I just saw this on the AOL homepage :-)
I would have made "Proud to be an American" by Lee Greenwood number 1.
I wonder how long it will take before one of the featured performers publicly takes offense at their song being identified as conservative.
No Ted Nugent?
They got the Metallica lyrics wrong.
It should be:
"So be it / Friend no more / To secure peace is to prepare for war.
"So be it / Settle the score / Touch me again with words that you will hear ever more."
Sucks that they had to put Creed on the list. Otherwise not bad. Glad it is rock songs, a lot of blantantly conservative country songs suck almost as hard as Creed. For whatever reason some of them lack any sense of subtlety.
W I L L N O T L O G I N !~~~~!~~~~!!~~!!~~!!~!~!~!~!~!~~
::fires up Limewire::
I'm sure John Lydon would love to see his name on FR and one of his sex pistol songs listed as a conservative anthem.
There was a thread here when NRO published it seemingly months ago. It was a pretty lame list, IIRC.
Merle Haggard's "Are the Good Times Really Over" should be on the list (can't read the article).
Sweet but brain-dead... disqualified.
11. "The Trees," by Rush.
Some took it for fascism, not knowing that Geddy himself is Jewish.
22. "Red Barchetta," by Rush. In a time of "the Motor Law," presumably legislated by green extremists, the singer describes family reunion and the thrill of driving a fast car — an act that is his "weekly crime."
More than that, it was a call for performance over safety. Superficially- for sports cars over SUVs. F16s over 747s.
Excellent choices, and plenty of irony in that such artists rarely translate their own values into politics correctly. They're all libs!
After all, what is the Declaration of Independence but a polite way of saying "F**k You, I Won't Do What You Tell Me!." ;-)
I just got this NR issue in the mail today. They had The Pretenders "Ohio" tune in there too.
Always thought this was a leftist song: “the parting on the left is now parting on the right.”
#2 “Taxman”
Mentions both Mr. Wilson, Labour Prime Minister when the song was written, and Mr. Heath, Conservative leader at that time and later PM. The top British tax rate was 95% in the Beatles’ time, part of the reason they tax-sheltered their song catalog, allowing its later purchase by Michael Jackson—against the wishes of the surviving Beatles.
#3 Sympathy for the Devil
Hmmmm. “If you see me, have some courtesy, and some sympathy, and some taste.” Conservative? I don’t see it.
They didn’t mention “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” but I suppose that wasn’t really rock.
I love the guitar in that song Vernon Reid rocks! :P
My vote - "Ballad of the Green Beret"
That being the case, I would humbly nominate Devo's "Beautiful World" as the only appropriate conservative 'anthem'.