Posts by Alby

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2022 is weak even by the institution's abysmal standards. The best-known inductees are Dolly Parton (despite her request not to be…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona The Kentucky Derby is Saturday. Somebody will bet on the bay. Doo Dah. The singer in Stephen Foster’s “Camptown Races” did not bet on the…

"I eat the lines ahead of me." Chris Difford wrote that line more than 30 years ago, before you had to take your shoes off at the airport. From the…

Happy International Workers' Day, or la Fête du Travail as the government here prefers to call it. Workers just call it May Day. John Lennon once remarked that "Imagine" was…

Not woke yet, or just feeling a bit lacking in the wokeness department? Let the Boo Radleys remedy that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJXPTnPmm78 The Boo Radleys were an early '90s Liverpool indie four-piece…

There's no other way to put it -- the French just think differently from everybody else. Paul Gadd was just 15 when, calling himself Paul Raven, he cut his first…

Does Weird Al Yankovic take requests? If so, would someone please forward mine? I think this Lindsey Buckingham tune screams out for use as a salute to the current world's…

EARWORM ALERT Were they glam? Bubblegum? Power pop? Sweet was all of those things and more, depending on the song and the whims of their writer/producer, Mike Chapman, and his…