My Top 2000 Songs #1044: President Reagan's Birthday Present

The Jazz Butcher at their most playful, supported by a relentlessly rollicking percussion shuffle and the sort of bassline that gums up in your head for 40 years. "President Reagan's Birthday Present," off 1985's Sex And Travel, takes us back to the waning days of the Cold War, Reagan's fever dream that "red Russians shot my rocket down!" But no deep politics here, just musical glee.