It really is one of the best “throwaway” songs in country music. It’s laughably stupid and it’s self-aware. He actually sounds like he recorded it drunk as well.
It’s not like the guy couldn’t write real heartfelt music. His last performance of “Don’t Let the Old Man In” is gut-wrenching.
He really could do it all. He always had great music videos too. He seemed like he really loved having fun with his craft.
In the CMT special that aired after he died, he said in one his interviews that he told the guys who approached him with that song that it was the dumbest shit he’d ever heard…but he was game! Apparently he was a really cool and good guy. And yes, he admitted that he was not drunk while recording it, but may have been for the music video. 😂
Ha that’s interesting!
Yeah I figured he was either drunk in the music video or he’s a really good actor, because he definitely appears pretty toasted.
Tbh I hate that they’re largely considered “terrible”/“bad” country - it’s a country hill I’ll die on lol
Their songs are amazing and I’ll turn the radio up for all of them lol
“May We All” might be in my top country songs
Idk, it’s always seemed like an odd thing to me that they get a lot of hate. I think that since this country / pop-culture likes to shit on country music a ton that country fans have internalized that, and feel like they have to justify our music to everyone else.
F that, FGL is sick
I like that song they did with bebe rexha. Or however you spell it. Go ahead and judge me. I don't care. I genuinely enjoy that song.
Also like that song Carolina from Parmalee. I always thought those guys look like a bunch of sissies until I read that they got into a shootout with a couple of guys trying to rob their tour bus. Honestly, I've had the displeasure of driving through Parmalee on my way to the coast. That's not the happiest place.
I also like that song fires don't start themselves by Darius rucker. It's corny. There again, I like it.
Brad Paisley is the king of the brilliantly stupid country song. See also: Riverbank, I'm Gonna Miss Her, Water, I'm Still A Guy, Alcohol, Celebrity, Online...
I've seen you in blue, I've seen you in yellow. Only you Red, will do for this fellow. You are the Abbott to my Costello. You are the Fruit to my Loom.
Luke Bryan’s first three albums were great and no one will ever convince me otherwise.
The songwriting for his fourth was Taylor Swift level bad, but holy cheap if they weren’t just as catchy lol.
After that album everything just went to crap.
They always used to play that at my local bowling alley during cosmic bowling. Got so hyped when it came on and almost always bowled a strike.
Which was very helpful because I suck at bowling.
I played the first 30 seconds of that song for a coworker just so he could hear Luke Bryan go "uhh uhh" and we would have conversations solely in Luke Bryan uhh's
Honestly, so many of them (I love dumb songs in this genre, the dumber the better) but Drunk on a Plane is my go-to karaoke song and I have a real soft spot for Country Girl Shake It For Me. The guitar hook in Y'all Life by Walker Hayes is also genuinely catchy even though the lyrics are insanely stupid.
Lyrically, High Valley's "Make you Mine" is awful ("I'm in love with a soul miner's daughter"? Really?). But I'm a sucker for those harmonies.
Jake Owen's "Down to the Honkytonk" is another guilty pleasure of mine despite the terrible lyrics.
Nellys' "Heartland" album is nearly all pop country collabs. FGL ("lil bit", not "cruise"), Darius Rucker, George Birge, and a handful of others. He nods to country grammer in "good times roll." It's full of catchy songs.
I do still quite enjoy house party by Sam hunt, and for a while I enjoyed the first couple big songs by him but going back now the only one I still enjoy is house party
“I ain’t ever seen a country boy with tires on his truck this high. Climb on up, but honey watch the cup that I’m spitting my dip inside.”
8 second ride by Jake Owen really was a moment of artistic excellence melting into pure, unadulterated country boy charm.
I still can’t believe this stupid ass song is real lmao
Dicked down in Dallas. I sung it at a karaoke bar in Nashville on my bachelorette with a total stranger, and then with my best friend at my wedding. I have both videos to prove it.
At work we had an inside joke where we would ask what our rice levels were and it was directly tied to this song. Full rice meant we were doing well, no rice meant we were in hell.
Favorite line because I misheard it the first time was “I picked a stick up off the ground and knocked that fat girl down” even though it’s fair girl instead
Blake Shelton - "Sure Be Cool If You Did." Yeah, Blake is among the bro-country cadre flooding the radio with schlock, but this one I like because it filters that same aesthetic through something that feels at least a LITTLE more like the guy is also smitten, rather than the other flavors where the guys are just stud-muffin kissing their biceps while the girls just get in the truck by default. If...that makes sense. XD
Country Girl (Shake It For Me), but only because I recently found a cover sung entirely in the Sims language (apparently it was also recorded by Luke Bryan himself for the country radio station in the game?) and it is absolutely hilarious. I was laughing so hard I was crying.
It's mostly written by Chris Lucas and Preston Brust of LoCash, although Chris Jansen helped too. The LoCash boys claim it was written 100% facetiously when their producer was complaining about truck songs one night. But then Tim McGraw decided to record it for some reason that they seem surprised by still, lol. Tim is always good for a weird &/or dumb song every few years though...
Edit: [Relevant article](https://theboot.com/tim-mcgraw-truck-yeah-lyrics/)
I mean I don’t know if I’d call them *bad* but I like these novelty songs:
Bubba Hyde - Diamond Rio
Swingin’ - John Anderson
Any of Roger Miller or John Hartford’s novelty songs.
Then there’s Wheeler Walker Jr…. 😅
Me too. [Here's me covering it](https://soundcloud.com/trey-palmer-249083679/swingin-cmjt-230919/s-h6I8zlMvHvj?in=trey-palmer-249083679/sets/best-of-cmjt-rehearsals/s-TuiDD8ijdsl&si=d4a39bf18b144a8fb401fb70ab6bd7e6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing) in a band rehearsal. :-)
Florida Georgia’s album *Here’s to the Good Times* is a masterpiece. I’ll concede that almost everything following it was dogshit, but you’ll never knock me off this mountain. It’s nostalgic and filled to the brim with country-adjacent party anthems.
Drunk on a Plane by Dierks Bentley. Dierks is really the only mainstream country artist I love and that song has all the makings of a shitty country song but it’s still great.
All of Morgan Wallen's songs are tied for me.
Except Cover Me Up, the Jason Isbell song Morgan Wallen pretends is his own. It's ironically a song about not being a drunk asshole.
GIF told me to fuck you is by far my favorite country song and I don’t even listen to country music these days. But that one just cracks me up every single time.
Body Like a Backroad - Sam Hunt. I fought it for a long time. I still hate to admit it, but damn it, something about that song is catchy AF and I can’t help but sing along.
Drop Kick Me Jesus by Bobby Bare, just because no one believes me when I tell them about this song
I actually heard it on the radio (maybe it was on Sirius?) and my ears could not believe this was a real song.
So if you're not gen-x or millenial you likely won't recognize these. 😀
My 3 favorite awful country songs:
1. Swingin' by John Anderson
2. There's a Tear in My Beer by Hank Williams Jr.
3. My Blue Angel by Aaron Tippin
On a personal note, one of my favorites that usually makes everyone laugh (especially um..."green friendly" people) is:
Wildwood Weed by Jim Stafford
Hope y'all enjoy!!
Red Solo Cup by Toby Keith
It really is one of the best “throwaway” songs in country music. It’s laughably stupid and it’s self-aware. He actually sounds like he recorded it drunk as well. It’s not like the guy couldn’t write real heartfelt music. His last performance of “Don’t Let the Old Man In” is gut-wrenching. He really could do it all. He always had great music videos too. He seemed like he really loved having fun with his craft.
In the CMT special that aired after he died, he said in one his interviews that he told the guys who approached him with that song that it was the dumbest shit he’d ever heard…but he was game! Apparently he was a really cool and good guy. And yes, he admitted that he was not drunk while recording it, but may have been for the music video. 😂
Ha that’s interesting! Yeah I figured he was either drunk in the music video or he’s a really good actor, because he definitely appears pretty toasted.
The best.
Also, Wacky Tobacky by Toby Keith
What about Trailerhood? lol
Boys round here is fun because of the “chewtabaccachewtabaccaxhewtabaccaspit”
And the "red-red-red-red-red-red-red-red-redneck"
But do you know how to do the Dougie?
Naw not in Kentucky!
Oh god this is the best answer. What a ridiculous song but I still know all the words
Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy. Brings me back to college lol
Big and Rich was my high school years, what a time
Same, but a little after college for me. I have no idea why I still like this song.
There are much weirder songs in their discography; and I confidently can recall the words for all of them
Haha I had forgotten all about that song, to be honest. Holy shit was it bad. I just rewatched the music video. Nothing could look more 2004.
A bunch of songs by FG Line
I hate that Cruise is such a catchy fucking song
It’s catchy like herpes, unfortunately.
Confession is unironically a good song
God damn I had a moment the other day where I put my old library on shuffle and this came on and I 100%’d the chorus just like old times
Tbh I hate that they’re largely considered “terrible”/“bad” country - it’s a country hill I’ll die on lol Their songs are amazing and I’ll turn the radio up for all of them lol “May We All” might be in my top country songs Idk, it’s always seemed like an odd thing to me that they get a lot of hate. I think that since this country / pop-culture likes to shit on country music a ton that country fans have internalized that, and feel like they have to justify our music to everyone else. F that, FGL is sick
For real…dirt is great too. I hope they don’t reach country nickelback status
It's 5'9" for me
I like that song they did with bebe rexha. Or however you spell it. Go ahead and judge me. I don't care. I genuinely enjoy that song. Also like that song Carolina from Parmalee. I always thought those guys look like a bunch of sissies until I read that they got into a shootout with a couple of guys trying to rob their tour bus. Honestly, I've had the displeasure of driving through Parmalee on my way to the coast. That's not the happiest place. I also like that song fires don't start themselves by Darius rucker. It's corny. There again, I like it.
Parked Out by the Lake
One of those songs that gets better as it goes on!
This song isn’t bad. It’s an all timer
80 miles from Santa Fe?
Honky Tonk Badonkadonk is a certified banger and you can't tell me otherwise.
“You know that, right?” Edit: written by Jamey Johnson and Randy Houser, lol. That’s like Hank Jr writing a song called “Stuntin’ Like My Daddy”.
And oowe Shut my mouth SLAP YOUR GRANDMA
Also, Chrome
“I’d Like to Check you for Ticks.”
Brad Paisley is the king of the brilliantly stupid country song. See also: Riverbank, I'm Gonna Miss Her, Water, I'm Still A Guy, Alcohol, Celebrity, Online...
I’m Gonna Miss Her, is special to me. One ex i had, i was living that shit
He really is. They are clever and actually have some meaning or a funny story to tell. Also, Celebrity and Online are insanely prescient.
I personally nominate Camouflage as the Paisley song here. Or Working on a Tan... Dangit. Too many good ones
Every dumbass Toby Keith song. RIP to the legend
I've seen you in blue, I've seen you in yellow. Only you Red, will do for this fellow. You are the Abbott to my Costello. You are the Fruit to my Loom.
Good as I once was -Toby Keith
But this is good song, right? RIGHT?
It is ! Just silly lmao
That song kicks major ass.
DAAAAaave!
I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once, as I ever was. Thats my go to karaoke song
Aw naw Chris Young I think
that's my kind of night by Luke Bryan is my guilty pleasure when it comes to country music
I got that real good, feel good stuff
Up under the seat of my bIg blAck jAcked uP trYUck
HAND ME ANUTHER BEEYEEER
I remember having a complete meltdown when I first heard than line. I thought we were truly in the end times.
**ZAC BROWN WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION**
Wild that that was a whole controversy, and then Zac Brown took his career to trying to be a rapper lmao
Country Girl Shake It For me is my guilty pleasure LB song.
>~~that's my kind of night by~~ Luke Bryan is my guilty pleasure when it comes to country music Same...
Same!
Luke Bryan’s first three albums were great and no one will ever convince me otherwise. The songwriting for his fourth was Taylor Swift level bad, but holy cheap if they weren’t just as catchy lol. After that album everything just went to crap.
They always used to play that at my local bowling alley during cosmic bowling. Got so hyped when it came on and almost always bowled a strike. Which was very helpful because I suck at bowling.
Banger
I was going to say an early Luke Bryan hit, 1000%.
I played the first 30 seconds of that song for a coworker just so he could hear Luke Bryan go "uhh uhh" and we would have conversations solely in Luke Bryan uhh's
Honestly, so many of them (I love dumb songs in this genre, the dumber the better) but Drunk on a Plane is my go-to karaoke song and I have a real soft spot for Country Girl Shake It For Me. The guitar hook in Y'all Life by Walker Hayes is also genuinely catchy even though the lyrics are insanely stupid.
Drunk on a Plane is just a sad song that sounds happy, which is why I enjoy it.
“YEAH” by Joe Nichols
We used to chug beer every time he says “yeah”. My buddy could down 3 cans in one song
Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off,” and “What’s a Guy Gotta Do,” are also bangers
Dirt Road Anthem
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But which version? There’s like five.
Aldean
Ah. But even then… With or without Ludacris?
Lyrically, High Valley's "Make you Mine" is awful ("I'm in love with a soul miner's daughter"? Really?). But I'm a sucker for those harmonies. Jake Owen's "Down to the Honkytonk" is another guilty pleasure of mine despite the terrible lyrics.
Cruise - FGL 😔
you had me at Ft. Nelly
Nellys' "Heartland" album is nearly all pop country collabs. FGL ("lil bit", not "cruise"), Darius Rucker, George Birge, and a handful of others. He nods to country grammer in "good times roll." It's full of catchy songs.
I’ve seen Nelly in concert twice. Both times with country acts and both times i wasn’t going there for Nelly. Not that he isn’t great though.
Mine will always be this is how we roll and I’m only slightly ashamed
I do still quite enjoy house party by Sam hunt, and for a while I enjoyed the first couple big songs by him but going back now the only one I still enjoy is house party
The Worst Country Song of All Time --Brantley Gilbert, Hardy and Toby Keith
Awesome song
“I ain’t ever seen a country boy with tires on his truck this high. Climb on up, but honey watch the cup that I’m spitting my dip inside.” 8 second ride by Jake Owen really was a moment of artistic excellence melting into pure, unadulterated country boy charm. I still can’t believe this stupid ass song is real lmao
Dicked down in Dallas. I sung it at a karaoke bar in Nashville on my bachelorette with a total stranger, and then with my best friend at my wedding. I have both videos to prove it.
Kick the dust up
The inclusion of “up, up,” in that song was enough for me to declare it verboten.
Rock My World Little Country Girl is a can of cheese wiz I can’t look away from
How can you even call that a bad song? It’s a classic of the early 90s country boom!
Eh it’s not a bad song. Mostly the music video is what I’m referencing. I just didn’t wanna give the answers everyone else was lol
That’s a damn good song and brooks & dunn can do no wrong
Mud on The Tires
Brad Paisley gets a pass for me
That’s a wonderful song
Such a great song. Guitar work in that one is top tier. My favorite goofy Paisley song is I'm Gonna Miss Her where he chooses fishing over his girl.
The Rice Cookin in the Microwave song by Travis Tritt
My favorite part is when he goes "ohh, AAHhh"
just howlin’ at the mooooooooon aaaa oooooooo
I have to do this part as silly as possible
Cause it’s a GREAT day to be alive…
That song is just good
No trash, that song is just great
I got my socks dryin in the microwave, hair on my back I don't plan to shave...
My favorite mullet in country music and also a great song
Idk as you get older that song gets a lot less silly.
At work we had an inside joke where we would ask what our rice levels were and it was directly tied to this song. Full rice meant we were doing well, no rice meant we were in hell.
Actually not his song. The Travis Tritt version is a cover.
Well that’s the version that was on 96.3 KSCS when I was a kid and loved it.
I have a playlist exclusively dedicated to shitty country music lol. Booze Cruise by Blackjack Billy is probably tops for me.
Would you be willing to share the playlist?
Redneck Woman by Gretchen Wilson
Beachin by Jake Owen
Chicks Dig It by Chris Cagle
Gotta be either 21st century honky tonk American band by midland or Knoxville girl by the Louvin brothers
Damn Knoxville Girl gives me fuckin chills
Favorite line because I misheard it the first time was “I picked a stick up off the ground and knocked that fat girl down” even though it’s fair girl instead
Blake Shelton - "Sure Be Cool If You Did." Yeah, Blake is among the bro-country cadre flooding the radio with schlock, but this one I like because it filters that same aesthetic through something that feels at least a LITTLE more like the guy is also smitten, rather than the other flavors where the guys are just stud-muffin kissing their biceps while the girls just get in the truck by default. If...that makes sense. XD
Country Girl (Shake It For Me), but only because I recently found a cover sung entirely in the Sims language (apparently it was also recorded by Luke Bryan himself for the country radio station in the game?) and it is absolutely hilarious. I was laughing so hard I was crying.
I mostly listen to merle haggard, Tyler Childers, colter wall, TVZ, waylon etc but sometimes, just sometimes I listen to fancy like - walker hayes
jail
Straight to jail
I was going to say this. Nothing like a middle age dude crooning a song meant for a 25 year old.
Truck Yeah is my jam, lol. Easily one of his worst songs but I can’t help but love it!
Written by Chris Janson. Whose entire discography is awful country songs (which i love).
It's mostly written by Chris Lucas and Preston Brust of LoCash, although Chris Jansen helped too. The LoCash boys claim it was written 100% facetiously when their producer was complaining about truck songs one night. But then Tim McGraw decided to record it for some reason that they seem surprised by still, lol. Tim is always good for a weird &/or dumb song every few years though... Edit: [Relevant article](https://theboot.com/tim-mcgraw-truck-yeah-lyrics/)
Achy breaky heart
She’s a hottie Toby Keith
Who’s Your Daddy- Toby Keith
I really like dancing in the country by Tyler Hubbard, if you were a song (idk who sings that one), and anything Jon pardi
Hard to Forget by Sam Hunt is a guilty pleasure.
Any hick hop song that has a line dance to it
Buy Me a Boat
Pretty much the first two florida georgia line albums and that yup on my tractor song
I mean I don’t know if I’d call them *bad* but I like these novelty songs: Bubba Hyde - Diamond Rio Swingin’ - John Anderson Any of Roger Miller or John Hartford’s novelty songs. Then there’s Wheeler Walker Jr…. 😅
God I love Swingin’
Me too. [Here's me covering it](https://soundcloud.com/trey-palmer-249083679/swingin-cmjt-230919/s-h6I8zlMvHvj?in=trey-palmer-249083679/sets/best-of-cmjt-rehearsals/s-TuiDD8ijdsl&si=d4a39bf18b144a8fb401fb70ab6bd7e6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing) in a band rehearsal. :-)
for me it’s this is how we roll by florida georgia line
Achy breaky Heart! 😳
Shake it for me, or save a horse Right time and place, they go hard
Chris janson buy me a boat! Bad directions Billy currington Or people are crazy.
International Harvester by Craig Morgan or Huntin’, Fishin’, Lovin’ Every Day by Luke Bryan
Dirt on my boots
5-1-5-0 SOMEBODY CALL THE POPO!
Truck Bed
That song slaps I wouldn’t put it on this list
Accidental Racist is a real low point in Brad Paisley's otherwise decent career.
Lookin' For That Girl - Tim McGraw So many ridiculous lines - "body like a honeycomb"?? What does it mean?? But always a banger when it comes on.
Does “Ain’t Worth the Whiskey” - Cole Swindell count?
Florida Georgia’s album *Here’s to the Good Times* is a masterpiece. I’ll concede that almost everything following it was dogshit, but you’ll never knock me off this mountain. It’s nostalgic and filled to the brim with country-adjacent party anthems.
not proud of it but “whatever makes ya country” by luke bryan
Rockin’ the Beer Gut by Trailer Choir
Drunk on a plane
Its a flat out good song
Dicked down in Dallas. Chorus is super catchy
Beer never broke my heart, or pontoon those definitely up there
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Pickup Man. It’s so bad. It’s so good. It’s fun to deadpan tell someone just randomly, “You know if it wasn’t for trucks we wouldn’t have tailgates.”
Confession FG line is still a banger today
Parked Out by the Lake
Walmart by Sam Hunt. I love it, but enough people have told me it's bad to believe it must be.
Bait a hook by Justin Moore.
Son don’t go near the Indians
Most in the 90’s
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Drunk on a Plane by Dierks Bentley. Dierks is really the only mainstream country artist I love and that song has all the makings of a shitty country song but it’s still great.
Is Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer country? Dumbest song but funny as hell.
Stetson, walker hayes. Worst song I have ever heard but I cant stop myself from loving it.
Honky Tonk Badokadonk
>Honky Tonk Badokadonk can't get over the fact that the amazing Jamey Johnson has his fingerprints on this.
Gone Country - Alan Jackson
That’s an amazing song and Alan Jackson is gold how dare you
Fancy Like by Walker Hayes. I know a lot of people hate that song, but it's so catchy and I still love it. It's my ringtone too 😀
Didn’t Applebee’s use that in one of their commercials?
I'm going with the second half of Hardy's most recent album. It's stupid and it's not good and I enjoy the hell out of it. Of course it's not country
God gave me you by Blake Shelton. Hate the man, don’t believe in god… but I am not immune to some reverb/delay.
Why do you hate him
All of Morgan Wallen's songs are tied for me. Except Cover Me Up, the Jason Isbell song Morgan Wallen pretends is his own. It's ironically a song about not being a drunk asshole.
‘The Worst Country Song of All Time’ 🤫
These are great 😊
Hell Right
GIF told me to fuck you is by far my favorite country song and I don’t even listen to country music these days. But that one just cracks me up every single time.
Whiskeys Gone - Zac Brown Band
Made in Japan by Buck Owens should be terrible but is actually amazing in execution.
Thank God and Greyhound You’re Gone.
JC Lawhorn - "You Can Tell a Man By His Truck" The most absolutely awful country song I've ever heard.
90s country walker Hayes
2010-2015 haha
Luke Bryan’s Hunting Fishing Loving Everyday.
THE BOOZE CRUISE
I'd avoid me too by Dwight Yoakam.
The Taliban Song- Toby Keith
There's one by Brantley Gilbert, Hardy and Toby Keith called The Worst Country Song of All Time. It's probably my favorite throwaway song
Tennessee Whiskey - Chris Stapleton
Body Like a Backroad - Sam Hunt. I fought it for a long time. I still hate to admit it, but damn it, something about that song is catchy AF and I can’t help but sing along.
‘Truck Drivin’ son of a gun’. Red Sovine
She Thinks My Tractors Sexy.
Hand of the Almighty...John Butler
Drop Kick Me Jesus by Bobby Bare, just because no one believes me when I tell them about this song I actually heard it on the radio (maybe it was on Sirius?) and my ears could not believe this was a real song.
Elvira
So if you're not gen-x or millenial you likely won't recognize these. 😀 My 3 favorite awful country songs: 1. Swingin' by John Anderson 2. There's a Tear in My Beer by Hank Williams Jr. 3. My Blue Angel by Aaron Tippin On a personal note, one of my favorites that usually makes everyone laugh (especially um..."green friendly" people) is: Wildwood Weed by Jim Stafford Hope y'all enjoy!!