.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 5, 2024 18:39:50 GMT -5
Yeah... this was universally panned, lol. Zac Brown Band's music has taken quite a nosedive over the past few album cycles, and "Tie Up" is no exception to the rule as it racks up the low ranks here to come in a very decisive last place. wavey.✨️'s #15 rank saves it (barely) from having purely bottom-half placements from the participant pool, while the vast majority see a bottom 5 expelled immediately, including three #30s courtesy of myself, bboat11, and LBTrocks. Good riddance.
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recordyear
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Post by recordyear on Jun 5, 2024 19:13:38 GMT -5
Tie Up would be better if everything starting from the bridge didn't exist. The acapella arrangement feels not even radio friendly imo.
That being said, there are much worse songs in this month that I hope would leave sooner or later.
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LBTrocks
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Post by LBTrocks on Jun 5, 2024 21:27:07 GMT -5
More dreck from Zac Brown Band? Sooooooo shocking. lol
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nuggie99
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Post by nuggie99 on Jun 5, 2024 21:48:21 GMT -5
Tie Up-- This was ok, but between Redneck Yacht Club and Toes and Knee Deep and what all we've been here before.
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 5, 2024 23:16:17 GMT -5
29. "Kiss My Boots" - Brian Kelley
Total: 393
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Songs Remaining} 28th of June The Architect Barely a Two Lane Road Bodyguard Called Crazy Cardinal Color up My World Country Gold Darlin' Fiddle in the Band Funny Girl The Georgia in Me Highway Towns If I Could Call If I Had a Lover I Like Trains I Went to College/I Went to Jail Jolene Locked Up Messed up as Me Nicotine Pride Slow Dance Straight to My Heart The Sun Don't Shine Anymore in Acapulco What He'll Never Have What She Sees in Me Woman
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 5, 2024 23:19:27 GMT -5
Not far behind ZBB was "Kiss My Boots" by Brian Kelley, the lead single off his solo sophomore set, Tennessee Truth. Sadly for the lesser-known half of Florida Georgia Line, he has yet to have any kind of success since the duo split, despite Tyler going strong at country radio. To add insult to injury, he totally bombed with "Kiss" here and racked up a whopping five #30 ranks, the most of any song in the March set. 2/3 of us put this bottom 5, completely sinking it to the penultimate position (and it even flirted with last briefly). That said, it was saved a bit by a trio top-half ranks, with 🌺CountryLineDancer, nuggie99, and LBTrocks somehow ranking this in their top 10.
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 5, 2024 23:23:12 GMT -5
28. "Locked Up" - Sam Hunt
Total: 359
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Songs Remaining} 28th of June The Architect Barely a Two Lane Road Bodyguard Called Crazy Cardinal Color up My World Country Gold Darlin' Fiddle in the Band Funny Girl The Georgia in Me Highway Towns If I Could Call If I Had a Lover I Like Trains I Went to College/I Went to Jail Jolene Messed up as Me Nicotine Pride Slow Dance Straight to My Heart The Sun Don't Shine Anymore in Acapulco What He'll Never Have What She Sees in Me Woman
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 5, 2024 23:25:42 GMT -5
The title cut from Sam Hunt's new EP, "Locked Up," started out the submission process in last place thanks to 3 of its 4 last place ranks coming right within the first handful of submissions. It slowly worked its way out of the bottom 2, in part thanks to a small pocket of passion from four top-half ranks, three of which were top 10s, including our first #1 loss courtesy of wavey.✨️, and a #2 from 🌺CountryLineDancer in tow. Again, though, the majority were ready to throw the key away on this track.
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nuggie99
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Post by nuggie99 on Jun 6, 2024 8:10:02 GMT -5
Kiss My Boots-- So, I'm won of those folks who hated FGL. I listened to Sunshine State of Mind and thought it was alright. I like the stuff on Tennessee Truth too. (some of the songs are a little bro-ey, but it's still ok). For this song specifically, musically it is in my stride. I'm not sure about diss tracks in country. But this was pretty good in my book.
Locked Up-- This was ok. I used to lump Sam Hunt in with FGL, I hated Take Your Time and disliked Body Like A Back Road and House Party. (Now, I like the last 2 songs, but don't think they are country) Everything he's put out since Kinfolks I've liked. I like this just got sent a little lower by the picker.
Side Note: When I rank songs, what is country and is not country by my definition weighs in to my rankings. In general, my definition doesn't really matter. I was at a festival a couple of years ago. Blanco Brown was full on rapping and I'm like "Where am I? What is going on?" having a little existential crisis. Walker Hayes and Niko Moon had also played the "Country" festival. But you know what, I was having fun, everyone in the crowd was having fun, so just call it fun-try and move on. So, in rankdowns, I'll gatekeep a little, other wise, gatekeepers just hate fun. We can have Tyler Childers, Tyler Hubbard, and all them Tylers in between (Farr, Reeve, Booth, Braden, etc.)
tl;dr: Country Music is awesome. Enjoy it.
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recordyear
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Post by recordyear on Jun 6, 2024 9:27:45 GMT -5
Here come the two songs that actually deserved bottom two in this rankdown. Kiss My Boots is a very limp and terrible diss song if it can even counted as one. The funnier thing is that no one really cares about the fallout of FGL anymore so that marketing angle feels quite useless anyway.
There are of course worse songs Sam Hunt has ever released but Locked Up managed to act as an insult of not only Johnny Cash in the music video, but also Tammy Wynette by turning Stand By Your Man as a male perspective story, which fits his constant egoistical and manipulative lyrical style I guess. Did I mention his brand of "country" pop is ass?
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🌺CountryLineDancer
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Jun 6, 2024 10:53:21 GMT -5
Tie Up does not need to exist. Waste of chart space for sure.
I still like the melody of Kiss My Boots, but the production for sure has room for improvement. I thought it was sent to radio to follow up See You Next Summer, but not surprised that it failed.
Locked Up, on the other hand, is amazing, if not as good as Outskirts. I wish it was the single.
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LBTrocks
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Post by LBTrocks on Jun 6, 2024 12:32:48 GMT -5
“Kiss My Boots is a jam and I love it and I’m not sorry. I kinda get the complaints about the production but it doesn’t stand out to me at all. As far as it being a diss track, I really don’t care. Just as long as FGL are done-done cuz they were awful lol
“Locked Up” was… meh and the lyrics kinda cringe. Lowkey catchy, but not enough to escape my 20s. Guess you could say it got locked up there. Tee hee.
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Post by tim on Jun 6, 2024 13:29:21 GMT -5
I'm not at all surprised to see Zac Brown Band's "Tie Up" come up last here, but in my opinion, some of the hate is unwarranted. Granted, it's pretty much a retread of some of their earlier work, but there’s still nothing in it that deserves that much criticism. I will say this came out as I was gearing up for my trip to Cancun in April, so I actually found it appealing for the moment, lol.
"Kiss My Boots," on the other hand, deserves all of its criticism and then some. What a horrid song. When I first heard it, it immediately reminded me of "Better Without You" from the so-called wannabe country music singer Cody Wolfe. Please tell me I'm not the only one who hears the similarities!
And while I didn't initially care much for "Locked Up," it has grown on me somewhat since. I'm honestly a bit shocked to see it be one of the first songs out.
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kamala 2024 truther
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Jun 6, 2024 14:30:22 GMT -5
Pleased by the start of this. ZBB continues to deliver dreck, and I can count maybe 3 songs from their entire career that I care for in any amount. And they’re all from my childhood, lmao. Which is really sad when you think about it, because I’m 23 and the songs I’m talking about are from around when I was ages 8-12. I actually rather enjoyed “Kiss My Boots,” and in the time since doing this rankdown it’s happened to grow on me even more. This was an EPIC month however, and I have heard the melody to this song in what feels like 1,043 of the country songs of the last few years (particularly male country music), so Brian found himself just inside my Top 20 here. It’s a song I’d revisit for sure, but also a song that just doesn’t quite stack up in such a cutthroat month like March 2024. (As an aside: does anyone hear Matt Stell in Brian Kelley’s voice?!?! If I didn’t know who sang this, I’d have guessed it was Matt Stell in a heartbeat. Probably doesn’t help this song beat any “faceless male country song” allegations, lmao ) Sam Hunt has a fine voice when he actually is using it to SING (and he himself is rather fine if I do say so myself ), but it’s been wasted for a decade now on terrible material. I’ve never been able to stand the production choices (“Locked Up” is no exception at all) and the talk/rap-singing he tends to do grates on me like nails on a chalkboard. And the Tammy lyric makes my blood curdle. There was no reason to name-drop her in this song, lol. Reba did it MUCH better.
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 8, 2024 1:35:22 GMT -5
I actually rather enjoyed “Kiss My Boots,” and in the time since doing this rankdown it’s happened to grow on me even more. This was an EPIC month however, and I have heard the melody to this song in what feels like 1,043 of the country songs of the last few years (particularly male country music), so Brian found himself just inside my Top 20 here. It’s a song I’d revisit for sure, but also a song that just doesn’t quite stack up in such a cutthroat month like March 2024. (As an aside: does anyone hear Matt Stell in Brian Kelley’s voice?!?! If I didn’t know who sang this, I’d have guessed it was Matt Stell in a heartbeat. Probably doesn’t help this song beat any “faceless male country song” allegations, lmao ) I could see the Matt Stell comparison, but I just can never shake that Brian sounds SO similar to Joe Nichols when he sings. That's always at the forefront of my mind when listening to his music. As a result, I quite enjoy his vocal, but the material side of things often leaves me less enthused: case in point, "Kiss My Boots" is produced pretty terribly imo.
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 8, 2024 15:14:17 GMT -5
27. "Messed up as Me" - Keith Urban
Total: 352
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Songs Remaining} 28th of June The Architect Barely a Two Lane Road Bodyguard Called Crazy Cardinal Color up My World Country Gold Darlin' Fiddle in the Band Funny Girl The Georgia in Me Highway Towns If I Could Call If I Had a Lover I Like Trains I Went to College/I Went to Jail Jolene Nicotine Pride Slow Dance Straight to My Heart The Sun Don't Shine Anymore in Acapulco What He'll Never Have What She Sees in Me Woman
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 8, 2024 15:16:26 GMT -5
Keith Urban is another artist, similar to ZBB, who used to be very popular at one time and just... has largely lost the magic that made them famous in the first place. "Messed up as Me" is another mid track from Urban that elicits very little passion -- not a single top 10 rank was to be had, though wavey.✨️ came close with a #11 -- though the spread of ranks for this one was just a bit wider as he landed in the teens for a lot of poster's as opposed to almost exclusively bottom 5s/10s, allowing him to inch out of the bottom 3.
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 8, 2024 15:20:28 GMT -5
26. "What He'll Never Have" - Dylan Scott
Total: 350
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Songs Remaining} 28th of June The Architect Barely a Two Lane Road Bodyguard Called Crazy Cardinal Color up My World Country Gold Darlin' Fiddle in the Band Funny Girl The Georgia in Me Highway Towns If I Could Call If I Had a Lover I Like Trains I Went to College/I Went to Jail Jolene Nicotine Pride Slow Dance Straight to My Heart The Sun Don't Shine Anymore in Acapulco What She Sees in Me Woman
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 8, 2024 15:23:13 GMT -5
Dylan Scott has a streaming giant on his hands with this album cut off his re-released second album, Livin' My Best Life (Still). The fans for this are largely not on Pulse, however, as Scott continues to be an act that doesn't spur much interest. As one of his bigger supporters on the board, I found this to be a solid offering and I maintain that he has a great voice, but it was a stacked month. 🌺CountryLineDancer gave it a lone top 10 rank, while the majority had it bottom half, though again it was a little less bottom 5s for this one compared to our first few departures.
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 8, 2024 15:27:30 GMT -5
25. "Funny Girl" - RaeLynn
Total: 340
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Songs Remaining} 28th of June The Architect Barely a Two Lane Road Bodyguard Called Crazy Cardinal Color up My World Country Gold Darlin' Fiddle in the Band The Georgia in Me Highway Towns If I Could Call If I Had a Lover I Like Trains I Went to College/I Went to Jail Jolene Nicotine Pride Slow Dance Straight to My Heart The Sun Don't Shine Anymore in Acapulco What She Sees in Me Woman
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 8, 2024 15:29:40 GMT -5
Moving beyond the bottom 5, RaeLynn becomes the unlucky first girl to be given the boot from the March set. As possibly RaeLynn's biggest fan on Pulse, "Funny Girl" was good, but not exactly standout like many of her other ballads have been in the past imo. I find myself forgetting it, even though every time I do revisit, I enjoy the song well enough. Two ranks were higher than mine, including recordyear's first top 10 loss. OTOH, six lose a bottom 5 rank.
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 8, 2024 15:35:45 GMT -5
24. "Woman" - Mickey Guyton
Total: 331
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Songs Remaining} 28th of June The Architect Barely a Two Lane Road Bodyguard Called Crazy Cardinal Color up My World Country Gold Darlin' Fiddle in the Band The Georgia in Me Highway Towns If I Could Call If I Had a Lover I Like Trains I Went to College/I Went to Jail Jolene Nicotine Pride Slow Dance Straight to My Heart The Sun Don't Shine Anymore in Acapulco What She Sees in Me
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 8, 2024 15:39:13 GMT -5
Right on the heels of RaeLynn, Mickey Guyton's our second woman to leave the rankdown, ironically with a feminist anthem simply titled "Woman." Released as a tribute to Women's History Month, the track finds Guyton's voice soaring as per usual, but the bones of the song are a bit sparse and it lacks the grabbiness of many of her scintillating tracks from over the years. SHOOTER and wavey.✨️ lose a top 10, though the majority slotted this one bottom 10, with the widest swath though being a series of ranks on the cusp with six #21-22 ranks.
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🌺CountryLineDancer
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Jun 8, 2024 22:04:01 GMT -5
What He'll Never Have is another great attempt from Dylan. He rarely disappoints me these days. Melody and production hits me right, and good to see some streaming interest in the song.
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recordyear
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Post by recordyear on Jun 9, 2024 2:31:39 GMT -5
27. It'd take a miracle for Keith Urban to not release unmemorable mid nowadays. Also the "edgy" single cover does not fit the boring song whatsoever. 26. It almost got a decent intro that makes me hopeful it would sound okay for a country pop song, but Dylan Scott's "oily" and plodding singing is just a no for me. 25. Not me out-stanning this song than the host , but I really think this is solid "growing up" song. 24. It's written like those "empowerment" songs circa mid 2010s. Side note Scary Love probably will be at least top 10 for April's rankdown.
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 9, 2024 12:10:53 GMT -5
25. Not me out-stanning this song than the host , but I really think this is solid "growing up" song. What's funny is considering how much you dislike on the list every month, I maybe still like it more than you do despite my lower rank.
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 12, 2024 16:56:15 GMT -5
23. "What She Sees in Me" - Chris Young
Total: 323
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Songs Remaining} 28th of June The Architect Barely a Two Lane Road Bodyguard Called Crazy Cardinal Color up My World Country Gold Darlin' Fiddle in the Band The Georgia in Me Highway Towns If I Could Call If I Had a Lover I Like Trains I Went to College/I Went to Jail Jolene Nicotine Pride Slow Dance Straight to My Heart The Sun Don't Shine Anymore in Acapulco
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 12, 2024 16:57:50 GMT -5
A touching highlight from his latest LP, Young Love & Saturday Nights, Chris Young's "What She Sees in Me" bows out next. A quartet of top 10s is lost, with nuggie99's #2 rank the personal best for the track. OTOH, the majority lose a rank in the 20s.
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🌺CountryLineDancer
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Jun 12, 2024 16:59:02 GMT -5
Chris Young’s album was solid and "What She Sees in Me" is definitely one of the good ones. Pleasant melody.
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recordyear
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Post by recordyear on Jun 12, 2024 18:15:33 GMT -5
Wow finally Pulse didn't overrank a mid Chris Young song for once. Had low expectations when listening to the lengthy parent album and still walking away disappointed.
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