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Post by bboat11 on Jul 11, 2020 21:43:00 GMT -5
"Damn Good At Holding On" has one of the sneakiest melodies in this rankdown, imo. I never paid much attention to it when I was first diving into Tim/Faith's duets album, but it has continued to grow on me pretty substantially since that album rankdown! I was shocked how well it did in that rankdown, as if I recall correctly it damn near finished at #2 a few times, and that kinda made me pay more attention to it!
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 11, 2020 21:47:03 GMT -5
24. "Me Album: Faith
Total: 223 Average: 20.27 Std Dev: 10.00someguy - 5 George Strait Junkie - 7 BlueShades874 - 9 austin - 13 Cody Wants Out... - 20 .indulgecountry - 25 bboat11 - 25 castleoblivion26 - 29 ClevelandRox - 29 tim - 29 taylor - 32 {Songs Remaining} A Man’s Home Is His Castle Back To You Bed Of Roses Break First Dearly Beloved Fireflies I Ain’t Gonna Take It Anymore I Got My Baby I Would Be Stronger Than That If This Is The End Just About Now Life’s Too Short To Love Like That Love Is A Sweet Thing Love Me To Lie My Wild Frontier Paris Stronger Telluride The Hard Way This Is Me What’s In It For Me Why You Give Me Love
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Take Me As I Am: (3/5) I Would Be Stronger Than That Life's Too Short To Love Like That Just About Now
It Matters To Me: (2/4) A Man's Home Is His Castle Bed Of Roses
Faith: (3/5) You Give Me Love The Hard Way My Wild Frontier
Breathe: (3/5) What's In It For Me Love Is A Sweet Thing I Got My Baby
Cry: (4/5) If This Is The End Stronger This Is Me Back To You
Fireflies: (4/5) I Ain't Gonna Take It Anymore Dearly Beloved Fireflies Paris
Extras: (1/1) Why
The Rest Of Our Life: (3/5) Break First - ft. Tim McGraw Telluride - ft. Tim McGraw Love Me To Lie - ft. Tim McGraw
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 11, 2020 21:54:38 GMT -5
"Me" is our second loss from the Faith album. This song is pretty catchy, but also pretty generic, so I feel like this is a pretty perfect time for it to be leaving. Just a fun, easy listen that is kinda different from the rest of her catalog. Thematically and sonically it reminds me a lot of Martina's "Being Myself", which made it to #15 out of 40 in Martina's Extras rankdown :)
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 11, 2020 21:59:14 GMT -5
23. "Fireflies" Album: Fireflies
Total: 215 Average: 19.55 Std Dev: 8.81someguy - 4 ClevelandRox - 7 taylor - 12 castleoblivion26 - 18 BlueShades874 - 19 tim - 19 Cody Wants Out... - 23 bboat11 - 27 George Strait Junkie - 28 austin - 29 .indulgecountry - 29 {Songs Remaining} A Man’s Home Is His Castle Back To You Bed Of Roses Break First Dearly Beloved I Ain’t Gonna Take It Anymore I Got My Baby I Would Be Stronger Than That If This Is The End Just About Now Life’s Too Short To Love Like That Love Is A Sweet Thing Love Me To Lie My Wild Frontier Paris Stronger Telluride The Hard Way This Is Me What’s In It For Me Why You Give Me Love
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Take Me As I Am: (3/5) I Would Be Stronger Than That Life's Too Short To Love Like That Just About Now
It Matters To Me: (2/4) A Man's Home Is His Castle Bed Of Roses
Faith: (3/5) You Give Me Love The Hard Way My Wild Frontier
Breathe: (3/5) What's In It For Me Love Is A Sweet Thing I Got My Baby
Cry: (4/5) If This Is The End Stronger This Is Me Back To You
Fireflies: (3/5) I Ain't Gonna Take It Anymore Dearly Beloved Paris
Extras: (1/1) Why
The Rest Of Our Life: (3/5) Break First - ft. Tim McGraw Telluride - ft. Tim McGraw Love Me To Lie - ft. Tim McGraw
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 11, 2020 22:04:36 GMT -5
In what is sure to be yet another disappointing loss for some of us, the title track to Fireflies misses out on the top 20. This song has always needed to reconcile between those who consider it to be a fan favorite and those who consider it to be kinda juvenile and underwhelming, so this placement honestly makes sense to me. I was actually really disappointed that this one and "Dearly Beloved" managed to sneak their way into the album tracks rankdown and kick out "You Stay With Me" and "If You Ask".
I do love the way Faith's vocal sounds on Fireflies!! The song is very unique and the lyrics have a nice message, but ultimately the stripped arrangement and kinda lullaby-esque sound makes it difficult for me to include this in my all-time faves from her.
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 11, 2020 22:07:11 GMT -5
22. "Love Is A Sweet Thing" Album: Breathe
Total: 206 Average: 18.73 Std Dev: 10.59BlueShades874 - 4 Cody Wants Out... - 10 taylor - 11 George Strait Junkie - 11 austin - 11 someguy - 17 .indulgecountry - 19 ClevelandRox - 24 bboat11 - 31 tim - 33 castleoblivion26 - 35 {Songs Remaining} A Man’s Home Is His Castle Back To You Bed Of Roses Break First Dearly Beloved I Ain’t Gonna Take It Anymore I Got My Baby I Would Be Stronger Than That If This Is The End Just About Now Life’s Too Short To Love Like That Love Me To Lie My Wild Frontier Paris Stronger Telluride The Hard Way This Is Me What’s In It For Me Why You Give Me Love
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Take Me As I Am: (3/5) I Would Be Stronger Than That Life's Too Short To Love Like That Just About Now
It Matters To Me: (2/4) A Man's Home Is His Castle Bed Of Roses
Faith: (3/5) You Give Me Love The Hard Way My Wild Frontier
Breathe: (2/5) What's In It For Me I Got My Baby
Cry: (4/5) If This Is The End Stronger This Is Me Back To You
Fireflies: (3/5) I Ain't Gonna Take It Anymore Dearly Beloved Paris
Extras: (1/1) Why
The Rest Of Our Life: (3/5) Break First - ft. Tim McGraw Telluride - ft. Tim McGraw Love Me To Lie - ft. Tim McGraw
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 11, 2020 22:09:58 GMT -5
"Love Is A Sweet Thing" bows out next, which should not be too much of a surprise to anyone who was paying attention during the album rankdown. This song did get enough love to make the top 5 album tracks, but it struggled to do so (things were really close towards the middle of the album!), and the general consensus among those who ranked it low was that the chorus seems to be undercooked. It is WAY too repetitive, especially because the song does not challenge Faith at all, so there really aren't any big fanfare moments to look forward to at the end.
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 11, 2020 22:13:33 GMT -5
21. "Dearly Beloved" Album: Fireflies
Total: 206 Average: 18.73 Std Dev: 12.20 (Largest!!!) George Strait Junkie - 1 (RIP :'( ) austin - 6 someguy - 6 .indulgecountry - 7 Cody Wants Out... - 15 castleoblivion26 - 22 tim - 24 ClevelandRox - 28 bboat11 - 29 taylor - 33 BlueShades874 - 35 {Songs Remaining} A Man’s Home Is His Castle Back To You Bed Of Roses Break First I Ain’t Gonna Take It Anymore I Got My Baby I Would Be Stronger Than That If This Is The End Just About Now Life’s Too Short To Love Like That Love Me To Lie My Wild Frontier Paris Stronger Telluride The Hard Way This Is Me What’s In It For Me Why You Give Me Love
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Take Me As I Am: (3/5) I Would Be Stronger Than That Life's Too Short To Love Like That Just About Now
It Matters To Me: (2/4) A Man's Home Is His Castle Bed Of Roses
Faith: (3/5) You Give Me Love The Hard Way My Wild Frontier
Breathe: (2/5) What's In It For Me I Got My Baby
Cry: (4/5) If This Is The End Stronger This Is Me Back To You
Fireflies: (2/5) I Ain't Gonna Take It Anymore Paris
Extras: (1/1) Why
The Rest Of Our Life: (3/5) Break First - ft. Tim McGraw Telluride - ft. Tim McGraw Love Me To Lie - ft. Tim McGraw
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Post by taylor on Jul 11, 2020 22:20:13 GMT -5
"Dearly Beloved" sorely overstayed its welcome. Glad it's FINALLY gone.
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 11, 2020 22:21:40 GMT -5
"Dearly Beloved" is the final song to miss out on the top 20! This song was our most polarizing song!!! It allows BlueShades874 to FINALLY lose his last place....but unfortunately George Strait Junkie also loses his first place Along with a whole crop of top 10s. No doubt this song is so polarizing because it is very intentionally obnoxious... The whole white trash hick lifestyle is hammed up for comedic effect, right down to the musical arrangement. Which makes this a very loud, in-your-face song. The humor is very creative and wry, with lines like "Good morning dearly beloved, we'd like to welcome y'all to see the side effects of sex and alcohol" being standouts. But ultimately the uniqueness of the humor also makes it wear thin pretty quickly imo. So I'm torn on this song. I think it slays...but I also cannot listen to it on repeat the way I can with most of the songs that remain. Ultimately this is probably a good spot for it to land. And like I said during the "Fireflies" reveal, I would have been interested to see how well "You Stay With Me" and "If You Ask" performed in this rankdown... Fireflies is such a strong album that they probably would have done pretty well, despite not being in the top 5 album tracks in their album rankdown!
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Post by George Strait Junkie on Jul 11, 2020 22:25:03 GMT -5
I don’t care this song is awesome the heck with ya’ll
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Post by taylor on Jul 11, 2020 22:27:07 GMT -5
I don’t care this song is awesome the heck with ya’ll Precisely my sentiments regarding "Love Will Always Win" :kii:
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Post by BlueShades874 on Jul 11, 2020 22:30:56 GMT -5
FINALLY Dearly Beloved is gone. That’s probably the only song Faith has ever recorded (well, and Keep Walking On) that has NO redeeming qualities whatsoever for me. I’ve tried giving it another chance multiple times over the years, and I just can’t stand it. It’s overly cheesy and obnoxious, and feels like she was trying WAY too hard to sound as country as possible after the backlash from Cry.
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 11, 2020 22:32:27 GMT -5
Recap Thusfar: 35. I've Got This Friend (315) 34. A Room In My Heart (298) 33. Bringing Out The Elvis (279) 32. Free (265) 31. Go The Distance (262)
30. There Will Come A Day (261) 29. Devil Callin' Me Back (254) 28. Love Will Always Win (252) 27. You Will Be Mine (251) 26. I Want You (239) 25. Damn Good At Holding On (229) 24. Me (223) 23. Fireflies (215) 22. Love Is A Sweet Thing (206) 21. Dearly Beloved (206)
The top 20!!! A Man’s Home Is His Castle Back To You Bed Of Roses Break First I Ain’t Gonna Take It Anymore I Got My Baby I Would Be Stronger Than That If This Is The End Just About Now Life’s Too Short To Love Like That Love Me To Lie My Wild Frontier Paris Stronger Telluride The Hard Way This Is Me What’s In It For Me Why You Give Me Love
Songs Remaining Per Album: Take Me As I Am (3/5) It Matters To Me: (2/4) Faith: (3/5) Breathe: (2/5) Cry: (4/5) Fireflies: (2/5) The Rest Of Our Life: (3/5) Extras: (1/1)
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Post by George Strait Junkie on Jul 11, 2020 22:33:20 GMT -5
I don’t care this song is awesome the heck with ya’ll Precisely my sentiments regarding "Love Will Always Win" :kii: Touché
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 11, 2020 22:37:03 GMT -5
Look at Cry making it nearly intact heading into the top 20!!!! #legend
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Post by tim on Jul 11, 2020 22:43:18 GMT -5
Look at Cry making it nearly intact heading into the top 20!!!! #legend Lol I first took one look at that list and thought for a second that Cry only had one song remaining, but thankfully that’s not the case! Anyways, that’s a rather impressive group of songs in the top 20 and I’m quite pleased to see “Bed of Roses” make it in. That said, both “Paris” and “Back to You” have to be on borrowed time at this point.
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Post by taylor on Jul 11, 2020 22:45:18 GMT -5
Look at Cry making it nearly intact heading into the top 20!!!! #legend Lol I first took one look at that list and thought for a second that Cry only had one song remaining, but thankfully that’s not the case! Anyways, that’s a rather impressive group of songs in the top 20 and I’m quite pleased to see “Bed of Roses” make it in. That said, “Paris” has to be on borrowed time at this point.
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Post by BlueShades874 on Jul 11, 2020 22:46:03 GMT -5
Look at Cry making it nearly intact heading into the top 20!!!! #legend And hopefully at least three of those four will be in the top 10. Cry is such a phenomenal album!
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jul 13, 2020 0:38:29 GMT -5
"Dearly Beloved" missing the top 20 is a travesty. Wow @ the lack of taste!
The rest of the reveals from the last set weren't too bad/unexpected tho.
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 13, 2020 20:14:39 GMT -5
Let's knock out some more reveals! If enough people act like they care, we might just go all the way to the top 10 tonight
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 13, 2020 20:23:58 GMT -5
20. "Just About Now" Album: Take Me As I Am
Total: 202 Average: 18.36 Std Dev: 9.08tim - 4 George Strait Junkie - 8 taylor - 8 Cody Wants Out... - 13 ClevelandRox - 20 BlueShades874 - 20bboat11 - 22 austin - 23 .indulgecountry - 24 someguy - 26 castleoblivion26 - 34 {Songs Remaining} A Man’s Home Is His Castle Back To You Bed Of Roses Break First I Ain’t Gonna Take It Anymore I Got My Baby I Would Be Stronger Than That If This Is The End Life’s Too Short To Love Like That Love Me To Lie My Wild Frontier Paris Stronger Telluride The Hard Way This Is Me What’s In It For Me Why You Give Me Love
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Take Me As I Am: (2/5) I Would Be Stronger Than That Life's Too Short To Love Like That
It Matters To Me: (2/4) A Man's Home Is His Castle Bed Of Roses
Faith: (3/5) You Give Me Love The Hard Way My Wild Frontier
Breathe: (2/5) What's In It For Me I Got My Baby
Cry: (4/5) If This Is The End Stronger This Is Me Back To You
Fireflies: (2/5) I Ain't Gonna Take It Anymore Paris
Extras: (1/1) Why
The Rest Of Our Life: (3/5) Break First - ft. Tim McGraw Telluride - ft. Tim McGraw Love Me To Lie - ft. Tim McGraw
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 13, 2020 20:28:22 GMT -5
Kicking off our top 20, we lose another song from Faith's debut album! Her debut has been relatively unscathed for awhile. Despite losing two songs really early, the 3 remaining songs easily distanced themselves from their less-successful peers to make the top 20, which is pretty impressive imo! Those who are sad to see this song leave now can take solace in the fact that her debut has more representation in this top 20 than some of Faith's more popular albums, such as Breathe and Fireflies!!
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 13, 2020 20:33:26 GMT -5
19. "Life's Too Short To Love Like That" Album: Take Me As I Am
Total: 201 Average: 18.27 Std Dev: 8.04George Strait Junkie - 2 .indulgecountry - 11 taylor - 13 castleoblivion26 - 16 Cody Wants Out... - 18 austin - 19 someguy - 19bboat11 - 21 tim - 23 ClevelandRox - 27 BlueShades874 - 32 {Songs Remaining} A Man’s Home Is His Castle Back To You Bed Of Roses Break First I Ain’t Gonna Take It Anymore I Got My Baby I Would Be Stronger Than That If This Is The End Love Me To Lie My Wild Frontier Paris Stronger Telluride The Hard Way This Is Me What’s In It For Me Why You Give Me Love
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Take Me As I Am: (1/5) I Would Be Stronger Than That
It Matters To Me: (2/4) A Man's Home Is His Castle Bed Of Roses
Faith: (3/5) You Give Me Love The Hard Way My Wild Frontier
Breathe: (2/5) What's In It For Me I Got My Baby
Cry: (4/5) If This Is The End Stronger This Is Me Back To You
Fireflies: (2/5) I Ain't Gonna Take It Anymore Paris
Extras: (1/1) Why
The Rest Of Our Life: (3/5) Break First - ft. Tim McGraw Telluride - ft. Tim McGraw Love Me To Lie - ft. Tim McGraw
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Post by austin on Jul 13, 2020 20:37:13 GMT -5
These two went out in good spots.
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 13, 2020 20:37:21 GMT -5
Welp, just like that the debut is our first album to be down to only 1 track left. #rip
"Life's Too Short" is a JAM! This is the perfect poster child for uptempo neotraditional '90s country. My favorite thing about this song is the abundance of lyrical couplets in practically every single line ("You put me down just to stand me up", "you run around and I walk the floor", etc). It makes the song feel both witty and snappy to accompany with the high-energy vocal performance. Glad this was able to sneak into the top 20!
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 13, 2020 20:41:30 GMT -5
18. "Telluride" - ft. Tim McGraw Album: The Rest of Our Life
Total: 195 Average: 17.73 Std Dev: 9.29someguy - 8 BlueShades874 - 8 George Strait Junkie - 10 castleoblivion26 - 11 ClevelandRox - 14 .indulgecountry - 15 tim - 18 austin - 20 Cody Wants Out... - 24 bboat11 - 32 taylor - 35 {Songs Remaining} A Man’s Home Is His Castle Back To You Bed Of Roses Break First I Ain’t Gonna Take It Anymore I Got My Baby I Would Be Stronger Than That If This Is The End Love Me To Lie My Wild Frontier Paris Stronger The Hard Way This Is Me What’s In It For Me Why You Give Me Love
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Take Me As I Am: (1/5) I Would Be Stronger Than That
It Matters To Me: (2/4) A Man's Home Is His Castle Bed Of Roses
Faith: (3/5) You Give Me Love The Hard Way My Wild Frontier
Breathe: (2/5) What's In It For Me I Got My Baby
Cry: (4/5) If This Is The End Stronger This Is Me Back To You
Fireflies: (2/5) I Ain't Gonna Take It Anymore Paris
Extras: (1/1) Why
The Rest Of Our Life: (2/5) Break First - ft. Tim McGraw Love Me To Lie - ft. Tim McGraw
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 13, 2020 20:42:34 GMT -5
This "Telluride" sucks. Go stream this one instead!
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Post by austin on Jul 13, 2020 20:42:42 GMT -5
Ok let’s kill the wild armadillo next
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 13, 2020 20:45:19 GMT -5
Ok let’s kill the wild armadillo next Yikes!
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