And immediately...I knew the right answer. "American Pie." The original. Not everything in the '70s was goofy.
Posted on 11/20/2001 3:40:03 PM PST by youngFreeper
Just for fun I would like to see what songs everyone feels has a coservative flavor.
One of the greatest, yet another British Invasion icon.
That early stuff, which pre-dates and surpasses most punk and metal, morphs into Waterloo Sunset . . .
And immediately...I knew the right answer. "American Pie." The original. Not everything in the '70s was goofy.
Saw them with Taste (Rory Gallagher), and they did indeed kick, but with their left feet, dude.
Fred "Sonic" Smith married Patti Smith, I believe.
Saw Patti a few times, and she was VERY cool. She opened for the Stones on one of the tours; her dream come true, since at the party celebrating the release of her first LP (Horses, I think it was), she demanded that the guy in charge of the deal get SOME EFFIN' STONES' RECORDS to play, and then tried to kick Alice Cooper out of the place ("There are certain people here who do not belong here . .").
Rock. What a sub-culture!
Good band, how about:
Fight The Good Fight
Lay It On The Line
Magic Power
and A World Of Fantasy
1. Mind Your Own Business, Hank Williams Sr. Taps more into the libertarian side of conservatism, with lines like: "If my wife & I's a fussin', brother, that's all right/'Cause me & that sweet woman's got a license to fight/Why don't you mind your own business?"
2. Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash Some might dispute that a song about someone "who shot a man in Reno just to watch him die" is conservative, but Cash's song is ultimately about regret and redemption. Today's gangsta rappers could learn some real lessons from The Man in Black.
3. Big Iron, Marty Robbins A fun pro-law&order tale. A young Arizona Ranger comes to town to clean out Texas Red, the bandit who has been terrorizing the locals and defying law enforcement ("20 men had tried before him/20 men had made a slip/21 would be the Ranger with the big iron on his hip"). Ultimately, though, justice prevails: "Texas Red had not cleared leather before the bullet fairly ripped/And the Ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip." Some might think the song dated, but it's easy to draw a parallel between Texas Red and Osama Bin Laden
Well, my shoes, they come from Singapore,
My flashlight's from Taiwan,
My tablecloth's from Malaysia,
My belt buckle's from the Amazon.
You know, this shirt I wear comes from the Philippines
And the car I drive is a Chevrolet,
It was put together down in Argentina
By a guy makin' thirty cents a day.
Well, it's sundown on the union
And what's made in the U.S.A.
Sure was a good idea
'Til greed got in the way.
Well, this silk dress is from Hong Kong
And the pearls are from Japan.
Well, the dog collar's from India
And the flower pot's from Pakistan.
All the furniture, it says "Made in Brazil"
Where a woman, she slaved for sure
Bringin' home thirty cents a day to a family of twelve,
You know, that's a lot of money to her.
Well, it's sundown on the union
And what's made in the U.S.A.
Sure was a good idea
'Til greed got in the way.
Well, you know, lots of people complainin' that there is no work.
I say, "Why you say that for
When nothin' you got is U.S.-made?"
They don't make nothin' here no more,
You know, capitalism is above the law.
It say, "It don't count 'less it sells."
When it costs too much to build it at home
You just build it cheaper someplace else.
Well, it's sundown on the union
And what's made in the U.S.A.
Sure was a good idea
'Til greed got in the way.
Well, the job that you used to have,
They gave it to somebody down in El Salvador.
The unions are big business, friend,
And they're goin' out like a dinosaur.
They used to grow food in Kansas
Now they want to grow it on the moon and eat it raw.
I can see the day coming when even your home garden
Is gonna be against the law.
Well, it's sundown on the union
And what's made in the U.S.A.
Sure was a good idea
'Til greed got in the way.
Democracy don't rule the world,
You'd better get that in your head.
This world is ruled by violence
But I guess that's better left unsaid.
From Broadway to the Milky Way,
That's a lot of territory indeed
And a man's gonna do what he has to do
When he's got a hungry mouth to feed.
Well, it's sundown on the union
And what's made in the U.S.A.
Sure was a good idea
'Til greed got in the way.
Charlie Daniel's Band,
In America
Well the eagle's been flyin' slow
And the flag's been flyin' low
And a lot of people sayin' that America's fixin' to fall
Well speakin' just for me
And some people from Tennessee
We've got a thing or two to tell you all
This lady may have stumbled
But she aint never fell
And if the Russians don't believe that
They can all go straight to hell
We're gonna put her feet back
On the path of righteousness and then
God bless America again
CHORUS
And you never did think
That it ever would happen again
You never did think
That we'd ever get together again
( We da*& sure fooled you )
Yeah, we're walkng real proud
And we're talkin' real loud again ( In America )
You never did think
That it ever would happen again
From The Sound up in Long Island
Out to San Francisco Bay
And everthing that's in between them is our own
And we may have done a little bit
Of fightin' amongst ourselves
But you outside people best leave us alone
'Cause we'll all stick together
And you can take that to the bank
That's the cowboys and the hippies
And the rebels and the yanks
You just go and lay your hand
On a Pittsburgh Steelers' fan
And I think you're gonna finally understand
REPEAT CHORUS TWICE
Iggy Pop may be honest, cd, but I'd be surprised if he were a conservative. From what I've heard, his main claim to fame is performing nude in front of his fans with a raging... ahem, or shall we say he's slightly excited...;-)
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