Letters to the Editor
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Conservative?
I think a conservative song might express doubt about a Democratic-run government but not a Republican-run one. Conservatives these days seem to equate questioning Bush with questioning the Bible.
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Impossibility
"Greatest Conservative Rock Songs" is the mother of all oxymorons.
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This should be good.
Half will be by the Nuge singin' 'bout getting laid and its kinship with hunting the rest will be misinterpreted as flag wavers because they they mention "America."
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TED NUGENT!!!
Anything by Mr. Nugent should rally the GOP. After all, he's a bow-hunting, convention-playing, red-meat eating standard bearer.
Can you say "Cat Scratch Fever"?
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Jingo All the Way
Neil Diamond, "America"
Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Sweet Home Alabama"
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Conservative songs
Hank Williams Jr.'s "A Country Boy Can Survive" praises folks who can do for themselves without help from the modern world. Pretty conservative. But then on the same album he gets pretty loose with "Women I Never Had." Oops ... having women you never had is a conservative lawmaker's value.
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Skepticism of the Government
is a "conservative" sentiment?? Wow, I guess that makes all of us anti-Bush people
great patriots. But, then, why do the Bush supporters bash the Bush bashers?
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"Springtime For Hitler"
I'm not sure it's a rock song, though.
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How about a little cheese with that?
I can't help but think that "I touch myself" by the Divinyls should be included. A CD insert picture of Ann Coulter looking up at an image of Ronald Reagan would be about right...
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Nugent's anthem...
I went down to Anaheim for a KISS show in 2000, and Ted Nugent opened up. He finished his set with a little ditty entitled "Janet Reno is a Whore." The fans down in the O.C ate up every line. I walked out into the concouse to have a beer.
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Nugent's anthem...
I went down to Anaheim for a KISS show in 2000, and Ted Nugent opened up. He finished his set with a little ditty entitled "Janet Reno is a Whore." The fans down in the O.C ate up every line. I walked out into the concouse to have a beer.
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Nugent's anthem...
I went down to Anaheim for a KISS show in 2000, and Ted Nugent opened up. He finished his set with a little ditty entitled "Janet Reno is a Whore." The fans down in the O.C. ate up every line. I walked out into the concourse to have a beer.
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be a simple kind of man..
Lynyrd Skynyrd "Simple Man" (our president)
I think every Republican should be strapped to a chair and forced to listen to the Drive-by Truckers' "Southern Rock Opera Acts I and II".
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Lawyers, Guns, & Money
sounds like the Republican National Convention
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The Boss?
"Born in the USA" has to be number one. What could be more appropriate than a song about disenfranchised veterans and socioeconomic inequality that Reagan used as a campaign song.
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The Fugs
I was always fond of "CIA Man" by The Fugs.
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Greatest Conservative Rock Song
Zippety Do-Dah
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SKEPTICISM OF GOVERNMENT?
Hoo boy. If "skepticism of government" is a purely conservative value, how about these right-wing ditties:
"Long Time Gone", Crosby Stills & Nash
"Mau Mau (Amerikon)", Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship
"Fortunate Son", CCR
"We Can Be Together", Jefferson Airplane
"Trouble Every Day", Mothers of Invention
"Monster", Steppenwolf
"20th Century Man", The Kinks
"Living in the USA", Steve Miller Band
"Uncle Sam Blues", Hot Tuna
"Mosh", Eminem
"Subterranean Homesick Blues", Bob Dylan
"Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag", Country Joe & The Fish
"Born in the USA", Bruce Springsteen (has any conservative ever actually HEARD the lyrics to this song?)
"Concentration Moon", Mothers of Invention
"When the Music's Over", The Doors
I could go on. . .
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Lawyers, Guns, & Money
sounds like the Republican National Convention
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And the number ONE conservative R&R song of all time is ...
"21st Century Schizoid Man" by King Crimson!
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Prediction
I'm betting "Born in the USA" by Bruce Springstein makes the list. Reagan loved it, and many Republicans think it's a conservative song, even though it's a song criticizing the Vietnam war.
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Neil
Sure, Neil Young has an album out today bashing Bush and conservative idealogy, but he also took a lot of shit in the 80s from ex-hippies for supporting some of Reagan's policies and he walked a fine line of jingoism when playing to country fans back then.
But that's why I love Neil. He chnages with the wind, like a good weatherman.
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This is Just Too Easy
"Every Step You Take" by The Police
"Happiness is a Warm Gun" by The Beatles
"Money" by Pink Floyd
"My Way" by Elvis Presley
"Fixin' to Die Rag (One, Two, Three, What Are We Fightin' For?)" by Country Joe and the Fish
"Simple Kind of Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
"It's The End of the World As We Know it (and I Feel Fine)" by REM
Somebody, please stop me!
Or them.
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Conservative Epiphany
Skepticism of government? Check.
Traditional values such as work ethics, honesty, dignity, and integrity? Check.
Oops! I am a conservative!
What are THEY?
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Oh, goody,
skepticism that has been taken literally should qualify:
"Born in the U.S.A." (they didn't get it)
"If I Had a Hammer" (they never understood it to begin with)
"This Land is Your Land" (Guthrie's protest to Kate Smith and "God Bless America")
I realize some would not classify all of these as rock, but most songs I can think of are in the Country category, and the duel between "Hippie from Olema" and "Okie from Muskogee" (Merle Haggard) happened so long ago that current conservatives probably wouldn't remember it, Country or Rock.
But for literal mindedness, conservatives win it all. Skepticism, not so much.
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Defending Neil Diamond
gonnabechef, I have to disagree on the idea of "America" as a conservative song. The watering down of White America by the mongrel immigrant stock may bring tears to conservative eyes, but they are not tears of joy. I'm pretty sure they would even shoot that cute mouse Fievel at the border.
As far as what would qualify, I'm thinking anything by Godsmack...
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Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables,
By the Dead Kennedys. Let's be honest, Ronald Reagan was practically this band's mascot. Recorded in 1980, but still very topical for todays angry red-blooded American. Hits such as:
Kill the Poor - Self explanitory
When You get Drafted - War for profit
Drug Me - Starbucks and American Idol
Chemical Warfare - WMDs?!?
California Uber Alles - Updated especially for Arnold
I Kill Children - Duh.
Stealing People's Mail - Or e-mail, phone calls, whatever.
Viva Las Vegas - Just for good measure.
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Rock on, Conservatives!!!
Here's a few nominations that probably aren't on the list (I'm not gonna pay for, it either) but certainly would be appropriate!
King Midas In Reverse- The Hollies
War Pigs- Black Sabbath
Big Hat, No Cattle- Randy Newman
Kill The Poor- Dead Kennedys
Idiot Bastard Son- Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
Liar-Sex Pistols
Piggies- The Beatles