Setlist from last night (07/08 November)

A pre-Election Day special!

"Democracy?" - The Damned
"Candidate" - Johnny Marr
"Election Night Special" - Burning Airlines
"Election Day" - Radio 4

"Electioneering" - Radiohead
"Teenage Politics" - MxPx
"Don't Worry About the Government" [live] - Talking Heads
"Elected" - Steve Jones, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum and Bob Kulick

"President of What?" - Death Cab for Cutie
"Left of Center" - Merit
"Right of Center" - Doug Fieger
"Both Sides Now" - Parasites (for Joni Mitchell's birthday)

"Government Trash" - Death from Above 1979
"Candidate" - David Bowie
"Another Bloody Election" - Killing Joke
"Election Day" - The Spiders

"Vote for Me, Dummy" - Guided By Voices
"Here Comes President Kill Again" - XTC (by request)
"Throwing the Election" - Game Theory
"Leader of Men" - Let's Active

"President Gas" - THe Psychedelic Furs
"Politicians" - Skeemin' NoGoods
"Campaign of Hate" - The Libertines
"Election Day" - Arcadia

"Bitter Divisions" - Against Me! (for Laura Jane Grace's birthday)
"Election Day" - The Replacements
"When I'm President" - Ian Hunter & the Rant Band
"The Politics of Dancing" - Re-Flex (by request)

"Our Candidate" - The Standells
"The President" - Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians
"U.S. Government" - Black Revel Motorcycle Club

Kudos for including Ian Hunter's "When I'm President" and for NOT including Cream's "Politician," which has been done to death.

Thanks, Mr Toland! I did have the Cream song in my last election special. And yeah, I agree, it's an easy go-to selection, for a setlist such as this.

"Both Sides Now" certainly isn't a political song, but at least the title fits. And I couldn't ignore Joni's birthday. Plus, I found a version of the song that worked with my format. (I always wanted Hüsker Dü to cover "Both Sides Now." I'm still hoping that Bob Mould will cover it.)

"Vote for Me, Dummy" - Guided By Voices
"Here Comes President Kill Again" - XTC (by request)
"Throwing the Election" - Game Theory
"Leader of Men" - Let's Active

This block more than makes up for the absence of Alice Cooper's "Elected," and (please let me be wrong) the Game Theory track may be the prophetic.

> This block more than makes up for the absence of Alice Cooper's "Elected" ...

I did include a cover of that classic from the Coop, to wrap the second block.