Saturday, May 1, 2010

Conservative Music

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

10 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. The Rolling Stones' "You can't always get what you want" ... i.e. a majority.

    "but if you try sometimes ... you get what you need" ... i.e. a strong minority up against a weak Liberal opposition.

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  3. Highway Star-Deep Purple
    Run through the Jungle-CCR

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  4. Chumbawamba, "Tub Thumping"
    Great Big Sea, "Ordinary Day"
    Eric Idle, "Always Look on the Bright Side"
    Steam, "Na Na Hey Hey"
    Queen, "Don't Stop Me Now"

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  5. We're Not Gonna Take It! - Twisted Sister

    Quite an indictment of liberal policy and 1960's left utopia

    Comes complete with liberal teacher video!

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  6. "There's a big, brown cloud in the city,
    And 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)

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  7. We weren't born to follow
    Come 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

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  8. 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.

    Gospel rock doesn't count. Its kind of gay, sorry to say. Where is the rage? Atheist Libertarians need a voice.

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  9. Black Stone Cherry - Lonely Train
    Disturbed - 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

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  10. The Taxman song by the Beatles

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