Music to Cross the Border By?

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This today from the Providence (R.I.) Journal:

BY MICHAEL CORKERY
SIX MILES FROM THE IRAQI BORDER, Kuwait -- With the border finally in sight, the Bradley squad could attend to its final and critical combat preparations.
Sgt. John Harper gathered the men around the ramp of the Bradley, and one of them turned on a CD player. The mellow sounds of R & B blasted across the sand.
"Are you kidding me," said Pvt. Scott Morgando, 26. "That's, like, making-baby music, not crossing-the-border music."
The 2nd Battalion of the 7th Infantry Regiment moved within 5 miles of the Iraqi border yesterday and turned their sights on enemy positions. For this unit, yesterday's move signaled that a ground invasion could come within days or hours.
For Harper's Bradley squad in the 2-7's Alpha Company, it also signaled that the time had come to vote on the music they would play when they crossed into Iraq and launched their attack.
Pvt. Chuck Roberts wanted something patriotic. Harper wanted Led Zeppelin, but he couldn't find the CD. Someone suggested Tupac. Morgando didn't want anything morbid. The squad couldn't agree. "What about Julio Iglesias," Harper joked, lighting up a cigar.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 20 March 2003 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Forgot to add this from the conclusion of that article:

The handful of veterans from the Gulf War remember waiting in the Saudi Arabian desert as the bombing campaign lasted for 39 days. No one expects the air campaign to last that long this time. They are listening for the first Tomahawk cruise missiles to screech overhead.
And when they do, the Bradley squad knows one song it's going to play. That one is easy. It's by the hip-hop group Outkast: "Bombs over Baghdad."

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 20 March 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

At first I thought "Saddam Hussein stole this song from Whitney Houston. We're going to steal it back." .. I Will Always Love You.

Then I thought "Helter Skelter" itself would be a better choice.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

i hear that America has a new weapon of sonic power: Lightning Bolt !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Steve Earle's JERUSALEM.

― matt riedl (veal), Thursday, 20 March 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Thursday, 20 March 2003 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

That classic FM radio track 'I've got a long waaay to go before we make it to the border of Mexico'. What is the name of that track?

― S Samson, Thursday, 20 March 2003 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

The Ride Of The Valkyries, plain and freaking simple.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 20 March 2003 23:22 (twenty-three years ago)

"When I Get to the Border," Richard Thompson

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Border Girl, Paulina Rubio

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Philies Most Wanted - Cross the Border (neptunes prod)!!!!!!!

― nick.K (nick.K), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

or The Pixies - Debaser/River Euphrates(sp!). Primal stuff, exactly what I was listening to the last time this happened.

― nick.K (nick.K), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Cliche Answer: The Eagles Greatest Hits.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7879206.stm

― Ringtone bisexual bible shower (The stickman from the hilarious xkcd comics), Sunday, 15 February 2009 16:33 (seventeen years ago)

― JtM Is Ruled By A Black Man (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 15 February 2009 18:46 (seventeen years ago)

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