The song is a play on the Cars "Let the Good Times Roll" which was released in 1978 when the Cars were new on the music scene. Westerberg wrote this song 20-25 years later. Perhaps as a slap to the fact that the Replacements and Westerberg never "hit the big time" like the Cars did. Westerberg is wallowing in his self pity in the song. But every Mats fan and Westerberg fan knows he DID hit the big time...we know it everytime we listen to one of his songs.
The song is a play on the Cars "Let the Good Times Roll" which was released in 1978 when the Cars were new on the music scene. Westerberg wrote this song 20-25 years later. Perhaps as a slap to the fact that the Replacements and Westerberg never "hit the big time" like the Cars did. Westerberg is wallowing in his self pity in the song. But every Mats fan and Westerberg fan knows he DID hit the big time...we know it everytime we listen to one of his songs.