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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 7, 2019 20:47:21 GMT -5
Throughout the last week or so, I found a gif that struck a chord with me. However, I had trouble extracting it from the tweet it came from. ( WARNING: Contains a potential spoiler alert. Let me know if you guys have any trouble accessing the link.) Here it comes you guys. This song did much better than I thought it would; in fact, it stayed in the top 20 throughout most of the entire submission process! I've always had a soft spot for this song so it immediately went into my top ten. Little did I know that three. other. top. fives. came pouring in, pushing it close enough to become a top ten contender at times! Man! I'm not sure if I have enough in me to go into further detail now...
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 7, 2019 21:27:58 GMT -5
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 7, 2019 21:37:26 GMT -5
Sooo...yeah. This song holds a very special place in my heart not only because of the breath-taking piano arrangement and the intimate atmosphere provided in this song, but something you guys don't really know about me is that I have an older brother with mild autism. Under normal circumstances, I'd be able to have a fairly decent brotherly relationship, but that hasn't really been the case on my end. I've made attempts with some friends from school and other places, but nothing has stuck so far...not to fear, though, because I'm not giving up that easily!
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 7, 2019 22:09:06 GMT -5
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Oct 7, 2019 22:10:20 GMT -5
I also find it absolutely. hilarious. that it did much better here in a mega-sized year-end rankdown than a significantly smaller personal rankdown from about a year ago iirc? That makes perfect sense to me. Personal rankdowns are pretty much universally higher quality than chart/artist/album rankdowns, so it's only natural that songs which get lost among the competition in the former would score higher in the latter. This happens all the time with my personal RD selections once they show up elsewhere.
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 7, 2019 22:11:07 GMT -5
TOP 15
Trisha Yearwood - XXX's and OOO's (An American Girl)
Brooks & Dunn - That Ain't No Way to Go
Mary Chapin Carpenter - He Thinks He'll Keep Her
Faith Hill - Piece of My Heart
Patty Loveless - I Try to Think About Elvis
Toby Keith - Who's That Man
Pam Tillis - Spilled Perfume
Clay Walker - Live Until I Die
Patty Loveless - How Can I Help You Say Goodbye
Brooks & Dunn - She's Not the Cheatin' Kind
Faith Hill - Wild One
Alan Jackson - Livin' on Love
Martina McBride - Independence Day
Clay Walker - If I Could Make a Living
Reba McEntire - She Thinks His Name Was John
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 8, 2019 3:53:42 GMT -5
"They Don't Make Them Like That Anymore" is just a fantastic, fun song from every perspective. The melody, vocals, and production all come together to form a song that is strong enough to be one of my favorite group songs of the '90s despite the fact that I know literally nothing about this group!
"Take Me As I Am" is a song that continues to grow on me every time I hear it. A couple years ago it was clearly one of my least favorite Faith singles from her first couple albums, and now I'm honestly not sure which is better between it and the obviously iconic "Wild One"!
"Wish I Didn't Know Now" is indeed a really strong single from Toby. His '90s output was iconic jam after iconic jam, and it is so nice to see another one of them finally be successful in a rankdown! I really ought to open his rankdown one of these days...
Honestly don't remember a single thing about "I Wanna Be Loved Like That"... However, revisiting it now, it is quite good! My ranking looks a bit harsh, but remember that I love pretty much my entire top 110... Lol
"Little Rock" is an incredible song. When Collin is on, he is ON!!!!
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Post by kw9461 on Oct 8, 2019 9:07:12 GMT -5
Quite a one two punch right before the top 15. "I Want To Be Loved Like That" tears me up every time. Such a beautiful piano arrangement, and well crafted lyrics. The song always makes me think of my grandparents, and that last verse gets me every time.
"Little Rock" is one of the best written songs I've ever heard. The struggle and torment come out in every word, and Collin sings it with such a believable conviction. I love everything about the song, such a classic. Was hoping it might be able to squeeze out a top 10, but there's just too many massive hits remaining.
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 9, 2019 10:18:09 GMT -5
Let's see if I can squeeze out a few reveals today...
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Post by tim on Oct 10, 2019 20:20:28 GMT -5
Despite my ranking for “They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That Anymore” it's quite deserving of its top 20 placement and I’m thrilled to see so much support for it from y’all. This song instantly takes me back to 1994 because it received a lot of airplay in the early spring and summer months and was a rather big hit for the group then. While most of you probably aren’t all that familiar with them you are more than familiar with their lead singer Jeffrey Steele who has since gone on to be a successful songwriter.
“Take Me As I Am” has never really been one of my favorite songs from Faith but I knew it would end up doing well enough to make it into the top 20. I’ve also just heard this song sooooo much over the years that I think I ended up growing quite tired of it overall.
I never know what to expect with such groups as Shenandoah in these rankdowns and thus never set my expectations all that high so I’m glad to see y’all rally around this wonderful song. Overall they have a great discography and is probably quite underrated here on Pulse.
“Little Rock” is a very powerful song and another one that received a lot of airplay back in 1994 and subsequent years. As much as I appreciate Collin’s performance on this song I really have to be in the right mood to want to listen to it all the way through, though.
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Oct 10, 2019 20:41:08 GMT -5
Despite my ranking for “They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That Anymore” it's quite deserving of its top 20 placement and I’m thrilled to see so much support for it from y’all. This song instantly takes me back to 1994 because it received a lot of airplay in the early spring and summer months and was a rather big hit for the group then. While most of you probably aren’t all that familiar with them you are more than familiar with their lead singer Jeffrey Steele who has since gone on to be a successful songwriter. “Take Me As I Am” has never really been one of my favorite songs from Faith but I knew it would end up doing well enough to make it into the top 20. I’ve also just heard this song sooooo much over the years that I think I ended up growing quite tired of it overall. I never know what to expect with such groups as Shenandoah in these rankdowns and thus never set my expectations all that high so I’m glad to see y’all rally around this wonderful song. Overall they have a great discography and is probably quite underrated here on Pulse. “Little Rock” is a very powerful song and another one that received a lot of airplay back in 1994 and subsequent years. As much as I appreciate Collin’s performance on this song I really have to be in the right mood to want to listen to it all the way through, though. Nailed the "Little Rock" take. I really love the performance and all, but it needs a certain mood.
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 11, 2019 13:30:48 GMT -5
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 11, 2019 14:15:06 GMT -5
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 11, 2019 14:57:35 GMT -5
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Post by ClevelandRox on Oct 11, 2019 16:17:52 GMT -5
I know there's no use crying over Spilled Perfume, but... Really happy She Thinks His Name Was John made the top 15! I see you two with it as your #1's!
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Post by .indulgecountry on Oct 11, 2019 18:09:22 GMT -5
Yeah, these last three definitely deserved top 10. Boo!
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 11, 2019 18:18:37 GMT -5
Yeah, these last three definitely deserved top 10. Boo! The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth! LBTrocks, we may need to renegotiate the terms of your participation in these things...
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 11, 2019 18:44:28 GMT -5
Faith Hill's "Piece Of My Heart" is one of the catchiest songs in the top 15. Hers is the best rendition of this song, by a long shot (I seriously cannot overstate how much only putting in 3 "come ons" in the pre-chorus instead of 4 vastly improved the song's listenability!) Out of all 3 reveals so far, this is the one that surprises me the most. Should have been a top 10 contender, with ease.
"She Thinks His Name Was John" is beautiful, but I see it as more of a niche hit. Like, those who like it LOVE it, but it's not going to have the wide appeal of some of Reba's other ballads like "For My Broken Heart". I figured it would miss the top 10. I am honestly impressed it managed to do so well, considering how frequently Reba gets tanked out just before the top 10 in year-end rankdowns with songs that are much more universally loved than "John"!
"Spilled Perfume" – I cannot adequately express my disappointment seeing this song leave now. But then again, it also did better than I expected, and every song that is left is perfect, so I can't be too mad! "Maybe It Was Memphis" is an iconic classic, "Don't Tell Me What To Do" is an incredible jam, "One Of Those Things" has a really cool vibe...but THIS song takes the cake for me. Pam's vocal performance of this song is literally perfect. The way her vibrato carries that big note leading into the chorus, the way she launches into that HUGE E5 in the middle of the bridge...it is just plain perfect. I am thrilled that this was able to do so well; maybe it will have a shot of finishing top 3 someday when we get to the Pam Tillis singles rankdown!! But on the other hand, I am disgusted that this song got any ranks at all in the 90s and 100s.....
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 11, 2019 20:00:42 GMT -5
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 11, 2019 22:15:17 GMT -5
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 11, 2019 22:18:15 GMT -5
WE FINALLY MADE IT TO THE TOP TEN GUYS!!!Trisha Yearwood - XXX's and OOO's (An American Girl)
Brooks & Dunn - That Ain't No Way to Go
Mary Chapin Carpenter - He Thinks He'll Keep Her
Patty Loveless - I Try to Think About Elvis
Patty Loveless - How Can I Help You Say Goodbye
Brooks & Dunn - She's Not the Cheatin' Kind
Faith Hill - Wild One
Alan Jackson - Livin' on Love
Martina McBride - Independence Day
Clay Walker - If I Could Make a Living
If timing is on my side, I should be able to finish this up this weekend, most likely tomorrow even!
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Oct 11, 2019 23:04:53 GMT -5
So I see tonight was kill Jordy's top 10... Spilled Perfume #3 Live Until I Die #5 She Thinks His Name Was John #10 tim sabre14 and LBTrocks for what you've done to "Spilled Perfume" I'm revoking my friendship with you for the night, you mean mean men. :'(
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 11, 2019 23:26:06 GMT -5
11. Toby Keith - Who's That Man
tim - 83 *Looks at your ranking of this song on your Toby Keith list...*
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Post by someguy on Oct 12, 2019 0:53:48 GMT -5
The 13-15 losses were tough. All of those should have been top 10, imo. I'm glad they all made it that far though. I'm rooting for Trisha or Faith to take it now, but there are still quite a few songs I really enjoy left in the top 10. 1994 was such a great time for country music.
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 12, 2019 1:00:11 GMT -5
I think we can all guess which song I'm rooting for!!!!
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Post by tim on Oct 12, 2019 8:32:50 GMT -5
11. Toby Keith - Who's That Mantim - 83 *Looks at your ranking of this song on your Toby Keith list...* Lol how did I know you were going to throw me some shade for this after just sending in my list for Toby Keith's rankdown! As I’ve mentioned so many times during the course of the reveals this year in country music was so strong that I like or love everything but my bottom 5 (which included songs such as "Man of My Word" and "More Love") and since I grew up with country radio during this time I was already very familiar with all of the songs. While this ended up helping me in the task of ranking them it also meant that I was going to have to put songs lower than I would want to if only because I don't revisit them as often or they've just become rather overplayed for me. Such is the case for "Who's That Man" which I really do like and while I think it's amongst Toby's best work I'm just not sure I could find space to put this any higher in a rankdown of this caliber. And why are you so gif obsessed with Britney latley?!?
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 12, 2019 16:21:41 GMT -5
Slight change in plans, folks.
How about I get us to the top five (or at least closer to it) tonight and I'll do a slightly special roll-out of the top five whenever we get to that point?
Sound good? :)
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 12, 2019 18:49:22 GMT -5
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Post by .indulgecountry on Oct 12, 2019 18:57:16 GMT -5
Love Patty, but this ain't one of my faves from her. Don't mind seeing her do well at all though.
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Oct 12, 2019 20:26:23 GMT -5
Onto the next page we go...
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