Minnesotans Pick Their Theme Songs for 2020

COVID-19, quarantine, riots and politics. Businesses closing, events canceling, and kids distance learning from home. All of those things have made 2020 a weird and crazy year. Normally, that would be more than enough for any single year and yet we are not even halfway through this one.

If any year needed a theme song, it's 2020. So we asked our River listeners in Central Minnesota -- If you could give the year 2020 a theme song, what would it be? We got a wide variety of answers that expressed pessimism, optimism, and humor. First, Abbey and I gave our songs.

David Black: "Hold On" - Wilson Phillips or "Crazy Train" - Ozzy Osbourne

Abbey: "Disaster Party" - Magic Giant or "Breakdown" - Tom Petty

Here's what some of our listeners said.

Rene Krueger: "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" - R.E.M.

Mark Stimack: "Invisible Sun" - The Police

Carol Pohl: "People Are Strange" - The Doors

Nancy Updike Johnson: Louis Armstrong - "What a Wonderful World". There is hope.

Elaine Kolb Taufen: “Livin’ on a Prayer” - Bon Jovi

Dustin Matosich: Ground Control To, "Major Tom" - David Bowie

Margarita Castillon: "Sign of the Times" - Prince

Gail Fellingham Berndt: "We Are The World" - USA for Africa

Lynn Wear Mahlum: "Help!" - The Beatles

Michelle Schwartz: "Yesterday" - The Beatles

Jeff Miller: "Don’t stand so close to me" - The Police

Lynette Eder: "Final Countdown" - Europe

Julia Ann: The sun will come out. "Tomorrow" - Annie

Lynn Jeffries Hallgren: "I Will Survive" - Gloria Gaynor

Barb Haskamp-George: "All My Rowdy Friends..." - Hank Williams Jr

Kurt Richter: Well “Crazy Train” is perfect