The most well-known song of the album, the novelty "Why Don't We Get Drunk (and Screw)", was originally released as a B-side, backing the single "The Great Filling Station Holdup", and inspired some controversy at the time due to its lyrics.

Buffett wrote "Why Don't We Get Drunk" and is credited with doing so, and with playing maracas and beer cans on the album, under the pseudonym Marvin Gardens; derived from a property on the original Atlantic City version of the Monopoly game board.

"He Went to Paris", inspired by musician Eddie Balchowsky, is a perennial fan-favorite ballad, appearing on most of Buffett's greatest-hits collections.

Walker recorded the song a year earlier than Buffett, and it was later further popularized by Lefty Frizzell, Merle Haggard, and Willie Nelson.

[citation needed] Johnny Loftus of AllMusic argues, "while it still lies much closer to Nashville than Key West," the album "does begin to delineate the blowsy, good-timin' Key West persona that would lead him to summer tour stardom" and is "highly recommended for Buffett completists and those interested in his more introspective side.