This single highlights the Neckbones' schizophrenia. Or, as mama used to say, too many cooks spoil the broth. I don't know the details, but with more than two songwriters with different styles, you might have quality-control problems. I love
Souls on Fire, but it is a better record with ten songs, not sixteen. We got a similar problem here. The A-side, "Hit Me," is debauched fun, bringing back those wonderful early morning felt memories when you and your buddies are all beaked over the table, spewing bad jokes and driving the post-dinner couples back to their rooms, whooping it up and laying it down and waking up the next afternoon with a stupid smile and two crumpled bills on the night table. It's a Vegas party anthem for the wee hours and nay a saxophone blows. You can almost smell the puke when that sucker ends. The B-side is a generic, blues-based bar rocker. OK, in the old days, the b-side was supposed to blow. But not anymore. One dude got one side and the other got the flip, and we got bipolar disorder. Note to self: program Tyler Keith songs consecutively and get sorry ass back to the green. Those bastards still have my money.
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Go cat go. Your output is amazing. I bought two singles based upon your reviews. You are doing God's work.
But when will the Eddie Money reviews come?
Speaking of Eddie Money, I just watched thirty minutes of Sammy Hagar live on some Direct TV special that was jaw-dropping. He had a bar in the corner of the stage and two of the hottest chicks I've ever seen in black bikinis, cowboy hats and stilettos dancing around and every song or two delivering Sam a new glass of tequila, which they would bend over to place lovingly on the stage. Sammy shot a bazooka full of streamers into the crowd, screamed "I need pussssssssssssy" and slapped one of the beauties on her ass after she was finished serving him. He then played "I Can't Drive 55." Stunning. I'm going back to Madame Bovary now.
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