Year: 1988
It was almost taboo to listen to these guys when I was in elementary school. Where I was, kids into metal were the slackers and the bullies. That was the impression anyway. I mean, the first line of “You Give Love A Bad Name,” is about gun violence!
Year: 1992
One of the best voices in country music. Unfortunately, I don’t like most of her songs. But she had a hot steak from 1991 to 1993. It was hard to pick between this, “Drive South,” “Outbound Plane,” and “Someday Soon.”
Year: 2010
I wish I had the mouth dexterity to rap. Whenever I try to sing these verses I trip over myself.
Year: 1995
The other day this came on the radio and my son said, “Please change the station, this is not a good song.”
Year: 1976
A solid nominee for use of unnecessary parentheses! Also a solid nominee for the use of unnecessary umlauts!
While I like the skit, I’m kinda bummed this song is mostly remembered as a joke. It’s a really good song.
Year: 2001
The lyrics imply that the singer is a dope and of course his girlfriend would hit him. They also make it sound like she’s abusive and it’s a miserable codependent relationship.
Anyway, good jingle!
Year: 1996
Today I learned that Queen Pen and Foxy Brown had a 10-year long feud because Foxy Brown is/was homophobic.
Year: 1995
A song about art hit the Top 10 of the country charts. 1992 was a different place.
Year: 2009
I really don’t like lip dub videos. Not so much because of the dubbing, but the actors (as it were) rarely match the energy of the song (or some do, and others just sort of stand there).
This one is the best. Pretty much every kid here from the University of Quebec nails it. And then they sing it in French at the end!
Year: 1992
While Garth Brooks ushered in the new era of country music in the 90’s, Clint Black released his first single three weeks earlier and was nearly as successful on the charts. He had thirteen #1 hits compared to Garth’s nineteen. Of course, the main difference was that Garth was a hell of an entertainer and was a much more vocal person. Black won male vocalist of the year his first two years (from ACM and CMA respectively) and never won another award.
Black has been an incredibly private person. Not that Black shied away from the limelight. He played one of the cheating poker players in Maverick and then did a lot more TV and reality shows. But he has kept his private life really damn private. He and his wife Lisa Hartman (also a country singer and TV actor) have shared very little about their personal lives. They sang about their love (“When I Said I Do”) and it was a huge crossover hit. Black wrote an amazing song about his newborn daughter (“Little Pearl and Lily’s Lullaby”) but they almost never shared pictures or information about her until she was in her late teens and joined her dad as entertainer. Much respect.
Anyway, “Burn One Down” is my favorite. It’s not the most lyrically imaginative, but I love the violin (which is pretty much gone from country nowadays) and the song perfectly shows off his range. He’s also a pretty good harmonica player which he shows off in “Good Run of Bad Luck” and “State of Mind.”
Weirdly, I like almost every single he released from 1989 to 2002 but I like almost none of the album filler.
Death By Troggles 
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