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The official White House Record Library collection includes a few of the new chief executive's favorites, such as Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks and Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run.
Also included, reports Rolling Stone: rock vinyl like Led Zeppelin IV, Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed, such punk records as the Ramones' Rocket to Russia and the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks, as well as Santana, Talking Heads, Isaac Hayes, Neil Young and disco.
During the 1969-74 Nixon years, the record company trade group RIAA spruced up the White House's music collection by adding 2,000 LPs. What was once dominated by the sounds of Pat Boone and John Denver was switched over to a full-fledged rock library for the Carter administration, in 1979.
The LPs, each in a sleeve with the presidential seal, did sit in a hallway near the third-floor listening room, but were moved down to the basement during Reagan's term.
According the Rolling Stone, a spokesman for Obama says it's too early to tell if the president – who has a lot on his plate – will revitalize the library.
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