Conservative Rock Songs, Deconstructed (Is there such thing as conservative rock music?)

National Review ^ | 05/31/2010 | John J. Miller

[stockpirate]

Taxman - The Beatles

Trees - Rush

[Maverick68]

“Live Free or Die” by Talon...

[SeekAndFind]

Revolution — the Beatles

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it’s evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don’t you know that you can count me out
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right
all right, all right

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We’re doing what we can
But when you want money
for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right
all right, all right
Ah

You say you’ll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right
all right, all right
all right, all right, all right
all right, all right, all right

I ask myself this question — who wrote those lyrics ?

If it was John Lennon, how did we get from that to that other utopian trite — IMAGINE ?

[Post-Neolithic]

Doubt he is a conservative song writer, but Don Mclean’s American Pie, comes to mind when I think of the way things are going and the current administration.

[Alberta's Child]

"I'd Love To Change The World" by Ten Years After -- in an odd sort of way.

The opening stanza says it all . . .

Everywhere is freaks and hairies,
Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity?
Tax the rich, feed the poor;
Till there are no rich no more.

[goodwithagun]

What’s the deal with Sponge Bob? I watch it with my son, and I’ve only seen goofy humor.

[Thrownatbirth]

“Only A Fool Would Say That” - Steely Dan

[Phlap]

“Good Clean Fun” Allman Brothers

[reagan_fanatic]

Voice of America (VOA) - Sammy Hagar.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

“Neighborhood Bully” by Bob Dylan

About how Israel is called a “bully’ yet they are the only ones keeping the peace.

[epluribus_2]

We’re not gonna take it. (Even if they won’t admit it. Truth is Truth)

[MP5]

Rush - Freewill
Rush - Something for Nothing

You can't have Something for Nothing
You can't have freedom for free
You won't get wise with the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dreams may be

[Ticonderoga34]

I was thinking about the Ten Years After song too. Strange that it didn’t make the list.

[gigster]

Rush: 2112, Hemispheres, Red Barchetta

[Mojave]

“Mike as taught courses on American radical thought in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures department and on entertainment media and popular culture in the American Studies program. In Spring of 2010, he’ll be teaching IAH 201- “Global Flows of Literature, Music, Art and Popular Culture from a U.S. Perspective.”

http://michaeltspencer.vpweb.com/AboutMe.html

[DGHoodini]

Hey...What do you want from life?....-The Tubes >;o)

[spectre]

Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?

Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!!

[SeekAndFind]

About how Israel is called a “bully’ yet they are the only ones keeping the peace

Well, isn't Bob Dylan Jewish ?

[newfreep]

Tax the rich, feed the poor;
Till there are no rich no more.

Sounds like marxist socialism....great song, though.