# De-puzzling puzzling album titles

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [November 23, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/de-puzzling-puzzling-album-titles/1025070 "2025-11-23T20:08:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/de-puzzling-puzzling-album-titles/1025070/8 "2025-11-23T22:27:06Z")

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Joe Walsh’s “The Smoker you Drink, the Player you Get” is a play on what was apparently a common 1970s musician expression “The higher you get, the better you play.” This thread prompted me to do some research to find that out. In the process I found an [old SDMB thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-meaning-to-joe-walsh-the-smoker-you-drink-the-player-you-get/142366) asking about the title.

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