I hope everyone votes Tuesday, and I hope everyone is fully informed before making their choices. If you're not sure who to vote for after at least eleven straight months of campaigning, well, you're on the Internet, go to Google and look around for yourself. There's no excuse not to be well informed. So to celebrate our democracy and the truly wonderful choice we can hopefully make for ourselves on Tuesday, I've listed the fifty states below, in red and blue, depending on which candidate, Bush (red) or Kerry (blue), the state voted for in 2004, along with an accompany song to celebrate the state. Obviously, I'd like as many of those red states to turn blue as possible. I'd really love to see a landslide that might once and for all change the completely misinformed media narrative that we are a conservative country. We're not. We probably never were. In poll after poll, Americans side with Democrats and liberal thinking on issues from abortion to the economy to taxes to deficits to religious teaching to the environment to foreign policy. Americans generally favor Republicans on issues of national defense, although on specific issues (like Iraq, for example), the opposing position usually ends up ahead. We've spent two decades with ineffective government run by people who strongly oppose government action and other than the Internet boom while Democrat Clinton was in office, we've seen our economy and our standing in the world crumble in the hands of Republican leaders who have been corrupt, hateful, lying, wrong-headed, greedy, and in many cases, downright evil and bent on personal power and ideology over the will of the American people. It's been hard -- it's been really hard to be proud of our country over the past eight years, and especially since Katrina. This week, we can change all that.
Please vote.
- Download Sufjan Stevens - "The 50 States Song".mp3
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Download Sunset Rubdown - "They Took a Vote and Said No".mp3
And please click through for 50 songs for 50 states!
- Maine
- New Hampshire
- Vermont
- Massachusetts
- Rhode Island
- Download Godspeed! You Black Emperor! - "Providence".mp3
- NOTE: This is a really large file - a 29 minute song, but I think the intro is kind of appropriate, given our economic conditions today; and oh yeah, it's an absolutely brilliant song
- Connecticut
- New York
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Download Commander Venus - "Pennsylvania Made You Sick".mp3
- This is Conor Oberst's teenage band, the predecessor to Bright Eyes
- Delaware
- Download Pavement - "Newark Wilder".mp3
- For the "other" Newark in the New Jersey area - Newark, Delaware (which is pronounced New - ARK)
- Maryland
- West Virginia
- Washington DC
- Virginia
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Georgia
- Download Joanna Newsom - "Peach, Plum, Pear".mp3
- It is the Peach State. Sorry, you're not getting "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" on this site.
- Florida
- Alabama
- Tennessee
- Kentucky
- Ohio
- Illinois
- Michigan
- Wisconsin
- Download Modest Mouse - "Tundra / Desert".mp3
- This one is a stretch I know, but I'm going for the Lambeau Field "Frozen Tundra"; it was either this or Modest Mouse's "Mice Eat Cheese" but for whatever reason, Wisconsin felt like a Modest Mouse state. Maybe it's all the beer.
- Indiana
- Download Smog - "Let Me See the Colts".mp3
- Sticking with the football theme here... Sufjan seems to be the only one singing specifically about Midwestern states and he hasn't gotten beyond Illinois yet.
- Iowa
- Minnesota
- North Dakota
- Download M83 - "In Church".mp3
- From the wikipedia entry on North Dakota:
- Along with having the most churches per capita of any state, North Dakota has the highest percentage of church-going population of any state.[34][35]
- See, you learn something new every day (remind me never to go to North Dakota).
- South Dakota
- Kansas
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Super rare early track from Grandaddy, might possibly be my favorite song named after a state. Catchy, guitar-heavy, filled with hooks, and featuring some vintage Jason Lytle screaming mid-song. It was good enough to beat out not 1, not 2, but 3 songs in my collection about Omaha (Tapes 'n Tapes, The Gloria Record, and another Conor Oberst band Desaparecidos)
- Oklahoma
- Texas
- Arkansas
- Download My Latest Novel - "The Hope Edition".mp3
- President Clinton was from Hope, Arkansas (clever, huh? -- you try and find a song about Little Rock)
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- New Mexico
- Colorado
- Download Pavement - "Pueblo".mp3
- A populous county in southern Colorado
- Wyoming
- Download Oxford Collapse - "Please Visit Your National Parks".mp3
- Home of Yellowstone National Park
- Montana
- Idaho
- Download Bob Mould - "Deep Karma Canyon".mp3
- Home to Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in the United States!
- Utah
- Arizona
- Nevada
- California
- Oregon
- Washington
- Alaska
- Hawaii
cant even get devil went down to georgia?
Posted by: Georgian Devil | November 02, 2008 at 11:27 PM
Sorry. Just download the Joanna Newsom song. It's excellent. Has nothing at all to do with Georgia, but excellent nonetheless.
Posted by: Bill | November 03, 2008 at 08:41 AM
I am sure they are all good choices, but I would have went with "Sequestered in Memphis" for Tennessee.
Posted by: Ira | November 03, 2008 at 01:05 PM
You could have gone with "Wisconsin" by Bon Iver.
Posted by: Mary | November 11, 2008 at 07:21 PM
why the decemberist in washington!!!
they are from oregon man!!!!
check and change it.
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Posted by: fastfatum | November 11, 2008 at 10:13 PM
I guess this list would have been a whole lot easier if Sufjan was done by now.
Posted by: Mala | February 19, 2009 at 04:47 AM
Wow, this was really cool!
Just, you know, to throw it out there, Oklahoma City by Cake Bake Betty would have been great to put on here.
Posted by: Callie | March 05, 2009 at 04:15 PM
Brilliant stuff!! Any chance of a re-up/repost for Grandaddy's Nebraska?
All the best
Posted by: Curtis | January 08, 2010 at 08:11 PM
"Nebraska" is not available for download. My server was overloaded and I had to delete all the old songs from before August '09. Sorry.
To "fastfatum", I know you responded over a year ago, but I'm just seeing it now, the Decemberists weren't under Washington because they are from Washington (which they aren't), but because the song there is "The Mariner's Revenge Song" and the Mariners of course are a baseball team in Seattle, Washington (and happen to be my favorite AL team). So that's why.
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To "fastfatum", I know you responded over a year ago, but I'm just seeing it now, the Decemberists weren't under Washington because they are from Washington (which they aren't), but because the song there is "The Mariner's Revenge Song" and the Mariners of course are a baseball team in Seattle, Washington (and happen to be my favorite AL team). So that's why.
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