Hmm... Nobody said "Oops I Did It Again"
The Fourth of July is on the way.
In keeping with that theme, ROUTE 1 readers answer the following FRIDAY QUESTION:
What song could serve as America's national anthem, besides "The Star Spangled Banner?"
Annika H. -- "This land is my land, this land is your land."
Dave B. -- Neil Young's "Keep on Rockin in the Free World."
Inger H. -- Spinal Tap's "Gimme Some Money." ...heck, AmEx liked it so much, they used it in a TV ad!
Laura C. -- I've actually always liked "America the Beautiful" better...it's less about the glories of war and more about the glories of our country (and that's certainly a shift of focus I'd like to see in the national mind). Of course, we left coast folks could just secede, and then we could use "California Uber Alles" (Dead Kennedys) as our "national" anthem.
Bob H. -- "The Star Spangled Banner!"
Scout S. -- "4th of July" by X. "On the stairs I smoke a cigarette alone. Mexican kids are shooting fireworks below. Whatever happened, I apologize."
Rick T. -- "God Bless the USA."
Mike M. -- Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land." It is Guthrie's angry response to Irving Berlin's jingoist "God Bless America."
Rob K. -- "This Land is Your Land" or George Carlin's version of "America the Beautiful." "Oh beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain. For strip-mined mountains' majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee. And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea-e-e-e-e."
Mike D. -- "America the Beautiful," for all its great imagery.
Erik H. -- I have always been a sucker for "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin. Not because of its appearance in television ads and not because it was played by 84 pianists simultaneously at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics of 1984, but because it is such a powerful, sweeping piece of beautiful music.
In keeping with that theme, ROUTE 1 readers answer the following FRIDAY QUESTION:
What song could serve as America's national anthem, besides "The Star Spangled Banner?"
Annika H. -- "This land is my land, this land is your land."
Dave B. -- Neil Young's "Keep on Rockin in the Free World."
Inger H. -- Spinal Tap's "Gimme Some Money." ...heck, AmEx liked it so much, they used it in a TV ad!
Laura C. -- I've actually always liked "America the Beautiful" better...it's less about the glories of war and more about the glories of our country (and that's certainly a shift of focus I'd like to see in the national mind). Of course, we left coast folks could just secede, and then we could use "California Uber Alles" (Dead Kennedys) as our "national" anthem.
Bob H. -- "The Star Spangled Banner!"
Scout S. -- "4th of July" by X. "On the stairs I smoke a cigarette alone. Mexican kids are shooting fireworks below. Whatever happened, I apologize."
Rick T. -- "God Bless the USA."
Mike M. -- Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land." It is Guthrie's angry response to Irving Berlin's jingoist "God Bless America."
Rob K. -- "This Land is Your Land" or George Carlin's version of "America the Beautiful." "Oh beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain. For strip-mined mountains' majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee. And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea-e-e-e-e."
Mike D. -- "America the Beautiful," for all its great imagery.
Erik H. -- I have always been a sucker for "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin. Not because of its appearance in television ads and not because it was played by 84 pianists simultaneously at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics of 1984, but because it is such a powerful, sweeping piece of beautiful music.
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