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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jul 1, 2021 20:28:08 GMT -5
tomorrow night I will get us to the top 5 and kicking us off at #8 will see someone lose their #1!!!
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Post by gardyfan on Jul 1, 2021 20:43:55 GMT -5
Ruh roh
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jul 1, 2021 20:53:33 GMT -5
That's more like it!
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Post by tim on Jul 1, 2021 20:58:53 GMT -5
"My Love Will Follow You" deserved better! That's long been one of my go-to tracks from this album ever since it was released back in 1996. I just don't get the hate some of y'all have for the songs with Kix on the lead.
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jul 3, 2021 18:50:10 GMT -5
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 3, 2021 18:54:27 GMT -5
"Mama Don't Get Dressed Up For Nothing" is absolutely atrocious. Like, the worst song of their entire career levels of atrocious. The Oprah gif is in the wrong half of the list.
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Jul 3, 2021 19:04:41 GMT -5
You can Oprah me all you want, but there's a reason "Mama Don't Get Dressed Up for Nothing" broke their string of top tens. Outright detested how the vocals were mixed here. There are clearly better songs on the album than this.
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jul 3, 2021 19:10:36 GMT -5
I love "Mama Don't Get Dressed Up For Nothing" and always have. The vocals could have been mixed better for sure but it is absolutely not their worst single of their career. Not when you have songs like "Honky Tonk Stomp" and "Beer Thirty" that exist...
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jul 3, 2021 19:20:18 GMT -5
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jul 3, 2021 20:06:52 GMT -5
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jul 4, 2021 16:01:25 GMT -5
"My Love Will Follow You" deserved better! That's long been one of my go-to tracks from this album ever since it was released back in 1996. I just don't get the hate some of y'all have for the songs with Kix on the lead.This might be a wild concept for you to consider but... have you heard his singing voice? 🥴🤢
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jul 5, 2021 23:32:57 GMT -5
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jul 6, 2021 0:00:28 GMT -5
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Post by tim on Jul 6, 2021 17:56:32 GMT -5
I can understand why “Mama Don’t Get Dressed Up for Nothing” isn’t well-liked and is on the polarizing side, but I’m glad to see I’m not alone in my enjoyment for it! It likely wasn’t a good choice for a single, but they may have wanted to put some distance between the first two singles as they were still getting quite a bit of recurrent airplay (especially “My Maria”). This still remains one of my jams though!
I wasn’t expecting “One Heartache At a Time” do so well as speaking for myself it’s never stood out to me like a standout album track. I usually always skip over two of the tracks on the album and this has always been one of those.
I'm glad to see "Why Would I Say Goodbye" make the top 4 as I wasn't even sure it would get that far considering that Kix is on lead vocals. I almost put this in my top 2 myself as it is definitely one of the singles from the album I seem to revisit the most.
The top 3 came down to three songs that I assumed would all make it in, so nothing surprising there. If I remember correctly, “I Am That Man” left quite a bit ahead of “A Man This Lonely” in their singles rankdown, and while I’m still expecting the same result I do think it could still go either way. I’d be shocked if either of those would be able to overcome “My Maria” for the win, though.
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jul 6, 2021 21:29:54 GMT -5
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jul 6, 2021 21:51:30 GMT -5
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Jul 6, 2021 21:54:39 GMT -5
Wow! Did not see that coming.
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Post by gardyfan on Jul 7, 2021 6:38:44 GMT -5
Wow I nailed the top 4.
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Post by tim on Jul 7, 2021 12:49:12 GMT -5
Well, this certainly wasn't the outcome I was expecting either. But, I must admit that yesterday when making my predictions I had this gut feeling this just might happen if only because it was a smaller sample size compared to their singles rankdown. Speaking of, I had to look back at the results there and "My Maria" only missed the top 10 by a mere two points! It also finished exactly 100 points ahead of "A Man This Lonely", which itself still finished just inside the top 20. The one thing working against "My Maria" I think is the factor of overplay which likely contributed to some of the lower rankings. Despite that, this just happens to be one song that I've never really grown tired of hearing! Don't get me wrong, I've also always liked "A Man This Lonely" which is why it was my #2. I do wish I was doing rankdowns at the time that the 1997 Country Rankdown was done because I see that this finished in the top 40 there which included both that and "Why Would I Say Goodbye", so it'll be interesting to see where "My Maria" lands when the 1996 Country Rankdown comes to pass! Thanks again castleoblivion26 !
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jul 7, 2021 12:57:19 GMT -5
"My Maria" is massively overrated and overplayed. The long sustained falsetto notes in the chorus are.... not appealing, especially at the level of recurrent play they receive. It's always been near the bottom of their singles for me, and I am thrilled the far superior and more digestible "A Man This Lonely" won as it deserved to! Great finish!
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jul 7, 2021 13:38:59 GMT -5
I posted the results rather late last night so I wanted to post some thoughts since these results ended up being a bit surprising. Especially since I was one of the ones who had "My Maria" lower than most. I will say I do not dislike "My Maria" at all but I did when it first came out and it wasn't until about 10 years or so that the song finally grew on me somehow. Still not a favorite, where I've loved the other singles since released so it was easy to put it lower than the others and personally I'm kinda relieved it didn't win but it was close! As you can see from the results it was .indulgecountry's list right at the end that sealed its fate!
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jul 7, 2021 17:22:15 GMT -5
I posted the results rather late last night so I wanted to post some thoughts since these results ended up being a bit surprising. Especially since I was one of the ones who had "My Maria" lower than most. I will say I do not dislike "My Maria" at all but I did when it first came out and it wasn't until about 10 years or so that the song finally grew on me somehow. Still not a favorite, where I've loved the other singles since released so it was easy to put it lower than the others and personally I'm kinda relieved it didn't win but it was close! As you can see from the results it was .indulgecountry's list right at the end that sealed its fate! This makes me so happy to know btw, lol.
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jul 9, 2021 20:58:44 GMT -5
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on Jul 9, 2021 21:10:03 GMT -5
I'll try to get my list in tomorrow!
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jul 18, 2021 11:06:54 GMT -5
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jul 18, 2021 20:56:57 GMT -5
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jul 18, 2021 21:35:33 GMT -5
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jul 18, 2021 21:48:57 GMT -5
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jul 18, 2021 21:49:31 GMT -5
None of these were any good.
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Post by bboat11 on Jul 18, 2021 22:14:47 GMT -5
"Holy War" was shockingly horrible!!! I never imagined I'd be putting a Ronnie-led song in last place in one of these rankdowns, but this one had no redeeming qualities. Even the production sounded like an unfinished demo in comparison to the rest of the album.
"Good Cowboy" and "Good Day To Be Me" were both pretty horrible as well. "Good Cowboy" sounded like Kix was trying to put on some weird vocal accent that he's never used before, and both of these songs had stupid lyrics that pandered to literally every single one of the idiot country stereotypes. Although the sustained "Good daaaaaaaaay" at the end of the chorus admittedly had nice harmonies!
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