I remember that album whenever I'm reeling in the years. The only band named for a steam-powered dildo AFAIK.
Luee is Anglo shaping his history of democracy a little too neatly. The Althing preceded the Normans, as did the Iroquois Confederacy and other early democracies in Scandinavia, Germany, Greece (duh), Sicily, Phoenicia, etc. The Founding Fathers, btw, directly referenced the influence of the Iroquois on their framing of the constitution.