Posted on 05/25/2021 8:49:09 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
NOTE: This is a fifteen year old article, but the songs are timeless
On first glance, rock ’n’ roll music isn’t very conservative. It doesn’t fare much better on second or third glance (or listen), either. Neil Young has a new song called “Let’s Impeach the President.” Last year, the Rolling Stones made news with “Sweet Neo Con,” another anti-Bush ditty. For conservatives who enjoy rock, it isn’t hard to agree with the opinion Johnny Cash expressed in “The One on the Right Is on the Left”: “Don’t go mixin’ politics with the folk songs of our land / Just work on harmony and diction / Play your banjo well / And if you have political convictions, keep them to yourself.” In other words: Shut up and sing.
“Sunny Afternoon” by the Kinks.
I thought that “I Fought the Law” was recorded by the Bobby Fuller Four. My brother bought that album back about 1965. Bobby Fuller committed suicide shortly thereafter.
“Guns made America great” by Pinkard and Bowden.
Seriously? How about “Remember the Heroes” by Sammy Hagar
Tom Petty’s “Won’t Back Down” is unjustly neglected.
Bad To The Bone
George Thorogood
Unfortunately Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys has acquired a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Somebody is missing Tom Petty.
You ain’t heard a conservative song until you’ve heard any of the following by Tom Macdonald: “White Trash”, “People So Stupid” or “No Lives Matter”.
WTF, no 99 Red Ballons??? /S
Add “Free Falling” to that.
The Prisoner - Iron Maiden (leads off with The Prisoner’s retort “I am not a number, I am a free man”)
The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
In an age of “revolution” the Kinks stood ground to say that cultural Marxists shouldn’t go throwing everything out.
Dave Davies knew his brother Ray had come up with a special sort of masterpiece in the character-driven “The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society.”
A bittersweet song cycle driven by nostalgic longing for a simpler time, it failed spectacularly when it hit the streets of 1968 with its odes to “preserving the old ways from being abused” but would go on to be the Kinks’ most celebrated album.
“Like all great art, it lasts because it keeps pulling you back,” Davies says.
“And you learn something new about yourself and about the world, hopefully. It’s about reminding us of what we’ve lost spiritually or emotionally. There is a longing for the past, but the real challenge is to adjust to the change that is in front of us.”
...The tone of Davies’ musings on the value of tradition, as embodied by lines as nostalgic as “God save little shops, china cups, and virginity,” could not have been more out-of-step with the prevailing values of rock culture at the time.
That may be why the album’s lyrics feel so timeless now.
‘The Kinks were ahead of the curve’
“Ray was writing about that sort of thing way before people started to think about things like that,” Davies says. “’But as the ‘80s wore on and the ‘90s came, people started to realize the common sense of ‘We’ve got to keep some of this stuff. We can preserve the old things and values or ideas that work and integrate them with the new.’ So in a way the Kinks were ahead of the curve on that point.”
Check out Crooked Figurehead about the Clintons.
They also wrote Open Season. CAIR complained to the government about the lyrics.
"Your attitude's the reason/the triggers keep squeezin/the hunt is on/ and it's open season"
Looking Glass and Seals and Crofts are also absent.
Miss Wynette is a country singer.
I’s just me, but I think Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway To Heaven”, was about a woman trying to escape the Iron Curtain.
Wow?!!! That’s either a real stretch or step away from the mushrooms. I have the song playing in my head and just don’t see the connection.
Many of the songs by Sabaton
“One is the loneliest number” is about heroin.
B.Y.O.B -System of a Down
Scarecrow - little johnny cougar
It wasn't meant to be conservative, but Neil Young's "Find the Cost of Freedom" is the quintessential Memorial Day song.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.