DU Album of the Day: "Road Food" The Guess Who
This post made necessary by someone bad-mouthing The Greatest Rock and Roll Band of All Time. You know who you are.[font color="white"] cliffordu
[font color="black"]Released in 1974, this was The Guess Who's last turn in the top 40. Surprisingly enough, it wasn't the single "Star Baby," but rather the more novelty-flavored "Clap for the Wolfman" that marked the band's last foray into commercial success. The album has been denigrated as uneven or indulgent, but the Hardest Rocker with the Greatest Mustache in Rock History (Burton Cummings, and no, that's not a porn star name, so stop saying that) would beg to differ, as would his innumerable legions of fan.
Besides the singles, however, there is music that rivals the best blues and the hardest rock, and lyrics that put so-called poets to shame. Who indeed can hear Cummings croon "Have you ever seen a Madras monkey" and not have their life changed for good? With an ouevre as chock full of greatness as The Guess Who, it's no surprise that they would reprise "Don't You Want Me" from their "Rocking" album, updated for the finer sensibilities of the mid-1970s. Nay-sayers are invited to pay particular attention to the inspired lyrics for the fate that awaits those who do not want The Guess Who.
Rock On!
1 Clap for the Wolfman
2 Pleasin' for Reason
3 Road Food
4 Ballad of the Last Five Years
5 Star Baby
6 Attila's Blues
7 Straighten Out
8 Don't You Want Me
9 One Way Road to Hell
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Those are some lyrics. 
Where was the outrage.
