History YMMV / GeorgeJones

* Narm: Someone who recorded the sheer volume of songs as Jones is bound to have some ridiculous sounding songs that failed to hit the intended mark. "Unwanted Babies" is a melodramatic laundry list of unconnected social issues that even George himself tried to distance himself from (insisting that the label say Glenn Patterson). "Wean Me" is about the subject of the song, an alcoholic, begging his wife/girlfriend to help him stop drinking- except it uses a ridiculous metaphor of him being weaned like a baby. For what it's worth, Jones himself originally considered "He Stopped Loving Her Today" to be this while it was being recorded, considering it too morbid to be taken seriously.

* FirstAndForemost: Although his version of "Why Baby Why" was blunted on the charts by Red Sovine and Webb Pierce's #1 version (followed swiftly by ''another'' version by Hank Locklin), and Charley Pride later had a #1 hit with it again in 1983, it's still thought of as mainly Jones's song.
* NeverLiveItDown: Taking his riding mower to the liquor store after his wife took his car keys.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "He Stopped Loving Her Today."
** Also, "A Good Year for the Roses".

** "A Thousand Times a Day," a track from his ''High-Tech Redneck'' album, was later released in 1997 by Music/PattyLoveless.

** "A Thousand Times a Day," a track from his ''High-Tech Redneck'' album, was later released in 1997 by Patty Loveless.

** "A Good Year for the Roses" is better known as an Music/ElvisCostello song.

** Happened ''twice'' with "Why Baby Why," his first chart hit. It went to #4, but started falling when Red Sovine and Webb Pierce released a duet version that went to #1 and blunted the chart run of Jones' original. CharleyPride later had a #1 hit with his own 1983 rendition.

** "Love Bug" is perhaps better known through GeorgeStrait's cover.

* OldShame: Jones considered his early rockabilly recordings as Thumper Jones an example of this... but rockabilly fans, on the other hand, consider them classics.
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* TearJerker: "He Stopped Loving Her Today". "Who's Gonna Fill Her Shoes" especially takes on new meaning after his death.

* FanNickname: "The Possum" and "No-Show Jones." The former got a ShoutOut in "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair."

* TearJerker: And how. "Choices" is a heartrending tearjerker of a song about how we all must live with the consequences of the decisions we make in life, a sentiment that seems especially credible coming from a reformed hellraiser like George. The narrator of "If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)" is on the verge of drinking himself to death after realizing that he will never overcome the pain associated with his ex's memory. The narrator of "The Grand Tour" takes his listener on a tour of his house, only for the listener to suspect something is amiss and for the narrator to reveal the truth in the startling climax. "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes?" mourns the fact that the legends of country music are one-of-a-kind and irreplaceable. These are just a few examples.

* VocalDecay: Sadly, age and decades of drug abuse have resulted in this.

* TearJerker: And how. "Choices" is a heartrending tearjerker of a song about how we all must live with the consequences of the decisions we make in life, a sentiment that seems especially credible coming from a reformed hellraiser like George. The narrator of "If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)" is on the verge of drinking himself to death after realizing that he will never overcome the pain associated with his ex's memory. The narrator of "The Grand Tour" takes his listener on a tour of his house, only for the listener to suspect something is amiss and for the narrator to reveal the truth in the startling climax. "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes?" mourns the fact that the legends of country music are one-of-a-kind and irreplaceable. These are just a few examples.