Do you still believe? Will you rise up, with fists? Let’s have a musical night of music posts, all chosen by your editor, for theme time election night hour.
That first song is by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, all fine people from Echo Park and Silver Lake, in California. Oh and that is Sarah Silverman doing the introduction, she of the Great Schlep campaign, to get Jewish kids to shame their Florida grandparents into voting for Barack Obama.
You can work out the winks and Vegas and false prophets &c., for yourselves.
And, hell, you should know this, HENGHH? Leonard Cohen, Democracy.
Electioneering, by your Radiohead, with campaign video put together by this dude, who is unsatisfied, by the politics.
Oh, here is Sarah Palin, playing the alcoholic-divorce classic “All Shook Down,” plus “Talent Show,” by the Replacements.
Because, good lord, we are still Unsatisfied.
You are, you are … kill for you. (Cat Power)
Ha, here is some of the “change” you people like, from the late great Sam Cooke, who is dead now, and has been since about the time Barack Obama was a (terrorist) baby. Fun trivia: Cooke wrote this after hearing Bob Dylan’s “Blowing in the Wind.”
We are now taking suggestions, like this one, by Barack Obama’s radical Chicago priest, Liz Phair.
1989.
Stereolab!
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Sarah Silverman = win!
Two things I love — Sarah Silverman and Hee Haw!
Dixville Notch, NH, gives us (per tradition) our first real results of the 2008 election:
Obama: 15
McCain: 6
In 2004:
Bush 19
Kerry 7
Good start, huh? Especially considering this little hamlet in the middle of nowhere (pop. 75) is quite Republican:
2000:
Bush 21
Gore 5
1996:
Dole 18
Clinton 8
1992:
Bush 15
Perot 8
Clinton 2
1988:
Bush 34
Dukakis 3
can you feel the love?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/4/01837/6051/16/651875
That first one was good. But who’s this Grace F. God chick they were singing about?
God I love Jenny Lewis, I also wouldn’t mind a night with the twins… And yes I mean her breast! Or the Watson Twins, or how about a foursome! God this election is leaving me sexually frustrated!!!
Here’s a gem from that 1968 that resonates.
GIVE A DAMN
as performed by Spanky & Our Gang
tIf you’d take the train with me
Uptown, through the misery
Of ghetto streets in morning light
It’s always night
Take a window seat, put down your Times
You can read between the lines
Just meet the faces that you meet
Beyond the window’s pane
And it might begin to teach you
How to give a damn about your fellow man
And it might begin to teach you
How to give a damn about your fellow man
Or put your girl to sleep sometime
With rats instead of nursery rhymes
With hunger and your other children
By her side
And wonder if you’ll share your bed
With something else which must be fed
For fear may lie beside you
Or it may sleep down the hall
[chorus]
Come and see how well despair
Is seasoned by the stif’ling air,
See your ghetto in the good old
Sizzling summertime.
Suppose the streets were all on fire
The flames like tempers leaping higher
Suppose you’d lived there all your life
D’you think that you would mind?
And it might begin to reach you
Why I give a damn about my fellow man
And it might begin to teach you
How to give a damn about your fellow man
[re=162462]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Grace of God. That’s what people called Obama before 2006.
Mmmmmmmm…Sarah Silverman.
[re=162455]Czn939[/re]:
Sarah Silverman = fail. She’s annoying and unfunny.
Jenny Lewis = win. She’s adorably precious and talented.
[re=162470]iwillsavethispatient[/re]: Well — to each his own, but I think “of” is a preposterous middle name.
[re=162475]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Yeah, it wasn’t picked by someone who thought he’d be running for President. That’s why they picked the Arabic for it – “Hussein”. Genius. Guaranteed the keys to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue now.
Other Jenny Lewis lyric:
You are what you love and not what loves you back.
I will be thinking of this, if America votes for Walnuts, proving that it loves me much less than I love it.
[re=162474]SRSco[/re]: Wrong. Sarah S. = hot, funny, hot, in that order.
Argh, the next twenty hours or so will be as unbearable as the past two years all put together. Just like the original ‘Walnuts’ post predicted…
Yeah, Sarah is funny and hot, but since this campaign has been about “judgment”, I have but two words:
Jimmy. Kimmel. Not funny, not talented. Definitely not hot.
Meanwhile, I’ll take Sam Cooke. Passion and soul trumps it all.
“All Shook Down” in what respect, Charlie?
I have a sneaking suspicion of something I wont make public, but will compliment with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st7_r_hfzBg&feature=related
Goodnight good Wonketters.
And this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVvAKIU5BT0
That was such a great Jenny Lewis album. The new one… not so much.
For god’s sakes, do not visit Oklahoma, tomorrow or ever.
Sarah is as crap with the flute as she is with explaining the constitution. But she’s come a long ways with her soul-snatching, zombie-making stare.
I vote Uncle Sam Goddamn by Brother Ali…might as well have one actual Muslin in the discussion, even if this one looks nothing like Obama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO18F4aKGzQ
Please add “American Prayer”… up near the top!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVi4rUzf-0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMbtUx8H0dM&feature=related
And here is Barry playing all of your obvious favorites.
So then where does Jenny McCarthy stand on this scale.
In my dreams, Obama walks out on stage to give his victory speech to “Fight the Power.” Suck it, whiteys.
a chant to be accompanies by pots & pans:
goodbye to Joe the Fake Plumber
young redneck Levi goodbye
goodbye to the poor stapled bear
the raccoon in the air
the threat of the noose
and the gutted moose
farewell to the baldy who ran
the Roadkill Campaign
buh-bye, personal shoppers
and not talkin’ to Iran or Spain
and “he’s a Arab”
and “That one”
and “muslin”
and no candy
and Miss Buffalo Chip
and Waziristan
and to puck dropping, baby naming, B scratching, blinking, winking, “In what respect, Charlie”, witch-hunting, miserable
Losers:
stick a fork in
it’s done
go home.
I’ve just realized that what we’re missing is Blingee-ness in Music Video form. People, I give you Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head. I thank you.
ah, yes another reason i love this blog so much. i didn’t love that jenny lewis album, but rise up with fists is a fantastic song. and good christ, that sam cooke song – ken are you trying to kill us? thank you. i needed to hear that song right now.
I don’t see what George Bush has done wrong, he’s destroying a bunch of people who shouldn’t be in the 1st place. I say the Iraqis are just here to take up space on this planet. They’re not doing anything to benifit us. George Bush is doing a great job where he is. I hope he sends a nuke to Iraq and just wipe that country out of the map. The only thing the Iraqis know how to do is terrorize countries, they’re all terrorists.Ok, I’m going to say it, I think George Bush is good. He’s one of the greatest president ever.. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! he attack Iraq and many Iraqis died.. so what? I hope he bombs Iraq again, I seriously don’t give a crap if the Iraqis die, I hope bush kills them all, bomb the hell out of Iraq. serioulsy I think the Iraqis are nothing but terrorist and George Bush is doing the world a favour by bombing them and killing them. they just like to bomb the hell out of each other, so the Americans attacking Iraq doesn’t really make that much of a difference, they’re just speeding up the process. So I solute George Bush
TrueCristian, who still is spelling challenged, “solutes” George Bush, what a great play on words. Thank goodness it’s Bush’s Final Solution. Btw, True, Bush was Nixon without brains. Oh, and it might not be real good Christianity when you say, “I seriously don’t give a crap if the Iraquis die.” Seems to contradict a few of Jesus’s stronger statements — you have heard of Jesus, True?
Gooooooooooooo Barry!
Kool Keith – Black Elvis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4SF9h6gjvo
Ike and Tina Turner – I’ve Been Loving You Too Long
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilpVhUu27KM
Todd Rundgren – A Dream Goes On Forever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c-XuIxFFk8
[re=162586]lawrenceofthedesert[/re]: I am Danish, considered by the Nazi’s (your heroes) to the be one of the purist forms of white blood. I think you are an abomination. Jesus is love? What you preach is hate, and what you reap, so shall you so.
Of course, once Obama is president, the only music allowed on the airwaves will be the Rev. Al Green, Barry White, Issac Hayes and the Isley Brothers.
It’s in the Bible People!
Holy crap, “truecristian” can’t even spell christian. It has the word “christ” in it see… the entity you hold so dearly while you get all riled up about mass killings. Of course we’re already doing the mass killings, so you’re fine with the situation anyway. Sorry, but you’re gonna have to suffer through the Obama love fest to come.
Gooooooooooooo Barry!
Kool Keith – Black Elvis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4SF9h6gjvo
Ike and Tina Turner – I’ve Been Loving You Too Long
/watch?v=ilpVhUu27KM
Todd Rundgren – A Dream Goes On Forever
watch?v=0c-XuIxFFk8
My Top Voting Happy Songs: I’ll be rocking one of them in the ipod while I vote!!
1. John Legend’s “If you’re out there,” which he wrote for Obama and sang at the democratic convention. (I’m betting he’ll sing it at the inaugural ball if Obama wins.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXzapdQsFHk
2. Jesus Jones “Right Here, Right Now” – written about the fall of the Berlin Wall, but it will do for this election too.
“Right here right now there is no other place I’d rather be, Right here, right now. Watching the world wake up from history.”
3. David Bowie. “Heroes.” The john legend song has a reference to this song.
“Though nothing will Drive them away/ We can beat them Just for one day/We can be Heroes Just for one day”
Vote your asses off!, y’all! We can be heroes just for one day!!!!!!! (Tomorrow we’ll just be regular people but for today: carpe votem)
What an eclectic batch of stuff. I gape in awe. Sorta.
yay for matador records
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mK6jeJPuz8
Remember, kids:
1.) A black man will not carry a Goldwater state, namely SC, GA, AL, MS, LA and AZ.
2.) Nancy “Off the Table” Pelosi will not lose her reelection bid, nor will anybody else in the House whose name didn’t appear in a newspaper headline alongside the word “sex.” Remember, the 9% approval rating means nothing.
3.) The upcoming 111th Congress will not impeach George Bush, or perform any other official action that would say “You don’t get to do that as president” to future generations. Precedent will not be denied to Obama and any other future presidents who want to do more of the same.
4.) This time next year, President Obama will ask for, and the 111th Congress will give, reauthorization to the USA PATRIOT Act. No meaningful “War on Terror” legislation will be allowed to expire. And don’t expect any upcoming “economic stimulus” packages to look much different than Hank’s, either.
Expecting “hope” and “change” from Election Day is like expecting Christmas to bring “peace on earth” and “goodwill towards man.”
See you all on the other side.
[re=162593]TRUECRISTIAN[/re]: So you’re a Danish. Are you a fruit Danish or a cheese Danish? I’m a Yellow Dog. That’s a kind of mutt we have here in America, a mixture of various breeds. We eat Danishes (even though they make us fart).
If the rapidly-diminishing Smirky Monkey (George Bush to you) nukes Iraq, as you seem so fervently to desire, he will be killing a bunch of Americans. Did you know that? Do you know where Iraq is? Among other things, it’s where most of our army is now, so if he nukes Iraq, he nukes his own army. Which is our army (not yours, your a pastry). Do your acute reasoning skills follow me?
[re=162582]TRUECRISTIAN[/re]: If the bible is so great, how come it doesn’t have pictures?
Huh? Huh? HNNNGNNHHH?
I saw Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins play in Detroit a few years ago. Best concert ever.
I have nothing amusing or cynical to say here. Just being a fanboy.
Hey, can I vote while listening to my MP3 player in Michigan?
Public Enemy – By The Time I Get To Arizona
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39DJqI8puV0
By today’s standards its almost prophetic. The black community vs the Senator for AZ.. back when terrorism was almost a patirotic duty. Where is Chuck D these days? Prolly cold lampin.
for the record, liz phair used to be cool…
[re=162659]slappypaddy[/re]: When somebody goes,
“I say the Iraqis are just here to take up space on this planet. They’re not doing anything to benifit us. George Bush is doing a great job where he is. I hope he sends a nuke to Iraq and just wipe that country out of the map. The only thing the Iraqis know how to do is terrorize countries, they’re all terrorists.Ok, I’m going to say it, I think George Bush is good. He’s one of the greatest president ever.. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! he attack Iraq and many Iraqis died.. so what?”
there wouldn’t seem to be anything to say to that person that would make him feel like an idiot. But a vigorously-administered spanking is, of course, an entirely different matter.
sam cooke rocks…
Good music choices!
I’m a little upset to find that Sarah Palin likes James Galway though…I thought the only thing I shared with her was my name.
what?? no Parliament /Funkadelic ‘Chocolate City’?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyyfnIXXB-g
I was going to be all restrained and stuff, but you can’t go and put up a musictime post and not expect me to jump on it, you know that, right?
Donuts & Bacon
The James Rocket
Um…clue me in…why is Liz Phair here? I like her and all (yes, even the much-reviled 2003 CD), but I don’t see the connection. Inform me, magic electrons!
Also, “HWC” is easily the best song ever written on its particular subject.
ok i was gonna by cynical and put up a link to world destruction – time zone
but in the spirit of rainbows and unicorns:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JRv6iCCYQo
Goddamn it, that Sam Cooke clip just isn’t fair.
Couple that with footage from long lines in Atlanta, or the account from 538 of an 80-year-old African-American man patting the head of an 8-year-old boy handing him an “I Voted” sticker, and, well, fuck me. You broke my fucking cynicism for today, you asshole.
You can’t forget Jarvis Cocker’s Running the World
Just to be a dork I offered to buy Jenny Lewis a drink after a Rilo show in Orlando once, she told me to save my money! She’s like a rockin’ rude Suze Orman! So hot! …then she went and argued with some of her bandmates.
Gawd, these videos suck, royally. People: If you don’t have talent, if you don’t know how to film something, if you can’t sing, if you can’t act, if you can’t dance, if you can’t edit, if you don’t know anything about filming and film: PLEASE DO NOT POST A VIDEO TO YOUTUBE OR ANY OTHER VIDEO SITE.
The world doesn’t need any more stupid, crappy, amateur videos!
Enough already!
Is “Nimoy” Leonard Cohen’s stage name, or is it the other way around?
Thanks for posting the ‘Mats. Pretty zeitgeisty.
Great Schlep forever! http://tinyurl.com/3rp9re
“Motherfuck him and John McCain.”
Hmm, another opportunity to quote P.E. lyrics. Strange.
[re=162630]Guppy06[/re]: We’re not kids, and we’re not stupid. We’re not expecting miracles. We’re expecting an intelligent leadr who will at least try to serve us honorably. Don’t be such a dick.
[re=162835]DoktorZoom[/re]: chitown, homes.
I get sad when I see Mary Hanson.
[re=163136]sleepy[/re]: Yea but she lives in LA now… I had the same rx’n.
Les Mizbarack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ijYVyhnn0&feature=email
[re=162835]DoktorZoom[/re]: Oh it’s a Chicago thing, like Barry! Also, “Baby I’m tired … of fighting” is a pretty good Election Eve chorus.
[re=162674]golliwog[/re]: Carolus D is sitting back in his lounge, watching “Flava of Love”, contemplating when to initiate phase 3 of the Black-out.
[re=163573]Ken Layne[/re]: Except I am thinking of a totally different song now. Good thing this post is in the Distant Past!
I’M THE FIRST NUT (Ode to Bush)
(I’m a Nut. Leroy Pullins)
WilliamBanzai7
Sing Along With the Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqsauoDmgDo
Beedle-dee-bah, beedle-dee-bah, beedle-dee-ree-pa-Bush..
[Chorus]
I’m nut, I’m a nut
My Presidential legacy don’t amount to much, whoopa-whoopa-whoopa-whoopa
The head on my shoulders is sorta loose
And I ain’t got the sense God gave a moose
Lord, I ain’t crazy, but …I’m the First Nut
Is is wetter under in the Potomac, if you’re in it when it rains?
Is it shorter to Camp David, than it is by a plane?
Between myself and I, I wonder who’s the dumber
Is it hotter down in Crawford, than it is in the summer?
[Chorus]
I drove my Cadillac to Wall Street to satisfy my lust
Wheelin’, dealin’, left ol’ Wall Street on a Greyhound bus
I should’nt have set the markets on fire while I was there
But remember only forest fires prevent Bears
[Chorus]
The poverty war was almost over, until I began to fight
If it took a dime to go ’round the world
I’d cut taxes out of sight
I don’t mind to take the Bankers out
If they don’t mind to go Dutch
Makes me feel like 700 Billion Bailout Dollars
And I bet the Treasury ain’t worth half that much
[Chorus]
Oh, crazy man! I’m a nut!
Oh, Lordy, Lordy Lordy, Lordy
I’m crazy, I’m the First Nut!
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