Swing to the Right

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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.

Track Listing:

[1] Swing to the Right

[2] Lysistrata

[3] The Up

[4] Junk Rock

[5] Shinola

[6] For the love of money

[7] Last dollar on Earth

[8] Fahrenheit 451

[9] Only human

[10] One World

Utopia, took this material on the road for a full year begging audiences to petition reluctant Bearsville Records execs to release it. The true irony of this chapter for the band is that the subsequent new label release, the self-titled LP on Network Records, was for all intents and purposes the record Bearsville always wanted them to make.