Top Songs For President Obama’s Inauguration (And A Few For Bush)
The Classic Rock team have put together their top songs for the newly crowned President Obama. Oh and there’s a few songs for George W. while we’re at it. Leave your own suggestions in our comments section!For President Obama:
Elected – Alice Cooper
Times They Are A-Changing – Bob Dylan
Sharp Dressed Man – ZZ Top
Celebration Day – Led Zeppelin
Revolution – The Beatles
Lookin’ For A Leader – Neil Young
New Sensation – INXS
From Despair To Where? – Manic Street Preachers
Showtime – Electric 6
Never Before – Deep Purple
This is the New Shit – Marilyn Manson
Congratulations – Rolling Stones
I’d Love To Change The World – Ten Years After
Promised Land – Chuck Berry
Landslide – Fleetwood Mac
Slip Inside This House – 13th Floor Elevators
Start Choppin – Dinosaur Jr
Day Of The Eagle – Robin Trower
Do It – Pink Fairies
Let’s See Action – The Who
America – Heart
American Boy – Juliette and the Licks
American Girl – Tom Petty
American Man – Velvet Revolver
American Woman – The Guess Who
Beautiful future – Primal Scream
Back In The USA – MC5
Better – Guns N’ Roses
Everybody’s Going Wild – Detroit Cobras
Fucken Awesome – Spiderbait
Good Day – Paul Westerberg
High Time – Paul Westerberg
Happy – Rolling Stones
I’m Amazed – My Morning Jacket
I’m Glad – Captain Beefheart
It’s Amazing – Luv Machine
B(ar)ak In Black – AC/DC (ahem)
Young, Gifted & Black – Nina Simone
Same As It Ever Was – Talking Heads
I’m So Bored With the USA – The Clash
For Bush
Old Man Going - The Pretty Things
On The Run – Pink Floyd
Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kick In Tonight – Rezillos
Funky President (People It’s Bad) – James Brown
Nowhere To Run – Martha & The Vandellas
Accidents Will Happen – Elvis Costello
The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Any More – Walker Brothers
Talk, Talk, Talk – Psychedelic Furs
Take The Money And Run – Steve Miller
Thick As A Brick – Jethro Tull
The Man Who Sold The World – David Bowie







Sweet Home Barac Obama
For Obama
Kiss – All American Man
surely for bush we need megadeths almighty holy wars……the punishment due
For Bush –
ZZ Top: Me So Stupid
AC/DC or KISS: War Machine
Michael Jackson: Dangerous
AC/DC: This Means War
Gene Simmons: Asshole
Rolling Stones: Sweet Neo Con
For Obama:
KISS: Raise Your Glasses
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Red, White & Blue
Bruce Springsteen: The Rising
Jazz: The Only Way Is Up (!!)
Can’t believe I just mentioned Jazz on Classic Rock’s web site…. Sorry guys.
keep on rocking in the free world
could apply for both, depends if you see it as sarcastic or not
When I’m President – Extreme
Obama
Neil Young – Tonight’s the Night
Guns N Roses – Street of Dreams
Bush
Guns N Roses – Sorry
Guess it would have to be Hawkwind’s Spirit of the Age, Master of the Universe or Lives of Great Men.
OBAMA
WE CARE A LOT – FAITH NO MORE