# Patriotic Playlist - Need Answers Fast **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2018, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525 "2018-03-14T02:25:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/1 "2018-03-14T02:25:30Z")
Tomorrow morning, my boss is being sworn in as an American citizen. 🙂 So we’re throwing a surprise over-the-top 4th of July-type celebration for him with decorations, cake, and red, white, and blue mardi gras beads all around. I just realized what’s missing - music! Could you help me come up with a list of fun patriotic songs? I’m having a senior moment here and failing to think of anything but Coming to America by Neil Diamond, which is totally perfect, but I ain’t putting it on repeat. Therefore, I turn to you for help. The songs should be upbeat, non-controversial, and pro-American. Cheesy stuff is fine. Some country songs would be great, by the way. Note that we’re city mice, so it’s not likely we’ll be familiar with songs that haven’t achieved some mainstream popularity. But still, what’s more American than country, right? ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/2 "2018-03-14T02:30:08Z")
Lee Greenwood, god bless the USA. Charlie Daniels, in America YMMV ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/3 "2018-03-14T02:36:24Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > But still, what’s more American than country, right? Barf. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/4 "2018-03-14T02:37:47Z")
Country? You can’t miss Steve Earle’s City Of Immigrants: And while you’re at it, might as well add in Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/5 "2018-03-14T02:41:18Z")
don’t they have some kind of patriotic playlist on Pandora? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/6 "2018-03-14T02:42:01Z")
Don McLean, American Pie ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/7 "2018-03-14T02:44:51Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > don’t they have some kind of patriotic playlist on Pandora? Don’t have Pandora, but I’m sure I could find something on Spotify. I know where to get results. I’m asking you guys because I’ll get the RIGHT results. (thanks for the suggestions so far) > [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Barf. I’m not sure that barf is particularly American. I’m pretty sure people are doing that all over the world. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/8 "2018-03-14T02:46:43Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Don McLean, American Pie The deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper is not patriotic. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/9 "2018-03-14T02:51:04Z")
_[Only In America](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN1iI-DaJNw)_-Brooks & Dunn ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/10 "2018-03-14T02:51:59Z")
Yes it is, very recognizable and catchy beat. I bet it will be the one everyone sings along to, at the party. American Pie is the bomb. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/11 "2018-03-14T02:55:25Z")
How about some good ol’ “patriotic music”? [Yankee Doodle Dandy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y8MxSI1x04) [You’re a Grand Old Flag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFV_tmTcU0Q) And you can’t have a celebration of America without John Philip Sousa [The Washington Post March](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6R7bCSUhjI) [Stars & Stripes Forever](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AV7afHx0-8) ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/12 "2018-03-14T02:59:37Z")
Awesome, guys! List so far: Coming to America - Neil Diamond God Bless the U.S.A. - Lee Greenwood (How could I have forgotten this one?) In America - Charlie Daniels Band Only in America - Brooks and Dunn A song called Where The Stars & Stripes & The Eagle Fly by Aaron Tippin auto-played after the Brooks and Dunn song. Never heard of the song or the guy, but it’s great too. “There’s a lady who stands in a harbor…” Well, the fact that we can see the lady from where we are doesn’t hurt. 🙂 **Beckdawrek** - American Pie is depressing as fuck. [quote=“bobot, post:4, topic:810525”] Country? You can’t miss Steve Earle’s City Of Immigrants: [/QUOTE] Cool song. I added it to my personal playlist. Just a little too serious somehow for this party. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/13 "2018-03-14T03:20:06Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > A song called Where The Stars & Stripes & The Eagle Fly by Aaron Tippin auto-played after the Brooks and Dunn song. Never heard of the song or the guy, but it’s great too. “There’s a lady who stands in a harbor…” Well, the fact that we can see the lady from where we are doesn’t hurt. 🙂 Aw, crap, man, I just watched the video for that, and I’m in tears. I don’t think a day goes by when I don’t think about 9/11 in some way. I’m not obsessive. I just work on the Hudson waterfront. ---
**Author:** ![Dobbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Dobbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dobbs)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/14 "2018-03-14T03:20:29Z")
Johnny Horton’s _Battle of New Orleans_, especially if your boss is currently a subject of the queen. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/15 "2018-03-14T03:28:54Z")
American Pie is upbeat. Not everybody knows all the story of the song. They know the catchy chorus. Do me a favor and play it once and then report back. I really want to know. And that Tippin song will be a downer, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/16 "2018-03-14T03:30:10Z")
[“America” by Pain of Salvation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epN38Dxzc50) Also, “America” by Simon & Garfunkel, optionally the 10-minute cover version by Yes. “Drunk Americans” by Toby Keith “Illegal Alien” by Genesis “I’m American” by Queensryche “American Woman” by The Guess Who “American Girls” by Triumph “American Girl” by Tom Petty “Bullet the Blue Sky” by U2 - doesn’t have America in the title but is very much about America. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/17 "2018-03-14T03:41:42Z")
“Living in America” - James Brown And if you’re going to play the national anthem, definitely go with Jimi Hendrix’s version. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/18 "2018-03-14T03:47:37Z")
“Living In The USA” – Steve Miller Band (Somebody give me a CHEESEBURGER!) “Suite Madame Blue” – Styx (Americaaaaa…AMERICAAAAAA!) ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/19 "2018-03-14T03:51:28Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > American Pie is upbeat. Not everybody knows all the story of the song. They know the catchy chorus. > Do me a favor and play it once and then report back. I really want to know. > And that Tippin song will be a downer, IMO. Y’know, when the OP tells you “no thanks” that’s a great time to just fucking drop it, don’tcha think? Also, you’re completely wrong. Also, “Kids in America” – Kim Wilde ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotic-playlist-need-answers-fast/810525/20 "2018-03-14T03:54:15Z")
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