Vince Guaraldi if things go right.
A drug-induced stupor if they don't. So I guess the Velvet Underground.
The four-side version of Sister Ray is adequate for anyone's stuporous needs.
Crazy! I was just thinking today "What should Obama's inauguration night theme be?" Haven't figured out a good answer to that yet.
Pop Obama Mix:
1. Public Enemy, "Don't Believe the Hype"
2. Living Colour, "Cult of Personality"
3. Sam and Dave, "Soul Man"
4. Faith Petric, "Ain't Done Nothin' if You Ain't Been Called A Red"
5. Sly and the Family Stone, "Everyday People"
6. Bob Dylan, "The Mighty Quinn"
7. The Clash, "I'm So Bored With the USA"
8. Prince Buster, "A Change Is Gonna Come"
9. Serge Gainsbourg, "Je t'aime... moi non plus"
10. The Teddy Bears, "To Know Him is To Love Him"
11. Peter Tosh, "African"
12. Mary Hopkin, "Those Were the Days"
13. Phil Ochs, "Power and the Glory"
14. The Supremes, "I Hear A Symphony"
Minny, that's a rather optimistic playlist.
"Talkin' loud and saying nothin'" is good for almost any political occasion. I'm holding it in reserve.
"Je t'aime . . . moi non plus" . . . for the moaning orgasm bits?
(The English lang. Cat Power/ Keren Ann version is great too.)
There's always the dead flag blues, JE, if that's too uplifting.
"Happy Days Are Here Again" belongs in there somewhere.
I just tried to stay in line with the most recent poll numbers, John.
For the record, in the event of a victory, ari and I can Snoopy dance together via video chat.
It's Canadian, though.
the car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
and a dark wind blows
the government is corrupt
and we're on so many drugs
with the radio on and the curtains drawn
we're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
and the machine is bleeding to death
the sun has fallen down
and the billboards are all leering
and the flags are all dead at the top of their poles
it went like this:
the buildings tumbled in on themselves
mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble
and pulled out their hair
the skyline was beautiful on fire
all twisted metal stretching upwards
everything washed in a thin orange haze
i said: "kiss me, you're beautiful -
these are truly the last days"
you grabbed my hand and we fell into it
like a daydream or a fever
we woke up one morning and fell a little further down -
for sure it's the valley of death
i open up my wallet
and it's full of blood
Also, if things don't turn out right, I'll meet you on the barricades.
For those keeping score at home, Sophie Trudeau in the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor is not the same person as Sophie GrégoireTrudeau, Pierre Eliott Trudeau's daughter-in-law, and probably entirely unrelated to Pierre.
Damn.
We should all email this to all of our winger acquaintances. It's at their level.
Who is that song "Celebration" by? You know, the one that goes, "Celebrate good times, come on!" That would be a good one.
You are cold and cruel, Emerson. May the hogs be quick.
Apparently Palin has thrown McCain under the bus.
Dana Bash: I just got off of the phone, Wolf, with a senior McCain adviser and I read this person the quote and I think it is fair to say that this person was speechless. There was a long pause and I just heard a "huh" on the other end of the phone.
World is a Ghetto
I'll Take You There
Depending on the result.
17 -- I don't think that's a fair reading of Gov. Palin's remark.
Celebration is way overplayed, but Kool and the Gang has some ridiculously good albums and I would be pretty happy with an all-Kool and the Gang mix if Obama is elected. The first Kool and the Gang album would set just the right funky tone.
Isn't there a song by MC 900 Foot Jesus about Burning Shit Down?
19: I agree. She was trying to stay generically positive.
"Democracy", duh. If Obama wins, I'm going to let my feeble remaining hope for the future run free, even though I fully expect it to be run over after Inauguration Day.
Even if you're prompted, planning for the 2012 election when the 2008 election is undecided strikes me as a big no-no, especially when what you say involves the assumption that your senior running mate has lost.
But if I'm unfair, I'm unfair and proud.
21 gets it right. Why is Becks throwing Kool & The Gang under the bus?
I'll maybe make a mix for later, but the song I have to acquire that keeps getting stuck in my head is James Brown's "I don't want nobody to give me nothing".
Should Obama win (knock on wood), I still say he should replace the Presidential entrance music.
I second the vote for Leonard Cohen "Democracy" in the event of victory. Also Patti Smith People have the Power
Being fair to 'that woman' isn't very high on my list, but people saying that she was talking about 2012 when her answer was about 2008 run the risk of looking like idiots. For certain journalists, the probability is already 100%, so no harm.
The interviewer was asking about 2012.
From the meek, the graces shower
It is decreed, the people rule
People have the power
When Obama wins, the national anthem will be changed to Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos.
yo la tengo's big day coming (either version)
31: But he was asking her if she was just going to crawl under a rock after the election if they lost, and her response was pretty anodyne and a variation on "Of course not! We have to keep working on this! It's important!" It seemed pretty generic to me.
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Oh, Barry. I get extra whirly-eyed when you say "Tolly-bahn."
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Well, the victory theme song will certainly depend on whether Barry is establishing sharia or the permanent revolution of the proletariat. Have we figured that out yet?
34: But his entire point is to stop the government from being suckas! Plus, if he actually manages to cut down the military, they won't want me for the army, though his service program proposals may mean they want me for their whatever.
The best way to listen to Black Steel is to imagine the actual content of the letter
Dear Mr. D,
We are suckers. But we have authority.
Sincerely,
The Government.
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Oh, Barry. I'd feel much more reassured if your party showed signs of ever having had a plan to deal with this type of shit. Too bad.
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In the event of a loss, or a "loss," Peter Tosh's "You Can't Fool Me Again" would have to be involved.
In the event of a win, a suitably communistic-sounding victory dance song like "Surfin' In Siberia" by the Red Elvises would have to be involved.
If it's the permanent revolution of the proletariat, I am voting for "Do They Owe Us a Living?"
If McCain winss:
THE DUST BLOWS FORWARD AND THE DUST BLOWS BACK
there's old gray with her dovewinged hat
there's old green with her sewing machine
where's the bobbin at?
she's toting old grain in a printed sack
the dust blows forward and the dust blows back
and the wind blows black through the sky
and the smokestack blows up in the sun's eye
what am i gonna die?
a white flake riverboat just blew by
bubbles pop big
and a lipstick kleenex hung on a pointed forked twig
reminds me of the bobby girls
never was my hobby girls
hand full of worms and a pole fishing
cork bobbing like a hot red bulb
and a blue jay squeaks
his beak open an inch above a creek
gone fishing for a week,
well i put down my bush
and i took off my pants and felt free
the breeze blowing up me and up the canyon
far as i could see
it's night now and the moon looks like a dandelion
it's black now and the blackbirds feeding on rice
and his red wings look like diamonds and lice
i could hear the mice toes scampering
gophers rumbling in pile crater rock holes
one red bean stuck in the bottom of a tin bowl
hot coffee from a krimpt up can
me and my girl named bimbo limbo spam
I'm thinking if Obama loses, Bad Religion's "Flat Earth Society" is probably going to be my theme song for the day.
Election/RNC/political threadjack:
For them as is interested, the Indymedia/Glass Bead Collective documentary about the RNC protests, Terrorizing Dissent, is up. Looks decent enough as far as I've gotten. I am not featured, as far as I can tell, although various pals and political acquaintances make an appearance. Our local Indymedia is actually composed of maybe three very dedicated people who do yeoman's work to keep the site up.
My election soundtrack--the Buzzkill version:
"Coup", by 23 Skiddoo.
"King of America", Elvis Costello.
"Only Anarchists Are Pretty", World-Inferno Friendship Society.
The Dog-Faced Hermans song that goes "Welcome, welcome, I will give you the freedom of my own home/Between the hours of five and six/And you may butter your bread on one side only, on one side only". "Born in Flames", Red Krayola.
"Off of the races and onto the tracks", The Rapture. "Snow", Mekons ("The burnt out homes/of left wing names/tell us all where/power remains")
"The Building", also Mekons ("We stand by the building/in the pouring rain/and the premier bows, he's cutting the tape/We hear the speech, we hear golden rules/and we bow to republic, employer and god/The planes dip wings in victory rolls/They salute the power that the building shows/We're innocent until they prove us not/but we hide and we worry and we look away."
"Baby What You Want Me To Do", Etta James.
Yes We CanBHO vs. Allan Toussaint.
46: What's the Bad Religion song that goes "So put your head between your legs and kiss you ass goodbye!" "Unacceptable"?
Phillies got them a hell of a second baseman.
The game is Death By Small Ball.
NOFX, "Fun Things to Fuck (If You're a Winner)"
55: Or NOFX "Idiot Son of an Asshole."
Did you guys ever see "My Fellow Americans" where Jack Lemmon sings his words to Hail To The Chief:
Hail to the Chief
He's the chief so he needs hailing.
Hail to the Chief
Here he comes so we must hail like crazy!
That's what I'll be singing next Tuesday, with feeling.
A friend of mind put on "Won't Get Fooled Again" the day after Clinton was elected. He meant it in a good way, but it probably wouldn't be good karma to try that again.
We have to play the Internationale, but we have to play it very quietly. Otherwise, people might notice that we're secret Marxists.
Sharriff don't like it!
Rock the Casbah!
Rock the Casbah!
I like the version by some French-Morrocan Gainsbard-wannabe/national-hero guy I ran across on Youtube once.
There are some great songs from Duck Soup, like "Whatever it is, I'm against it!"
63.---Yes, I think so. Unless there are lots and lots of people with similar names who also covered that song, which seems entirely possible.
Ah, here's the video; yes, Taha is who I was thinking of.
Fucking Phillies. Now Obama is going to lose Florida.
The most poignant moment in the movie Dick is when the two girls see on TV that Nixon is resigning and Kirsten Dunst's character says "Things will be different now. They'll never lie to us again."
No baseball-based prognosticating allowed! Remember 2004!
64: I don't think Florida actually cares that much about the Devil Rays. Not like Pennsylvania does about the Phillies.
Lee Marvin spoke the lyrics in 11; it was a perfect choice.
I just realized that 70 can't be right, the dates are all wrong. Now I can't place the voice, but I haven't heard that recording for ages. Memory, bah.
Mavis Staples is a parishioner of the Rev. Wright.
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What if some racist goons like the skinheads to wanted to rob a gun store, kill a bunch of high school kids, and then assassinate Obama tried to pull some shit on election day?
Suppose some loser asshole decided to drive into a black neighborhood in Cleveland on election day and shoot a bunch of people waiting in line to vote?
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That depends Rob. Do they wear top hats?
As long as it's not a hate crime, no big deal. People get offed every day from love. That's the way love works.
It's the nature of relationships. "X shoots Y" is an example of a relationship between X and Y.
As Hegel and Nietzsche pointed out, "A!=B" == ""A kills B" v "B kills A"". But love speeds up the process.
I don't understand 73. Then... that would be too bad?
People get offed every day from love.
BRZZ. You can't call it that.
The defenders of relationships are making their desperate last-ditch stand, I see.
Hey, here's the song I was talking about up above.
Democracy. Change. (Killing Joke).
The Battle Hymn of the Apartment (Jerry Jerry and The Sons of Rhythm Orchestra)
Björk, if she has a benefit for Iceland.
Christians pray to the Golden Bull
I don't understand 73. Then... that would be too bad?
No, then election day violence keeps most people away from voting and then there is a nominal McCain win with questions overhanging about the fairness of the elections like in Zimbabwe and we have a strongman clinging to power while a less corrupt opposition party tries to raise a stink internationally while the population starves under 3000% inflation.
In Zimbabwe everyone is a millionaire.
85: I'm going to assume you have worrying about that eventuality covered.
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Anybody know how to get in touch with Otto Von Bisquick so I can convince him to help me with my homework?
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His email adresses might be ironchancellorofpancakes at gee mail undsoweiter and transportinburma at the very same service. No guarantees.
I actually mostly figured out how to do what I need to already. Thanks, idea of Otto!
Aiiight so someone's going to have to Man Up and post an actual mix to this thread, and I guess it's going to be me.
The Election of the Century Celebrates [The Winner]!
1. armagideon time (the clash) 3:52
2. help me (sonny boy williamson) 3:12
3. guilty as sin (kasey chambers) 3:58
4. can't get it right today (joe chambers) 3:54
5. i'm doing this for daddy (johnny wright) 2:52
6. wayfaring stranger (jamie woon) 3:44
7. list of demands (reparations) (saul wright) 3:18
8. voodoo train (the bellrays) 3:48
9. street fighting man (rolling stones) 3:18
10. i'm waiting for the man (the velvet underground) 4:48
11. mindless boogie (hot chocolate) 8:55
12. sister ray (the velvet underground) 4:32
13. let your backbone slide (maestro fresh wes) 5:01
14. armagideon time (willie williams) 2:31
15. african descendants (alton ellis) 2:48
16. nobody move, nobody get hurt (yellowman) 3:43
17. rise it (collie buddz) 2:48
18. smash lies (matisyahu) 3:25
19. do your thing (basement jaxx) 4:40
20. noe me vas a callar (ellis paprika) 3:02
To respect the diversity of political opinions on Unfogged, I've made it carefully nonpartisan: readers from Emerson to MacManus to Gaijin Biker should find it listenable it any circumstance. Rejoice, enjoy, atincipate with dread or plummet from the Capitol Dome (or nearest convenient precipice) as circumstances warrant.
(oops, that's saul *williams*, not saul wright)
This has nothing to do with the actual topic of this thread, but just because no one actually acknowledged the mix I posted last week, I'm going to make you all suffer through more self-promotion.
Les Djinns (Trentemøller Remix) - Djuma Soundsystem
Song For Holly - Esthero with Danny Saber
Rendez - Vu (Radio Edit) - Basement Jaxx
Becoming Insane - Infected Mushroom
Mayhem - Federation
B.O.B - Outkast
Jerk It (Original Mix) - Thunderheist
L'aigle Ne Chasse Pas Les Mouches - MC Solaar
Les Cités D'or - Psy4 de la Rime
All Rights Reversed - The Chemical Brothers Feat. Klaxons
Vapor Trail - The Crystal Method
Ice Cube - Juno Reactor
I Believe - Simian Mobile Disco
St. Louise Is Listening - Soul Coughing
Beautiful Burnout - Underworld
96: downloading, didn't see before, thankyou...
DS has shamed me into uploading my election day mix, which should IN NO WAY be taken to be jinxing anything.
91: Glad to hear you figured it out, Sifu. Was actually away from the computer for a bit, oddly enough.
Apologies for any imperfections on the sequencing / album naming in my mix, I just discovered them.
98: Hooray! Witness The Power Of Shame!
Jeebus, you put in album artwork, DS? I was way too lazy to do that shit.
That photo is way too good not to use Somehow.
First of all, stop with all the "if"-ing. Absent one of helpy-chalk's scenarios, we're going to win. Present one of them, people in fucking North Dakota are going to burn shit down.
Second of all, for a blog full of rational atheists who deprecate magical thinking, there's a pathetic amount of baseball- and election-related superstition around here.
Sir Kraab
["Superstition ain't the way"]
Alrightie!
First Tuesday mix:
1. George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People - The Legendary K.O.
2. A Word From Our President - The Perceptionists
3. This Is Poor People's Day - Bigg Jus
4. Master Of The Game - Kool Keith
5. Eric B. Is President - Eric B. and Rakim
6. Definitely African - Zimbabwe Legit
7. Yes We Can Can - Treacherous Three
8. Pontificate - The Matthew Herbert Big Band
9. I (Who Have Nothing) - Ray Frazier & The Shades Of Madness
10. Dap - Porgy Jones
11. I Live In Berlin - Robots In Disguise
12. Jam On It - Newcleus
13. No Excuses - Air France
14. Yes We Can Can - The Discoettes
re: 105
Ooh, Matthew Herbert Big Band [I am such a swooning fan boy ...]
First of all, stop with all the "if"-ing.
I'll stop with the "if"-ing when Obama actually beat the vote-suppression/Diebold advantage.
107: I hear you, but I just think the numbers will be too overwhelming in too many states to allow the Rs to cheat enough to win. I have been wrong about one or two things in the past, however.
La puissance de le rap frrancais c'est supreme!
(I se3e3m to9 have3 fu7cke3d u7p0 my ke3ybo9ar4d so9me3ho9w2.)
Was this blog around 4 years ago?
Yes, it was but the comments section hadn't really hit puberty.
Still, read that page from the bottom up. Agony!
111: Yeah, the suspense over whether or not ogged was gonna hit it off with the redheaded volunteer was killing us at the time.
I bet you were wondering if Ogged was ever going to get to kick that football, too.
IIRC, the week after has a lot of agonizing posts too.
First of all, stop with all the "if"-ing. Absent one of helpy-chalk's scenarios, we're going to win. Present one of them, people in fucking North Dakota are going to burn shit down.
Amen.
I'll stop with the "if"-ing when Obama actually beat the vote-suppression/Diebold advantage.
People are getting a little too paranoid. Relax the buttclench until next week, at least. Seriously, no point to it until then.
As for mixes, I had been thinking of putting together a Skinny Puppy mix ("cEVIN KEY is dead"), because, uh, I just felt like it, actually. However, if I go with the tunes I was thinking of it would serve as both your dystopian misery and your moshpit joy mixes at the same time. Plus, bonus disappointment prep.
max
['So, holler or somethin'.']
readers from Emerson to MacManus to Gaijin Biker
It's McManus. I ain't Scottish, fer Gawd's sake.
Seriously, no point to it until then.
Ok, so you know where to get tar & feathers and are all stocked up on Molotov's? Preparation takes time.
re: 117
Lots of Scots have an 'Mc' spelling.
Me, for example.
96 i already downloaded your mix the first time, coz it's like my policy to download all the mixes,
just didn't have time to listen to it yet, i will over the weekend i guess, thank you very much
116: I been paranoid since 2000, brother.
My FULL OF WIN mix would include (not necessarily in this order):
Violently Happy - Björk
It's Just Begun - Jimmy Castor Bunch
Chicago Calypso - Ju-Par Universal Orchestra
A Birth Certificate Ain't Nothing But a Death Warrant Anyway - Melvin Van Peebles
Konichiwa Bitches - Robyn
Law of the Land - The Temptations
Sock It To 'Em Soul Brother - Bill Moss
Schadenfreude - Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx
This Land Is Your Land - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Nothing Can Stop Us - Saint Etienne
What they should play at the inauguration:
George Clinton, Paint the White House Black
(nobody said that already, did they?)
This Land Is Your Land - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
They're playing at our pre-election fundraiser on Monday night. I'm very excited.