A Soundtrack For Election Day
Last night I couldn’t sleep thinking about the importance of the election today. What kept waking me up was Steve Miller singing Fly Like An Eagle. Specifically
Feed the babies
Who don’t have enough to eat
Shoe the children
With no shoes on their feet
House the people
Livin’ in the street
Oh, oh, there’s a solution
OK, so pretty obvious I’m a bleeding heart independent. (Yes we do exist!) But this morning I was wondering what other songs people had in their heads regarding this election. So I did what anyone would do, I asked the Twitterverse and Facebook peeps. Some I agree with, some I don’t but that’s the nature of asking. So enjoy!
Election Day Soundtrack
- Fly Like An Eagle (The Steve Miller Band)
- High Hopes (Frank Sinatra)
- I Shall Be Released (Wilco with Fleet Foxes)
- Candidate For Suicide (Hank Williams III)
- Relax (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
- Pink Houses (John Mellencamp)
- Culture Revolution (anti-flag)
- America Fuck Yeah (DVDA)
- This Is Our Emergency (Pretty Girls Make Graves)
- Liberation Frequency (Refused)
- Born In The USA (Bruce Springsteen)
- Independence Day (David Byrne)
- Don’t Believe The Hype (Public Enemy)
- The Hands That Built America (U2)
- American Hearts (Piebald)
- A Change Is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke)
- Song Of The South (Alabama)
- It’s Good To Be King (Tom Petty)
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Rolling Stones)
- I’m So Tired (The Beatles)
- Keep On Rocking In The Free World (Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
- We Didn’t Start The Fire (Billy Joel)
- Informer (Snow)
- Yes We Can (The Pointer Sisters)
- It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (R.E.M.)
- Against All Odds (Phil Collins)
- Stayin’ Alive (Bee Gees)
- Loser (Beck)
- Gimme Some Truth (John Lennon)
- Another Day (Marion Square)
- Happy Days Are Here Again (Ben Selvin and the Crooners)
Look below for more songs left in comments, and check back I’ll keep updating the list as new suggestions come in.
Comments
Umm…
We Built This City (Starship)
Private Eyes (Hall & Oates)
…and maybe a little of this:
Hocus Pocus (Focus)
For no reason other than they are the first three songs that come to mind.
Ooo, this is fun!
I’ve Got a Feeling – The Beatles
Get Up, Stand Up – Bob Marley
Are you Experienced? – Jimi Hendrix
Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin
Us and Them – Pink Floyd
Stone Cold Bush – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Once in a Lifetime – Talking Heads
“Against All Odds” by Phil Collins is pretty good too.
Here is one.
Seal – Change is going to come.
Here’s another.
Brady’s – Sunshine Day
As a Canadian I especially enjoyed the inclusion of ‘Informer’ on your list (Neil Young is good too;).
“If I ruled the world” by Nas
“The Waiting” by Tom Petty. Pretty much sums it up for me.
Thanks to everyone for contributing to the list. I’ll see if we can’t put this together on 8tracks.com.