I probably don't care enough about the lyrics (that the perks of not being a native speaker) to love or hate this. It's mildly interesting, I wasn't blown away by it. I guess it belongs to this list because of the original version of You can leave your hat on? anyway.
Wow, the tonal dissonance on this album is something else. I knew that Randy Newman had a thing for mawkish tearjerkers on film soundtracks, but I really wasn’t expecting the opening track on this to be about the slave trade. Yikes. We then crash zoom into a cabaret style song about a jaded and debauched star, followed by a supernatural number and then one about a dancing bear. Wait, what? We also get a cheery number about starting a nuclear war for the fun of it.