Shades of Mediocrity

Music to vote for change by

Today's Salon has an amusing write-up about the, well, lame music choices of the Kerry-Edwards campaign on the trail. A crowd waiting for the candidates to appear in Jefferson City, Missouri was treated to such masterpieces of American pop music as Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger," which drove another reporter covering the event to ask, "Can Republican music be any worse than this?"

The question is, what music could the Kerry campaign play that would be upbeat and just a little bit hip, but not so much that it alienates middle America? I'll be thinking about that. So far, all that comes to mind is a tune that I'm sure many political campaigns have trotted out over the years: Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies." Kerry would need a nice, peppy, swingy version, possibly even a new remix of a classic rendition of the song. How about it? What other songs should Kerry and Edwards use? It sure sounds like they need some help choosing!