# Inauguration Day playlist
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 19, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194 "2016-12-19T23:33:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/1 "2016-12-19T23:33:17Z")
Working up a playlist for the day:
[Mods, if this is too political for CS, move as necessary]
Working on a song list for Inauguration Day:
Ruination Day - Gillian Welch
Hell-Bound Train - Savoy Brown
Goin’ Down Slow - Howlin’ Wolf
Brown Shirts in the White House - John Gorka
Wasteland of the Free - Iris DeMent
Masters of War - Bob Dylan
Political Science - Randy Newman
No Time To Live - Traffic
Desperation - Steppenwolf
Still There’ll Be More - Procol Harum
Ship of Fools - The Doors
Idiot Wind - Bob Dylan
Tears of Rage - The Band
Trouble Every Day - Frank Zappa
Any suggestions, folks?
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/2 "2016-12-19T23:50:32Z")
Dear Mr. President - Pink
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/3 "2016-12-20T00:17:02Z")
Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall - Bob Dylan
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### Author:  [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/4 "2016-12-20T00:29:37Z")
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
One Tin Soldier - The Original Caste
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### Author:  [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/5 "2016-12-20T00:32:33Z")
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
_“No stop signs, speed limit
Nobody’s gonna slow me down
Like a wheel, gonna spin it
Nobody’s gonna mess me around”_
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### Author:  [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/6 "2016-12-20T00:46:17Z")
-Pop Will Eat Itself - Ich Bin Ein Auslander
-Monster Truck - Things Get Better (the chorus actually goes, “I have a feelin’ things’ll get worse before they get better”)
-Battle Beast - King For A Day (new song with lyrics like “he pretends to be a champion of the common man”, so it probably actually is about the subject at hand)
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/7 "2016-12-20T00:47:40Z")
American Idiot – Green Day
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### Author:  [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/8 "2016-12-20T00:49:52Z")
Send in the Clowns–Judy Collins
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/9 "2016-12-20T00:52:24Z")
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It-REM
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### Author:  [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/10 "2016-12-20T00:52:57Z")
Piece of Crap - Neil Young
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### Author:  [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/11 "2016-12-20T01:06:19Z")
Every time I hear Leonard Cohen’s [You Want It Darker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y), I envision Trump supporters assuring their Dark Lord that they will “kill the flame” (hope and change).
☹
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### Author:  [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/12 "2016-12-20T01:47:26Z")
Keep em’ coming (I knew I could count on the Dopers for great choices).
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/13 "2016-12-20T01:48:55Z")
I’ve been working on a new playlist since 11/8. Here’s part of what I have so far:
Arcadia - Election Day
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday _(“I can’t believe the news today…”)_
The Beatles - A Day in the Life _(“I read the news today, oh boy…”)_
Porcupine Tree - Hatesong
Grateful Dead - Hell in a Bucket
Iron Maiden - The Man Who Would Be King
Motorhead - Orgasmatron _(“I am the politician and I decide your fate…”)_
Genesis - Illegal Alien
America - The Border
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall (Parts 1 2 & 3) _(self-explanatory)_
Testament - Over the Wall
The Firm - Tear Down the Walls
John Cougar Mellencamp - (When the Walls Come) Crumblin’ Down
The Call - The Walls Came Down
And here’s part of the playlist I made back in 2008, an “alternate history” of what would happen if Sarah Palin was elected President, which I think applies more than ever today:
Malevolent Creation - Eve of the Apocalypse
Warlord - Deliver Us from Evil
Killing Joke - Another Bloody Election
Slayer - The Antichrist
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Metallica - The Four Horsemen
Metal Church - Gods of Wrath
Sanctuary - Battle Angels
Killing Joke - Asteroid
Nocturnus - Lake of Fire
Porcupine Tree - Stars Die
Gary Moore - End of the World
Ayreon - The Sixth Extinction
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### Author:  [@67java89](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/67java89)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/14 "2016-12-20T01:49:54Z")
Journey- Who’s Crying Now
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/15 "2016-12-20T01:57:15Z")
[Before the Wall—Kyle Craft](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPgaALg80SM)
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### Author:  [@irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irritant)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/16 "2016-12-20T02:12:51Z")
Ramones - Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World
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### Author:  [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/17 "2016-12-20T02:17:27Z")
“Fools Rush In” Johnny Mercer, Ricky Nelson, etc.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/18 "2016-12-20T02:28:01Z")
Steve Earle: When People Find Out
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/19 "2016-12-20T03:46:45Z")
Steppenwolf - [Monster](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk3sURDS4IA)
\*‘Cause there’s a monster on the loose
It’s got our heads into the noose
And it just sits there watchin’
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\*
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### Author:  [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inauguration-day-playlist/775194/20 "2016-12-20T04:08:45Z")
Everything is Broken - Bob Dylan
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