On their self-released third album, Rooney mix West Coast catchiness with a sense of unrest. Over music that flits between Weezer and the Eagles, Robert Schwartzman sings about alienation ("Only Friend") and being a jobless schlub ("Don't Look at Me"). His best asset is his gift for breezy melodies, but Eureka's lyrics sag: The softly political "Stars and Stripes" ("There's nobody left to take the blame/We're all gonna have to take it together") sounds like a lite-rock parody of "Waiting on the World to Change."

“Helen Wheels”

A rollicking good-time hard rocker, "Helen Wheels" was not about a woman but about Paul McCartney's Land Rover, the anthemic chorus voicing the vehicle's reckless joy as "she" took to the road. The song was added to the U.S. version of Band on the Run but was issued only as a single in McCartney's native U.K. "I like that because it's a British road song and there's not many of those around," said McCartney. "It's always Route 66. But Carlisle? How many songs have got Carlisle in them?"