 | It's time again to hand the turntables over to Mini Moose, and she's getting political. Here are her seven, politically-inspired picks for this week. |
 SONG OF THE monDAY Election Time is from Wyclef Jean's 2010 album, If I Were President: My Haitian Experience. The album was released after Jean's bid to run for president of Haiti ended when he was deemed ineligible due to residency requirements. |  SONG OF THE tuesDAY Be Careful How You Vote is from Sunnyland Slim. Sunnyland Slim was a blues pianist born in Mississippi. He moved to Chicago during the 1940s and, along with Muddy Waters and others, helped make Chicago the epicenter of postwar blues. |
 SONG OF THE wednesDAY Elected is a 1972 Alice Cooper song from the album, Billion Dollar Babies. The song was a radical re-write of Reflected, is their second most-successful hit, and inspired one of the first MTV-style story-line promo videos for a song. |  SONG OF THE thursDAY Buffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth isn't an anti-war protest song. Released in 1967, the song's really about curfew riots on the Sunset Strip in LA. Buffalo Springfield was the house band at Whiskey a Go Go at that time. |
 SONG OF THE friDAY From the album Willy and the Boys, CCR's Fortunate Son is one of the most famous anti-war anthems of all-time. John Fogerty said the song was inspired by the marriage of Dwight Eisenhower's grandson to Richard Nixon's daughter. |  SONG OF THE saturDAY All She Wants To Do Is Dance is from Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast. Many say the song's about the rebel side of youth culture in America during the 80s. Others say hogwash. Either way it's a great song to dance to. |
 SONG OF THE sunDAY Christ for President is a song from Mermaid Avenue, which is a 1998 album of previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie and put to music and performed by Billy Bragg and Wilco. |
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