# You're Marty McFly, ready to play 3 songs from the future at a 1955 prom. What do you play? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256 "2011-11-17T19:29:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/61 "2011-11-18T21:12:23Z")
You could be making trouble for the Starlighters, and they’re there against Mr. Strickland’s wishes in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/62 "2011-11-18T21:45:46Z")
I’m really the wrong race to do Straight Outta Compton, which is too bad. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/63 "2011-11-19T02:10:05Z")
Do You Feel Like We Do - “OMG the guitar can talk” In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - “What’s he saying” Riders on the storm - pace setting 70’s music ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/64 "2011-11-19T02:50:08Z")
Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan It might take a little bit, but the kids may get into it. I can almost guarantee that the authority figures never will. Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones It’s catchy and should be much easier for them to listen to after “Like A Rolling Stone”. Again, the staff won’t like it, but it shouldn’t scare the kids too badly. If We Don’t Make It, We’ll Fake It - Death From Above 1979 Now **this** will scare them. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/65 "2011-11-19T03:22:21Z")
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Money - Pink Floyd Dream On - Aerosmith These aren’t my favorite songs byba longshot, but I think they would each translate their own musical ideas without getting me kicked out. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/66 "2011-11-19T03:46:39Z")
My brain is stuck in Chuck Berry. I’d give the entire auditorium a heart attack with “My Ding-a-Ling.” ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/67 "2011-11-19T04:24:35Z")
We will Rock You/We are the Champions (they’ll love that) Spirit of the Radio Stairway to Heaven ---
**Author:** ![BarefootOkieGal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BarefootOkieGal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarefootOkieGal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/68 "2011-11-21T16:28:36Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > I’m really the wrong race to do Straight Outta Compton, which is too bad. How about “Cowboy” by Kid Rock? I believe he makes the point that he ain’t straight outta Compton, he’s straight out the trailer!!! ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/69 "2011-11-21T21:21:49Z")
Another I thought of is _Don’t Fear The Reaper_ by Blue Oyster Cult. Again, not so extreme as to send them running from the auditorium but challenging to the fifties mindset. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/70 "2011-11-21T21:38:12Z")
Sally Cinnamon - Stone Roses Just Like Heaven - The Cure and then, when they’re good and ready: [Beautiful Child](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EayNRh_PkBc) - Swans … exactly like Gira does it in that vid :). ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/71 "2011-11-22T01:40:25Z")
I just thought of a great one: Rock Lobster - by the B52s ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/72 "2011-11-22T04:53:50Z")
I’m holding on to the stage for as long as I can! 1. All That Will Be Has Become, All That Has Come Isn’t Gone 2. Sea Within A Sea 3. Starship Trooper Everyone will hate it. ---
**Author:** ![Untoward\_Parable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Untoward\_Parable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Untoward_Parable)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/73 "2011-11-22T05:16:58Z")
It’s a fun little fantasy, here goes: Start with Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (easy to listen to, should seduce much of the audience into accepting anything that follows) Rage against the Machine - Killing in the name (I can think of ones I like more for this theme but this one has a good dance tempo and why not incept mosh pits earlier sooner than later? Hedwig and the angry inch - Angry Inch (because screw the chaperons and anyone else living in the 50’s lol) ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/74 "2011-11-23T16:25:33Z")
Maybe I should sing Country and Joe and Fish’s “What are we fighting for” (is that the correct title?) (So when the Viet Nam war really starts to take off maybe, just maybe they’ll remember the song.) Then “Baby Got Back”. Then I’d Rick Roll the bastards so I can claim credit for doing that first. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/75 "2011-11-23T17:33:10Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Maybe I should sing Country and Joe and Fish’s “What are we fighting for” (is that the correct title?) > (So when the Viet Nam war really starts to take off maybe, just maybe they’ll remember the song.) You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/76 "2011-11-23T18:33:12Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > Rage Against the Machine: “Killing in the Name” > > Followed by Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer” > > First encore: Peaches’ “Fuck the Pain Away” > > Drop the mic and crowd surf into an adoring poodle-skirted crowd. I was thinking along the same lines, except instead of Peaches (who I’m not familiar with) I would go with Beastie Boys “Sabotage”. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/77 "2011-11-23T18:41:26Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > I use my knowledge of the future to become the worlds greatest rock star : I stay in the past, write every hit song, become the USA’s first billionaire and pass the torch to my children. Feh. I’ll take the easier route and invent Lougle. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/78 "2011-11-23T19:04:35Z")
You can’t go wrong with Beatles, Springsteen, The Who, Zeppelin, etc., but how about really screwing with their minds and doing some Gangsta Rap? I don’t know much about that genre, but definitely something with Bitch and Ho in it, and maybe something about killing cops. Then end it with Dylan: _The Times They Are A-Changin_’. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/79 "2011-11-23T21:11:09Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I would go with Beastie Boys “Sabotage”. Oh good grief yes! That plus Led Zepplin’s version of “Travelling Riveside Blues” and “the Sweater Song” by Weezer. Blow their tiny little minds! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256/80 "2011-11-23T22:10:21Z")
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty Eagles - either Hotel California or Peaceful Easy Feeling And I’d close the show by dimming the lights, going acoustic, bringing Jenny up on stage and singing John Denver’s Lady to her as everyone else slow dances and plays grabass in the dark. 😃 And for my encore: I’m Too Sexy by Right Said Fred. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256.md?page=5)