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Tim McGraw
Live Like You Were Dying
label: Curb Records
released: 09.24.04
our score: 3.0 out of 5.0
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How
bad should you want Tim McGraw's latest work of art? The opening
track "How Bad Do You Want It?" sets the mood for what
is a classic, and what, for me, was an unexpected journey back
to what can be considered a more typical country sound than his
last album. As a true Tim McGraw fan, I will be the first to admit
that it took several good listens to this album before I warmed
up to it. But, McGraw has yet again managed to give his fans a
collection of humor and heart wrench that you can't help but want
to listen to again and again.
Having viewed
McGraw's last album, Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors,
as having a sound more appealing to the masses while managing
to uphold the fundamentals of country music, I feel Live Like...
is an album that will appeal more to the true country music fan
verses a "cross over" fan, with tracks like "Do
You Want Fries With That" and "Back When". It is
in finding the fun and intended humor in songs such as these that
allow for virtually anyone to appreciate them in some way. (Who
can't find the humor in the lyrics "back when a hoe was a
hoe and a screw was a screw"?)
What makes
McGraw such a phenomenal performer, country fan or not, is his
ability to take a simple lyrical composition and, in the delivery
of it, burn it beautifully into your memory before you even realize
what's happened to you. "Blank Sheet of Paper" and "My
Old Friend" are both simple songs that McGraw makes warm
and memorable and are tracks that you will play over and over
again. Of course, the album would not be complete without the
huge hit "Live Like You Were Dying". It is an amazing
song that will make you want to live and love more, even if for
a moment.
I am giving
this album a 3 out of 5, not because it isn't a solid collection
of songs, but because it does not match the magnitude of appeal
and longevity of his last album, which I still haven't taken out
of my most-played rotation of disks.
06-Oct-2004
9:13 PM
If you
liked Live Like You Were Dying...
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Tracklist:
1.
How Bad Do You Want It
2. PMy Old Friend
3. Can't Tell Me Nothin'
4. Old Town New
5. Live Like You Were Dying
6. Drugs Or Jesus
7. Back When
8. Something's Broken
9. Open Season On My Heart
10. Everybody Hates Me
11. Walk Like A Man
12. Blank Sheet Of Paper
13. Just Be Your Tear
14. Do You Want Fries With That
15. Kill Myself
16. We Carry On
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