What songs do you feel have a Conservative slant?

[youngFreeper]

Just for fun I would like to see what songs everyone feels has a coservative flavor.

[Torkemada]

Well put on the song "Pink Houses"

"Sweet Home Alabama" - Lynyrd Skynyrd has a very conservative slant and most of their songs seem to have this anyway. "Free Bird" is definitely one. "Tom Sawyer" by Rush does somewhat, though the band is more libertarian who flirted with Randian philosophy.

[NYCVirago]

I've read the 1980 Lennon Playboy interview and have to agree with Aedammair's characterization of it. John wasn't very close with Julian the way he was with his son Sean. If Lennon had gotten to live past 40, maybe things would have changed, but he didn't get that chance. Lennon did not provide for Julian in his will -- he basically got a pittance -- while Yoko and Sean got the rest.

[rolling_stone]

Elvin bishop played with Butterfield Blues band and Mike Bloomfield at times.....Bloomfield was on higway 61....close!

don't seem to know you, just a Dylan fan among other things...

[Tony in Hawaii]

What's the name of the song Sean Hannity plays at the beginning of each hour of his radio show?
It's a country song, by a female singer, and it includes the line "Let the guilty pay, it's Independence Day"

[austinTparty]

along those same pro-life lines:

"With Arms Wide Open" - Creed
"To Zion" - Lauryn Hill... Being a mom myself, that one kinda gets me... beautiful lyrics, so here they are:

Unsure of what the balance held
I touched my belly overwhelmed
By what I had been chosen to perform
But then an angel came one day
Told me to kneel down and pray
For unto me a man child would be born
Woe this crazy circumstance
I knew his life deserved a chance
But everybody told me to be smart
Look at your career they said,
"Lauryn, baby use your head"
But instead I chose to use my heart

Now the joy of my world is in Zion
Now the joy of my world is in Zion

How beautiful if nothing more
Than to wait at Zion's door
I've never been in love like this before
Now let me pray to keep you from
The perils that will surely come
See life for you my prince has just begun
And I thank you for choosing me
To come through unto life to be
A beautiful reflection of his grace
For I know that a gift so great
Is only one God could create
And I'm reminded every time I see your face

That the joy of my world is in Zion
Now the joy of my world is in Zion
Now the joy of my world is in Zion
Now the joy of my world is in Zion

Marching, marching, marching to Zion
Marching, marching
Marching, marching, marching to Zion
Beautiful, beautiful Zion

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

I haven't heard it either, but it converted my wife to a Dylan fan. She hated him before, but now she loves him. It must be good.

[nuancey]

Elfman composed the "Simpsons" theme as well as "Tales from the Crypt". Right?

[wayne_shrugged]

"Dirty Laundry" - Don Henley(He's a lib, but the song isn't)

I like the song, but methinks you're making too big a deal out of it. I don't see how it reflects freedom, conservatism or anything other than a criticism of tabloid journalism...

[Force12]

Rush: "Heresy"

Hey Beavis, check it out. The name of the album that is from is called "Roll the Bones. Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhu...

[WDG55513]

Check out Def Leppard's Gods of War, it's got Reagan and Thatcher sampled throughout.

[jeremiah]

I always took it to mean that the US should take the reins of this out of control world, and exert intelligent control. We are/were the only ones with the talent, the money, and the attitude to do it right.

[bonesmccoy]

Perhaps I am too hard on the late Beatle, but I find most of the fab 4 to pursue "liberal" themes and ideology.

Rather than focus on negativity (which is basically the mantra of the lib's), let me answer the man's original question...

I vote for the following artists as conservatives:
1. Lee Greenwood (God Bless the USA)
2. LeAnn Rimes (God Bless America)
3. Battle Hymn of the Republic - perhaps most notably by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
4. America - Neil Diamond
5. America the Beautiful - Ray Charles

[alcuin]

Your 383: Yeah, that's probably it. Dylan both eclipsed AND elevated his sidemen ("He was on Blonde on Blonde." "What'd he play?" "Uhhhh . . lemme check.").

BRUSH WITH GREATNESS, AT ONE REMOVE!

[alcuin]

Your 377: Thanks for your gracious response. You get your point across, and that's all that matters . .

ON FR!!

Just let it rock.

[NYCVirago]

Re: Sweet Jane

LOL -- but "Conservative slant"?? Yeah, the song is probably about either trannys OR drugs -- you can't listen to closely to his words because you'd vomit, but that's a typical Lou Reed song, isn't it?

I read a biography of Andy Warhol recently ("Holy Terror", by Bob Colcacello) and learned how all the characters in "Walk on the Wild Side" were real people in the Warhol Factory. Candy (Darling) really did come from out on the (Long) island, etc. I just thought they were characters for the song!

[NYCVirago]

You gotta hand it to Neil Young, though. When asked about Lynyrd Skynyrd dissing him in "Sweet Home Alabama", he basically said he deserved it!

I heard "Ohio" on the radio yesterday -- Neil Young wrote it in a fit of anger after the Kent State shootings, and David Crosby cried after the take that made it onto the record -- and was reminded of what a great song it was, even if you disagree with the politics in it. I would love to hear somebody come up with a really angry song about 9/11.

[NYCVirago]

Jello Biafra was never a conservative, but he definitely used to be anti-liberal. The first Dead Kennedys album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, has a ton of anti-liberal songs like Holiday in Cambodia and California Uber Alles. He was making fun of Jane Fonda and Jerry Brown and the whole hippie peacenik mentality. Of course, when Reagan became president, he switched targets.

[alcuin]

Psst. Virago. Wanna meet another virago?

Wanna WALK ON THE WILD SIDE?

Then check out I Shot Andy Warhol.

Viewer discretion advised.

[NYCVirago]

I understand your point. I just think there was alot more to John Lennon than 'Imagine,' though that is all that many want to associate him with (leftists, for example, would never let him live that one down). For my part, after listening to Double Fantasy, I think 'Imagine' was a phase for him. I had my leftist phase, too. I'm ashamed of some of things I believed and wrote.

I like Double Fantasy, but my favorite John Lennon solo songs are the really angry, cynical ones (like the entire Plastic Ono band album), "How Do You Sleep," "Gimme Some Truth," "Woman Is the N*gger of the World", etc. We should do a freeper list of angry songs sometime!

[NYCVirago]

Speaking of the Stones, the classic rock station in New York City has been playing clips of Senator Chuck Schumer talking about rock music. He said that "Sticky Fingers" was his favorite Stones album (good choice!) Yeah, I know he's a lib, but can you imagine Hillary! being asked a question like that, and giving a believable answer?