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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Thanks for the info, wagglebee. LOL, when it comes to analog, converting, MP3's and iPods..I am in the dark ages.
McKinnon, who has downloaded "Castanets" by Alejandro Escovedo and "Alive 'n' Kickin"' by Kenny Loggins into Bush's iPod, said that sometimes a presidential playlist is just a playlist, nothing more.
I can't get over the fact that he's got "My Sharona" on his list.
Oh my, I was in 'love' with Jim Dandy when I was a teen...
Brown-Eyed Girl is a favorite? I guess Bush doesn`t mind hearing it for the 10 billionth time. I think out of the all time most overplayed songs in the history of recorded sound, that song has to be at least in the top 3.
Not for the I-Pod, for goodness sake! I don't give two hoots about that!
Wow! the president listens to Van Morrison and more interestingly to me, Alejandro Escovedo (True Believers)
How would you likw the job of presidential Dj?
I've got a friend who does it for me, I tell him what I want and he takes care of it.
It's right up there with "Satisfaction", "Stairway to Heaven" and "Freebird".
:Thanks for the info, wagglebee. LOL, when it comes to analog, converting, MP3's and iPods..I am in the dark ages."
What's an ipod?
His taste in music blows...
That maybe true but our Presidents still rocks!!!!!!
My wife thinks "Baby Got Back" is probably high on his list... :-)
I think cyborg's list (#13) is probably the most complete.
If you want to send me a love letter, dear, please do it in private.
;OP
LOL I read John Candy.
a few months ago there was a pop song called IIRC "Dip it Low" The chorus basically was instructions for giving a Lewinsky :)
I've never heard it, of course I haven't listened to top 40/pop music in about 20 years.
Clinton doesn't even Email. I bet he can't use an Ipod and doesn't have one. Now, he'll have to keep up with Bush and get one. He can tell us about his playlist. Then, the media can tell up how his list is so much cooler than Bush's.
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