# Obama's spotify playlist **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-spotify-playlist/612419 "2012-02-10T15:34:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-spotify-playlist/612419/21 "2012-02-11T00:06:17Z")
One more thing. Green Onions should replace Hail To The Chief. Imagine Nixon strutting to the presidential podium to that. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-spotify-playlist/612419/22 "2012-02-11T02:09:20Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > This is a good start, but now I want to see Obama’s Amazon wish list, his Netflix ratings, and his porn stash. Here’s [the Netflix queues of the Republican candidates](http://www.funnyordie.com/articles/7cb12312fc/the-netflix-queues-of-the-republican-candidates?rel=player), at least. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-spotify-playlist/612419/23 "2012-02-11T02:20:52Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > No gangsta rap, Soviet national anthems, or Kenyan litungu music? Somebody’s sanitized this thing… Yabbut, they completely forgot to obscure the fact that it’s from Spotify, headquartered in that bastion of socialism, Sweden. ---
**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-spotify-playlist/612419/24 "2012-02-11T02:42:27Z")
I’m a big Florence + the Machine fan, so I was happy to see “You Got the Love” (Candi Staton cover, also covered by Joss Stone) on there. Florence posted it on her Facebook page and seemed to be pretty happy as well. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-spotify-playlist/612419/25 "2012-02-12T22:22:07Z")
Eh. I only have two of his songs on my own iPod - “Green Onions” and “Mr. Blue Sky.” ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-spotify-playlist/612419/26 "2012-02-13T19:03:42Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I sure hope he got the artist’s O.K. to play these songs during his campaign. Unlike some other politicians we know. He probably learned his lesson in 2008 when Sam Moore, of Sam and Dave, asked Obama to stop using his song Hold On, I’m Coming. That’s the only instance I know of where an artist objected to a Democrat using their song. Otherwise, it’s been all Republicans who’ve drawn the political ire of singers for using their songs. > [@VinylTurnip](#): > > No gangsta rap, Soviet national anthems, or Kenyan litungu music? Somebody’s sanitized this thing… No kidding. I demand to see the long form playlist.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-spotify-playlist/612419/27 "2012-02-13T19:24:44Z")
I see he has a Wilco song on the list. Personally I would have gone with “All You Fascists”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-spotify-playlist/612419/28 "2012-02-13T20:09:52Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Eh. I only have two of his songs on my own iPod - “Green Onions” and “Mr. Blue Sky.” All I have is “The Weight” and “Even Better than The Real Thing.” I have the Beatles version of “Got to Get You Into My Life,” but not the cover. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-spotify-playlist/612419.md?page=1)