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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:19 AM
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It's ... The 50 greatest conservative rock songs!
Enough of that lefty peace and love bullshit! Here are the top 50 conservative rock songs, picked by conservatives themselves, so you KNOW it's legit.

An edited title list follows. If you want the "reasoning" behind the song, click the link for the full writeup.

1. “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” by The Who

2. “Taxman,” by The Beatles

3. “Sympathy for the Devil,” by The Rolling Stones

4. “Sweet Home Alabama,” by Lynyrd Skynyrd

5. “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” by The Beach Boys

6. “Gloria,” by U2

7. “Revolution,” by The Beatles

8. “Bodies,” by The Sex Pistols

9. “Don’t Tread on Me,” by Metallica

10. “20th Century Man,” by The Kinks

11. “The Trees,” by Rush

12. “Neighborhood Bully,” by Bob Dylan

13. “My City Was Gone,” by The Pretenders

14. “Right Here, Right Now,” by Jesus Jones

15. “I Fought the Law,” by The Crickets

16. “Get Over It,” by The Eagles

17. “Stay Together for the Kids,” by Blink 182

18. “Cult of Personality,” by Living Colour

19. “Kicks,” by Paul Revere and the Raiders

20. “Rock the Casbah,” by The Clash

21. “Heroes,” by David Bowie

22. “Red Barchetta,” by Rush

23. “Brick,” by Ben Folds Five

24. “Der Kommissar,” by After the Fire

25. “The Battle of Evermore,” by Led Zeppelin

26. “Capitalism,” by Oingo Boingo

27. “Obvious Song,” by Joe Jackson

28. “Janie’s Got a Gun,” by Aerosmith

29. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” by Iron Maiden

30. “You Can’t Be Too Strong,” by Graham Parker

31. “Small Town,” by John Mellencamp

32. “Keep Your Hands to Yourself,” by The Georgia Satellites

33. “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” by The Rolling Stones

34. “Godzilla,” by Blue öyster Cult

35. “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” by Creedence Clearwater Revival

36. “Government Cheese,” by The Rainmakers

37. “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” by The Band

38. “I Can’t Drive 55,” by Sammy Hagar

39. “Property Line,” by The Marshall Tucker Band

40. “Wake Up Little Susie,” by The Everly Brothers

41. “The Icicle Melts,” by The Cranberries

42. “Everybody’s a Victim,” by The Proclaimers

43. “Wonderful,” by Everclear

44. “Two Sisters,” by The Kinks

45. “Taxman, Mr. Thief,” by Cheap Trick

46. “Wind of Change,” by The Scorpions

47. “One,” by Creed

48. “Why Don’t You Get a Job,” by The Offspring

49. “Abortion,” by Kid Rock

50. “Stand By Your Man,” by Tammy Wynette

http://article.nationalreview.com/281095/rockin-the-right/john-j-miller
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:23 AM
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1. Interesting list.
Thanx.
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Cal Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:24 AM
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2. Are they crazy?
:rofl:

Someone needs a class in reading between the lines...
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 12:00 PM
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22. I believe it's "stupid" not "crazy"..
Hey Reagan played Born In The USA as his "patriotic theme". :rofl:
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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 03:18 PM
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50. No, he didn't. He just tried to co-opt Springsteen's fans in a speech.
Of course, Springsteen observed that Reagan had it wrong to imply that the young people of 1984 were finding a "message of hope" in that song. But Reagan never actually tried to use it.

This whole list was out a long time ago, and easily betrays the ignorance of the person who came up with it as to the meaning of most of the songs.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:25 AM
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3. Are those the ones they don't pay royalties on when they play them
in commercials or rallies?

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FLAprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:25 AM
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4. Money, Money, Money by ABBA
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:25 AM
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5. Many songs are 'conservative' songs if you don't understand irony.
:eyes:
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FLAprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:27 AM
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9. sarcasm and irony are only understood by cons in their simplest forms.
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Johonny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 01:19 PM
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36. Yeah it's pretty clear they don't understand
most of the point of those songs.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:27 AM
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6. The fuckers are fooled ALL THE TIME
The top one is very telling
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OneTenthofOnePercent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:27 AM
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7. Nothing From Ted Nugent?
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 02:50 PM
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96. Even they realize that he sucks. nt
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:27 AM
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8. 43. “Wonderful,” by Everclear??? A song about lies told to kids being horrible?
Edited on Thu Jun-03-10 11:28 AM by YOY
Actually I would think it would be "Volvo Driving Soccer Mom"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll2z9HwTNQk


Na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na

You know I used to be a bad girl
I got busy in the bathroom at my high school prom
Yeah I used to be a dancer at the local strip club
But now I know my right wing from my wrong

Yeah, yeah

I really used to be a bad girl
I had a threesome with my sister and her boyfriend Tom
I know I used to be a real wild child
But now I am a Volvo-driving soccer mom

Na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na

I really used to be a bad girl
I got busted for possession of my wizard-shaped bong
I used to love to do the things they tell me not to do
But now I'm different--now I sing a new song

I really used to be a bad girl
I got gang-banged in the bathroom at my high school prom
Yes, I used to be a real wild child
But now I am a Volvo-driving soccer mom

Na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na

Where do all the porn stars go
When the lights go down?
I wonder where all the porn stars go
'Cause when you need one, they are never around

I think they moved out to the suburbs
And now they're blonde, bland, middle-class Republican wives
They all have blonde, bland, middle-class Republican children
Blonde, bland, middle-class Republican lives


Where do all the porn stars go
When the lights go down?
I think I know where all the porn stars go
They all become Volvo-driving soccer moms

Na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:28 AM
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10. Didn't they do this already?
I could have sworn I saw this list generated two or three years ago.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:34 AM
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14. You are correct ...
I just checked the date. This was posted on Wonkette as a new story.

D'oh! :hide:
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Mike Daniels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:36 AM
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16. Copy date on the article is 2006
Edited on Thu Jun-03-10 11:38 AM by Mike Daniels
The list was a joke even then. The writers take a line or two from the song to prove the "conservative leanings" of the song even if it requires totally taking the song out of context from the time or purpose in which is was written.

Besides, despite the overall tone of one song I think it's safe to say that most of the artists used aren't conservative in their lifestyles or politics.
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:37 AM
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17. Yep, the link is dated May 26, 2006 n/t
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:29 AM
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11. Interestingly enough, you can find 50 great conservative songs, but no great conservatives...n/t
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:33 AM
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13. Nailed it.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:37 AM
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18. Thanks...great conservative is like military intelligence...and so forth...n/t
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 12:06 PM
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25. Please.. they couldn't find 50 songs...
At least half of those songs could be considered "left" and a number of them are totally anti-conservative. The only thing Conservatives showed with this list is that they are clueless morons who are too stupid to know when they are being made fun of or talked down to.

I mean really... Revolution? Rock The Casbah? Won't Get Fooled Again? In the same sentence as "Conservative"? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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EOTE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 12:31 PM
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32. That pretty much sums it up.
I'd say about 75% of the songs are left leaning. Another 15% are kind of murky and maybe 10 or so percent are actually conservative songs. I didn't notice Lee Greenwood on there. It's pretty much just him and Creed. If conservatives were forced to listen to nothing but conservative music, they'd be committing suicide en masse. My greatest fear is being locked in a room with nothing but Creed pumped in 24/7. Scott Stapp is the devil.
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Green_Lantern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 05:35 PM
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64. I like Creed...conservatives just say Creed is conservative b/c
They have some religious themes. Ironically Marilyn Manson has called people on welfare leeches(conservative mantra).
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EOTE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:47 AM
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86. Creed's a fairly conservative christian band.
Their song "One" is one of the few songs I actually think belongs on that list. Listen closely to the lyrics and tell me that Scott Stapp's not a republican.
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Green_Lantern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 11:30 AM
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88. it's hard to tell...songs are open to interpretation...
The song One can arguably be seen as Obama's campaign theme. Even if he's a Republican who cares...I can like the music and not their politics.

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EOTE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 11:57 AM
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90. I'm kind of doubting Obama would use a song that slams affirmative action.
And any sort of progressive taxation at that. You're welcome to like Creed's music, but you should probably know what it's about.
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Green_Lantern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 12:50 PM
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92. music lyrics are all about interpretation so it's not
Conservative just because you say so.
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EOTE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 02:45 PM
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93. These lyrics don't seem all that ambiguous to me:
"Affirmative may be justified, take from one give to another"
and
"Society blind by color why hold down one to raise another"

Scott Stapp has said without any qualifiers that the song is a slam against affirmative action. He believes that affirmative action creates racial divides rather than reconciles them. You may not consider that to be conservative, but I do.
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Green_Lantern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 03:02 PM
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97. I don't think that fits...
I have always read that Stapp refuses to discuss what the songs are about. So I'm betting he hasn't said One is about affirmative action.

I think the song could also be saying that because of racism we're forced to use solutions that may divide the races further through animosity. That's not conservative, it's reality.
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EOTE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 03:21 PM
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98. He's saying that affirmative (action) steals from one to give to another.
If that's not a republican's take on affirmative action, I don't know what is. Please tell me how that lyric can be construed any other way? Creed doesn't do nuance, the lyrics are as clear cut as you can get. It boils down to "Tsk tsk, minorities! Stop asking for more rights! You're being divisive!"
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Green_Lantern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 03:30 PM
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99. I really don't think the song necessarily describes Stapp's feelings...
But is just the animosity created by this solution to racism. Are you saying animosity about affirmative action doesn't exist?
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EOTE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 03:38 PM
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102. Of course it does, and he's a big source of that animosity.
He's the narrator of the song. Are you saying that he's actually attributing those words to someone else? If I made a song and the first line was "I hates me some n****rs and qu**rs!", would you assume I was attributing those words to someone else or would you think those words reflected my views? If there was perhaps some artistic device used to suggest that the words belonged to someone else, I could maybe buy that, but it's clear that Creed uses no such artistic device.
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Green_Lantern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 03:46 PM
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103. actually yeah...the made up song you mentioned could be
Sarcasm maybe. There is no right interpretation of songs.

Are you really comparing Creed to music with racial slurs?
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EOTE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 03:55 PM
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104. I'm saying that artists make it clear who a narrator is.
If I was going to go on a diatribe about affirmative action in a song I wrote, I'd make damn sure I made it clear in my song whether it was myself espousing these views or some hypothetical 3rd party. In the song "One", it's quite clear that it's Stapp who owns those words. It's he who believes that affirmative action is "holding down one to raise another" and it's he who equates it to stealing. If he meant to suggest that it's others who feel that way, it really would have been clear by the song's lyrics. If Creed doesn't want to own their words, they shouldn't sing them. And it's not just his music that makes me really dislike Scott Stapp, it's his mind numbing hypocrisy. Do you happen to know that Scott Stapp has a sex tape? If you've seen it, you'd see some extremely un-christian behavior in it, and I'm not just talking about promiscuous sex.
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Green_Lantern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 04:15 PM
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105. If I only listened to bands who behaved morally...
I couldn't listen to any music...Even liberal bands can be hypocrite...Dave Matthews Band sings about environmental issues but their tour driver dumped raw sewage into the Chicago River http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4335667.stm
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 02:53 PM
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47. "My City Was Gone." Gotta love the way they made a song that is so
thorougly anti-corporate--by a PETA lovin' vegan female rocker, no less--try to fit their ideology because their puppet-master has the single attribute of appreciating a good bass line when he hears it.

That there reasoning is some really twisted logic...
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Codeine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 03:34 PM
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100. I was confused as hell
when one of my neighbors asked if I was a Rush Limbaugh fan. Turns out he had heard me puzzling out "My City Was Gone" on my bass -- he'd never heard the song outside of the bit that Fat Boy uses on his show and I had never heard the show. We had to educate each other.
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Ohio Metal Donating Member (94 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:31 AM
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12. Last I checked
Metallica writes antiwar songs to show how brutal and backwards wars really are. Did they conveniently forget "Disposable Heroes"? As for the rest, fuck these idiots will read into anything.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:35 AM
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15. I love how the GOP thinks they were the only ones who wanted the USSR gone...
Edited on Thu Jun-03-10 11:35 AM by Taverner
:grr:

It would be like saying the Democrats were the only ones who wanted Hitler gone..
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junkiebrewster Donating Member (371 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:40 AM
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19. The majority of which were written by liberals.
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:42 AM
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20. I scoff at any such list that doesn't include "The Fightin' Side of Me" by Merle Haggard
Come on conservatives, that's a no brainer. Of course Merle has been known to tell liberal reporters and audiences that such songs were just an ironic joke while telling conservative ones that he was standin up fer 'Murka, by golly. Fact is he saw a chance to sell records and took it.
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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:57 AM
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21. that list is anything but conservative
too funny
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 12:04 PM
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23. What the heck????
Edited on Thu Jun-03-10 12:14 PM by Generic Other
Where's "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood?
Where's Ted Nugent?
Where's "Happiness is a Warm Gun" by the Beatles?
Where's "In the Navy" by the Village People?
Where's "Ballad of the Green Berets" by Barry Sadler?
Where's "Where Eagles Soar" by John Ashcroft and the GOP Senate crooners?
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MidwestTransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 12:06 PM
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24. Here's my fave. (it's worth the click)
Edited on Thu Jun-03-10 12:07 PM by MidwestTransplant
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 12:11 PM
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26. what, no "Born in the USA" by Bruce Springsteen?
maybe conservatives, like Glenn Beck, have finally figured out what "Born in the USA" was all about after 30 years!:rofl:
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salguine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 12:14 PM
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27. I read the article. This list all but collapses under the weight of
Edited on Thu Jun-03-10 12:16 PM by salguine
accumulated misinterpretation. Whatever geniuses compiled it evidently only know "irony" as being what a golf club tastes like.
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 12:16 PM
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28. lol -- some pretty ridiculous justifications there
:rofl:
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mahatmakanejeeves Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 12:17 PM
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29. 15. “I Fought the Law,” by The Crickets
Edited on Thu Jun-03-10 12:30 PM by mahatmakanejeeves
Did they record that, or is it the case that one of the Crickets wrote the song? Surely the best known version is the one by the Bobby Fuller Four?

Edit: well, yes, the Crickets did record I Fought the Law

Wow, Bobby Fuller had a mysterious death, too.

(yeah, old list)
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 03:51 PM
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53. Could be. Der Kommissar wasn't written by After The Fire either.
Their version was a cover. The original was done by Falco (yeah, the Rock me Amadeus guy).
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Green_Lantern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 05:38 PM
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68. it's well known that I fought the law was about...
Bankers opposing financial reform laws....
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 08:50 PM
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83. nice....
:rofl:
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 12:21 PM
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30. What? No "I'm a Conservative" by Iggy Pop?
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 12:03 PM
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91. Only because "Lust for Life" more accurately describes...
the lifestyle of the typical Republican.
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EOTE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 12:25 PM
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31. There are probably 5 to 10 songs on that list that are actually conservative.
"One" by Creed is a perfect example of such a song. A perfect, shining example of the frothy diarrhea that conservatives have the gall to consider music.
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Robbie88 Donating Member (242 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 12:36 PM
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33. Hehe...
Edited on Thu Jun-03-10 12:36 PM by Robbie88
I remember reading an interview a couple of years back with Ray Davies of the Kinks in Rolling Stone in which he claims to be a socialist. Can't find the interview anywhere though...
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 12:54 PM
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34. They completely misunderstand the lyrics to "Sweet Home Alabama"
In 1975, Van Zant said: "The lyrics about the governor of Alabama were misunderstood. The general public didn't notice the words 'Boo! Boo! Boo!' after that particular line, and the media picked up only on the reference to the people loving the governor."<3> "The line 'We all did what we could do' is sort of ambiguous," Kooper notes "'We tried to get Wallace out of there' is how I always thought of it."<3> Journalist Al Swenson argues that the song is more complex than it is sometimes given credit for, suggesting that it only looks like an endorsement of Wallace.<3> "Wallace and I have very little in common," Van Zant himself said, "I don't like what he says about colored people."<3>
The final line of the song indicates that it may be against racial discrimination: "My Montgomery's got the answer." This is a reference to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which led to a Supreme Court decision declaring Alabama's racial segregation laws for buses unconstitutional.
In 1976, Van Zant and the band supported Jimmy Carter for his presidential candidacy, including fundraising and an appearance at the Gator Bowl benefit concert.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Home_Alabama
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 04:16 PM
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55. Sweet Home Alabama is one of the most understood songs of all time
It's hard to get past "I hope Neil Young will remember, a Southern Man don't need him around anyhow"

But the point (maybe) is that there are racists everywhere and there's no reason to single out "Southern Man", since lots of Southern men had very progressive attitudes about race at the time.

I'm no rock critic but I think it was mostly a protest against the perception that all white Southern males were useless rednecks, and the fact that it took an embarrassingly long time for Skynyrd to get in the Rock &Roll Hall of Fame sort of proves that point.

By objective standards they should have gotten in the first year they were eligible.

They sold tons of records, and well, they were a great band. It's just that too many of their fans waved Confederate flags. And of course there's the whole Free Bird thing but Stairway didn't keep Led Zep out of the Hall.



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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 07:33 PM
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82. Skynyrd gets props from me for Free Bird.
I fucking almost broke my fingers trying to play that on Guitar Hero.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 09:24 AM
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87. do you mean Mis-understood in your subject line?
and agree with the rest of your comment.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 05:33 PM
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106. Yes I meant misunderstood
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 12:55 PM
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35. Where's "Bobby Brown" by Frank Zappa? n/t
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 01:30 PM
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37. Hank Williams Jr. is absent.
That's blasphemy to snub Hank Williams Jr.

"A Country Boy Can Survive"?
"Mister Lincoln"?

They totally missed the boat. Their list is sorely lacking. :thumbsdown:
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Nailzberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 12:48 AM
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85. Not rock, though.
But very good conservative songs, but the list was looking for rock.
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taught_me_patience Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 01:43 PM
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38. They forgot their anthem - 21st Century Digital Boy
I can't believe it, the way you look sometimes
Like a trampled flag on a city street, oh yeah
And I don't want it, the things you're offering me
Symbolized bar code, quick ID, oh yeah

Chorus:
See I'm a 21st century digital boy
I don't know how to read but I've got a lot of toys
My daddy's a lazy middle class intellectual
My mommy's on Valium, so ineffectual
Ain't life a mystery?


I can't explain it, the things you're saying to me
It's going yayayayayayaya, oh yeah

Chorus

Tried to tell you about no control
But now I really don't know
And then you told me how bad you had to suffer
Is that really all you have to offer?

Chorus

outro
Cat's foot, iron claw
Neurosurgeon, scream for more
Innocence raped with napalm fire
Everything I want, I really need.

fade out
21st century schizoid boy
21st century video boy
21st century digital boy...
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 01:50 PM
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39. didn't ChimpDouche use CCR's "Fortunate Son" in '00?
did he even listen to the lyrics?
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Kitty Herder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 01:57 PM
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42. Did he really?
What a maroon. Of course, it is the perfect theme song for Chimpy.
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Politicalboi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 01:56 PM
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40. What!!!!
I thought these were the songs for Repukes.

Folk Songs.

http://folksongsofthefarrightwing.cf.huffingtonpost.com/
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 01:56 PM
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41. I am very surprised that "Dancin with Myself" by Billy Idol isn't on that list.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 04:31 PM
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57. It would have to be
"Dancing with My Secret Gay Prostitute While Embracing* the Christian Right and Then Expecting My Poor Wife to be Publicly Supportive in the Wake of All the Hurt and Anger She is Valiantly Trying to Suppress for the Sake of the Kids" for the chorus to have a "hook".

*In the non-sexual sense of the term, of course.

Republicans can dance to it, but it has no discernible beat.
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 02:02 PM
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43. Gloria by U2???
Never mind that they're well known for LIBERAL activism, but what exactly is "conservative" about that song? Is it because the chorus is more or less a prayer, partially sung in Latin?

Well, Jesus was a Liberal too, so I guess there goes that explanation.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 04:21 PM
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56. That was the author's justification. I kid not--it really was.
Because it was sung in Latin.

I know this list gets posted over and over, but it really is a peek into the dark recesses of Conservative groupthink. Scary as hell--but also kind of amusing.
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 05:34 PM
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63. Tridentine Post-Punk?
A whole genre that we never knew existed...
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 05:43 PM
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72. LOL'ing for the second time in an otherwise very blue day.
My 13 year old son is off to Prague for the first annual ex-hubby visitation for the summer today and I needed a good giggle. Thanks.

If they can make a PETA vegan female rocker a darling because Rush Limbaugh has the smarts to recognize a good bass line when he hears it--those guys can do just about any twist of logic YOU (being a of a sound, reasonable mind) cannot.

My opinion is that you should be grateful. Mental gymnastics like that are bound to take their toll (for instance, they find Sarah Palin fetching, too).
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katsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 02:27 PM
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44. Janie's got a gun? right to bear arms? pfffffft
Edited on Thu Jun-03-10 02:35 PM by katsy
That's about as conservative as Sympathy for the Devil.

A conservative would send the young girl in a room with her daddy to arbitrate the matter. Isn't that what they did for the female employees who were raped by kbr or some other company in iraq?

This list is BS.

Conservatives trying to hijack some part of culture which they don't understand.

Save a few of the above, this is all bullshit.


on edit: the person who wrote that is an ignorant ass.
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 02:30 PM
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45. Ooh, #5. “Wouldn’t It Be Nice"
Also known as "How's that nopey pokey thing working out for you?"

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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 03:37 PM
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51. LOL!!!
n/t
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 02:46 PM
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46. THICK AS A BRICK didn't make the list?
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 02:59 PM
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48. I'm actually glad they chose these tunes; I enjoy mocking those
who don't grasp literary devices. It's so easy--and yet so very entertaining...
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 03:05 PM
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49. What an idiotic list.
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MicaelS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 03:40 PM
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52. I Fought the Law....
My change to that was..

"I dropped the bomb, and the bomb won."
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Winterblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 03:52 PM
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54. Where's Okie from Muskogie
Or Green Beret, or Your Cheatin' Heart, or ????
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 04:34 PM
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58. As usual, the Cons are trying to co-op songs that protest everything they stand for....
Edited on Thu Jun-03-10 04:35 PM by marmar
And irony is lost on these fools.
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 04:53 PM
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59. Some might be generational
Since most of the tea party crowd was mentioned to be older and richer baby boomers, some of the songs are general favorite songs from that time. Other parts would be the boomers who were hippies in the 60's and 70's, yuppies in the 80's and now in the tea party. They are still fighting the government, this time from the far right instead of far left when they were young.
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Romulox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 05:13 PM
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60. I don't think they listen to the words? The Kinks, 20th Century Man lyrics:
This is the age of machinery,
A mechanical nightmare,
The wonderful world of technology,
Napalm, hydrogen bombs, biological warfare,

This is the twentieth century,
But too much aggravation
It's the age of insanity,
What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jerusalem.

Ain't got no ambition, I'm just disillusioned
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here.
My mama said she can't understand me
She can't see my motivation
Just give me some security,
I'm a paranoid schizoid product of the twentieth century.

You keep all your smart modern writers
Give me William Shakespeare
You keep all your smart modern painters
I'll take Rembrandt, Titian, Da Vinci and Gainsborough,

Girl we gotta get out of here
We gotta find a solution
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want to die here.

I was born in a welfare state
Ruled by bureaucracy
Controlled by civil servants
And people dressed in grey
Got no privacy, got no liberty
Cos the twentieth century people
Took it all away from me.

Don't wanna get myself shot down
By some trigger happy policeman,
Gotta keep a hold on my sanity
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna die here.

My mama says she can't understand me
She can't see my motivation
Ain't got no security,
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here.

This is the twentieth century
But too much aggravation
This is the edge of insanity
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 05:15 PM
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61. My city was gone?
Are you kidding me?

It's anti-growth, 100%.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 05:37 PM
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66. By a PETA-lovin' vegan to boot. Gotta love that RW logic.
Except that there is none to be found.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 06:29 PM
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76. Rush used (and still does as far as I know) for intro music...no singing...just the intro.
Chrissie was not impressed...but he did pay her record company to use it...and I am sure she got royalties.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 06:58 PM
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78. If she gets money
I'm sure she's pleased about Rush's cash going towards liberal causes.
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Green_Lantern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 05:29 PM
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62. Abortion describes Kid Rock's music career...
Pretty funny.
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 05:36 PM
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65. Amazed they didn't work Billy Bragg into the list somehow
Schmucks.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 05:43 PM
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71. Bragg's not a rocker. Why are you amazed?
But I guess it is a little surprising that they didn't include his cover of Woody Guthrie's "Christ for President", even though the message of that song is how great it would be if someone who actually followed the teachings of Jesus Christ became President.
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WaaHoo Donating Member (32 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 05:38 PM
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67. Some very good songs on the list
I want that CD :D
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 05:39 PM
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69. "I'll drink all the time" is a conservative lifestyle, not a conservative "value"
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Green_Lantern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 05:41 PM
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70. They left out "I touch myself" by the Divinyls and..
"In the Closet" by R. Kelly
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Green_Lantern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 05:44 PM
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73. actually thre are some real conservative songs on that list..
The Rush songs for example.
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 05:49 PM
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74. I thought the Zeppelin would be Immigrant Song.
But then again the only part of that song they know is "WE ARE YOUR OVERLORDS!"
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 06:11 PM
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75. Where's "She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby?
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 02:50 PM
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95. They don't believe in science, remember?
Now, that shit about Alley Oop dancing with a dinosaur, that makes sense to 'em.
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 06:34 PM
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77. Where's "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" by the Ramones?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYkk0gIlWJ4



Hey, little girl
I wanna be your boyfriend
Sweet little girl
I wanna be your boyfriend
Do you love me babe?
What do you say?
Do you love me babe?
What can I say?
Because I wanna be your boyfriend
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 07:13 PM
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79. Some of the "reasoning" behind the conclusions here is just bizarre
Almost as sick and twisted as the ideology that the songs are purported to represent.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 07:17 PM
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80. Jesus Jones? He sucks!
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 07:22 PM
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81. Let me think....
The REAL Conservative Top Ten Rock Songs

1. "Prison Bound", Social Distortion

2. "I Was Wrong," Social Distortion

3. "Highway to Hell", AC/DC

4. "Your Racist Friend", They Might Be Giants

5. "Warbrain", Alkaline Trio

6. "Stupid Kid", Alkaline Trio

7. "Nightmare", Halifax

8. "Spinning", Jack's Mannequin

9. "Franco Un-American", NoFx

10. "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)", REM
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 08:55 PM
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84. Where's "I Just Wanna Sniff Some Glue" by the Ramones?
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Proud Liberal Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 11:55 AM
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89. What about Beck's "Loser"?
:evilgrin:
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 02:47 PM
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94. It's almost sad how deluded they are.
:eyes:
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 03:37 PM
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101. The Clash? Conservative? Are they fucking kidding me?
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