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- Artist: Bottle Rockets
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- Release Date: September 19, 1995
- Genre: Rock
Review
While the Bottle Rockets' brand of Skynyrd-esque raunch & roll is considerably more good-timey than most of the band's roots rock brethren, their incisive, provocative songwriting skills set them squarely among the genre's elite. The Brooklyn Side, produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, is fairly bursting with dead-on character studies exploring the realities and quiet desperation of rural Southern life, from the darkly humorous ("Sunday Sports," about a family man who finds that watching TV in his underwear is "the only way to get away from everything else" in his life) to the poignant ("Welfare Music," a depiction of the struggles facing a young single mother). The band also possesses a wickedly comic edge, as evidenced by "Idiot's Revenge" (a diatribe against alt rock rhetoric), "1000 Dollar Car" (a eulogy for a used automobile), and the flamethrowing single "Radar Gun" (the tale of a sadistic, ticket-happy traffic cop). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Welfare Music | The Bottle Rockets | (3:18) | |
| Gravity Fails | The Bottle Rockets | (3:21) | |
| I'll Be Comin' Around | The Bottle Rockets | (2:43) | |
| Radar Gun (Lyrics) | The Bottle Rockets | (3:15) | |
| Sunday Sports | The Bottle Rockets | (4:59) | |
| Pot of Gold | The Bottle Rockets | (3:28) | |
| Thousand Dollar Car | The Bottle Rockets | (4:46) | |
| Idiot's Revenge | The Bottle Rockets | (3:45) | |
| Young Lovers in Town | The Bottle Rockets | (3:33) | |
| Take Me to the Bank | The Bottle Rockets | (2:37) | |
| What More Can I Do? | The Bottle Rockets | (4:23) | |
| Stuck in a Rut | The Bottle Rockets | (4:45) | |
| I Wanna Come Home | The Bottle Rockets | (3:12) | |
| Queen of the World | The Bottle Rockets | (3:54) |
