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Post by .indulgecountry on Oct 9, 2020 17:47:10 GMT -5
@ you highlighting almost every album cut on the damn album EXCEPT for the #1 fan favorite, "Choctaw County Affair"
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 19:27:55 GMT -5
@ you highlighting almost every album cut on the damn album EXCEPT for the #1 fan favorite, "Choctaw County Affair" No one sent it in as a favorite </3 ...and you never sent in any album tracks period.
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Post by carriefan15 on Oct 9, 2020 19:54:53 GMT -5
See You Again: My least favorite Carrie Underwood single. I like the message, I don't like the song. It just drags on for me and is boring. I'm glad to see that so many people like it though. Good Girl: This song and Cowboy Casanova were a little too similar sound wise for me but they both are great. A great start to a great era. I never thought about Cowboy Casanova/Good Girl being similar but maybe that's why I love them both so much lol (they were my #1 and #3). And also I noticed that they're carriefan15's #1 and #2. Haha yep!! I LOVE both of them almost equally! I lost my 1-4 all within like 5 or so reveals haha (GG, CC, SYA, DL) Edit: and for tonight I’m thinking: 6. Just A Dream 5. Two Black Cadillacs 4. Blown Away 3. Before He Cheats 2. Wasted 1. Something In The Water
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 20:43:57 GMT -5
Alrighty; Night 5 of reveals is here and it's time for the grand finale! Stick around as I reveal the final six!
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Post by Adrian C. 🍓 on Oct 9, 2020 20:52:11 GMT -5
Rooting for a Blown Away or Two Black Cadillacs win but these are all good songs!
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Oct 9, 2020 20:53:50 GMT -5
@ you highlighting almost every album cut on the damn album EXCEPT for the #1 fan favorite, "Choctaw County Affair" No one sent it in as a favorite </3 ...and you never sent in any album tracks period. Most hosts have just been posting a few random album cuts during those reveals, I didn't know you actually wanted input for that. And does it really matter if you just end up posting almost every song on the album as a highlight anyway lol
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Oct 9, 2020 20:54:50 GMT -5
@ you highlighting almost every album cut on the damn album EXCEPT for the #1 fan favorite, "Choctaw County Affair" No one sent it in as a favorite </3 ...and you never sent in any album tracks period. Oh that's how you were picking the highlights? lol "Choctaw County Affair" will forever be her biggest missed opportunity. Amazing song. Happy my #1 is still in the running and very glad "See You Again" was able to squeeze into the top 10, I remember being such a fan boy for the song during the era and hoping they wouldn't skip it as a single. Still slays! Hoping SITW or TBC go first from this top 6.
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Oct 9, 2020 20:54:56 GMT -5
Predictions:
1. Blown Away 2. Before He Cheats 3. Two Black Cadillacs 4. Wasted 5. Something in the Water 6. Just a Dream
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kamala 2024 truther
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 20:55:40 GMT -5
Standing at the back door She tried to make it fast One tear hit the hard wood It fell like broken glass She said sometimes love slips away And you just can't get it back Let's face it.
For one split second She almost turned around But that would be like pouring rain drops Back into a cloud So she took another step and said
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Post by fearlessarrow on Oct 9, 2020 20:57:08 GMT -5
Well my votes for favorite album tracks would have been...
"Starts With Goodbye", "Do You Think About Me", "Flat on the Floor", "Choctow County Affair", and "I Know You Won't"
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Post by schnetzka on Oct 9, 2020 20:59:20 GMT -5
Somehow my top three are still in the running lol. I don't know if that has ever happened 😂.
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Post by tim on Oct 9, 2020 21:01:01 GMT -5
Not going to lie that I'm quite disappointed "Wasted" couldn't manage to at least make the top five. Who in their right mind would put this in their bottom five???
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Post by lady𝓐fan on Oct 9, 2020 21:01:12 GMT -5
Taste
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 21:03:00 GMT -5
Kicking things off rather painfully for quite a few is the loss of "Wasted." This is another one of my favorites from CU. The purely country sounding production is heavenly and her vocal is brilliant. The lyrics are also quite cutting as well. My apologies to the five of you who just lost their #1s right before the Top 5! And dgarcia3377 I'm known to make some choices in country rankdowns......but hoo doggies that #30 is TRULY a CHOICE. "Wasted" was sent out in February 2007 as the album's final single: fourth to country radio and sixth overall. It was charting and receiving airplay well before then however, debuting at #57. It peaked at #1 (staying there for three weeks) on the Country Airplay chart as Carrie's fourth consecutive song to do so and fifth overall when you include IYH. It also wound up on the Hot 100, peaking at #37. Kanenrá:ke .indulgecountry yes that's how I was gathering album tracks because that's how I knew tim always does it. And still, not a single person sent in CCA as even a suggestion.
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Post by tim on Oct 9, 2020 21:03:43 GMT -5
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 21:15:27 GMT -5
The preacher man said let us bow our heads and pray Lord please lift his soul and heal this hurt Then the congregation all stood up And sang the saddest song that she ever heard.
Then they handed her a folded up flag And she held on to all she had left of him Oh, and what could've been And then guns rang one last shot
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Post by Leo ✔ on Oct 9, 2020 21:17:15 GMT -5
the top 4 remaining is in my top 6 and I couldn't ask for more.
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Post by fearlessarrow on Oct 9, 2020 21:17:34 GMT -5
I'm sad "Wasted" missed top 5 but if that means "Just a Dream" could make top 5... I guess I'll take it. A huge jump from the first RD - it shouldn't have missed the top 10 to begin with in the first RD.
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 21:24:50 GMT -5
Kicking off the Top 5 and quite exceeding the expectations of many is "Just a Dream," leaving Carnival Ride with nothing else to compete with. It it weren't for SITW, this would've likely been my #1. Either this or CP. "Just a Dream" is truly in the highest echelon of CU vocals on record. Aside from the 2020 rendition of "O Holy Night," I'd go so far as to say this is perhaps her greatest. That's debatable and subjective but it's my opinion at least. I've never tired of this song in all these years and its music video in particular never fails to reduce me to tears. I simply can't imagine the agonizing pain of losing the person you're just about to make vows with to spend the rest of your life together....only for them to be ripped from you before you get the chance to do so. And the funeral taking place on the day the wedding was supposed to occur instead? My God, that has to be one of the most devastating reveals of a story song in country music this century. And this is certainly among the best country music songs of all time, if you ask me.
"JAD" was released as the album's fourth single in July 2008. It would wind up peaking at #29 on the Hot 100 and at #1 on Country Airplay, becoming her sixth consecutive #1 single and eighth overall and staying there for two weeks.
Before I reveal the Final Four, we're going to head into the next album showcase!
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Post by Sugar Rush on Oct 9, 2020 21:33:10 GMT -5
Just a Dream before Before he Cheats? That’s a choice. A wrong choice, but a choice.
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 21:35:38 GMT -5
Album Showcase: Carnival RideReleased: October 23, 2007 Label: 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville Length: 54:23 Produced by: Mark Bright Tracklist (* indicates a radio single):1. Flat on the Floor 2. All-American Girl* 3. So Small* 4. Just a Dream* 5. Get Out of This Town 6. Crazy Dreams 7. I Know You Won't 8. Last Name* 9. You Won't Find This 10. I Told You So* 11. The More Boys I Meet 12. Twisted 13. Wheel of the World 14. Sometimes You Leave (MusicPass bonus track) Featured Album Tracks:"You Won't Find This""I Know You Won't""Get Out of This Town""Flat on the Floor""Twisted""Wheel of the World"
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 21:40:01 GMT -5
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Post by schnetzka on Oct 9, 2020 21:40:33 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever listened to Sometimes You Leave. Guess I'll have to check it out.
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 21:49:04 GMT -5
And now I'm singing along to amazing grace Can't nobody wipe this smile off my face Got joy in my heart, angels on my side Thank God almighty, I saw the light Gonna look ahead, no turning back Live everyday, give it all that I have Trust in someone bigger than me Ever since the day that I believed
I am changed And now I'm stronger!
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Post by schnetzka on Oct 9, 2020 21:50:43 GMT -5
Nooooo. So close to top 3. Fantastic song.
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Post by Leo ✔ on Oct 9, 2020 21:51:39 GMT -5
Yeah I didn't expect this to be higher than #4.
This song is amazing, I don't have words to describe. Just beautiful.
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 21:59:56 GMT -5
Leaving at #4 is "Something in the Water," the last song to miss out on the podium. This is right up with JAD for me vocally, but this overall is my absolute favorite CU song of all time and there's gonna need to be an anointing from the highest heavens brought forth in song if there's ever gonna be a remote chance at topping it. SITW came out at a time where I couldn't have needed it any more badly. Not to get too heavy, but I was in such a dark place and experiencing LTG's lyrics in real-time and it was just too much for me. The night this song came out was the closest I've ever come to making...an irreversible choice. I felt every single word of this song and I still come to it when I need it. It's my church, quite honestly. It's my dream to be able to meet Carrie Underwood in person just so I can tell her how grateful I am for her music, this song in particular, as she has saved my life and doesn't even know it.
Released on September 29, 2014 from the Greatest Hits set, SITW instantly smashed hard. It hit #1 on both the Hot Country and Hot Christian Songs charts; it peaked at #3 on Country Airplay, it hit debuted and peaked at #24 on the Hot 100, it hit #26 on Christian Airplay. That #1 on Hot Christian Songs was for 26 consecutive weeks, a record that was held until Lauren Daigle's 100+ week #1 behemoth "You Say" came along. In 2015, SITW won Carrie her seventh and most recent Grammy Award, for Best Country Vocal Performance.
Speaking of being from Greatest Hits...I've always had a theory that since the GH album was a filler for what was supposed to be CU5 until she became pregnant with Isaiah, SITW and LTG would've made it onto CU5 itself had she NOT been pregnant. Would've led to a Some Hearts-level era the way these two songs performed.
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Post by wrip on Oct 9, 2020 22:02:28 GMT -5
2 5 6, glad to only have top tens left! i’d be fine with any winner
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 9, 2020 22:12:48 GMT -5
Two months ago his wife called the number on his phone Turns out he'd been lying to both of them for oh so long They decided then he'd never get away with doing this to them Two black Cadillacs waiting for the right time, the right time
And the preacher said he was a good man And his brother said he was a good friend But the women in the two black veils didn't bother to cry Bye bye, bye bye Yeah they took turns laying a rose down Threw a handful of dirt into the deep ground He's not the only one who had a secret to hide
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Post by lady𝓐fan on Oct 9, 2020 22:18:36 GMT -5
Iconic song and video.
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