing is her 9th studio album, released on April 3, 2007. The album saw middle-of-the-road success for her. It spawned one of the biggest hits of her career, "Anyway", which was also the first song she helped co-write. It generated two more singles that have since been more-or-less forgotten. "How I Feel" which squeaked out a top 15 peak and "For These Times" which bowed out at #35. The album has been certified Gold for its sales strength though.

Personally I feel like the wrong single choices were made, because this album is still incredible! There are quite a few songs here that should have been huge hits, and would have been able to capitalize on "Anyway"'s wild success much more thoroughly than the real followups did. She had a ton of hype coming into this project, because it was her return to radio after her Timeless covers album adventure, and "Anyway" gave people everything they wanted, so there is no excuse for the success from this era to have petered out the way it did. I hope you guys enjoy it as much as (or even more than) I do!

The songs:
1. If I Had Your Name
2. Cry Cry ('Til The Sun Shines)
3. Tryin' To Find A Reason
4. For These Times
5. Anyway
6. How I Feel
7. I'll Still Be Me
8. Beautiful Again
9. Everybody Does
10. House Of A Thousand Dreams
11. Love Land
12. Blue Bayou (iTunes Pre-Release Bonus Track)


Don't worry about a Google Form this time. Just go ahead and submit your lists to my inbox Ranks will be due by Thursday March 1st!!!

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Previous Participants:
bboat11 Troublemaker Kanenrá:ke castleoblivion26 @adam1995 codyj100 someguy kansasmeetsmo dub BlueShades874 Cody Wants Out... .indulgecountry fearlessarrow tim BackwoodsBarbie d3vin44 born cerulean


New Invites:
.indulgecountry codyj100 Leo ✔ LBTrocks zaclord 🌈 countrymusicjunkie d3vin44 cerulean BlueShades874 dm2081 bigfan101 CoJoFan rgreen0625 Kentucky25 YotamTS zjames Sambalada chicken077 sabre14 raylatch98 fearlessarrow castleoblivion26 dub someguy Troublemaker trustypepper Cody Wants Out... vann Andy 14887fan @adam1995 sbp17 Sean The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷 stonemc06 tim toomuchboy BackwoodsBarbie 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 wavey. andrewantonio aerodynamite Juanca  DistrictTwelve @countricana SHOOTER  samo🦕

[someguy]

Great album! I completely agree with you about the single choices...."For These Times"?? Really?? The right singles could have made this a big success for her, following "Anyway".

[bboat11]

The YouTube links have been edited into the OP, by the way That's definitely going to be the only place for you to find "Blue Bayou"!

[born]

Yayyyy!

[cerulean]

Well this made my day!

[austin]

“everybody Does” was a NO BRAINER second single.

[castleoblivion26]

I still remember the first time I was listening to this album and it was because of a listening party that was put online a few days before the album came out and I was in college and had to kick out my roommates friends out of our dorm room so I could hear it in peace because they were criticizing everything about it (he was not a Country music fan). I was so mad at the time because they were talking over the music. Thankfully my roommate at the time is one of my friends and he understand why I was annoyed.

You will have my rankings tonight! I love this album and while I definitely think there are a couple low points on the album, dislike one song more than "Happy Girl", it is still an incredible album!

[bboat11]

George Strait Junkie I forgot to tag you in this. Do you have any interest in Martina's albums?

[George Strait Junkie]

i think i may have only heard this album once but this is a good excuse for me to give it another chance

[Kanenrá:ke]

Doing this now at work since it's a slow day!

[bboat11]

My avatar and signature change is complete! That means it's time for y'all to start getting excited!!



So far we have 5 participants already, (including somebody who is new to the Martina album series), which is a pretty awesome start for an album rankdown that is still pretty far from the deadline!

bboat11
soulfulwings
castleoblivion26
someguy
Kanenrá:ke

So far there are 2 songs duking it out for #1 pretty ferociously, but a few others are not far behind. #1 is still in easy striking distance for many of the songs, and so far this album does not have an obvious last place contender like some of the previous albums have!

If anybody else would like to join, you still have about 12 days. The deadline is still March 1st. Everybody is welcome, no matter what your previous experience level is with Martina. Hopefully everybody who previously participated will still show up! But I would love to have a few more new people as well

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.indulgecountry codyj100 Leo ✔ LBTrocks zaclord 🌈 countrymusicjunkie d3vin44 cerulean BlueShades874 dm2081 bigfan101 CoJoFan rgreen0625 Kentucky25 YotamTS zjames Sambalada chicken077 sabre14 raylatch98 fearlessarrow castleoblivion26 dub someguy Troublemaker trustypepper Cody Wants Out... vann Andy 14887fan @adam1995 sbp17 Sean The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷 stonemc06 tim toomuchboy BackwoodsBarbie 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 wavey. andrewantonio aerodynamite Juanca DistrictTwelve @countricana SHOOTER samo🦕 George Strait Junkie

[BlueShades874]

I haven't been on much lately, but I'll do this one. Only a couple songs on here I'm not super familiar with, but I'll take a day or two and get familiar with them and send my list in!

[bboat11]

This one is coming up due very quickly, so don't miss out! If you want to submit, you have until Thursday night! March 1st is just 4 days away!

Participants so far:
bboat11
soulfulwings
castleoblivion26
someguy
Kanenrá:ke
George Strait Junkie
.indulgecountry
BlueShades874

We are about halfway to the participation level of the previous 3 albums, so hopefully people have been putting this off until the final few days


.indulgecountry codyj100 Leo ✔ LBTrocks zaclord 🌈 d3vin44 cerulean BlueShades874 bigfan101 CoJoFan Kentucky25 YotamTS zjames Sambalada chicken077 sabre14 raylatch98 fearlessarrow castleoblivion26 dub someguy Troublemaker trustypepper Cody Wants Out... Andy @adam1995 sbp17 Sean The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷 stonemc06 tim toomuchboy BackwoodsBarbie wavey. andrewantonio aerodynamite Juanca DistrictTwelve @countricana SHOOTER samo🦕 George Strait Junkie kf1992 born

[Deleted]

Thanks for the invite, but unfortunately I'm not well verse enough in Martina McBride to participate in this one. I'll keep an eye out for future ones though!

[d3vin44]

I'm doing this right now!

[born]

I literally begged bboat to open a new Martina RD and I still haven't even listened to a single song on the album lol

Gonna give the album 2 listens and I'm PMing you tomorrow.

Edit: Just played the album for the first time. I'm pleasantly surprised! Many cute songs. I have an easy top 3 and bottom 3 but I'm gonna play it one more time.

[Cody Wants Out...]

Sent.



This was actually a very solid album; and my bottom two or three aren't really that bad. I just found the melodies and such awkward.

[bboat11]

FINAL REMINDER!!!!!!!!!

Participants so far:
bboat11
soulfulwings
castleoblivion26
someguy
Kanenrá:ke
George Strait Junkie
.indulgecountry
BlueShades874
d3vin44
fearlessarrow
SHOOTER
Cody Wants Out...
dub

Several of our previous participants have not made it in for this one yet... If you want to join, it's not too late!! (If anybody would like extra time, tell me! I will gladly wait for you! Otherwise I will close this tomorrow as planned if nobody else expresses interest.)


.indulgecountry codyj100 Leo ✔ LBTrocks zaclord 🌈 d3vin44 cerulean BlueShades874 bigfan101 CoJoFan Kentucky25 YotamTS zjames Sambalada chicken077 sabre14 raylatch98 fearlessarrow castleoblivion26 dub someguy Troublemaker trustypepper Cody Wants Out... Andy @adam1995 sbp17 Sean The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷 stonemc06 tim toomuchboy BackwoodsBarbie wavey. andrewantonio aerodynamite Juanca DistrictTwelve @countricana SHOOTER samo🦕 George Strait Junkie kf1992 born

[bboat11]

Whoops, sorry if you already said you can't do this and I forgot to take you off the tag list... I tend to forget to remove names sometimes

[born]

I will participate but I don't need an extension (I think). If something happens, I'll let you know :)

[cerulean]

Could not imagine missing out on this album's rankdown. I practically have eight #1s.

[bboat11]

We got 3 new submissions today, bringing us up to 16 total lists!!

1. bboat11
2. soulfulwings
3. castleoblivion26
4. someguy
5. Kanenrá:ke
6. George Strait Junkie
7. .indulgecountry
8. BlueShades874
9. d3vin44
10. fearlessarrow
11. SHOOTER
12. Cody Wants Out...
13. dub
14. Troublemaker
15. born
16. cerulean


Plus on top of that DistrictTwelve has told me he plans to submit his list to me on Friday. So unless anybody else wants to submit, it's looking like 17 might be what we finish with! Which is right in line with all the other Martina albums we have done so far

I'll make a post letting y'all know when the deadline officially closes! In the meantime, if anybody else sees this and decides they want to submit, you still have another day or so! This weekend will be busy because it's my birthday Friday, so I might not be around much to get this started anyway until later in the weekend!

[born]

Decent album! My top 2 is SO above the rest of the songs for me. And I knew they would be great from their intros. Can't wait.

PS: DistrictTwelve joining us?? Yes girl!!

[bboat11]

It's about time to start this! But I'm gonna get to a new page first.

[bboat11]

Is that okay with you guys? Good! This should be the one to do it! Questions coming in my next post, on the new page!!