MN state rock song?
Posted on March 5th, 2009 – 1:07 AMBy Jon Bream
Oklahoma announced this week that the Flaming Lips’ “Do You Realize” is the state’s official rock song.
What do you think should be Minnesota’s official rock song?
Here, off the top of my head, are some candidates:
Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited,” Lipps, Inc.’s “Funkytown,” Prince’s “Purple Rain,” Lamont Cranston’s “Upper Mississippi Shakedown,” the Suburbs’ “Cows,” the Jayhawks’ “Blue,” the Replacements’ “Left of the Dial,” Husker Du’s “Love Is All Around,” Gear Daddies’ “Zamboni,” the Hold Steady’s “Hornets Hornets,” Trip Shakespeare’s “Toolmaster of Brainerd”…
Which song would you nominate? Either from the list above or a propose some song(s) yourself.
10 Responses to "MN state rock song?"
What, Slave Raider doesn’t get any love?
I’d have to go with Husker Dü’s Makes No Sense At All with the Mary Tyler Moore song tacked onto the end:
soul asylum - somebody to shove
prince - let’s go crazy
After electing Jesse Ventura, I’d hafta go with Great White’s “Once Bitten, Twice Shy.” I know that’s bending the rules, but that’s why I hum whenever I go vote.
Ooh ooh! Hornets Hornets! For sure…. I heart that song.
It’s a tough call. Left of the Dial may be it.
Another suggestion is Shhh by Atmosphere.
Willie & The Bees - Supermarket
Flamin’ Oh’s - I Remember Romance
I nominate the Replacements’ “Skyway.”
Somebody to Shove by Soul Asylum
Erotic City by Prince
Ooooooo, danger, danger. . . I know it just for fun but this sounds like a genuinely bad idea — clearly there are too many great candidates (and awful ones, too) — that said, mark me down for the Baby Astronauts’ “Gray Bosom Jut” or Man Sized Action’s “Replica”
