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| My rating system: how far I turn the volume knob in the truck, out of five | marks. Five marks means the windows rattle and I don't care who's at the next pump. |
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1. Man! I Feel Like a Woman! ||||| The opener, and the girls'-night-out song of the decade. Every wedding reception I've been to this year, the dance floor fills up the second it starts. I don't dance. I tap the steering wheel. 2. I'm Holdin' On to Love (To Save My Life) |||| Fast, bright, a big fiddle in it. The line-dance crowd at the bar in town knows a routine to this one. 3. Love Gets Me Every Time |||| The first single, back in the fall of '97, and a number one on country radio. A girl who swore she was done with falling for anybody, falling anyway. The first time I heard it I knew the album was going to be big. 4. Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You) ||||| She tells a jealous boyfriend to knock it off, because she's not going anywhere. The fiddle break in the middle is the best thirty seconds on the record. 5. From This Moment On || The big wedding ballad. On the album it's a duet with Bryan White. I have now heard it at four weddings, including my cousin Lucie's, and I teared up at three of them. The volume stays low on this one out of respect. 6. Come On Over ||| The title song. Easygoing, a front-porch kind of song, like an open door. It fits the end of summer just right. 7. When ||| I didn't pay this one much mind at first. Now it's in my head every morning at the loading dock. Sneaky song. 8. Whatever You Do! Don't! || If I'm honest, this is the one I skip. Nothing wrong with it. Sixteen songs, one has to be last on somebody's list. 9. If You Wanna Touch Her, Ask! ||| A song about treating a woman with some respect. It's fun and it's got a point, and I've got two nieces, so I'm all for it. 10. You're Still the One |||| The big one. A couple that everybody said wouldn't last, still standing. It went to number two on the pop chart, got her the two Grammys, and got played at every anniversary party in North America. My parents' song, now, which is something, since they've been married forty years and didn't have a song before. 11. Honey, I'm Home ||||| She's the one who comes home from a rotten day at work and wants to be waited on for a change. Every waitress at every truck stop I go to plays this on the jukebox. Now I know why. 12. That Don't Impress Me Much ||||| A parade of guys who think they're really something, and her not buying any of it. The smart one, the car one, and the one she compares to Brad Pitt. This is the one that took her to the pop stations, and the one the boys at the truck stop pretend not to know. 13. Black Eyes, Blue Tears ||| The serious one. It's about a woman walking out on a man who has been hurting her, and deciding she's done crying. It's upbeat, which makes it stronger, not weaker. If one song on this record could help somebody, it's this one. 14. I Won't Leave You Lonely || A slow, sweet promise of a song. Late-night driving music. 15. Rock This Country! ||||| The loudest thing on the album and the best thing to hear at 5 a.m. with a full thermos and four hundred miles in front of you. This is the one I'd open a concert with if I were her. 16. You've Got a Way ||| The last song, a gentle love song to close the record out. A version of it is in Notting Hill, if you want to hear it in the movie theater. |
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Total: 58 marks out of a possible 80. Show me another album with
sixteen songs where the lowest score is two.
What's your favorite? Tell me: [email protected] |