Re: Guest Post - Tunes

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I think only Klobuchar picked someone local. Definitely the hippest choice.


Posted by: msw | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:03 AM
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What does America need? We need to love our country and to love each other enough to make some bold and necessary changes. We need to face some things that are difficult to face, and rise from the ashes of denial and despair to do something about them


Posted by: Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:04 AM
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Two Clash songs. I guess Trump will have to go with White Riot.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:07 AM
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3: And De Blasio endorses "drinking brew for breakfast".

Bold move! Separates him from the pack.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:08 AM
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Walkout music in fact means entry music?


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:10 AM
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De Blasio is literally the last person in the world who should be playing "Rudy Can't Fail."


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:12 AM
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5: Yes. For when you walk out onto the stage, not performing a walkout on a job. Let's table this discussion.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:12 AM
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5: Yes - walk out on stage, not walk out of the arena.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:14 AM
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I would rock Janáček, Sinfonietta. Pompous as fuck, but if you're running for president you're literally applying to have your own personal brass band, so.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:14 AM
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6: I had that same thought but couldn't make it pithy.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:16 AM
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6: His strategy is to hope people confuse him with "America's Mayor", because that guy is so darn popular.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:16 AM
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I'd go with 4'33" myself.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:23 AM
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Why isn't Biden on the list? Both because I don't get it and because I bet his song would have been funny.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:24 AM
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I assume it's because he skipped the event.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:29 AM
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13: He didn't go.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:30 AM
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Song for walking out: O Fortuna
Song for when I'm done: Walking on Sunshine


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:30 AM
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I'm trying to set a record for most times pwned in a thread.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:31 AM
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You could walk out to the same song as the person immediately before you.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:32 AM
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What's the capital of Ohio?


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:32 AM
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Colombus!


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:33 AM
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I mean, Columbus!


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:33 AM
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Culumbos!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:35 AM
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Song for walking out: Pink Flag (the whole album)
Song for when I'm done: Chairs Missing (ditto)


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:36 AM
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Biden would have gone with We Didn't Start the Fire.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:36 AM
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Columbus?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:52 AM
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23: Someone forgot to write a speech.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:53 AM
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Chillicothe.


Posted by: Opinionated Time Traveler from 1810 | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:56 AM
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Have we seen this? Universal Music just like let the WHOLE ARCHIVE OF MASTER TAPES going back to the 1940s go up in flames back in 2008 and never let on:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 9:57 AM
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Song for when I'm done: Chairs Missing (ditto)

This is for Clint Eastwood, when he lectures the empty chair about being a bad American for an hour.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:00 AM
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Biden:

Ebony and Ivory
Centerfield ('put me in coach")
Tube Steak Boogie


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:10 AM
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I keep trying to think of the worst walkout music, instead. Pink Panther theme? 12 Days of Christmas? a donkey braying?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:12 AM
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31: The Wreck of the Edmund fitzgerald


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:14 AM
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32: (Recycling an actually funny joke into an unfunny one: Heard it originally as "what is the worst song to strip to?")


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:15 AM
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Or Biden could hearken back to his Scranton/Wilkes-Barre roots with "Timothy." He even gets name checked.

Timothy, Timothy, Joe was looking at you
Timothy, Timothy, God what did we do?


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:22 AM
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31: There was a good candidate for this in one of Al Franken's books - I think it was Michael Dukakis, election night 1988, the song was "Coming to America", but they didn't cue it up to the right spot, so he had to walk through a long croony intro that sucked the energy out of the room.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:23 AM
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32/33 are both funny.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:23 AM
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Looks like Joe Biden released a "summer playlist" in 2016.

"My Way", maybe?


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:26 AM
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32: Arguably a good song for Trump to use when he inevitably decides he's mad at Canada.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:27 AM
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I keep trying to think of the worst walkout music

Tom Waits -- "Step Right Up"
Nick Cave -- "The Carney"
Bjork (Sugarcube) -- "Birthday"


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:27 AM
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I keep trying to think of the worst walkout music

The Who -- "Fiddle About"


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:30 AM
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The Who -- "Fiddle About"

or "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand"


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:37 AM
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I enjoyed this take on the song choices.

Tim Ryan: "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X

LOL, Tim, really? This song is good and I love hearing it 14 times every weekend in various bars, clubs, rideshares, and SoulCycle classes. However, I have doubts about any candidate's ability to make this work as a walk-out song unless said candidate is riding out on a horse. And even in that case, the song becomes the horse's walk-out music. I don't know, hon. Rating: 6 out of 10


Andrew Yang: "Return of the Mack" by Mark Morrison

Oh my God, someone's grad school party playlist just came on and these Iowans are not ready! The song lyrics repeatedly contends, "You lied to me," which is an odd choice here. But I don't mind. Andrew Yang is out here telling us that he is the Mack and he is returning --from where? and when?--and I have to respect the swagger. Rating: 8 out of 10

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Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:41 AM
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28 I've been reading that. Just awful.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:48 AM
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33: "Thank Heaven for Little Girls"


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:51 AM
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Might have actually been used as walk out music at one time, but now would not fly -- "I Believe I Can Fly".


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:58 AM
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Thinking about songs which might actually work -- a song which lists a lot of place names, "American Ride" would be thematically appropriate for a walkout song, but probably not the right sort of energy.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 11:05 AM
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"My Shot" from Hamilton. How did they all miss that?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 11:06 AM
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46: "The Heart of Rock and Roll" -- might have been a good choice for Biden.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 11:07 AM
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I keep trying to think of the worst walkout music, instead. Pink Panther theme? 12 Days of Christmas? a donkey braying?

Suicide, "Frankie Teardrop"


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 11:17 AM
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Biden's best choice would be the Rocky theme. The crowd would go wild when he came out punching.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 11:21 AM
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49 wins.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 11:30 AM
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Just figured out what would have been the absolute worst choice - even worse than Schoenberg, the Dead Kennedys, NWA, Sir Mix-a-Lot, the Chipmunks, etc

Fight Song by Rachel Platten.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 11:30 AM
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I think Bon Jovi's "It's My Life" would actually work really well for him, to make clear he's young at heart and concerned about the working class.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 11:32 AM
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The Chipmunks is cracking me up. I like the idea of these super-undignified songs that they have to pretend work really well. Maybe Happy Birthday.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 11:37 AM
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Ernest Crofts managed to paint a picture of Waterloo with Mr. Bean commanding the French.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 11:46 AM
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An awful lot of people can paint something that I can't tell wasn't painted by Monet even when it's in the same room as a painting by Monet.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 11:51 AM
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It takes a while to see the genitals in Picasso's Embrace, but once you do, it's all you can see.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 11:55 AM
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The Chipmunks is cracking me up. I like the idea of these super-undignified songs that they have to pretend work really well. Maybe Happy Birthday.

"Coco Jamboo"
"Mr. Saxobeat"
"Barbie Girl"
Crazy Frog
"They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa"


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 11:56 AM
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Boney M, "Rasputin"


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 11:58 AM
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It's probably an honor for Warhol that his cows are in the same room as Picasso's vulva.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 11:58 AM
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56: The National Gallery in DC has rooms and rooms of paintings by Impressionists and I most can't tell one painter from another.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 12:01 PM
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61: Please add "ly" to "most".


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 12:02 PM
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Don McLean's "Vincent" would be a fine choice for a song.

Degas was a careerist pedophile who painted decorations for the houses of the rich or flattering portraits of them; Monet was a methodical visionary who gradually lost his sight, date of the work matters; Toulouse Lautrec was pretty much always great. I think that a lot of his critical work was painted in a hurry, a bunch of it is on cardboard. He was an innovative and skilled lithographer as well, if there's a chance to see his prints, lots of which were commercial, go.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 12:21 PM
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I'm now looking at Dutch people's paintings of what they were about to eat before they prepared it.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 12:23 PM
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Nah, I think it's important to assert that Rudy Giuliani cannot morally or practically stop you from walking out to "Rudy Can't Fail." I applaud Di Blasio. Has anyone ranked all the tracks on "London Calling" from best to worst for this purpose (walkouts, that is, not owning Giuliani)?

Also, how different is the gender ratio of artists from that of the candidates? Did anyone cross genders for the song pick?


Posted by: lurid keyaki | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 12:32 PM
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Did anyone cross genders for the song pick?

What a great question!

I believe the only one that did is Marianne Williamson. Doing her part to end the war between the sexes!


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 12:38 PM
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Williamson did. I don't know if she's a RHCP higher ground or Stevie Wonder higher ground, though.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 12:39 PM
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66, 67: Darn! I blew it!


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 12:50 PM
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63: Well, surely if we go excluding people on the basis of "careerist," "decorations for the houses of the rich," or "flattering portraits," the global art canon more or less implodes. ("Pedophile" I think is one of those like "racist," where everyone has their own reckoning to make with art and artist.)

I didn't particularly think much of Degas until my last trip to LA, where the extensive holdings at the Getty and Norton Simon left me pretty thunderstruck by what he does with color, and I think better understanding his version of realism. "The Milliners" is just a tremendous picture of people at work.


Posted by: lourdes kayak | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 1:00 PM
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Williamson did. I don't know if she's a RHCP higher ground or Stevie Wonder higher ground, though.

Maybe she used Ellen McIlwaine's version!


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 1:03 PM
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31: The End by the Doors is a contender.


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 1:05 PM
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What about the graduation processional song? Or Here Comes the Bride?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 1:07 PM
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Or Here Comes the Bride by the Spin Doctors?


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 1:09 PM
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The James Bond theme. I'd be interested to see which candidates could pull it off.


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 1:15 PM
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"Here Comes a Regular" by the Replacements would be a downbeat but appropriate choice for Biden.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 1:16 PM
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For Biden: Violent Femmes, "Blister in the Sun"


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 1:20 PM
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And he can go out with Hasil Adkins "She Said"


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 1:23 PM
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The Pogues, "Wildcats of Kilkenny"


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 1:32 PM
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69.1: Is that one or two dimensions.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 1:32 PM
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46. Delaney did that with the Cash song. Dancing in the Streets would be good too, though maybe too big city focused.


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 2:09 PM
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Biden should go with "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos".


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 2:37 PM
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Warren comes across as too wonkish, so she should have gone with Sia's "Chandelier".


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 2:39 PM
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69 that is a nice one. Unusual for him in depicting the face of a particular woman, he usually depicts bodies but not personality of women, and sympathetic detail in portraits of (usually) men.

74. I have in fact considered having the Skatalites version of the James Bond theme as a personal audio flourish to play from my telephone whenever I enter a meeting, elevator, or subway car.

Sharon Jones's great "This land is your land" would be a good choice for anyone.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 2:40 PM
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54: OK. The Chipmunks doing "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 4:14 PM
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The Chipmunks sing "Shaft."


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 4:41 PM
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I can dig it.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 4:42 PM
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A friend once proposed a curse where "Eye of the Tiger" would start playing whenever the cursee got up to use the bathroom.


Posted by: lourdes kayak | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 4:52 PM
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Anyway, I want to see Donald Jr. walk out to "Baby Shark."


Posted by: lourdes kayak | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 5:04 PM
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So many candidates. Why are there so many candidates?


Posted by: Just Plain Jane | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 5:10 PM
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Because the Clintons are gone.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 5:16 PM
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Service people in Quebec respond to my selections with "Perfect" or "No worries." It's starting to feel like they're afraid I'll get mad at them.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 5:37 PM
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As I approach middle age I'm starting to think maybe I'll never achieve my lifelong dream of playing shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles, but, if I ever somehow do make it, the plan is for the walk out music for my at bats to be the Imperial March.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 7:52 PM
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This is the background song to a slide show of your favorite moments from high school, and you're surrounded by your fellow high school students who are feeling really emotional and sad.

No, that was Green Day's "Time of Your Life" and Boyz II Men's "End of the Road."


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 8:11 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqEG2-0R6CA

I'm not planning to go with Sen Bennet, but if he was invoking this, well, it's was an amazing experience to be there, and I'd be willing to go to DC in January 2021, if we get to do something like this.

I skipped this one, but did see some of the other entertainments. (Ntably the Staple Singers with I'll Take You There.) Weren't we all so young!


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 06-11-19 10:56 PM
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31 The worst ending music would be Yakety Sax


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-12-19 12:59 AM
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How is it that these songs (Tom Waits -- "Step Right Up", Nick Cave -- "The Carney") would indeed be the worst walkout music, yet each so fitting for Trump? "Step Right Up" could be his theme song.


Posted by: Count Fosco | Link to this comment | 06-12-19 1:20 AM
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39:
How is it that these songs (Tom Waits -- "Step Right Up", Nick Cave -- "The Carney") would indeed be the worst walkout music, yet each so fitting for Trump? "Step Right Up" could be his theme song.


Posted by: Count Fosco | Link to this comment | 06-12-19 1:20 AM
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Second verse, same as the first.


Posted by: Count Fosco | Link to this comment | 06-12-19 1:23 AM
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93: Good Life is like those, but also trying to sell you a new SUV for your exciting college future.


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 06-12-19 3:29 AM
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"Everybody Knows" would be a good campaign song.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-12-19 4:44 AM
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Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 06-12-19 8:15 AM
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Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 06-12-19 8:21 AM
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Yeah, 100 would make me seriously consider voting for an evil Democrat, in the hopes of having it replace Hail to the Chief. Same for Laurie Anderson's "From the Air."


Posted by: Lurid keyaki | Link to this comment | 06-12-19 10:05 AM
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Yesterday I saw a building-sized portrait of a Leonard Cohen, so it was on my mind.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-12-19 11:44 AM
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All the male buskers in Quebec City have his hat.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-12-19 2:24 PM
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I have now had the cheese plates at both the OnRoute service plaza outside Kingston, Ontario and at the Château Frontenac.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-12-19 5:50 PM
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I'm tickled by the hypothetical worst walkout song prompt at The Other Place. So many hilarious possibilities! Enjoying the idea of some white pol walking out to Get Ur Freak On. Or someone using Ludacris' Area Codes. Loser, by Beck?


Posted by: ydnew | Link to this comment | 06-12-19 7:46 PM
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Helter Skelter is a classic, right?


Posted by: Cyrus | Link to this comment | 06-13-19 6:42 AM
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The temptation is just to come up with a list of great tracks, where the title or lyrics undercuts the politicians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS3hiJ_mBq8

I'm A Wonderful Thing Baby.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 06-13-19 7:04 AM
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In a confusing development, Rory Stewart MP (walkon tune: "Eton Rifles", The Clash) has vowed that if Boris Johnson MP (walkon tune: "Master of the House", Claude Schoenberg) dissolves Parliament against its will, Stewart will walk across the road and set up his own Parliament in the Methodist Central Hall. History fans should note that the last time something like this happened the Stewart was on the other side.
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Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 06-13-19 7:43 AM
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BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT. POSEURS AND AMATEURS THE LOT OF THEM.


Posted by: OPINIONATED MOLDOVA | Link to this comment | 06-13-19 7:48 AM
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