Hey there’s Hillary Clinton announcing she’s going to run for the Presidency and I can’t stop that line from Scarface’s tune “Hand Of The Dead Body”:
You can tell Bill and Hillary
Ice Cube, Ain’t no killing me
from rolling around in my nut.
A friend once told me she was walking down the street in San Francisco and came upon a billboard upon which was nothing but a photo of former President Jimmy Carter accompanied by the words “The Unstoppable Sex Machine”.
Ronald Reagan was the subject of Gil Scott Heron’s B Movie, as well as the voice (via Impersonator Chris Barrie) reciting the Lord’s Prayer on the extended cut of Frankie’s “Power Of Love”
Paris raised the stakes by following Body Count’s “Cop Killer” with his “Bush Killa”.
“Death without assassination” was the verdict of The Manics’ “The Love Of Richard Nixon”.
Elvis Costello had “The Eisenhower Blues”.
Do you have any Prez-refffing tunes you’d like to share?
Or you could expand to other world leaders – I gather Haile Selassie’s inspired a few numbers..
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DrewToo says
World Leader Pretend………….
DrewToo says
On a slightly more serious note – it’s 18 months till the election. This nonsense is going to go on for a year and a half. A waste of of time and money. Watching – this –
http://youtu.be/x1ow8HvEr5M
Just confirms the madness
Kaisfatdad says
It was front page news here in Sweden that Hilary was going to stand.
I won’t be betting anything on her winning!
Sitheref2409 says
She’s standing, obviously.
The only two other prospective Democratic candidates right now are Martin O’Malley, ex Governor of Maryland, and Jim Webb from Virginia.
I suspect that the chances of the Dems winning won’t be down to their candidate – it’ll be down to the idiot-factor of the Republican candidate. Can Ted Cruz (please God, no) piss off more undecideds than HRC? That’s where it will be won and lost.
Just have to hope and pray for a bruising set of Republican primaries so the candidates have to get more and more right wing to pander to the Tea Party base
salwarpe says
Here’s Dubya duetting with Winston O’Boogie:
Seems almost ancient history now.
Black Type says
Kennedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Gr_b7J8LM
The Kennedys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsWR0CTWazQ
hubert rawlinson says
the motorcade sped on. Coldcut and Steinski more Kennedy.
William Howard Taft by The Two Gentlemen Band.
Hard Times by Boiled in Lead about the assassination on William McKinley
Roosevelt in Trinidad by Ry Colder
And not forgetting John Lee Hooker for President also by Ry Colder.
hubert rawlinson says
Oh and Washington at Valley Forge (Fairport Convention)
Sewer Robot says
So pleased someone mentioned The Motorcade Sped On. That track rocked my world the first time I heard it. Here’s another song about “the shot that was heard around the world”:
(The Human League – Seconds)
James Blast says
@sewer-robot
I allas thought that was about Lennon’s useless death, maybe just the times…
Jim Cain says
Oh Hilary, where’s the fifty quid you borrowed off me?
duco01 says
“The Night Hank Williams Came To Town” – Johnny Cash
Harry Truman was our president
A coke and burger cost you thirty cents
I was still in love with Mavis Brown
On the night Hank Williams came to town.
ivylander says
‘Hush, little president, don’t say a word…’
davidks says
There is a band called “Somone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin”
What a terrible name….
James Blast says
Sniffity says
Ringo For President – Rolf Harris
Morrison says
Funky presidents:
Sewer Robot says
For anyone who’s interested I’ve made a collaborative Afterword playlist:
Please chuck a few more on the pile..