One more music playlist diary to pump us up for GOTV. Again I took suggestions from comments in my last two diaries, but all selections are approved by me. :-)
Let's rock (and folk, and reggae, and jazz, and classical, and country) the vote!!!
Here's Richie Havens singing "Freedom" opening up Woodstock.
Bob Dylan with "The Times they are a-changin'"
Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
Jimi Hendrix covers (rearranges?) Dylan in "All Along the Watchtower."
"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."
Here's a sweet live version of Bob Marley with "Get up, stand up"
We sick an tired of-a your ism-skism game -
Dyin n goin to heaven in-a jesus name, lord.
We know when we understand:
Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you cant fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (what you gonna do? ),
We gonna stand up for our rights! (yeah, yeah, yeah!)
Someday U2 is going to get the recognition they truly deserve. :-) Here are the two parts of their Super Bowl XXXVI halftime show. If you don't remember this show, it was hands-down the best Super Bowl halftime show ever. Sure, that's not saying much, but it's the only one most people remember now, except for the nipple one. This actually feels like a concert. Listen to that crowd of elitists and football meatheads go nuts over an Irish rock band.
The second part is their 9/11 tribute. Yes, Super Bowl XXXVI was the first Super Bowl after 9/11, and yes, the Patriots fittingly won (their first, before Brady was boinking supermodels). Get ready to bawl if you don't know what's going to happen.
From the comments on my original music diary we get Neil Young with "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World."
Two more to close it out. Here's Sam & Dave with "Hold On, I'm Comin'." (written by the late great Isaac Hayes—RIP) Obama had been using this at his rallies until the band said they hadn't endorsed anyone. But that never stopped John McCain so we won't let it stop us!
Finally, another commenter request: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Fourth Movement, aka "Ode to Joy." This video is from a 1989 performance of the glorious ninth by the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lenny changed "Freude" (joy) to "Freiheit" (freedom).
Part 1
Part 2 (for your Clockwork-Orange-ing pleasure)
Finally, part 3 beginning with one of my favorite parts of the movement:
Seid umschlungen, Millionen!
Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt!
(Be embraced, millions!
This kiss for the whole world!)
That's it. Get out and vote. Thank you, and may God Bless America.