"Be prepared..." to roll on the floor with laughter.

Tom Lehrer brings humor politically correct as well as incorrect. Although the album was made years ago, it still can be considered current. I have been a fan of his for year but was not able to find additional pieces of his work. Todate because of Amazon's ability to procure things, I now have a complete collection of Tom Lehrer's work. For those of you that don't know anything about him, check out google.

It may have been the 60s, but not too much is out of date...

I am and always have been a news junkie, I guess, as was my mother, and we loved satire as well. The ideal 1960s combination of these was David Frost's "That Was the Week that Was," which put a tongue-in-cheek spin on much of the week's news, punctuated with songs from Tom Lehrer's fertile mind. Even as a sheltered, suburban Boston teen, I loved it (along with Stan Freberg's "United States of America"). Many of the songs on Tom Lehrer's "That Was the Year That Was," although written in the mid-1960s, still ring true, loud and clear, from "National Brotherhood Week" to "New Math" to "Send the Marines" all the way through to the end, evoke memories of how my friends and I survived the 60s, our high school and college years, and make me shake my head in disbelief. I actually had a college course called "New Math" designed to teach us old folks (we were 20) how to do the new math -- didn't work.

Digging Tom Lehrer: An IQ test.

TW3 was originally released in 1965 and it is still timely 40 years later. While some of the references are dated, the world's problems have remained the same, no matter how much they have changed. When I had dinner guests over during the 60s, I played TW3 and the other Lehrer records for them. If my guests didn't get it, I never invited them back. Who wants to hang out with someone who knows nothing of history or current events? So order the CD and maybe I'll have you over for dinner.