Posts by Alby

Today's tune is in honor of Mike Bloomberg's policing policy which, considering this song was recorded in 1968, shows that mini-Mike wasn't an innovator but a reactionary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2pGBv9Ly6A Of course,…

Ray Stevens is best known for his prodigious output of comic songs, a few of which were actually worth a chuckle. He also had a big hit with "Everything Is…

Not even Bernie Sanders goes so far as to call for redistribution of land -- it took a bunch of Canadian hayseeds from the plains of Manitoba to do that.…

I have no idea why this song popped into my head the other day, because I don't think I've heard it in years. Obscure even for a one-hit wonder, Alive…

I hate to repurpose one of my favorite songwriters, but this should be the theme song for the rest of Donald Trump's first, and with luck only, term as president.…

This one is for the Senate Republicans. Congratulations, fellas. As the chorus of this one-off collaboration goes, you played yourself. Thanks to Ice-T, that phrase was already in circulation when…

The most quietly devastating song on Randy Newman's misunderstood album "Rednecks" reveals its protagonist in a moment of drunken self-awareness and self-loathing that goes a long way to explaining his,…

Question time continues in the Senate, but this question, posed 50 years ago by Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues, still hasn't been answered. This was the Moodies' second-best-selling single…

The Sound of Philadelphia dominated popular music in 1975, when records produced by Gamble & Huff for the O'Jays, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, and the Three Degrees filled…

Thanks to John Bolton, Republican senators are indeed caught in a trap -- a perjury trap. They've been lying for the White House, but the White House never told them…

Billie Eilish, the 18-year-old pop phenomenon from Los Angeles, swept the four major categories -- record of the year, album of the year, song of the year and best new…