Why, yes; this did seem a particularly appropriate choice of song for Election Day (“Vote for me and I’ll set you free!/Rap on, brother, rap on”), but beyond the cheap joke, this is just a wonderful song with an amazing arrangement; listen to the organ in the background, the bassline crouching in the background and those horns making you wish that everything could sound like this, the drummer bringing it when necessary and those vocals. If only electioneering could sound as enticing as this song, politics would be a very different thing indeed.
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