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What music are you listening to on Inauguration Day? If you're stumped, here's couple Obama-specific tracks to get you started.
Just in time for the Jan 20th inauguration, directing team GOLD has released a fun video of Adam Freeland's Aer OBAMA track. The video is a stop motion multimedia piece featuring work from top alt toy designers/artists, including Dalek, Bill McMullen and Kubrick. Fun stuff, especially for you Kidrobot Dunny or Kubrick vinyl toy fans.
(Probably unnecessary disclosure: a sibling is related by a cousin-in-law marriage to one of the GOLD team.)
Z-Trip has a great OBAMA mix available as a free download. Z-Trip mashes up sound bites and speech snippets in with the best-of-the-best Obama songs produced this year. There's a bit of that amusing McCain "terror" remix in there, too. Previously blogged, but worth a bump now that Inauguration Day is near.

(Definitely unnecessary disclosure: I am not related to Z-Trip or Shepard Fairey in any way whatsoever. Be we're very likely less than six degrees separated.)
I'm tempted to add the Hey, Hey, Hey, Goodbye song by Steam but honestly, I only like the sentiment of the chorus and not the song.
What's on your Inauguration Day playlist?
1 jodi said on January 16, 2009
I have mine started. Here are a few of my favorites from it:
Final Countdown - Europe
North American Scum - LCD Soundsystem
Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles
More Bad Times - PUSA
Hello New Day - Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers
It's definitely a mix of "see you later sucka" and "welcome!".
2 Mabel said on January 17, 2009
The Rising - Bruce Spinsteen
Brand New Day - Sting
Hero - Mariah Carey
Give 'em what they want - Merchant/Stipe
At Last
A New Day - will.i.am
Changes - David Bowie
We are the ones - various
A change is gonna come - Sam Cooke
Think - Aretha Franklin
Change - Aron Leigh
Fired Up, Ready to Go - Bergevin Brothers
Somone to wake - Christian Kiefer
3 Mabel said on January 17, 2009
The Rising - Bruce Spinsteen
Brand New Day - Sting
Hero - Mariah Carey
Give 'em what they want - Merchant/Stipe
At Last
A New Day - will.i.am
Changes - David Bowie
We are the ones - various
A change is gonna come - Sam Cooke
Think - Aretha Franklin
Change - Aron Leigh
Fired Up, Ready to Go - Bergevin Brothers
Somone to wake - Christian Kiefer
4 ChrisB said on January 17, 2009
I was (and still am) against the deification of Obama (which was excessive and unfair to our 44th president) but I do like this song ("Black President" by Nas):
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