President has "(You're My) Brown-Eyed Girl" on his iPod

[Bluebear]

But enough about Condi.




Commentary by Caitlin Moran (!) in the London Times:

AS THE joke goes, it’s little wonder that George W. Bush has an iPod. They are both white, with a limited capacity, famous for making strange noises and live in the pockets of businessmen.

The President apparently uses his iPod solely to soundtrack his regular 18-mile bike rides. This week’s release of the tracklisting of the iPod was preceded by a warning from Mark McKinnon, Mr Bush’s 2004 media strategist: “Don’t psychoanalyse the song selection,” he ordered. “It’s music to get over the next hill.” But are we going to pay any attention to what Mr McKinnon says? After all, the last thing he said was: “Vote George Bush.” He doesn’t have a faultless track record on impartial analysis.

Of course, President Bush’s taste in music reveals a great deal about him. For starters, it reveals, rather reassuringly, that the President has been so busy ruling the free world that he hasn’t had time to watch Yo! MTV Raps or spend hours downloading latest “crunk” (that’s minimalist R’n’B to the uninitiated) MP3 from Lime- wire. Mr Bush has his Pod filled for him by Mr McKinnon , who presumably knows his tastes, and obliged with what the redneck club owner in The Blues Brothers referred to as “both kinds of music — country and western”...


The most notable aspect of Mr Bush’s fairly predictable selection of babyboomer tunes is its extraordinarily limited demographic spread — no black artists, no gay artists, no world music, only one woman, no genre less than 25 years old, and no Beatles.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,2100-14409-1565465,00.html

[RandomKoolzip]

1. Hmmm. "Brown-Eyed Girl" AND "My Sharona..."

Two songs about pedophilia- the former elliptically, the latter explicitly.

[bmbmd]

3. Okay, so sue me.

"Brown=Eyed Girl" is one of my favorites, too.

[RandomKoolzip]

7. It's a good song, but pedophilia doesn't sound like one of those

"moral values" to me.

Sometimes I wish we had our own Rush Limbaugh so that we could make some hay of this. If these songs were on Clinton's iPod, you just KNOW Jay Leno would have an entire encyclopedia of material to work with.

[Catherine Vincent]

11. I guess I never paid attention to the lyrics of those songs.

[Lone Pawn]

2. He apparently loves CCR.

Does he have, by any chance, Fortunate Son?

http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=fson

[FrankBooth]

21. John Fogerty was very anti-Bush too ...

I remember he played on the Rock For Change tour with Pearl Jam, Springsteen, etc... last year. He was even interviewed during the documentary of the tour and the concert finale.

[Lone Pawn]

24. Bush likes all sorts of artists who despise him.

[Straight Shooter]

4. No black artists? Not even from his generation?

No Marvin Gaye, no Temptations, no Aretha, no James Brown, no Michael Jackson?

Little Boots has led the most sheltered life of any privileged spoiled brat I've ever heard of. No black artists? :wtf:

[GiovanniC]

5. Hilarious

"It’s little wonder that George W. Bush has an iPod. They are both white, with a limited capacity, famous for making strange noises and live in the pockets of businessmen."

[TalkingDog]

6. How Bush should fill his IPOD

from the Guardian:

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/world_news/2005/04/13/how_you_think_bush_should_fill_his_ipod.html


George, Don't Do That - Joyce Grenfell

The White Man's Got a God Complex - Gil Scott-Heron

Babylon's Burning - The Ruts

Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zeppelin

Jesus Doesn't Want Me For a Sunbeam - Nirvana

Puppet on a String - Sandie Shaw

Daydream Believer - The Monkees

Let Them Eat War - Bad Religion

Exhuming McCarthy - REM

Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell

Funky Gibbon - The Goodies

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy

Boom Bang a Bang - Lulu

Monkey Man - Toots & the Maytals

Never Be Rude To an Arab - Monty Python

Sympathy For the Devil - The Rolling Stones

Push the Button - Chemical Brothers

... and finally Oil Be There.

[Lone Pawn]

9. I like Nowhere Man by the Beatles.

It actually fits him pretty well.

[thebigidea]

16. Funky Gibbon? Bwahahahah.

you seldom get a Bill Oddie reference on DU, so allow me: Bill Oddie.

Thank you. Please continue.

[Arkana]

17. add "American Idiot," by Green Day

and you have a perfect list.

[Ken Burch]

20. Other suggestions

"I Wanna Be A Cowboy"

And

of course

"Beer Drinkin' Christian"

[solinvictus]

8. What, no "I'm Too Sexy" to honor his buddy, Jeff Gannon?

[Lisa]

10. well, somebody's messing with us here ...

An earlier biographer claimed that Bush was into soul music in college. In my experience, as people get older, they tend to get more nostalgic for songs that remind them of their youth. So if he did ask for specific songs (and otherwise, they're revealing McKinnon's preferences and not GWB's) -- why aren't those artists better represented?

Of course, this earlier piece could be fudging as well.

"Unlike others of his generation, like Bill Clinton or Al Gore, Mr. Bush never wore his hair long, agonized over Vietnam, wrestled with existentialism or cranked up Rolling Stones songs to annoy his parents (instead of hard rock music, he listened to soul)."

http://www.dke.org/bushyaletimes.html

[Bluebear]

13. GREAT catch!

[Lisa]

14. wow! thanks -- I've never gotten an ovation before!

And that reminds me -- more on Bush's musical tastes (and talents).

" He was the head football cheerleader his senior year, a member of his class rock-and-roll band, the Torqueys – not singing or playing an instrument but clapping – and organizer of the school's stickball league."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072799.htm

[Bluebear]

15. He was in a band just clapping?

That's the job they always give to the dork who has no talent.

[Lisa]

18. can you blame them?

I wouldn't trust Bush with a cowbell!

(I know there's that joke about "what do you call someone who hangs around musicians? -- a drummer" -- but I doubt whether Georgie had the timing or stamina to be a percussionist.)

[Ken Burch]

19. Maybe he thought he could eventually work up to tambourine.

Anyway, as we all know, Dubya could be of use to a rock group in other ways.

[Lisa]

22. dunno! Those little metal pieces can have sharp edges ...

I wouldn't want him waving those kinds of things anywhere near me!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

12. He's a back-door man. Hmmmm....

[journalist3072]

23. I've always liked Brown Eyed Girl.

In fact, I brought Van Morrison's CD just for that song!