Popmatters Counts Down Country’s Top 100 All-Time Best Songs
Popmatters.com is in the midst of doing the contentious and thankless job of counting down the “Top 100 All-Time Best Country Songs.” As they mention:
We kept this list, in the words of Strait, pure country: No Wilco. No Flying Burrito Brothers. No Old 97’s. No alt-country—there’s a time and place for honoring those heroes, and this ain’t it.
We based this list on two things: popularity and our own opinions. Just because a song was popular, however, doesn’t mean it made the cut. Same goes for the quality of the songs; because of space restrictions, we had to leave a bunch of our faves on the editing-room floor.
Still, in our opinions, these are indeed the 100 best country songs of all time. Let the disagreeing begin.
Yeah it’s the list is littered with pop-country drek like Garth, McGraw and the Judds but with #45 bing Jerry Lee Lewis’ “39 and Holding” and # 64 being Emmylou Harris’ & Gram Parsons’ “Love Hurts” it ain’t all bad….so far
September 19th, 2007 at 8:31 am
That list baffles me. Johnny Cash covering NIN is in, but the Flying Burrito Brothers are out?
September 19th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Yeah, It is bit wacky like that. I guess it’s the messenger that counts more t past 1han the message. I see a lot of pop-country that I wouldn’t necessarily classify as hard or “pure” county. Actually nothing past 1949.