YOUR ASSIGNMENT, IF YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT (mostly for Dems, but anyone can play):

[tzikeh]

ETA: If you're bored, post a link in your lj sending people over here to help!!!

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SOS! Tonight is my friends' J&P's annual Themed New Year's Eve party, and I'm in charge of making a playlist for the theme and then bringing my iPod to the party. The theme this year is "Blue State Pick-Ups", and the menu is as follows:

Virginia: Ham and crab

Rhode Island: Striped Bass

Ohio: Pork and tomato

Arkansas: Chicken

Montana: Buffalo

Wisconsin: Cheese

Are You Happy Now The Terrorists Have Won? (dessert): baklava, fig cookies, apricot tart, pistachio & chocolate candies

I need music, people - suggestions for songs that relate to any of the seven courses in any way - that is, songs about the state, or using the name of the state, or about the food, or using the name of the food, or songs about voting or democracy or patriotism or liberalism or anything along any of these lines. And yes, songs mocking extreme liberalism also (mostly) happily played.

Suggestions with right-click-download links or suchlike are the very best. :)

HALP!!

Comments

[bkwyrm.livejournal.com]

Georgia On My Mind
Gary Indiana (Music Man)
Sweet Home Chicago
"This Will Be Our Year" - OK Go, off "Future Soundtrack for America"
You can download the Massachusetts State Song here. Um, and the state polka, too. Seriously. State polka.
List of "Songs of the 50 States
and
<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_States_state_songs>Wikipedia list of songs about states</A>

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

I can email or use an upload service to send you these, if you want 'em...

Get Up, Stand Up by Bob Marley and the Wailers
You can fool some people sometimes,
but you can't fool all the people all of the time
now we see the light
we gonna stand up for our rights

Going Underground by the Jam
What you see is what you get
You've made your bed, you better lie in it
You choose your leaders and place your trust
As their lies wash you down and their promises rust
You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns
And the public wants what the public gets
But I don't get what this society wants

[shrift.livejournal.com]

Roxy Music - "Virginia Plain"
Bowling for Soup - "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)"
Frank Zappa - "Montana"

The Beatles - "Piggies"
Pink Martini - "Hang On Little Tomato"
Denim - "Fish And Chips"

Modest Mouse - "Ocean Breathes Salty"
Led Zeppelin - "The Ocean"
Carbon Leaf - "The Sea"

NoFX - "The Idiots Are Taking Over"
NoFX - "Franco Un-American"
Hüsker Dü - "Turn On The News"
David Bowie - "I'm Afraid of Americans"
Green Day - "American Idiot"
The Clash - "Know Your Rights"
Pennywise - "God Save the USA"
Social Distortion - "It's the Law"
Eminem - "Mosh"
Sage Francis - "Makeshift Patriot"
Bombshell Rocks - "Warpath"

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Damn ... 24 hours ago I could have sent you a whole zip file including some remixes of Howard Dean (better than you'd think). Alas for dead hard drives.

[soobunny.livejournal.com]

Animaniacs - Wakko's America

Songs for Theme Party

[taverymate.livejournal.com]

or songs about voting or democracy or patriotism or liberalism or anything along any of these lines.

Free associating here - sorry, no links as my dialup connection means I'd have the first song up about the time that your party was ending.

Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young. Not only appropriate for the state, but for the sentiment. Another for Ohio but humorous: Dr Demento - The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati.

You're spoilt for choice with songs by Tom Lehrer that offer a satiric take on politics: Send the Marines, National Brotherhood, Who's Next?, So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III). The Capitol Steps are also a natural choice for political satire.

Phil Ochs sings Love Me I'm a Liberal. Scathing criticism from an in-group perspective. Excellent reminder we need to keep an eye on our own doorstep as well as outside.

Bruce Springsteen has some superb tracks on the Seeger Sessions album: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize is incredible and We Shall Overcome is also excellent.

Pete Seeger and The Freedom Singers' versions are, of course, the gold standards for We Shall Overcome.

In addition to Pete Seeger & the Weavers, Peter, Paul & Mary, early Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and a host of folk singers all sing songs about true democracy and participation and the struggle for voting rights and the importance of exercising that right.

This Land is Your Land has been covered innumerable times and usually quite well, so again spoilt for choice.

Tracy Chapman's Talking 'Bout a Revolution would be interesting paired with The Beatles' Revolution. Paul Simon's American Tune and Green Day's American Idiot would be another interesting pairing.

Chad Mitchell Trio's John Birch Society and Barry's Boys are both still, sadly, all too topical.

For those who view all politics with a cynical eye: Leonard Cohen's Everybody Knows. Concrete Blonde's version is good, but no one does it better than Cohen.

For those who hope that change is possible: Julia Ecklar's Lullaby for a Weary World.
This you can find at the Prometheus site:
http://www.prometheus-music.com/audio/lullaby.mp3

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

My nominee: "This pain won't last forever ... Two more years, only two more years, so hold on ..." -- Bloc Party, here.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Robyn Hitchcock, "Somebody Ring the Cheese Alarm"

[mtgat]

Don't forget "LonghairedRadical Socialist Jew." :)

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

I have no music suggestions and it's too late anyway, but this

Are You Happy Now The Terrorists Have Won? (dessert): baklava, fig cookies, apricot tart, pistachio & chocolate candies

is hysterical.

[greywingnut.livejournal.com]

Playing the Late to the Party game:

Old Dominion - Eddie from Ohio
The Candidate - Eddie from Ohio
Blue State Girl - Michael Clem
Democratic Process - The Bobs