Mindy McCready - Ten Thousand Angels

Great Debut from Mindy

This is an excellent debut album from Mindy - the good old days. Good singer who puts feeling into the songs. Here are the good ones:

10,000 Angels - singer needs divine intervention to summon willpower to turn down a guy

Guys Do It All the Time - sassy tune about turning the gender tables

All That I Am

A Girls Gotta Do - my favorite Mindy song. Great tell-off to a guy, it's a catchy song that sticks in the head. Great guitar part in middle.

Ain't a Party Til the Girls Arive - uptempo party tune

Without Love - touches on a wedding band and how it's just a trinket unless accompanied by love.

Thoroughly enjoyable modern country by young woman singer July 9, 2007

impressive

This is Mindy McCready's impressive debut album. It features her wonderful voice and stunning good looks nicely. The title track and "Guys do it all the time" are must-hears. I enjoyed every song on this album and guarantee you will too. Buy it! June 2, 2006

Awesome CD!!

I wonder where she went? She has a great voice and listening to this CD brings back tons of memories of days gone by. I would recommend this CD to anyone who likes to listen to female country artists with beautiful voices! March 10, 2005

Great Debut album from talented woman

Mindy McCready was one of a few new female artists that emerged in 1996 in Nashville. The real breakout song of this album, and probably the signature song of her career is the tongue in cheek "Guys Do It All The Time", which was a #1 hit for her. TEN THOUSAND ANGELS is her debut album which has a variety of uptempo songs and ballads. The title track was also a top 10 hit for her, as was the tongue in cheek "A Girl's Gotta Do (What A Girl's Gotta Do)". My favorite song is the ballad "Maybe He'll Notice Her Now", a duet with Lonestar's frontman Richie McDonald. It's a beautiful song overall and it should have been a bigger hit than it was. She shows attitude on songs like "It Ain't A Party", "All That I Am", "Guys Do It All The Time" and "A Girl's Gotta Do (What A Girl's Gotta Do)". She came to Nashville at the young age of 18 and had a contract exactly a year after she came. Sadly, after her second album her star faded, and after moving to Capitol in 2000, she released her fourth album, but was dropped later in 2002. The ballads on this disc are pretty good, like "Have A Nice Day", and "Tell Me Something I Don't Know", which stand as the best along with the duet with Richie McDonald. Overall a really good debut album from a talented young lady, Nashville gave up on. October 12, 2003

Outstanding debut is still her best album

Mindy is a brilliant singer and gets the chance to show it on this excellent collection of songs. The title track is a song about vulnerability while Guys do it all the time is an amusing look at different attitudes regarding men and women. Other favorites of mine include Maybe he'll notice her now and A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do, although every song here is a gem.

The first nine tracks are (as far as I know) all originals, but the album closes with an oldie, Breaking it, which first appeared on a Claire Lynch album in the early eighties. Claire wasn't very enthusiastic about that album, but some great singers have covered songs from it.

Mindy has recorded some great music on her (so far) three subsequent albums, but none of those albums come close to matching the overall brilliance of this debut album. This is what I call quality contemporary country. August 3, 2003

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