Music About Ronald Reagan

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there was a 12" on Khans streetsounds label that was all electro cutup funk thing with the whole 'begin bombing in 5 mins' - "the democratic three " or something like that !

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 7 June 2004 08:00 (nineteen years ago) link

According to the great man himself when interviewed by David Letterman on The Late Show in 1982: Ice Cream For Crow by Captain Beefheart.

DL: "Yeah. What does that mean exactly, the title?"

DVV: "Uh, it has a lot to do with Ray-Gun. I mean, he saddle soaps his hair and tosses jelly beans through rope tricks. He's a bad actor!"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link

That's brilliant! And my mind is still wrapping itself around the idea that Beefheart was on Letterman.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Blue Riddim Band "My Name is Nancy Reagan." They used to spin this a lot on "Reggae Beat International" -- ragamuffin thing with a "Davy Crockett" melody (the teevee theme, not the Headcoatees song).

― briania (briania), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Extraordinary 'though it may seem Ned, Don actually appeared on Letterman twice: in 1982 and 1983.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm amazed!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Sun City Girls "Nancy" is about his wife.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

"B-Movie" - Gil Scott Heron. Remember him THIS way.

Ron & Nancy are also namechecked in Big Hard Excellent Fish's litany of shite, "Imperfect List". Available today from a blog near you. ;-)

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Last night DJing at Southpaw I segued "Ronnie Talk to Russia" into "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg," but I don't think anybody noticed...

― chuck, Monday, 7 June 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Bow Wow Wow's "TV Savage" had that line "She is like Ronnie Reagan." They never really elaborated on how Annabella resembled Reagan, though.

― mike a, Monday, 7 June 2004 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Captain Beefheart not only made videos, but hated MTV before either were fashionable.

― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

'cause nothing lasts forever, even cold November rain

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Incredibly, it seems nobody on this tread mentioned Fun Boy Three's "The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

The Beefheart on Letterman videos are up on YouTube.

― paid in cigarettes (paid in cigarettes), Friday, 3 November 2006 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Did anybody mention the live version of Magazine's "Model Worker?"

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Friday, 3 November 2006 02:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Psychedelic Furs - "President Gas"

― Radio Free Albemuth (DocMartensBoots), Friday, 3 November 2006 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Minimal Man - "Loneliness"

― Brad Laner (Brad Laner), Friday, 3 November 2006 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1UfDHij5R4

― global tetrahedron, Monday, 31 May 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link

A mix of punk songs about Reagan I made awhile back:
https://www.quartzcity.net/2016/11/08/episode-015-punk-rock-reagan/

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 31 May 2021 22:02 (two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

A lengthy and essayistic Wikipedia entry on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_in_music

― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Saturday, 19 June 2021 04:29 (two years ago) link

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