It's from 1978, a very strange time where all the things were aligned very oddly. Lots of 'flirting with Nazi symbols' at the edge of popular culture. An obsession with WW2 in Britain ...

The music industry has disappeared into a world of lavish LPs. Renewed interest in B&W film.

The Beatles are old hat, but big business, but not talking to each other, but their songs are now fully canon.

I was going to call this album a convergence of all these forces, but I think it's a divergence. Literally every element this project is made of is at its nadir.

It's not that I can't see what they were thinking, it's that every thought came from and at the worst place it might have.

If you want an example of 'something they wouldn't make now', this is it. I encourage you to dive into an internet search about this very, very odd thing.

I had this new at the time and remember there were a decent couple of covers on it… then much later saw the movie!

Gee whiz, this is the cultural artifact from 1978 I remember growing up with: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_...