Songs About Albums: Record Reviews and Ruminations

***Songs About Albums: Record Reviews and Ruminations*** is the sixth album from the The Passionate and Objective Jokerfan.

It was released on November 6, 2011, just over six months after the artist's prior album. It has 70 tracks and a run time of 1 hour, 56 minutes. It is the second consecutive album from the artist to have at least 70 tracks.

## Cover art

The album cover features Farley sitting at a piano and looking directly into the camera. He is wearing a red t-shirt. The photo was probably taken at the same time as the cover of *Papa Razzi is Back. And He’s Singing More Nice Songs!* by Papa Razzi and the Photogs which was released about 10 days prior to this album.

## Songs

With the exception of two songs, every song is titled "A Review of..." an album, ranging from 1960s and 1970s classics from the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Van Morrison, up to more recent hits such as "Plans" (2005) by Death Cab for Cutie.

Track 1, *"Beach Boys Love You" (A Review of the Brilliant Album)*, reflects Farley's frequent promotion of this more obscure 1977 Beach Boys album, at least whenever the Beach Boys comes up.

One track is a review of one of Farley's own albums, *Stromboli’s Alarm Clock* (2010) by Moes Haven.

On "A review of 'Jugular'", Farley credits Dan Speake for giving him a copy of this little known 1990 album by Vigilantes of Love.

## Reception

As of February 2022, this album only has one review on Amazon. Music critic Allan Brown was not pleased with the album in this 2017 review: "Can't tell you the convoluted path that led me here. Essentially it's a 2 minute joke that runs on for almost 2 hours. If Hell has a soundtrack, it would sound like this." Matt Farley found the review five days after it had been posted and tweeted it.[1]

The most streamed song from this album on Spotify as of February 2022 is "A Review of 'Veedon Fleece'" (2,052 streams).

## Tracks

1. "Beach Boys Love You" (A Review of the Brilliant Album) 2:25
2. A Review of "If a Band Plays in The Woods" 1:19
3. A Review of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" 1:56
4. A Review of "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player" 1:53
5. A Review of "Exile on Main Street" 1:49
6. A Review of "Beggars Banquet" 1:35
7. A Review of "Tattoo You" 1:20
8. "Ram" is Even Better Than "Smile" 2:23
9. A Review of "Check Your Head" 1:15
10. A Review of "Life's Rich Pageant" 1:39
11. A Review of "The Joshua Tree" 2:14
12. A Review of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" 1:25
13. A Review of "There Goes Rhymin' Simon" 1:13
14. A Review of "Time Out of Mind" 1:39
15. A Review of "Teenage Dream" 1:40
16. A Review of "Automatic For the People" 1:23
17. A Review of "Double Fantasy" 2:11
18. A Review of "Pink Moon" 1:14
19. A Review of "After The Gold Rush" 1:50
20. A Review of "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" 1:28
21. A Review of "Shot of Love" 2:02
22. A Review of "Dark Side of the Moon" 1:24
23. A Review of "Kid A" 2:31
24. A Review of "Vs." 1:15
25. A Review of "The Wall" 1:08
26. A Review of "Tapestry" 1:41
27. A Review of "Green River" 1:19
28. A Review of "Born in the USA" 1:47
29. A Review of "Who's Next" 1:35
30. A Review of "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner" 1:46
31. A Review of "Tumbleweed Connection" 1:52
32. A Review of "The Nylon Curtain" 1:56
33. A Review of "The Stranger" 0:55
34. A Review of "Small Change" 1:44
35. A Review of "Mule Variations" 1:20
36. A Review of "Whip-Smart" 1:18
37. A Review of "Crooked Rain Crooked Rain" 1:18
38. A Review of "Let it Be" 1:37
39. A Review of "Gentleman's Blues" 1:27
40. A Review of "Plans" 1:39
41. A Review of "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robot" 1:29
42. A Review of "Hold Time" 1:46
43. A Review of "Stromboli's Alarm Clock" 1:45
44. A Review of "All Hail West Texas" 1:22
45. A Review of "Run Devil Run" 0:54
46. A Review of "Paul Simon" (The Album) 1:24
47. A Review of "Give Up" 1:12
48. A Review of "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" 1:49
49. A Review of "Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren" 1:28
50. A Review of "Achtung Baby" 1:36
51. A Review of "St. Dominic's Preview" 1:23
52. A Review of "Jugular" 1:55
53. A Review of "Summerteeth" 1:18
54. A Review of "Spiro T. Agnew is a Riot!" 2:55
55. A Review of "Blood on the Tracks" 1:47
56. A Review of "OK Computer" 1:54
57. A Review of "The Bends" 1:55
58. A Review of "Ringo" 1:23
59. A Review of "The White Album" 1:52
60. A Review of "Harvest" 1:34
61. A Review of "Rust Never Sleeps" 1:15
62. A Review of "Blue" 2:03
63. A Review of "Paul's Boutique" 1:36
64. A Review of "So Jealous" 1:15
65. A Review of "Abbey Road" 2:10
66. A Review of "Astral Weeks" 2:13
67. A Review of "Veedon Fleece" 2:33
68. A Review of "Loaded" 1:41
69. A Review of "Highway 61 Revisited" 2:03
70. A Review of "Pet Sounds" 1:27

## References

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