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Trying to pick songs to offer from Gets It On is tricky cause they're all so goddamned special.  "Dirty Woman" seems like a classic SBSS tune, until he throws in the line, "I like a waitress, I'm a sucker/But you can't tell me you wouldn't fuck her."  Now that's the kind of bastard I want to have a Jameson with.  "The Devil Went Down to Georgetown," takes the classic spooky gothic country tale, laces it with banjo plucking, grand slide guitar gestures and harmonies so dense you'd need a torch to find your way out.  And then there are the ever-surprising covers that Patton takes and makes his own on Gets It On.  There's no joyous "Yeah Yeah Yeah!" in this version of "She Loves You."  In fact, Patton takes one of the most well known Beatles songs and obscures it behind a curtain of pain so delicate it almost breaks your heart when he sings, "She said you hurt her so/She almost lost her mind."  This is a man who knows what he's doing and it takes more than one listen to get to the depths of this Sad Bastard's records.