Anyone who's seen this Rolling Stone Article or visited Barack Obama's Facebook page can get a faint inkling of what the incoming president might listen to on his iPod tomorrow should he need something to soothe his nerves or get pumped up for the big address. But what would our Founding Fathers have listened to before their inaugural addresses had they had iPods? Here’s a brief look:

GEORGE WASHINGTON
“His Benign Highness,” as John Adams proposed he be called, was not thrilled at having to leave his Mount Vernon retreat to become the nation's first president. The aging Washington feared for his health and would've chosen something dark, preferably by someone on the brink of death. Like Mozart's Requiem, First movement—the composition of which killed Mozart.

THOMAS JEFFERSON
Jefferson loved black chicks, so if he were alive today he probably would’ve loved Lil’ Kim. His song: “How Many Licks.”

AARON BURR
Aaron Burr was never president and many historians dispute whether or not he should even be considered a Founding Father. He did, however, murder a Founding Father, after which he fled to present-day Louisiana, tried to start his own country, and then spent several years exiled in Europe writing cryptic journals about having sex with Swedish maids. The song he would have listened to before his duel with Alexander Hamilton: “Come to Daddy” by Aphex Twin. Until his ears bled.

JAMES MADISON
Madison was a nerd and wore a powdered wig. I have no doubt in my mind he pranced around in his bedroom chamber before the address in only his stockings listening to “My Love Don’t Cost a Thing” by Jennifer Lopez.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Big Q was a nervous wreck before his inaugural address (most of them were, except for George W. Bush, who was strangely aloof). He was so nervous he couldn’t sleep and thus spent the night before the address nursing a two-gallon jug of warm milk and listening to “Nature’s Rhythms: Whale Sounds” while clutching his pillow and crying.

MARTIN VAN BUREN
Van Buren spent the 19 weeks preceding his inauguration meticulously trimming his beard so that one day college students would hold beard-offs in his honor. He thought iPods were “old-fashioned.”

FRANKLIN PIERCE
On the way to give his address Pierce witnessed the near-decapitation and death of his only surviving son, Bennie, in a train accident, so he would've chosen something on the chipper side—maybe “Needle in the Hay” by Elliott Smith played at barely audible volume with the lights turned off.