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Posted on 05/25/2006 8:07:18 PM PDT by grundle
Following is National Review's list of its top 50 conservative rock songs, with the magazine's explanations of its choices.
1. "Won't Get Fooled Again," by The Who.
The conservative movement is full of disillusioned revolutionaries; this could be their theme song, an oath that swears off naive idealism once and for all. "There's nothing in the streets / Looks any different to me / And the slogans are replaced, by—the—bye. . . . Meet the new boss / Same as the old boss." The instantly recognizable synthesizer intro, Pete Townshend's ringing guitar, Keith Moon's pounding drums, and Roger Daltrey's wailing vocals make this one of the most explosive rock anthems ever recorded — the best number by a big band, and a classic for conservatives.
2. "Taxman," by The Beatles.
A George Harrison masterpiece with a famous guitar riff (which was actually played by Paul McCartney): "If you drive a car, I'll tax the street / If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat / If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat / If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet." The song closes with a humorous jab at death taxes: "Now my advice for those who die / Declare the pennies on your eyes."
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The single, all time classic Red State F*U* line to the Blue Elites and their Canuck cousins...
"Well I hope Mr. Young will remember...a Southern man don't need 'him round, anyhow."
I'm proud to say that band is from my hometown of Jacksonville, Florida.
Hmmm. I recall in the days surrounding the Townshend/Moore spat that Townshend said Daltrey was friends with Moore.
Wonderful the unbiased left wing NY Times is mocking me....again...
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You're right. The lyrics to 'Bodies' are brutal and honest. A no holds barred description of the horrors of abortion.
She was a girl from Birmingham, she just had an abortion
She was a case of insanity, her name was Pauline, she lived in a tree
She was a no one who killed her baby
She sent her letters from the country
She was an animal
She was a bloody disgrace
Body, I'm not an animal
Body, I'm not an animal
Dragged on a table in a factory
Illigitimate place to be
In a package in a lavatory
Die little baby, screaming
Screaming, ******* bloody mess
I'm not an animal
It's an abortion
Body, I'm not an animal
Mommy, I'm an abortion
Throbbing squirm
Gurgling bloody mess
I'm not a discharge, I'm not a throbbing squirm
I'm not a loss in protein, I'm not a throbbing squirm
**** this, and **** that
**** it all and **** the ******* brat
she don't want a baby that looks like that
I don't want a baby that looks like that
Body, I'm not an animal
Body, I'm not an animal
Mommy!
Amen, bro! I'm 60 and I dig the spirit behind that album. My favorites are When the Eagle Cries and The Reckoning! Most patriotic album in history, IMHO -- "Glorious Burden".
It can be interpreted as the Satan being the agent of everything evil in the world, but having no choice in the matter, as he made his choice long ago to defy the will of God. I see it, since it is written from the Lucifer's point of view, as Satan gloating over his power to confuse us (Just as every cop is a criminal, And all the sinners saints, As heads is tails) and convince us to make the wrong choices (I was there when Pilate washed his hands and sealed his fate). The song recognizes that good and evil exists, and the inability of man to recognize evil is his downfall. Just after the part about sympathy and curtesy that you mentioned, Satan threatens you (or I will lay your soul to waste).
No moral relativism in this little tune. It also recognizes the Christian god, Jesus, and is anti-Communist.
Excellent points. Guess it’s just hard for me to think of Mick and Keith, uber-decadent hedonists both, as writing a conservative song.
It also had an anti-Nazi stanza (i.e., Satan was a Nazi): “I rode a tank, held a general's rank, when the blitzkrieg raged, and the bodies stank”
Believe it or not, Ronnie Van Zant and Neil Young were friends. Young has even performed this song live on many occasions! I haven't heard Young's take on it but I'd love to.
On the cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Street Survivors" Van Zant is clearly wearing a Neil Young tour shirt.
Rumor has it he was buried in it. And speaking of this...
I'm proud to say that band is from my hometown of Jacksonville, Florida.
Jacksonville Memorial Gardens is less than 1/2 mile from where I live.
my choices that were ignored
ventura highway by america
uplifting, beautiful song and that makes it conservative
many songs by John Mellancamp including jack and diane, little pink houses, cherry bomb, small town.
they are all about small town (red) america and small town values.
I hope you dance (leann womack)
this is about taking charge of your own life and being an individual or very conservative.
I'd like to get to know you-spanky and our gang
A pretty song about individualism not collectivism. Notice the title is not "We'd like to get to know them."
Saturday-Chicago
Another pretty song about being happy. And "I think it was the fourth of July."
Orange Park is where I grew up.
Of course, Ronnie isn't buried at the cemetery there - after ghouls tried to steal his body.
Bombs Over Baghdad by Outkast?
Make a business for yourself, boy, set some goals Make a fat diamond out of dusty coals.
The Chorus: [Dre] Don't pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang {Choir} Bombs over Baghdad! [Dre] Yeah! Ha ha yeah! Don't even bang unless you plan to hit something {Choir} Bombs over Baghdad! {Dre} Yeah! Uhh-huh
The rest of the lyrics are not really conservative and it is not supposed to be a war anthem or anything. The rock remix is good too, and can be found with a video of military stuff at the link below. Warning, lyrics are not totally clean, but pretty clean.
http://factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000638.html
Or just more confusing, plus the Frenchies came up with that whole civil law thing, right? ;-).
This one isn't a song, it's a speech by a Canadian radio host. "The Americans" came out in 1973, but I think it applies today.
The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French, and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.
It has declined there by 41% since 1971, and this Canadian thinks it's time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people in all the world.
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read
newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze.
Well, who rushed in with men and money to help?
The Americans did; that's who.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges, and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi is underwater, and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.
Germany, Japan, and to a lesser extent Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.
None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris -- and I was there, I saw that.
When distant cities are hit by earthquake, it's the United States that hurries in to help; Managua, Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples.
So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes -- nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Policy -- all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries, and now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, war-mongering Americans. Now, I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.
Come on, now you -- let's hear it!
Does any country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing jumbo jet, the Lockheed Tristar, or the Douglas Ten. If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes?
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or a woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon,
not once, but several times, and safely home again.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They're right here on our streets in Toronto. Most of them, unless they're breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend up here.
When the Americans get out of this bind, as they will, who could blame them if they said to hell with the rest of the world. Let somebody else buy the bonds. Let somebody else build or repair foreign dams, or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes. When the railways of France and Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both of them are still broke. I can name to you five thousand times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name to me even one time when someone raced to the help of the Americans in trouble?
I don't think there was outside help even during the San
Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone.
And I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They'll come out of this thing with their flag high, and when they do, they're entitled to thumb their noses at the lands that are gloating over their present trouble.
I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug,
self-righteous Canadians. And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that
it was broke.
This year's disasters, with the year less than half over, have
taken it all, and nobody, but nobody, has helped.
I'm sorry. ;-) Just kidding. Though the traffic on Blanding and Wells is enough to induce serious road rage!
Of course, Ronnie isn't buried at the cemetery there - after ghouls tried to steal his body
Rumor has it the graverobbers only wanted to determine if Van Zant was really wearing a Neil Young shirt.
Gotta have more cowbell baby!
Limewire was up already DLing rare Rutles' songs.
It also had an anti-Nazi stanza (i.e., Satan was a Nazi): “I rode a tank, held a general's rank, when the blitzkrieg raged, and the bodies stank”
I like the song quite a bit, the lyric above is just brutal. Try explained that song to your southern baptist mother!
Explore the studio space.
Before this thing is finished, ya'll be wearing gold plated diapers.
Actually, the Romans came up with it. Well, the Gauls and Germanic tribes did, then the Romans put it all together.
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