Top Songs For President Obama’s Inauguration (And A Few For Bush)

terrybezer / Blog / 20/01/2009 22:34pm
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

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brian c

Sweet Home Barac Obama

For Obama

Kiss – All American Man

surely for bush we need megadeths almighty holy wars……the punishment due

Euan Davie

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

thunder

When I’m President – Extreme

Hamish MacIver

Obama
Neil Young – Tonight’s the Night
Guns N Roses – Street of Dreams

Bush
Guns N Roses – Sorry

Dj Mandy the Witch

Guess it would have to be Hawkwind’s Spirit of the Age, Master of the Universe or Lives of Great Men.

DAVID CACHIA

OBAMA
WE CARE A LOT – FAITH NO MORE

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