Count Me In for a Deana Carter Rankdown (Revealing)

[.indulgecountry]

"People Miss Planes" gets grounded here and misses its flight to the top 10. This heartfelt piano ballad album cut from Everything's Gonna Be Alright about a couple on the verge of separation where the woman has a change of heart at the last minute in the airport. It's always been one of my favorite standouts on the record, and it made The Deana Carter Collection despite never being a single. austin went from losing his second-to-last with the prior reveal to losing his #2 in this one, and three others (myself included) see the loss of a top 10. Most others placed it in the teens, but it was ultimately drug down by a quartet of ranks in the 20s.

"Then she heard a voice calling
Boarding flight 41
When another voice inside her said
You don't have to get on"

13. "People Miss Planes"



Total Points: 219

austin : 2
d3vin44 : 7
.indulgecountry : 8
Zeebz : 9
someguy : 11
castleoblivion26 : 12
bboat11 : 13
Cody Wants Out... : 16
George Strait Junkie : 17
zaclord 🌈 : 18
Kanenrá:ke : 19
LBTrocks : 21
SHOOTER : 21
tim : 22
wavey. : 23


g8erboi

[castleoblivion26]

I've never been able to get into "Angel Without A Prayer" so I'm surprised it made it this far.

Glad to see "People Miss Planes" do well, wish it could have sneaked into the Top 10 though

[tim]

“Angel Without a Prayer” was another discovery for me and I absolutely loved it. I really would’ve liked to hear a more updated version of this and wish Deana could’ve recorded this again for her sophomore album. I wonder how this would’ve fared as a lead or second single.

I likely underranked “People Miss Planes” and I know that I initially had it much higher on my list, however after a few listens I felt myself becoming somewhat disconnected from it. After listening to it again just now I think I would’ve ended up placing it inside the top 20 so I’m happy to see it make it this far.

[austin]

People Miss Planes is sooooo good. I always thought it should have been the lead single to her second album, with Angels Working Overtime the second single. I think she would have had some more success.

[Kanenrá:ke]

I personally think "Michelangelo Sky" would've been the best lead but "People Miss Planes" also could've been a single!

I've been trying to find a copy of the UK printing of "Did I Shave My Legs For This" for years but I've had no luck. :(

[.indulgecountry]

"In a Heartbeat" goes into cardiac arrest shy of the top 10, leaving Deana with only one song still in from The Story of My Life. One of her most tender moments on record, her wistful vocal delivery of this one coupled with her guitar playing (love the build to the climactic electric solo after the song starts off so delicate) has always made this a standout from its parent record. Its rather low budget music video was directed by Chris Hicky, who Deana used to date and had a son with during their relationship. LBTrocks loses his #2 with this reveal, and two other top 10s go right along with it. However, all but two ranked this one in their top 20s, with several others coming close to putting it in their top 10.

"I can't ignore the voices in my head
The things we never said hunting me down
I feel like I've found myself in pieces on the floor
More broken than before I let you down"

12. "In a Heartbeat"



Total Points: 200

LBTrocks : 2
Zeebz : 6
.indulgecountry : 6
bboat11 : 11
zaclord 🌈 : 11
d3vin44 : 11
tim : 12
austin : 12
Kanenrá:ke : 14
SHOOTER : 15
George Strait Junkie : 16
Cody Wants Out... : 19
castleoblivion26 : 20
wavey. : 22
someguy : 23


g8erboi

[.indulgecountry]

Coming up short of the top 10 by only six points, "You and Tequila" becomes our final loss this side of the final stretch. This song was just an obscure album cut on Deana's third effort, I'm Just a Girl, but was elevated to the mainstream spotlight several years down the road when Kenny Chesney famously covered it and turned it into a smash hit. While his version doesn't hold a candle to the original imo, it was nice to see such a stellar track penned by the team of Deana and Matraca Berg (the esteemed songwriter behind her first two #1 hits at country radio) get its just due somehow. A breezy, quiet number, it finds Deana comparing the vice of men to that of tequila. This one landing on the outside looking in may come as a disappointment to the six posters who ranked it in their personal top 10s, though it wasn't without its low ranks as two did drop it below their top 20s.

"Baby, here I am again
Kicking dust in the canyon wind
Waiting for that sun to go down
Made it up Mulholland Drive
Hell bent on getting high
High above the lights of town"

11. "You and Tequila"



Total Points: 190

zaclord 🌈 : 3
SHOOTER : 3
someguy : 5
George Strait Junkie : 7
Cody Wants Out... : 10
austin : 10
.indulgecountry : 11
Zeebz : 13
castleoblivion26 : 13
tim : 14
d3vin44 : 18
bboat11 : 19
wavey. : 19
LBTrocks : 22
Kanenrá:ke : 23


g8erboi

[.indulgecountry]

Recap time!

As one might expect, Deana's debut album is overwhelmingly destroying the competition as all 5 of its singles + its one album cut have made it through to the top 10, alongside two singles from her sophomore record, and 1 a piece from her third and fourth projects.

Top 10
Strawberry Wine
We Danced Anyway
Count Me In
How Do I Get There
Did I Shave My Legs for This?
I've Loved Enough to Know
Absence of the Heart
Angels Working Overtime
There's No Limit
One Day at a Time

What We've Lost
11. You and Tequila 
12. In a Heartbeat
13. People Miss Planes
14. Angel Without a Prayer
15. Before You Left
16. You Still Shake Me
17. The Girl You Left Me For
18. Ruby Brown
19. Once Upon a December
20. I'm Just a Girl
21. Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys (with Sara Evans)
22. Do or Die
23. That's Just Me
24. Crying
25. Sunny Day
26. Johnny's Snowman
27. On the Road Again (with Willie Nelson)

Album Eras
Did I Shave My Legs for This? 6/6
Everything's Gonna Be Alright 2/5
The Deana Carter Collection 1/1
Father Christmas 0/1
I'm Just a Girl 1/3
The Story of My Life 1/4
The Chain 0/2
Southern Way of Life 0/3

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wavey.
austin
Zeebz
SHOOTER
George Strait Junkie
someguy
d3vin44
.indulgecountry
castleoblivion26
zaclord 🌈
Cody Wants Out...
Kanenrá:ke
bboat11
tim
g8erboi

[austin]

Dec 29, 2018 0:15:01 GMT -5 Kanenrá:ke said:

I personally think "Michelangelo Sky" would've been the best lead but "People Miss Planes" also could've been a single!

I've been trying to find a copy of the UK printing of "Did I Shave My Legs For This" for years but I've had no luck. :(

Michaelanglo would have been my third single! With “Absence of the Heart” fourth. Sad “Dickson County” wouldn’t have worked because it’s an all time favorite for me!

[austin]

1 we danced anyway
2 strawberry wine
3 how do I get there
4 angels working overtime
5 there’s no limit
6 count me in
7 did I shave my legs for this
8 one day at a time
9 I’ve loved enough to know
10 absence of the heart

[.indulgecountry]

Thank you austin for already doing one, but I'd like to see some more Top 10 predictions before we move forward!

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wavey.
austin
Zeebz
SHOOTER
George Strait Junkie
someguy
d3vin44
.indulgecountry
castleoblivion26
zaclord 🌈
Cody Wants Out...
Kanenrá:ke
bboat11
tim
g8erboi

[castleoblivion26]

my predictions:

10 - "One Day At A Time"
9 - "I've Loved Enough to Know"
8 - "Absence of the Heart"
7 - "There's No Limit"
6 - "Did I Shave My Legs For This"
5 - "Count Me In"
4 - "Angels Working Overtime"
3 - "How Do I Get There"
2 - "We Danced Anyway"
1 - "Strawberry Wine"

[Kanenrá:ke]

01. Strawberry Wine
02. We Danced Anyway
03. Angels Working Overtime
04. How Do I Get There
05. There's No Limit
06. Count Me In
07. I've Loved Enough To Know
08. Did I Shave My Legs For This
09. One Day At A Time
10. Absence Of The Heart

[Cody Wants Out...]

1. Strawberry Wine
2. How Do I Get There
3. I've Loved Enough to Know
4. There's No Limit
5. We Danced Anyway
6. Absence of the Heart
7. Did I Shave My Legs for This?
8. Count Me In
9. Angels Working Overtime
10. One Day at a Time

[someguy]

1. Strawberry Wine
2. We Danced Anyway
3. How Do I Get There
4. Did I Shave My Legs for This?
5. I've Loved Enough to Know
6. Count Me In
7. There's No Limit
8. Angels Working Overtime
9. Absence of the Heart
10. One Day at a Time

[.indulgecountry]

Sorry for the delay y'all, but I'm back for more reveals! We kick off the top 10 here with a tie. This one loses the tie-breaker due to the highest rank being a #6, while the song that slid just ahead to number 9 has a pair of top 5 ranks. Unfortunately, with the loss of "One Day at a Time," we bid farewell to Deana's The Story of My Life album. The final charting single of her career (though it flopped and barely did anything), this fun little ode to life and its unpredictability featuring a catchy chorus peppered with famous name drops racked up top 10 placements from half of the participants, but it also finally clears bboat11's bottom 5 with its only sub-20 rank.

"She said, 'Thelma and Louise, you got nothin' on me'
And you call, tell ole James Dean to get in line
Thanks to Elvis and Kurt Cobain, the world will never be the same
You've got to make history one day at a time"

10. "One Day at a Time"



Total Points: 184

someguy : 6
LBTrocks : 6
d3vin44 : 6
castleoblivion26 : 8
wavey. : 8
George Strait Junkie : 9
Kanenrá:ke : 9
Zeebz : 10
austin : 11
.indulgecountry : 13
SHOOTER : 16
tim : 18
zaclord 🌈 : 19
Cody Wants Out... : 20
bboat11 : 25


g8erboi

[.indulgecountry]

And the song that broke the tie-breaker due to a pair of top 5s comes at the very first expense of Deana's monumental debut record, in the form of its title track. "Did I Shave My Legs for This?" was the fifth and final single from the era and despite missing the top 20 on the charts following four smashes, it did get more attention than that peak may suggest. Still, it is the first loss from the record which saw all of its songs reach the top 10 in this rankdown. Lyrically it's a redneck anthem that finds Deana lamenting that she lives in a trailer and has to play housewife to a man who can't be bothered to notice she got all done up for him. It got the attentions of George Strait Junkie and SHOOTER who slotted it inside their top 5s, but received less fanfare from LBTrocks who put it below the top 20 on his own list.

"Now when we first met you promised you'd get
A house on a hill with a pool
Well this trailer stays wet and were swimmin' in debt
And you want me to go back to school"

9. "Did I Shave My Legs for This?"



Total Points: 184

SHOOTER : 4
George Strait Junkie : 4
Zeebz : 7
.indulgecountry : 7
castleoblivion26 : 9
someguy : 9
tim : 11
Cody Wants Out... : 11
wavey. : 12
d3vin44 : 13
Kanenrá:ke : 13
austin : 18
zaclord 🌈 : 20
bboat11 : 20
LBTrocks : 26


g8erboi

[SHOOTER]

*pretends to be shocked the dumpster fire that is LBTrocks' taste has struck again*

[.indulgecountry]

Clue for #8:

[SHOOTER]

Absence of the Heart!

[.indulgecountry]

The lead-off single to Deana's sophomore record, Everything's Gonna Be Alright, snuck past our last two with just a 1-point lead to come in at number 8. "Absence of the Heart" is a very delicate ballad detailing the sad reality that the narrator is just going through the motions with her significant other and that the love has been lost between them. It made the top 20 on the country charts, which was an underwhelming finish compared to the success of her first string of hits off her debut. It was able to score a #2 rank from SHOOTER who suffers back-to-back blows to his top 5, and a handful of other top 10s. It received only one sub-20 rank, though it was not quite in someguy's bottom 5, either. Ultimately this one received a lot of ranks near the middle, which steered it clear from reaching the top 5 in the rankdown.

"We live together separately
We don't want to fall apart
But every time we kiss there's an emptiness
An absence of the heart"

8. "Absence of the Heart"



Total Points: 183

SHOOTER : 2
castleoblivion26 : 6
tim : 6
bboat11 : 6
Cody Wants Out... : 7
LBTrocks : 10
George Strait Junkie : 11
d3vin44 : 12
zaclord 🌈 : 15
Zeebz : 15
austin : 15
.indulgecountry : 16
wavey. : 20
Kanenrá:ke : 20
someguy : 22


g8erboi

[SHOOTER]

[bboat11]

"One Day At A Time" isn't bad at all, and I am a little shocked to be reminded that I put it that low on my list... Still a pretty good song. "Did I Shave My Legs For This" is iconic! I am not surprised to see it be the first song from her debut to leave, as to me it feels a tad novelty-ish, which gives it a little less replay value. This feels like a good time for it to leave. Glad it won the tie to beat ODAAT at least.

"Absence of the Heart", on the other hand, was done dirty... This song is so soft and airy, yet understatedly catchy! The lyrics are well crafted from beginning to end; there is some masterful phrasing in the description of empty love being like an absence of the heart... Not to mention it is one of Deana's best vocal performances

[.indulgecountry]

We have yet another tie, this time for the final two songs to miss out on the top 5. Both of these clocked in with an almost 50 point lead over the previous three songs revealed. "Count Me In" lost the tie-breaker because unlike our forthcoming reveal, it doesn't have any #1 ranks. This was one of only two remaining songs to not have anyone place it as their favorite Deana Carter tune. Still, it received a lot of fanfare and racked up ten top 10 rankings and no one put it lower than the teens in their list. Musically it's a comforting ballad with a sweet vocal over lyrics about wanting a love that's genuine after being burned by empty promises of relationships past. It was a success as the third single from Did I Shave My Legs for This?, though it was overshadowed a bit due to being sandwiched between her three #1 hits.

"If heartaches and tears and shadows of doubt
Are part of the deal, you can count me out
But if you're talking about a game I can win
You can count me in"

7. "Count Me In"



Total Points: 136

bboat11 : 3
castleoblivion26 : 4
Kanenrá:ke : 4
George Strait Junkie : 5
Cody Wants Out... : 5
zaclord 🌈 : 6
tim : 7
SHOOTER : 8
Zeebz : 8
.indulgecountry : 10
austin : 13
LBTrocks : 15
someguy : 15
d3vin44 : 16
wavey. : 17


g8erboi

[bboat11]

"Count Me In" is such a great ballad! It feels like one of those songs that could have been sung by anyone. Martina, Reba, Pam, Patty, early Faith, etc. all could have knocked it out of the park! Deana's lucky it fell into her lap as such a new artist. (Well, same goes for songs like "Strawberry Wine" too, obviously. But that one feels more like her song, that might not have resonated the same way if anyone else sang it, whereas "Count Me In" would have just been damn good regardless of who sang it.)

[.indulgecountry]

And our final song to miss out on the top 5 comes at the expense of our first #1 loss of the game, with LBTrocks inadvertently committing to his flopping nature yet again. "Angels Working Overtime" flirted with the top 5 during the submission process, but it ultimately slipped out in the end and came up shy by about a dozen points. This brings the end of the run for Everything's Gonna Be Alright, leaving only her debut era (with 4 songs left) and I'm Just a Girl (with "There's No Limit" left) in the running. "Angels Working Overtime" tells the life story of a girl over three verses as she progresses from being abandoned at a rest stop at birth up to falling in love with a boy she meets as she ventures out west. It is also notable for having a children's choir, and being one of the few songs I've heard where that element felt like it truly 'worked' on the track. I definitely feel like this is one of her best singles and deserved better on the charts, and would've been a bigger hit if it had been released earlier in the album cycle. In addition to a #1 loss, three others lose a runner-up, and almost everyone loses a top half ranking, but d3vin44 loses a bottom 5.

"They stopped a few minutes out of Santa Fe
She got out for a smoke and they drove away
She hitched a ride with a boy right out of school
He said 'I'm headed out west' and she said 'Me too
If that's all right'"

6. "Angels Working Overtime"



Total Points: 136

LBTrocks : 1
.indulgecountry : 2
Kanenrá:ke : 2
Zeebz : 2
castleoblivion26 : 3
SHOOTER : 6
austin : 8
bboat11 : 8
tim : 9
zaclord 🌈 : 9
Cody Wants Out... : 12
wavey. : 13
someguy : 16
George Strait Junkie : 20
d3vin44 : 25


g8erboi

[.indulgecountry]

Jan 13, 2019 22:13:33 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Deana's lucky it fell into her lap as such a new artist.

Well considering it was written with her own pen and paper, it didn't have a far fall.

[SHOOTER]

Perfect ranking! Yas!

[.indulgecountry]

Recap time!

The Top 5 is all we have left and it's down to 4 from Did I Shave My Legs for This? + "There's No Limit" from I'm Just a Girl.

Top 5
Strawberry Wine
We Danced Anyway
How Do I Get There
I've Loved Enough to Know
There's No Limit

What We've Lost
06. Angels Working Overtime
07. Count Me In
08. Absence of the Heart
09. Did I Shave My Legs for This?
10. One Day at a Time
11. You and Tequila 
12. In a Heartbeat
13. People Miss Planes
14. Angel Without a Prayer
15. Before You Left
16. You Still Shake Me
17. The Girl You Left Me For
18. Ruby Brown
19. Once Upon a December
20. I'm Just a Girl
21. Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys (with Sara Evans)
22. Do or Die
23. That's Just Me
24. Crying
25. Sunny Day
26. Johnny's Snowman
27. On the Road Again (with Willie Nelson)

Album Eras
Did I Shave My Legs for This? 4/6
Everything's Gonna Be Alright 0/5
The Deana Carter Collection 0/1
Father Christmas 0/1
I'm Just a Girl 1/3
The Story of My Life 0/4
The Chain 0/2
Southern Way of Life 0/3

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someguy
d3vin44
.indulgecountry
castleoblivion26
zaclord 🌈
Cody Wants Out...
Kanenrá:ke
bboat11
tim
g8erboi

[bboat11]

Jan 13, 2019 22:24:49 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

Jan 13, 2019 22:13:33 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Deana's lucky it fell into her lap as such a new artist.

Well considering it was written with her own pen and paper, it didn't have a far fall.

Lmao I guess I forgot that many people write their own songs! This must be what happens when you stan for such floppishly infrequent songwriters as Martina McBride, Sara Evans, George Strait, and Reba McEntire...