1. “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” by The Who.
2. “Taxman,” by The Beatles.
3. “Sympathy for the Devil,” by The Rolling Stones.
4. “Sweet Home Alabama,” by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
5. “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” by The Beach Boys.
6. “Gloria,” by U2.
7. “Revolution,” by The Beatles.
8. “Bodies,” by The Sex Pistols.
9. “Don’t Tread on Me,” by Metallica.
10. “20th Century Man,” by The Kinks.
11. “The Trees,” by Rush.
12. “Neighborhood Bully,” by Bob Dylan.
13. “My City Was Gone,” by The Pretenders.
14. “Right Here, Right Now,” by Jesus Jones.
15. “I Fought the Law,” by The Crickets.
16. “Get Over It,” by The Eagles.
17. “Stay Together for the Kids,” by Blink 182.
18. “Cult of Personality,” by Living Colour.
19. “Kicks,” by Paul Revere and the Raiders.
20. “Rock the Casbah,” by The Clash.
21. “Heroes,” by David Bowie.
22. “Red Barchetta,” by Rush.
23. “Brick,” by Ben Folds Five.
24. “Der Kommissar,” by After the Fire.
25. “The Battle of Evermore,” by Led Zeppelin.
26. “Capitalism,” by Oingo Boingo.
27. “Obvious Song,” by Joe Jackson.
28. “Janie’s Got a Gun,” by Aerosmith.
29. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” by Iron Maiden.
30. “You Can’t Be Too Strong,” by Graham Parker.
31. “Small Town,” by John Mellencamp.
32. “Keep Your Hands to Yourself,” by The Georgia Satellites.
33. “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” by The Rolling Stones.
34. “Godzilla,” by Blue öyster Cult.
35. “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
36. “Government Cheese,” by The Rainmakers.
37. “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” by The Band.
38. “I Can’t Drive 55,” by Sammy Hagar.
39. “Property Line,” by The Marshall Tucker Band.
40. “Wake Up Little Susie,” by The Everly Brothers.
41. “The Icicle Melts,” by The Cranberries.
42. “Everybody’s a Victim,” by The Proclaimers.
43. “Wonderful,” by Everclear.
44. “Two Sisters,” by The Kinks.
45. “Taxman, Mr. Thief,” by Cheap Trick.
46. “Wind of Change,” by The Scorpions.
47. “One,” by Creed.
48. “Why Don’t You Get a Job,” by The Offspring.
49. “Abortion,” by Kid Rock.
50. “Stand By Your Man,” by Tammy Wynette.
Read the descriptions. I disagreed with some (Sympathy for the Devil???), but the reasoning is semi-sound.
What’s you’re favorite conservative rock song?
It’s more country than rock, but Hank’s “A Country Boy Can Survive” certainly belongs in the top five.
Side comment #1: Thanks for giving us the entire list.
Side comment #2: At number 40, “Wake Up Little Susie”. Huh?
Silent Running
“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.
Seriously? How about “Remember the Heroes” by Sammy Hagar
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
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.”
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.
Many of the songs by Sabaton
B.Y.O.B -System of a Down
Scarecrow - little johnny cougar
Released during Reagan's Term no less
War is just another game
Tailor made for the insane
But make a threat of their annihilation
And nobody wants to play
If that’s the only thing that keeps the peace
Then thank God for the bomb....
When war is obsolete
I’ll thank God for war’s defeat
But any talk about hell freezing over
Is all said with tongue in cheek
Until the day the war drums beat no more
I’ll thank God for the bomb...
“God and Guns” - Lynyrd Skynrd
“Gimme Back My Bullets” - Allman Brothers
“Simplicity” and “Face the Promise” - Bob Seger
No Doors?
No Santana?
No Pink Floyd?
No Queen, Bread or Chicago?
That’s hardly the best Eagle’s song.
“Electric eye“ by Judas Priest.
“Life in wartime” by Talking Heads.
Both are heavy anti surveillance.
The guitarist and principal songwriter Jon Schaffer was recently arrested for participating in the so-called "insurrection" on January 6th at the Capitol. The FBI featured him on a poster seeking help in identifying protesters. He attended Trump rallies in the past and he once described the federal government as a "criminal enterprise". I haven't heard anything about his case recently, just that he's facing six charges. I wonder if he's being held in solitary confinement like some of the others who were arrested.