Songs of the Session

Here it is. Make your mixtape or your itunes playlist. It's the songs from the 2008 Legisltive Session. Please feel free to post additional requests (I feel like Mark Wheat on The Current).

UPDATE -- I added a few songs.

Budget Talks

Highway to Hell -

AC/DC

- The status of budget negotiations.

Tailspin -

The Jayhawks

- The status of budget negotiations.

Who's gonna take the weight?

Gang Starr

- budget speculation

The first cut is the deepest -

Sheryl Crow

- budget cuts

Nowhere fast -

Mary J. Blige

- the pace of budget talks

One Step Up -

Bruce Springsteen

- Budget talks in the final weeks of session

You can't always get what you want -

Rolling Stones

- Pawlenty to lawmakers

You can't always get what you want -

Rolling Stones

- Lawmakers to Pawlenty

All I want is you -

Barry Louis Polisar

- DFL Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller to Gov. Pawlenty

Anyone Else But You -

The Moldy Peaches

- Pawlenty to Pogemiller

Tonight, Tonight -

Smashing Pumpkins

- press corps praying that a budget deal gets done soon.

Work it Out -

Jurassic 5 with Dave Matthews

- The hope and plea from the public

Allentown -

Billy Joel

- What Pawlenty and Republicans say Minnesota will turn into if they don't cut taxes.

Bone Broke -

The White Stripes

-- What Democrats say Pawlenty's No New Taxes pledge did to the state.

Transportation Debate

The Great Compromise -

John Prine

- DFL deal with the Minnesota Chamber

Override of the Overture -

Dismember

- Do you know how hard it is to find a song with override in the title?

Protection -

Bruce Springsteen

- GOP House Minority Leader Marty Seifert's promises to the governor.

Thunder Road -

Bruce Springsteen

- Amount of arm twisting that occurred before the votes.

Beautiful Let Down -

Switchfoot

- What the House GOP did to Pawlenty or some would argue Pawlenty did to the House GOP.

Don't think twice, It's alright -

Bob Dylan

- DFLers to the Republicans who voted for the veto override.

The Breaks -

Kurtis Blow

- GOP to the override six that didn't get endorsed

Hit the road, Jack -

Ray Charles

- Republicans to the override 6.

Til I Retire -

Pete Rock

- Ron Erhardt and Neil Peterson vowing to run for reelection even though they lost the GOP endorsement

You're fired -

Strike Anywhere

- Senate DFL to Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau as Transportation Commissioner.

Sitting here in Limbo -

Jimmy Cliff

- The Central Corridor's fate at the Capitol.

It ain't me babe. -

Bob Dylan

- U of M on Central Corridor veto

Your Cheatin' Heart -

Hank Williams

- DFLers to U of M over Central Corridor

Bridge Over Troubled Water -

Simon and Garfunkel

- Duluth, Hastings and St. Cloud bridges

Tax Payin' Blues -

J.B. Lenoir

- Pawlenty and GOP on gas and sales tax increases in transportation bill

Gasoline -

Sheryl Crow

- House GOP gas tax ads ripping DFLers

Governor

List of Demands -

Saul Williams

- Pawlenty with all his veto threats.

On the Road Again -

Willie Nelson

- Pawlenty's travel

Immigrant Song -

Led Zeppelin

- Gov. Pawlenty's repeated pleas for the Legislature to take up his immigration plan.

What I'd Say -

Ray Charles

- Pawlenty's letters to the Legislature

With or Without you -

U2

- Pawlenty's unallotment comments from last week.

Bring Y'All back -

Pete Rock

- Pawlenty's special session talk

Watch What you say -

Guru

- Tony Sertich to Pawlenty over Cheap Shots comment

Veto -

Cannibal

- Do you really need an explanation?

Let me clear my throat -

DJ Kool

- Pawlenty after throat injury

Let it be me -

Everyly Brothers

- Pawlenty's hopes for a VP slot

House

Dark was the night, Cold was the Ground -

Blind Willie Johnson

- Late night floor sessions

Stir it up -

Bob Marley

- GOP Rep. Tom Emmer's comments on the floor

A Change is gonna come -

Sam Cooke

- Marty Seifert to GOP activists

Nowhere fast -

Mary J. Blige

- Democrats to GOP

Pulling Teeth -

Green Day

- The agony of the House floor sessions

Tired of Being Alone -

Al Green

- Mark Olson

Don't Take your guns to town -

Johnny Cash

- House DFL to Tony Cornish over Castle Doctrine

Bigmouth strikes again -

The Smiths

- House members who feel they have to speak on every amendment

Microphone Fiend -

Eric B and Rakim

- See above

Please, Please, Please -

James Brown

- DFL House members hoping the session ends well.

Beware of the Boys -

Panjabi MC

- Warning to House Speaker Anderson Kelliher when she heads to budget negotiations.

Butter -

A Tribe Called Quest

- House Speaker Kelliher's love for the Princess Kay of the Milky Way.

Senate

Right Here, Right Now -

Fatboy Slim

- DFL Sen. Steve Murphy to Brian McClung

My own worst enemy -

Lit

- Senate DFL

Steal my sunshine -

Len

- Senators who worry that the House gets all the press attention.

U Can't Touch This -

MC Hammer

- DFL Sen. Linda Berglin to Pawlenty on the Health Care Access Fund

Roll Over Beethoven -

Chuck Berry

- Senate GOP during floor debates.

Other

Lay Down little doggies -

Arlo Guthrie

- DFL Rep. John Lesch's breed specific dog ban.

For my Dogs -

DMX

- The backlash from Lesch's proposal.

I heard it through the grapevine -

Marvin Gaye

- Lobbyist chatter outside of the chambers

Don't Leave me this way - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Minnesota to Northwest Airlines

The gorilla song - Raffi - GOP House Minority Leader Marty Seifert criticizing the bonding bill because it included funding for a gorilla exhibit at Como Zoo

Dancing with myself -

Billy Idol

- Minnesota Vikings

September -

Earth, Wind and Fire

- 4 AM bar closings at the RNC

In the wee hours of the morning -

Frank Sinatra

- Lobbyists during the RNC.

I'm still standing -

Elton John

- Mall of America folks who keep pushing for subsidies.

Kashmir -

Led Zeppelin

- Health care coverage debate because it's a long, winding issue that has gone just a bit too long.

Only sixteen -

Sam Cooke

- new teen driving rules

Foreclosure of a Dream -

Megadeath

- All the foreclosure related bills.

Half-Cocked Concepts -

P.O.S

- lawmakers who hold news conferences but can't explain their bills.

Can't Tell Me Nothing -

Kanye West

- Staffers on every level of state government who can't say hi to a reporter without getting the PR person's ok.

Bread and Butter -

The Roots

- The high cost of food because of investment in biofuels.

Sexy Back -

Justin Timberlake

- The AP's Brian Bakst

Finally

Beautiful Day -

Mary J. Blige

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