Pick the Democratic Party Theme Song!

[More Than A Feeling]

My pick is

Closer to Free by The BoDeans

Everybody wants to live,
Like they wanna live and everybody wants to love
Like they wanna love
And everybody wants to be
Closer to free
Everybody wants respect, just a little bit
And everybody needs a chance, once in a while
Everybody wants to be
Closer to Free
Everybody one
Everybody two
everybody free
Everybody needs to touch
You know, now and then
And everybody needs a good, good friend
Everybody wants to be
Closer to Free
I said everybody one
Everybody two
Everybody Free
Everybody wants to live
Like they wanna live and everybody wants to love
Like they wanna love and everybody wants to be closer to free
Yeah, closer to free
Closer to free.

[Wickerman]

1. nice choice

cheeez, I haven't heard them in years. I should break out something of theirs this eve.

[evlbstrd]

2. Talking Heads, Stay Hungry

Edited to add:
The Who, Baba O'Reilly, Won't Get Fooled Again
CSNY, Four Dead in Ohio (could they update it?)
Lots of Zappa, especially concerning Fundies
Too messy?

[blondeatlast]

11. Doesn't "Won't Get Fooled Again" confuse the message?

It's about mistrusting any political institution, or did I miss something?

[Rowdyboy]

3. Matchbox 20...."I'm not Crazy, I'm just a little unwell"

http://www.lyrics007.com/Matchbox%2020%20Lyrics/I'm%20Not%20Crazy%20Lyrics.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. The Stones: "Ain't Too Proud to Beg."

Especially for the likes of Biden and Lieberman.

[elshiva]

5. We Are Family

They kept playing at DNC 2004. "I got all my sisters and me..."

[Siyahamba]

6. "I'll Stand By You" by the Pretenders

Oh, why you look so sad?
Tears are in your eyes
Come on and come to me now
Don’t be ashamed to cry
Let me see you through
’cause I’ve seen the dark side too
When the night falls on you
You don’t know what to do
Nothing you confess
Could make me love you less

I’ll stand by you
I’ll stand by you
Won’t let nobody hurt you
I’ll stand by you

So if you’re mad, get mad
Don’t hold it all inside
Come on and talk to me now
Hey, what you got to hide?
I get angry too
Well I’m a lot like you
When you’re standing at the crossroads
And don’t know which path to choose
Let me come along
’cause even if you’re wrong

I’ll stand by you
I’ll stand by you
Won’t let nobody hurt you
I’ll stand by you
Take me in, into your darkest hour
And I’ll never desert you
I’ll stand by you

And when...
When the night falls on you, baby
You’re feeling all alone
You won’t be on your own

I’ll stand by you
I’ll stand by you
Won’t let nobody hurt you

I’ll stand by you
Take me in, into your darkest hour
And I’ll never desert you
I’ll stand by you
I’ll stand by you
Won’t let nobody hurt you
I’ll stand by you
Won’t let nobody hurt you
I’ll stand by you

[More Than A Feeling]

7. Kick!

This is one of my best post ideas yet (sad, isn't it?)

[name not needed]

8. G. Love & Special Sauce - Milk and Cereal

:7

[Donailin]

14. LOL!

Love them, saw them live with 311 a couple of years ago.

I second that motion!

[New Earth]

19. OMG you like 311????????????????

They are my favorite band for a looooooooooooooooooooong time......almost for as long as half my age!!!

whoah, that's like half of my entire life..........w00t!


I used to like G Love a bit, he is still good but haven't listened to him in a long time.....the last song i heard from him was "Unify" (something like that) i think, and that was pretty damn good (especially the lyrics).

[More Than A Feeling]

9. Maybe I should have posted this in GD?

Might have gotten more posts there :shrug:

[blondeatlast]

10. "Happy Days are Here Again"--I'm a traditionalist, what can I say?

:kick:

[Flammable Materials]

12. During the Presidential campaign, I thought the best song to use ...

... would have been "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" by McFadden & Whitehead. That would have been so awesome.

Now, it's probably "Detachable Penis" by King Missile.

[Left Is Write]

13. I'm fond of the song Bill Clinton used: "Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac.

[Terran]

17. Me too

I thought it was a great theme song for Bill back then, and I think it's still very appropriate.

[Donailin]

15. Friggin in the Riggin -- Sex Pistols

oh c'mon, why not???

[Heidi]

16. "Democracy" . . .

by Leonard Cohen:

"Democracy"

It's coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It's coming from the feel
that this ain't exactly real,
or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.
From the wars against disorder,
from the sirens night and day,
from the fires of the homeless,
from the ashes of the gay:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming through a crack in the wall;
on a visionary flood of alcohol;
from the staggering account
of the Sermon on the Mount
which I don't pretend to understand at all.
It's coming from the silence
on the dock of the bay,
from the brave, the bold, the battered
heart of Chevrolet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

(First verse, from "The Future")

[jdots]

18. Respect Yourself by Pop Staples

Walk the Dinosaur by Was not Was

[chieftain]

20. Slip Slidin' Away .

" The nearer your destination , the more you're just slip slidin' away ."