I kinda like Row Row Row Your Boat. Great lyrics, easy to hum and actually quite profound. Any other suggestions?

-- grngrl (jhandt@gte.net), August 31, 1999

Answers

From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr near Monterey, California

John Lennon, Imagine

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage.neener.autospammers--regrets.greenspun), August 31, 1999.

Song: When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Y2K--Dr. Strangelove time.

Or how 'bouts my version of She'll Be Comin' Around The Moutain:

They'll be comin' around the mountain when they come, When they come, Yeah, they'll be comin' around the moutain when they come, They'll be drivin' a big, white Bronco they when come, When they come, Yeah, they'll be drivin' a big, white Bronco when they come,

They'll be taking lot of fire when they come, When they come, Yeah, they'll be taking lots fire when they come, They'll crashing way off down the mountain when do, When they do, Yeah, they'll be a crashin' way off down the mountain when they do.

-- CS Man (csm@smoke.com), August 31, 1999.

My nomination is " Everything is Broken". Artist: Kenny Wayne Shepherd Category: Blues and Jazz

-- Lucy (dontknownomore@webtv.net), August 31, 1999.

Theme-song to "Mission Impossible"...

-- Anonymous99 (Anonymous99@Anonymous99.xxx), August 31, 1999.

"I Will Survive". - Don't recall the female artist this early in the morning, but it has a catchy beat and you can dance to it.

"Only the Strong Survive" - The Tubes

-- Tim (pixmo@pixelquest.com), August 31, 1999.

Actually, Kenny Wayne's "Everything is broken" is a Dillon cover. Of course Kenny W's sounds better then Dillon. (Shoot, EVERYONE sounds better than Dillon.)

I submit Tinbuck three's "Just another movie" as our new National Anthem.

Keep your...

-- eyes_open (best@wishes.net), August 31, 1999.

Tim;

Donna Summer/Candy Staton EITHER version wins.

BTW Have met Ms. Staton. Neat lady!! Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), August 31, 1999.

grngrl,

In Lebanon, there is a public service announcement on television that warns of the technological advancement that Y2K will bring: a 100 year set back. It goes from the jet airplane to the row boat, pleading with business and people to come together and meet the challenge they face.

Sincerely, Stan Faryna

-- Stan Faryna (info@giglobal.com), August 31, 1999.

"Yesterday" by the Beatles.

-- Amy Leone (leoneamy@aol.com), August 31, 1999.

"The Trooper"--- by Iron Maiden.

"You take my life and I'll take your's too. You fire musket, but I'll run ya thru. So when your waiting for the next attack, you'd better stand, THERE'S NO TURNING BACK...."

-- CygnusXI (noburnt@toast.net), August 31, 1999.

My personal favorite is "2000 Man" by the Rolling Stones. (from the album "Their Satanic Majesties Request" - 1967):

Well my name is a number, a piece of plastic film
And I grow tiny flowers in my little window sill
Don't you know I'm the 2000 Man?
And my kids, they just don't understand me at all...

Well my wife still respects me, I really misuse her
And I am having an affair with a random computer
Don't you know I'm the 2000 Man?
And my kids, they just don't understand me at all...

Oh daddy, be proud of your planet,
Oh mommy, be proud of your sun
Oh daddy, be proud of your planet
Oh mommy, be proud of your sun

Oh daddy, is your brain still flashing
Like it did when you were young?
Or did you come down crashing
Seeing all the things you've done?
Oh it's a big put - on

Oh daddy, be proud of your planet...

And you know who's the 2000 Man?
And my kids, they just don't understand me at all...

-- pshannon (pshannon@inch.com), August 31, 1999.

I am rather partial to the "Hampster Dance" theme song as appropriate. http://www.hamsterdance.com/ My own hampster, Edgar Rice Burrows, is a GI and has stockpiled a nice stash of seeds.

-- marsh (armstrng@sisqtel.net), August 31, 1999.

Can I vote twice? "Welcome to the Jungle" Guns and Roses.

-- Amy Leone (leoneamy@aol.com), August 31, 1999.

Won't Get Fooled Again

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?

There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

-- Pete Townsend (who@what.where), August 31, 1999.

red off - cleaning up your messes again, huh Townsend?

-- Mick (mick@rolling.stones), August 31, 1999.

I vote for Styx, "Best of Times":

Tonight's the night we'll make history, honey, you and I And I'll take any risk to tie back the hands of time And stay with you here tonight I know you feel these are the worst of times I do believe it's true When people lock their doors and hide inside Rumor has it it's the end of Paradise But I know, if the world just passed us by Baby I know, you wouldn't have to cry

The best of times are when I'm alone with you Some rain some shine, we'll make this a world for two Our memories of yesterday will last a lifetime We'll take the best, forget the rest And someday we'll find these are the best of times These are the best of times

The headlines read 'these are the worst of times' I do believe it's true I feel so helpless like a boat against the tide I wish the summer winds could bring back Paradise But I know, if the world turned upside down Baby, I know you'd always be around

The best of times are when I'm alone with you Some rain some shine, we'll make this a world for two Our memories of yesterday will last a lifetime We'll take the best, forget the rest And someday we'll find these are the best of times These are the best of times

And so my friends we'll say goodnight For time has claimed it's prize But tonight will always last As long as we keep alive memories of Paradise...

-- me (not@real.com), August 31, 1999.

Come on people. The anthem has got to be "It's the End of the World as We Know It" by REM!!

-- nowaynohow (nobody@nowhere.net), August 31, 1999.

What a bunch of day-dreaming yuppies. (grin)

I want a military marching sing-song. Something that pumps up a crowd:

I don't know what you been TOLD. Polly spin is gettin' OLD.

Keep your money in the BANK. When it goes down know who to THANK.

Uncle Sam sits on the FENCE. Thinks we're dumb ain't got no SENSE.

Where is our sissy PRESIDENT? Let's kick him out of GOVERNMENT.

The power's up and then it's DOWN. People tearin' up the TOWN.

So who can we depend on NOW? I gotta horse you gotta COW.

They wanna take our guns AWAY. I need mine for a rainy DAY.

So stand up tall stick out your CHEST. It's time to do what we know BEST.

Sound off. ONE TWO!

Sound off. THREE FOUR!

Sound off. ONE TWO.....THREE FOUR!

I can just picture the Super-Bowl :)

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), August 31, 1999.

Tie-- between Tool's "Aenima" which includes the following lyrics:

"cause i'm prayin for rain, i'm praying for tidal waves... i wanna see the ground give way i wanna watch it all go down ma please flush it all away, i wanna see it go ridin down i wanna watch it go ridin watch you...flush it all away...."

and Natalie Merchant's "Thick as Thieves"

"The worst of it has come and gone In the chaos of millenium, In the falling out of the doomsday crowd Their last retreat is moving slow They burn their bridges as they go "

Prophetic!!!! --- i'd listened to it again and again, before just recently "hearing" the words above.

those are my choices.... and yes, i myself am a realist/doomer

-- Super (Slfsl@yahoo.com), August 31, 1999.

Thinking of all the struggling geeks, I have to vote for A. E. Housman:

 

THESE, in the day when heaven was falling,

The hour when earth's foundations fled,

Follow'd their mercenary calling

And took their wages and are dead.

 

Their shoulders held the sky suspended;

They stood, and earth's foundations stay;

What God abandon'd, these defended,

And saved the sum of things for pay.

-- bw (home@puget.sound), August 31, 1999.

Tim and Chuck,

FWIW--I would swear it was Gloria Gaynor, and not Donna Summer, that recorded "I Will Survive."

-- Don (whytocay@hotmail.com), August 31, 1999.

Don,

The biggest version of "I Will Survive" is by Gloria Gaynor. I don't know about other artists having versions of it.

A thread from the archives about January 1st songs:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000GKA

"Theme Song for New Year's Eve, 1999: nominations"

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), August 31, 1999.

I can't believe no one posted this yet...

'Two thousand zero-zero party over oops! Out of time.'

Prince - 1999

-TECH32-

-- TECH32 (TECH32@NOMAIL.COM), August 31, 1999.

"WAKE UP (THE SLEEPING GIANT)"

WORDS & MUSIC: D. SNIDER


GATHER 'ROUND US, JOIN WITH BAND
TOGETHER WE'RE STRONGER, TOGETHER WE'LL STAND
SAY "WHAT CAN YOU DO ?", WELL WE'VE GOT A PLAN
AND WE'RE GONNA TAKE YOU TO THE PROMISED LAND !

IT'S TIME TO REMEMBER, IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON,
THEY'VE PUSHED US TOO FAR, THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'VE DONE
IF IT'S A FIGHT THAT THEY WANT
THEN IT'S A FIGHT THAT THEY'LL GET
WE NEVER LOSE, HONEY, SO PLACE YOUR BETS !

LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY
WE HAD A VOICE - YOU KNOW THAT WE HAD A SAY
WE WON'T LIVE FOR YESTERDAY
READY OR NOT WE'RE GONNA HAVE OUR WAY !

chorus:

WE GOT THE NUMBERS
WE GOT THE MIGHT
WE GOT THE STRENGTH
AND WE GOT THE RIGHT
WE GOT THE REASON
WE GOT THE NIGHT
SO WAKE UP THE SLEEPING GIANT!


NOT ONE MORE MINUTE, NOT ONE MORE DAY
WE'VE WAITED TOO LONG, CAN'T LET OUR CHANCE SLIP AWAY
WE WON'T STOP 'TIL WE GET IT, WE WON'T STOP 'TIL WE'RE DONE
WE'LL BITE AND WE'LL CLAW UNTIL THEY'VE LOST AND WE'VE WON

WE TOOK ALL WE'RE GONNA TAKE, IT'S GOT TO STOP
YOU KNOW THERE'S TOO MUCH AT STAKE
WHO THE HELL ARE THEY TO SAY
WHAT WE CAN DO
AND HOW WE CAN PLAY !

repeat chorus

WHOA, WAKE UP THE SLEEPING GIANT !
WHOA, WAKE UP THE SLEEPING GIANT

LET'S PUSH TO THE LIMIT, SO LET'S PUSH 'TIL WE'RE HOME
WE'VE BEEN GOOD TOO LONG, THEY WOULDN'T LEAVE US ALONE
IT'S OUR RIGHTS THEY'RE ABUSING, IT'S OUR RIGHT TO FIGHT BACK
SO RALLY THE TROOPS, AND LET'S START THE ATTACK !

repeat chorus

WHOA, WE GOT THE NUMBERS YOU KNOW WE GOT THE MIGHT
WHOA, WAKE UP THE SLEEPING GIANT !
WHOA, WE GOT THE REASON AND WE'RE READY TO FIGHT
WHOA, WAKE UP THE SLEEPING GIANT !


-- biker (we're not gonna@take.it), August 31, 1999.

How about: "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" But use the words:

"Where have all the pollies gone, long time passing, Where have all the pollies gone, long time ago Where have all the pollies gone, gone to graveyards everyone When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn..

(I forget the rest of the song, but I'm sure you all can fill in the rest).

Also, "In the Year 2525 If Man Is Still Alive,: came out in the late 60's.

-- ~~~~ (~~~~@~~~.com), August 31, 1999.

see this thread, http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl? msg_id=000R62

especially "Living on the Edge of the Century"

Also just about any Doors song seems apropriate...

-- biker (livin@the.edge), August 31, 1999.

Yes, REM will be playing at my house on rollover, but I think "Painted Black" would be a great anthem.

-- Jim the Window Washer (Rational@man.com), August 31, 1999.

What can I say?

In My Life (Lennon/McCartney)

There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers There is no one compares with you And these memories lose their meaning When I think of love as something new Though I know I'll never lose affection For people and things that went before I know I'll often stop and think about them In my life I love you more

Though I know I'll never lose affection For people and things that went before I know I'll often stop and think about them In my life I love you more In my life I love you more

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), August 31, 1999.

Have y'all noticed...

not one polly has contributed to this thread....

not even any happy happy smiley smiley songs....

THEY KNOW...

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), August 31, 1999.

"You tell me, over and over and over again my friend,

you don't believe

we're on the eve of destruction..."

-- biker (y2kbiker@worldnet.att.net), September 01, 1999.

You want a "happy happy smiley smiley song" ? This one makes me feel better sometimes...

Ridin' the Storm Out

by REO Speedwagon

ridin the storm out
waitin for the thaw out
on a full moon night in the Rocky Mountain winter

my wine bottle's low
watchin for the snow
I been thinkin lately of what I'm missin in the city

chorus:

And I'm not missin a thing
watchin the full moon crossin the range
ridin the storm out
ridin the storm out
ridin the storm out
ridin the storm out

lady beside me
she's there to guide me
she says that alone we've finally found home

wind out side is frightening
but its kinder than the lightning life of the city
its a hard life to live
but it gives back what you give

repeat chorus
repeat first verse


-- biker (y2kbiker@worldnet.att.net), September 02, 1999.

"we're living on dog food(so what?)"......by Iggy Pop

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), September 02, 1999.