The explanation for the title track of the album, Say It Ain't So, Joe, tells the story of baseball player Joe Jackson, along with other players of the Chicago White Sox team, following a game-fixing scandal in 1919, was denied by Murray Head.

The subject of the song is to denounce the attitude of Americans who, despite the Watergate scandal, continued to vote for Nixon.

Former Yes pianist and organist, Tony Kaye, also appears on the song "Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat".

The backing vocalists include Murray's brother, Anthony Stewart Head, as well as Liza Strike, famous for appearance the album The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd in 1973.

Vicki Brown was also a backing vocalist for Pink Floyd on tour, and she also assisted David Gilmour and Roger Waters as solo artists.