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List Price: $22.49 | | Label: DreamWorks
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Released: November 2, 1999 |
| Our Price: $10.60 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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How Do You Like Me Now?! Track Listing:
1. How Do You Like Me Now?
2. When Love Fades
3. Blue Bedroom
4. New Orleans
5. Country Comes to Town
6. Heart to Heart (Stelen's Song)
7. She Only Gets That way With Me
8. Die with Your Boots On
9. You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This
10. Hold You, Kiss You, Love You
11. Do I Know You (Bottom of My Heart)
12. I Know a Wall When I See One
Editorial Review:
Oklahoma singer Toby Keith is neither a remarkable singer nor songwriter. Yet in his more inspired and focused moments on his sixth studio album--his first for DreamWorks--Keith does occasionally manage to transcend his journeyman's limitations and achieve a sort of workaday eloquence. On patchily conceived and executed songs like the self-written "Die with Your Boots On" and a pointless ditty called "Country Comes to Town," even Keith's hard-edged baritone swaggering over flashy, high-voltage arrangements can disguise the basic lack of musical substance and creative vision. Yet on "Heart to Heart," a tender song Keith wrote for his young son, and an exquisite story song called "New Orleans," Keith surprises by turning in heartfelt, impassioned performances that transcend the general ordinariness that is otherwise the order of the day. --Bob Allen
How Do You Like Me Now?! Reviews:
Son's favorite country singer 
2009-09-13 - Bought as a gift for teenage son...He loves his music....great deal for a great kid
I like you better when you're funny 
2008-11-11 -
The title track is the Keith I enjoy. A little bravado and a whole lot of tongue firmly planted in cheek. The earnest country singer of "When Love Fades" and "You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like That" (This one sounds like a Meatloaf reject) pale in comparison to the cowboy of "Country Comes to Town." I like the way Keith works a song like "Hold You, Kiss You, Love You," with the emphasis on vocals and selling the idea, but the overall effect sounds like something any country artist could put together. The problem here is there are far too many traditional sounding country songs and not enough of the songs that make Keith stand apart from the pack.
What music background does your reviewer have???
2006-02-16 - Your reviewer, Bob Allen, who I believe has reviewed some other of Toby Keith's albums previously, must have a tin ear and has never written a song in his life. Saying Keith is neither a "remarkable singer nor songwriter" is ludicrous. He also refers to him as a "journeyman." Keith has been writing songs and singing them for more than 30 years. Obviously Allen has no liking nor appreciation for country music; he'd be better writing reviews for cook books. Those who know - really know - country music consider him a master songwriter and the voice is magic, whether he is singing a love ballad or one of his "in your face" songs that have a meaning for those who have lived, loved, laughed, and cried in our lifetime. He has paid his dues in his lifetime with his music and songwriting, being shifted from label to label because of the Nashville exercise of label taking over another label. But the people who have known him have gone to bat for him and he has never forgotten that. He finally has the following and the clout to start his own record label. He did it "his way" but without stepping on the people who helped him along the way. Those folks are still with him. I just happen to own every album he ever cut and there isn't anything on any of them I don't like. Over the years, I can hear the differences in his voice - always great - but now coming of age. Unlike many artists, he writes or co-writes 85% or more of his songs. I give this album 5 stars, just like I'd give 5 stars to all his albums to date. Bob Allen - Check out cut 10 "The Critic" on Toby's "Shock'n Y'all." Sounds familiar to me!! Sydney in San Antonio
Slower, but still a GREAT cd
2005-11-29 - This cd is a little slower overall than we're used to from Toby, but still definitely a great cd.
I have several favorites on this cd, and I guarantee you will too.
One of the Best country cd's. WRITTEN BY A NON COUNTRY FAN!
2005-01-10 - This and Tim McGraw's Set This Circus Down are the best 2 country cd's released EVER!
Here is why:
How Do You Like Me Now: Great song with some funny lyrics. A good song that all of us wish we could apply to that beautiful girl from school when she turns out to be a stay at home fat ugly joke, and we turn out to be successful, rich and desirable.
When Love Fades: THE BEST SONG HE HAS EVER DONE! HANDS DOWN. NO CONTEST! Some of the best "Relationship is ending" lyrics that have EVER been written.
"Going through the motions,
pretending to be,
The man you used to see in me.
Dont wanna hurt me,
so you play along,
and it dont feel right and it dont feel wrong.
It just like a memory,
barely alive,
when will we let it die.
Who'll be the one
To say goodbye
Who'll be the one to stay
When Love Fades
Simply brilliant! The dual vocals with himself towards the end are especially great. WHY IN THE WORLD it wasnt released as a single is beyond me. This would have been an EASY #1 HIT!
Blue Bedroom: Not a slow song but a heavier type lost love song. One of those: "I lost you and i miss you and come back home" songs. Totally throws you off being sequenced right after When love fades which was a "I know its over, lets break up" kind of song. good nonetheless!
New Orleans: A story song in the same type as a Jim Croce or Harry Chapin type of story song. About a woman and man who get together. She fled a bad relationship in New Orleans and how she is getting on with her life. GREAT TUNE!
Country Comes to Town: One of the huge hits this album produced! Strange to hear a horn section in a country song but it works and VERY WELL!
Heart To Heart (Stelen's Song): Stelen is Toby's son. A nice poignant tale about how children are or can be with their parents.
She Only Gets That Way With Me: Kinda like my ex-wife, she only gets THAT way with me. Well, except with her other exes. Who get THAT way RIGHT BACK AT HER! This is a good song but my stupid joke may not be representative with what this song is about.
Die With Your Boots On: One of the weaker tracks, for a non-country fan (or someone who likes a small amount of country songs. This sounds modern with an old time country topic.
You Shouldnt Kiss Me Like This: Another of the hits. To me a ballad is not a country song, just like it isnt a rock song or anything like that. The only evidence of country in this love song is the twang to his voice, if even that.
Hold You Kiss you Love You: I love the beat to this one. For when you get that lustful feeling with the one you love.
Bottom Of My Heart (do i know you): A sad lost love type of song, and a very good one at that!
I Know A Wall When I See One: Ever date someone who got away and you wish you hadn't let that happen? Then this is your song!
This album is under 40 minutes which is a shame but it is a FANTASTIC, PHENOMINAL ALBUM!
