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Heart was a late 70s Led Zeppelin cover band, and then one of the band members became a Pacific Northwest Hollywood Liberal Activist. With that sort of a history, it’s no surprise that Nancy Wilson is steamed that the Republicans were playing “Barracuda” all over the place last night to celebrate Sarah Palin, a woman who is only a snaggletoothed fish on the inside.
Here is what Wilson told Entertainment Weekly:
I think it’s completely unfair to be so misrepresented. I feel completely fucked over.
And then she and her sister Ann released this statement:
Sarah Palin’s views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song ‘Barracuda’ no longer be used to promote her image. The song ‘Barracuda’ was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The ‘barracuda’ represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there’s irony in Republican strategists’ choice to make use of it there.
This is just the latest in a long line of living rock and roll musicians requesting that the McCain campaign stop using their songs, which is why he will eventually be reduced to playing the entire Chuck Berry catalog again and again. Ha ha just kidding, Chuck Berry is still alive, so he will also be calling John McCain soon.
Exclusive: Heart’s Nancy Wilson responds to McCain campaign’s use of ‘Barracuda’ at Republican convention [Entertainment Weekly]
When will the Walnuts campaign realize the wonders of MIDI playback? Didn’t they use it for his scathing POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW MAVERICK MAVERICK MAVERICK biography video?
They could also start using jam bands, because its really hard for a jam band to sue anyone. Their shit’s always changin’. See? Change!
If they were going to pinch a Heart song for a Gov. Failin motif, “Nada One” would have been a much appropriate choice.
They should use their vast wealth gained from Guitar Hero III licensing to sue the RNC out of existence! A boy can dream, can’t he?
“If the real thing don’t do the trick
You better make up something quick”
Sounds like McCain took Heart’s advice to heart
Better yet, please PLEASE let them play an Isaac Hayes song. Then scientologists will let out a horrible, ear-splitting wail the nation-wide, summoning their thetan lawyers to destroy anyone who dares.
Yeah, Heart totally kicks ass. I love them even more now.
Goddamn you fucking music artists and your politics!
Do you know what kind of music selection the McCain has for their top of the line Edison 78 RPM Cylindrical Phonograph?
SWEET. FUCK. ALL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:EdisonPhonograph.jpg
…two words CHOCOLATE RAIN!
Would someone please just tell that little shrill one-note harpy poodle of McCain’s to shut the fuck up. Christ, she sounds like my ex-wife scritching at me to take the garbage out. If I had to listen to that bitch all day and all night I’d find the nearest ice floe and enjoy my last few minutes in silence. Christ!
I hear the Stephen C. Foster catalogue is available. “Swanee River,” “Camptown Races” or “Suffer Little Childre to Come Unto Me” would suffice, my friends.
Go Sisters Wilson!
God, I LOVE IT SOOOO MUCH when musicians bitch out the RNC for using their music. If the RNC was limited to music by artists that actually held their worldview, they’d be playing a lot of Ted Nugent.
AngryBlakGuy: Mayee-ahee, Mayee-aha, Mayee-aho, Mayee-aha-a! Get that guy!
loudmouthredhead: Too bad Bob Dole’s not running this year, then.
Makeithurt: “I’m not yo fwend, buddy!”, “He’s not yo buddy, gah!”, “I’m not yo gah, fwend!”…
@ Nigerian Business Executive - “much more appropriate choice,” dumbo.
Totally called this one when I heard the song last night! Heart RULES!
On BBC (somehow collaborating with CSPAN) during the RNC they during the crowd shots, they were playing some serious heavy metal. The crowd was either enjoying it (including the elderly which was like 80%) or it was just well sync’ed like ugly chinese 7-years are…
Since I hate heavy metal, I have no idea who the band was and if this was real coverage of the RNC’s music, or just the Brits or CSPAN having a go at the ‘pubs.
Anyone know any more?
NoWireHangers: Why don’t they play Gretchen Wilson’s ‘Redneck Woman’ song; she’s a Repub & Mother Palin is definitely a redneck woman (among other things unfit for printing).
Ann and Nancy should have let them use the song, but pointed out that only one set of lyrics really applies to McCain/Palin:
If the real thing dont do the trick
You better make up something quick
You gonna burn burn burn burn it to the wick
Ooooooh, barracuda?
BigDupa:
The Republican asshats use this song,
Doo-da! Doo-da!
Cause all the musicians think they’re wrong
Oh, de doo-da day!
If WALNUTS! runs all night
And then he runs all day
I bet I’ll die before the race is won
That’s all I have to say
loudmouthredhead: Shaft would be an interesting choice of a campaign theme song.
The RIAA should sue the RNC.
It would be the only thing the RIAA did that I could even consider supporting.
Wait, Heart is mad at Sarah Bareyourcooter? But she’s a member of Church on “the Rock”.
Thursday afternoon, Heart e-mailed out a statement regarding vice-presidential candidate Sarah “Barracuda” Palin’s use of their similarly monikered song at the Republican National Convention: “The Republican campaign did not ask for permission to use the song, nor would they have been granted that permission,” it read. “We have asked the Republican campaign publicly not to use our music. We hope our wishes will be honored.”
That’s the detail that kills. They told them not to use it. They went ahead and did it anyway. Is that how you respect women, GOP’ers? I call “sexism”!
NoWireHangers: Cat Scratch Fever does seem appropriate…
On the other hand, Bristol Palin did receive Heart’s permission to re-enact the video for “All I Want To Do Is Make Love To You”.
4tehlulz: A campaign for the RIAA to sue the RNC and basically cage-match themselves to death would be amazing. Kill two birds with one stone.
I wonder if Madonna will let them use “Papa Don’t Preach?”
I hear McCain’s got some of that uppity negro jive music playing on his phonogram.
They weren’t using the song for the lyrics, just remember Reagan’s use of “Born in the USA”, they were using it because Sarah’s a huge Guitar Hero fan. She high scored “Evenflow” and beat out Joe Lieberman in a head to head on “Surrender”, thus winning the veepstakes. They had to cut out her and John doing the tandem career mode on the giant screen because McCain went long.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
NoWireHangers: Nugent’s ‘Kiss My Ass’ comes to mind as a perfect anthem.
You mean McCain’s not a “Magic Man?”
(BTW: I cannot get used to the nauseating CHOKE background.)
tunamelt: Yeah, because “Hockey Moms” love teh blakk guys too, right? How else can we hook them breedin’ bitches, er pitbulls.
I love these people. I saw that last night and wondered what the fuck the huge lawn was about. I really thought it was one of Walnut’s 7 or 8 houses.
whoops. posted in teh wrong thread. Imagine that last one went with the middle school.
Wesley Willis: no longer alive, and completely awesome campaign music, particularly for this campaign.
Wonder if Pat Benetar will let them use “Hell is for Children”
I heard Ludacris has a song McCain and Palin can use.
McCain should stop playing Chuck Berry songs, because that artist has a pretty disgusting sex fetish.
Props if they use “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.”
May the truth prevail.
Cogito Ergo Bibo: egg-zactly! this is clearly putting down a band fronted by women by not cooperating with their demand! when springsteen told (asked?) mo-Ron Reagan to stop using “born in the u.s.a.” the campaign stopped! john mclame is a sexist — no two ways about it!
someone forgot to chop the veggies in my gazpacho and it’s sort of gross…
My heart still belongs to Heart. Nancy, call me…
sezme: Long live the shag haircut (on women)
After Palin debates Biden, I think her theme song should be Robyn Hitchcock’s Eaten by Her Own Dinner.
“My Aim is True”?
RAISIN’ MCCAIN
Music and lyrics by John Rich
Well we’re all just raisin’ McCain
Everywhere across the USA
You can get on the train or get out of the way
We’re all just raisin’ McCain
And we’re all just raisin’ McCain
Everywhere across the USA
You can get on the train or get out of the way
We’re all just raisin’ McCain
Well he got shot down in a Vietnam town
Fighting for the red, white and blue
And they locked him up in the Hanoi Hilton
Thinking they could break him in two
He stayed strong, stayed extra long
‘Til they let all the other boys out
Now we’ve got a real man with an American plan
We’re going to put him in the big White House
Well we’re all just raisin’ McCain
Everywhere across the USA
You can get on the train or get out of the way
We’re all just raisin’ McCain
Play that American guitar, son
And we’re all just raisin’ McCain
Everywhere across the USA
You can get on the train or get out of the way
We’re all just raisin’ McCain
I said we’re all just raisin’ McCain
Everywhere across the USA
You can get on the train or get out of the way
We’re all just raisin’ McCain
Well you can get on the train or get out of the way
We’re all just raisin’ McCain
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AHHH!!!! I know McCain resembles a raisin, but this is a little bit overkill.
Now my groin is aflame thinking of the original music video/film of Barracuda, with both sisters at their highest level of fuckable hotness. Didn’t realize until recently they were talking about having to blow the protaganist from the title. Sounds hot.
Who owns Camptown Races?
shortsshortsshorts: Can the California Raisins sue?
GlennBecksTaint: He doesn’t have a heart.
Maybe THIS?
Borat: Ok, I tracked down video coverage of the HEAVY METAL on the BBC’s coverage …any insight please? Was it for-real? Who is that band
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dbx94/b00dbx8m/
It’s at the immediate start of the vid
Pete Shelley however was fine with the McCain campaign using the Buzzcock’s “Orgasm Addict” for his entrance music…
I think “Dust In The Wind” is still available.
BigDupa: Doo dah!
Deep down in Minneapolis near by the St Paul
Loud tapping in the stall among the conservatives
There was a stadium made of stone and steel
Where stood a navy boy named Johnny McCain
Who never ever learned to write or sound so sane
But he could steal the tunes just like crashing a plane
Chorus:
Steal, Steal, Steal Johnny Steal Steal
Steal Johnny Steal Steal
Steal Johnny Steal Steal
Steal Johnny Steal Steal
Johnny McCain
He used to fly his Skyhawk into rice paddies
Or fly over the target right into NVA flak
Oh someone from Heart could see him ripping for his gal
Rippin’ all the rhythms that the artist made
People passing by they’d stop and say
Oh my but that little navy boy can steal
Chorus
His mother told him some day you will be a man
And you will be the leader of a GOP
Many people coming from miles around
And hear him steal the music till the sun goes down
Maybe someday your head gonna be all pale
Theivin’ Jonny McCain tonight
Babycuda.
Borat: it won’t play unless you’re in the uk…
*weeping*
fascist xenophobes!!!
shortsshortsshorts: McCain is a raisin. Not meant as any criticism of my friend the grape.
Several song possibilities come to mind: Randy Newman’s “Sail Away”, Kinky Friedman’s “Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and your Buns in the Bed” or anything else off his Sold American album (”Ballad of Charles Whitman,” “High on Jesus”), or perhaps even Dylan’s “Masters of War”–they wouldn’t catch the irony, I’m sure.
Heart, by the way, is NOT a cover band. A cover band only does other folks’ music. They have covered Zepplin, but if you called every band that covered Zep a cover band, then you’d have no decent bands left. Although Hannah Monatna and The Click Five would still be around.
Prodigy comes to mind “Smack my bitch up”
I vote for Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys’ “Get Your Biscuits in the Oven (and your Buns in the Bed).” Or as an homage to Larry Craig et. al. “Homo Erectus.”
Mr Blifil: Between your groin being aflame and the Buzzcocks reference I am convinced that we were separated at birth.
Put that song on repeat and acted it out after school for my entire junior year.
RooseveltFranklin: Haha. The used to play the ‘all we are is dust in the wind’ on Continental Airlines muzac as you boarded the flight. I guess someone told them that wasn’t a good idea
pedro: heart used to close their shows with their version of zepellin’s “rock and roll” and i have to say the 3 times i saw it (mind you — all in the late 70s) they was a rockin the house down!
Itsjustme: Nine Inch Nails
They should have used Abba as was originally planned, before yup-yup’s whore daughter threw her “True Love Waits” monkey wrench in the ‘Pubes works.
I don’t think anyone would have noticed the irony.
You are the dancing queen… young and sweet, only 17… be that girl, watch that scene, diggin’ the dancing queen
Breaking (ish): Todd Palin’s business partner is racing to have his divorce papers sealed. You know, the one the Enquirer said had an affair with our good friend Sarah.
Please let this be true, god I don’t believe in.
Seriously, are there any musicians other than those from Nashville that don’t forbid the GOP from using their music? It must be difficult when the “artistic genius” in your party is Ahhhhnold.
Sean O: I see that Sullivan is reporting that — but the TI-99/A that runs Alaska’s court records obviously can’t keep up. Is it being reported anywhere else?!?
WILL I AM for WALNUTS:
It was a creed mentioned by some old dudes that declared the destiny of a nation.
Fuck you libruls.
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom.
Fuck you libruls.
It was ruined by immigrants as they jumped over walls and pioneers who ruined eco-systems westward against an otherwise perfect environment.
Fuck you libruls.
It was the call of media moguls who bullshitted; women who joined the PTA; a President who chose the moon as a great place to start a war; and a King who took us into a never ending war and pointed the way to the Promised Land.
Fuck you libruls and justice and equality.
Fuck you libruls! to opportunity and prosperity.
Fuck you libruls! heal this nation.
Fuck you libruls! repair this world.
Fuck you libruls.
We know the battle ahead will be for a hundred years, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, we will lose.We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of songs stolen from artists who later file cease and desist orders against us…they will only grow louder and more dissonant ……….. We’ve been asked to pause for a reality check (like we would ever do that). We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope but will continue to lay it on them.
But in the very likely story that is America, there has never been any hope.
Now the hopes of the little girl who goes to Harvard are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns at Yale; we will remember that there is nothing happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are really fucking stupid; we are one nation; and together, we will screw up the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea: Fuck you libruls.
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Walnuts/Caribou Barbie ‘08.
Borat: American computers refuse to play your tea-chugging video.
Speaking of stupid stuff the campaign did last night, has anyone told Grandpa that being called a “momma’s boy” (especially by your own mother) is sort of the opposite of “maverick”?
Sean O: Oooo. Really? Maybe the Enquirer is onto something. Again. Some more.The only thing missing from the Palin train wreck was a good, old-fashioned tawdry affair.
Still waiting to hear from John Fogerty for McCain using “Centerfield”. The irony is using a song by the guy who wrote “Fortunate Son” - “some people were born to wave the flag” (while the flag was waiving on the video screen). And still repulsed by the bad convention dancing, especially that woman from Virginia.
Perhaps now Kid Rock can finally realize his dream of being Johnny Mac’s music posse. I think Bawitdaba would go over awfully well at his speeches at the VFW hall.
And this is for the questions that dont have any answers
The midnight glancers and the topless dancers
The gander freaks, cars packed with speakers
The gs with the forties and the chicks with beepers
The northern lights and the southern comfort
And it dont even matter if the veins are punctured
All the crackheads, the critics, the cynics
And my heros in the methodone clinic
All you bastards in the irs
For the crooked cops and the cluttered desks
For the shots of jack and the caps of meth
Half pints of love and the fifths of stress
For the hookers all trickin out in hollywood
And for my hoods of the world misunderstood
I said its all good and its all in fun
So get in the pit and try to love someone
If that isn’t the McCain/Palin message I just don’t know what is!
Vewol Mevemont: …The Vultures, The Vultures, The Vultures ate my dead ass up…
Sean O: Before this week I never Googled NE. Now, I have them bookmarked. Best investigative journalism on the planet. Here’s hoping Godfearing, Jeebus believin’ St. Sarah of Wassilla did just that….and that the clerk of the court hates her/takes bribes.
Sean O: 404′ing on me
http://www.courtrecords.alaska.gov/pa/pa.urd/pamw2000.docket_lst?68762762
The Replacements were from Minnesota, weren’t they?
How ’bout this song: <A HREF=”http://www.mp3lyrics.org/t/the-replacements/shut/
heavy metal wuz AC/DC
perhaps it was in some way related to the speech from that closeted jitbag Lindsey Graham. god he’s annoying, the way he scrunches up his nose like a little pig sniffing waste.
“real mcCain of genius” beer commercial in case you missed it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6xR-_fvUOY
You mean you have to ask PERMISSION to use other people’s songs? Damn.
Minor, but interesting. Palin didn’t actually SELL the AK jet on eBay. She tried to. No buyers. Sold through more traditional avenues at a loss:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Not_selling_on_eBay.html?showall
Carrie_Okie: i got it.
Carrie_Okie: Sean O: Search Results 21 Docket(s) found matching search criteria.
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05/19/2008 Notice to Employer Re: Children’s Medical Insurance Deborah Marie Richter (Co-Petitioner); 0.00 0.00
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08/14/2007 Civil Deficiency Memo mailed re: agreement re retirement benefits and last quarterly statements of same; specifics of shared custody agreement. 0.00 0.00
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shoeho: caveat: national enquirer investigating john edwards love child scandal: excellent investigative professional top-of-the-line journalism! national enquirer investigating anything Glasses!: smarmy tabloid supermarket trash birdcage-lining trash!
Frank Zappa was a Libertarian — why not appeal to the far right with some Mothers tunes? “Brown Shoes Don’t Make It” would certainly apply, and “Duke of Prunes” would describe 3/4 of the GOP white male brigade. “Concentration Moon” would go nicely behind pix of Guantanemo, si? And of course “America Drinks and Goes Home” for Gov. Palin — “you came on strong with your soft voice and your sad eyes/ Fast car and your class ring/ I fell for the whole thing..” It’s a shame they didn’t think of it — “The GOP Mothers of Invention Convention” — Politics’ answer to “2001 Motels.” I might have tried to watch that…
shoeho: Tell Missus Mighty Fuckz that Jesus doesn’t play hockey. He doesn’t want to get nailed to the boards.
tunamelt: ew that looks terrible. but yeah, it says motion denied.
“…the Republicans were playing “Barracuda” all over the place last night to celebrate Sarah Palin, a woman who is only a snaggletoothed fish on the inside.”
I was WONDERING how long it would take for Wonkette to go to the ol’, “smells like fish around here” jokes. What? Oh, the song. Never mind.
I really hope the affair with whatsisname (really - what’s his name?) is true. It is reminiscent of Barry’s victory over Jack Ryan in the Illinois Senate Race. (guys - I’m a technotard with extremely limited netabilities - if somebody knows how to post a link to a hot photo of Jeri Ryan, this would be a nice opportunity.
whatever_dc: Curse you BBC. WTF - I pay you like $300 a year for a so called “tv license” and you fail me now.
I’ve found a way to download the 810meg file which may take me all weekend. If I can edit out the first 3 min I will post to youtube.
Thanks for running the “Dreamboat Annie” album cover and ruining the work days of about 1 million male boomers in the D.C. area, at least!!! An entire generation developed serious adolescent crushes on Ann and Nancy Wilson thanks to that album cover–this being 1975 before the tubes and internets became popular. But the Wilson sisters are really great folks, and they did produce a damn good stream of hits for nearly 15 years there–including, yes, some sappy ’80s power ballads. But the real rock and roll from 1975 to about 1982 was damn good stuff, “Barracuda” included. Good for Ann and Nancy for sticking it to the Geriatric Old Party.
lawrenceofthedesert: I think Baby Dontcha Want a Man Like Me might be a bit more appropriate for the GOP of today.
“Oh God, I am the American Dream.”
Cogito Ergo Bibo: That’s it! They can play The Ramones “Mama’s Boy”. All the members that matter are already dead *and* Johnny Ramone had a massive hard-on for Ronald Reagan!
Evil orange Daily Kos is now asking if Richter isn’t actually Trig’s father. ‘Cause they broke the damn baby story and by god they’re going to pin this thing on someone!
http://openthread.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/5/04851/95453/373/587455
I really, really hope that this affair thing is true. It’s reminiscent of Obama’s win over Jack Ryan in the Illinois Senate race. Barry is the real barracuda in this race. Glasses McScreechyvoice is just a manipulative small town mom with a bad crush on Jesus.
I don’t just want Obama to win. I hope he ruins their lives.
I guess Palin can always turn to Ted Nugent for her background music. Maybe “Wang, Dang, Sweet Poontang”?
John McPutz argues with Mittens: obnoxious but entertaining
John McDoof tangles with the Right: revolting
John McOops sued by show biz lawyers: priceless
MoodProcessor: As long as nobody breaks out “The Illinois Enema Bandit,” we should be just fine.
trophy(forparticipation)wife: Growing up in a small southern town in the 70’s, the term “cooter” was slang for “pussy,” which we didn’t say because we were Baptists. Any way, we would sing the “Barracuda” as “Bareyourcooter,” which is what goes through my head when they say Sarah Barracuda. I thought I was the only person with those repressed memories.
BigDupa: That should really cover all the bases, especially if they use the original ‘the darkies are gay’ lyrics from My Old Kentucky Home. If only abortion could be worked in somewhere…
IT IS OFFICIAL:
The only thing people do in Alaska is fuck each other, smoke meth and wait for a check from the Feds.
And btw, if Palin is more popular than either Hopesman or WALNUTS, does that mean she is a CELEBRITY?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/20080905/pl_rasmussen/palinpower20080905
shortsshortsshorts: Well, think about it. WTF else are they going to do?
shortsshortsshorts: Was I the only one thinking it was Caribou Barbie’s idea to double the income tax deduction per kid? Or just that she’d be the one to see the most benefit.
McCain’s love stealing shit. First, the McCain foods emblem, campaign ads, cookie recipes and now this.
Buzzcocks….see this is why I love you guys. I have to throw my vote in in NIN.
Head Like a Hole:
God money Ill do anything for you.
God money just tell me what you want me to.
God money nail me up against the wall.
God money dont want everything he wants it all.
No you cant take it
No you cant take it
No you cant take that away from me
No you cant take it
No you cant take it
No you cant take that away from me
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
Id rather die than give you control.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
Id rather die than give you control.
Bow down before the one you serve.
Youre going to get what you deserve.
Bow down before the one you serve.
Youre going to get what you deserve.
God moneys not looking for the cure.
God moneys not concerned with the sick among the pure.
God money lets go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
God moneys not one to choose
No you cant take it
No you cant take it
No you cant take that away from me
No you cant take it
No you cant take it
No you cant take that away from me
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
Id rather die than give you control.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
Id rather die than give you control.
Bow down before the one you serve.
Youre going to get what you deserve.
Bow down before the one you serve.
Youre going to get what you deserve.
Bow down before the one you serve.
Youre going to get what you deserve.
Bow down before the one you serve.
Youre going to get what you deserve.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
Id rather die than give you control.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
Id rather die than give you control.
Bow down before the one you serve.
Youre going to get what you deserve.
Bow down before the one you serve.
Youre going to get what you deserve.
You know who you are.
They should have played “White Room” last night.
tunamelt: Cogito Ergo Bibo: I hope Sarah’s entire life is ruined. I know it sounds bad, but I really hate her after researching her “maverick” legacy of attempting to ban books at libraries, forcing her daughter to get married, faking a kid, ruining a trooper’s career, causing conflict in her city counsel and being generally cunt-like. She is officially no longer “hot dish governor Palin.”
shortsshortsshorts: and fuckin chill, i guess
lawrenceofthedesert: Or how about Zappa’s “Catholic Girls” as the Palin ladies walked out on stage.
“All the way. Thats the way they go
Every day
And none of their mamas ever seem to know
Hip-hip-hooray
For all the class they show
Theres nothing like a catholic girl
At the cyo
When they learn to blow”
DemmeFatale: Yeah, I fucking love Pahlaniuk and I still think the background is irritating. But they gotta pay for the booze somehow.
StripesAndPlaids: No man, that happened to me too.
I always preferred the Imperial March or Theme or whatever it’s called from Star Wars for the Republicans, certainly for Cheney. Maybe Jar-Jar will grant them use of it, I’m pretty sure he’s Republican (ran for mayor after Sonny Bono)
Geezer doofus was a punk
(doo dah, doo dah)
Started fights and got real drunk
(oh da doo da day)
At the bottom of his class
(doo dah, doo dah)
but his family had the brass
(oh da doo dah day)
Lost 5 planes, but that ain’t all
(doo dah, doo dah)
One was on the Forrestal
(oh da doo dah day)
gonna lie all night, gonna lie all day
geezer doofus is a punk
oh da doo da day
As a young man dropping bombs
(doo da, doo da)
Got shot down in Viet Nam
(oh da doo dah day)
He was tortured night and day
(doo dah, doo dah)
didn’t even have a kitchen table
(oh da doo da day)
Came back to civilian life
(doo dah, doo dah)
Then he ditched his crippled wife
(Oh da doo dah day)
Gonna lie all night, gonna lie all day
Geezer fuckface is a twat
Oh da doo da day
(feel free to add more verses - and fuck Stephen Foster, he was just ripping off black music a hundred years before anybody else was)
How about ‘Gangsta Bitch’ by Apache?
shortsshortsshorts: Oddly enough, given that GILFy doesn’t seem to give a damn about her own kids and what their lives have become, I mainly worry about what all of this is doing to them. If Palin went down in a flaming nuclear inferno, I’d probably just laugh. But these poor kids are going to have to go back to school, eventually, and live with what kids do when armed with ammo like this.
shortsshortsshorts:
Bidens goal (besides making her bleed profusely on the inside) is to piss her off to bring out her bitchface for all murika to see. I bet she turns into a out of control, stuttering trollop c*nt on stage when Biden stumps her.
Then again, Pearl Jam’s Better Man somehow seems applicable.
shortsshortsshorts: You’re absolutely right. She’s a terrible, awful person and the more I find out about her and her beliefs, the more terrible and awful I find her. It’s making me terribly earnest in real life, which is frustrating, and only makes me hate her more.
shortsshortsshorts: I agree that the vice-promqueenedent hopefull is a really screwed up bitch, but let’s be honest, we’d still do her. As I have written before, my late brother always told me, “the crazy ones are good in bed, but, you know, they’re fuckin’ crazy…you know, so there’s that.” Let’s not kid ourselves, even though she has sold her soul to the Nazi fringe element of the already disfunctional g.o.p, yeah, we would probably still do her. We’re guys.
dano: They can use any stupid Nugent song because they all suck. Just as long as they don’t use any of the cool Amboy Dukes stuff (he was their lead guitarist) I’m fine. Though “Death Is Life” and “Surrender to Your Kings” seem like they may fit.
And the DNC really missed an opportunity by not playing the Chamber Brothers’ “Time Has Come Today” the 11-minute version.
StripesAndPlaids: I’m right with you. That was my first version a couple of days ago and earlier today. It’s the best version. Me, I’m agree.
Welcome to fat white republican america.
Advocatus_Diaboli:
Well that post sucked. So much for my geek skills.
“Shut Up” by The Replacements:
Well apathy’s got a hold on me
And it won’t let go
Tell me your problem, I’ll tell you mine
Motherfucker you’re gonna know
Well I can go for a change
Go for a jog
Tell me about your rock band
Tell me about your job
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up
Well Tommy’s too young
Bobby’s too drunk
I only know/can shout one note
Chris needs a watch to keep time
We’ll never find the time to vote
And I can for a change
Go for a job
Tell me about your girlfriend
Tell me about your job
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up
ManchuCandidate: you remind me that youtube has a nice musical selection from pre ww11 movies. eddie cantor, marx bros., alice faye …. etc. being the time of the great depression, mccain and party should just love them.
StripesAndPlaids: Ignore what I just said. Yes, I have those memories as well and as you can tell by my last post, I burned a few brain cells while singing those words.
masterdebater: Conceded.
masterdebater: Incorrect. I have an… unhealthy interest in Tina Fey, but if she says one nice thing about McCain I’m never watching 30 rock again. Just like I stopped caring about the (formerly hot) Iliza Schlesinger when I found out she supported grumpus.
Part of attraction is knowing the person is basically intelligent and capable of empathy.
masterdebater: I would totally hate-fuck Palin. I’d get her preggers too, so Bristol’s brat had an uncle/aunt that was younger that it.
WadISay: Or “Fuck the Pain Away” by Peaches.
njdon:
I’d recommend “I don’t want to set the world on fire.”
masterdebater: DieOnTheTurnpike: Back in the day, I wanted to hate-fuck Tucker Carlson. The bowtie? I guess I can see the Sarah Palin appeal.
Meanwhile that goodfornothing Daddy Yankee just stands there like an idiot, not composing a new fight song for his friend Walnuts’ new pal, geez.
I loved how the Dems had Stevie Fucking Wonder play live at their convention, while the Republicans had….. Cowboy Troy.
The GOP must now turn its weary eyes to shitty White guy guitar rock:
Jimmy Buffett
Bob Seeger
Steve Miller Band
Ted Nugent
The Eagles
tunamelt: agreed. McCain has some positives. The choice of the company he keeps is a huge negative. The more I learn about her the worse I feel about her.
magic titty: I wanted to post that earlier but looked at the lyrics and decided against it. I got a free ringtone though!
mcaingels are at it again…hippies for mccain. ha
http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/mccaingels_103/
tunamelt: Excuse me, I have to go be really ashamed right now.
tunamelt: I can see the Tucker Carlson appeal, in a hate-fuck sort of way. Solidarity, my friend. We all have our shameful secrets. Oh, and bonus if I get my cookies, but he doesn’t.
Bon Jovi’s “Blaze of Glory” would fit well for with the whole fighter pilot story.
pedro: actually, Led Zeppelin is a Howlin’ Wolf/Muddy Waters cover band …
Howlin’ Wolf Muddy Waters was into J. R. R. ?
Pardon my absence, I actually had to work, but may I suggest “Washington Bullets” by the Clash.
trophy(forparticipation)wife: good work on the ringtone. You don’t think Sarah knows them words??
WadISay: “Eve of Destruction” also would have been appropriate.
tunamelt: No, no, no need. I know what you mean. I was listening to the Moose muncher talk about how all of this “global warming non-sense” had to start taking a back seat to our energy needs, and all I could hear was, “…warming, warm, is it warm in here?, oh god, your crank is as warm as toast, do me, do me”. I think they call it auditory hallucinations or something…still, I really hated myself.
You know, my friend John McCain has shown an interesting penchant for glomming onto females with advantages to save his wrinkly-crinkly old bacon. By golly, old Raisin Cain makes it work for him, too! I think David Lee Roth’s Just a Gigilo is the perfect theme for the leering heavy breathing one. OK, true, I hated the song and still do. I guess that’s what really makes it so perfectly perfect!
magic titty: You know- I always thought it was “prissy behind” and found out that the lyrics are “Chrissy B-Hynde”.
I sang, “rolled up like a doucher in a roamer in the night,” as a kid. . .
tunamelt: Thank you. But why do I have the song “North to Alaska” stuck in my head?
tunamelt: WIN! I would love to witness a deathmatch between the RIAA and the RNC. Front row seat and popcorn here I come. Die muthafuckas, die!
“Dumb Girl” by Run DMC would be more apprpriate
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rundmc/dumbgirl.html
trophy(forparticipation)wife: Yes! that prissy behind business threw me as well. And frankly, it makes more sense.
These dreams go on when I close my eyes. Every second
Of the night, I live another life. These dreams that
Sleep when it’s cold outside, every moment I’m awake,
The further I’m away.
SayItWithWookies: How about the great man’s “(It Feels Like) 1974″. Except it’s more like 1972, with Nixon and Agnew on the warpath.
trophy(forparticipation)wife: I sang, “rolled up like a doucher in a roamer in the night,” as a kid. . .
What the hell are the actual lyrics to that? I’ve always wondered.
Carrie_Okie: Damnation, that’s an obscure W. W. tune but it sure is appropos.
lawrenceofthedesert: “The Torture Never Stops”
TGY: I believe it’s:
“revved up like a deuce, another rumor in the night.”
Gearhead poet, that Bruce.
ManchuCandidate:
“brother, can you spare a dime”
“pennies from heaven”
When Johnny comes marching home again,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
We’ll give him a hearty welcome then
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The men will cheer and the boys will shout
The ladies they will all turn out
And we’ll all feel gay,
When Johnny comes marching home.
“Ha ha just kidding, Chuck Berry is still alive, so he will also be calling John McCain soon.”
No, Chuck has made a deal with Johnny-Mac that will allow him to put secret cameras in the women’s restrooms in the West Wing and the Naval Observatory.
Pink Floyd “Money”.
jimh:
Funny, but Johnny hasn’t marched home in a long time…. other than to go to his ranch.. (well, if yuou can call a large house with NO cattle a ranch) and of course his appearance at Central High school in Phoenix with Daddy-Yankee….
Heck, why didn’t he use a Daddy Yankee song:
Pegala,
Mi gata gangster, sin miedo
La que conmigo es afuego
Loca con el rebuleo
Y campea’ por lo de ella
Porque sabe que la velo
(Daddy Yankee, yo!)
Pegala,
Mi gata gangster, sin miedo
(El cangri!)
La que conmigo es afuego
Loca con el rebuleo
Y campea’ por lo de ella
Porque sabe que la velo
Verse (1)
Don Omar:(Daddy Yankee)
Que, que!
Dale Don, suave na’
Tas abusa’
Verdad que nadie como yo
(No hay!)
Janguiando como tu y yo
(No hay!)
Campiando como tu y yo
(No hay!)
Siempre
Mi gata es afueguembel
Si tu la vieras como viaja en su BMW
Gastando pacas de cienes
Con su socia se entretiene
Y jala el celu pa’ llamar a su nene
Nos ven hablando juntos y le da la perse
Buscando un pal’ de locos
Que quieran lamberse
Mi gata de vez en cuando
Suele crecerse
Tiene una Smith & Wesson
Pa’ defenderse
Que pajo?
Chorus(2x)
Don Omar
Pegala,
Mi gata gangster, sin miedo
La que conmigo es afuego
Loca con el rebuleo
Y campea por lo de ella
(Don, Don, Don…)
Porque sabe que la velo
Pegala,
Mi gata gangster, sin miedo
(Tu sabes!)
La que conmigo es afuego
Loca con el rebuleo
Y campea por lo de ella
Porque sabe que la velo
(Don!)
THose anti-immagration folks would just loove to hear someone sing in Spanish!
i’ve just discovered that journalist amy goodman of democracynow.org was namong those arrested at the RNC yesterday. please let’s do everything possible to see that she is released immediately without charges:
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2008/9/3/call_to_action_on_behalf_of_dn_journalists_facing_charges_for_reporting_on_the_republican_national_convention
My name is Mudd
My name is Mud, but call me Alowishus Devadander Abercrombie
That’s long for Mud so I’ve been told
Told that by this sonsabitch that lies before me bloated blue and cold
I’ve got my pride, I drink my wine
I’d drink only the finest except I haven’t earned a dime in several months
Or were it years
The breath on that fat bastard could bring any man to tears
We had our words, a common spat
So I kissed him upside the cranium with an aluminum baseball bat
My name is Mud
My name is Mud
Where you goin city boy?
TGY:
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Not that I sing it that way. I rarely hear these songs anymore, unless I’m in Florida listening to the radio, in which case I use interpretive hand gestures to express the true meaning of the lyrics.
Guess Who’s ‘American Woman’ would make a great theme for Sara Palin.
Lenny Kravitz’s version, too.
ZappaForSenate: I wouldn’t be surprised if 75 percent of Zappa’s lyrics applied delightfully to the GOP convention — the early Mothers’ and later tunes in ways I can relate to wholeheartedly, the middle songs (chronologically) in ways that really lost me — to the point where I didn’t realize he had totally gotten his satire back until after he was gone. 20-minute tube distortion solos, no matter how virtuoso, were beyond my sonic tolerance. But my respect for Zappa endures; I will forever be of the generation who cannot see a poncho without asking, “Is that a real poncho or a Sears poncho?”
NoWireHangers: Funny shit.
Don’t forget Abba and Rocky!
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/02/19/would_abba_take_a_chance_on_mccain/
First they don’t vet their VP pick and now we find out they didn’t check with Heart on the song rights!!! Let me guess…the next story is, “Moosemomma drops out of the race because a Team Walnuts aide slips up and says the real choice was actually supposed to be Heidi Montag. But when the staffers went to her Malibu apartment to pick her up, that chipmunk-lookin’ boyfriend of hers was actually getting a handjob from starstruck Moosemomma. The staffers (having never watched VH1 before) mistaked Squeekylady for Montag and put her on a plane to Dayton.”
Walnuts?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5BMVmOWzfk
loudmouthredhead: Sorry, don’t get it. A little obscure for me.
Photoshop op!
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Gov-Sarah-Palin-ice-cream-cone-Cedarburg2C-Wisconsin-Republican-presidential-nominee-Alaska-Governor-Sarah-Palin/ss/events/pl/082908govsarahpalin/im:/080905/ids_photos_ts/r3003460541.jpg/
pedro: I worked on the first couple of Heart albums/tours and can vouch for the fact that when Mushroom Records’ honcho Shelly Siegel found ‘em, they were a Vancouver-based Zep tribute band. Annie could do Plant really well, given that - when they’re in full flight - they both make sounds only dogs can hear
Why Vancouver? Well, both the Yanqui sistahs were hooked up with a pair of Yanqui bros [Roger on guitar and Mike was road manager] who had to get the fuck outta Dodge to avoid the draft. Raised as Army brats themselves, the sistahs know a thing or two about military life and are NOT down with the warmongering GOP bullshit. [They also toured with their pet dog, which I found maximally charming... I could tell more, but then I wouldn't be so often mistaken for a gentleman. A-hem.]
The Hispanic Buddy Holly: Yup. But, the question remains: “Why Is A Carrot More Orange Than An Orange?” Still haven’t figgered that one out….
capitol hillbilly: Nailed it! My fave Simpsons is where they’re in London and Homer’s telling Marge: “Look, there’s London Bridge, and Buck House, and Big Ben…. and Jimmy Page, who’s stolen more black American music than any man alive.” [Or words to that effect.]
Knowing how litigious Mr. Page is, I thought it odd that he didn’t sue, until the reason struck me: The Truth Is A Defense. It’s one thing to thieve a riff and give props; it’s another to help yourself to entire songs and claim authorship. But Pagey didn’t just rip off black blues guys. Just ask Jake Holmes, Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renboure… ah fuck, just about anybody Pagey ever liked enough to listen to… BTW: I miss your old avatar… WAY COOLER, and for which I’ll always love you long time, Billy. Go back, man. Do it Arthurly…
Ironically, Bristol and Levi got in this mess their in when the got a hold of Mama’s copy of The Kama Sutra and tried the “Dog and Butterfly”
Itsjustme: If she had shown that little maneuver to Bristol as part of her abstinence based sex ed curriculum, all we would be talking about would be that huge-assed smile on Hockey-boys face…
shortsshortsshorts: Mr Blifil: I didn’t know Vietnam was a town?
S. Cullen Bonz: On that note, if only Mittens had received the Gooper nomination:
See the dog and butterfly. Down Highway 1 he like to fly…
“Heart was a late 70s Led Zeppelin cover band” - NOT!!!!!!! - Please see Wikipedia. BTW Obama might be able to do something with “Magic Man”, assuming they let him use it royalty free.
According to Ann Wilson of Heart, the song Barracuda was written in anger in response to a record company’s rumor that the two female bandmembers were lesbians. Is the RNC trying to tell us something about Sarah Palin? Does she have a hot sister? That’d be experience I can believe in!
They should have gone with something less contoversial, maybe something from the Dead Kennedys.
Personally, I find it offensive that my boutique mountain bike of record is made by the fine American innovation and design consultancy (now Spot Brand Bicycles) called… “Maverick Bicycles.”
Invented and designed and prototyped in Boulder, CO, and (Golden now?) by none other than the inventor of the mountain bike suspension maverick, Paul Turner; I’m sure Maverick Bike would have a word or two about McNaught playing off this fine bicycle brand that truly does represent innovative thinking and progressive industrial design and engineering.
Not that John M would really understand.
– f9a
Everybody’s so wigged out over the use of Barracuda. Didn’t anybody notice that as McSame was being crowned post-speech (if ya call that sleeping pill a speech) they played Heart’s song “Magic Man.” MAGIC! Maybe if he’d disappear in a puff of smoke.
PengIn:
whatever_dc:
As a wonkette super secret agent, I have managed to trick the BBC into giving me the ‘for your eyes only’ republican headbanging video they kept on playing and are afraid to let ‘mericans see. I don’t want to tell you how I got hold of the video, its just too demeaning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN1TCdoB238
Anyway, WTF is this? Did the RNC really play this headbanging music at the convention, who is the band, did they have permission, and did walnuts approve? Did CSPAN play this music on their coverage to or is this just a way the BBC wants to have ‘a go’ at the republicans?
Interesting that Barrack’s basketball nickname was Barry O’ Bomber, while Palin’s was Barracuda. Barracuda has more letters from his name than from hers. I wonder if we’ll get to see a basketball match between Barry/Biden and ‘Cain/’Cuda. I think McWheelchair would die on the spot, so this game will never be allowed to take place.
The John McSame/GOP’s stolen music Cease and Desist list so far.
John Melncamp “Our Country” http://www.google.com/search?q=John+mellencamp+McCain
Jackson Browne “Running on Empty” (suing McSame and the GOP)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/columns/music_reporter/e3i3338808b4eeae51f4848f82705d7ca89
Van Halen “Right here Right Now”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/05/heart-van-halen-orleans-j_n_124264.html
Tom Petty “I Won’t Back Down” (Threatened to sue Bush)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/columns/music_reporter/e3i3338808b4eeae51f4848f82705d7ca89
Boston “More Than a Feeling” (Huckabee)
http://timesonline.typepad.com/uselections/2008/02/he-battled-the.html
Heart “Barracuda”
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/09/05/heart-lash-out-at-mccain-campaigns-use-of-barracuda/
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/09/heart-responds.html
Chuck Berry “Johnny be Good” Did not say to stop using the song but Chuck is an 81 year old Barrack Obama supporter. McSame said about using the song” It might be because it is the only one [the artist] hasn’t complained about us using.”
http://powerpop.blogspot.com/2008/06/chuck-berry-to-john-mccain-drop-dead.html
Orleans “Still the One” (Bush too tried using writer John Hall’s hit. He was understandably upset as he is now a Democratic NY Congressman)
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/13/1138458.aspx
Frankie Valli “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/mccain-campai-1.html
Abba “Take a Chance on Me”
http://timesonline.typepad.com/uselections/2008/02/he-battled-the.html
The Rocky Theme song
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/02/19/would_abba_take_a_chance_on_mccain/
There are also various complaints from
The Walter Reed Middle School McSame speech background photograph “I don’t think the Senator is the most appropriate person…”
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/school_raps_mccain_for_using_i.php
And the accidental photo is as close as he got to the subject of Veterans at RNC http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/06/mccain-veterans-rnc/
Mike Myers and Wayne’s World says, He’s Not Worthy
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/08/mccain-mike-mye.html
US Steelworkers to Sarah Palin “Stop using your Husband’s Union membership as a Prop”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/04/palin-usw/
Rachel Ray and The Food Network for Cindy’s Recipe-Gate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-weiner/mccain-family-recipes-lif_b_96666.html
And this one is fun: Newsvine “hacked” McSame for stealing a FaceBook Template and bandwith
http://mike.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/26/633799-hacking-john-mccain
This long of a list tops Regan’s use of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” in a failed jingoistic speech.
Who’d have guessed in 1990 that They Might Be Giants were predicting Sarah Palin?
This is where the party ends
I cant stand here listening to you
And your racist friend
I know politics bore you
But I feel like a hypocrite talking to you
And your racist friend
It was the loveliest party that Ive ever attended
If anything was broken Im sure it could be mended
My head cant tolerate this bobbing and pretending
Listen to some bullet-head and the madness that hes saying
This is where the party ends
Ill just sit here wondering how you
Can stand by your racist friend
Botswana Meat Commission FC: Huh? What’s “shitty” about any of those guys? Also, for the record, all of those artists are liberals and Democratic supporters, except Ted Nugent. And, for the record, Ted’s not exactly as mainstream “conservative” as people think–he has his own views on certain things, but he can, and has, ripped the Republicans as much as he’s ripped Democrats. He’s his own man. And, again, all of the others–some of the best-selling and best-loved musicians of all time, by the way–are liberals and Democrats. And they’ve all put out a huge collection of damn good music. We should be thankful for that.