Couldn’t find a better choice than this:
I think they should cue up the change at about 1:20 for everytime the Donald or his tame scalp tribble commits an utterance.
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BTW — in case you’re wondering, those are theramins inside the matryoshas. And yes, the world is not only stranger than we thought, it is stranger than it is possible to imagine. See also Florida.
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Alternative GOP appropriate musical suggestions, anyone?
The Other Chuck
Wouldn’t Yakkity Sax be more apropos?
Bobby B.
I prefer the kazoo version of Teddy Bears Picnic by Jim Kweskin.
Hawes
Totally knew what a theremin was. Didn’t have to look it up on the Google at all.
dmsilev
So, if Trump’s scalp thing decides to mate with Rand Paul’s scalp thing, what are our options to save humanity from the offspring?
I’m going with the classics: “I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
voldemort
Am I the only one to notice that they have scheduled this debate for the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima Day?
How appropriate…
cmorenc
@Tom Levenson:
Actually, here’s MUCH better theme music for the GOP debate. (Theme song to Looney Tunes cartoons).
boatboy_srq
@dmsilev: The GOTea’s opposition to LGBT rights, SSM etc stems from fear of such an event as the union of scalp things.
The Dangerman
Anything by Insane Clown Posse would probably be the most appropriate.
ETA: I mean, Donald Trump; really, Republicans?
Patricia Kayden
“Won’t Get Fooled Again” — The Who (and the electorate).
JPL
Unless the candidates decide to bring guns, I’m not going to watch.
@Hawes: I used the google. I did find a more appropriate youtube, though.
raven
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles-The Tears Of A Clown …
Thunderbird
“They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” by Napoleon XIV is the first thing that popped into my brain.
kd bart
Baby Elephant Walk.
different-church-lady
@The Dangerman: FUCKIN’ MAGNETS!
Just One More Canuck
Yakety Sax
kimago
Destroy Everything You Touch by Ladytron.
bystander
I vote for the guy with the Sousaphone who followed the KKK marchers around. Plus a long sad trombone to punctuate the “I hate Obummer” speeches.
Kropadope
@JPL:
Oddly enough, Republican leaders and leaders of Republican-affiliated organizations like the NRA don’t allow guns where they’re congregating. Shocking, I know.
raven
@Kropadope: Neither do any VA facilities.
Fair Economist
Hard to believe they could get that many theramin players together.
ShadeTail
@The Other Chuck: Only if it’s done by a kazoo chorus. Saxaphone and Banjo is too dignified for those clowns.
bystander
Christie was supposedly booed vociferously at the Haskell last weekend. Where in the heck is the video? 60,000 people booing Outlaw Jersey Whale has awesome written all over it.
Amir Khalid
Entrance of the Gladiators has to be among the top choices.
piratedan
I dunno, maybe I could see a campaign video using Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” being used to great effect here….
Amir Khalid
And let’s not forget Sousa’s Liberty Bell March.
ThresherK (GPad)
Yakety Sax is chase music. See Rand Paul fleeing from his hamburger when a member of the riff raff he chats with turns out to be a DREAMer.
The Merry Go Round Broke Down is my choice, especially for the title.
Elizabelle
PBO just up for speech on Iran deal. American University.
ETA: blamed the short delay: “even Presidents have trouble with toner.”
Talking about JFK’s speech at AU years ago, and the prospects then of nuclear war. World was more dangerous then.
the Conster
Trump promises to attack anyone who criticizes him, so yeah, he’s like a grenade with the pin pulled, and everyone gets a chance to hold it. Glad I bought popcorn.
Elizabelle
JFK rejected prevailing attitude that equated security with a perpetual war footing. Sound familiar?
dmsilev
Well, for the foreign policy section of the debate, I think the Mars movement from Holst’s The Planets would be appropriate. Since “The Bringer of War” is pretty much the universal description of all of the GOP candidates’ approach to foreign policy.
Elizabelle
It’s a good speech (what else would I say?), defense of strong, principled and pragmatic diplomacy.
Kind of a “words of one syllable” speech, given his opponents and their fatuous arguments …
ETA: talking about “tens of millions of dollars” of advertising.
And ‘the same people who made the case for the war in Iraq are now opposing the Iran nuclear deal.”
Talking about the mindset that’s allowed US to step on its own dick, again and again. (He put it more elegantly, of course…)
bemused
@bystander:
I think Rachel Maddow played the video last night.
Splitting Image
They can sing a chorus of Kill the Wabbit. Republicans are pretty much committed to solving problems with their spear and magic helmet.
Elizabelle
Hope he doesn’t say anything about Cosby or Cecil the Lion. We will never hear another snippet of this speech aired, if so.
He’s summing up the cost in death and $$ for Iraq misadventure.
A Ghost To Most
“Lunatic Fringe” by Red Ryder is the most appropriate music for these clowns
slag
@raven: Hard to beat Tears of a Clown for the title alone.
Botsplainer
“Wang Dang, Sweet Poontang” off Ted Nugent’s Double Live Gonzo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnMaSLCDxQc
realbtl
No, no, no! It has to be “Send in the Clowns”, by Sinatra for the aging GOP base.
Kylroy
Anthrax’s “Madhouse”.
Bobby B.
@Botsplainer: Now there’s a song they’d actually use! And Ted would love to have a hand in it.
RSA
How cool! I’d always thought of theremins being bigger instruments.
Also, reading up a bit, I discover that what I’d always thought was a theremin, the sound effects on Forbidden Planet, was something else. The Day the Earth Stood Still, though, that was one.
jacel
I think this Balinese monkey chant is most appropriate. I’m sure the crosstalk between the ten candidates will sound like this at least some of the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAUoa9pmokA
Botsplainer
They’re Coming to Take Me Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fn36l_z3WY
Roger Moore
@cmorenc:
I was thinking of this one instead.
Kropadope
@raven: PTSD alone could explain that.
Amir Khalid
40 comments in, and nobody’s spotted the misspelling of “theremin” yet. We’re slipping, people!
Elizabelle
“lobbyists and pundits were suddenly transformed into armchair nuclear scientists —”
This is a really good speech.
“If you repeat these [fatuous] arguments enough, they can achieve traction…
and by the way, nuclear material is not something you can hide in the closet.”
(laughter)
Opponents getting a deserved smackdown.
srv
Hopefully Trump & Walker will demand their 35% time and then walk off the stage saying they don’t have time for the cuckservatory’s performance.
Elizabelle
Local affiliates not covering the Obama speech. What a shame.
Elizabelle
@Amir Khalid: sounds like a vitamin, don’t it?
ShadeTail
@ShadeTail: Something like this, maybe.
Barney
The true spirit of the Republican id and Donald Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coUd-AaLkjQ
the Conster
@Elizabelle:
Following along to some of it on twitter. He’s just killing it, and killing Bush.
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: Maybe the commenters just look at Tom’s position with the Massachusetts Institute of Typing and assume that he couldn’t have made an error.
scav
Randy Newman’s Sail Away for Race Relations.
piratedan
upon reflection and inspiration from my fellow commentators, perhaps a bit of Madness ‘One Step Beyond’ would be a more apropos theme song…. no lyrics, because they can’t remember any and it has a certain manic quality signifying nothing that seems very appropriate.
gogol's wife
@efgoldman:
There’s one version of that on YouTube that has hilarious comments, based on the fact that the composer is Fucik (pronounced FOO-cheek in Czech, but still).
Elizabelle
@the Conster: He is.
Cannot wait to see what our media overlords do to misreport this speech. It’s carefully written, and very straightforward.
Maybe they’ll be shaking their heads over Obama’s “controversial” speech?
Elizabelle
Kicked over all the objections, and the fantasy worldview that allows them.
PaulW
I vote for Macarena.
Stuck on loop.
And only the people in the auditorium hear it, it doesn’t broadcast over the air.
Also, lock the doors and bolt them with chains once everyone is inside.
Elizabelle
“So in that sense, the critics are right: Walk away from this deal and you will get a better deal. For Iran.”
Applause.
Now the spectre of another war in the Middle East.
NotMax
Off the top o’ the noggin:
“Lies” by the Knickerbockers
“21st Century Schizoid Man” by King Crimson
“Wipe Out” by the Surfaris
Elizabelle
“The choice we face is ultimately between diplomacy and some form of war [at some time in the future].”
Elizabelle
“If we’ve learned ANYTHING from the past ten years, it’s that wars in general, and wars in the Middle East in particular, are anything but [simple].”
Applause.
jl
I like all the suggestions so far. The GOP debates are too big, too strong, for just one genre of music. For one kind of anything. It, nay, they, are just to grand. I say ‘they’ because there are two, yes, TWO debates in one night.
Do we need anything special for the kiddy table debate. Shirley Temple drinking contest, special music?
Edit: no, I say everclear for kiddy table debate, since that will put people in proper mood for the main event.
In honor of the theremin, and the unearthly weirdness, I suggest for both debates
Louis & Bebe Barron – Battle With The Invisible Monster (Forbidden Planet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkcS7-Heqzo&index=3&list=PLRLCwrdOigtm7KXEfoL7zJCE3EyJ0_ijV
The whole sound track is there, but I posted Battle with the Invisible Monster, since that will be a recurring theme and this one will come in handy many times.
Roger Moore
How about some nice Ozzy?
NotMax
@scav
Also too, his “Political Science” for foreign relations.
Elizabelle
“worry less about being called weak. worry more about getting it right.”
This is a primer on lessons painfully learned from war, which the deal’s opponents have not — or have refused — to learn.
Applause again, but I missed the line that elicited it …
Something about “making common cause with the Republican congress.”
Applause and a whoop from audience.
scav
@Amir Khalid: Well, some of us are still wary because of the discussion of German orthography that broke out recently. This might just be the correct Bavarian of 1907.
Brendan in Charlotte
@Roger Moore: In that vein, how about “Bulls on Parade” by Rage Against the Machine
chopper
for the debate music, i’d say anything by Corn Mo. maybe ‘Lollipop”.
jl
And a little PE would be a nice to play once in awhile in case anyone feels reality slipping away, in a dangerous way.
Or, one could play it ironically, from the GOPers point of view, but only if one is very robustly well-grounded, psychologically.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK8sxngSWaU&list=RDLK8sxngSWaU
Elizabelle
Reagan namechecked; his agreement with the Soviet Union. “Which was riskier,” in scope and scale.
Reminds that our military is always a backstop.
[I suppose some of the rhetoric on the other side can be attributed to kneejerk partisanship] but
another [concern could be]
affinity to our friend and ally, Israel.
Throwing a lifeline to congressional Democrats?
Roger Moore
For at least some of the candidates, I might recommend “Jesus Loves Me, But He Can’t Stand You“.
bystander
@Elizabelle: Loved how he pointed out that the Repubs allies in screaming about the deal are the Iranian hardliners.
Did catch a short video on YouTube of Christie being booed. Thanks for the RMS tip.
slag
@Roger Moore: Can’t forget The Devil You Know (God is a Man).
Germy Shoemangler
Why not Krazy Kat?
JPL
@Elizabelle: It’s an excellent speech. Unfortunately, the local media stations here aren’t airing it.
Elizabelle
@bystander: Thank you. That’s the line I missed. That the audience did not.
Faces being slapped, right and left, with this speech.
Sad that more people will see the Fox Trumpathon tomorrow, watching for zingers amidst the Obama and Obamacare are such failures!!! rhetoric
This speech was zingers for smart people.
“People who seem to have no compunction (?) with being repeatedly wrong” — audience laughs ….
Taking on truthiness
Phoebe
I’m just here to say, Thank you for that. I had no idea anything so strange and glorious even existed.
It’s too good for The Donald, is my only quibble. All that wit and weirdness, no direct pointing and laughing: it’s just not a good thematic match for the occasion.
Omnes Omnibus
@Elizabelle: Thank you for excerpting the speech for those of us who can’t watch it.
EZSmirkzz
We are the old Americana
still getting high on illegal marijuana
we grew up on the Beatles and nirvana
now we’re sucking the oligarchy’s banana …
Or something.
Elizabelle
discussing American exceptionalism now … after gentle reminder that we’re on top now, but maybe not forever
Elizabelle
@Omnes Omnibus: I wish I was typing faster and playing freecell less…
Paul in KY
@PaulW: You’re a cold, cold man….
The Thin Black Duke
No love for Public Enemy?
EDIT: Damn it, jl!
jl
OK, I got this covered.
Play this for the grand entrance and introduction. Out of respect, dammit!
Double Reed Choir – Hallelujah Chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj8zTTGRXic
Elizabelle
CNN: Ashleigh Banfield: “that was one big sales pitch.”
It’s all about the sales pitch. Can Obama sell the deal?
No discussion yet of the substance … but she says that’s coming now with panel
NotMax
@efgoldman
An earworm song.
Elizabelle
Now Ashley’s talking about Obama’s swagger.
In response to the first guest giving a really good recap of speech content.
Second guest gets the clue: Obama reduces everything to partisan politics. Everything comes down to that. And maybe he didn’t sell Democrats on it either.
It’s all conflict and politics! Now an advertisement — a car cane, to help you get in and out of your car. Can hold up to 350 pounds.
dexwood
@Amir Khalid:
As a child of the 50s, one who loved all the old sci fi soundtracks, I noticed, but didn’t say anything because, hey, shet happens.
Elizabelle
A. Banfield ran out of time — new host up.
CNN hasn’t digested the Obama Iran speech yet, so they’re opening with Jeb! and Hillary fighting over women’s health.
ETA: Oh goodie. Gloria Borger.
What’s on TCM? I could be missing something, like, real.
Amir Khalid
@efgoldman:
I once saw 4’33” performed on TV: a pianist sat down, put the lid down over the keyboard, folded his arms, and sat there for the duration. I have to say, I didn’t hear any mistakes.
jl
Main theme for Forbidden Planet has optimal mix of unearthly weirdness, drama and grandiosity.
I’ll have that at the ready.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOsIDxGX4-c&index=8&list=PLRLCwrdOigtm7KXEfoL7zJCE3EyJ0_ijV
Cervantes
@Amir Khalid:
@ThresherK (GPad):
You are both very naughty.
jl
Will need a little something for all the dog whistles
Conrad Milster’s steam whistles blow in 2014 at Pratt Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niLgjQLV0xI
Cervantes
@realbtl:
Hey, you — cease and desist. That’s a great song, and it has more soul in its first measure than all these yahoos on stage put together.
Cervantes
@Botsplainer:
If only.
mdblanche
@voldemort:
Given that Trump is more of a Fat Man than a Little Boy, perhaps August 9 would have been even more appropriate.
jl
@mdblanche: but, Rubio
Cervantes
@Amir Khalid:
Which way did he fold his arms, right over left or vice versa?
Ninedragonspot
Marimba Ponies!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-oazpmqJC0
Chris
@ThresherK (GPad):
Merry Go Round Broke Down?
Quite a loony selection for a group of drunken reprobates.
boatboy_srq
@efgoldman: I don’t think the candidates would let that run past 4.33″…
boatboy_srq
@efgoldman: Yes.
Ninedragonspot
Stripsody!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dNLAhL46xM
boatboy_srq
@Elizabelle:
And across the nation, Hoveround salesbots quiver in panic.
jl
@Chris:
Various Looney Tunes’ manifestations of Powerhouse too.
Especially when they talk economics.
Powerhouse Looney Toons (Condensed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3FCRr3t9WU
Chris
@efgoldman:
Yes.
Chris
@boatboy_srq:
God damn it.
boatboy_srq
@efgoldman: 4’33” on YouTube is a waste. 4’33” in a concert hall, though, is brilliant – unless the concert hall is filled with small children and/or multitasking “professionals” tweeting the whole thing.
Frankensteinbeck
@Chris:
I see a future where people get on and off the freeway, on and off, off and on, all day, all night! Soon, where Toon Town once stood will be a string of gas stations, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food, tire salons, automobile dealerships! And wonderful, wonderful billboards, reaching as far as the eye can see.
My god, it will be beautiful.
(Does that sound disturbingly like a speech we might hear at the debate to anyone else?)
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: I’m pretty sure you know what the point of that piece is.
Omnes Omnibus
@Elizabelle: FWIW I just called my Congress people again. Pocan supports the deal. Baldwin does not have an official position yet but sounds promising. Johnson does not have an official position yet but is leaning towards being against the deal. I encouraged them all to support it.
I mention this as a reminder for others to do the same.
Frankensteinbeck
@Omnes Omnibus:
I have never called my senators, because Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell will be more likely to vote against it out of spite.
Omnes Omnibus
@Frankensteinbeck: Ron Johnson will not support the deal. And I know that mentioning experts during my call probably hurt my cause. Fuck him, he can get my polite call of encouragement now, so that my call lambasting him when comes out against it has been teed up properly.
Chris
@Frankensteinbeck:
A freeway? A public infrastructure project, proposed at a Republican debate? I wish!
Frankensteinbeck
@Omnes Omnibus:
I strongly approve of your strategy, and suggestion others do the same. I am merely making a bitter joke about being represented by two of the most amoral, mean-spirited assholes in the Senate, who could not give a rat’s festering ass about what their constituents want.
mdblanche
@Frankensteinbeck: Is Rand still pretending to be an anti-foreign war libertarian or has he dropped that part of his act completely?
Elizabelle
@Omnes Omnibus: Good on you!
You remind me to call Tim Kaine’s office to thank him for supporting the deal, and to call Mark Warner to see what bipartisan decision he has come to. (Like MW, but he’s a bit too Broderesque and I was not sorry to see him almost get pantsed last election; might concentrate his mind.)
Central Planning
@bystander:
I agree. I’m surprised nobody else suggested that. Maybe someone could stand outside the debate location and play like that guy
Cervantes
@Central Planning:
How’s the college-bound brat?
Paul in KY
@Frankensteinbeck: Same here.
Gin & Tonic
@Frankensteinbeck: I have a feeling both are fairly representing the interests of their constituents. Your confusion may come from thinking that “people living in their state” is synonymous with “constituents.”
Sondra
@voldemort:
Good point. I didn’t remember that. For musical accompaniment how about “Carmina Burana”? It’s passe ‘ now, but it suits I think.
Paul in KY
@Gin & Tonic: I’m certainly not one of their perceived ‘constituents’. All the doofuses around me think they are.
rossco
@kimago: I love the video they did for that song. Creepy.
Central Planning
@Cervantes:
He’s ready to go. I’m ready for him to go – I’m really excited that he’ll be at a place that has smart people and he (in theory) will be able to engage in more discussions/experiments/projects with people like him. We went to campus today (he’s been there before), introduced him to some of the people I deal with there, and tried to track down his academic advisor just to say hi. When I say I hope I don’t see him until Thanksgiving he says the same thing :)
We’re starting to pack things up, print out forms, etc. I think we’re pretty much ready. It will be weird when the oldest heads out, but I’m sure we’ll get used to it. When I was a kid and we moved, one of the goodbye cards had something in it like “Sometimes leaving is hardest on those left behind.” I didn’t quite get it at the time but I did later on. It certainly will be appropriate in two weeks (13 days, but who’s counting?)
jl
@Paul in KY:
I think Carmina Burana is a given. They will play it on air for both debates. For kiddie table, on calliope.
Carmina Burana ~ O Fortuna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD3VsesSBsw
James E Powell
I gotta go with Zappa because I’m just in that kind of mood.
jl
In see on the intertubes that a person can pick up a theremin for 100 bucks online if you shop around. Can make up our own accompaniment at home, spooky was you want it to be.
Epicurus
“Joy” indeed! Thanks, Tom, you made my day with this video.
Jay C
@boatboy_srq:
Hey! Don’t knock the Car Cane! Mrs. Jay C. – who is WAY below the 350-lb limit for the thing – has a lot of difficulties getting in and out of cars (well, New York cabs, mainly, but that’s another gripe altogether) – a compact brace like the CC just might be a useful thing. That it can, apparently, also be used as a club is quite another useful function….
@Elizabelle:
Reading the recaps of PBO’s Iran speech, it strikes me as being another “Obama-hits-one-out-of-the-park” addresses, which will, nonetheless, get diddly-squat-worth of coverage in the “Serious” media, because Donald Trump and “baby parts” and “ovens”, or whatever……
Omnes Omnibus
@Jay C: FWIW it wasn’t seen as front page material around this blog either.
Morzer
SFAW
@Amir Khalid:
Only if the giant foot comes down at the end and squashes them all.
Uncle Cosmo
@gogol’s wife:
Now that brings back the memories:
July 1990. I was in Dresden for a day & a night. (During which I was technically illegal, my visa for the sogenannte DDR [reuni not until the following September] having expired at midnight–but that’s not important right now…)
Anyhow, a carnival that had set up in Fucikplatz & there were handbills posted everywhere, in a generic Playbill typeface with long thin letters. I kept seeing FUCKPLATZ out of the corner of my eye–my head was on a swivel because WTF???!?!? Neck was sore for the next couple of days. What would you call that–scatological whiplash?
Morzer
On second thoughts, they should just put “Shitty Shitty Bang Bang” on loop and call it a day.
Duane
Kyle
I can’t believe no-one has mentioned yet Dennis Leary’s “I’m an Asshole”
I’m just a regular Joe with a regular job
I’m your average white suburbanite slob
I like football and porno and books about war
I’ve got an average house with a nice hardwood floor
My wife and my job, my kids and my car
My feet on my table and a Cuban cigar
But sometimes that just ain’t enough
To keep a man like me interested
(Oh no)
No way
(Uh-uh)
No, I’ve gotta go out and have fun
At someone else’s expense
I drive really slow in the ultrafast lane
While people behind me are going insane
I’m an asshole
(He’s an asshole, what an asshole)
I’m an asshole
(He’s an asshole, such an asshole)
I use public toilets and piss on the seat
I walk around in the summertime saying
“How about this heat?”
…..
(last line) I’m an asshole and proud of it
mclaren
Slayer’s Reign in Blood is the obvious choice.
mclaren
@jl:
If you’re going for something from the Forbidden Planet soundtrack, the track titled Krell monster attacks would be more appropriate…