Can't Have Nothin' Nice

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Can't Have Nothin' Nice
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Compilation album by
Released1992
Label Crackpot Records
Gear Daddies chronology
Billy's Live Bait
(1990)
Can't Have Nothin' Nice
(1992)

Can't Have Nothin' Nice is the third and final album recorded by Austin, Minnesota band the Gear Daddies. It is a collection of new and live versions of previously released songs as well as new songs that had never been released on an album (though many had been played in concert). It was released in 1992 on Crackpot Records.

Track listing

  1. Dream Vacation (about going to the Wisconsin Dells)
  2. Boys Will Be Boys
  3. Stupid Boy
  4. Spider Monkey
  5. Bored and 19
  6. My Maria (a cover of B. W. Stevenson later covered by Brooks and Dunn)
  7. Drank So Much (Just Feel Stupid)
  8. Get It Right Someday
  9. African Killer Bees
  10. Party Stomp
  11. Cut Me Off
  12. 2-18 (U.S. Route 218 runs through Austin, Minnesota)
  13. Iguana Man
  14. Wear Your Crown
  15. Black Superman (a cover of the Johnny Wakelin song referring to Muhammad Ali)
  16. Chip and Dale
  17. Color of Her Eyes
  18. Little Red Corvette (a cover of fellow Minnesotan Prince)
  19. She's Happy
  20. Blues Mary
  21. Minnesota Polka
  22. Strength
  23. African Killer Bees (reprise)


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