Posted on 04/11/2005 5:11:02 PM PDT by wagglebee
Between his return Friday from Pope John Paul II's funeral in Rome and his meeting Monday with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel, President George W. Bush spent an hour and a half Saturday riding a mountain bike at his Texas ranch. With him, as usual, was his indispensable new exercise toy: an iPod music player loaded with country and popular rock tunes aimed at getting the presidential heart rate up to a chest-pounding 170 beats per minute.
Which brings up the inevitable question. What, exactly, is on the First iPod? In an era of celebrity playlists - the New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady recently posted his playlist on the iTunes online music store - what does the presidential selection of downloaded songs tell us about Bush?
First, Bush's iPod is heavy on traditional country singers like George Jones, Alan Jackson and Kenny Chesney. He has selections by the folk-rock singer Van Morrison, whose "Brown-Eyed Girl" is a Bush favorite, and by John Fogerty, most predictably "Centerfield," which was played at Texas Rangers games when Bush was an owner and is still played at ballfields all over America. ("Oh, put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today.")
The president also has an eclectic mix of songs downloaded into his iPod from Mark McKinnon, a biking buddy and his chief media strategist in the 2004 campaign. Among them are "Circle Back" by John Hiatt, "(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care" by Joni Mitchell and "My Sharona," the 1970s song by The Knack that Joe Levy, a deputy managing editor in charge of music coverage at Rolling Stone, cheerfully branded "suggestive if not outright filthy" in an interview last week.
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W's got very ecclectic musical tastes. Not unexpected ... he's a 21st century Renaissance Man.
I hope she is indicted and tried for her refusal to out her sources. It couldn't happen to a better person.
What, no Grateful Dead :-) Did notice a Joni tune there "You're so square baby I don't care" I like a lot of the songs that President Bush has on his iPod :-)
Hummmmmmm..... sounds a lot like me...
Maybe a music dedication thread theme????
Indicted for failing to reveal her sources regarding such a high security topic as an Ipod playlist? Huh?
guess he must listen to the Knack's "My Sharona" on his way to meet with Ariel Sharon.....I guess??????
The Dead's best work was live and it was mainly recorded in analog. I have several thousand hours and I've been able to convert put it on CDs without any problem, but I think the essense would be lost if it was converted to MP3 format.
"Me So Horny" by 2 Live Crew?
Anything by Bob Marley? (although I do like some of his stuff, I will admit)
The DUmmie anthem of "Let Me Hear You Say 'Uhhh'!" by that lyrical genius Master P?
Those are just some guesses...
The song seems to be about the president in all but name: As the son of a two-term congressman and a U.S. Senate candidate, Bush won a coveted spot with the Texas Air National Guard to avoid combat in Vietnam.
That's funny, I always have associated that song with Al Gore....
Fogerty was a "fortunate son", however, so the ironies abound.
1.sex
2. i want your sex
3. thong song
4. poontang
5. muskrat love
6. boom boom
7. no sex (In the champagne room)
8. doin the butt
9. baby got back
Oh no, here comes the RIAA!
And I wonder what the anti file-sharing Nazis here on Free Republic have to say about that. After all, if it isn't okay to download songs off KaZaa, then how is it any different scoffing free tunes from your buddies?
Anyway, I have most of the songs mentioned here on my iPod with about 7,400 others. No doubt about it, the iPod is the greatest consumer product of the 21st Century so far. My entire music library is on the go, anywhere, anytime I want it.
If they took time to read the column, they don't have a thing to say:
Bush, as leader of the free world, does not take the time to download the music himself; that task falls to his personal aide, Blake Gottesman, who buys individual songs and albums, including greatest hits by Jones and Jackson, from the iTunes music store.
Top 3 Clinton Tracks
And if copyright laws weren't rewritten every couple of years to suit corporate interests, many of those songs would be public domain already.
Have you been sneaking around outside BJ's office or something? You have the whole list. :)
I have an old LP from a group called "Black Oak Arkansas" which has a lot of X-rated mountain-style tunes. True, I swear.
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