"I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man"

he just performed a bit of it on acoustic on that mtv special. (boy are they pushing the hell out of musicology or what?) it's totally a cliche, but it really does point out (again) what an amazing songwriter he'd still be if you stripped away the image, the dancing, the accumulated mystique, the bands, the innovations, etc etc.

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He also performed "Sometimes It Snows In April" ALL THE WAY THROUGH and if there was a chance I was gonna lose it during the show it was right then.

can someone please download this track and give a more detailed description?

Download, shmownload! That'd be no different from stealing money out of Jordan's wallet. No, I BOUGHT the damn thing for my wife, who's an old-school fan but who seemed less-than-thrilled when I gave her this CD.

In re "Hangin' Tough," the Disc 1 version is fairly shitty; it's got one of those fake mideastern beats with a flute line or something, but no interesting synth lines or weird percussion things like you'd find with Timbaland. Also they say "remix" a lot. The European remix on Disc 2 is much better--stomping beat, big techno synths, and the "Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa" seems much more a powerful statement of intent than it does on the American one. And no wonder--this raw power was executive produced by Jack White and arranged by Brix, in a bizarre display of Jordan getting back to his indie roots. (Or maybe Jack views him as a Loretta-type legend...)

"At one of our recent weekly board meetings[!], held to decide what we were going to do about liner notes for this CD you now hold in your hands, a number of different ideas were bandied about. One thing we all agreed upon was that we didn't think it appropriate to have some famous pop musicologist [!] write some dry notes about the unexplainable..." so instead they had fans write up memories of what NK meant to them. I'm not wading through those; I just wanted to point out Jordan's use of the passive voice.

Top 5 on _SOTT_:

1. "Adore"
2. "If I Was Your Girlfriend"
3. "Housequake"
4. "Play In The Sunshine"
5. "Forever In My Life"

Honorable mention to "Sign 'O The Times", "It", "Hot Thing", "It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night", "The Cross", and "Starfish And Coffee"

And that Prince song is good, but better in its single version.

The worst song on _SOTT_ is a toss-up between "ICNTTPOYM" and "Slow Love".

Somehow managed to avoid Jordan's cover, which I'm sure is a good thing.

Are any of you familiar with the middling-at-best cover on one of the older Soul Asylum records? The one before their big breakthrough into MTVdom? The music portion is great, but the vocal is handled by their producer, who sounds like a coked up Tom Jones. Actually, this might have been the Goo Goo Dolls a couple albums before they got big. Either way, the song bites and makes me mad that they sort of trample on the greatness of the Prince version.

I definitely agree with "Slow Love" but I'd definitely put "The Cross" (depending on my mood) and "It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night" beneath "ICNTTPOYM" (cuz Cat, Cat, we don't need you to rap).

God is SOTT a fuckin' spectacular album.