Slog - Comments on More Campaign Song Trouble for McCain... http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain This from billboard.com: The Foo Fighters have blasted the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain for using the band's song "My Hero" at rallies without its permission. Previously, Jackson Browne filed suit against the McCain campaign for using his song "Running on Empty" without consent. "It's frustrating and infuriating that someone who claims to speak for the American people would repeatedly show such little respect for creativity and intellectual property," the band says in a statement. "The saddest thing about this is that 'My Hero' was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential. To... Copyright 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:39:10 -0800 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:04:13 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Levislade "Running on Empty"? Really? Quite an admission from the McCain campaign . . .

]]> Levislade http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168741 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168741 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:42:40 -0800 Comment by Gordon this is one of the rare times that I think they SHOULD sue.

]]> Gordon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168744 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168744 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:47:30 -0800 Comment by Lenny I feel a poll coming...

What song best fits the McCain campaign?

I nominate "Nowhere Man" by the Beatles.

]]> Lenny http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168746 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168746 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:49:48 -0800 Comment by Lark Hawk Wango Tango would be an awesome campaign song!

]]> Lark Hawk http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168747 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168747 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:50:06 -0800 Comment by elswinger "Maybe they should ask Ted Nugent for something."

Ted has so many songs apropos for McCain's campaign.

Stranglehold
Great White Buffalo
Yank Me Crank Me

and for Palin

Little Miss Dangerous

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168749 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168749 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:51:34 -0800 Comment by steves How about a shout out to Joe sixpack. Maybe Black Flag's "TV Party"

]]> steves http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168751 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168751 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:53:20 -0800 Comment by Ravin "Going Down" - The Boss

]]> Ravin http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168755 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168755 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:56:47 -0800 Comment by Mr. X @4 and 5,

Not to mention "Stormtroopin'", "Dog Eat Dog", and "Writing on the Wall".

However, considering the threat that Palin represents, I would recommend against "Death by Misadventure."

]]> Mr. X http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168756 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168756 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:58:29 -0800 Comment by Grant Brissey I Vote for "The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers.

]]> Grant Brissey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168763 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168763 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:03:12 -0800 Comment by Chris I had heard he wanted to use at one time ABBA's Take A Chance On Me. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of one's candidacy.

]]> Chris http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168769 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168769 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:06:07 -0800 Comment by ellarosa his campaign should use britney spears songs, since she's supposedly a republican. hmm, actually, she didn't write any of her songs, so maybe that's moot. but, if he could, he should use "oops i did it again" to allude to the non-stop faux pas of his candidacy.

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168774 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168774 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:08:11 -0800 Comment by in title only @3 it would work for the title only. The song is really about something quite different

Nowhere man, please listen
you don't know what you're missin'
nowhere man, the world is at your command

just as Revolution isn't about revolution but the inverse (you better free your mind instead), Nowhere Man is about getting past your self-imposed limitations (living inside your head and not in the world).

isn't he a bit like you and me?

]]> in title only http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168775 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168775 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:08:49 -0800 Comment by max solomon some pieces aren't copywrighted.for instance, "jesu, joy of man's desiring" by JS Bach. that'd work.

what about the theme from maverick the TV show? they'd probably be happy to make a few bucks off something that's mothballed.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168779 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168779 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:11:52 -0800 Comment by Billy Nilly @6:

"What do we know about campaigning? Or anything else!?!?!"

]]> Billy Nilly http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168796 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168796 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:24:41 -0800 Comment by Jeremy from Seattle I think "My Vegetable Friends" would be amazing...

]]> Jeremy from Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168801 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168801 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:28:33 -0800 Comment by i have a medium penis Doesn't really "fit" the campain, buy if he came out with "California Love" pushin' the cones, I'd be like "Awwwww shit!!!"

]]> i have a medium penis http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168804 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168804 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:30:51 -0800 Comment by Joh I think he should pick a Red Hot Chili Peppers song, so everyone would immediately change the channel whenever one of his silly commercials came on.

]]> Joh http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168808 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168808 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:35:25 -0800 Comment by I mean, duh "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" would work just fine for Caribou Barbie, methinks.

]]> I mean, duh http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168818 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168818 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:48:36 -0800 Comment by emma's bee The End - the doors

]]> emma's bee http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168826 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168826 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:00:18 -0800 Comment by Patti The Benny Hill theme.

]]> Patti http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168864 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168864 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:02:54 -0800 Comment by Jeff Stevens "Poor Fractured Atlas" by Elvis Costello. Here's the lyrics:

He's out in the woods with his squirrel gun
To try to recapture his anger
He's screaming some words at the top of his lungs
Until he begins to feel younger
But back at his desk in the city we find
Our trembling punch-drunken fighter
Who can't find the strength now to punish the length
Of the ribbon in his little typewriter

[Chorus:]
Poor Fractured Atlas
Threw himself across the mattress
Waving his withering pencil
As if it were a pirate's cutlass
I'm almost certain he's trying to increase his burden
He said "That's how the child in me planned it;
A woman wouldn't understand it"

I believe there was something that I wanted to say
Before I conclude this epistle
But you would forgive me for holding my tongue
'Cause man made the blade and the pistol
Yes man made the waterfall over the dam
To temper his tantrum with magic
Now you can't be sure of that tent of azure
Since he punched a hole in the fabric

[Chorus]

A woman wouldn't understand it
A woman wouldn't understand it

]]> Jeff Stevens http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168865 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168865 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:02:59 -0800 Comment by Dubcek Damnit, is this guy going to be another sacrifice to the god of page views like Alvarez-Bell?

]]> Dubcek http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168890 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168890 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:57:07 -0800 Comment by Slip Mahoney "Hey! You! Get off of My Lawn!"

(to the tune of "Off of My Cloud" by the Rolling Stones)

]]> Slip Mahoney http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168899 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168899 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:30:39 -0800 Comment by Seajay Jessica Simpson's a Republican ... hmmm. "Irresistable?"

"But he's irresistible
Up close and personal
Now inescapable
I can hardly breathe,
More than just physical
Deeper than spiritual
His ways are powerful
And irresistible to me ..."

Now THAT should be paired with "Barack-uda," but for Mr Obama though.

Back to the drawing board ...

]]> Seajay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168903 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168903 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:41:44 -0800 Comment by Kaypro "I Fall to Pieces" - Patsy Cline

]]> Kaypro http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168908 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168908 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:57:47 -0800 Comment by Rachel I'm still holding out for "Won't Get Fooled Again."

]]> Rachel http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168914 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168914 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:08:31 -0800 Comment by or Help! by The Beatles War Pigs by Black Sabbath

]]> or Help! by The Beatles http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168915 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168915 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:10:00 -0800 Comment by elenchos "The Star Spangled Banner" not good enough for John McCain? Too patriotic? Too American? Too much about loving your country? I guess those viet cong beat all that out of McCain, if any of it was ever in him. Makes me sick.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168917 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168917 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:20:23 -0800 Comment by freshnycman "Enter Sandman", Metallica

]]> freshnycman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168949 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1168949 2008 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:48:37 -0800 Comment by inkweary "We Don't Need another Hero"

]]> inkweary http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1169214 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/more_campaign_song_trouble_for_mccain#c1169214 2008 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:04:13 -0800