Of the HUNDREDS of vinyl LP's that I'd bought, I bet less than a handful of their "hit" songs...
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... ended up being even in the top HALF of the songs I really liked on that album.
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Usually, there were a number of lesser-known -- even UNknown songs that were
far cooler, superior, what-have-you.
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What I consider the closest thing to a PERFECT album ever recorded was "Dark
Side of the Moon". Its hit song -- "Money" -- is the only song I consider unworthy
of being there... the only song keeping it from being a fucking FLAWLESS recording.
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Thinking of Christmas tunes brought this Randy Newman song to mind (with just a
mention of Christmas at the end of the tune). The album? "Little Criminals". The
hit song? Probably his most well-known -- and WAY at the bottom of the quality
hierarchy of this album's songs -- "Short People".
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Though Newman's voice is technically LAME... it is one of those "awful" voices that
"work" bigtime -- like those of Willy Nelson or Johnny Cash.
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My favorite song from that album, played live here almost EXACTLY as it was
recorded in the studio, also comes close to being one of the most-strangely but
coolest-titled songs in Rock history: "Sigmund Freud's Impersonation Of Albert
Einstein In America".
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"Americans dream of Gypsies, I have found
and Gypsy eyes and Gypsy knives and Gypsy thighs
that pound and pound and pound
and African appendages that almost reach the ground..."
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GENIUS!!!
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Hope you enjoy this at least a FRACTION as much as I do.
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