It's Like This

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It's Like This
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 12, 2000
Genre Pop, rock
Label Artemis [1]
Producer Rickie Lee Jones, Bruce Brody [2]
Rickie Lee Jones chronology
Ghostyhead
(1997)
It's Like This
(2000)
Live at Red Rocks
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Robert Christgau Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Entertainment Weekly A− [5]
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It's Like This is an album by the American singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, released in 2000. [7] [8] Like her 1991 album Pop Pop , it is a covers record. [9] [10] The album was nominated for a 2001 Best Pop Traditional Record Grammy Award. [11]

Contents

Critical reception

The Washington Post wrote that "the album's most successful track is Jones's sinewy reading of Steely Dan's edgy missive, 'Show Biz Kids', [which] kicks off with just terse triangle and Richard Davis's snaky bass, with Jones tapping into the caustic detachment and cool cynicism the song's writers always intended." [9]

Track listing

  1. "Show Biz Kids" (Donald Fagen, Walter Becker) – 4:35
  2. "Trouble Man" (Marvin Gaye) – 5:12
  3. "For No One" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:32
  4. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner) – 1:49
  5. "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood) – 5:13
  6. "On the Street Where You Live" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 3:26
  7. "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 4:30
  8. "Up a Lazy River" (Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin) – 2:50
  9. "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:03
  10. "Cycles" (Gayle Caldwell) – 3:16
  11. "One Hand, One Heart" (Leonard Bernstein) – 1:58

Personnel

Technical

Chart positions

YearChartPosition
2000Billboard 200148 [12]
2000Top Internet albums10
2001Top Independent albums42

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