Mao II presentation

[Lito]

I have a presentation on the book Mao II by Don DeLillo.  The presentation requires that I play a song that relates to, gives the feeling of, or somehow connects to the book.  The problem is, I don't listen to much music, so I need some help on picking the song.

For those who haven't read the book: a quick synopsis/description might help in your suggestions

Six thousand five hundred couples are married at Yankee Stadium.
A Famously reclusive writer has his picture taken.
A Swiss UN worker is held hostage in beruit

Don DeLillo’s extraordinary new novel is about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist.  Haunted by the spirits of such diverse figures as Andy Warhol and Mao Zedong, it takes us from New York to Longdon to Beruit, terror’s modern republic.  At its heart is an isolated writer, Bill Gray, who escapes the failed novel he has been working on for many years and enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives, and hostages locked in basement rooms.  Bill’s dangerous passage leaves two people stranded, his brilliant fixated assistant Scott and the strange clairvoyant young woman who is Scott’s lover, and Bill’s.
   “Years ago,” says Gray, “I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture.  Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.  They make raids on human consciousness.”
   From its first page, Mao II announces our naked exposure to a civilization gone awry.  There are crowds everywhere—crowds of brides and grooms, crowds of victims, crowds of revolutionaries, crowds keening at the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, crowds on television, crowds in the street. Yet against this onslaught of images and cataclysmic events, DeLillo also tells and intimate story about faith, longing and redemption.

Any suggestions welcome.

[Nooblet]

Mushroomhead
"These Filthy Hands"

Haphazardly, Tumbling Hard
Fall Right Down,
Laugh Out Loud
All In The Scheme Of Things,
We're All Looking Up Growing Tall
It's Like Pulling One Hair
You Are What You Are To Me
With Wet Fingers
In My Eyes You're A Star
Petroleum Jelly
You're Something I'll Never Be
And Watch The Rain Dance
You're Something, I'm Frightened Of
I've Got To Get Clean
The Rain Will Cleanse Me
And I've Got To Wash These Filthy Hands
Because It's All Just A Futile Plan
That'd Mean I'd Have To
Believe Again
It's Like A Career To Breathe
An Existence I Can't Conceive
Emotionless As In Slug
In My Imagined Oblivion
It's As Much Fun
As Poking At A Nerve
You Would Swear,
That I Could,
Walk And Talk
No One Wants To Fail
But No One Wants To Work
But I Doubt You Will Ever
Vocabulary Test Is Graded On A Curve
Ever Prove Enough
Smartest Kid Is Stupid
Word Is Never Heard
I Doubt You'll Ever Prove It!
I've Got To Get Clean
The Rain Will Cleanse Me
And I've Got to Wash These Filthy Hands
All These Thoughts And Feelings
Are For Naught Unappealing
So You Expect Them
To Dull And Fade
Still They Remain
Caught Waiting For The Rain
Time Devours Life
With My Soul As The Defendant
Don't Catch Me If I Fall
I May Have Jumped
You Never Know
You Don't Know Me At All

[aeroripper]

EDIT: wait you already said what song it was

Report sounds fine... but wasn't Mao that total a-hole dictator in ........japan............. in WWII that killed millions of people? I can't remember anymore

[Manta]

No. Far from it. >_<

He's also known as Chairman Mao, leader of the Communist Party in China.

Wikipedia article on Mao Zedong

[Spectre X]

the bad part is i knew who Mao Zedong was. i have a History exam tomorrow. D'oh!  >_<  

[ziggot]

Dont most people know who Mao is? Maybe im just being foolish here but he is one of the biggest names in the last hundred years. Oh, and some movie made in China about the time he was taking power gave me the greatest insult ever. The old man was yelling at the main character dude for being poor and he was all like" Get out of here, TURLE SPAWN!"

I have no idea what it means, but it rocks

[@gentOrange]

Now I know I tout Maiden like they're the second coming of Christ, but for this there is an entire album that fits pretty well. It's a concept album (the whole album is a story, like Tommy by The Who) called Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (seventh album too). Supposedly a seventh son is said to have some supernatural powers, and the seventh son of a seventh son would bring the end of the world. I guess if that girl is a major character you could use the song "The Clairvoyant". But I really like how "The Evil That Men Do" would fit with Mao.