Chris Cornell - 'She'll Never Be Your Man'

[audiogarden]

This song is gaining stations and spins on the mediabase Active Rock chart.

Has anyone heard it yet? Does anyone know when it officially goes for adds?

[Crushcrushchris]

That's rather odd. Apparently a video had been booked for Arms Around Your Love unless it had been changed last minute.

[audiogarden]

cfw828 said:

That's rather odd. Apparently a video had been booked for Arms Around Your Love unless it had been changed last minute.

I read that too. But, She'll Never Be Your Man is on both the Jump chart and the Taking Off Chart for Active Rock.

I just wish they would decide on a real single to release to itunes and/or Real Player.

I am beginning to wonder if they are going to make us wait until the CD drops on June 5.

[Crushcrushchris]

wm.allaccess.com/allaccess/chrishel.wma

There it is.

I'm surprised they're releasing the second single so early.

[audiogarden]

Thanks Wuho. That is an interesting subject for a song, but Chris sounds phenomenal.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Any way related or inspired or associated with the Scissor Sisters? ;)

How are the prospects on this for rock and alternative radio?

[Chato]

One of the best vocal performances I ever heard by Chris. Not my favorite song , but these vocals are insanely good.

[audiogarden]

WuHo, I can't thank you enough for that link. The more I play that song, the more I love it.

This has to be one of, if not THE, best rock or pop vocals of all time.

The harmonies are perfect. The man's vocal chords have to be made out of something totally different that the rest of us.


He can bend a note until it screams for mercy, and howl until we all scream for mercy.

Just, wow.

I hope this hits on radio, but quality has never seemed to be the chief criteria for a radio hit.

[audiogarden]

www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=72029

CHRIS CORNELL: 'She'll Never Be Your Man' Audio Sample Available - May 7, 2007

Former AUDIOSLAVE/SOUNDGARDEN singer Chris Cornell has reportedly selected the track "She'll Never Be Your Man" as the next U.S. single from his upcoming solo album, "Carry On", due on June 5 via Suretone/Interscope. A 42-second audio sample of the track, which is scheduled to go for radio adds on May 14-15, can be heard at this location.

(follow the url above).

[tommy]

Fantastic song

[fatalthirteen]

The title makes no sense...maybe you need to hear the song first.

[tommy]

I read that the lyrics deal with a woman leaving a man for another woman. Hence, she'll never be your man.

The more I listen to the song, the better it gets. Cool piano in it

[tommy]

the A.M. finds me
home alone awake in bed
morning blinds me
had that dream of you again
fog is lifting
i realize that you're not here
and how you left me
life disappeared

life is rejection
i know you've had your share
but this one's special
i can't compete with her
and did she tell you
only she could know your mind
and did she sell you
i gotta say it one time

she can be your lover
she can be your friend
she can be your vision of a mother like the one you never had
she will know your troubles better than i can
but she'll never be your man
she'll never be your man
she'll never be your man

she's got you thinking
of a world where you might fit in
a whole lot better
than the one you've been living in
and did she tell you
only she could understand
and did she sell you
only time will tell

she can be your lover
she can be your friend
she can be your vision of a mother like the one you never had
she will know your troubles better than i can
but she'll never be your man
she'll never be your man
she'll never be your man

she can be your lover
she can be your friend
she can be your vision of a mother like the one you never had
she will know your troubles better than i can
but one thing's for sure
she'll never be your man

she can be your lover
she can be your friend
a vision of a mother like the one you never had
she will know your troubles better than i can
but one thing's for sure
she'll never be your man
she'll never be your man
never be your man
she'll never be your man
never be your man
never be
she'll never be your man

[allnightmarelong]

Chris Cornell and his label are confusing me. they released No Such Thing. than they decide to release Arms Around Your Love. I went into work and we have a play copy of his album, The Roads We Choose: Retrospective (greatest hits) album. it has 3 of the new songs from the album on it yet this doesn't have a street date. than now he's releasing another song for Carry On.... come onnnnnn.
(p.s. you can find the Retrospective album on torrent sites cause I can't find it in any stores).

[pen]

No Such Thing was the first US single, Arms Around Your Love was overseas. This is the second single. No confusion.

[damnnnitzzjohn]

Never even heard the first single!

[American Idiot]

Well No Such Thing is currently at #115 on Alternative and #45 on Active Rock, so I'd imagine not many people are hearing this on their respective stations.

[damnnnitzzjohn]

The station I work at is a top 40 station.

I will probably buy the CD anyways.

[Pipa]

www.chriscornell.biz/files/mp3/promo/neverbeyman.mp3

Not bad, but a little bland. Way better than "No Such Thing".

[winner2000]

Just DL'ed the album....pretty damn underwhelming at first listen, although a few tracks stood out to me ('Safe & Sound', 'Finally Forever' and 'Poision Eye' were OK). I have the feeling this album won't do too well on the charts which is a bit of a shame I suppose, although I guess it serves him well for putting this POS out.

[Crushcrushchris]

www.myspace.com/chriscornell

You can hear his album there. I have to say that I expected Billie Jean to be a train wreck compared to the live version that leaked. Amazing. I haven't really heard most of the rest of the album...but that has to be among the best.

[Deleted]

Sort of diggin' this tune...

[Active Aggressive]

This man could sing the damn phone book and I would still buy it, without actually hearing a song from the album. He is one of those artists that I just support based on that voice alone. I will definitely be buying this today. Luckily, Best Buy has it for 10 bucks. It must be worth at least that, right?

[MusicJunkie]

theonlyway said:

This man could sing the damn phone book and I would still buy it, without actually hearing a song from the album. He is one of those artists that I just support based on that voice alone.

Same here. I figured follow his amazing voice because you never know what name it might fall under next. lol

[Active Aggressive]

Uh-oh...I am only a couple songs in but the first solo CD was an immediate hit for me. This may be a grower but it's definitely not bad and I'm sure I will end up loving it. His voice sounds flawless. How does he do it??

[SyrupBoy]

theonlyway said:

His voice sounds flawless. How does he do it??

[audiogarden]

So NOT pro tools.

He can do that live for 2 1/2 hours, and still sound great.

www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070608/TUSK02/70607016/1010/NEWS05

Chris Cornell proves he's just as good on his own


By Sarah Rodman
The Boston Globe

June 08, 2007

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A few minutes ago, Chris Cornell was every inch a rock star.

Stalking the stage during an April show at Avalon, the feral singer previewed songs from “Carry On,” his new album out Tuesday, and sang classics from the two mammoth rock groups he fronted. Every fist-pump-worthy high note was ecstatically cheered by an adoring sold-out crowd.

Belting out brawny teeth-rattlers like “Outshined” by Soundgarden (the most muscular of the groups to take the flannel carpet ride out of Seattle in the ‘90s) and “Cochise” from Audioslave (the new-millennium supergroup he formed with three-quarters of Rage Against the Machine), Cornell moved with a leonine grace and sang, at 42, with a voice still limber enough to make an Olympic gymnast envious of the way he sticks his landings.

But now, backstage calmly sipping hot tea to soothe that golden-god-of-rock throat, Cornell is soft-spoken and very much a normal dude, albeit one with the smoldering good looks to make him the model of choice for designer John Varvatos. But either side of Cornell -widescreen or life-size -is a portrait of a happy man.

He is happy to be solo again, following the February demise of Audioslave - due to “irresolvable personality conflicts and musical differences” - after three albums. He is happily married to his second wife, Vicky, who sits in on the end of the interview because, the mother of his two toddlers says only half-jokingly, he won’t even tell her what his new songs are about. (At least one, the ultra-romantic ballad “Finally Forever,” is about her and is destined to be a hipster wedding staple.) He is content to live part-time in Paris, where the onetime line cook owns the “new American” restaurant Black Calavados and where he hopes to retire one day to a life of mingling with diners, cigar smoking, and belly growing. He is thankful for his half-decade of sobriety. And most of all, he is thrilled to have achieved a level of success that means he can go out and play whatever he wants.

Unlike with previous outings, Cornell wants not only to showcase “Carry On” but to rediscover every phase of his career, through ever-evolving set lists. Playing some Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog songs for the first time has been particularly exciting. “My thing really has been trying to do these songs the way I always wanted to do them, and enjoy doing new songs as well as anything old that I feel like doing, and being in a frame of my mind where I’m not hammered ever, totally sober and awake and aware and experiencing all these songs that way,” he says.

It was not always thus. On his first solo tour in 1999, Cornell was both drinking heavily and focusing almost exclusively on his autumnal debut album, “Euphoria Morning.” Although the drinking was clearly a problem, temporarily abdicating his grunge throne was a necessity.

“I just felt like if I didn’t come out right after Soundgarden and do something different and fresh for me I might not be allowed by my audience to do it later,” says Cornell. “I think you really have to draw that line in the sand. Some fans will get off the ship but others won’t, and you’ll get new fans. But ultimately you have to do that. I think I did it successfully.”

Now, with “Carry On,” he is combining the different and the familiar. Cornell fuses his love of the meaty, outsized rock that made his name with other influences ranging from the Beatles to Jeff Buckley to early Rod Stewart on a record that is his most lyrically straightforward yet stylistically varied.

Producer Steve Lillywhite, famed for his work with everyone from U2 to the Dave Matthews Band, says he was attracted initially by Cornell’s voice and his willingness to examine “how you move through your career and still keep your audience but change your music. He doesn’t want to do the same songs that he did. He’s a different person now.”

Indeed, in addition to his life changes Cornell tries new things as a songwriter, using more direct language while introducing blues, electronic, soul, and folk textures to his trademark heavy rock sound.

There is the whimsical hard funk of “She’ll Never Be Your Man,” partially based on the true story of a friend whose girlfriend left him for another woman. The taut, acoustic “Ghosts” finds Cornell realizing that not only has his physical geography changed, but his emotional place in the world as well. And “Safe and Sound,” a bittersweet musing on the meaning of peace and mutual respect, in which Cornell declares a belief in “the promised land” as stately horns sigh in the background, is his “Imagine.”

At first he worried the song, with its concerns about war, violence, and indifference, was too naive. “That’s basically admitting that in the face of all this I still have hope,” he says. (He dedicated the song that night at Avalon to the families of the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings.)

Hope was not a major commodity in previous Cornell songs such as “Pretty Noose,” “Black Hole Sun,” and “Like a Stone.” And he admits with a laugh that the juxtaposition of him as “a guy who was in macho bands, who took his shirt off, to come out and say ‘I still have hope that things could actually be peaceful and great and good’ -and it’s not the ‘60s -is a little weird.”

Drummer Jason Sutter, who anchors Cornell’s new touring quartet and is familiar to Bostonians from his stints with Jack Drag and Juliana Hatfield, believes Cornell has been liberated by the new material. “There’s much more to these songs than (@) first listen. There really is some interesting chordal and melodic stuff that he’s never done before. It’s not as heavy as a lot of Soundgarden, but all that Soundgarden stuff is still there. And when we play live, there really is a nice balance.”

That balance is likely related to Cornell’s sobriety. “I feel way more connected to the emotions of the songs whether I like it or not,” Cornell says. “I never used to really go on loaded, I did a few times in my career, but to go on just completely dead-on sober, it’s very different. Consequently, the live tapes sound much better.”

And his new bandmates are impressed with his stamina. Sutter marvels at the epic 2-1/2-hour shows that the band recently played in Europe.

“When somebody gets up there and they’re scheduled to play an hour and a half and you play another hour on top of that, that’s coming from ‘I’m having a great time up here,”‘ he says on the phone from a Louisville tour stop.

Cornell confirms that with both his words and the gratitude he expressed onstage at Avalon. When talking about the songs that address emotional growth and hard-won insight on the new album, Cornell observes, “If people aren’t moving forward in a positive way, they’re moving backward in a negative way.”

In this third act, he is determined, as his album title states, to carry on. And the people around him are excited to see where he goes.

Says producer Lillywhite, “I love artists who take their audience on a journey, and Chris does that.”

[Active Aggressive]

Tell 'em, audiogarden!
ProTools, Chris Cornell? Nuff said about that.

[reception]

said:

Does anyone know when it officially goes for adds?

May 14 at the three rock formats.