NYT spin.
Not to be trusted.
For the NYT conservative is having dinner first before annonymous sex.
Feel Like a Number by Bob Seger on that list?
I take my card and I stand in line
To make a buck I work overtime
Dear Sir letters keep coming in the mail.
I work my back till its racked with pain
The boss can't even recall my name
I show up late and I'm docked
It never fails
I feel like just another
Spoke in a great big wheel
Like a tiny blade of grass
In a great big field...
To workers I'm just another drone
To Ma Bell I'm just another phone
I'm just another statistic on a sheet
To teachers I'm just another child
To the IRS I'm just another file
I'm just another consensus on the street
Gonna cruise out of this city
Head down to the sea
Gonna shout out at the ocean
Hey it's me!
And I feel like a number
Feel like a number
Feel like a stranger
A stranger in this land
I feel like a number
I'm not a number
I'm not a number
Dammit I'm a man
I said I'm a man... OW Ow ow....
Glad to see Creed's 'One' made it. I've posted the lyrics to that song on numerous affirmative action threads. It is a good tune.
I always thought it was pretty odd that John Cougar is a liberal and endorses idiots like Algore and Kerry when the majority of his songs are conservative in nature.
No, I cannot forget where it is that I come from... Ironic.
Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
I would also add "Electric Eye" by Judas Priest. Very Orwellian.
Electric Eye
Up here in space
I'm looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do
You think you've private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
I'm watching all the time
I'm made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I'm elected electric spy
I'm protected electric eye
Always in focus
You can't feel my stare
I zoom into you
You don't know I'm there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
I'm made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
Electric Eye, in the sky
Feel me stare, always there
There's nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every though
And so my power grows
"It's not an animal / It's an abortion."
I wondered if my ears were deceiving me, back in the day. Even the Sex Pistols can be right sometimes.
I'm a Kinks fan, so I'm happy that "20th Century Man" earned a top ten position. And I'm amazed that "Two Sisters" was spotted. It's an achingly beautiful song that very few people know.
But they missed another great Kinks anti-gov't song:
People in GrayAnd "Won't Get Fooled Again" is just the best rock song, period.I got a letter this morning with serious news that's gone
and ruined my day,
The borough surveyor's used compulsory purchase
[eminent domain] to acquire my domain,
They're gonna pull up the floors,
they're gonna knock down the walls,
They're gonna dig up the drains.
Here come the people in grey they're gonna take me away to Lord knows where,
But I'm so unprepared I got no time to pack
and I got nothing to wear,
Here come the people in grey, To take me away.
Me and my baby's gonna get on a train
that's gonna take us away,
I'm gonna live in a tent,
we're gonna pay no more rent
we're gonna pay no more rates,
We're gonna live in a field, we're gonna buy me gun,
to keep the policemen away.
I'm gonna pass me a brand new resolution,
I'm gonna fight me a one man revolution, someway,
Gonna beat those people in grey,
But here come the people in grey,
To take me away.
The people in grey have gone and taken away my right to voice my complaint,
Her Majesty's Government have sent me a form I must complete it today.
But it's making me blue,
don't wanna tell all my secrets to The people in grey.
I'm gonna pass me a brand new resolution,
I'm gonna fight me a one man revolution, someway,
Gonna start my rebellion today.
But here come the people in grey,
To take me away.
Oh, Lord, those people in grey,
I gotta get back at those people in grey,
Here come the people in grey,
To take me away.
No Caucasian Guilt by Noh Mercy
( I never owned a slave,
I never made a Chinaman build me a railroad,
I never put a Jap in a camp)
and
Saviour Machine by David Bowie
(President Joe once had a dream
The world held his hand
So he told them his scheme
For a saviour machine
They called it the Prayer
It's answer was law
It's logic struck warmth, gave them food
How they adored it til it cried in its boredom)
"Get a Job" - The Silhouettes
What, no Dixie Chicks?!
Jim Morrison, Roadhouse Blues:-)
I see "Twentieth Century Man" on there...great song, though amazingly, I've never heard the original Kinks version of it. The only version I ever heard was an awesome ass-kicking live version by the Beat Farmers (a San Diego band most famous for "Happy Boy") on their "Loud and Plowed and...Live!" album.
}:-)4
Disappointed to see "Get Off This" by Cracker not on the list:
Petty little Ayatollahs
Come around to judge and stone ya
All we're trying to do is make a fortune
Yeah, we ain't got no government loans
And no one sends a check from home
But get this: we're just doin' what we wanna.
IMO, Behind Closed Doors, by Charlie Rich, is a very nice Conservative song.
Oh well, o well I feel so good today
Just touched down on an international runway
Jet-propelled back home from over seas to the USA.
Did I miss the skyscrapers, Did I miss the long freeways?
From the coast of California to the shores of the Delaware Bay?
You can bet your life I did till I got back to the USA.
(etc.)
Would the Doors' "Back Door Man" make the liberal top 40 if they altered the intended meaning?