Oprah Obama Setlist, 12/9/07

Manchester, NH -

Intro
It’s Not Unusual - Tom Jones
Get Ready - The Temptations
Celebrate - Kool and the Gang
Only in America - Brooks and Dunn
Hold On, I’m Coming - Sam and Dave
Think - Aretha Franklin (entry for Oprah)
City of Blinding Lights - U2 (entry for Barack)

Outro
Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder
Higher and Higher - Jackie Wilson
I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers

Obama Set List, Laconia 11/20

Obama Set List
Laconia, NH
11/20/07

Steal My Kisses - Ben Harper
A Kiss to Build a Dream On - Louis Armstrong
Unintelligible Norah Jones song
Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder

Goo Goo for Hill

Snow Pond, NH -

This from the Clinton Camp today:

Hillary Clinton will visit Boston for a Club44 “Make History” low-dollar fundraiser next week at the city’s historic Symphony Hall. The Goo Goo Dolls will headline the Club44 event, part of the campaign’s effort to engage women to make history by electing Hillary our 44th president.

The event will be emceed by actress Mary Steenburgen and Campaign Chairman Terry McAuliffe and will feature other live entertainment, including an a cappella group from Wellesley College, Hillary’s alma mater.

Admission to the Club 44 event starts at $20 per person.

Just 20 bucks to see the Goo Goo Dolls, Mary Steenburgen and Terry McAuliffe?? It's 1995 all over again! At least, that's what the Clinton campaign wants us to believe.

I also find it hilarious that McAuliffe is headlining an event aimed at women. What a snake! And is Johnny Rzeznik even hot anymore? He's gotta be pushing 45.

Considering GGD is headlining a Hillary event (where you at, Celine?) shouldn't this have been the campaign theme song? They are from Buffalo! Sure seems like it to me...

Scars are souvenirs you never lose
The past is never far
Did you lose yourself somewhere out there
Did you get to be a star
And don't it make you sad to know that life
Is more than who we are

You grew up way too fast
And now there's nothing to believe
And reruns all become our history
A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio
And I won't tell no one your name
And I won't tell em your name

I think about you all the time
But I don't need the same
It's lonely where you are come back down
And I won't tell em your name

I guess old rock stars never lose their glam.

Rudy's Set List 10/3

Rudy Giuliani Set List
Windham, NH 10/3/07

Caravan - Van Morrison
Who'll Stop the Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Are You Gonna Go My Way? - Lenny Kravitz
Keep the Fire Burnin' - REO Speedwagon
Fly Like an Eagle - Seal
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Come Running - Van Morrison


There was another song, too, but I couldn't decipher the lyrics. It sounded surprisingly kind of pop-punk/emo, so who knows. How 'bout REO Speedwagon on the campaign trail! And three cheers for 3Q faves Van the Man and Creedence.

McCain Setlist 9/13/07

Franklin, NH -

Here is McCain's setlist from the house party in Franklin, NH on Thursday, September 13, 2007.

Brand New Girlfriend - Steve Holy
Redneck Yacht Club - Craig Morgan
Where the Stars and Stripes and Eagle Fly - Aaron Tippin
I'll Take Love Over Money - Aaron Tippin
Breathe - Faith Hill
My Town - Montgomery Gentry
Right Now - Van Halen


Definitely the most country set on the campaign yet, and wayyy too heavy on the Tippin. I guess you could say that they were really tippin' the scales toward shitty with those choices.

Fred Thompson Setlist 9/9/07

Here is Fred Thompson's campaign setlist from Nashua Town Hall, 9/9/07



Takin' Care of Business - BTO
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up) - Garth Brooks
Right Now - Van Halen
Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
Walk This Way - Aerosmith
Heartland - George Strait
R.O.C.K. in the USA - John Mellencamp

So far, the best setlist on the trail.

Clinton Set List 9/2/07

Here is the set list for the Clinton visit to Concord, NH on Sunday, 9/2/07

Opening Set
I’m a Believer - Smashmouth
You and I - Celine Dion
Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now - McFadden and Whitehead
Rock this Country! - Shania Twain
I’m a Believer (encore) - Smashmouth
You and I (encore) - Celine Dion

Walkaway Set
Simply the Best - Tina Turner

Clinton Set List 7/13

NASHUA, NH -

I decided to spend less of my usual article detailing the musical selections of the campaign stop, and instead give it it's own section. Without further ado, here is how it went down in the Nash today:

Vertigo - U2
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - BTO
Beautiful Day - U2
Heroes - David Bowie
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
Conga - Gloria Estefan
Oye Como Va - Santana
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Don't Do Me Like That - Tom Petty
I'm Like a Bird - Nelly Furtado
Free Ride - Edgar Winter Group
Takin' it to the Streets - The Doobie Brothers
Soak Up the Sun - Sheryl Crow
You and I - Celine Dion (official campaign song)
and
Right Here, Right Now - Jesus Jones (unofficial campaign song)

What a gamut of emotions! I was initially critical of the repeated U2 choices, then immediately uplifted by David Bowie (wow!) before being stopped in my tracks by Gloria Estefan. Although, to its credit, it made a bunch of hippie older women and all the babies dance. All in all, more variety than I would have expected, and not as bland as Obama's. At least he played Steve Winwood. (yes, I plan to evoke that moment as much as possible between now and January.)

Obama, Not Much Drama

Laconia, NH -

Greetings from the heart of the Lakes Region, where 3Q is coming to you live from Barack Obama's latest appearance in the Granite State. First let me tell you how good it feels to be back in the land of the Free (or the Dying). Relative to my other early-season campaign events from the last cycle (Edwards, Kerry & Clark) this one was much more of a big deal. Whereas, in early August of 2003, Edwards only drew about 30 people, at least 10 of which were homeless and only in attendance for the free hot dogs in downtown Manch-Vegas, today's speech brought together some 350 listeners by my rough estimation. Granted, Edwards was sitting in 4th or 5th place in the polls at that time to Obama's 2nd, I can't imagine an event for anyone other than Mike Gravel bringing so few people together this time around.

I have always been intrigued by the And1 Mixtape Tour that is a presidential campaign. Some of the highlights of Obama's music were sung by such bland Betties as Jack Johnson, recent-era DMB, Bono in a duet of One with some indeterminable woman, the full U2 for Beautiful Day, and best of all Higher Love by Steve Winwood (certainly the favorite) before entering to Think by Aretha, which was solid enough. Even as I write this, The Outfield's I Don't Want to Lose Your Love Tonight is on the radio here at 3Q's Laconia HQ and it begs the question - why didn't he rock that? It's got the coffee shop moving right now. Bring it on!

Obama got started by acknowledging his massive fund raising haul and the great crowds he has been addressing at his urban stops around the country, attributing them not to his own charisma (which he poked fun at) but because of the American people "burning with desire for change." Of course, Barack positioned himself as the candidate who would lead that change. He moved from that to and address of his standard Dem platform, of which creating a national energy policy, getting out of Iraq, bringing people together, not taking PAC fundraising cash, and achieving universal health care garnered the loudest applause by far. He took questions, and in standard candidate fashion failed to answer them directly and instead sought to expand on his positions with a series of knowledgeable talking points. He scored the most when he chatted with an elderly woman about her youth and good looks, and spoke with a 5th grader like a concerned father, encouraging her to do her homework and turn off the TV. The latter received the loudest applause from your resident blogger.

Ultimately, it was a workday crowd of people who took time out of their day to see a candidate they were either supporting or highly interested in supporting. There were no hecklers, no major softballs, and it is too early in the summer for it to have the air of an important rally.
My biggest complaint was with Barack's handshake - a little too flabby for a hardy New Englander like myself. I might send him an e-mail about that. And now, give me leave for the White Mountains, those beefy gems of the Northeast. Three cheers for the Pemi, and until Marlow and Richardson on Thursday, keep your gameface on.

BTB