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NRBQ - NRBQ at Yankee Stadium (1978)

Track listing:
  1. Green Lights 2:56
  2. Just Ain't Fair 3:03
  3. I Love Her, She Loves Me 2:31
  4. Get Rhythm 3:01
  5. That's Nice, That's Neat 3:13
  6. Ain't No Free 3:27
  7. I Want You Bad 2:34
  8. The Same Old Thing 2:24
  9. Yes, Yes, Yes 2:57
  10. It Come To Me Naturally 3:02
  11. Talk To Me 2:42
  12. Shake, Rattle and Roll 3:37

Notes

More than just NRBQ's best record, but one of the great records of the '70s (maybe ever!). This album contains the strongest batch of new Q songs on one record, many of them the best and most memorable songs in the band's long and storied career. Starting with Terry Adams' herky-jerky "Green Lights" to the rollicking "I Want You Bad," the band has rarely sounded better. The record's gem, however, is an Al Anderson song left over from their previous record (All Hopped Up on Red Rooster), "Ridin' in My Car." A song about lost love and blown chances, it has Anderson's characteristic wry sensibility and (non-fatal) heartache, all wrapped up in a ebullient pop package driven by Terry Adams' melodic keyboard riffing and Tom Ardolino's amazingly assertive drumming. Yankee Stadium should have been a huge album, but Mercury booted it and never capitalized on the band's fanatical support base. Caveat emptor: When this record was issued by Mercury on CD just a couple of years back, they inexplicably left off "Ridin' in My Car."