Barack Obama, what's on your ipod?

fake tuomas

???

^^^posts very much in character

I can tell you what's not on it:

The Fall's Hilary

28 Frank Sinatra High Hopes Aug 1959 Notes
6 Frank Sinatra High Hopes (re-entry) Sep 1959 Notes
37 Gene Pitney A Street Called Hope Mar 1970
2 Olivia Newton-John Hopelessly Devoted To You Nov 1978
37 Wah Hope (I Wish You'd Believe Me) Mar 1983
7 Eddy Grant Gimme Hope Jo'Anna Jan 1988
18 Paul McCartney Hope Of Deliverance Feb 1993
33 Rick Astley Hopelessly Nov 1993
26 Pink Floyd High Hopes / Keep Talking Oct 1994
37 Loveland featuring Rachel McFarlane (Keep On) Shining / Hope (Never Give Up) Nov 1994
12 Levellers Hope St. Aug 1995
40 Lee Ann Womack I Hope You Dance Jun 2001
19 Shaggy Dance And Shout / Hope Dec 2001 Notes
34 Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless / Hold On Dec 2003
2 Ronan Keating I Hope You Dance Oct 2004
25 Twista featuring Faith Evans Hope Apr 2005

Tears Of Fears: Change

And anything by Change, obv.

The Flying Lizards: C or D, S&D

can we fix it? YES WE CAN!

Hillary Clinton, what's on your iPod?

Radiohead - Black Star

Blame it on the black star
Blame it on the falling sky
Blame it on the satellite that beams me home
Tonight, this is killing me
Tonight, this is killing me

Godflesh - Voidhead.

David Bowie - Changes

god dom, stop being so rubbish, you're better than that (i think).

Phil Ochs "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" -- but cleverly disguised and mislabeled as "Love Me, I'm a Centrist"

Huckabee sent him an MP3 of Nick Lowe's "There Will Never Be Any Peace (Until God Is Seated at the Conference Table)"

The Pointer Sisters - "Yes We Can Can"

Sam Cooke - A Change Gonna Come
2pac - Changes

i can't stand the rain by tina turner.

rolling stones - out of time
rolling stones - under my thumb
rolling stones - stupid girl

A Mutual Friend: Wire

Electrelane - I Want to Be the President

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Bring It On"

The entirety of "Something Else" by The Kinks.

Apparently "Wang Dang Doodle" by Howlin' Wolf, from what I could tell from a reporter's video on Newsweek's page a sec ago.

James Brown - It's a Man's Man's Man's World

Bruce Springsteen: "Adam Raised a (Mc)Cain"

BEE GEES – YOU WIN AGAIN
BEE GEES – I'VE GOTTA GET A MESSAGE TO YOU
BEE GEES – MORE THAN A WOMAN

Styx, "Renegade": "Obama, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law"

The Beatles - Michelle

Parliament -- "Chocolate City"

what about the Chi-Lites' original take on "There Will Never Be Any Peace (Until God Is Seated at the Conference Table)"?

Curtis Mayfield's "Miss Black America"

Funkadelic's "Who Says a Rock Band..."

and, James Brown's "Funky President"

CSNY: "Ohio"

Spoon-"Black Like Me"

"What a Friend We Have in Jesus" (trad.)

"Damn it feels good to be a Gangsta" - Geto Boys

Pulp - "This House Is Condemned"

re: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4111483&page=1

The Impressions - We're A Winner
The Impressions - This Is My Country

Flack and Hathaway - Be More Black for Me

Nas - Nigger (Advance)

too obvious/tasteless/unclever?

Dis- "Do All The Good Ones Have Muslim Names?"

Inside Barack Obama's iPod

I was shocked when Bush's handlers announced in 2004 that Bush had Joni's version of "You're So Square (Baby I Don't Care)."

Alice Cooper - "Elected"

“Every time I talk to Jay-Z, who is a brilliant talent and a good guy, I enjoy how he thinks,” says Obama, who believes that the recent political galvanization of America’s youth will soon be reflected in music. “He’s serious and he cares about his art,” he adds. “That’s somebody who is going to start branching out and can help shape attitudes in a real positive way.”

DRUG CZAR! DRUG CZAR!

Huckabee sent him an MP3 of Nick Lowe's "There Will Never Be Any Peace (Until God Is Seated at the Conference Table)"

-- Eazy, Friday, February 29, 2008 10:20 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Link

A few months ago there was a guy who credited "Hollywood Swinging" to the Big Boys and now I find this. I thought this was a board full of music geeks!

public enemy - fight the power!

DRUG CZAR! DRUG CZAR!

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2008/06/JAYZGERVAIS.gif

You can't say he lacks qualifications.

can we fix it? YES WE CAN!

-- Curt1s Stephens, Friday, February 29, 2008 8:52 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Link

lol anglophiles

what is the origin of these funny jayz.gifs?

black eyed peas - let's get retarded

oh wait, i'm the nominee?

black eyed peas - let's get retarded
black eyed peas - let's get it started

Liz Phair "Shitloads of Money"

the black eyed peas were at the 2004 Dem convention playing that live, I mean, the version that didn't say "retarded." it was.. awkward.

Isn't Jay-Z supposed to be all New World Order and shit? Also he's no longer a g, he wore a suit for his last album cover.
Oh and the gifs are from him at a Coldplay gig. Yeeaaaaaah.
The times, theya re a changing.

wolf eyes - noise not music

Not that the name is a pun that relates. It would just be funny if he had this on this ipod.

LuriquaInTheClub

"pardon me i've got someone to kill" - johnny paycheck

I AM NOT LURIQUA OR THE STICKMAN FROM THOSE COMICS OR CHANELLE FIDDY.
FFS

I AM NOT LURIQUA OR THE STICKMAN FROM THOSE COMICS OR CHANELLE FIDDY. FFSInTheClub

Also he's no longer a g, he wore a suit for his last album cover

guess that also eliminates scarface, beanie siegal, biggie, hey didn't jay-z wear a suit on reasonable doubt???

No I mean he's no longer caring about being seen as someone from the hood he's just making money and the same goes for the others...its a bit too...business minded for me and I'm not interested in that shit. It was always gonna happen, he's just more blatant about it now. But Jay-Z's still hype even if he is a suit, he's just not real, he's not representing the same things anymore, he has new ideals. If he ever feels like he's losing out on a fanbase he'll take it back to the streets. Ice Cube said something about this in a recent article...
Same for the rest.

Sorry The Reverend, I am just not any of these people...

the guy has, like, maybe 8 problems now, as opposed to 99
and probably one of them IS a bitch

im white btw

Thanks for the clarification.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xePDRrTHfH4

TS: Obama iPod vs. McCain iPod

BARACK OBAMA
1. Ready or Not Fugees
2. What's Going On Marvin Gaye
3. I'm On Fire Bruce Spingsteen
4. Gimme Shelter Rolling Stones
5. Sinnerman Nina Simone
6. Touch the Sky Kanye West
7. You'd Be So Easy to Love Frank Sinatra
8. Think Aretha Franklin
9. City of Blinding Lights U2
10. Yes We Can will.i.am

JOHN McCAIN
1. Dancing Queen ABBA
2. Blue Bayou Roy Orbison
3. Take a Chance On Me ABBA
4. If We MakeIt Through December Merle Haggard
5. As Time Goes By Dooley Wilson
6. Good Vibrations The Beach Boys
7. What A Wonderful World Louis Armstrong
8. I've Got You Under My Skin Frank Sinatra
9. Sweet Caroline Neil Diamond
10. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes The Platters

http://www.blender.com/WhiteHouseDJBattle/articles/39518.aspx

you'd think obama would have "take a chance on me"

4. If We MakeIt Through December Merle Haggard

this is a great song

geddit? December?

I think I go with McCain's set: better Sinatra, less U2, Merle, though I could do without the Neil Diamond.

Merle Haggard fits right in w/ McCain's love for Abba and the Beach Boys

3. I'm On Fire Bruce Spingsteen
4. Gimme Shelter Rolling Stones
5. Sinnerman Nina Simone

can't beat that, even with Merle.

On review, this is really TS: Obama iPod vs. McCain Walkman. McCain apparently hasn't bought a record in 30 years. The ABBA choices are a nice surprise. I really wanted to think McCain had picked the Haggard song as a reminder of his earlier marital troubles, but no, it was just the theme his campaign manager used to keep them slogging through the campaign last year. Unlike Obama's his picks are pretty studiously apolitical. The Platters and Orbison make sense, since he grew up with the early rock and roll. Looks like McCain is a sentimental dude who likes good music. But on balance, the Obama list by far.

McCain is a happy-talk dude who doesn't like music that is in any way sophisticated

Who gets your vote based solely on this list?
GT: If there’s a candidate with Fugees’ “Ready or Not” on his list, I have to vote for him.
RN: McCain has a really likeable list. Then again, Hitler liked some good music, you know?

What were his tastes, such that they jibe with Randy Newman's?

xpost: Whoa there, Good Vibrations is a bit sophisticated.

mccain's seems more interesting to me but thats prob just cuz its less familiar (aka lol old)

both look committee-selected

i remember when mccain was trying to get the bid in 2000, he made a couple comments to reporters about how he liked the nine inch nails that his daughter (or niece, or granddaughter, not sure) was listening to.

his daughter is a total hipster btw altho lolz I misread your post as "when McCain was trying to get laid in 2000"

He talks about seeing NIN, Kid Rock, and Busta Rhymes in the second clip here: http://newsroom.mtv.com/2008/03/27/john-mccain-alan-keyes-and-nine-inch-nails-the-whole-sordid-affair/. My brain hurts.

i'm pretty sure there are committee-selected and personal choices on both lists

Good Vibrations is a bit sophisticated

ok, but it can be enjoyed in entirely unsophisticated fashion

gabbneb u sound ridiculous

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/627/

the revolution will not be televised. you just have to hope and believe.

anybody else notice that the recent obama ads (starting with 'seven') use (edited/tweaked, to my ears) bits from "music for airports"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpmFd25tRqo

http://www.divshare.com/download/5681853-dfb

all the songs about obama seem to be really crap, even the ones that arent nauseatingly in his favour.

coz black people will be in the street
lookin for a brighter day
The Revolution WILL be televised

2 Olivia Newton-John Nauseatingly Devoted To You Nov 1978

anybody else notice that the recent obama ads (starting with 'seven') use (edited/tweaked, to my ears) bits from "music for airports"?

― jermainetwo, Monday, September 1, 2008 11:40 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Nice. I own a half dozen of his albums, but have never owned that one.

That's the only solo Eno I own. But I'm a dilettante fuck. Cool commercial, though.

I dunno if that qualifies you as a "dilettante" at all.

I mean, I'm the dude who doesn't own it and wouldn't have recognized it unless someone pointed it out.

Cabaret Voltaire, Landslide
Young Marble Giants, Cakewalking
Commodores, Easy

Owning one Eno album makes you a dilletante. isn't it?

"Won't Get Fooled Again" ("New boss, same as the old boss", about McCain obv.)

Divine Comedy - Sweden

"Landslide"

Rolling Stones - Miss Amanda Jones

Freaky Trigger - Win.

The Impressions, We're a Winner

St Winifreds School Choir, There's No-One Quite Like Grandma

Bill Withers-Grandma's Hands

Styx, "Renegade": "Obama, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law"

― Joseph McCombs, Saturday, March 1, 2008 11:03 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This has been stuck in my head for the last eight months.

Schoolhouse Rock, "No More Kings"

Tonight it will be "Celebration" by Kool & The Gang all night long.

"The Winner", Gregory Isaacs

I'M THE WINNER
GET IN SO YOU SINNERS
OPEN UP AND LET I COME IN
THE RACE IS SUIF BUT I KNOW I'LL WIN
TAKE A GOOD LOOK AND YOU WILL SEE
DAT THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH ME
IF WASN'T FOR THE LION'S DEN OH NO
I WOULDN'T TRY THIS PLACE AGAIN
BUT THROUGH THE POWERS AND THE GLORY
JAH JAH RULE AND REIGN ON EARTH YOU'LL SEE
YOUR FRIENDS FREE ALL LAUGHT TO SCORN DON'T OPEN UP
YOU WILL GRANT THE DAY YOU WERE BORN
SO TAKE A GOOD GOOD LOOK AND YOU SEE YEH YEH
DAT THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH ME
LET ALL COME IN
AFTER WITH NO SIN YEH
IF WASN'T FOR THE LION'S DEN OH NO
WOULDN'T TRY THIS PLACE AGAIN
BUT THROUGH THE POWERS AND THE GLORY
JAH JAH RULE ON EARTH I KNOW SOMEDAY YOU'LL SEE
SO OPEN UP AND LET I COME IN OH YEH
THE RACE IS SUIF BUT I KNOW I'LL WIN
TAKE A GOOD LOOK AND YOU WILL SEE OOHEH
DAT THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH ME
LET I COME IN
I'M COMING WITH NO SIN
ITS A RACE I'M GONNA WIN
FADE

Santana "I'm Winning"

landslide :D

CSNY - Ohio

Tonight it will be "Celebration" by Kool & The Gang all night long.

OTM! so happy about my country right now.

Queen double whammy: another one bites the dust / we are the champions

"I AM THE RESURRECTION"

i'm liking this American boy, American boy...

On America's iPod today...
Brown Eyed Handsome Man.

"Right here, right now" Jesus Jones

four more years - age of chance

Klaatu: Hope

The O'Jays/Heavy D & the Boyz - "Now That We Found Love"

"It Happened" - Yoko Ono

"Yes We Can" - Boy George.

(Well, it's on mine. I had a little "happy cry" to it on the walk to work this morning.)

"Right Now" Van Halen

Monkees, "I'm Gonna Buy Me A Dog"

i was soooo happy this AM when i got to use my plan to play "You Can Get It If You Really Want" by Jimmy Cliff......instead of "there's a riot goin' on" which was my despair backup plan.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200811031258.html
Tony Nyadundo's Luo praise song - a 17-minute-long piece entitled Obama set to a traditional, repetitive Luo beat - describes the musician's imaginary tour to the U.S. after Obama wins the elections. In Nyadundo's fictional lyrics, Obama and his wife Michelle welcome Nyadundo, and Obama orders that a bull be slaughtered to honor the musician's arrival. According to the Daily Metro, Nyadundo has sold "over two million copies" of this fantasy song.

No Clinton's 'Paint the White House Black'? Really?

Curtis Mayfield - Move on up

SCNY: Our House

CSNY, but still

Harry Nilsson, The Puppy Song

"Pacific State" by 808 State - for the moment at four a.m. (UK time) when California made the long header and Washington State tucked it in...

public enemy - fight the power!

Would it not be the greatest thing ever if the S1W accompanied Obama for his inaugural speech?

I thought that was them with the night stick??