2000 Great Songs #1389: That Tone Of Voice
For our second visit to Amy Rigby 's phenomenal 1996 solo debut Diary Of A Mod Housewife , we're going for the raucous "That Tone Of Voice." A stylistic outlier, Amy veers from her gentle folk/country-rock into some blistering cowpunk for another great break-up-about-to-happen song. The fiery two-chord romp comes from the school of the Velvets' " Sister Ray " and the Modern Lovers' " Roadrunner " and Wire's "Strange"--yeah, I've got a whole playlist of these things!--but at heart it's just a rocked-out country song with distorted guitars, Farfisa slashes, and, yep, cowbell! The brilliant refrain "Don't look at me in that tone of voice" is something so perfectly clever it's shocking the song hasn't been covered to death by everyone in Nashville, but what can you do? See the entire Top 2000 to date in a sortable database !
