could it be a faded rose from days gone byyyyyyyy?

[schmerica]

Saturday night all alone in the house, with the roommates both gone?

TIME TO CRANK UP THE TUNES AND SING ALONG FULL BLAST! WOOOT!

Man, you know, I am totally aware that most people didn't, in fact, grow up with their parents playing country music at every single possible moment, but it still feels so foreign to me! How did you guys survive? How are there people who can seriously say "I like all music but country"? (All music except mainstream or Nashville country, sure, but...)

Here, for your edification, is my offical list of The Top Ten Country Songs To Belt Out Full Strength. Ideally, these will be performed with the greatest amount of feeling you can muster, but what you lack in sincerity you can sometimes make up for in volume. And I'm not cheating by including any alt-country or recent stuff, either: this is all classic country or outlaw country.

Of course, you could also fill this list solely using Johnny Cash (people who don't like Johnny Cash: wtf, yo?), but the rules are only one song per person, with the exception for duets.

In alphabetical order:

Dolly Parton, "Jolene"
David Allan Coe, "You Never Even Called Me By My Name"
Hank Williams, Jr., "A Country Boy Can Survive"
Johnny Cash, "Ring of Fire"
Kenny Rogers, "The Gambler"
Merle Haggard, "Mama Tried"
Roger Miller, "Dang Me"
Tanya Tucker, "Delta Dawn"
Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)"
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, "Pancho and Lefty"

(Honorable mention to Bobby Bare's "The Winner", because it's too hard to belt.)

Sadly, all but one or two of these songs I have on my computer off of iTunes, or I TOTALLY would share with you. Because if you don't hear "the greatest country and western song ever written" and immediately think "I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison", well. I don't know what to do with you! Everyone knows the only two things in life that make it worth living on a guitar that tunes good and firm-feeling women! SERIOUSLY PEOPLE.

Also, man, "Pancho and Lefty" is totally the buddy slash song of my heart. I cannot wait until the day that I figure out a fandom with the right amount of history + betrayal to allow me to vid that. Mmmmm.

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[copracat]

You have to take up Blake's 7 just so you can vid "Pancho and Lefty". Although surely there's a Wiseguy vid already?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Obviously all the appropriate fandoms are hiding from me!

[copracat]

It's appropriate to confess that I like singing out loud along with Charlie Pride, a big fave in my house when I was a munchkin.