What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



Sixth album, with the hit Short People. Couldn't believe that was a hit. Not a bad song, just so dumb. Yes I know it wasn't meant to be taken literaly. Randy did take some heat from the vertically challenged, which probably resulted in pushing the song to #2 and the album to #9, his best selling ever. Members of the Eagles were on most of these tracks, Walsh, Schmit, Frey, Henley, also JD Souther and Ry Cooder. My favortie of Rider In The Rain sounds like something off of Desperado. Missing those great Eagle harmonies on the clip. Two other top ranked tracks with Baltimore and the Sigmund Freud number, which was written for the movie Ragtime, then not used. Nothing bad on here, making this a just miss love album. Not Randy's best album, but a good one.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Old Man On The Farm

Best Track - Rider In The Rain

Got a gun in my holster
Got a horse between my knees
And I'm goin' to Arizona
Pardon me, boys, if you please

I have been a desperado
Raped and pillaged 'cross the plain
Now, I'm goin' to Arizona
Just a Rider In The Rain

He's a Rider In The Rain
He's a Rider In The Rain
And I'm goin' to Arizona
He's a Rider In The Rain

Oh, my mother's in St. Louis
And my bride's in Tennessee
So, I'm goin' to Arizona
With a banjo on my knee

He's a Rider In The Rain
He's a Rider In The Rain
And I'm goin' to Arizona
He's a Rider In The Rain

Used to work in Uncle's feed store
While he was fightin' in the war
Now I'm goin' to Arizona
Ain't gonna work for him no more

I'm the son of the prairie
And the wind that sweeps the plain
So, I'm goin' to Arizona
Just a Rider In The Rain

He's a Rider In The Rain
He's a Rider In The Rain
And I'm goin' to Arizona
He's a Rider In The Rain

He's a Rider In The Rain
He's a Rider In The Rain
And I'm goin' to Arizona
Just a Rider In The Rain

1) Short People **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC8C5kq7hds
2) You Can't Fool The Fat Man **
3) Little Criminals **
4) Texas Girl At The Funeral Of Her Father **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzXODq41j6A
5) Jolly Coppers On Parade **
6) In Germany Before The War **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-34xJCI7MY
7) Sigmund Freud's Impersonation Of Albert Einstein In America ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08B3KgelWss
8) Baltimore ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhdh8kSM7lY
9) I'll Be Home **
10) Rider In The Rain ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5SuDN58OsA
11) Kathleen (Catholicism Made Easier) **
12) Old Man On The Farm **

3's - 3
2's - 9
1's - 0

Grade - 2.3

so many albums, so little time