George W. Bush sings REM

Here's George W. Bush's marvelous cover of REM's "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)." George's vocal stylings remind me of his father's excellent collaboration with Emergency Broadcast Network, the 1991 cover of "We Will Rock You." Link to "End of the World," Link to "We Will Rock You." (Thanks, Vann Hall and David Fox!)

[#1 posted by rocklifter , December 21, 2007 6:55 PM]

Goes right along with Sunday, Bloody Sunday.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6805063692754011230

[#2 posted by ridestowe , December 21, 2007 7:28 PM]

you beat me to it, rocklifter.

[#3 posted by Dan , December 21, 2007 7:34 PM]

Ouch...

[#4 posted by elliptic curve , December 21, 2007 7:46 PM]

Here's my personal favo(u)rite: The Clash's "Should I Stay Or Should I Go?", as performed by Tony Blair.

[#5 posted by grey , December 21, 2007 9:09 PM]

Don't forget him singing Lennon's "Imagine" and Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" while backed up by a band comprised of 4th graders on synthesizers.

http://ourmedia.org/node/30445

[#6 posted by ridestowe , December 21, 2007 9:10 PM]

thanks for that one elliptic, hadn't seen it before. "the power will be in the people's hands; we cant let that happen" hilarity ensues

[#7 posted by SAE Miller , December 21, 2007 10:54 PM]

I find this all so disturbing. My world is shattered. Keep them coming.

[#8 posted by SC_Wolf , December 22, 2007 1:15 AM]

Considering the season, I'm shocked no one has linked to G.W. 's cover of John Lennon's "Happy Christmas (War is Over)" yet.

[#9 posted by Daemon , December 22, 2007 1:20 AM]

Hmm. I hadn't even realized that the Great Big Sea version of the song was an REM cover.

I shall stick to GBS.

[#10 posted by Xenu , December 22, 2007 1:30 AM]

Gay Bar is the best presidential mashup.

[#11 posted by Evil Jim , December 22, 2007 4:23 AM]

This is a great idea but could have been executed better. What is that, Ska? It's a little too fast to comfortably follow most of the lyrics. But still, great idea.

[#12 posted by franko , December 22, 2007 9:29 AM]

is there an MP3 version of this anywhere? it's awesome.

[#13 posted by mdhatter , December 22, 2007 10:02 AM]

I saw EBN back in 1991. Sweeet. They had a budget and a half since they had just come off tour with U2 on their zooTV tour, for which I understand they did the 'tech' end of that first of it's kind tour.

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[#15 posted by PopArtDiva , December 22, 2007 6:41 PM]

I thought YouTube didn't allow uploads of clips off of tv or copyrighted music, I gather this is "fair use"? Maybe I can finally upload the video I made of Rumsfeld waving his hands and flapping his gums to the Oscar Meyer song?

[#16 posted by Flakcatcher , December 23, 2007 6:56 AM]

Bah, Wax Audio's mashup of W doing Imagine can't be beat as a song.

http://www.waxaudio.com.au/downloads/mediacracy

[#17 posted by Tony Moore , December 24, 2007 3:28 AM]

that's pretty great! and i hadn't heard hardly any of the ones you guys linked in here. thanks a ton!

reminds me of this old Evolution Control Committee song a buddy gave me years ago, Dan Rather voicing a clip song called Rocked By Rape.