After the roaring success of last week's question "what is your favourite conservative themed movie" (Gran Torino won in a landslide), I would like to ask what is your favourite conservative song? It doesn't have to be written by a conservative, its original meaning could have been very liberal, but the words say something to you that makes you proud to be a right winger. I don't think Bob Dylan intended for "the times they are a changing" to be a 2010 Conservative rallying cry, but that's what I hear when I listen to it now. Is Billy Joel a conservative, because I think he really nailed "we didn't start the fire"…
So your answer doesn't have to be a song that was conservative to the artist, but rather conservative to you. Some of my nominees:
1) Sweet Child O Mine by Guns N Roses
2) Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger
3) Smooth Operator by Sade
4) Mo Money Mo Problems by Notorious BIG
5) Looking for Freedom by David Hasselhoff
If you like irony, you might like 'Part of the Union' by the Strawbs (aka 'The Stawberry Hill Boys') c. 1973. The video's on YouTube.
ReplyDeleteThe Rolling Stones' "You can't always get what you want" ... i.e. a majority.
ReplyDelete"but if you try sometimes ... you get what you need" ... i.e. a strong minority up against a weak Liberal opposition.
Highway Star-Deep Purple
ReplyDeleteRun through the Jungle-CCR
Chumbawamba, "Tub Thumping"
ReplyDeleteGreat Big Sea, "Ordinary Day"
Eric Idle, "Always Look on the Bright Side"
Steam, "Na Na Hey Hey"
Queen, "Don't Stop Me Now"
We're Not Gonna Take It! - Twisted Sister
ReplyDeleteQuite an indictment of liberal policy and 1960's left utopia
Comes complete with liberal teacher video!
"There's a big, brown cloud in the city,
ReplyDeleteAnd the countryside's a sin.
An' the price of life is too high to give up,
Gotta come down again.
When the world wide war is over and done,
And the dream of peace comes true.
We'll all be drinkin' free bubble-ubb,
Eatin' that rainbow stew.
When they find out how to burn water,
And the gasoline car is gone.
When an airplane flies without any fuel,
And the satellite heats our home.
One of these days when the air clears up,
And the sun comes shinin' through.
We'll all be drinkin' free bubble-ubb,
An' eatin' that rainbow stew."
("Rainbow Stew" by Merle Haggard)
We weren't born to follow
ReplyDeleteCome on and get up off your knees
When life is a bitter pill to swallow
You gotta hold on to what you believe
Believe that the sun will shine tomorrow
And that your saints and sinners bleed
We weren't born to follow
You gotta stand up for what you believe
Let me hear you say yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah
This one's about anyone who does it differently
This one's about the one who cusses and spits
This ain't about our livin' in a fantasy
This ain't about givin' up or givin' in
There isn't any. I've been looking high and low and we just haven't got anyone. Its the same old problem as the whole of the msm. Producers pick people that speak to their ideas and goals and elevate them, syndicate them etc.. Its hard to do for right wingers. Folks who should look at the chain of hip hop artists to change things. Who made emminem? Who made 50 cent? They don't pick conservative themes.
ReplyDeleteGospel rock doesn't count. Its kind of gay, sorry to say. Where is the rage? Atheist Libertarians need a voice.
Black Stone Cherry - Lonely Train
ReplyDeleteDisturbed - 10,000 fists
Godsmack - Speak
Seether - Fake It
BTO - Taking Care of Business
The Pursuit of Happiness - I'm an Adult Now
The White Stripes - 7 Nation Army
Barb
The Taxman song by the Beatles
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