What’s on your celebration playlists?
If you got just one song to send the dumpster fire on his way, what would it be?
I was going to go with Hit The Road Jack, but then a jackal sent me this one, and I think it’s hard to beat.
Any particular food that got you through? I started with chocolate chip cookies, baking one at a time when I needed them, and potato chips were my “break glass in case of emergency” food. Three times!
Open thread.
Oh, and this from one of our jackals (
is so good, it deserves to be front paged.An Inauguration Tune
Trump is gone, and none too soon!
Angry, smug, grotesque buffoon,
stupid-suited Pantaloon,
Queens brat trying to play tycoon,
piccolo posing as bassoon.
No more poison-gas balloon,
orange-caked, pale-eyed raccoon,
whose nightly hissing at the moon
has made this country his spittoon —
on January twentieth, at noon!
— Peter H. Desmond
Mart
Robert Cray’s “This Man” should have been the Biden Harris campaign theme song. Edited, “Get Him Out is not the title. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Nmc2fb0fQ
Omnes Omnibus
For some reason, this song keeps popping up in my head.
ETA: And this one has been accomplished.
Jim Appleton
prostratedragon
Bravo phdesmond, [though as a former piccolo player I must take slight exception —but] the concept is perfection!
WaterGirl
@Mart: That song is near perfection.
feebog
Chips and salsa for now. Going to order out, but have no idea what goes well with bitter Republican tears.
Mart
@Omnes Omnibus: I have an Amy Rigby album from around 1995. Still sounds great. Thanks for the link.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jim Appleton: My preference is for someone from southern CA.
Morzer
I am going to listen to will.i.am’s Yes We Can a few times. That’s my celebration playlist contribution.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Biden’s lead in Georgia is over 9k now.
Wyatt Salamanca
For me, it’s a tie between these two songs
It’s All Over Now – The Rolling Stones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur-yMil88fU
The End – The Beatles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12R4FzIhdoQ
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I hope we see the same outcome for the Senate contests.
Good on all GA Dems. Historic achievement.
Calouste
Loser by Beck.
(With slightly altered lyrics of course)
Mart
@WaterGirl: I love Cray. Been entertained by him since the 80’s. I think if they played that song at rallies Trump would have stroked out.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
MSNBC had a shot of the crowd outside the White House a few minutes ago, they were singing but I couldn’t make out the song. Anybody seen a crowd size estimate?
artem1s
https://twitter.com/semperdiced/status/1325221908711841792
this is precious
Bruuuuce
My earworm today has been my favorite Beatles song. It helped that I spent most of the day sitting in 72 degree sunshine at Bad Seed cidery in Highland, NY (across the Hudson from Poughkeepsie) with the better half and her mom, whom we hadn’t seen since March.
JPL
This is so exciting but let’s not be late. Some of us haven’t slept in days… just saying.
Baud
Kamala’s first trip to India should be interesting.
Jim Appleton
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Why?
Tubbs is going places, like no one’s business.
Who in SoCal deserves it better, and why?
Please show your work.
artem1s
hit the road jack!
https://twitter.com/TG22110/status/1325129947166330882
Starfish
Some Politico journalist wrote that we would miss Donald Trump. I replied with a country song called How Can I Miss You If You Won’t Go Away.
There were some people at the Philly celebration wielding the lyrics of You Can’t Always Get What You Want against some Trump supporters.
HumboldtBlue
@prostratedragon:
Therefore we must listen to the highest height a piccolo player can get!
Spanky
Question for the hive mind: Is there a meatspace meme I managed to miss? What’s the meaning of all the blue porchlights I’ve been seeing? The only residence with an indication of political leanings had Biden/Harris signs out front, so my original thought of Police Lives Matter must be wrong.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL: But enough about Kornacki.
Eljai
Are you ready boots? Start walkin’
Bridgier
I’ve been trying really hard not to put this into every FB thread today… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5OVEmtsj24
Yarrow
Ice cream. So much ice cream. And this salty snack mix with nuts, honey pecans and wasabi peas.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: The BJP put all its eggs in the Republican basket. Likud is their guiding light
prostratedragon
Allen Toussaint
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jim Appleton: Schiff, Lieu, Bass, Padillia. We’ve not had a southern Californian in the Senate since John Seymour in 1992.
Jim Appleton
@Jim Appleton:
And Porter is also a good choice, but not with the depth that Tubbs brings.
Omnes Omnibus
Progamming note: My Favorite Year is on TCM right now.
JPL
@Yarrow: hah I lost all my fridge and freezer food in the last storm.. no ice cream for me.
JanieM
I don’t have any songs to propose to send him on his way, but I’ve been celebrating with Ray Charles in the two iterations that have been put together for us this week:
the Lincoln Project’s,
and Kamala’s.
Food: chocolate, what else? A square of Alter Eco Burnt Caramel gets me through most days. In emergencies I have two. For ordinary snacks, Ghiradelli dark chocolate chips.
randal m sexton
Loser by beck. https://youtu.be/C7PlMqsc5Cc and I have been sharing this with Trump too !!
Central Planning
How about CeeLo Green’s Fuck You for a departing song?
One song that I play that makes me feel good is Southern Skyline by Eric Steckel. I like many of his blues songs and have them in my Spotify rotation.
Danielx
@Yarrow:
Tonight’s menu is kebabs (on the grill in five) and and bottle of Veuve Cliqout, which has been chilling since Tuesday afternoon.
HumboldtBlue
@artem1s:
Those girls are fantastic! They nail it every damn time!
Annie
The Ode to Joy, Beethoven’s Ninth, 4th movement — preferably the Solti version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEmTDIVq7qE
Takes a little while, like our election returns, but the great burst of joy at the end is worth it.
Petorado
“I made a good, good thing out of bad, bad news …” – Leon Bridges
If you haven’t heard it yet, Anderson.Paak’s Lockdown is the best song about the phase of American life we’ll soon be emerging from.
Geoduck
@Spanky: A Google search indicates it is indeed a pro-police thing.
Mike in NC
Opened a bottle of cheap Champagne, fired up a joint, and ready to watch ‘Young Frankenstein’.
Jim Appleton
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Do any of them look as good as Tubbs?
Why is geography/demographics the primary concern? Why not the guy who represents the entire state with a bomb-proof progressive CV?
SoCal ran so much of CA’s last fifty years it’s not funny.
This looks a bit like “but our feelings”.
BR
I’d like Newsom to appoint a seat filler like Jerry Brown until there can be a primary. Too many good options and I want us as voters to decide.
Starfish
@artem1s: That was fun.
raven
@Mike in NC: no tongues
Alison Rose
Bey said it best
Middle fingers up, put them hands high
Wave it in his face, tell him BOY BYE
Barbara
I only listen to happy songs, but I think that my favorite video these days, Tiny Dancer, is somehow appropriate for Kamala Harris. At the end of my fitness class today (online) they played Georgia On My Mind, and I nearly cried.
prostratedragon
@Omnes Omnibus:
Followed by A Hard Day’s Night.
gwangung
Phillipa Soo sing’s David Henry Hwang’s Democracy (for obvious personal reasons)
https://twitter.com/Phillipasoo/status/1325214891595223040
Xeny
Philadelphia freedom. Elton John
MisterForkbeard
I was listening to this earlier today and belting it out while driving around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8wRzS_DSy0
“Check It Out” by Oh The Larceny, and the beginning:
HumboldtBlue
Sweet Mother of Bede, now Ireland has me crying.
dexwood
@Omnes Omnibus: We watched that and The Producers to distract us election night. Two soothing, silly favorites.
Geoduck
Kool & the Gang.
Barbara
@Danielx: I couldn’t bring myself to plan for any celebration. I did that in 2016 and I don’t think I will ever forget the emptiness I felt afterwards.
Omnes Omnibus
@prostratedragon: May have skip some of that for the Joe and Kamala Show.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jim Appleton: Tubbs is barely eligible to serve in the Senate. I know there was a guy elected to the Senate before he was eligible to serve who we call the President-elect.
Jim Appleton
@Jim Appleton:
I like your list and would be happy with any of them.
All of them are well positioned as is.
Here is an opportunity to remake the entire landscape with one move.
cain
I have some nice tamil songs and some hindi songs – but hey ify ou want to celebreate –
[Deewangi Deewangi – Om Shanti Om] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx7KURxk5AQ – is a great one.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jim Appleton:
How many votes do you think Tubbs would have in Mitch McConnell’s Senate?
Baud
@Barbara:
Me either. But tonight helps a lot.
The Moar You Know
This was my theme song for living through this administration:
World Party – Ship of Fools
And the one that always seemed like it had been written specifically by Trump…but back in 1981.
Missing Persons – Noticeable One
You gotta pay attention to the lyrics on both of these.
MisterForkbeard
@HumboldtBlue: I teared up. No shame at all – that was beautiful.
prostratedragon
@Omnes Omnibus: Oh thanks, forgot about that!
raven
The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again
prostratedragon
“We’re a Winner,” Curtis Mayfield
Baud
Claire Mckaskill tearing up on MSNBC.
Jim Appleton
@Jim Appleton:
Again, why geography?
scav
Go figure, I’m here. Industrial Disease.
But with a slightly different boots version cued up.
Mustang Bobby
I went with the Pentatonix cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” A bit more contemplative, but I played Kool and the Gang’s “Celebration” last night.
For comfort food, I picked up fried chicken and potato salad from Publix.
BC in Illinois
@Annie:
Ode to Joy, Beethoven’s Ninth, 4th movement
Schadenfreude, Gotterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium . . .
Jim Appleton
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
How many do you think Schiff or any D would garner?
Are you advocating for a triangulating Blue Dog?
Barbara
@HumboldtBlue: That gave me chills.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jim Appleton: just mocking your histrionics
but thanks for the tip-off as to whether I should take you seriously
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Mine are kind of dated. I have a “Happy” playlist that I’ve been playing tonight, but I think the most appropriate from that list are:
Mary G
My first selection was a good loud Hallelujah Chorus with personally altered lyrics not a smidge as good as ph’s or SD’s, but mostly stuff like “Take Stephen Miller too, and Kkkayleigh, and Jared, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.” Then I had the best two hour nap. Lay’s original potato chips were my most frequent numbing food, but any port in a storm would do. The worst was eating the chips out of a box of Ghirardelli brownie mix, because I HAD TO HAVE CHOCOLATE NOW and not in an hour. That was when he abandoned the Kurds in Syria.
Geoboy
Lily Allen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAnyRGy2iU4
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jim Appleton:
Huh? The Browns are from NorCal, Boxer is from NorCal, DiFi is from NorCal, Kamala is from NorCal…really? The last 50 years have been split, but Senate has been San Francisco centric almost the last 30 years.
Steeplejack
Scandal, “Goodbye to You.”
PsiFighter37
Speaking of music, someone just rolled down 6th Avenue blasting ‘Eye of the Tiger’. Pretty apropos, and maybe the only time you’d hear Philly’s anthem blasted in the heart of NYC.
brantl
“America where are you now? Don’t you care about your sons and daughters? Don’t you know we need you now. We can’t fight alone against the monster.” Monster/Suicide/America, By Steppenwolf. Or Positively Fourth Street, by Bob Dylan.
Baud
@HumboldtBlue:
It’s remarkable that there always seems to be new material with Joe.
raven
@brantl: And “What about me”.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@BR: Jerry might like that, he did run for the Senate in 1982.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
not surprising, but this is the first time I’ve heard it attributed to the campaign, “an aide”, but I’m inclined to believe it
Jim Appleton
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Mary G
@Spanky: Democrats are blue on the voting results map? Just guessing.
Another Scott
Here comes the Sun (3:05)
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Mary G:
I laughed so hard at that, until I got to your final sentence. Such a terrible thing done in our name.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
That’s the most awesome thing ever.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
For the first time in literally months, I didn’t feel the need for a nap today. I expect to go to bed at a reasonable hour and sleep soundly through the night. I’d so love to get back to a normal cycle, and feel refreshed when I wake up instead of even more fatigued.
Ken
I agree in principle, and I don’t live in CA so maybe shouldn’t have an opinion, but…
With the jungle primary system, is there a risk that “too many options” means you get twelve Democrats in the primary because none are willing to drop out? And they get 70% of the vote in total, but the two Republicans split the other 30% and go on to the general election?
debbie
@artem1s:
Love it!
Bluegirlfromwyo
Tom Petty: Don’t Come Around Here No More and Bill Withers: Lovely Day
For anyone on Spotify, feel free to look up ByeDon 2020 by buddy9228 for a complete playlist.
Spanky
@HumboldtBlue: Wow.
Wow. Thanks for sharing that.
Ksmiami
@Omnes Omnibus: Beyoncé irreplaceable-
bluehill
Liked this from Josh at TPM
zhena gogolia
@artem1s:
Hahahaha
Danielx
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sWvdFIU6hZgLand of Hope and Dreams
eta: oops
HumboldtBlue
I won’t forget that amidst all the sturm and drang of Trump era there were a few men and women who stood with their fellow citizens and nation.
The Vindmans can get some love.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ken: It’s a pretty low risk of that happening, but IIRC it did happen once.
debbie
@Steeplejack:
I know more than a few women who have meaningfully blared that song from their stereo.
WaterGirl
@Mike in NC: Just saw your comment from the other thread.
I think you are right. I love that they were ringing bells in France.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Steeplejack: I was gonna say I saw Scandal in concert, but honestly, it might’ve been Quarterflash. I genuinely can’t remember.
Baud
@HumboldtBlue: Yes!
HumboldtBlue
@bluehill:
That’s perfect, thanks.
@Baud:
Good point.
@Spanky:
Glad to share.
Jean
@JanieM: I listened to the Ray Charles’s “America the Beautiful” on the Harris tweet several times this afternoon. Made me cry. It’s my favorite patriotic tune, and I remember crying when hearing it when Obama won in 2008.
CarolPW
@artem1s: Thank you! Watched it twice, cried both times. This stuff keeps making me cry, as well as the Kamala bits, and the picture frame This Land thing and the Lord of the Rings Aragon in front of the gates of Mordor. I would worry except I know I have four fucking years of stuff to cry about, and it makes sense to get it all out between now and the inauguration so I can tackle whatever the Biden team needs from me.
Steeplejack
The Animals, “We Gotta Get Out of This Place.”
Omnes Omnibus
This is playing in Delaware right now.
Lurker Dan
Bye Don!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gSb2A4mXtg
Congrats Joe and Kamala!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFWQgxXM_b8
And thanks to all the jackals, front pagers and commentariat. Balloon Juice: Helping Me Keep My Shit Together Since January 20, 2017!
zhena gogolia
I’ve been playing patriotic songs on my piano at intervals all day. Star-Spangled Banner, My Country ‘Tis of Thee, America the Beautiful, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Grand Old Flag, and Battle Hymn of the Republic. I don’t think I’ve ever played them with more feeling.
Steeplejack
@debbie:
Accompanied by clothes thrown out on the lawn?
prostratedragon
O friends!
Not these sounds!
Rather let us turn to sounds more pleasant and more joyful!
[Addressing Joy]
Your spells reunite that which was strictly divided by convention;
all men become brothers where your gentle wing rests.
[Of those who can find no kindred soul on earth]
And he who could never accomplish this, let him steal away weeping from this company.
—from “Ode to Joy,” taken from CSO performance
Baud
@zhena gogolia: ??
debbie
My farewell words to Donald Trump.
LurkerNoLonger
“The Battle of Yorktown” from Hamilton, because it was a battle and as the company shouts “We won! We won! We won!” Except the world didn’t turn upside down, it’s righted itself.
Sublime
I m Out Of Work by Gary U.S. Bonds
JanieM
@Spanky: Sometime early on it was proposed that people display blue lights to thank and honor first responders during the pandemic.
Sample article.
That article doesn’t mention the ongoing thing, but I’d like to think some people are still doing blue lights for this reason. I’ve had a string of blue Christmas lights in a window since springtime.
Edited for clarity.
Steeplejack
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
?
debbie
@Steeplejack:
Along with the stupid video games and every other dumb thing.
Ken
@debbie: I was half expecting “Earl’s Gotta Die”…
debbie
@Steeplejack:
That was our senior class song in high school.
NotMax
Haven’t yet scanned thread so perhaps already mentioned. Same one as the last time you asked, from Satchmo.
debbie
@Ken:
Gotta have an angry melody to go along with the words.
JanieM
@Jean: I feel the same way about that song.
Jim Appleton
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Agreed, NoCal has had some dominance, but the effect of SoCal conservatives has been notable.
Prop13 is one pole.
Congressional representation as a fraction of overall is another — Issa, Duke Cunningham, Duncan Hunter, Rohrbacher …
That list goes on.
Thanks, SoCal!
Steeplejack
@debbie:
Or so we’ve heard, right? ?
Central Planning
Two more came to me that would be non-negative – Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds and also Jimmy Cliff’s I Can See Clearly Now.
zhena gogolia
Watching the crowd in Wilmington on CSpan. Very heartwarming.
It’s like all the decent people in the country are just coming out onto the streets and letting it all hang out!
Omnes Omnibus
What a Wonderful World. Joey’s version.
WaterGirl
@CarolPW: Do you have the link for this one?
Lord of the Rings Aragon in front of the gates of Mordor.
debbie
@Steeplejack:
?
JanieM
@WaterGirl: Could it be this one?
patrick II
@Baud:
Lindsay is already talking about investigating the election. We could really use a Democratic senate to avoid all of that bullshit.
CarolPW
@WaterGirl: Amir put up the link, I think yesterday. Stuff like that keeps one going, even if damply.
WaterGirl
@JanieM: nope, not that one. :-(
persistentillusion
@Danielx: I picked up my Veuve Cliquot today from a guy at the store who would have hi-5ed me, if we still did that.
CarolPW
@JanieM: No, not from an ad, it is the scene in the movie where the armies face off and Aragorn gives heart to the forces.
ETA: and I could fucking remember to put the r in Aragorn.
randy khan
No votes for Folsom Prison Blues?
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Aragorn’s speech at the Black Gate.
Bruuuuce
[T]the high heel he used to be has been ground down
And he listens for the footsteps that would follow him around
DEFINITELY a Man Out of Time!
SoupCatcher
@HumboldtBlue:
Thank you for posting that.
I’ve been tearing up all day today, but that brought out the ugly tears, in a good way.
Ken
It’s not a song, but I’ve watched the scene in Return of the King where the Ring melts and Sauron is cast down several times now. Better stop before I turn into Goldie Hawn’s character at the beginning of Death Becomes Her.
Jim Appleton
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Dead thread, but you deserve this.
Reagan. So many executive actions that decimated services.
Prop 13.
Those destroyed California forever.
Those are 100% SoCal.
Thanks SoCal!
Sister Golden Bear
“See You Later Fuckface” by The Queers
Omnes Omnibus
@Sister Golden Bear: Already noted upthread, but still good.
Searcher
Faith of the Heart (Enterprise theme)
J R in WV
Kamala and Joe are making a great speech right now.
I bought our champagne Tuesday, wife had a Dental appointment, and I bought the bubbly from a friend who sells wine.
Champagne has been our go to beverage over the past few months to assuage the pain of Trump and his plague. I’m trying to hold off on my hate for Trump and his minions for Joe, who is telling us right now that even those people are fellow Americans.
While LIndsey wants to investigate the election. I dunno about that, but I’ll try.
prostratedragon
@NotMax: I’ve been thinking of that one lately. Also well covered by Cab Calloway among others.
sgrAstar
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Becerra.
?
Greg VA
I think massive crowds outside the White House singing Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye all night on January 19 would be a fun way to end our national era of shame.
Ruckus
@debbie:
My farewell words to donnie would be:
“Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out, asshole.”
Pete Mack
Since that picture of Harris striding out in high heels, I’ve had “These boots are made for walkin'” as an earworm. But I did listen to NewWorld Symphony this AM
MaryRC
The 1812 Overture. Especially the part where the French are being chased home.
phdesmond
@prostratedragon:
thank you, dragon, and apologies for the unintended but perceivable slight.