Posts by Alby

Theme song for the Delaware Cash Handout Council, or whatever they're now calling the governmental agency that gives away your tax dollars to undeserving corporations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr_uHJPUlO8 This was RHCP's first…

This should be the theme song for the Democratic electorate, or at least the MSNBC portion of it. Paul Westerberg's masterpiece from the 1984 "Let It Be" album is delivered…

This pop earworm hit No. 1 in America late in 1975, earning the band, which marketed the Edinburgh quintet as tartan-clad teen idols despite the band having been around for…

Was this tune from Steely Dan's debut LP, "Can't Buy a Thrill," about Richard the Lionhearted or Richard Nixon? The album cover claimed the song contained "no political significance." The…

No, I didn't watch the "debate." Open up your eyes, folks -- we're fighting on the same side. In their early days gigging around Philadelphia, years before they signed a…

Yesterday Trump pardoned every white-collar criminal he's seen on TV, from Michael Milken and Eddie DeBartolo to Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Kerik and, I'm pretty sure, Doctor Loveless from "The…

In the late '60s and into the '70s, Mt. Pleasant High School would annually book a national-level band for a concert. Fifty years ago tonight the school played host to…

Hey, it's Presidents Day, so who better to play at the party? PUSA, like virtually all '90s alt-rock bands, made a splash with its debut in 1995, then quickly faded…

The lyrics make this sound like a religious song, and in a way it is, but it didn't spring from any Christian tradition. Strawbs got together in England in 1964…

Brexit has revived talk of Scottish independence, a topic that always reminds me of this song in which Scottish twins Charlie and Craig Reid proclaimed their support for cutting ties…