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''Swing to the Right'' is a Utopia (featuring Todd Rundgren, Roger Powell, Kasim Sulton, and Willie Wilcox) album from 1982. It followed the well-intentioned Beatles parody/homage ''Deface the Music''. ''Swing to the Right'' swings into hard-edged commentary on corporate raiders, warmongers, political villains, and despicable music industry moguls. There is little in the way of progressive rock on this album, which is limited to its title track. Originally recorded in the Winter of 1981 and set for release that June, Bearsville Records was reluctant to release the album because of the album's overly political and religious tone. In protest Utopia took this material on the road for a full year begging audiences to petition Bearsville Records execs to release it, even going as far as giving out the phone number and address of Bearsville Records and instructing audiences to ask for Albert Grossman. The cover photo is a retouched and tinted reproduction of a well-known photograph taken at a public burning of Beatles records, which took place in 1966 in the American South in response to John Lennon's controversial "We are more popular than Jesus now" remark. It depicts a group of youths standing around a bonfire, while in the foreground a boy holds an LP which is about to be thrown into the fire. In the original image, the album the boy holds is the American version of The Beatles debut LP ''Meet The Beatles'', but on the Utopia cover this has been photographically replaced with an image of the ''Swing To The Right'' cover (thereby creating the illusion of an endless regression of the same image). ==Track listing== All songs by Utopia unless otherwise noted. #"Swing to the Right" – 4:21 #"Lysistrata" – 2:43 #"The Up" – 4:08 #"Junk Rock" – 3:13 #"Shinola" – 5:21 #"For the Love of Money" (Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Anthony Jackson) – 3:40 #"Last Dollar on Earth" – 4:13 #"Fahrenheit 451" – 2:47 #"Only Human" – 5:11 #"One World" – 3:24 ''Some CD reissues include the bonus track "Special Interest"''. One song entitled "God and Me" was left off the album, but is available in bootleg form 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swing to the Right」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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