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Post by bboat11 on Mar 20, 2020 19:23:36 GMT -5
![](https://i.imgur.com/LkNh588.png) I have been teasing this one for awhile, and the time has finally come to get started! Reba McEntire is a legend for many reasons. One of the most important reasons is the fact that her career is way more substantive than what you see on the surface. Yes, she has had many iconic hits, but for every single iconic hit she has given us, there are multiple iconic album tracks that never got to see the light of day at radio. Her albums are ALL worthwhile listens, from front to back. Because her career is so large, we have been ranking her albums in phases based on decades, and phase 1 finished right before the new year. That included all of her albums from the 2000s and 2010s. Rather than waiting until we finish her entire career and then ranking like 150 album tracks at once, we are going to be breaking up her album tracks similarly. These rankdowns will be tournament style, a phrase which here means we will do a separate rankdown for each decade as the album series progresses, and when we have finally finished those, the top songs from all the rankdowns will show off against each other! That way we can still kinda get a sense for how her very best album tracks from her entire career stack up against each other, without having to rank like 150 songs at once. Stay tuned, for Part 1 will be coming your way VERY soon ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 20, 2020 19:25:47 GMT -5
00s/10s Results:
37. Angel On My Shoulder (427) 36. Hallelujah, Amen (395) 35. A Little Want To (379) 34. The Day She Got Divorced (368) 33. I Need To Talk To You (360) 32. Meanwhile Back At The Cross (360) 31. Promise Me Love (358)
30. Does The Wind Still Blow in Oklahoma? - ft. Ronnie Dunn (338) 29. Sing It Now (338) 28. Break Each Other's Hearts Again - ft. Don Henley (337) 27. All The Women I Am (328) 26. I'll Have What She's Having (324) 25. If I Had Any Sense Left At All (319) 24. Whatever Way It Hurts The Least (310) 23. Cry (303) 22. Over You (284) 21. Room To Breathe (280)
20. Secret (278) 19. She Can't Save Him - ft. Trisha Yearwood (270) 18. Just When I Thought I'd Stopped Loving You (270) 17. She's Turning 50 Today (169) 16. It Just Has To Be This Way - ft. Vince Gill (252) 15. Once You've Learned To Be Lonely (248) 14. Livin' Ain't Killed Me Yet (247) 13. Cactus In A Coffee Can (234) 12. Moving Oleta (234) 11. Storm In A Shot Glass (201)
10. Stronger Than The Truth (201) 09. The Clown (199) 08. Myself Without You (181) 07. That's When I Knew (178) 06. Tammy Wynette Kind Of Pain (171) 05. When You Love Someone Like That - ft. LeAnn Rimes (142) 04. The Bridge You Burn (133) 03. Enough - ft. Jennifer Nettles (131) 02. Sleeping With The Telephone - ft. Faith Hill (101) 01. Maggie Creek Road (94)
90s Results:
41. By The Time I Get To Phoenix (451)
40. Straight From You (355) 39. I Wouldn't Wanna Be You (344) 38. She Wasn't Good Enough For Him (338) 37. You're No Good (317) 36. I Won't Stand In Line (315) 35. Will He Ever Go Away (308) 34. Buying Her Roses (306) 33. Lighter Shade Of Blue (306) 32. You Remember Me (299) 31. Where You End And I Begin (296)
30. Back Before The War (295) 29. Five Hundred Miles Away From Home (292) 28. Close To Crazy (289) 27. 'Til I Said It To You (289) 26. He's In Dallas (281) 25. Waitin' For The Deal To Go Down (277) 24. Now You Tell Me (277) 23. Everything That You Want (274) 22. All Dressed Up (With Nowhere To Go) (265) 21. Never Had A Reason To (260)
20. I'm Not Your Girl (259) 19. Talking In Your Sleep (253) 18. He Wants To Get Married (244) 17. It Don't Matter (238) 16. This Picture (231) 15. State Of Grace (231) 14. Heart Hush (229) 13. One Last Good Hand (218) 12. Invisible (206) 11. I Wouldn't Know (200)
10. Face To Face - ft. Linda Davis (191) 09. Lonely Alone (186) 08. Read My Mind (181) 07. If I Had Only Known (180) 06. Bobby (156) 05. I Wish That I Could Tell You (153) 04. Please Come To Boston (151) 03. Climb That Mountain High (147) 02. She's Callin' It Love (129) 01. I'll Give You Something To Miss (115)
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 20, 2020 19:42:23 GMT -5
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 20, 2020 19:44:59 GMT -5
And here is the song list without numbers if that helps anyone ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Myself Without You It Just Has To Be This Way Secret Moving Oleta Once You’ve Learned To Be Lonely If I Had Any Sense Left At All Room To Breathe Sleeping With The Telephone When You Love Someone Like That She Can’t Save Him Does The Wind Still Blow In Oklahoma? Break Each Other’s Hearts Again Maggie Creek Road Just When I Thought I’d Stopped Loving You Over You She’s Turning 50 Today I’ll Have What She’s Having The Bridge You Burn Cry All The Women I Am The Day She Got Divorced A Little Want To Enough That’s When I Knew Livin’ Ain’t Killed Me Yet Promise Me Love Whatever Way It Hurts The Least Angel On My Shoulder Sing It Now I Need To Talk To You Hallelujah, Amen Meanwhile Back At The Cross Tammy Wynette Kind Of Pain Stronger Than The Truth Cactus In A Coffee Can Storm In A Shot Glass The Clown
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Post by ClevelandRox on Mar 20, 2020 19:49:27 GMT -5
Wait, "Room to Breathe" didn't even make this?! :(
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 20, 2020 19:52:40 GMT -5
Wait, "Room to Breathe" didn't even make this?! ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png) Nope! It finished at #9 in the Room To Breathe rankdown :(
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Post by ClevelandRox on Mar 20, 2020 19:56:27 GMT -5
Wait, "Room to Breathe" didn't even make this?! ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png) Nope! It finished at #9 in the Room To Breathe rankdown :( But I don't want to catch Corona, I need room to breeeeeathe. 😩
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 20, 2020 19:57:19 GMT -5
Wait a second ClevelandRox looking back at my notes, it looks like "Room To Breathe" tied with "If I Had Any Sense Left At All". It lost the tie because its highest rank was a #3, but IIHASLAA got a couple #2s. Seeing as it tied with a song that is eligible, I would be willing to include it also if you really want to have it :) I mean, it could have won that tie if I had broken it with different criteria, for example it was the less polarizing of the two!
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Post by ClevelandRox on Mar 20, 2020 19:59:55 GMT -5
It's been the album track I've gone back to most, I'd love if it was included! ![:love:](http://i.imgur.com/2smy76v.gif)
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 20, 2020 20:05:35 GMT -5
It's been the album track I've gone back to most, I'd love if it was included! ![:love:](http://i.imgur.com/2smy76v.gif) Say no more! The deed is done! I love the song too, and it not making this rankdown has been bothering me literally since the RTB rankdown happened 😂 So if it's what the constituents want, I will gladly acquiesce! Besides, splitting her career up into chunks means that this rankdown has a lot more... room to breathe...than that giant ass 60-song Martina album tracks rankdown. So I don't feel bad adding a song.
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Mar 20, 2020 20:06:57 GMT -5
Nope! It finished at #9 in the Room To Breathe rankdown :( But I don't want to catch Corona, I need room to breeeeeathe. 😩 I know riiiight? I begin working from home next week and my return-to-grad-school balloon got popped today, no thanks to COVID-19 putting dark clouds of uncertainty in our futures! > ![:banghead:](https://i.imgur.com/Z9Ni4gL.gif)
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Post by taylor on Mar 20, 2020 20:08:25 GMT -5
HERE. FOR. THIS! I LOVE that graphic of the opening post with Reba in that leather jacket. Iconic!
This is gonna be hard as HELL. I have to put songs at places below #5? :'(
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Post by tim on Mar 20, 2020 20:34:04 GMT -5
It'll be great getting to revisit these and I'm sure there'll be some changes to the order in which I rank them now compared to then. Also, I'm so glad you added "Room to Breathe" because that is an album track I feel like I've come back around to most since revisiting the 'Revival' era of Reba.
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Post by someguy on Mar 20, 2020 22:46:34 GMT -5
I'll be busy this self isolating weekend, haha!
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 30, 2020 21:15:54 GMT -5
Bump!!! You still have almost a month to do this, but I want to make sure we don't forget ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) All this isolation y'all should be doing lately means you might need things to do and good music to listen to, so this could be one of those rankdowns that helps fill that void in your life Participants so far:
1. tim 2. someguy
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Post by RobbyFlorida on Mar 31, 2020 1:14:17 GMT -5
I’ll have this done soon! I need to pick my #1’s for each album then rank those 1-7 and continue with my #2’s etc.
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Post by RobbyFlorida on Mar 31, 2020 2:50:29 GMT -5
Question: why isn’t the album track, “Myself Without You”from 2001 not on this list?
Yes it was a Greatest Hits album, however, it had 3 unreleased songs 2 of which were singles and the song mentioned above should be counted as an album track.
It definitely is single material. In my opinion it should’ve been released in place of Sweet Music Man.
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 31, 2020 3:56:00 GMT -5
Question: why isn’t the album track, “Myself Without You”from 2001 not on this list? Yes it was a Greatest Hits album, however, it had 3 unreleased songs 2 of which were singles and the song mentioned above should be counted as an album track. It definitely is single material. In my opinion it should’ve been released in place of Sweet Music Man. It isn’t here because this rankdown is supposed to be a summation of the top album tracks from albums that have already been ranked. New songs from Greatest Hits packages usually show up in Extras rankdowns later down the road, and then may or may not appear in an album track rankdown later depending on how well they do. That being said, with Reba’s series covering different “phases” of her career, I haven’t fully decided when/how to do the Extras rankdown yet for her. But I agree that “Myself Without You” was a HUGE missed single opportunity!!! It absolutely deserves to be ranked alongside her other best album tracks of the 2000s! And really, what other album tracks rankdown would make any sense to include it in? So good idea, let’s include it here :) tim and someguy, would you be willing to add “Myself Without You” to your lists? :)
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Post by someguy on Mar 31, 2020 9:57:44 GMT -5
Sure, I'd be happy to add it in. Just let me know if it's a go :)
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Post by tim on Mar 31, 2020 10:04:16 GMT -5
Sure, I'd be happy to add it in. Just let me know if it's a go :) Same...I'll go ahead and add it to my list.
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 31, 2020 17:40:22 GMT -5
Sure, I'd be happy to add it in. Just let me know if it's a go ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Yep, I officially added it! :)
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Post by RobbyFlorida on Mar 31, 2020 17:43:47 GMT -5
Sure, I'd be happy to add it in. Just let me know if it's a go ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Yep, I officially added it! :) 😁
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Post by taylor on Apr 7, 2020 0:06:49 GMT -5
I’ll have this done soon! I need to pick my #1’s for each album then rank those 1-7 and continue with my #2’s etc. wait that's actually a VERY smart idea! thank you for this strategy; this'll be much easier now! i hope
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Post by bboat11 on Apr 10, 2020 22:56:23 GMT -5
Holy cow, how time flies!!!! It's already time for a 2 week warning!!!! Hopefully we'll get a bunch more lists, because this rankdown should be pretty easy for people who have been participating in her album series to join... :) Participants so far:
1. tim 2. someguy 3. toomuchboy4. castleoblivion265. taylor
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Post by RobbyFlorida on Apr 10, 2020 22:57:16 GMT -5
Mine will be in this weekend
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Apr 19, 2020 20:56:04 GMT -5
I am finally getting around to this! The main dilemma is...I have multiple #1 contenders on my end! :o
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Post by bboat11 on Apr 22, 2020 20:51:05 GMT -5
Oh look, we've almost doubled our participation since the last reminder! This is a good sign ![:smokingdiva:](http://i.imgur.com/t6wcd.jpg) Anyone else who would like to join, I'll extend this through the weekend. So that gives us just about 4 more days to get this done!!! :) Btw, we have already matched the participation for Jo Dee's album tracks rd, and are only 1 list away from matching Martina's. So I'd say things are looking pretty good for this to end up being the most-participated album tracks rankdown yet! Participants so far:
1. tim 2. someguy 3. toomuchboy 4. castleoblivion26 5. taylor 6. Kanenrá:ke7. bboat118. RobbyFlorida9. George Strait Junkie
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Post by lady𝓐fan on Apr 22, 2020 20:57:27 GMT -5
I wasn’t going to do this originally but this is a solid list of songs! I’ll try to get it in on time.
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Post by bboat11 on Apr 22, 2020 21:02:54 GMT -5
I wasn’t going to do this originally but this is a solid list of songs! I’ll try to get it in on time. Yassss, join us!!!! And then my advice for next time is if you participate in the individual albums along the way, it makes it much easier to do a rankdown like this! ;)
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Apr 22, 2020 21:11:57 GMT -5
About halfway done atm!
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