# Appropriate music selections for the Bush inauguration
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 13, 2000, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329 "2000-12-13T07:37:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Fletch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fletch)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/1 "2000-12-13T07:37:02Z")
I don’t know if Bush has selected the music for his inauguration yet. But, in my humble opinion the following are my suggestions for appropriate tunes:
1. Send in the clowns
2. I started a joke
3. The great pretender
4. Welcome to the jungle
5. Twinkle twinkle little Starr
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### Author:  [@The\_Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tim)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/2 "2000-12-13T07:42:56Z")
1. Head Like a Hole
2. Pilgramage
3. Starfuckers, Inc
4. March of the Fuckheads
Of course No strings attached by N’Sync would also be amusing, though the humor may not outway the irritance of hearing the song.
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### Author:  [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/3 "2000-12-13T10:36:25Z")
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> \*Originally posted by The Tim \*
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> Of course No strings attached by N’Sync would also be amusing, though the humor may not outway the irritance of hearing the song. \*\*
The only problem here is that it should be spelled outweight not outway. Okay I’m done now
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### Author:  [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/4 "2000-12-13T11:20:43Z")
Uriah Heep’s “Stealin’”
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### Author:  [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/5 "2000-12-13T11:26:54Z")
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> \*Originally posted by The Mighty Tiki God \*
> The only problem here is that it should be spelled outweight not outway. Okay I’m done now \*\*
For the love of god I can’t spell anymore. It should be outweigh. I _think_ it is right this time but I’ve been wrong before.
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### Author:  [@Eggs\_a\_la\_Ted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eggs_a_la_Ted)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/6 "2000-12-13T11:32:17Z")
I don’t really care who wins, so these work either way :
Counting Crows - Long December
Genesis - Land of Confusion
Oasis - Don’t Look Back in Anger
Doris Day - Que Sera Sera
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/7 "2000-12-13T13:30:23Z")
“Add It Up” by the Violent Femmes. That’s the last thing Bush wanted to happen!
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/8 "2000-12-13T13:37:33Z")
“Gore fought the law and the law won”
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### Author:  [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/9 "2000-12-13T14:10:10Z")
_Casy Jones_ by the Grateful Dead
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/10 "2000-12-13T14:16:07Z")
Any 70’s funk porno-music.
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### Author:  [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/11 "2000-12-13T15:11:29Z")
“Welcome To My Nightmare” by Alice Cooper
“March of the Marionettes” by Victor Herbert
“Forever Autumn”- Sung by Justin Heyward from “War of the Worlds”
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### Author:  [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/12 "2000-12-13T15:14:31Z")
Oh, and “Cocaine” by Eric Clapton
“The Boys Are Back In Town” by Thin Lizzy
“Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd
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### Author:  [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/13 "2000-12-13T15:26:54Z")
You Win Again by hank Williams
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/14 "2000-12-13T15:44:00Z")
How about Emerson Lake & Palmer’s “Welcome my Friends to the Show That Never Ends”?
Oh wait, that was the theme song for the election…
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### Author:  [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/15 "2000-12-13T16:04:52Z")
“Daddy, Don’t you Walk so Fast”
“I Can’t Drive 55” (for Cheney)
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### Author:  [@socialxray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/socialxray)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/16 "2000-12-13T16:25:39Z")
For Gore:
The Replacements - “Anywhere’s Better Than Here”
For Bush, on his pre-mature Cabinet picking:
Tom Waits - “What’s He Building In There?”
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### Author:  [@DocDaneeka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocDaneeka)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/17 "2000-12-13T16:54:39Z")
Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil
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### Author:  [@Me\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Joe)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/18 "2000-12-13T18:38:02Z")
How about “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It” by REM?
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### Author:  [@Me\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Joe)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/19 "2000-12-13T18:45:58Z")
Or better yet, the old 5th Dimension song:
“Puppet Man”
If you wanna see me do my thing/
Just pull my string/
I’m your puppet man!
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### Author:  [@The\_Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tim)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/20 "2000-12-13T18:50:30Z")
Damn brain-o. Outweigh, outweigh, outweigh.
Anywho the Imperial March might work just fine.
And a note to Bush supporters, if Gore had won and someone started a thread like this I would be suggesting that Borg song from First Contact. Its just more fun to pick on the winner 😃
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