101 Best Conservative Rock Songs

Well, at least they didn't include "born in the u.s.a.". Though I have to wonder if some of those are really conservative, considering many of the top ones where sung by u2, beatles etc.
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']Well, at least they didn't include "born in the u.s.a.". Though I have to wonder if some of those are really conservative, considering many of the top ones where sung by u2, beatles etc.[/quote]

And no one espouses the conservative ideal quite like Jello Biafra! :D
 
With exception to the Rush tunes a great deal of those are only considered conservative by either taking them out of context and or by gross misinterpretation. The entire list is a crock. You can make nearly any song make the list. Look, it's easy:

"Ted, Just Admit it" by Jane's Addiction - A powerful indictment of the way the liberal media desensitizes men to sex and violence.

"U.S. Blues" by The Grateful Dead -
"Red and white, blue suede shoes, I'm Uncle Sam, how do you do?"
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What could be more American then that?!

"Fortunate Son" by CCR -
"Some folks are born made to wave the flag, ooh, they're red, white and blue. And when the band plays "Hail To The Chief", oh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,"
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Obviously this shows how liberals will 'point the cannon' at Jesus when his servants are in power.

"Papa, Don't Preach" by Madonna - Another pro-life anthem.

"Heroin" by The Velvet Underground -
"Going from this land here to that
In a sailors suit and cap
Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all of the evils of this town
And of himself, and those around"
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The singer cannot wait to get away from the inner city liberal sinners.

And all the politicians makin crazy sounds
And everybody puttin everybody else down
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His desire to bring honor, civility and respect back to government.

And his facts are way off to boot...

“Shattered,” by The Rolling Stones. ; buy CD on Amazon.com
A harrowing portrait of New York City, left in “tatters,” before the Giuliani renaissance: “Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don’t mind the maggots!”
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Well, the Stones wrote that in 1978. Giulianai didn't come into office until 1994. The city was well out of it's depression of the late 78's - early 80's by then, thanks to the efforts of Democratic Mayors Koch and Dinkins.
 
Please tell me that Miller did this list tongue in cheek! If not, he's completly missed the point of at least half the songs.
 
I saw the top 10 in the newspaper yesterday and had a good laugh.

48. “Why Don’t You Get a Job,” by The Offspring.
The lyrics aren’t exactly Shakespearean, but they’re refreshingly blunt and they capture a motive force behind welfare reform.
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I doubt thoughts of welfare reform were anywhere within a 500 mille radius when The Offspring wrote that song.

My friend's got a girlfriend
Man he hates that bitch
He tells me every day
He says "man I really gotta lose my chick
In the worst kind of way"

She sits on her ass
He works his hands to the bone
To give her money every payday
But she wants more dinero just to stay at home
Well my friend
You gotta say:

I won't pay, I won't pay ya, no way
na, na, Why don't you get a job
Say no way, say no way ya, no way
na, na, Why don't you get a job

I guess all his money, well it isn't enough
To keep her bill collectors at bay
I guess all his money, well it isn't enough
Cause that girl's got expensive taste

I won't pay, I won't pay ya, no way
na, na, Why don't you get a job
Say no way, say no way ya, no way
na, na, Why don't you get a job

Well I guess it ain't easy doing nothing at all oh yeah
But hey man free rides just don't come along
every day

Let me tell you about my other friend now

My friend's got a boyfriend man she hates that dick
She tells me every day
He wants more dinero just to stay at home
Well my friend
You gotta say:

I won't pay, I won't pay ya, no way
na, na, Why don't you get a job
Say no way, say no way ya, no way
na, na, Why don't you get a job
oh yeah
I won't give you no money
I always pay
na, na, Why don't you get a job
Say no way, say no way ya, no way
na, na, Why don't you get a
job!
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Very funny list.
 
I can't help but to wonder how much of this list is related to this

An investigation by Simone Shamay-Tsoory and colleagues shows that the ability to understand sarcasm depends on a carefully orchestrated sequence of complex cognitive skills in specific parts of the brain.
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"They are still able to hold and understand a conversation. Their problem is to understand when people talk in indirect speech and use irony, idioms and metaphors because they take each sentence literally. They just understand the sentence as it is and can't see if your true meaning is the opposite of your literal meaning."
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So a lot of the songs on the list, the author seems to completely miss the sarcasm that's present in a lot of them, and instead takes them literally.
 
[quote name='Drocket']I can't help but to wonder how much of this list is related to this



So a lot of the songs on the list, the author seems to completely miss the sarcasm that's present in a lot of them, and instead takes them literally.[/QUOTE]

Well, taking things literally has always been a conservative problem.

Oh, and why isn't King's X on the list? It's Love? Legal Kill? HELLOOOOOO???

Oh, I forgot, the lead singer is gay and hates the Christian music scene.
 
[quote name='evanft']Oh, I forgot, the lead singer is gay and hates the Christian music scene.[/QUOTE]

Really? I always thought they were a Christian band. That's about all I knew about them, until a gearhead friend spent twenty minutes the other night at the bar explaining how the bass player gets his shit to sound the way it does.

Although, in some wacky-non-fundie state of the universe, I think that there are places where God even loves the homos.
 
[quote name='Maklershed']Wasnt King's X that band that did Detachable Penis? I thought I remembered seeing the video on Beavis and Butthead.[/quote]

I think it was King Missle that did that song.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Really? I always thought they were a Christian band. That's about all I knew about them, until a gearhead friend spent twenty minutes the other night at the bar explaining how the bass player gets his shit to sound the way it does.

Although, in some wacky-non-fundie state of the universe, I think that there are places where God even loves the homos.[/QUOTE]

Boom: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=52609

"Christian music scene?? Yeah, we could have been maybe the biggest band in Christian music, but we're not hypocrites, and when the Christians find out that we drink, smoke weed and I am gay, they would turn on us anyway, so why go there? That just hurts. Besides that, they rejected us anyway after they learned who we were. They're human, they hide it. We're not like that, we're too honest. That's why I am down on Christian music. In the name of truth they live lies. That's never been me, or KING'S X. It's one of our biggest faults. The Christian music scene was a dead end for us no matter what had happened in our career. I am agnostic now anyway. We just couldn't justify being a Christian band. It just wasn't the truth. I was raised Christian and have seen the Christian music scene first-hand. I can't be a part of it and I couldn't back then either... and we're still called a Christian band to this day. It wasn't kosher back then either. I remember so many people saying that they couldnt get their friends to listen to KING'S X 'cause we were Christian, even though STRYPER were successful. Now it's accepted being a Christian band, but we're not one of those bands. What's done is done and it's the past...
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