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Post by castleoblivion26 on Oct 30, 2019 20:52:46 GMT -5
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Oct 30, 2019 20:53:01 GMT -5
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Oct 30, 2019 20:54:47 GMT -5
"A Little Past Little Rock" BARELY beats "I'll Think Of A Reason Later"! Both songs received 5 #1 rankings each!
Thank you everyone for participating. Will be opening up Lee Ann's Christmas album at some point in the next few weeks, the rest of this series will be resumed sometime after the new year!
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Oct 30, 2019 20:54:51 GMT -5
Booyah! What a stellar song, so glad it got it's chance to win a rankdown!
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Post by tim on Oct 30, 2019 20:57:35 GMT -5
Well it’s about damn time! “A Little Past Little Rock” slays and I actually had thought it was never going to be able to overcome the love that “I’ll Think of a Reason Later” has thus far received in previous rankdowns. This calls for a Betty White celebration! Thanks again castleoblivion26 for the hosting duties and looking forward to the next album!!
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Post by tim on Oct 30, 2019 21:04:32 GMT -5
Will be opening up Lee Ann's Christmas album at some point in the next few weeks Ohhhh I wasn’t expecting that but I’m so ready to start listening to Christmas music so I’ll probably start working on this one once the calendar moves over to November!
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Post by .indulgecountry on Oct 30, 2019 21:06:42 GMT -5
Both are great songs and I'm kinda glad "Little Rock" got to win something, but... "Reason Later" is definitely the best song on the album, so idk how to feel about this outcome. :/
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 30, 2019 21:09:32 GMT -5
Both are great songs and I'm kinda glad "Little Rock" got to win something, but... "Reason Later" is definitely the best song on the album, so idk how to feel about this outcome. :/
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 30, 2019 21:23:41 GMT -5
Lmao my initial thoughts were that this rankdown was about as predictable as predictable could be, but THAT FINISH!!!!! I am shook!!!!! I am SO happy seeing "A Little Past Little Rock" finally get its due in a rankdown! It was pretty much the "Bye Bye"/"I'm Alright" conundrum all over again... The difference being that "A Little Past Little Rock" already lost the #2s rankdown, which was the setting where "Bye Bye" finally got its revenge... So I kinda gave up hope that this song would ever get another realistic shot of winning! This is a good night
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Nov 22, 2019 21:54:14 GMT -5
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Post by gardyfan on Nov 22, 2019 23:55:18 GMT -5
I will pass
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Dec 9, 2019 22:04:44 GMT -5
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Post by gardyfan on Dec 10, 2019 0:05:25 GMT -5
Pleas untagged me for this. I'm not in the mood for the holidays this year.
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Dec 17, 2019 16:53:09 GMT -5
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Post by ClevelandRox on Dec 17, 2019 16:57:42 GMT -5
I'm in a Christmas mood so I'll do this today castleoblivion! 🎄
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Dec 22, 2019 10:07:05 GMT -5
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Dec 23, 2019 14:55:59 GMT -5
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Post by ClevelandRox on Dec 23, 2019 16:52:50 GMT -5
Of all celebrities I loathe, Harry Connick Jr has to be in my top two or three, and he made this unbearable. 😒 His adlibs had me cringing the whole time. So glad this is first out!
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Post by bboat11 on Dec 23, 2019 17:00:04 GMT -5
This version of BICO was absolutely dreadful 😰 I cannot stand anything about it. The tempo is so slow it feels like it drags on forever. Then the vocalists both drag out the rhythms on some lines to make them take even longer and feel totally arrhythmic. Then there’s that weird whisper voice that Lee Ann uses for the entire song that gets incredibly annoying after like one verse. Then there’s the way they try to build chemistry by injecting each other’s names into the song in random places. Then there’s Harry’s horrifyingly awful ad-libbing (“Don’t you dare think of walking out that door Lee Ann”, “that old biddy”, “it’s smokin’ up in here if you know what I mean”... This song as a collective whole makes me want to gauge my ears out. I would rather listen to John Legend calling Kelly Clarkson an Uber home with some guy named Murray, which is really sad because I had thought that would go down in history as the worst holiday song I had ever heard....
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Dec 23, 2019 17:10:44 GMT -5
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Dec 23, 2019 17:59:53 GMT -5
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Dec 23, 2019 18:14:01 GMT -5
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Post by .indulgecountry on Dec 23, 2019 18:26:00 GMT -5
The bottom 2 were the correct bottom 2, but the two 'Eve' songs absolutely deserved better than this!
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Dec 23, 2019 18:42:49 GMT -5
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Dec 24, 2019 16:30:33 GMT -5
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Dec 24, 2019 16:59:58 GMT -5
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Post by bboat11 on Dec 24, 2019 17:08:20 GMT -5
Let’s get rid of “Let It Snow” next and have the title track and Man With Bag for the top 2!!!
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Dec 24, 2019 17:21:14 GMT -5
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Post by bboat11 on Dec 24, 2019 17:26:57 GMT -5
Correct!! This is one of only two songs on this album that has any modicum of energy to it whatsoever, mostly due to the horn section. However, that energy feels like it starts to wear thin by the end, because Lee Ann doesn’t put enough power into her vocals to match what the arrangement called for.
I’m rooting for “The Man With The Bag”, but I think both might be in my top 2? Either way, I’ll be satisfied!
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Dec 24, 2019 17:39:27 GMT -5
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