Pop Culture from an Alternate Dimension

       250 years ago, the United States was fighting a bloody war with Great Britain to gain independence, yet the two nations are still inextricably linked, especially in pop culture. Influences from movies, music, etcetera go both ways. So it makes sense that the Commonwealth would have songs showing mixed feelings of the U.S. (for the sake of simplicity I will define the Commonwealth as any country that had Queen Elizabeth on their money).         I open the album with "Kids in America" who is English and was an adult when she recorded this song. David Bowie follows with another song of American youth. The Scottish band Simple Minds follow, Brits Supertramp have a spot of "Breakfast in America" and The Clash say how they feel about the U.S.A. Aussies AC/DC give their appreciation of American thighs in "You Shook Me All Night Long". E.L.O. are "Calling America" while The Proclaimers of Scotland look forward to a "Letter from America"....

       Sometimes I will hear someone say modern music is just nonsense, whereas the music from their youth all had deep meaning. I was thinking about songs through the decades that nonsense. If we can get albums of songs in different languages, what if there was an album with songs with gibberish lyrics?      Some of these songs have nonsense titles but the song makes sense, like the songs by Trio, The Police and The Crystals that start this album. The song "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" tells a story in English with the refrain of "da ba dee". The song "Pinhead" gave us "gabba gabba hey" which became a catchphrase for The Ramones. Robert Baden Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, "Ging Gang Goolie" which intentionally written in gibberish so anyone could sing it. The version I included is from Dirk and Stig (Eric Idle and Ricky Fataar) of the Rutles. Louis Jordan's "Push Ka Pee Shee Pie" tells the story of a young man from Trinidad who...