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The Bottle Rockets — Idiot's Revenge
Album: The Brooklyn Side
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Released: 1994
Length: 3:44
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Well, she likes Dinosaur Jr
But she can't tell you why
Says "You like country music?
Man, you deserve to die"
She got that whacked-off hair
Got them second-hand clothes
Got an itemized list
Of everything she loathes

Well, she's so political
So sophisticated
She will swear in court
That everything's just overrated

Well, her parents are really cool
You know they love that Motown beat
Well my baby with the kitchen and insulation
When she can't stand the heat

Support Amnesty International
For all to see
So it's ok when they use
The word "nigger" privately

Well, they're so political
So sophisticated
They will swear in court
That everything's just overrated

Well, I know that there's no balance
To the stuff I just sang
She thinks I'm a redneck idiot
Because I talk with a twang
But this is my only weapon
And I know that it ain't fair
She'll never listen to it anywhere
So I guess that she won't care


Yeah, she's so political
So sophisticated
She will swear in court
That everything's just overrated
(x2)


(Well that's about all the vocals there is, but if you want to hear more, I can keep on truckin')
Comments (106)add comment
 westslope wrote:

The lyrics are great.  

Probably applies to most who identify with the counter-culture or believe they are sophisticated urbanites.   




ohhh, how very judgey! 
Posted 5 months ago by DocStrangelove    [ Reply ]
The lyrics are great.  

Probably applies to most who identify with the counter-culture or believe they are sophisticated urbanites.   
Posted 7 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
OK, how bout some Kinky Friedman? They Ain't Makin Jews Like Jesus Anymore would be perfect for Good Friday and Pesach!
Posted 7 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
I'm definitely hearing Southern Culture on the Skids here! And yeah, it is a fun song... (and now I wanna watch the flick, Bottle Rocket!)
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Pyro wrote:
I think this song is fun and upbeat. Some folks just need to chill with their attitudes....it's just a SONG fer krissakes!! And a funny one at that. Sort of James McMurtry meets Southern Culture on the Skids...

Posted 7 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 Ulises wrote:
Snowflakes, remember that the 1st Amendment is not for speech you agree with, but rather for speech you disagree with.

 
wow, real insight. must have aced your middle school social studies curriculum
Posted 7 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
 Shmelo wrote:

This is shit. Pure shit. Music for morons to justify to themselves that they're mouth breathing troglodytes.

 
elephant
Posted 7 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Snowflakes, remember that the 1st Amendment is not for speech you agree with, but rather for speech you disagree with.
Posted 7 years ago by Ulises    [ Reply ]
I think all right thinking people are wrong.
Posted 7 years ago by DocStrangelove    [ Reply ]
Next we need to hear "The lap dance is better when the stripper is crying" by the Bloodhound Gang.
Posted 8 years ago by Geecheeboy    [ Reply ]
 Shmelo wrote:

This is shit. Pure shit. Music for morons to justify to themselves that they're mouth breathing troglodytes.

 
Is the irony intentional? I think it must be.
Posted 8 years ago by ScottFromWyoming    [ Reply ]
 Shmelo wrote:

This is shit. Pure shit. Music for morons to justify to themselves that they're mouth breathing troglodytes.



 
Methinks that yours are the knuckles that drag.
Posted 8 years ago by h8rhater    [ Reply ]

This is shit. Pure shit. Music for morons to justify to themselves that they're mouth breathing troglodytes.


Posted 8 years ago by Shmelo    [ Reply ]

Posted 8 years ago by treatment_bound    [ Reply ]
Protect freedom of speech! Play this song again.
Posted 8 years ago by DocStrangelove    [ Reply ]
 anniebear wrote:
wow, what a fucked up song. Bill, please reconsider whether or not this song belongs on the playlist because it really is pretty offensive.
 
Please play it again!  I loved it.  Nothing like poking fun at people who deserve it.  And I don't find it offensive.
Posted 8 years ago by Imkirok    [ Reply ]
 Walrus_Gumbo wrote:
Oh my yes! Save me from the horrors of free speech!!!
 
Looks like he did reconsider... And back on it went!
Posted 8 years ago by christopherwoods    [ Reply ]
I take revenge on no one today: it's a beautiful May day! 
Posted 8 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
sounds alot like Mr Robert Earl Keen. Let's hear a lil bit o him out here.
Posted 8 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
I've known more than a few people who would be accurately described by this song.
Posted 11 years ago by Baby_M    [ Reply ]
anniebear wrote:
wow, what a fucked up song. Bill, please reconsider whether or not this song belongs on the playlist because it really is pretty offensive.
Oh my yes! Save me from the horrors of free speech!!!
Posted 16 years ago by Walrus_Gumbo    [ Reply ]
the bounce-o-meter is off the scale! ...bounce...bounce...
Posted 16 years ago by donpdonp    [ Reply ]
I like it because its a bunch of "red neck", "honkie" "whitetrash" with a twang doing it. Ohhhhh I'm so fricken offended. Better not use them words. Word Police is going to pay my trailer a visit soon.
Posted 17 years ago by cutterjudd    [ Reply ]
Never thought I'd hear a connection to Dinosaur Jr.in a song like this!
Posted 17 years ago by FluorideFreeMN    [ Reply ]
Countrytime on RP. Feeling like a Redneck this morning.
Posted 17 years ago by prickelpit96    [ Reply ]
mgkiwi wrote:
Yeeeehaaaaaa
Exactly!
Posted 17 years ago by madaxeman    [ Reply ]
MJMJ wrote:
and I only removed the letters in the word so that RP won't show up on google inappropriately. And so people with no sophistication won't think *I'm* "using" the word too! heh
So if I quote you quoting the song quoting the girl... does that get me in trouble?
Posted 17 years ago by UltraNurd    [ Reply ]
I think this song is fun and upbeat. Some folks just need to chill with their attitudes....it's just a SONG fer krissakes!! And a funny one at that. Sort of James McMurtry meets Southern Culture on the Skids....
Posted 17 years ago by Pyro    [ Reply ]
Worth a couple of notches up the ratings for the lyric: "Says "You like country music? Man, you deserve to die" So that'll be a 3 then!!
Posted 17 years ago by tiggers    [ Reply ]
Yeeeehaaaaaa
Posted 17 years ago by mgkiwi    [ Reply ]
bindi wrote:
Cool tune, funny lyrics, but how do white guys (I'm assuming)- especially white guys with a Southern accent get away using the most offensive word in the english language?
I guess because the song's criticizing someone for "using" that word, rather than "using" the word itself. Stating the word as a quote of someone and "using" the word are actually two different things, ya know. song lyrics from https://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858650720 "When she can't stand the heat Support Amnesty International For all to see So it's ok when they use The word "n*****" privately" and I only removed the letters in the word so that RP won't show up on google inappropriately. And so people with no sophistication won't think *I'm* "using" the word too! heh
Posted 17 years ago by MJMJ    [ Reply ]
Where's Country Dick Montana when you really want to sling some beer? Oh yeah, he died on stage! Way to go, Dick - RIP.
Posted 17 years ago by siandbeth    [ Reply ]
bindi wrote:
Cool tune, funny lyrics, but how do white guys (I'm assuming)- especially white guys with a Southern accent get away using the most offensive word in the english language?
Yeah, that definitely caught my attention also - but I would hope most will keep it in the proper context and not get all PC about it.
Posted 17 years ago by eskles    [ Reply ]
Cool tune, funny lyrics, but how do white guys (I'm assuming)- especially white guys with a Southern accent get away using the most offensive word in the english language?
Posted 17 years ago by bindi    [ Reply ]
These guys do a great job on their "$1,000 car" song, it's hilarious.
Posted 17 years ago by strick    [ Reply ]
Honkey Talk is not Dead, others to check out; the Drive by Truckers and the Ex Husbands. If you really want to dive deep you should check out DM Bob and the Deficits (germans gone southern)
Posted 17 years ago by biggeorge    [ Reply ]
anniebear wrote:
wow, what a fucked up song. Bill, please reconsider whether or not this song belongs on the playlist because it really is pretty offensive.
Ah, AnnieBear. I knew we could count on you to get offended.
Posted 17 years ago by hcaudill    [ Reply ]
A hint of Mojo Nixon in there?
Posted 17 years ago by Bad_Art    [ Reply ]
the melody is 100% pure bounce! fun!
Posted 17 years ago by donpdonp    [ Reply ]
Pot, meet kettle!
wow, what a fucked up song.
Hilarious you used that word in your statement against offensiveness. I think you missed the point of the song, btw.
Posted 17 years ago by meydele    [ Reply ]
Calling Commander Cody ...
Posted 17 years ago by kazuma    [ Reply ]
wow, what a fucked up song. Bill, please reconsider whether or not this song belongs on the playlist because it really is pretty offensive.
Posted 17 years ago by anniebear    [ Reply ]
"Settle down, Beavis!" It's only rock'n'roll, but I like it!
Posted 17 years ago by Darkmatter    [ Reply ]
LordBaltimore wrote:
It would be nice to have some kind of warning before a song drops the N-bomb. Those of us listening in cubicles would appreciate it!
Geecheeboy wrote:
I agree. Yet when I said that very same thing about the F-bomb in a different song, I was accused of being a self-appointed head of the FCC and someone else railed against censorship. Others went crazy about artistic integrity and deep meanings being lost if the language was "more appropriate." Funny huh.
If you guys actually work in a place where it would be trouble for 1 lyric in a song then I truly feel sorry for you. I suspect you both just need to calm the hell down tho! ;)
Posted 17 years ago by johnny_h    [ Reply ]
noisy! nice!
Posted 17 years ago by federico    [ Reply ]
Huh. I originally gave this song a 3. Must have been in a bad mood that day. Moved it up to a 6.
Posted 17 years ago by not-a-fish    [ Reply ]
rtkmusic wrote:
Bottle Rockets - Idiot's Revenge Lucinda Williams - Can't Let Go Nice segue!quote> Downright seamless! Nice work RP!
Posted 17 years ago by youngj    [ Reply ]
Bottle Rockets - Idiot's Revenge Lucinda Williams - Can't Let Go Nice segue! Singer sounds like Lou Whitney of the Skeletons, the prototypical bar band from Springfield MO - just a bit south of Festus :)
Posted 18 years ago by rtkmusic    [ Reply ]
hahaha the lyrics for this are brilliant.
Posted 18 years ago by davin    [ Reply ]
Geecheeboy wrote:
Opens like "Don't Mess with my Toot-Toot," dontcha think?
Sweet fancy moses, I forgot all about that song. You're absolutely right. That "toot-toot" song was one of my stepdad's favorite songs. I loved him in spite of that.
Posted 18 years ago by cattgirl813    [ Reply ]
RobRyan wrote:
Hmm.. Lucinda Williams followed by Bottle Rockets. I saw Lucinda at the House of Blues Hollywood a few years back. Opening for her was .. you guessed it.. Bottle Rockets. Great show.
Same pattern today.....
Posted 18 years ago by MJB    [ Reply ]
It opens like " don't mess with my toot-toot"
That's just waht the song reminded me of. Man did I dig that song, only in a german cover-version "es macht immer tut-tut", when I was 5 years old...lol
Posted 18 years ago by ÜÖ    [ Reply ]
darrell711 wrote:
I dedicate this song to the residents of San Francisco.
Couldn't agree more!
Posted 18 years ago by JonnyNismo    [ Reply ]
Opens like "Don't Mess with my Toot-Toot," dontcha think?
Posted 18 years ago by Geecheeboy    [ Reply ]
I dedicate this song to the residents of San Francisco.
Posted 18 years ago by darrell711    [ Reply ]
Radio Paradise is so eclectic!
Posted 18 years ago by Stefen    [ Reply ]
good grief..I live in TX and even I gotta say - don't play this song ever again... I would most definitely chuck a beer bottle at this band in concert.. yipee kai yay mutha....
Posted 18 years ago by ndfan75    [ Reply ]
Hmm.. Lucinda Williams followed by Bottle Rockets. I saw Lucinda at the House of Blues Hollywood a few years back. Opening for her was .. you guessed it.. Bottle Rockets. Great show.
Posted 18 years ago by RobRyan    [ Reply ]
froggerwood wrote:
YEE HAW!
QFE Ought to pair that up with "Choctaw Bingo"
Posted 18 years ago by Harpua    [ Reply ]
positive karma ... was listening to the bottle rockets doing radar gun on a cd on the way into work this morning thinking that I'd never heard them on RP. YEEHAW indeed. long live longhair redneck bar bands!
Posted 18 years ago by slartibart_O    [ Reply ]
What this set needs next is some Georgia Satellites...
Posted 18 years ago by Zweiblumen    [ Reply ]
YEE HAW!
Posted 18 years ago by froggerwood    [ Reply ]
robca wrote:
Hey, it's radio paradise, not the disney channel....
Yes! And that's only one of the reasons I listen to RP and not Clear Channel stations!
Posted 18 years ago by hippiechick    [ Reply ]
Hey, it's radio paradise, not the disney channel....
Posted 18 years ago by robca    [ Reply ]
LordBaltimore wrote:
It would be nice to have some kind of warning before a song drops the N-bomb. Those of us listening in cubicles would appreciate it!
I agree. Yet when I said that very same thing about the F-bomb in a different song, I was accused of being a self-appointed head of the FCC and someone else railed against censorship. Others went crazy about artistic integrity and deep meanings being lost if the language was "more appropriate." Funny huh.
Posted 18 years ago by Geecheeboy    [ Reply ]
Jack_Jefferson wrote:
Fun guitar riffs and catchy lyrics! I could have done without the N word, though. I'm at work in a cubicle. Nonetheless, this is great stuff. I give it a nine.
I had to go look up the context:
Well her parents are really cool You know they love that Motown beat Provide baby with a kitchen and insolation when she can't stand the heat Support Amnesty International for all to see So it's ok when they use the word "nigger" privately
Posted 18 years ago by ScottFromWyoming    [ Reply ]
Fun guitar riffs and catchy lyrics! I could have done without the N word, though. I'm at work in a cubicle. Nonetheless, this is great stuff. I give it a nine.
Posted 18 years ago by Jack_Jefferson    [ Reply ]
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaw!
Posted 18 years ago by glassjawgrlxxx    [ Reply ]
If you like these guys, check out Cracker's album "Countrysides". It is pure country take off stuff!
Posted 18 years ago by horstman    [ Reply ]
Nice romper Bill! Love these guys.
Posted 18 years ago by zevon    [ Reply ]
hmmm, must be one of those experimental songs that plays pure silence ;)
Posted 18 years ago by crazycow    [ Reply ]
Johnny_Truant wrote:
Sounded good for the thirty seconds before my feed went dead.
Lost mine too, darn it.
Posted 18 years ago by Jacksonstat    [ Reply ]
Johnny_Truant wrote:
Sounded good for the thirty seconds before my feed went dead.
I hope he restarts it.
Posted 18 years ago by rluking    [ Reply ]
Sounded good for the thirty seconds before my feed went dead.
Posted 18 years ago by Johnny_Truant    [ Reply ]
It would be nice to have some kind of warning before a song drops the N-bomb. Those of us listening in cubicles would appreciate it!
Posted 18 years ago by LordBaltimore    [ Reply ]
Yeehaw!! That was fun
Posted 18 years ago by Jacksonstat    [ Reply ]
Mari wrote:
...like it or lump it, it's very well played for what it is and what it is is up to me here and you there, it's all the same to Bottle Rockets, he's just havin' a lot of fun doin' what he loves best and that's stirrin' the shit out of us, check out the revs. ... ...
Right on
Posted 18 years ago by algrif    [ Reply ]
This whole album rocks....one great debut record!!
Posted 18 years ago by jedzep    [ Reply ]
As an idiot that has gotten his revenge from time to time, I love this tune. Bottle Rockets are a treasure!
Posted 18 years ago by thehamburgerpimp    [ Reply ]
I just really love the smokin' guitar!
Posted 18 years ago by laprincessa    [ Reply ]
Heh, being concerned about torture == "so political". Explains so much of the USA.
Posted 18 years ago by physicsgenius    [ Reply ]
Dahnyul wrote:
"She's got an itemised list of everything she loathes." Hey, I KNOW that girl!
Oh, so you dated her, too? Gosh, this is fun.
Posted 18 years ago by Baby_M    [ Reply ]
Love it.
Posted 18 years ago by DownHomeGirl    [ Reply ]
"She's got an itemised list of everything she loathes." Hey, I KNOW that girl!
Posted 19 years ago by Dahnyul    [ Reply ]
Don'tcha just love that toe-tappin' music! Bottle Rockets... ehhh... Rocks!!!!
Posted 19 years ago by SpaceCowboy    [ Reply ]
Posted 19 years ago by rolf    [ Reply ]
Posted 19 years ago by swelements    [ Reply ]
Oh GAWDDDDDDD This is FUn!
Posted 20 years ago by ediTed    [ Reply ]
Thank you. I was about to fall asleep at my desk. See, here on the east coast we've been at work for a few hours. zzzzzzzZZzzzzzzZZZZzzzz
Posted 20 years ago by ChardRemains    [ Reply ]
masterhead wrote:
It is all good clean fun, boys
doesn't mean you have to like it, though.
Posted 20 years ago by Angloray    [ Reply ]
Angloray wrote:
ooh, I totally agree about Hot Dog, but I like that song way better than this one. The movie is better.
It is all good clean fun, boys
Posted 20 years ago by masterhead    [ Reply ]
smillersmiller wrote:
This reminds me in a way of the (IMHO under-appreciated) song "Hot Dog" by Led Zeppelin.
ooh, I totally agree about Hot Dog, but I like that song way better than this one. The movie is better.
Posted 20 years ago by Angloray    [ Reply ]
yeah, me too: YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAW... ...
Posted 20 years ago by islander    [ Reply ]
hilarity. i like it.
Posted 20 years ago by PattonFever    [ Reply ]
Posted 20 years ago by Red_Dragon    [ Reply ]
JCJ wrote:
Weeee doggies!! great rockabilly
I'll be these guys kick ass in a live show!
Posted 20 years ago by Alexandra    [ Reply ]
gandalfbmg wrote:
"Uh, settle down Beavis" ROTFLMAO. I miss middle school. Bravo for mentioning Dinosaur Jr. too.
Hearing it again, my girlfriend would say this song describes me perfectly.
Posted 20 years ago by gandalfbmg    [ Reply ]
"Uh, settle down Beavis" ROTFLMAO. I miss middle school. Bravo for mentioning Dinosaur Jr. too.
Posted 20 years ago by gandalfbmg    [ Reply ]
This reminds me in a way of the (IMHO under-appreciated) song "Hot Dog" by Led Zeppelin.
Posted 20 years ago by smillersmiller    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by squarepixel: Yeeeeehaaawww!
You beat me to it. Exactly what went through my mind. Hang on lil' doggy!
Posted 22 years ago by justlistening    [ Reply ]
Weeee doggies!! great rockabilly
Posted 22 years ago by JCJ    [ Reply ]
Tongue planted firmly in cheek! Very good stuff. keep this sort of thing coming.
Posted 22 years ago by curtisls    [ Reply ]
Yeeeeehaaawww!
Posted 22 years ago by squarepixel    [ Reply ]
Stupidity is, indeed, the best revenge. I fake it whenever I can. Twang.
Posted 22 years ago by Patrick    [ Reply ]
My foot hasn\'t stopped tapping the whole way through!
Posted 22 years ago by gillespp    [ Reply ]
Genius.
Posted 22 years ago by lindydallas    [ Reply ]