In the midnight hour : Election Day

44 songs to help you out. Turn off the sound and crank up the tunes. As long as you're surrounded by good books, music, people, and a beverage, things are gonna be alright.

Or they won't be. C'est la vie, ecraison l'infante, peeps.

(NO BALLOTS WERE HARMED, KILLED, OR SHOWN IN THIS IMAGE)

1976

Somebody to Love / Queen
Let Me Dream If I Want To (Amphetamine Blues) / Mink Deville
Blinded by the Light / Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Take Me Home Country Roads / Toots & The Maytals
Above the Clouds / Electric Light Orchestra

1986

Don't Dream It's Over / Crowded House
On Earth As It Is In Heaven / Ennio Morricone
Playing with the Boys / Kenny Loggins
Master of Puppets / Metallica
Bigmouth Strikes Again / the Smiths
When Angels Sing / Social Distortion

1996

Outtasite (Outta Mind) / Wilco
Pretty Noose / Soundgarden
Sound of Silence / Emilana Torrini
O! What a Dream It Was / Future Bible Heroes

2006

Monsters / Band of Horses
Nuclear Daydream / Joseph Arthur
Tribulations / LCD Soundsystem
Today is a Good Day / Anna Ternheim
Someday / Brett Dennen
How to Nurse a Bruised Ego / Vive Voce
Make Out Fall Out Make Up / Love is All
Wolf Like Me / TV On The Radio
Citizens of Tomorrow / Tokyo Police Club
Exo-Politics / Muse
World Keeps Turning / Tom Waits
Mastodon / The Wolf is Loose
Not Ready to Make Nice / Dixie Chicks
Conventional Wisdom / Built to Spill
All the World is Waiting / Elf Power
Families / Neil Young
Get Off the Bandwagon / EPMD
They Took a Vote and Said No / Sunset Rubdown
I Came to Believe / Johnny Cash
The Greatest / Cat Power
Another One Goes By / The Walkmen

2016

All the Way / Bob Dylan
Joyride (Omen) / Chevelle
Walls / Kings of Leon
The Light is Clear in My Head / Moby
Head Carrier / Pixies
The Greatest / Sia + Kendrick Lamar
20/20 / the Vaccines
The End is Beautiful / Jimmy Eat World

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With Countess Becca Nutter Long

Pic: Her Royalness Rachel Nutter