The song "You're The Top" from the Broadway musical Anything Goes by Cole Porter is filled with superlatives of the highest and lowest variety. In it, two friends sing words to each other like "You're the Nile, you're the Tower of Pisa / You're the smile on the Mona Lisa." And they then compare that to themselves with lines like, "I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop." 

WNYC's Director of News Special Initiatives, Andrea Bernstein, joins us to share her story of uncovering the story behind some political lyrics that fall into the song's latter category that were lost for half a century. 

Southwestern band Calexico may have recorded its latest album in New Orleans – but the group's taste for Tex-Mex hasn’t subsided. They tell us about trying out tacos from a NYC food truck that shares their name and taking a favorite hot sauce with them on tour. Plus, they play live.

This summer marked the 40th anniversary of David Bowie's 1972 rock opera classic The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars.Soundcheck host John Schaefer reflects on Bowie's influential concept album.

We're in the final days of the 2012 presidential campaign, but for the past few weeks Soundcheck has been in the throes of it's own democratic process, our search for The Musician In Chief.

We asked six Soundcheck contributors to offer up a hypothetical nominee, an artist with plenty of vision, charisma and political savvy to lead the country for the next four years.

Now after the first round of voting in our very unscientific poll, the results are in! Here's our top four vote-getters and the matchups for the "semifinals":

-- Aimee Mann vs. Patti Smith

-- Dolly Parton vs. Jay-Z

This poll will be open from FRIDAY, OCT. 26. until FRIDAY, NOV. 2. So get to it and tell us which musicians should go to the "championship round."

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Opossom plays at Cameo Gallery Friday night. Download "Girl."