The other day I met a girl named Joy
She said, "Roy, I'm gonna make you my joy boy."
Well she took me for a ride … sort of a joy ride
Now every time I think of Joy
I get all weird inside.

The cake part is pretty straightforward. In L.A., many families, especially Hispanic families, hold parties - especially birthday parties - in the public parks. MacArthur park was one of those parks. You'd see the picnic tables covered with tablecloths and then the birthday cake on top. If you happened to catch a…

"Ten Easy Pieces" has Webb doing many of his most familiar songs in a simple vocal/piano style. It's an interesting record since everything on it seems like a cover version. Some work well that way, some not so much. Surprisingly, MacArthur Park makes perfect sense in that setting.

"Heart Attack and Vine" has some of the early style ballads, like "Jersey Girl" and "Saving All My Love," but you're right, it's a guitar-driven album. The title cut could have been on "Swordfish Tombones" along with "Gin Soaked Boy" & "16 Shells" and now that I think about it, "A Soldier's Things" could have…

I forgot about that album. My daughter was scared to death of that cover too. The 'mats cover of Cruella DeVille was great though.

It seems to me that anticipating how unreasonable people are going to act is one of the things that reasonable people do when evaluating their actions. It's one of the reasons why you don't wear a Steelers jersey to a Raiders home game.

@staircar1:

Steve Martin

A Mse once bit my sister …

@offisapup: I was looking at the playing card to the bottom left of Eno's photo.

If you like BoaC, check out "I Buried Paul," which is a piece of theirs that takes as its theme those weird couple of bars at the end of "Strawberry Fields Forever" after the fake fadeout.

If you don't care, you won't get to meet Susan.

For years I thought "Here Come the Warm Jets" was a really cool science-fiction-y kind of name. It reminded me somehow of the helicopters from Apocalypse Now, sort of alien and organic. Then I looked closer at the album cover …

@clueless - good one.

And you've got to give the nod to Johnny Thunders & Co for best "Daddy Rollin' Stone" cover, or at least best "Daddy Rollin' Stone Cover" sung by three famous dead guys.

And son, that drummer grew up to be … Abraham Lincoln!

I hate to be obvious, but mine is "The Kids Are Alright" with "A Legal Matter" a close second.

When I was a teenager I asked for the new Elvis Costello record for my birthday and received the new (only?) Elton Motello record.

@Mongo - Yes indeedy!

Just because she appeared in Freaky Friday and directed Chinatown doesn't mean she should escape from justice.