Song of the Moment: Let the Records Play

[harmless]

This isn't cool swaggery blues, though!!!!!!!!

[stip]

okay, first better quality listen and I can safely say, knowing that once your board credibility hits zero it can't get worse, that this is a really good song. Not a great song, but a really good one.

[Mike]

okay, first better quality listen and I can safely say, knowing that once your board credibility hits zero it can't get worse, that this is a really good song. Not a great song, but a really good one.

I agree but I like everything. I'm not sold on the chorus but everything else is at least pretty good.

[delanoche]

Well this is an odd little song. When it first started, I was certain I'd never want to hear it again. Then it kept growing on me and I was all "never mind, this one's alright." Then it got to the end and I was all "eh, maybe not." But that's how I felt about Johnny Guitar too, and I wound up becoming quite a fan of that one.

[EJ]

The 10-15 second bridge (at least, I think its a bridge), is the part I like in this song. If they had only used this as the frame for a song, I think they'd have something.

[mkay0]

This really isn't a good song.

this really isnt a good post

I thought it was a good post, because it was exactly what I was thinking.

[dimejinky99]

This one makes a lot more sense now surrounded by the whole album.
Whole thing needs an uptempo/fun one after the few before it.

[bodysnatcher]

Without having listened to the album yet, I'm most frightened about this one due to all the reviews

[Biff Pocoroba]

I was not expecting this one to grow on me but it might just be. One those songs that you need to be in a certain mood to enjoy maybe?

[McParadigm]

One those songs that you need to be in a certain mood to enjoy maybe?

Not unlike a prostate exam, then.

[EJ]

One those songs that you need to be in a certain mood to enjoy maybe?

Not unlike a prostate exam, then.

At least with that exam your junk might get an inadvertent nudge.

[McParadigm]

One those songs that you need to be in a certain mood to enjoy maybe?

Not unlike a prostate exam, then.

At least with that exam your junk might get an inadvertent nudge.

from a blistered thumb, no less.

Texture can be its own reward, my friends.

[daft twat]

I love the image this song creates in my mind. It makes alcoholism seem romantic. It reminds me of this poem in that regard.

My Papa's Waltz

The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.

We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.

The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.

You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.

[jforte20]

I didn't think I'd still like this song when it leaked, but I do

[BurtReynolds]

Hot

[William Bloke]

Looking at the few song ranking lists I saw I was expecting total crap when Let the Records Play came on, but from the first notes I loved it. I'm partial to some bar room R'n'B and this is done just fine for me. A song with some groove always gets extra brownie points from me. This could be my favourite thing about this album.

[fishbob]

The chorus ain't so bad, the verses are just super cheesy

[Birds in Hell]

the chorus sounds like jeepers creepers. just imagine "jeepers creepers.. where'd ya get those peepers? jeepers creepers... he lets the records play". it you like that then you're set.

This is all I hear.

Every single time.

Thanks, Adam.

[harmless]

Ain't nothing wrong with a bit of show tune influence.

[evenslow]

If the lyrics are written about God's perspective, which I think they are, this song automatically gains a point in my official evenslow RM ranking system.