I Feel Like A 90's Woman of Country Rankdown!

[.indulgecountry]

Jan 16, 2019 21:31:56 GMT -5 tim said:

Jan 16, 2019 21:26:57 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

"Good as I Was to You" is one of Lorrie's best singles.

Agreed! She has so many great songs that I like to revisit including "Five Minutes" and "Something in Red" which was actually my first choice for this rankdown

I'm positive than any of those three would've placed higher in this rankdown than "Strength" did. They certainly would have on my own list as well.

[toomuchboy]

Jan 16, 2019 21:26:57 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

"Good as I Was to You" is one of Lorrie's best singles.

God, I loved--still love--that song. Which, looking back, it's really strange for a 5-6 y.o. child to be in love with a song about adultery, but it was lol. I watched the video on CMT so many times back then.

[bboat11]

Lorrie Morgan is so underrated... I love most of her singles so much

[bboat11]

Also, "I Didn't Know My Own Strength" is also one of her best songs... Absolutely should have made at least the top 20 here.

[tim]

No reveals tonight but I'll be back tomorrow evening to get us to the Top 20! Here's a few things to expect:

- We’ll see our first number one loss with an additional two #1’s being eliminated as well
- 12 of you will lose a top 10
- Five more bottom 5’s will leave
- The 5th, 6th, 9th, and 10th most polarizing songs will exit

And here's a couple of hints for the next five artists...Any guesses on what five songs will miss the Top 20???

[tim]

The song "Those Memories of You" made famous by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris from their Trio album is a hint for the next song to be revealed tonight as this artist released it as a single in 1986. Any guesses on who she is???

[someguy]

Bye Pam Tillis :(

[tim]

Jan 18, 2019 20:57:59 GMT -5 someguy said:

Bye Pam Tillis

Unfortunately yes...

25. "All the Good Ones Are Gone" - Pam Tillis

Total: 582
Average: 26.45
Std Dev: 13.6 (9th Highest)

Year Released: 1997
Billboard Hot Country Songs Peak: #4

kansasmeetsmo - 1
castleoblivion26 - 7
rgreen0625 - 7
someguy - 8
bboat11 - 14
.indulgecountry - 18
tim - 19
Troublemaker - 23
toomuchboy - 24
Cody Wants Out... - 25
Kanenrá:ke - 26
d3vin44 - 26
g8erboi - 28
sabre14 - 29
austin - 32
gardyfan - 37
BlueShades874 - 39
zaclord 🌈 - 40
BackwoodsBarbie - 41
George Strait Junkie - 42
SHOOTER - 48
LBTrocks - 48

~ Following ~

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{Songs Remaining}
Better Things To Do
Does He Love You
Fancy
Guys Do It All Time
He Thinks He'll Keep Her
I Wanna Fall In Love
I'll Think of a Reason Later
Little Good-Byes
Man! I Feel Like a Woman!
No One Needs to Know
No Place That Far
Now I Know
One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
Outbound Plane
Single White Female
Stand Beside Me
Strawberry Wine
Whatever You Say
When You Say Nothing at All
Wide Open Spaces
Wild One
XXX’s and OOO’s (An American Girl)
You Can Feel Bad
You’ll Never Know

[.indulgecountry]

Pammy always gets robbed in these rankdowns, ugh. </3

[tim]

The 1994 CMA Female Vocalist of the Year recipient Pam Tillis is the first to leave as we start off the top 25 and with that kansasmeetsmo is the first to lose their #1 song. This accumulated three top 10’s from castleoblivion26, rgreen0625, and someguy and three top 20’s which helped to briefly bring this into the top 15. This ended up remaining on track for a finish in the top 25 even though it received two bottom 5 rankings from LBTrocks and SHOOTER .

This Dean Dillon co-write went on to be nominated for Single of the Year at the 1997 CMA Awards as well as a Best Country Song nomination at the 40th annual Grammy Awards.

[tim]

Next we have to cast away an artist who was the winner on the talent competition You Can Be a Star which aired on The Nashville Network.

[tim]

24. "Now I Know" - Lari White

Total: 576
Average: 26.18
Std Dev: 12.61

Year Released: 1994
Billboard Hot Country Songs Peak: #5

BlueShades874 - 5
BackwoodsBarbie - 7
rgreen0625 - 8
George Strait Junkie - 12
toomuchboy - 16
Cody Wants Out... - 17
sabre14 - 19
tim - 21
castleoblivion26 - 21
zaclord 🌈 - 23
SHOOTER - 24
g8erboi - 26
Kanenrá:ke - 28
austin - 31
bboat11 - 32
someguy - 35
.indulgecountry - 35
Troublemaker - 39
LBTrocks - 44
d3vin44 - 44
kansasmeetsmo - 44
gardyfan - 45

~ Following ~

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{Songs Remaining}
Better Things To Do
Does He Love You
Fancy
Guys Do It All Time
He Thinks He'll Keep Her
I Wanna Fall In Love
I'll Think of a Reason Later
Little Good-Byes
Man! I Feel Like a Woman!
No One Needs to Know
No Place That Far
One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
Outbound Plane
Single White Female
Stand Beside Me
Strawberry Wine
Whatever You Say
When You Say Nothing at All
Wide Open Spaces
Wild One
XXX’s and OOO’s (An American Girl)
You Can Feel Bad
You’ll Never Know

[tim]

The late Lari White graciously leaves us next with her 1994 hit “Now I Know”. With the help of one top 5 by BlueShades874 , two top 10’s, and five top 20’s this was briefly a top 10 and top 20 contender. This ended up settling shy of the top 20 as it was hindered by some mid 30 rankings from .indulgecountry and someguy as well as some lower mid 40 rankings from gardyfan and LBTrocks .

The song "You Can't Go Home Again (Flies on the Butter)" by Wynonna and Naomi was also a hint for Lari White as she recorded the song for her 1998 album Stepping Stone.

[tim]

Up next is a song about girls just wanting to have some fun...

[tim]

23. "Guys Do It All the Time" - Mindy McCready

Total: 575
Average: 26.13
Std Dev: 13.99 (6th Highest)

Year Released: 1996
Billboard Hot Country Songs Peak: #1

gardyfan - 4
kansasmeetsmo - 7
SHOOTER - 9
LBTrocks - 9
austin - 13
.indulgecountry - 15
George Strait Junkie - 16
Cody Wants Out... - 19
d3vin44 - 19
BlueShades874 - 22
g8erboi - 25
bboat11 - 28
someguy - 29
BackwoodsBarbie - 30
rgreen0625 - 31
zaclord 🌈 - 35
toomuchboy - 37
Troublemaker - 41
Kanenrá:ke - 43
castleoblivion26 - 46
tim - 48
sabre14 - 49

~ Following ~

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{Songs Remaining}
Better Things To Do
Does He Love You
Fancy
He Thinks He'll Keep Her
I Wanna Fall In Love
I'll Think of a Reason Later
Little Good-Byes
Man! I Feel Like a Woman!
No One Needs to Know
No Place That Far
One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
Outbound Plane
Single White Female
Stand Beside Me
Strawberry Wine
Whatever You Say
When You Say Nothing at All
Wide Open Spaces
Wild One
XXX’s and OOO’s (An American Girl)
You Can Feel Bad
You’ll Never Know

[tim]

We say goodbye to another artist who left this earth too soon as Mindy McCready’s “Guys Do It All the Time” exits. This was Mindy’s second single from her debut album and went on to become her only #1 country hit in 1996. This was able to garner one top 5 ranking from gardyfan as well as three top 10’s and five top 20’s, however it ended up getting bogged down by two bottom 5 rankings from myself and sabre14 .

This is a fun song for what it is and thought it fit perfectly into the overall theme that I was going for in this rankdown, but that said this is one of her most overplayed songs which likely hindered my ranking for it. I also much prefer some of her other singles over this.

[Cody Wants Out...]

Knew it.

[tim]

Up next is the 1992 CMA Horizon Award winner and another artist featured in the 80's Ladies rankdown...

[tim]

22. "Outbound Plane" - Suzy Bogguss

Total: 524
Average: 23.81
Std Dev: 13.59 (10th Highest)

Year Released: 1991
Billboard Hot Country Songs Peak: #9

tim - 2
sabre14 - 6
castleoblivion26 - 10
rgreen0625 - 12
BlueShades874 - 13
gardyfan - 13
BackwoodsBarbie - 13
Troublemaker - 14
someguy - 15
bboat11 - 17
Kanenrá:ke - 22
toomuchboy - 23
Cody Wants Out... - 27
.indulgecountry - 28
d3vin44 - 29
kansasmeetsmo - 30
austin - 34
zaclord 🌈 - 34
SHOOTER - 45
g8erboi - 45
George Strait Junkie - 46
LBTrocks - 46

~ Following ~

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{Songs Remaining}
Better Things To Do
Does He Love You
Fancy
He Thinks He'll Keep Her
I Wanna Fall In Love
I'll Think of a Reason Later
Little Good-Byes
Man! I Feel Like a Woman!
No One Needs to Know
No Place That Far
One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
Single White Female
Stand Beside Me
Strawberry Wine
Whatever You Say
When You Say Nothing at All
Wide Open Spaces
Wild One
XXX’s and OOO’s (An American Girl)
You Can Feel Bad
You’ll Never Know

[tim]

Suzy Bogguss is another artist featured previously featured in 80’s Ladies and leaves next with her 1991 hit “Outbound Plane”. This has always been one of my favorites from her as made evident by my #2 ranking for it and I must not be the only one as both sabre14 and castleoblivion26 lose a top 10. This remained a early top 20 contender as it received six top 15 rankings but it ended up getting held back by some mid 40 placements from LBTrocks and g8erboi .

[tim]

Our last artist and song to be revealed tonight was written by another singer-songwriter that was previously showcased for this rankdown...

[tim]

21. "You'll Never Know" - Mindy McCready

Total: 521
Average: 23.68
Std Dev: 14.25 (5th Highest)

Year Released: 1998
Billboard Hot Country Songs Peak: #19

rgreen0625 - 1
Kanenrá:ke - 1
BackwoodsBarbie - 5
tim - 6
.indulgecountry - 7
gardyfan - 14
austin - 17
BlueShades874 - 18
toomuchboy - 19
bboat11 - 23
someguy - 24
kansasmeetsmo - 24
LBTrocks - 25
Troublemaker - 28
SHOOTER - 30
castleoblivion26 - 33
Cody Wants Out... - 34
g8erboi - 34
d3vin44 - 43
George Strait Junkie - 44
zaclord 🌈 - 44
sabre14 - 47

~ Following ~

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SPOILER: Click to show

{Songs Remaining}
Better Things To Do
Does He Love You
Fancy
He Thinks He'll Keep Her
I Wanna Fall In Love
I'll Think of a Reason Later
Little Good-Byes
Man! I Feel Like a Woman!
No One Needs to Know
No Place That Far
One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
Single White Female
Stand Beside Me
Strawberry Wine
Whatever You Say
When You Say Nothing at All
Wide Open Spaces
Wild One
XXX’s and OOO’s (An American Girl)
You Can Feel Bad

[tim]

Next to leave is Mindy’s second song featured in the rankdown as “You’ll Never Know” says goodbye just shy of the top 20. Both rgreen0625 and Kanenrá:ke lose their #1 while BackwoodsBarbie loses a top 5. Four of you lose a top 20 while both myself and .indulgecountry lose a top 10. This remained an early top 20 contender but it wasn’t able to recover from the mid 40 rankings nor the bottom 5 placement from sabre14 .

This song was co-written by Kim Richey who was also featured previously in the rankdown. Here is a video of her singing the song from an event a couple of years ago.

[tim]

Encore!

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Pam Tillis

”The River and the Highway“

I've always loved this underrated poetic gem which was released as the second single from the album All of This Love in early 1996.

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Lari White

”Amazing Grace“

This was a song released from the compilation album Amazing Grace: A Country Salute to Gospel and since we are saying goodbye to two artists who've passed on I thought this was the perfect song to showcase here.

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Mindy McCready

”Ten Thousand Angels“

This song has yet to be featured in a rankdown as far as I know and while I wanted to use it here this will be in an upcoming YE rankdown for 1996 and if there's ever an artist rankdown for her I'm sure it'll do very well there as well. I opted to choose a different song from her discography because it wasn't featured in the 1998 YE rankdown.

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Suzy Bogguss

”Hey Cinderella“

This is a classic hit and one that I almost chose but knew that it's going to be featured in an upcoming YE rankdown by Cody Wants Out... . This song was also co-writtten by Matraca Berg who was previously featured earlier in the rankdown.

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{Participants}George Strait Junkie rgreen0625 austin Kanenrá:ke someguy castleoblivion26 BlueShades874 Cody Wants Out... zaclord 🌈 toomuchboy .indulgecountry Troublemaker SHOOTER g8erboi LBTrocks bboat11 sabre14 gardyfan d3vin44 BackwoodsBarbie kansasmeetsmo dub

[tim]

Your Top 20 Songs for the 90's Women of Country!

Better Things to Do
Does He Love You
Fancy
He Thinks He'll Keep Her
I Wanna Fall In Love
I'll Think of a Reason Later
Little Good-Byes
Man! I Feel Like a Woman!
No One Needs to Know
No Place That Far
One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
Single White Female
Stand Beside Me
Strawberry Wine
Whatever You Say
When You Say Nothing at All
Wide Open Spaces
Wild One
XXX’s and OOO’s (An American Girl)
You Can Feel Bad

[Cody Wants Out...]

"The River and the Highway" is a fantastic song to reflect on for me! Gorgeous!

[tim]

It's at this point that I usually begin working on the next rankdown...so yes let me announce that I am currently finalizing the songs for the next decade featuring all of your favorite country girls from 2000 - 2009! I'm going to keep it at about 50 songs and am going through all the charts and award nominations from each year to narrow down the list. That said, if anyone has any suggestions about any artists or songs that you'd like to see showcased send me a PM and I'll take it into consideration...the theme song has already pretty much been selected though

Now back to the 90's Women of Country...I'll return Sunday evening to reveal the next five songs!

[tim]

Jan 18, 2019 22:08:57 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

"The River and the Highway" is a fantastic song to reflect on for me! Gorgeous!

It'll be in the 1996 rankdown for sure :)

[SHOOTER]

My poor top-10. 🚮

[tim]

Jan 18, 2019 22:24:26 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

My poor top-10. 🚮

Well you're doing better than me...actually everyone is

Top 10's Remaining:

austin - 10
d3vin44 - 10
zaclord 🌈 - 10
toomuchboy - 10
bboat11 - 9
someguy - 9
George Strait Junkie - 8
BlueShades874 - 8
Cody Wants Out... - 8
g8erboi - 8
Troublemaker - 8
.indulgecountry - 8
sabre14 - 8
LBTrocks - 7
BackwoodsBarbie - 7
Kanenrá:ke - 7
kansasmeetsmo - 7
castleoblivion26 - 6
gardyfan - 6
SHOOTER - 6
rgreen0625 - 6
tim - 5