[DakotaGator]

Why are there so few?

Conservative values tend toward personal responsibility, hard work, patriotism, loyalty self sacrifice...basically adult behavior. Rock music's message (when there is one)is basically rebellion against all of these (while Country music embraces them). Politically it's liberal vs. conservative philosophies.

However, Rock has been around since the 1950s. A newer generation may rebel against status quo liberal philosophy and see that reflected in their new Rock.

Just generalizations. Do not believe popular music has the impact it did a generation ago. And there is so much great Rock from so many years that one should just enjoy listening to what he likes.

[Fiji Hill]

Conservative values tend toward personal responsibility, hard work, patriotism, loyalty self sacrifice...basically adult behavior.

Personal responsibility

• Crazy Party--The Cues, 1957 (Good, clean fun)

Patriotism

• Back in the USA--Chuck Berry, 1959 (American exceptionalism)

• Tennessee--Carl Perkins, 1955 (First atomic bomb)

• God, Country and My Baby--Johnny Burnett, 1961 (1961 Berlin Crisis)

Loyalty and self-sacrifice

• Midnight Mary--Joey Powers, 1964 (a welcome contrast to the losers celebrated in the Four Seasons' Dawn or Dickey Lee's Patches)