The candidates have their High Fidelity moment

[stinglikeabee]

*yawn* I should really stop posting when I'm dead tired. Rereading yesterday's post made me realise that I tend to ramble and repeat words over and over... I should really stop posting when I'm dead tired.

Blender magazine recently asked the presidential candidates their top 10 songs, and my co-worker and I found the results quite amusing.

John Mccain's Top Ten	Barack Obama's Top Ten
10. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, The Platter	10. Yes We Can, will.i.am
9. Sweet Caroline, Neil Diamond	9. City of Blinding Lights, U2
8. I've Got You Under My Skin Frank Sinatra	8. Think, Aretha Franklin
7. What A Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong	7. You'd Be So Easy to Love, Frank Sinatra
6. Good Vibrations, The Beach Boys	6. Touch the Sky, Kanye West
5. As Time Goes By, Dooley Wilson	5. Sinnerman, Nina Simone
4. If We Make It Through December, Merle Haggard	4. Gimme Shelter, Rolling Stones
3. Take a Chance On Me, ABBA	3. I'm On Fire, Bruce Spingsteen
2. Blue Bayou, Roy Orbison	2. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
1. Dancing Queen, ABBA	1. Ready or Not, Fugees

No surprise the Peacenik Obama picked anti-war songs What's Going On and Gimme Shelter, but two ABBA songs on McCain's list? Really? Snorted the co-worker derisively, obviously McCain's going hard for the middle-aged women vote.

Note Ol' Blue Eyes crossing party lines. I'm not too keen on him myself, preferring others like Dean Martin and Bing Crosby. Sinatra - it's a guy thing, isn't it? The image of a tough, super-cool guy with big friends to match. At least none of the candidates picked My Way, noted the co-worker.

Nice mix of old and new songs on Obama's playlist, and not a bad selection with McCain's either -- though we take note with the ABBA. Co-worker insisted SOS is the best ABBA song, while I rambled on before settling on Lay All Your Love On Me. Now I have to bring my ABBA cd to work tomorrow for a schoolin'. And to think this all is because of Senator McCain. Thanks, dude.


See any songs you might have on your personal top 10?

Comments

[cold-nostalgia.livejournal.com]

Really? Abba and John McCain? Who'd of thought.

I like five of John McCain's favourite songs and one of Obama's. That's scary. None of them are in my top ten, or top fifty even, but still. It's scary.

[stinglikeabee.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's 2 McCain and 3 Obama for me. Not in my top ten either. Obama's list seems to try too hard to be relevant to his 21-40 something demographic. And McCain? I bet the reason why your tastes in music correlate is because you both don't care what anyone thinks of the choices. I mean, I'd be dead embarrassed saying I like anything of ABBA's. I suspect the same for Obama :P

And it answers nicely the question of why McCain needed 2 ABBA songs on his list -- Take A Chance on Me is his campaign song, after all. Haha, then again maybe he doesn't know the connotations of Dancing Queen.