# 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
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@uberDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uberDave)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/21 "2000-12-13T18:57:00Z")
Waiting for the Sun - The Doors
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/22 "2000-12-13T19:03:09Z")
“Take the Money and Run” - Steve Miller Band.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/23 "2000-12-13T19:03:38Z")
Not exactly a song, but the Empire theme from the Star Wars movies. Eek, are we in trouble NOW folks.
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### Author:  [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/24 "2000-12-13T19:08:49Z")
Garth Brooks “Friends in Low Places”
(This would work for any inauguration. I don’t want you to think I’m picking on GW) Cheap Trick “He’s a Whore”
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### Author:  [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/25 "2000-12-13T19:10:21Z")
“I Won’t Grow Up” from Peter Pan
“Hair of the Dog” Nazareth
“I’m an Idiot Who’s Making Like I Won Decisively” to be written
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### Author:  [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/26 "2000-12-13T19:58:31Z")
Weird Al - Dare to be Stupid
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### Author:  [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/27 "2000-12-13T20:03:21Z")
Anything by Barbra Streisand would be appropriate. 🙂
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### Author:  [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/28 "2000-12-13T20:12:15Z")
I thought that Warren Zevon was already booked for the inauguration:
“Send lawyers, guns and money. Dad, get me out of this!!!”
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### Author:  [@Ace\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace_Face)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/29 "2000-12-14T01:15:22Z")
“Mayor of Simpleton” – XTC
“Here Comes President Kill Again” – also XTC, in honor of all those executions…
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/30 "2000-12-14T01:58:58Z")
A few songs for Al Gore:
“It’s Over” by Roy Orbison
“I’m a Loser” by the Beatles
“I’m a Loser, Baby, So Why Don’t You Kill Me?” by Beck
“Get a Job” by the Silhouettes
“We’re So Sorry, Uncle Albert” by Paul & Linda McCartney
“Didn’t We Almost have It All?” by Whitney Houston
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### Author:  [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/31 "2000-12-14T02:25:40Z")
Oh, all the dems are getting pretty _snippy_, so…
“We Are The Champions” by Queen.
or
“How Do You Like Me Now” by some country singer whose name I can’t remember.
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### Author:  [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/32 "2000-12-14T02:32:27Z")
The Who, “Substitute”
The Beatles, “Nowhere Man”
Beastie Boys, “Sabotage”
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### Author:  [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/33 "2000-12-14T02:35:13Z")
I got one for cheney: “Heart Attack Man” by Beastie Boys
I don’t know I kind of like the idea of “Possum Kingdom” by the toadies, but maybe “Little Bastard” by Ass Ponys is more fitting.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/34 "2000-12-14T02:46:03Z")
Talking Heads: “Once in a Lifetime” for the line “My God, what have I done”
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### Author:  [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/35 "2000-12-14T02:51:59Z")
Considering his record in Texas executions:
Don’t Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/36 "2000-12-14T03:37:01Z")
“Been Caught Stealing”-Jane’s Addiction
“Taxman” -Beatles
“The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine” -Simon and Garfunkel
“A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara’d into Submission)” -Simon and Garfunkel
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### Author:  [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/37 "2000-12-14T04:12:20Z")
Terminal Preppie- The Dead Kennedys
Fortunate Son- Creedence Clearwater Revival
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### Author:  [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/38 "2000-12-14T04:30:34Z")
For Bush, the Eagles, “Life in the Fast Lane.”
For Gore, Frankie Valli, “My Eyes Adored You” (“So close, so close, and yet so far.”
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### Author:  [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/39 "2000-12-14T04:44:00Z")
For Gore:“Another Bites the Dust”-Queen
For all the foreigners who have been following the election:
“I’m Afraid of Americans”
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### Author:  [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-music-selections-for-the-bush-inauguration/45329/40 "2000-12-14T04:45:30Z")
That should be, “Another ONE Bites the Dust”!
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