Aerosmith? No Way! Help the GOP Pick a Better Theme Song

[babylonsister]

RJ Eskow
Posted February 16, 2009 | 04:59 PM (EST)
Aerosmith? No Way! Help the GOP Pick a Better Theme Song


So the House Republicans are bragging about their opposition to the stimulus bill ... with a video that uses Aerosmith's "Back in the Saddle"? And they're bragging about ... doing nothing? America deserves a better opposition party than that, and the opposition party deserves a more appropriate theme song.

The role of the opposition is to present different ideas, propose alternatives, challenge the party in power to think differently. You know - all that civic stuff. Instead we get a song selection that's as poorly thought out as the party's platform. I mean, have they even listened to "Back in the Saddle"? One of its more printable lines is "four bits gets you time in the racks." That's right. Eric Cantor, the man who took Tom DeLay's old job, has just chosen for his battle cry a tune about prostitution in the Wild West.

Is this a theme song or a cry for help?

We, like the American people, are charitable and generous by nature. We therefore assume that any overtones of irony are unintentional. So, in the bipartisan spirit of the times, let's help the online community come up with a better song choice for the Republicans in Congress. (And, no ... it wouldn't be very bipartisan to suggest "Fool On the Hill.")

If the GOP wants to stay within the Aerosmith oeuvre, may we suggest "Love In An Elevator?" That's the one whose chorus summarizes our last eight years of governance: "Livin' it up while we're going dooown ..."

Or how about "Tell Her No"? Here's the chorus to that sixties nugget:

No no no no no no no no
no no no no no no no no no
no no no no no no

The word "no" is repeated 23 times. Seems appropriate, doesn't it? What's more, the group that performed it is "The Zombies," which brings to mind that persistent (though disproved) "zombie lie" that the stimulus bill will "dictate how health care is provided" (a topic we'll return to in a more serious moment).

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/aerosmith-no-way-help-the_b_167385.html

[DJ13]

1. Highway To Hell

Living easy
Living free
Season ticket on a one way ride
Asking nothing
Leave me be
Taking everything in my stride
Don't need reason
Don't need rhyme
Ain't nothin' I would rather do
Going down
Party time
My friends are gonna be there too, eh

I'm on a highway to hell
On the highway to hell
Highway to hell
I'm on the highway to hell

[lamp_shade]

2. Way back in high school, my girlfriends and I used the term "Back in the

saddle again" as code word for "I've got my period".

[Occam Bandage]

3. Testament to Youth in Verse. nt

[LongTomH]

4. Here's one that fits the GOP: AC-DC & Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

f youre havin trouble with your high school head
Hes givin you the blues
You wanna graduate but not in is bed <...but not in his debt>
Heres what you gotta do -
Pick up the phone
Im always home
Call me any time
Just ring
36 24 36 hey <36 24 36 8>
I lead a life of crime

Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Dirty deeds and theyre done dirt cheap

You got problems in your life of love
You got a broken heart
(shes) hes double dealin with your best friend
Thats when the teardrops start - fella
Pick up the phone
Im here alone
Or make a social call
Come right in
Forget about him
Well have ourselves a ball

Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Dirty deeds and theyre done dirt cheap

f you got a lady and you want her gone
But you aint got the guts
She keeps naggin at you night and day
Enough to drive you nuts -
Pick up the phone
Leave her alone
Its time you made a stand
For a fee
Im happy to be
Your back door man

Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Dirty deeds and theyre done dirt cheap

Concrete shoes, cyanide, tnt
Done dirt cheap
Neckties, contracts, high voltage
Done dirt cheap

Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqLTCemBwt8

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. I know them boys.

Hell, I used to throw Steven's skinny, bony, drug-addicted ass over my shoulder and haul his ass out of a Rock Star hang in NYC called "Privates" back when. Wasn't hard. He didn't weigh a thing. The owner, Phil Valentine would ask me to do it because he knew I would be discreet and not blab to the press. Years later, Steven and I met up. He looks at me and finally says "Do I know you?". I told him he would probably recognize my back better if I stood on my head, considering all the times he rode out of there thrown over my shoulder. He then remembered. ;-)

Them guys are not gonna like this one little bit. Frothers they ain't, in spades. Just good New England lib dems.

[babylonsister]

11. Good times, huh. :) I'm hoping Steven or one of them pitches a huge

bitch about this. I keep checking. :D

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

12. Actually...

I spent some of the best times of my life in either Privates or Trax in NYC, Frank's Funny Farm in Chalk Farm, London or The Rainbow in LA. The trouble is I can't remember much about any of it. Especially Frank's. He made the best Mescal Margaritas I have ever had, and he made them more toxic than the dump area behind a Lockheed plant. I mean, I once asked Lemmy why he wasn't drinking a Margarita and he said "Too much for me, mate". Consider that, if you will.

[Old and In the Way]

6. "Dream On" by Aerosmith might be a more apropos title.

But I think they should heed the words of Jimmy Witherspoon's classic, "Down and Out"



Once I lived the life of a millionaire
Spending my money, I didn't care
I carried my friends out for a good time
Bying bootleg liquor, champagne and wine

Then I began to fall so low
I didn't have a friend, and no place to go
So if I ever get my hand on a dollar again
I'm gonna hold on to it till them eagle's green

Nobody knows you when you down and out
In my pocket not one penny
And my friends I haven't any
But If I ever get on my feet again
Then I'll meet my long lost friend
It's mighty strange, without a doubt
Nobody knows you when you down and out
I mean when you down and out

Mmmmmmmm.... when you're down and out
Mmmmmmmm... not one penny
And my friends I haven't any
Mmmmmmmm... Well I felt so low
Nobody wants me round their door
Mmmmmmmm... Without a doubt,
No man can use you wen you down and out
I mean when you down and out

[Optical.Catalyst]

7. Snow Blind Friend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKraf_V0ZPc

Steppenwolf

Snow Blind Friend

Words and music by Hoyt Axton

You say it was this morning when you last saw your good friend
Lyin' on the pavement with a misery on his brain
Stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall
Of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall
He only had a dollar to live on 'til next Monday
But he spent it on some comfort for his mind
Did you say you think he's blind?

Someone should call his parents, a sister or a brother
And they'll come to take him back home on a bus
But he'll always be a problem to his poor and puzzled mother
Yeah he'll always be another one of us
He said he wanted Heaven but prayin' was too slow
So he bought a one way ticket on an airline made of snow
Did you say you saw your good friend flyin' low?
Flyin' low
Dyin' slow

[eShirl]

8. Cheney's Got a Gun

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22Cheney%27s+got+a+gun%22&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=_-yZSdvWFJC8Mte_4IAM&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#

[Politicalboi]

9. The only one that fits the Repukes is

It's my party and I'll cry if I want too.

[0xDEADBEEF]

10. Willie Nelson

"Cowboys are Secretly, Frequently Fond of Each Other!"

[pipi_k]

13. Jethro Tull

Aqualung


Sitting on a park bench
eyeing little girls with bad intent.
Snot running down his nose
greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
Drying in the cold sun
Watching as the frilly panties run.
Feeling like a dead duck
spitting out pieces of his broken luck.
Sun streaking cold
an old man wandering lonely.
Taking time
the only way he knows.
Leg hurting bad,
as he bends to pick a dog-end
he goes down to the bog
and warms his feet.

Feeling alone
the army's up the rode
salvation a la mode and
a cup of tea.
Aqualung my friend
don't start away uneasy
you poor old sod, you see, it's only me.
Do you still remember
December's foggy freeze
when the ice that
clings on to your beard is
screaming agony.
And you snatch your rattling last breaths
with deep-sea-diver sounds,
and the flowers bloom like
madness in the spring.

[babylonsister]

14. Wow, flashback! 'Thick As A Brick' would apply, too! nt

[southernyankeebelle]

15. Wham thank you man

They should be singing Cry me River. They have nothing to celebrate. The stimulus plan should have been alot more. If it doesn't do well they should blame the republicans. These nutjobs are sooooooo out of touch.

[cherish44]

16. Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
Nobody has ever taught you how to live out on the street
And now you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're all drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts
But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

[snake in the grass]

17. Some of the suggestiions...

...are really great. My contribution to the list is Def Leppard's "No, No, No", a song that always pops up in my head when I see a Republican.

Here is the relevant part:

"Well I kept saying no, no no no no no
Well I kept saying no, no no no no no
Well I kept saying no, no no no no no
I say no no no
I say no no no
I say no no
No no no no no no no no no no no no no no "

[babylonsister]

18. Per Rachel, this song is about hookers.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[ejpoeta]

22. well then, it fits the republicans better than they even knew.

[0xDEADBEEF]

28. Tool - "Hooker with a Penis"

Seems appropriate enough! :lol:

[DRoseDARs]

19. Did they get permission to use this (or any) song, or are they just stealing again? n/t

[babylonsister]

20. Not that I know of. I'd be surprised. I'm hoping Aerosmith will sue! nt

[ejpoeta]

21. "all by myself" don't know who sings it, but i keep hearing it in my head

whenever i hear about this.

[Fozzledick]

23. "Nothing" by The Fugs

Monday nothing
Tuesday nothing
Wednesday and Thursday nothing
Friday for a change a little more nothing
Saturday once more nothing

[ShortnFiery]

24. Living on the Edge!

There's somethin' wrong with the world today
I don't know what it is
Something's wrong with our eyes

We're seeing things in a different way
And God knows it ain't His
It sure ain't no surprise

We're livin' on the edge
We're livin' on the edge
We're livin' on the edge
We're livin' on the edge

There's somethin' wrong with the world today
The light bulb's gettin' dim
There's meltdown in the sky

If you can judge a wise man
By the color of his skin
Then mister you're a better man that I

We're livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself at all
Livin' on the edge
You can't stop yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge

Tell me what you think about your sit-u-a-tion
Complication - aggravation
Is getting to you

If chicken little tells you that the sky is fallin'
Even if it wasn't would you still come crawlin'
Back again?
I bet you would my friend
Again & again & again & again & again

(solo)

Tell me what you think about your sit-u-a-tion
Complication - aggravation
Is getting to you

If chicken little tells you that the sky is fallin'
Even if it was would would you still come crawlin'
Back again?
I bet you would my friend
Again & again & again & again

There's something right with the world today
And everybody knows it's wrong
But we can tell 'em no or we could let it go
But I would rather be a hanging on

Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself from fallin'
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself at all
Livin' On the Edge
You can't stop yourself from fallin'
Livin' On the Edge
Livin' On the Edge
Livin' On the Edge
Livin' On the Edge
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself from fallin'
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself at all
Livin' on the edge
You can't stop yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself
You can't help yourself
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself at all
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself
You can't help yourself
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself
You can't help yourself
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself from fallin'
Livin' On the Edge
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, you got to that now

[lame54]

25. it could also be David Vitter's campaign song

[lame54]

26. .

Mindless drifter on the road
Carry such an easy load
Its how you look, and how you feel
You must have a heart of steel.

Why do I keep fuckin up?

I can see you on a hill
Comatose but walking still
Curves beneath your flowing gown
Only I could bring you down.

Why do I keep fuckin up?

Dogs that lick and dogs that bite
Hounds that howl through the night
Broken leashes are all over the floor
Keys left hanging in a swinging door.

Why do I keep fuckin up?

Keep fuckin up!

[lame54]

27. How about this Neil Young song...

Mindless drifter on the road
Carry such an easy load
Its how you look, and how you feel
You must have a heart of steel.

Why do I keep fuckin up?

I can see you on a hill
Comatose but walking still
Curves beneath your flowing gown
Only I could bring you down.

Why do I keep fuckin up?

Dogs that lick and dogs that bite
Hounds that howl through the night
Broken leashes are all over the floor
Keys left hanging in a swinging door.

Why do I keep fuckin up?

Keep fuckin up!

[Juche]

29. Bound for the Floor - Local H

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oM8QXdp8wU

Born to be down
Ive learned all my lessons before now
Born to be down
I think youll get used to it

And you just dont get it
You keep it copacetic
And you learn to accept it
You know its so pathetic

Born to be down
I think that Ive said this before now
Born to be down
What good is confidence?

And you just dont get it
You keep it copacetic
And you learn to accept it
You know its so pathetic
And you dont

[cherish44]

30. "Piggies" The Beatles

Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.

Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.

In their sties with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking.

Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

31. Enter Sandman

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=enter+sandman&hl=en&emb=0&aq=-1&oq=#

Say your prayers little one
Dont forget, my son
To include everyone

Tuck you in, warm within
Keep you free from sin
Till the sandman he comes

Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight

Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never land

Somethings wrong, shut the light
Heavy thoughts tonight
And they arent of snow white

Dreams of war, dreams of liars
Dreams of dragons fire
And of things that will bite

Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight

Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never land

Now I lay me down to sleep
Pray the lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
Pray the lord my soul to take

Hush little baby, dont say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
Its just the beast under your bed,
In your closet, in your head

Exit light
Enter night
Grain of sand

Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Were off to never never land

[burning rain]

32. "Those Were the Days," "All in the Family" theme.

Schmaltz, the GOP is all about schmaltz.