Continuing a countdown of my favorite albums of 2005…
#7 – Time Well Wasted – Brad Paisley
This is the first album on my list that I didn’t hear in 2005. Brad Paisley, and country music in general, just weren’t on my radar that year.
It was four years later when I first heard Paisley’s American Saturday Night that I became an instant fan. And that sent me right to his back catalog to catch up with everything I’d missed.
Time Well Wasted is Paisley’s fourth album, and my third or fourth favorite of his, depending on my mood. It follows his familiar formula of alternating funny songs with sad ones, earnest love songs with songs about breakups. There are a couple of songs here you could play at your wedding, and a few more suitable for a drunken barbecue.
As always, Paisley brings the heat on his electric guitar, and assembles a team of backing musicians who know how to tear the roof off the place when they’re not supporting a gentle ballad.
In short, this is everything you want from a Brad Paisley album. The man is a national treasure.
Long stem things of beauty
Created by the good Lord
Cut down in the prime of their lives
Boxed up, wrapped in paper
Delivered to your front door
Just to wind up in your garbage can outside
[Chorus]
Tell me how many flowers have to die
Before you give this love another try
I’ve asked you to forgive me at least 9 dozen times
Tell me how many flowers have to die
[Verse 2]
I’m crazy and I’m desperate
I had you and I blew it
And right now I’ve got nothing left to lose
I’ve got a Visa in my wallet
And I’m not afraid to use it
How long the needless violence lasts
Is really up to you
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Stop the senseless killing
Can’t you hear the roses cry
Baby, how many flowers have to die
Tell me how many flowers have to die
Meet Me In Montauk 
Haven’t heard much of .or about Paisley for quite awhile, but my impression is that his more recent efforts have been less popular and successful
He’s actually just been on hiatus for 7 years, but apparently he has a new album due this year.