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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Curb Records
Salesrank: 12117
Released: August 24, 2004 |
| Our Price: $3.95 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Live Like You Were Dying Track Listing:
1. How Bad Do You Want It
2. My 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
Editorial Review:
Grammy award winning superstar Tim McGraw will release his ninth album on August 24 2004, Live Like You Were Dying. The album is one of the most anticipated releases due this year and will feature his touring band, the Dancehall Doctors, for their second consecutive project. The album's title track, written by Craig Wiseman and Tim Nichols, has become the fastest rising chart single of McGraw's career, breaking into the top 5 in just 4 weeks and # 1 in six weeks.
Description of Live Like You Were Dying:
On the back cover of his ninth album Tim McGraw sits atop a horse, which just happens to be standing in the foyer of an elegant home. McGraw sits backwards in the saddle, looking not at where he's going, but where he's been. The image tips off the theme of this solid, 16-song album--for a singer who doesn't write, it's as close to autobiography as it gets. "How Bad Do You Want It," for example references not only bluesman Robert Johnson's crossroads chat with ol' Lucifer, but also the kind of relentless drive that got McGraw to the top of the Nashville heap. The dryly funny "Back When" finds the man who recently bought a $6.4 million Beverly Hills mansion yearning for a simpler time. "Walk Like a Man" talks about the kind of abusive father McGraw himself had before he discovered he was the son of baseball legend Tug McGraw. The late pitcher is surely the subject of three songs here about death, loss, and carrying on, especially the title track, a big, uplifting affirmation of life. If it's also a little sappy, so be it--singing about the most painful thing he's ever endured, he gives it a dignified, understated reading (and only a week or so after his father's passing). It takes an artist to do that, and while McGraw may not be the greatest of warblers, nobody in country can touch him at conveying emotions too deep to express in words. Look for this to be the album of his career. --Alanna Nash
Live Like You Were Dying Reviews:
open heart of Tim McGraw 
2009-12-11 - First of all let me say that I have minimal exposure to country music. Bob Dylan's soundtrack to Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid was one of my favorite western climates for a very long time and I have listened and liked most of Willie Nelson's and Kris Kristofferson's music, some of Lyle Lovett's and a random thing here and there, but I was simply too busy following many other kinds on music I was hooked on. Back in 2007 a real good friend of mine had placed quite a few albums of Tim McGraw as his favorite music. I purchased these albums and some songs simply blew me away. I find more of them on Live Like You Were Dying than any other album, although the most beautiful of Tim's songs to me is placed on Everywhere and it's called One Of These Days. A lot of Tim's albums are great, or have great songs on them. As far as I understand he neither writes the music nor puts the lyrics together, but he does bring them to us. Some of these songs are very inspiring and these great lyrics are wrapped in beautiful emotional music perfectly delivered by Tim McGraw. There is such lightness and hope for goodness coming out of his voice and these songs and they can add so much to our lives. Here is someone who is not afraid to damage his perfect tough stand by opening his heart to all of us. Every one of Tim's albums has different songs on them as well, of a more rock'n'roll country flare, and if you really don't like such mood, you could listen to the songs I picked out, because these are mostly ballads and emotional jewels of his:
Open Heart Of Tim McGraw:
1. My Old Friend
2. My Little Girl
3. One Of These Days
4. I Need You
5. It's Your Love (with Faith Hill)
6. Please Remember Me
7. Live Like You Were Dying
8. All We Ever Find
9. My Best Friend
10. I'm Working
11. We Carry On
12. A Place In The Sun
13. You Just Get Better All The Time
14. Take Me Away From Here
15. You Don't Love Me Anymore
16. The Great Divide
17. Nothing To Die For
18. Forget About Us
19. She's My Kind Of Rain
Way to Go, Tim
2007-08-13 - I've always liked Tim's songs and have collected his albums over the years. But this album really hit me with the title track, "Live Like You Were Dying". Four years ago I was diagnosed with an incurable disease which takes 20% of us who have it. So after hearing this song, I looked at this illness a little differently.
It took me these past 4 years to come out of the depression from the bad news. This summer I finally felt up to doing things again, so we used this song as our summer theme. I'd been skydiving before, and this illness already seems like 8 seconds of bull riding, so we didn't have to do those. But we went Rocky Mountain climbing. And went Hood and Rainier climbing, and we went Alaska Mountain climbing. I had to prove to myself that I can still do stuff like that again. And we did it for a good cause, for charity, "Summitting for the Bipolar Cure - 2007".
You know, I look back to when I was younger. When I was perfect. When I thought that ill people should just, "get over it, work a little harder, and achieve what everybody else was achieving." But I've learned a lesson the hard way that sometimes it ain't always that easy.
Thanks for recognizing all of us with chronic deadly diseases and giving us a more positive way of looking at it. You got a good heart, man.
Hit after Hit!
2007-05-24 - You don't have to like country to love Tim McGraw's music. And this is by far his best album yet. My favorite two songs are "Live Like You Were Dyin'" and "Drugs or Jesus." Both tunes compel you stop, listen and ponder your life every time you hear them played. "How Bad Do You Want It" and "Everybody Hates Me" are fun songs you can't help but raise the volume and play them loud. I had to buy this CD twice because I played it so often I scratched it up!
Do you want fries with this?
2007-03-26 - Mr. Faith Hill rocks and kicks butt again with the memorable DO YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT?. I heard this album in the jukebox in my local pub and it kicks major rear! I wouldn't be a bit surprised if this album won Grammys. What the hell? Half of one of the most popular country couples deserves them,right?
LIVE YOUR LIFE LIKE YOU WERE DYING
2007-01-19 - When "Live like you were dying" first came out, I had just found out that I had Cancer and I was scared to death. He really made me think about life and everything around me. Tim McGraw, I will alway's remember this song and maybe we all should LIVE OUR LIVES LIKE WE WERE DYING. Nancy Mercede from Boca Raton Fl
