Joe Walsh - You Bought It - You Name It

You know who didn't care about his solo albums? Joe Walsh. You Bought It - You Name It is generally considered his worst. I love it.

Joe Walsh is insane. He wanted to record this album with an actual mobile truck. The producer he hired said no, so Joe fired him and did a non-dolby recording at an old ballroom on Santa Catalina Island. It's got a WWII ship on the cover, Joe sings about random crap like not wanting to go to war in the middle east, big tits, and video arcades.

Who listens to Joe Walsh for the lyrical content? Dear Robert Christgau, all of Joe Walsh's albums are his comedy albums. He famously said something like "if i knew people were going to like Rocky Mountain Way, i would have done a better job."  You listen to Joe Walsh for the guitar playing. Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and Pete Townshend all said "yeah, he's phenomenal."

For listening to a guitar player play random stuff he just thought up, this is a pretty decent record. And Theme From Island Weirdos is just a great little piano piece with weird guitar parts and seagulls in the background that ends with an infinite loop of said sounds from the Pacific.  It's a pretty coherent project about being a dumb American. What's not to love?

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