Talk Dirty To Me - Poison... oh wait, that's just Bill O'Reilly's theme song.

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Money For Nothin' - Dire Straits

Material Girl - Madonna

In the year 2525

If man is still alive

If woman can survive

They may thrive

In the year 3535

Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies

Everything you think, do, and say

Is in the pill you took today

But thanks to Bush, 3535 is today (no need to tell the truth), and he doesn't give a damn whether we ever reach 2525.

I went a bit further than Miller, and compiled my own list of the 49 Most Conservative Madonna Songs. http://justemilieu.blogspot.com/2006/05/49-most-conservative-madonna-songs.html

The song I was trying to think of earlier is "Strange Way" by Firefall:

That's a strange way to tell me you love me

When your sorrow is all I can see

If you just want to cry to somebody

Don't cry to me.

Gee, what says "personal responsibility" better than a song in which the singer essentially tells his lover "Who cares about your problems? Go away and don't bother me." No nanny state for this macho man, that is until he needs a little comfort and sympathy himself, one suspects.

BOB SEGER - UMC (Upper Middle Class)

One in a Million? Though they said they were misinterpreted!

How about Phil Ochs's "Draft Dodger Rag" as the official chickenhawk anthem?

(I quote from memory but this is close)

Well I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town,

I believe in God and Senator Dodd and keepin' old Castro down

And when it came my time to serve I knew better dead than Red

but when I got before my old draft board, buddy, this is what I said;

Sarge I'm only eighteen I got a ruptured spleen

and I always carry a purse

I got eyes like a bat, my feet are flat

and my asthma's getting worse

remember my career and my sweetheart dear

and my poor old invalid aunt,

besides I ain't no fool, I'm a goin' to school

and I'm working in a defense plant!

"Dawn of Correction," the reply to "Eve of Destruction" mentioned above, was by a group called the Spokesmen. They never said for whom...

If you want to talk irony deficiency, you shouldn't leave out "The Promised Land" by Springsteen.

Talking Heads - Life During Wartime

Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons

packed up and ready to go

Heard of some gravesites, out by the highway

a place where nobody knows

After the movie "Braveheart" came out (and conservatives jumped all over it), National Review decided to have a list of the 50 Best Conservative Movies. Trouble was, the selections got a little sparse after Braveheart and a few John Wayne movies. I got a good chortle out of the girly boys at National Review (as Amm Coulter said) deciding that the original movie "King Kong" was now a "conservative" movie. Why? They picked out the scene in which photographers with flash cameras antagonize the captured Kong by taking his picture, and declared that the movie "King Kong" shows the irresponsibility of the press.

If an excuse that flimsy can be used to label something "conservative," the NR list ought to be interesting.

He counts Johnny Cash as one of his heroes on this score? Has he ever, um, listened to Johnny Cash? "Man in Black," for instance? I wonder if he includes "Born in the USA," which the Reagan campaign co-opted as its theme song because they didn't understand the lyrics. And considering the way the Bushes have raided the Treasury to enrich their friends, I hope "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" is on his list.

And since when is "skepticism of the government" a conservative value? Haven't conservatives pretty much worn their wingtips to the bare soles, streetwalking for Bush & Co. the past few years (at least until Bush's poll numbers plummeted)?

I also love his sadly dweeby closing sentence, "Rock on!" Suddenly the song "I'm A Loser" leaps to mind...

"The Day My Momma Socked it to the Harper Valley PTA"

"I Fought the Law and the Law Won"

"All My X's are from Texas"

Some great suggestions so far. It's hard to come up with good ones that haven't already been mentioned, but here's a couple:

Theme song of the current Republican congress, the administration's Social Security privatization plan, the Middle East peace process, etc: Road to Nowhere, Talking Heads

Dipping into the murky depths of 80's pop, we find the perfect theme for the current NSA: Somebody's Watching Me, Rockwell (Feat. Michael Jackson)

"Rolling Down Hill (like a snowball headed for hell)"-by Merle Haggard

"Beatin' Around the Bush"

by the Dixie Chicks

There was a song in the late 70's that belongs on this list. I don't remember the exact title, but I believe it was called "Strange way to tell me you love me," which was the first line of the recurring chorus. The song is addressed to a depressed woman whose crying and sad moods have bummed out her lover. He advises her "If you just want to cry to somebody, don't cry to me." Now, having suffered from depression myself and also dealt with some depressed relatives and close friends, I would be the first to admit that depressed people can be a pain in the derriere. On the other hand, expressing your burnout in song is a rather odd choice. Songs usually proclaim their devotion to the loved one in good times and bad, promising to be a "bridge over troubled water" and inviting the other party to "lean on me when you're not strong, and I'll be your friend." So, I would say that "Strange way to tell me you love me" celebrates the ethos of encouraging self-sufficiency and of disclaiming one's own responsibility to help others. One could easily imagine Bill O'Reilly singing it to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

just go here: http://culturalbaggage.livejournal.com/403512.html

There was a band called the Rainmakers popular in the late 80s/early 90s that had a song called "Government Cheese" that I suspect some conservatives would like. They did several political songs, but the others were pretty liberal. Lyrics below - maybe you need to hear the music to actually like the song.

Rainmakers Lyrics - Government Cheese

Give a man a free house and he'll bust out the windows

Put his family on food stamps, now he's a big spender

no food on the table and the bills ain't paid

'Cause he spent it on cigarettes and P.G.A.

They'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please

They're feeding our people that Government Cheese

Give a man a free lunch and he'll figure out a way

To steal more than he can eat 'cause he doesn't have to pay

Give a woman free kids and you'll find them in the dirt

Learning how to carry on the family line of work

It's the man in the White House, the man under the steeple

Passing out drugs to the American people

I don't believe in anything, nothing is free

They're feeding our people the Government Cheese

Decline and fall, fall down baby

Decline and fall, said fall way down now

Decline and fall, fall down little mama

Decline and fall, decline and fall

Give a man a free ticket on a dead end ride

And he'll climb in the back even though nobody's driving

Too ******* lazy to crawl out of the wreck

And he'll rot there while he waits for the welfare check

Going to hell in a handbag, can't you see

I ain't gonna eat no Government Cheese