[ ]   [ ]   [ ]                        [ ]      [ ]   [ ]
Steve Miller Band — Going To Mexico
Album: Number 5
Avg rating:
6.5

Your rating:
Total ratings: 264









Released: 1970
Length: 2:23
Plays (last 30 days): 0
Pack my bags
Don't be too slow
I should have quit you baby
A long time ago
Left you flat
And split for Mexico

Don't try to stop me
Child, you're talkin' too fast
You and your friends babe
You are a thing in my past
You're much too slow
I'm goin' to Mexico

I've got four or five hundred miles to go


Down that southbound highway
'53 Studebaker goin' for broke
I'm pushin' it night and day
I've had enough of your lies
To last a long, long time
You and your mother, babe
You're like a nursery rhyme
You're much too slow
I'm goin' to Mexico

Yeah, come on baby
Yeah
Comments (56)add comment
For me, he blew my mind when I was still just a kid with "Space Cowboy," which got lots of airplay in '73-'74 or so, but indeed, he had been around and laid down lots of mighty trippy rock well before then. I truly do wish I'd been exposed to much more of his early stuff along the way... THANKS, RP!  You're the best!
We're going to Mexico for dos semanas!!  A Los Cabo Pulmos!
prolly his best album.
Very nice Bill, just heard an interview with him he's an interesting guy. Thanks RP.
Me likey mucho
"What's His Name" (from a comment on the previous song) was no slouch either, was he!
This song 8!
wow, I had forgotten how good he was!!
Yep, before he wandered over to the Top 40 side and then over the cliff, Steve Miller was pretty good. Maybe he still is, but you would never suspect from the latter products of this career that he recorded anything but shlock. The album this was from (can't recall the name; not the compilation shown here) was good stuff.
ed wrote:
Same set order again.
and again: 1:10 pm - Los Lobos - Good Morning Aztlan 1:08 pm - Steve Miller Band - Going To Mexico 1:04 pm - Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio 1:00 pm - Kirsty MacColl - In These Shoes? ...
I HAVE GOT TO GET THIS ALBUM!!!!!!!!!
Rockin Steve Miller before he mellowed out
That's your wife on the back of my horse... SGM was a bad cat in his day.
ed wrote:
Same set order again.
time to sit in those mexicali blues
Smokin' Old Miller!!!!!!! Rock it !!!!!!!!
I have to agree with those who say that Steve Miller's older stuff is better. A friend had the "Anthology" album which I didn't appreciate at the time and am still not familiar with. "Space Cowboy" just didn't do it for me at all, and since that was the hit song I had known, maybe I just tuned out when he put Anthology on the 'table. Later, I was introduced to "#5". Totally awesome! Perhaps "The "Joker" album was the start of his decline, but I'm a little surprised that no one has mentioned two gems from The Joker... "Lovin' Cup" and "Come On In My Kitchen" My 2 pennies worth... Nammy
Gangster Of Love Miller was the real deal for a while. Good stuff.
From https://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_065.html Vernon Green, leader of the Medallions, died Dec. 24th <2000> in a hospital in Los Angeles. Best known for "The Letter" and "Buick 59," they were the first doo-wop group to record for Dootone Records. Their first release, "Buick 69," (based on Todd Rhodes' double-entendre R&B hit "Rocket 69"), backed with a ballad called "The Letter," was a double-sided West Coast hit. Green's famous recitation on "The Letter" contained the nonsense lyric, "the pulpitudes of love," which was later picked up by Steve Miller as "the pompitudes of love"—which became the title of a 1990s film. So, yet another spelling. But at least Vernon gets the credit he deserves. There's your answer grasshopper.
Steve Miller used to have a personal recording studio in Applegate Valley, Oregon, near Grants Pass. My brother Dan owned a gas station in Grants Pass and one of his employees was Mark Skaggs, brother of Boz Skaggs. Mark would take us out to the studio and we'd mess around with Steve's stuff when he was on the road. It was a ton-o-fun.
mojoman wrote:
I'm still waiting to learn what the "pompatis of love" is.
Some things are not meant to be known, Grasshopper.
'53 Studebaker going for broke ... YES !!!
sharkartist wrote:
Ahhhh yes, back when Stevie"guitar" Miller had something to say.
Yeah, kind of a sad story with this guy... By the way Whoever STOLE this one from my collection along with Living in the USA - you can send back anytime, no questions asked.
I've never heard this. I like it.
Ahhhh yes, back when Stevie"guitar" Miller had something to say.
Hmmmm... Kirsty MacColl's "In These Shoes", followed by Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" and into "Going to Mexico".... Heading South for Christmas, Bill? ;)
Don't forget 'Brave New World'. Gnarlito wrote:
Steve Miller Number 5, Children of the Future, and Sailor are just so different than the later stuff.
First heard him at the Fillmore. The band was listed the "Steven Miller Blues Band" - they were like 4th down on the list of performers.....
No. 5, Right on!
I haven't heard Steve's earlier blues-influenced stuff played anywhere but my CD player. Ever. Kudos to Bill and RadioP!
Gets a +1 on the rating for the reference to a '53 Studebaker.
SuperWeh wrote:
wow, didn't know steve miller made music like this before all the other more popular stuff he did. Very cool.
Steve Miller Number 5, Children of the Future, and Sailor are just so different than the later stuff.
wow, didn't know steve miller made music like this before all the other more popular stuff he did. Very cool.
yes three cheers for this - and RP. I never thought i would hear this again outside my own collection .
RobRyan wrote:
This is from Steve Miller 5, one of the very few albums ever that I can listen to from start to finish. Goin to the Country, Good Morning... I used to turn the speed down on my turntable to learn the guitar licks in Tokins. Sadly he went downhill quickly, ultimately to record, in my humble opinion, one of the very worst songs ever - Abracadabra (sp?). Speaking of albums to which I can listen to from start to finish, how about Spirit - 12 Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus. Any cut would be "most excellent" but how about "It's Nature's Way?"
A big second on the Spirit record, especially Mr. Skin. Actually, I'm not that keen on "Nature's Way", but others are great. And double secondatation on the "Abracadabra" evaluation. The tragic part about it is I went to see Steve Miller at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, CA about 10 years ago, and the wildest applause was for "Abracadabra". I was so disappointed in the crowd. "I wanna reach out and grab ya" indeed.
This is from Steve Miller 5, one of the very few albums ever that I can listen to from start to finish. Goin to the Country, Good Morning... I used to turn the speed down on my turntable to learn the guitar licks in Tokins. Sadly he went downhill quickly, ultimately to record, in my humble opinion, one of the very worst songs ever - Abracadabra (sp?). Speaking of albums to which I can listen from start to finish, how about Spirit - 12 Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus. Any cut would be "most excellent" but how about "It's Nature's Way?"
I'm still waiting to learn what the "pompatis of love" is.
Don't buy the Anthology album--"Steve Miller 5" is much better and much more representative. Once in a while he gets it right.
Daveinbawlmer wrote:
This is the guy with all the funky stooopid vacuum cleaner sound effects on the other record he made. This sounds too much like iron butterfly or something.
Hey, I love those effects!. and just so you know, may of those effects made it onto the greatest hits collection I bought.
What's this? Made me look.
This is the guy with all the funky stooopid vacuum cleaner sound effects on the other record he made. This sounds too much like iron butterfly or something.
Folks, this is COOL and great licks on the guitar. Where is Steve Miller these days?
ScopArch wrote:
Stevie GUITAR Miller! The gangtser of Love! The older stuff is his BEST, :D/ with Boz Scaggs and the Band!
Agreed, The best stuff is the old stuff.
BrokenArrow wrote:
Anyone else find the guitar (especially at the beginning) to be a little to biting/screechy? Perhaps it is the copy of this song.
Yep, it is. Wish I still had my vinyl version of the album.
Very nice - wasn't familiar with this track at all. Thought it was maybe Los Lobos or Santana.
Like 68's sounds..Miller's Band has a natural sound..Make me fell free.. : )
Four more months of this crap and then I am down there baby for 6 months.
Anyone else find the guitar (especially at the beginning) to be a little to biting/screechy? Perhaps it is the copy of this song.
Stevie GUITAR Miller! The gangtser of Love! The older stuff is his BEST, \:D/ with Boz Scaggs and the Band!
Most folks had never heard of Steve Miller at this phase of his career and never knew that he had a lot of great music out before he hit the big time. The guy is talented and wrote and played some great rock, back when it was still mostly underground. Great stuff.
Ah yes, a great tune from back in the days before Stevie \"guitar\" Miller became a joker, if not a joke!
And next up, \"Hot Chili\" from Steve Miller Five. The perfect match.
Wow Bill, where\'dja dig this up :-) Brings back *seriously*fine* memories