Fraternal Order Of The All: Greetings From Planet Love (1997)

Hey, remember when I used to talk about albums all the time, before I decided to pivot to a daily write-up of my 1000 favorite songs? Good times, good times. Anyway, this essentially forgotten out-of-print gem from 1997 was just re-released, so it seems like a good excuse to chat it up a bit.

Fraternal Order Of The All are a make-believe band, basically the alter ego of late songwriter Andrew Gold. (You may remember him from his 1976 hit "Lonely Boy," or as the guy who wrote the song they used in...