Brandi Carlile Song Rankings

 We've been long time fans of Brandi Carlile, ever since the late 00's when she was a Seattle local. We've watched her career blossom from playing small stages to large amphitheaters, and we decided to sit down and rank her songs from "Awesome", then "Good", then "Meh" and then "Skip." These categories should be self explanatory, so I won't elaborate. I have comments for some of the songs. Just know that this was very hard, her whole catalogue is full of great stuff.

AWESOME:

!. The Story - Arguably her best song.

2. Raise Hell - This one gets the crowd going. Awesome song.

3. Hard Way Home - Perhaps a very underrated song of hers, one of the best if you ask me.

4. Rise Again - Another underrated song that not many people remember, but beautiful.

5. Losing Heart - Just wanna sing along. But my singing is terrible, so only when I am alone.

6. Before it Breaks - A beautiful song with a great thought, "Let it bend before it breaks." I like it.

7. Dreams - Another great early song.

8. Hold Out Your Hand - Sincerely catchy.

9. What Can I Say 

10. Turpentine - A fun one when done live

11. Broken Horses - Brandi's vocals in this one are bananas

12. Mama Werewolf - I love the sentiment of having your children there to ground you

13. That Wasn't Me - Off the Bear Creek album (their best one) 

14. Sinners Saints & Fools - A song about a good lesson to learn

15. 100 

16. Dying Day 

17. Wherever Is Your Heart - Sounds like a song that should've been on Bear Creek.

18. The Things I Regret 

19. Stranger At My Door - Has the coolest ending to a song ever

20. Fall Apart Again

21. Closer to You

22. Mainstream Kid

23. Throw It All Away

24. When You're Wrong

GOOD:

25. That Year

26. Someday Never Comes

27. In The Morrow

28. Right on Time

29. Late Morning Lullaby

30. A Promise To Keep

31. I'll Be There

32. Looking Out

33. Save Part of Yourself

34. Pride And Joy

35. Blood, Muscle, Skin, and Bone

36. Cannonball

37. Have You Ever

38. This Time Tomorrow

39. Alibi

40. Futon County Jane Doe

41. Shadow on the Wall

42. Touching the Ground

43. Sugartooth

44. I Belong To You

45. Caroline

46. Josephine

47. You And Me on The Rock

48. The Joke

MEH:

49. Follow

50. Gone

51. Keep Your Heart Young

52. Happy

53. Wilder (We're Chained)

54. Beginning to Feel the Years

55. Just kids

56. Downpour

57. The Mother

58. Throwin' Good After Bad

59. Until I Die

60. Oh Dear

61. Harder to Forgive

62. I Will

63. Every Time I Hear That Song

64. Most of All

65. Stay Gentle

66. Murder In The City

67. If There Was No You

68. Heroes & Songs

69. Whatever You Do

SKIP:

70. The Eye

71. Sixty Years On

72. Tragedy 

73. Letter To The Past

74. Party of One

I would also like to comment on Brandi's aesthetic now. I really miss her long brunette hair, her hipster Americana hats, her waistcoasts & vest. It really fit with her musical style.

Now, she looks like David Bowie, and I think it may be a mid-life crisis. She is still gorgeous as hell don't get me wrong, she just.. doesn't look like her music, and her music doesn't match the glitter & glam. 

Just my .02. Love you Brandi! See you in 2 days at Starlight!

Dave Matthews Band Songs: Ranked

 If you know me, or even anything about me at all, you know I am a Dave Matthews Band fan. Since 1997! They have a very large catalogue of songs, and for the fun of it, I thought I would rank the songs from my favorite to my least favorite. I got the inspiration to do this from my mate kit10phish, because she is doing that with the Indigo Girls, of which she is a big fan of. You can find her blog here: http://kit10phish.wordpress.com

Now a disclaimer: I am a big Dave fan. A Davehead, if you will. BUT... a lot of these fan favorite songs are not on my "Awesome" list because I have heard them sooooo many times that I've just gotten exhausted of them. So don't get upset if you see YOUR favorite on my "meh" list or something.

I included songs from Dave's solo album, and a few of these also might be live-only, but if they're played a lot they ended up here.

I have set this up in terms of Awesome, Great, Good, and Meh. Originally, the categories were "Fave", "Good" "Okay" and "Not Fave." But I realized even their worst (in my opinion) songs are still pretty damn good. So please remember this is MY opinion, and probably nowhere near the same opinion as anyone else. I have unique tastes. Later, I plan on ranking their albums (not including live... there's like 50 Live Trax and other live releases and that would take way too long to try and rank). 

Awesome

Grey Street

Don't Drink The Water

Jimi Thing

Rhyme & Reason

Crush

You Might Die Trying

One Sweet World

The Stone

Halloween

**Whenever I see them live and they play these songs, I get super excited. I won't say 'freak out' because I keep my cool on the exterior. But I am always super happy.

Great

Tripping Billies

Bartender

Warehouse

Seek Up

You Never Know

Dancing Nancies

The Last Stop

Stay

Two Step

#41

Stay or Leave

Corn Bread

Lie In Our Graves

Sweet Up & Down

Drive In, Drive Out

Drunken Soldier

Shake Me Like a Monkey

You & Me

So Right

Big Eyed Fish

If Only

Sweet

#27

Dreaming Tree

Eh Hee

Rooftop

Why I Am

Squirm

You & Me

Samurai Cop (Oh Joy Begin)

Can't Stop

She

Come Tomorrow

Diggin a Ditch

Gravedigger

Captain

Grace is Gone

Dodo

Too High

Stay or Leave

Minarets

I Did It

 

**These songs are on my top list for enjoyment when seeing them live and I am always happy to witness these get played.

 

Good 

 

Satellite

Ants Marching

Granny

Recently

Song That Jane Likes

Raven

#40

So Much to Say

Too Much

So Damn Lucky

Typical Situation

Cry Freedom

What You Are

Everyday

PNP--> Rapunzel

Pig

Out of My Hands

Old Dirt Hill

Alligator Pie

Time Bomb

Louisiana Bayou

The Idea of You

The Space Between

Broken Things

The Riff

Snow Outside

Funny The Way It Is

Lying In The Hands of God

Dive In

Spaceman

Seven

Baby Blue

That Girl Is You

Pay For What You Get

Idea of You

Virginia In The Rain

Again and Again

Come on Come on

Do You Remember

Crash Into Me

Kit Kat Jam

Busted Stuff

Save Me

Trouble

Oh

Up Up & Away

When The World Ends 

If I Had It All

Angel

Fool To Think

 

** These songs are ok, some of them are really good but just played way too much. Others are just not catchy or just not even played often enough to register on the rating scale very much.

 

Meh 

 

Where Are You Going

True Reflections

Christmas Song

I'll Back You Up

Say Goodbye

What Would You Say

Stolen Away on 55th

Some Devil

Belly Belly Nice

Mercy

Gaucho

Belly Full

Here On Out

Let You Down

Lover Lay Down

Proudest Monkey

When I'm Weary

Grey Blue Eyes

An' Another Thing

Baby

Dreams of Our Fathers

Mother Father 

Sleep to Dream Her

 

** Ok these songs aren't terrible, I just really don't prefer them, and I will skip over them if i can, or, if at a concert, these are my bathroom break songs. 

If I forgot any songs please let me know.