Lest we forget Green’s favorite pastime, “Drugs” drives the point home - hitting us over the head again and again with empty lyrics: “I like to have drugs. I like to do drugs.” And I say, who cares? “Novotel” is oddly familiar – haven’t I heard a PG-rated version of this song in a Dr. Seuss movie?
Semi-hilarious and equally offensive is the closer, “Hairy Women”: “I have praise for every fantasy that braves a hairy nipple” and “There’s no place inside this romance for a girl who’s clearly balding.” Speaking straight from the heartless heart or did he eat a bad mushroom? One can only wonder for half a second.
Jacket Full of Danger is neither armed nor loaded with anything too memorable. Green is on a tightrope that teeters between a lounge act and a rhinestone cowboy. But while he’s trying to find himself, I’ll keep imagining Bill Murray performing JFOD on Saturday Night Live thirty years ago. Now, there’s a lounge lizard that fits perfectly into this Jacket.
Article comments
1 - Gordon Hauptfleisch
Great review, and highly entertaining except that for some reason I can't get the vision of Glen Campbell as Lizard King out of my head.
2 - joanne
Thank you!
3 - Somewhere
Somehow I think you just don't "get it."
4 - joanne
I think I got it...I just don't like it.
5 - harvey
yeah you don't like it cuz ts actually smart, well written and not on mtv. Glen cambell? how are you een allowed to write a review?????