kcar wrote: 
Are you serious?  To sell a few more records, of course.  I'd buy a full-sized LP, because it looks like it might be a pretty good woman's butt.  Can't hardly see the pictures on CD covers at my age, though.

"from the first grade princess to the last homecoming queen ..."  Cute song!

 Proclivities wrote: 
I'd characterize that statement as poorly thought out.

Rodney Crowell was writing songs with Guy Clark, Steve Earl, and Townes Van Zandt when Tom Petty was still practicing music in his buddy's garage in Gainesville.

Then he led Emmylou Harris's band, wrote and produced his own, Roseanne Cash's, and Johnny Cash's records before he was 30. Pretty freakin' good for a white-trash kid from East Houston.

Simply put: Rodney sings like Rodney. Like his Daddy J.D. taught him to.

He is one of, if not the most, original talents in country singer/songwriting in the last 40 years. Not my opinion, just the facts.

 kcar wrote:
 
Re Re the album cover: what exactly is the point of the dude in the foreground? He's blocking the view.

I get Rodney.  Good stuff - mostly underrated.

 Saw Rodney at Feat Fan Excursion (nigrel, jamica) in January. What a great four nights of music.

 kcar wrote: 
...wondering on the tattoo

 aelfheld wrote: 
Tom Petty unapologetically sings like Dylan.  Rodney Crowell's around the same age as Tom Petty, and has been in the music business as long, if not longer, but it's interesting how many people adopt that vocalizing style.

Another song on the CD is "Closer to Heaven" and it is great.
That song alone is worth buying the CD.

 kcar wrote:
  Who cares?

 aelfheld wrote: 
I was thinking of a young Bob, but you're right—you have to throw Tom into the mix.

Re the album cover: what exactly is the point of the woman's butt in the background? 

Good tunes, great lyrics. You gotta love Rodney Crowell

Sounds like the bastard offspring of Bob Dylan and Tom Petty.

 Felix_The_Cat wrote: 
Ask your momma.

Man - this song is SO good.  Here are lyrics, and what I love most is that one hundred people will interpret this song one hundred different ways. Sometimes viewpoints intersect or run parallel, but the fun is in the listening...

So much beauty abs & tush
Swoop down on you like a burnin' bush
Pop religion bullwhip thin
Says you ain't nothing but the shape you're in
Come on now girl genuflect nude magazine
This mean old world runs on sex and gasoline

19 candles adorn your cake
Life's simple pleasures is a chance you take
So here's the skinny indulge the urge
Then sometime later you can binge & purge
Come on little girl we both know what I mean
This mean old world runs on sex and gasoline

You're pushing thirty why you old hag
Here's something dirty for your shopping bag
You spend the money and here's the deal
We'll do our best to mend your sex appeal
Ah come on dear girl the process is routine
This mean old world runs on sex and gasoline

You're over forty that's it for you
I'm pretty sure there's nothing else that we can do
Perhaps the convent Perhaps the knife
You woulda coulda shoulda been a rich man's wife
Come on old girl Lolita in her prime was yet thirteen
This star crossed world runs on sex and gasoline

Tired ol story sad but true
We mama's boys have got it in for you
Our faults are many our virtues nil
We never loved you and we never will
Ah come on now girl It's time we both come clean
This mean old world runs on sex and gasoline

From the first grade princess to the last homecoming queen
The Star crossed world runs on sex and gasoline
The whole wide world runs on sex and gasoline
Oh yes and your momma's world ran on sex and gasoline

 lmic wrote: 
But the problem comes when he generalizes what is prevalent in US (and to some extent the developed world) to the whole world. And that is where I disagree with the lyrics. So no, the WORLD does not run on sex and gasoline, although some parts of it do.

 jadewahoo wrote: 
". . .fixation with obsession."  Is that from the department of redundancy department? 
 

I find this song to be a rockin' denouement of the commercialized fixation with obsession. And a rollicking good tune!

Wait, I thought it ran on Sax and Violins.

   Rodney is brilliant!!! Glad to hear something from him.

 lmic wrote: 
I was thinking TEN.

11

Same old story but its true. 

I get gasoline all over town but sex only at home. 

 MJMJ wrote: 
...interesting!...definitely!

I would have to say that Rodney nailed it here....most won't see it, but it IS the bare truth.  I have thought that Rodney Crowell was one of the most innovative, personally, of my youthful days

 lmic wrote: 
Both are highly flammable?