Comments on: Obama’s Music http://www.myhmphs.com/2008/08/obamas-music/ Searching for melody and meaning in a world filled with bad music. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:15:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: peter http://www.myhmphs.com/2008/08/obamas-music/comment-page-1/#comment-351 peter Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:53:39 +0000 http://www.myhmphs.com/?p=321#comment-351 @jb: Yeah, the B&D was a shrewd political move. Didn't like it, but I appreciated the attempt. And the orchestral piece really did seem like a West Wing episode - very dramatic, but melodramatic at times. Kerry used BEP? No wonder I didn't like him. @jb: Yeah, the B&D was a shrewd political move. Didn’t like it, but I appreciated the attempt. And the orchestral piece really did seem like a West Wing episode - very dramatic, but melodramatic at times.

Kerry used BEP? No wonder I didn’t like him.

]]> By: peter http://www.myhmphs.com/2008/08/obamas-music/comment-page-1/#comment-350 peter Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:51:18 +0000 http://www.myhmphs.com/?p=321#comment-350 Barely Awake: Amen to "Born in the USA." To paraphrase Inigo Montoya, "I do not think that song means what you think it means." Ooh - I feel a post coming on - Top 10 most overused campaign songs... Barely Awake: Amen to “Born in the USA.” To paraphrase Inigo Montoya, “I do not think that song means what you think it means.” Ooh - I feel a post coming on - Top 10 most overused campaign songs…

]]> By: Barely Awake In Frog Pajamas http://www.myhmphs.com/2008/08/obamas-music/comment-page-1/#comment-349 Barely Awake In Frog Pajamas Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:44:38 +0000 http://www.myhmphs.com/?p=321#comment-349 As an unapologetic U2 fan, I absolutely love the Obama campaign's use of "City Of Blinding Lights," but could we please send a memo to all campaigns - now, in the future, and even retroactivly - regarding "Born In The USA"? Its use as a political rallying cry given the song's subject matter is maddening and like nails on a chalkboard. As an unapologetic U2 fan, I absolutely love the Obama campaign’s use of “City Of Blinding Lights,” but could we please send a memo to all campaigns - now, in the future, and even retroactivly - regarding “Born In The USA”? Its use as a political rallying cry given the song’s subject matter is maddening and like nails on a chalkboard.

]]> By: jb http://www.myhmphs.com/2008/08/obamas-music/comment-page-1/#comment-344 jb Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:35:17 +0000 http://www.myhmphs.com/?p=321#comment-344 Interesting call by Obama on the Brooks and Dunn, I thought. (John Kerry used the Black-Eyed Peas four years ago.) I wondered where that orchestral piece after the speech came from. I didn't like it--too somber in spots, not good for keeping the euphoria going, which Kerry's people did very well in '04. Interesting call by Obama on the Brooks and Dunn, I thought. (John Kerry used the Black-Eyed Peas four years ago.) I wondered where that orchestral piece after the speech came from. I didn’t like it–too somber in spots, not good for keeping the euphoria going, which Kerry’s people did very well in ‘04.

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