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song: The Good Life
artist: Cracker
album: Gentleman’s Blues
released: 1998-08-25length: 3:42
6.8
(1908)
This holy circus camp
Aladdin and his lamp
A feverish daydreams and suerte loca
My face in magazines
The lesbian James Dean
I got all I ever wanted

So I don't mind saying
This is how the good life's supposed to be
The good life for you, for me

Well I don't mind saying
This is how the good life's supposed to be
The good life for you, for me

Down miles of empty road
With acolytes in tow
You could be Persephone
A pigeon through the glass
A drunken trapeze act

Well you got all you ever wanted
So I don't mind saying
This is how the good life's supposed to be
The good life for you, for me

Well I don't mind saying
This is how the good life's supposed to be
The good life for you, for me

Well I don't mind saying
This is how the good life's supposed to be
The good life for you, for me

Well I don't mind saying
This is how the good life's supposed to be
The good life for you, for me

Well I don't mind saying
This is how the good life's supposed to be
The good life for you, for me

Well I don't mind saying
This is how the good life's supposed to be
The good life for you, for me
Cracker

Cracker is an American rock band formed in 1990 by lead singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman. The band's first album Cracker was released in 1992 on Virgin Records; it included the single "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)", which went to #1 on the U.S. Modern Rock chart. The band's follow-up, the 1993 album Kerosene Hat included the hit songs "Low", "Get Off This", and "Euro-Trash Girl".

Cracker has released nine studio albums and several compilations, collaborations, solo projects and live albums. The band mix influences and sounds from rock, punk, grunge, psychedelia, country, blues and folk.

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Comments ( 96 )
Posted 23 years ago by keenevision:
Ahhhhh Cracker! like a fine wine.... strained through a gas station rag! I love 'em for their 'rough edges'... always an interesting sound; EuroTrash Girl anyone?
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Posted 5 years ago by nickmetalx3317:
I don't mind saying this is what a great song is supposed to be!
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Posted 3 years ago by bahalana:
I'm starting to get a taste for Cracker thanks to RP. Makes me feel like "What did I miss?"
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Posted 20 years ago by ChardRemains:
So in the latest CamperVan Beethoven tour, Cracker opens and it's all the same guys pretty much. Dave changes his shirt for the "second set" which is CVB. I think I am getting this right. I don't care as long as they keep making music.
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Posted 7 years ago by coloradojohn:
Killer song from an amazing, talented, focused, and downright clever group. Real genius here... So glad I saw them New Year's Eve 2012-13; what a live show!
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Posted 14 years ago by Cynaera:
hippiechick wrote:
I always hear John Mellencamp's Human Wheels at the beginning of this song. Like Cracker alot. Especially with Leftover Salmon!
 
{#Lol} I bet you forgot you wrote this, didn't you? Too funny, hippiechick.  And yeah, I hear "Human Wheels" too.  Still, I really like this song. It's good driving music!  {#Motor}
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Posted 2 years ago by kingart:
As I've noted elsewhere (maybe down at the bottom of comments here) about Cracker, this is one of those bands I seldom or never heard before dialing in RP -- and now they're one of my favorites. Any day with some Cracker is a good day.
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Posted 4 years ago by milleymeister:
Beer drinking music
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Posted 11 months ago by joejennings:
 Edweirdo wrote:

This is so not my cup of tea ... and yet it's an 8, and in danger of becoming a 9.  I don't know what Cracker have got, but it's some good stuff.



Yep! I Agree.  I just bumped it up from 6 to 8. It is now on "M Favorites" list. ...it kinda grew on me!  
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Posted 5 years ago by tomperth1:
Never heard this - a very catchy powerpop tune.
You can definitely hear that late '90s alt-rock sound.
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Posted 7 years ago by deepwoodskev:
coloradojohn wrote:
Killer song from an amazing, talented, focused, and downright funny group. Real genius here... So glad I saw them; what a live show!

 
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Posted 7 years ago by ziakut:
Another crispy, cool and smart pop tune.
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Posted 20 years ago by cmrump:
Wow, 2 of all-time greats, Prine & Sinatra, followed by 2 of my favs of the 90's, TWS & Cracker. Where else but RP?!! Thankyou RP <-o<
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Posted 1 year ago by Edweirdo:
This is so not my cup of tea ... and yet it's an 8, and in danger of becoming a 9.  I don't know what Cracker have got, but it's some good stuff.
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Posted 7 years ago by Greenman:
Although a Crumb, even if I wasn't I would tell everyone that they should have this album in their collection.  IT IS THAT GOOD.{#Bananajam}
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Posted 15 years ago by Bat:
I just saw Cracker last week, for the first time, at a free show at SXSW.  They were the opening act, then BoDeans and Cheap Trick (what?  they're still around?)

I think they got the order exactly reversed.  I was there to see Cracker.  They were good but not very dynamic, just played their music and got on with it.  As the first act they only got 30 minutes which was a crime.  The BoDeans played perfectly good pop music.  Cheap Trick was a bore and I left halfway through.  A couple good hooks and a great name isn't enough to sustain for 25+ years.
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Posted 19 years ago by rjs:
deepwoodskev wrote:
Great song from an otherwise blah album from one of my favorite bands.
Awww, man, how could you insult this album on my birthday?? This one's great! Many Crackerheads consider this their best (I might also, if I could settle on just one best of Cracker, but I can't, I need three.) Go to crackersoul.com or the StrangelyCompelled or CrackerForever Yahoo groups and seek guidance. If this band truly is a favorite of yours, and you like this song, then you've got to pull the CD back out and play this song, then in this order: Seven Days, The World Is Mine, and Been Around the World for some of the best lead guitar you'll ever hear. May the force be with you, my son.
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Posted 1 year ago by kcar:
 nickmetalx3317 wrote:

I don't mind saying this is what a great song is supposed to be!


Almost as good as "Low"...
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Posted 1 year ago by TDS513:
every good cracker needs a fine wine and this one deserves one from 1823!
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Posted 5 years ago by jlind:
Kind of a nice segue from Woodkid
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