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Michele Bachmann’s Sad Campaign Song Situation

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Neither Walking on Sunshine nor an American Girl

Thus far, few self-respecting artists want their music associated with the newly Stepfordized Michele Bachmann. First, Tom Petty told her to quit using “American Girl,” (which was an odd choice in the first instance since I reckon a cool 75% of the voting population associates that song with Silence of the Lambs):

Tom Petty may be taking legal action to make sure Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann stops using his songs at her campaign events.

“NBC News: @TomPetty unhappy with Michele Bachmann’s use of ‘American Girl’ and in process of issuing [a cease and desist] letter,” Matt Ortega reported on Twitter only hours after hours after Bachmann used the popular song to kick off her campaign.

NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell confirmed that report Monday night.

“And details matter, and when Bachmann left the stage here, her campaign played the Tom Petty hit song, ‘American Girl,’” O’Donnell said. “Turns out petty isn’t pleased. His manager says they will ask the Bachmann campaign not to use that song.”

Then, Katrina Leskanich announced that she wasn’t cool with Bachmann’s “misuse” of Katrina and the Waves’ hit song “Walking on Sunshine”:

As the singer of ‘Walking on Sunshine’ I don’t endorse its use by Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign. I’ve performed ‘Walking on Sunshine’ for so many years in so many different countries that it’s become the one constant in my life and the one thing I can count on to bring happiness to myself and others. The song is used in commercials and movies as a vehicle for a feel good moment or empowerment but if I disagree with the policies, opinions or platforms for its use, I’ve no choice but to try and defend the song and prevent its misuse. Music can be both powerful and moving and sometimes even a little dangerous.

Poor Michele. She can’t get no satisfaction.

[via Raw Story; via Rolling Stone]

[cross-posted]

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  1. 1.

    4jkb4ia

    What is more, the HRC campaign had “American Girl” first. Good for Tom Petty to cut off this song being for every female candidate out there :)

  5. 5.

    eemom

    WTF another emo self-involved self-referential un-self-aware over the top over the line crazy black lady post OMG how long must I endure it this used to be such a great blog and now I constantly have to endure the agony of a FP poster who I don’t like posting on the front page, and, and, she’s the worstest blogger EVAH and WTF, John Cole, how long do you think my arthritic fingers can keep clicking the keys to scroll past her posts, and arthritis is a serious condition and not a JOKE thank you very much and furthermore has it ever OCCURRED to you that Tom Petty might have filed a lawsuit against ME in the past and this is totally NOT FUNNY

    There. Have I covered everything?

  7. 7.

    MobiusKlein

    And the Stephanie Miller lib talk radio? Has the Walking On Sunshine song every morning, and even had Katrina on for an interview. We know how the ball rolls

  9. 9.

    Cliff

    Tom Petty told her to quit using “American Girl,” (which was an odd choice in the first instance since I reckon a cool 75% of the voting population associates that song with Silence of the Lambs)

    Not so odd after the whole John Wayne Gacy thing. She’s got a real American Psycho theme going with her candidacy.

  10. 10.

    4jkb4ia

    I wonder if Zac Brown would allow Ms. Bachmann to use “Colder Weather”. This would be related to the genius commenter at Al Giordano’s who adapted “Charlie on the MTA” to the Hillary campaign. Alas, I doubt it’s available anymore because it wasn’t at the Narcosphere.

  11. 11.

    Cain

    I can’t get no… satisfaction.. cuz I try.. cuz I try.. cuz I try.. cuz I TRY.. I can’t GET NO.. No no NO no!

  12. 12.

    quaker in a basement

    They never listen to the lyrics beyond the hook line:

    God it’s so painful when something’s so close
    And still so far out of reach.

  14. 14.

    J. Michael Neal

    And the Stephanie Miller lib talk radio? Has the Walking On Sunshine song every morning, and even had Katrina on for an interview. We know how the ball rolls

    see? Both sides do it.

  15. 15.

    Martin

    Artists should sue the living fuck out of teatards that use their songs. Free market and all that.

    But I would suggest Stuart by Dead Milkmen, as John reminded us a few weeks back. Bachmann seems like someone who’d be very worried about what the queers are doing to the soil.

  16. 16.

    Just Dale

    I’m sure she can find something in the Ted Nugent catalog that won’t be challenged in court.

  18. 18.

    General Stuck

    18 more months of daily rundowns of this dingbat, I might start missing George Bush.

  23. 23.

    General Stuck

    I think John Popper of Blues Traveler supported Bush, which could be why we don’t hear much from him anymore.

  27. 27.

    JGabriel

    ABL:

    Poor Michele. She can’t get no satisfaction.

    Bachmann needs to stick to GOP-supporting musicians. There must be a couple of country artists she can turn to.

    (And I’m not saying that to (just) be condescending. I like some country music. But it’s the genre where conservative artists seem most comfortable being open about their political orientation.)

    .

  28. 28.

    Jewish Steel

    @gbear: Wow! I had no idea.

    I always thought the Ramones sucked. The same song over and over. And, unlike with Social Distortion, I don’t like that song.

  30. 30.

    Loneoak

    Poor Michele. She can’t get no satisfaction.

    You did see the discussion about her wide-stance husband in the previous thread, right?

  32. 32.

    Bubblegum Tate

    Maybe Bachmann should holler at erstwhile rap group Bytches With Problems for some campaign music.

  33. 33.

    Spaghetti Lee

    If any band wrote a song called “I’m So Batshit Insane That By Rights I Shouldn’t Be Trusted To Run the Deep Fryer at Burger King, But At Least Forty Percent of the Country Will Still Vote For Me Should I Win The Republican Nomination”, she should use that.

    If not, hell, I’ll write it myself. I’m thinking maybe a alt-country/indie rock sort of feel?

  35. 35.

    Citizen_X

    Johnny was basically a neo-nazi.

    No, he was a garden-variety conservative (make of that what you will).* Dee Dee wrote “Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World,” if that’s what you’re thinking of. Because he actually had been a “Little American boy/being pushed around/little American boy/in a German town,” and had always been finding Nazi regalia just lying around. Dee Dee was a fucking mess, but he wasn’t a Nazi.

    *Still, Joey would write in-your-face stuff like “Bonzo Goes to Bitburg.”

    I always thought the Ramones sucked.

    And you would be wrong.

  36. 36.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    Bachmann should ask Ted Nugent if she can use “Cat Scratch Fever” as her theme song.

    Of course it only works because you can change the key words to “Bat Shit Crazy” without altering the beat.

  37. 37.

    gex

    I believe McCain and Reagan each had similar problems with artists. Why are GOP presidential hopefuls congenitally unable to get permission to use an artists work? I thought they were big proponents of intellectual property rights. Oh yeah, because artists typically don’t like fascist douchebags and they won’t get permission if they ask.

  40. 40.

    Cacti

    She could use Ramones songs. Johnny Ramone is a republican

    I Wanna Be Sedated seems like a perfect choice.

  42. 42.

    Mouse Tolliver

    If it was up to me her campaign song would be the music from Carrie that’s playing when her mother tries to stab her to death.

  43. 43.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    No, he was a garden-variety conservative (make of that what you will)

    I thought Johnny Ramone was a post-9/11 Republican, like Dennis MIller and Kelsey Grammer (9/11 roughly coinciding with KG realizing he had more money than God and half a Koch brother, just sayin’)

    Popper, IIRC, was/is a gun nut who got mad ’cause he couldn’t smoke in restaurants, but turned on Bush in the fourth or fifth year of the Iraq War.

    I’m sure neo-Country type will come up with a campaign anthem for Michele, One-L.

  44. 44.

    Martin

    if that’s what you’re thinking of

    No, it was the picture of Hitler he hung prominently in his house that I was thinking of and his general anti-Semitic attitude.

  46. 46.

    hilts

    ABL,

    The best solution to this crisis is for you to email Bachmann’s office the link to the What’s On Your iPod thread and if Michele can’t find a good song in that thread you can always start a new What’s On Your iPod thread.

  48. 48.

    Caz

    Tom’s decision to demand that she stop using his song is, in my opinion, petty. :-))

  49. 49.

    Martin

    I thought Johnny Ramone was a post-9/11 Republican

    No, he was pretty much always like that. And if he turned into a gun nut over any event, it was probably the recording session with Phil Specter.

  51. 51.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    I thought Johnny Ramone was a post-9/11 Republican, like Dennis MIller and Kelsey Grammer

    No, Johnny leaned that way long before 9/11. It led to some conflict in the band, since Joey was a true lefty. Let’s just say Johnny did not exactly love “Bonzo Goes To Bitburg.”

    Dee Dee also had some right-leaning views, but he sort of stopped caring as he got further and further into heroin.

  53. 53.

    4jkb4ia

    Taylor Swift “Fearless” is halfway serious and not in the Nashville ghetto.

    @43: John Rich, of Raising McCain fame!

  54. 54.

    hamletta

    Martin is correct. Johnny Ramone was always a Republican. “Bonzo Goes To Bitburg” really pissed him off.

    And the reason we haven’t heard from John Popper is ‘cuz he hasn’t had a hit in 15 years, maybe?

  57. 57.

    cmorenc

    Strange that GOP candidates never seem to adopt any Ted Nugent or Donnie and Marie Osmond songs for their campaigns. Instead, they poach popular songs by progressive-leaning artists.

  58. 58.

    Comrade Kevin

    @Jewish Steel:

    I always liked The Clash and The Mekons better anyway.
    ..
    Oh, and Stiff Little Fingers

    I’m not so familiar with the Mekons, but I have to salute you for mentioning Stiff Little Fingers. Norn Iron punk FTW.

  59. 59.

    Little Boots

    all kidding aside, no, never mind, it’s Michelle Bachmann.

    never stop kidding, please.

  63. 63.

    4jkb4ia

    @53: Disagree. She is getting more pop with each record. Also too, they don’t nominate people for Album of the Year who are in a ghetto.

    @61: This whole thread refers to crazy of one sort or other, you were just first.

  65. 65.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I have to go with Crazy Train over Crazy. Patys’s not here to defend herself, and Willie Nelson might object in a very non-partisan way. I think Ozzie would just enjoy the gonzo madness of the Bachmann campaign. I can see Michele Bachmann throwing a ham at the Romney campaign.

  66. 66.

    Jewish Steel

    @Comrade Kevin:

    The Mekons nurtured an abiding loathing for Margaret Thatcher in my breast as a young man despite the fact that I lived in Chicago and knew nothing of British politics. I think all those bands (plus Billy Bragg) turned me into the class traitor you see before you.

    Oh, and per your twitter, I am also throwing a fit over Google+

  67. 67.

    gwangung

    Strange that GOP candidates never seem to adopt any Ted Nugent or Donnie and Marie Osmond songs for their campaigns. Instead, they poach popular songs by progressive-leaning artists.

    Not strange. On purpose–to piss off liberals.

  69. 69.

    hamletta

    No, dear, you don’t understand. Taylor Swift has made the Nashville Ghetto more crappy than it already was.

    You need to listen to more Mekons.

  70. 70.

    Karen

    @Martin

    No, it was the picture of Hitler he hung prominently in his house that I was thinking of and his general anti-Semitic attitude.

    But then why didn’t he kick Joey Ramone out of the Ramones, since Joey AKA Jeffry Ross Hyman was Jewish. Why didn’t he beat him up?

    Something doesn’t compute.

  71. 71.

    Suffern ACE

    gwangung – For the next traditional-rital psuedo election cycle scandal, she’ll be publicly returning the check from the Log Cabin Republicans

  72. 72.

    Karen

    But does the complaint by Petty matter? From what I remembered, the GOP used the songs anyway, regardless of the legal action.

  75. 75.

    handy

    This is rich considering the GOP’s love affair with the RIAA.

    Oh there have been more than a few Democrats in love with those assholes too.

  76. 76.

    Little Boots

    oh, good god, Jim, that link. silly, silly desperate wingnuts trying as usual to latch onto someone who wouldn’t want to get within 100 feet of them. much like the Founding Fathers.

  77. 77.

    Yutsano

    Meh. Petty and Leskanich have enough money to pay the lawyers to make life uncomfortable for Michele and crew. That’s enough for me.

  78. 78.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    silly, silly desperate wingnuts trying as usual to latch onto someone

    and an ex-assistant out of cash

  79. 79.

    handy

    Re: Lennon being a Republican, I think NRO or some other worthless wingnut site not too long ago came up with a desperate and laughable list of greatest conservative songs of all time, and IIRC “Working Class Hero” shows up.

    Figure that one out.

  80. 80.

    Comrade Kevin

    Oh, and per your twitter, I am also throwing a fit over Google+

    Heh. I’m sure there are people out there who are throwing a fit, for real.

  81. 81.

    Yutsano

    I’m sure there are people out there who are throwing a fit, for real.

    Are you getting into Twitter wars again young man? Do I need to take your laptop away from you for the night?

  82. 82.

    Martin

    But then why didn’t he kick Joey Ramone out of the Ramones, since Joey AKA Jeffry Ross Hyman was Jewish. Why didn’t he beat him up?
    __
    Something doesn’t compute.

    Well, maybe being a rocker was more important than being an asshole? The world is full of such practical compromises.

  83. 83.

    MikeJ

    Oh there have been more than a few Democrats in love with those assholes too.

    Actually, the Dems have always been worse on that score. Not that the Republicans are good on the issue, but the Dems are more actively bad.

  85. 85.

    Martin

    Heh. I’m sure there are people out there who are throwing a fit, for real.

    I’m not sure I’d be too comfortable opening up all of my social interactions to a company whose entire business model is mining all data that goes through its servers in order to sell information to advertisers.

  86. 86.

    Yutsano

    I’m not sure I’d be too comfortable opening up all of my social interactions to a company whose entire business model is mining all data that goes through its servers in order to sell information to advertisers.

    I thought that was, like, capitalism, or something.

    EDIT: FYWP.

  87. 87.

    Jewish Steel

    But then why didn’t he kick Joey Ramone out of the Ramones, since Joey AKA Jeffry Ross Hyman was Jewish. Why didn’t he beat him up?

    Not giving a fuck what your dumb guitarist thinks about dumb shit? Hmm, I think I’m starting to like the Ramones again…

  88. 88.

    Villago Delenda Est

    hilts@56: That NRO clown is pretty dense if he doesn’t get the lyrics of those songs. To include “Won’t be Fooled Again”, “My City Was Gone”, and particularly “Cult of Personality”, which is absolutely on target regarding the vile cult of Reagan of which NRO definitely has a bunch of members.

  89. 89.

    Mike Kay (The Base)

    Obama continues to stab gays in the back.

    In a decision that could have far-reaching effects on immigration cases involving same-sex couples, federal officials have canceled the deportation of a Venezuelan man in New Jersey who is married to an American man, the couple’s lawyer said Wednesday.

    Immigration lawyers and gay rights advocates said the decision represented a significant shift in policy and could open the door to the cancellation of deportations for other immigrants in same-sex marriages.

    The case has been closely watched across the country by lawyers and advocates who viewed it as a test of the federal government’s position on the Defense of Marriage Act,

    When will Obama’s tyrannical gay bashing stop!

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/us/30immig.html

  90. 90.

    Jewish Steel

    @Martin:

    I’m not sure I’d be too comfortable opening up all of my social interactions to a company whose entire business model is mining all data that goes through its servers in order to sell information to advertisers.

    You mean fb or Google?

    I’m only half kidding about throwing a fit. I am soooo sick of fb. And I’m tired of waiting for Diaspora to get its server shit together.

  91. 91.

    Yutsano

    When will Obama’s tyrannical gay bashing stop!

    When we’re all herded into cattle cars to re-education camps in the middle of the Arizona desert. With no air conditioning. Or water rations.

  92. 92.

    Karen

    @Mike Kay (The Base)

    Either I’m reading the article horribly wrong or my snark meter is broken.

  93. 93.

    Suffern ACE

    Hmmmm. Possible that Lennon was bummed at the Panama Canal deal and figured a junta in Guatemala and death squads in El Salvador were just what the people needed…

  94. 94.

    Vishnu Schist

    Well “American Girl” is about a girl who committed suicide, so there’s hope yet, let’s just say that problem with republicans using most rock songs is the fact that a good portion are anthems that directly contradict the shit-hole world those assholes would like to create. Oh well she is batting 1000 though, John Wayne Gacy and suicide, perhaps her tells on strangling america in bathtub. Isn’t that their whole fucking point?

    +3

  95. 95.

    Uncle Clarence Thomas

    .
    .
    It is most unfortunate that Representative Bachmann feels about former President Bush the same way that balloonbaggers feel about current President Obama.
    .
    .

  97. 97.

    Triassic Sands

    Is there a song “Wasted on Acid?” That would be pharmacologically inaccurate, since Bachmann’s trip is naturally induced by a huge overdose of Modern Republican ideological orthodoxy, but at least it has the virtue of approximating the insanity of her entire being.

    Then again, someone could compose a song like “My Brain is All Rotten and I’m a Complete Lying Idiot” and who could complain if Bachmann adopted that as her campaign song.

    Obviously, Bachmann needs to find her campaign theme song in the musical “genius” of Ted Nugent. I just looked up some Nugent titles and without knowing anything at all about the music behind the titles, I’ve got to say “Dog Eat Dog” sounds like the perfect title to represent the Modern Republican Party’s ideology. And “Cat Scratch Fever” has a ring to it. Unfortunately, when I looked up the lyrics, both songs were pretty much incomprehensible garbage, which makes them worthless as music, but quite possibly perfect for the Lunatic from Waterloo, who could be known as the “Waterloonatic.”

    The nice thing about “Dog Eat Dog” is that people get shot and killed and overall it reads like the ranting of a complete lunatic — perfect for Michelle. I don’t have the guts to actually seek out a clip from any of Nugent’s songs. The very little I’ve heard from him over the years has been generally unlistenable, so why torture myself?

    Other Nugent titles that have potential (someone else will have to listen to them — I’m sure as hell not going to):

    Crazy Ladies — perfect title for a Bachmann/Palin ticket; they’d have to sort out who’s top dog
    Little Miss Dangerous — a perfect description of Bachmann
    Out of Control — the appeal is obvious
    She Drives Me Crazy — but it’s really Michelle who’s nuts
    Take It or Leave It — obvious homage to the Modern Repubicans’ idea of democratic compromise

    I’ve never paid any attention to Nugent’s “music,” but the few songs whose lyrics I just read were largely incomprehensible and utter trash as musical lyrics (0r as anything else). On the other hand, they did sound like the rantings and ravings of a lunatic, which does make a strong argument that they’d be right for Michelle — the Waterloonatic.

    Michelle, dear, if by “Walking on Sunshine” you mean you’re wasted on Orange Sunshine, perhaps you should call Jimmy Carter — he’ll talk you down.

  98. 98.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    When we’re all herded into cattle cars to re-education camps

    Cars? Cattle? Camps? Into?

    Whatever happened to Buses, Veal, Pens and Under? I guess I’m just a Burkean Firebagger. I like tradition.

  100. 100.

    4jkb4ia

    Taylor Swift has made the Nashville ghetto even more crappy than it already was

    Not possible. Taylor Swift actually has more songwriting talent than average there.

    You need to listen to more Mekons

    I don’t doubt it. This really isn’t meant to be nasty–there is their punk side, too.

  103. 103.

    Emerald

    When we’re all herded into cattle cars to re-education camps

    No no. They will be called Freedom Camps.

  105. 105.

    Elliecat

    Does it mean I’m an old fogey or that I just have a slow internet connection that I really hate it when people simply link to youtube instead of writing the damn song titles? I mean, I just don’t have that kind of time.

    That NRO clown is pretty dense if he doesn’t get the lyrics of those songs. To include “Won’t be Fooled Again”, “My City Was Gone”, and particularly “Cult of Personality”,

    Well, didn’t the Republicans think “Born in the USA” was a celebration of the glories of being an American? It’s all about the catchphrases and surfaces with them.

  106. 106.

    MikeJ

    Somebody needs to write a good hit song with the most patriotic hook imaginable, and verses dedicated to how horrible Republicans are.

    Oh wait, Woody did it already.

  108. 108.

    hamletta

    Taylor Swift actually has more songwriting talent than average there.

    Oh, honey, them’s fightin’ words. Better than Paul Overstreet, Bob DiPiero, John Hiatt, and Matraca Berg? Better than my dear friend Rick Beresford, who co-wrote “He Stopped Loving Her Today”?

    Nashville is the songwriting capital of the world. Why don’t we wait 15 years and see if anybody remembers Miss Swift before we start praising her talents as a tunesmith.

    She’s got the legacy of Harlan Howard to deal with.

  110. 110.

    Mike Kay (The Base)

    It wouldn’t surprise me if John Lennon was a closet republican in 1980.

    He had entered mid-life, he was in a high tax bracket (70%), and New York City was in the midst of a decades long high rate of crime (ie the blackout riot of 1977).

    He wouldn’t be the first rich guy to go galt under such circumstances. Nor were leftys turned reagoons a rare occurance. A chunk of the “old-left” in NYC became neo-cons at that time period.

    And if you think Lennon was too smart and too left to turn right, just think about Hitchens. A committed Trotskyite and pacifist, he turned on a dime into a blood thirsty neo-con, due to the combination of entering mid-life, falling into the highest tax bracket, and violence in NYC (9/11).

  111. 111.

    4jkb4ia

    @hamletta:

    Then you have got me, because these people have actual life experience. I particularly bow in the presence of John Hiatt. I defined “Nashville ghetto” as “what can get played on country radio”. Hiatt at least isn’t in either because he can get on rock tours/clubs.

  112. 112.

    hamletta

    Oh, then we have an understanding. I define “Nashville ghetto” as “crap that passes for ‘country.'” I was no country fan when I moved here 30 years ago, but I quickly learned to respect the artists that still ruled the roost here then.

    A few years later, I got to likin’ ’em.

    Taylor Swift, sweet girl that she is, represents the prolonged Disney-fication of my town and its musical riches. I hope she’s the apex, because she does have talent, and she could get interesting once she’s lived a little.

  113. 113.

    Triassic Sands

    It wouldn’t surprise me if John Lennon was a closet republican in 1980.

    Imagine there’s no taxes;
    It’s easy if you try.
    Naught to pay the gubmint;
    At the time you die.
    Imagine all the people;
    Living for the buck

    Imagine there’s no Medicaid;
    It isn’t hard to do;
    All the poor are dead.
    And the non-whites too.
    Imagine all us white guys;
    Splitting all spoils.

    You may say that I’m a dreamer;
    But I’m not the only one;
    I hope some day you’ll join me;
    And all the Lefties will be gone.

    Imagine there’s no gubmint;
    It drowned in the bath tub.
    And Ronnie Reagan is our God;
    And heaven is our club.
    Imagine all the people;
    Fighting for the scraps

    And so on…

    Sorry, Mike Kay (The Base) I find that hard to imagine.

  115. 115.

    Ben Cisco

    2, 7, 5, 4, 8 she watched she said
    All added up to zero
    And nothing in her head
    She turns and turns
    And she hopes the dopes with votes
    Are for real – she learns
    Is that there ain’t enough, nope
    Her campaign won’t survive
    Better dead than be led
    By the voices running inside her head
    I don’t think I can handle
    She goes channel to channel
    Cold lookin’ for that hero
    She watch channel zero

  117. 117.

    Yevgraf

    She really needs to use the heartland song “Wang Dang Sweet Poontang” by that heartland rock impresario Ted Nugent. He’s totally on board with her weirdness, and it says everything there is to say about the starbursty reason she’s going to be allowed to be a contendah in the Goober primary.

  118. 118.

    YellowDog

    I liked someone’s suggestion that the Count Five’s “Psychotic Reaction” would be an appropriate Bachmann campaign song. I always associate “American Girl” with the 70’s (when I first heard it) and later with “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” (I also had an early TI calculator and an original IBM PC.)

  119. 119.

    Chinn Romney

    WTF another emo self-involved self-referential un-self-aware over the top over the line crazy black lady post OMG how long must I endure it this used to be such a great blog and now I constantly have to endure the agony of a FP poster who I don’t like posting on the front page, and, and, she’s the worstest blogger EVAH and WTF, John Cole, how long do you think my arthritic fingers can keep clicking the keys to scroll past her posts,

    Obviously you wrote this rant before reading her opus follow-up to this post, Fart Pants. Talk about timely! I too thought this site had jumped the shark, as Cole gets lazier by the day, but quality material like Fart Pants gives me hope moving forward.

  120. 120.

    John D.

    I define “Nashville ghetto” as “crap that passes for ‘country.’”

    Yeah, but you said “average”, which, while including the greats, includes every bloody wanna-be, has-been, and never-gonna-be, of which we have a few dozen thousand. Once you factor them in, Ms. Swift is actually above average.

  122. 122.

    murbella

    meh.
    Conservatives can only campaign to country&western.
    Its a rule of cool.
    Who could forget Palin’s serial rejections by the same 80’s hairbands that she conceived Trak to?
    I remember Bon Jovi, Survivor, Heart, and the more contemporary Foo Fighters for a few.
    And even Van Halen…that had to leave a mark.
    Her first born’s name is Track Van Palin.

  123. 123.

    murbella

    I always thought this should be Palin’s song.
    The anthem of the Paliban.

    What have we got? Yeh-o, magnificence!!
    Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi
    Went to the park to check on the game
    But they was murdered by the other team
    Who went on to win 50-nil
    You can be true, you can be false
    You be given the same reward Socrates and Milhous Nixon
    Both went the same way – through the kitchen
    Plato the Greek or Sarah Palin
    Who’s more famous to the billion millions?
    News Flash: Vacuum Cleaner Sucks Up Budgie
    Oooohh…bub-bye Magnificence!!
    FUCKING LONG, INNIT?

    sadly, i betcha Sarah never lissened to the Clash.

  124. 124.

    murbella

    But here is MY alltime favorite song about the essence of Sarah Palin.

    I’m waiting for my moment to come
    I’m waiting for the movie to begin
    I’m waiting for a revelation
    I’m waiting for someone to count me in
    __
    Because now I only see my dreams in everything I touch
    Feel their cold hands on everything that I love
    Cold like some magnificent skyline
    Out of my reach but always in my eye line
    Did you want to be a winner?
    Did you want to be an icon?
    Did you want to be famous?
    Did you want to be the president?
    Did you want to start a war?
    Did you want to have a family?
    Did you want to be in love?
    Did you want to be in love?

    kinda sad, innit?

  125. 125.

    murbella

    and pardon me if i spit damn here, ABL.
    but why are juicers wilin’ out on you while Cole frontpages glibertarians?
    i know we are on the same side, but the libertarians are obvious fifth columnists for the Nothing.
    seems like eemom and CS could save their venom for them.

  126. 126.

    Dr. Loveless

    since I reckon a cool 75% of the voting population associates that song with Silence of the Lambs

    I’ve been racking my brain since last night trying to come up with a good “it rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again” joke … anybody want to help?

  127. 127.

    divF

    Pink Floyd’s “Careful with that Axe, Eugene” – a great fit for Bachmann, and for that matter the whole GOP.

  128. 128.

    Keith

    @divf – way close, and eerily midwestern if you dress a cover band like Lizzie Borden.

    On Ted Nugent – why doesn’t she jsut get Ted to do a rewrite of Cat Scratch Fever to the words “Bach-Mann Fever”

    It worked for Homer Simpson and Pac-Man …

  129. 129.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    Campaign season is officially underway when you start getting complaints from musicians because Republicans are stealing songs whose titles they like but which they haven’t listened to carefully.

  132. 132.

    Friday Jones

    @60. maya…

    Why not use Patsy Cline’s Crazy Michele? She’s dead and can’t object.

    ‘Cause Willie Nelson wrote it…

  133. 133.

    KatC

    @ 105 Elliecat

    Does it mean I’m an old fogey or that I just have a slow internet connection that I really hate it when people simply link to youtube instead of writing the damn song titles? I mean, I just don’t have that kind of time.

    If you’re using Firefox, try the Youtube Tooltip add on. Saved me a ton of time in this thread ;)

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