I hate most of Steve Miller's songs; he is a terrible lyricist and lazy as hell in every way. But I think I hate this one the most. He ripped the idea off, not from Woody Allen's parodic 1969 film of the same name, but from the 1972 movie "The Getaway," directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw. I'm not much into light-hearted humor centered around cold-blooded, self-centered sociopaths. Quentin Tarantino's films leave me cold.
As for Miller, he can play guitar. Like Clapton, he is best as a lead guitarist with someone else doing the heavy lifting of songwriting and singing. Even then his riffs and solos are often mind-numbingly repetitious. I turn off the radio when this song comes on. In fact, I do that with pretty much all his songs. The exceptions are "Living In The USA" and "The Stake." Those two I find listenable. Everything else is garbage.
@mbrachman In Quentin Tarantino movies, the "bad guys" either get some sort of comeuppance in the end (Honey Bunny and Pumpkin end up on the wrong side of Jules, for example), or they only visit their evil upon even worse "bad guys."
@mbrachman In Quentin Tarantino movies, the "bad guys" either get some sort of comeuppance in the end (Honey Bunny and Pumpkin end up on the wrong side of Jules, for example), or they only visit their evil upon even worse "bad guys."
I hate most of Steve Miller's songs; he is a terrible lyricist and lazy as hell in every way. But I think I hate this one the most. He ripped the idea off, not from Woody Allen's parodic 1969 film of the same name, but from the 1972 movie "The Getaway," directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw. I'm not much into light-hearted humor centered around cold-blooded, self-centered sociopaths. Quentin Tarantino's films leave me cold.
As for Miller, he can play guitar. Like Clapton, he is best as a lead guitarist with someone else doing the heavy lifting of songwriting and singing. Even then his riffs and solos are often mind-numbingly repetitious. I turn off the radio when this song comes on. In fact, I do that with pretty much all his songs. The exceptions are "Living In The USA" and "The Stake." Those two I find listenable. Everything else is garbage.
@mbrachman In Quentin Tarantino movies, the "bad guys" either get some sort of comeuppance in the end (Honey Bunny and Pumpkin end up on the wrong side of Jules, for example), or they only visit their evil upon even worse "bad guys."
@mbrachman In Quentin Tarantino movies, the "bad guys" either get some sort of comeuppance in the end (Honey Bunny and Pumpkin end up on the wrong side of Jules, for example), or they only visit their evil upon even worse "bad guys."
Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue are two amateur criminals who managed to turn a basic burglary into a murder and somehow, they're the heroes?
Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue are two amateur criminals who managed to turn a basic burglary into a murder and somehow, they're the heroes?