For the late, great WFB Jr. Inspired by Bacharach, and by Buckley's own harpischord.

His Harpsichord Plays On (William F. Buckley, Jr.)

A remix of "Song of the South" in the style of the Eighties classic "West End Girls."

Song Of The South From The Mouth Of A Sole Northern Soul (West End Mix)

Richard Weaver, the author of "Ideas Have Consequences," was a Southern agrarian who spent most of his career as a loner in Chicago. He was a brilliant, singular Northern Soul who hated popular music generally and jazz specifically -- thus, he would undoubtedly disapprove mightily of this Roy Ayers-style tribute.

Song Of The South From The Mouth Of A Sole Northern Soul (Richard Weaver)

A remix of "Tear Down This Wall!!" in the style of vintage Thomas Dolby.

Tear Down This Wall!! (Mr. Gorbachev Mix)

Based on the famous Brandenburg Gate speech from the Great Communicator. Consider this one a latter-day companion piece to the Style Council's "Walls Come Tumbling Down" -- it comes from a similar musical place, and maybe it's not as far apart ideologically as it might first seem.

Tear Down This Wall!! (Ronald Reagan)

Russell Kirk is the man who, perhaps more than any other, showed the 20th century what true conservatism should be. (And he wrote fantastic ghost stories, too.) Here's a theme song, in the style of Ramsey Lewis, for the "Bohemian Tory" of Piety Hill.

Bohemian Tory's Rhapsody (Russell Kirk)

Is Paul Weller a conservative? Probably not. But he did write what you can contend is the most conservative song in pop music history: "The Planner's Dream Went Wrong," way back in '82. Plus, he's The Modfather. What more needs to be said?

Theme From "The Modfather" (Paul Weller)

Young Mister Grace is an electronic side project created by author Dan LeRoy to coincide with the publication of Dancing to the Drum Machine, the first real history of drum machines. 

A Ghost in the Mall is an instrumental concept album about growing up in the 1980s. It's filled with the sounds of vintage drum machines, and it tries to recapture the spirit of Eighties luminaries like Visage, China Crisis, Scritti Politti, Ultravox, The Associates, Harold Faltermeyer, and The Art of Noise. The album features 11 originals and one cover--a version of The Zombies' "Friends of Mine" reimagined in the style of Naked Eyes' "Always Something There to Remind Me."

The title track, "A Ghost in the Mall," sets the scene by taking an aural walk around one of today's mostly empty malls and imagining it on some lost, long-ago Eighties weekend.

Dan LeRoy

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