What was your favorite song in the convention?

[physioex]

Dreams by Van Halen very appropriate song if I may say. To bad it was sung by Repuke....Wonder what he would say? Not that it matters...bwahahahaha :smoke:

[Endangered Specie]

1. Go Johnny GO GO!

[physioex]

5. The have been playing at nearly all the stops from...

What I have seen in the news. An oldie but a goodie...

[givemebackmycountry]

2. Simple

"It's a beautiful day"

[DenverDem]

3. It's A Beautiful Day-U2

Awesome follow up to The Speech!

[physioex]

8. I liked the song also....

Very nice song and very appropriate.....

[James T. Kirk]

15. Shooting down U2

I love U2 as much as the next guy and "Beautiful Day" is a great song, but shouldn't they have picked a song by AMERICAN artists to follow up the nomination speech?

[Catch22Dem]

4. Sammy?

He didn't write it though, did he? I suspect it was Eddie, and I have no idea what his political affiliations are.

[physioex]

7. I found this by Google search..

http://www.elyrics4u.com/d/dreams_van_halen.htm#

I am not sure about Eddie either.....

[Hepburn]

6. Johnny Be Good!! n/t

[Kadie]

9. You've Got A Friend

Carole King. One of my all time favorites, was glad to hear it tonight.

[physioex]

11. I didn't catch that song....

They also played Kool and the Gang....

[gmoney]

10. "No Surrender" and "Beautiful Day"

Didn't care much for the house band...

[AlCzervik]

23. I just checked itunes and no surrender

is the top downloaded Bruce song right now.

[coloradodem2005]

12. They have played Right Now at rallies.

Also an appropriate song also by Van Halen and sung by Sammy Hagar. That is a double whammy.

[physioex]

13. I haven't heard them use it, but it also sounds appropriate...eom

[coloradodem2005]

16. They used it at my state convention.

I heard it at a few Kerry rallies, including the one where he announced Edwards as his running mate.

[jpgray]

14. 'Revolution' for Dean's intro I think was the best choice

That song nailed his candidacy's tone pretty well, actually.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. 24 Hour Party People by the Happy Mondays.

[tishaLA]

18. "Let's Get it Started"

just cause the Black Eyed Peas pissed off poor little Brit Hume so much.

[LTR]

19. BEP was great!

What did Brit do?

[tishaLA]

21. Here's the report from Salon.com

<...>Edwards spoke about the racial divisiveness he saw as a boy growing up in the South. The current incarnation of that divisiveness roared back over the airwaves minutes after he finished his speech. Following Edwards, and as a prelude to nominating Kerry, the multiracial hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas came out to perform their hit, "Let's Get It Started." Flipping channels to try and catch the performance, I found that the only network carrying it uninterrupted was Fox News. And just as I was getting suspicious about why Fox News was giving a hip-hop group time that could have been handed over to their pundits, the song ended and Fox anchor Brit Hume came back and said, "The Black Eyed Peas with their rendition of a song that's popular in the swing states, especially the refrain 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,' which the Kerry campaign believes will have particular resonance."

In other words, Hume was saying, "Here's what you'll get if you vote for John Kerry, America -- darkies running wild all over the place." When Black Eyed Peas were replaced by a tape of the Isley Brothers, Hume deemed them, "a melody more familiar to most Americans." Which Americans? Not the young ones -- black and white -- who kept "Let's Get It Started" on the charts for weeks. But then, in the eyes of Fox News, those people do not count as being part of America any more than the Black Eyed Peas do, or most of the people gathered in the FleetCenter, among whom many, and not just the young ones, were digging the performance. In America, as defined by Fox, hip-hop has not dominated the charts and penetrated the consciousness of American pop music and its followers all over the country. Hume's comments were not just an expression of disdain, but a denial of reality. Or rather, like the government Fox News speaks for, Hume's remarks were the essence of a polity that insists on its own reality, the reality they say is so despite any evidence to the contrary.

There is at least one division that may have been healed by Hume's remarks. For a city that has long been lauded and sneered at as a great bastion of Eastern liberalism, Boston has also been one of the most sharply segregated cities in the North. I'm sure Brit Hume felt right at home this week.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html#black_eyed_peas

[arwalden]

20. When Clinton Spoke... Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop"

[physioex]

22. Ohhh...They have been playing that for years...

It always brings a smile to my face to see Clinton and that song played togethor.... :)