What song from the classic rock era best describes your reaction to the presidential election?
- Why Don't We Get Drunk (Jimmy Buffett) (36%, 53 Votes)
- Don't Fear the Reaper (Blue Öyster Cult) (31%, 45 Votes)
- Other (Provide details in the comments) (20%, 29 Votes)
- Ball of Confusion (The Temptations) (11%, 16 Votes)
- Shades of Gray (The Monkees) (2%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 146
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Train to Nowhere, by Savoy Brown, 1969. If the coming Clinton presidency isn’t a train to nowhere I don’t know what is.
This one is too easy:
HIGHWAY TO HELL!
Should be the Obama/Hillary voter theme song
Livin’ easy
Livin’ free
Season ticket on a one way ride
Askin’ nothin’
Leave me be
Takin’ everythin’ in my stride
Don’t need reason
Don’t need rhyme
Ain’t nothin’ that I’d rather do
Goin’ down
Party time
My friends are gonna be there too
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No stop signs
Speed limit
Nobody’s gonna slow me down
Like a wheel
Gonna spin it
Nobody’s gonna mess me around
Hey, Satan
Payin’ my dues
Payin’ with my EBT
Hey, mamma
Look at me
I’m on the way to the promised land
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And we’re goin’ down
All the way
we’re on the highway to hell
My deceased cat who speaks to me daily suggests “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by The Who (1971) as a cautionary tale for anti-Hillary voters like me, hoping that the new boss is not the same as the old boss:
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a vow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
“Wing Ding”
White Man In Hammersmith Palais
All over people changing their votes
Along with their overcoats
If Adolph Hitler flew in today
They’d send a limousine anyway
They’re Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha
Of course, if Hillary! wins, that will be the song that will most likely describe my post-election reaction as well.
The only question will be if it will be the EPA, NASA or ATF SWAT team that comes to take me away.
Lunatic Fringe
By: Red Rider
Eve Of Destruction (Barry McGuire)
The Eastern world, it is exploding…
One Bourbon, one scotch, and one beer. George Thorogood version.
Ozzy Osbourne’s
Crazy Train
Maybe not Classic Rock era enough, but seems to describe best for me.
Genesis Land of Confusion?
Guns of Brixton – The Clash
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row
You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you’ll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton
The money feels good
And your life you like it well
But surely your time will come
As in heaven, as in hell
You see, he feels like Ivan
Born under the Brixton sun
His game is called survivin’
At the end of the harder they come
You know it means no mercy
They caught him with a gun
No need for the Black Maria
Goodbye to the Brixton sun
You can crush us
You can bruise us
Yes, even shoot us
But oh-the guns of Brixton
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
You can crush us
You can bruise us
Yes, even shoot us
But oh-the guns of Brixton
Shot down on the pavement
Waiting in death row
His game is called survivin’
As in heaven as in hell
You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you’ll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Excellent choice, but I’d say that’s post-election if Hillary! wins.
After what happened in North Carolina?
We gotta get out of this place (if its the last thing we ever do). Don’t remember the group or name —- old age!
Animals
Mienteme by Olga Tañon (Lie to me)
Paint it Black
Don’t Fear the Reaper… Isn’t that SMOD’s campaign theme song?
Fire – The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
I am the god of Hell Fire and I bring you –
Fire
I’ll take you to burn.
Fire
I’ll take you to learn.
I’ll see you burn!
You fought hard and you saved and learned
but all of it’s going to burn.
And your mind
Your tiny mind
You know you’ve really been so blind.
Now’s your time burn your mind.
You’re falling far too far behind.
Oh no
Oh no
Oh no
You gonna burn!
Fire
To destroy all you’ve done.
Fire
To end all you’ve become.
I’ll feel your burn!
You’ve been living like a little girl
In the middle of your little world.
And your mind
Your tiny mind
You know you’ve really been so blind.
Now’s your time burn your mind
You’re falling far too far behind.
Fire
I’ll take you to burn.
Fire
I’ll take you to learn.
You gonna burn, burn, burn
Fire
I’ll take you to burn
Hillary: “BURN” by Deep Purple. “The people laughed till she said burn!” I can hear Hillary screeching it out now. Quick, hand me an ice pick.
Conservative Americans: “Expect No Mercy” by Nazareth. Typical of life when Progs rule. They speak of mercy while meting out pain, for your own good of course – because your privilege deserves it.
The Media: “Lying Eyes” by The Eagles. Lying everything actually. Enough said.
Ball of Confusion – Temptations (though I only know the dystopian lyrics because of the 80s Love and Rockets version).