So Blink 182 scored on the 50 best conservative rock songs

[Kane Knight]

...With "Let's Stay together for the Kids."

Pete Townshend's "We Won't Get Fooled Again" was #1, which was a surprise to Pete Townshend and anyone who ever read the lyrics, but I thought the Blink song would better resonate with folks here.

[loopydate]

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song




...eat that, pinkos!

[el fregadero]

haha yeah I was reading about that. They said "Won't Get Fooled Again" was about how The Who were actually agasint rebellion against the government and wanted to keep it traditional. I was like what the hell are you talking about.

[loopydate]

Well, they say history is written by those in power. I guess the same holds true for songwriting.

Next thing we know, we'll have population control policy based on A Modest Proposal.

[el fregadero]

Is that a band? I don't get it.

[loopydate]

That's what I get for posting train-of-thought-style. I went from history to songwriting to a satirical 18th Century essay without stopping to let more passengers on.

[el fregadero]

Oh. So that name is available for a band name?

[Kane Knight]

Well, they say history is written by those in power. I guess the same holds true for songwriting.

Next thing we know, we'll have population control policy based on A Modest Proposal.

:lol:

Yeah, I'm surprised "Sweet Neocon" wasn't on the list.

I mean, it even calls them sweet! :shifty:

[el fregadero]

I'm sure when they make their top 100 it will be there, so don't worry too much.

[Kane Knight]

Oh. So that name is available for a band name?

Not anymore...:shifty:

[DMI]

woo :heart:

[Kane Knight]

What is it with Jessicas and conservatism on these boards?

[FakeLaser]

Where's Born in the USA?????

[road doggy dogg]

They could've at least picked a better song from Blink. Regardless, that is hot. Even though I don't know (or likely would care if I did) who made said list.

[Kane Knight]

Where's Born in the USA?????

Strangely, not on there.

I guess dealing with folks after a war isn't a conservative issue. Oh wait, we already knew that.

[Kane Knight]

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzZkNDU5MmViNzVjNzkzMDE3NzNlN2MyZjRjYTk4YjE=

There's the list.

[Kane Knight]

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2006/05/50-more-conservative-rock-songs.html

50 more. ;)

. Bobby McFerrin
"Don't Worry, Be Happy"
Has there ever been a more succinct summation of the philosophy of conservatism? I could listen to this song again and again and again and again.

2. Bruce Springsteen
"Born in the USA"
How could the National Review have missed this one? Ronald Reagan loved this patriotic song and used it during his campaign, which must have made Bruce Springsteen very proud. I love to sing the words aloud: "Something, something, something, etc./BORN IN THE USA!"

3. Silhouettes
"Get a Job"
The conservative welfare plan in three little words.

4. Godsmack
"Awake"
This song, used in Navy recruiting commerc (http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/03/fdl-late-nite-godsmacked/)ials (http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/03/fdl-late-nite-godsmacked/), has persuaded many a young man to fight for his country in Iraq. The military has also started using their song "Sick of Life," to attract recruits that have a sense of irony.

5. Ten Year's After
"I'd Love to Change the World"
"Everywhere is freaks and hairies/Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity" This poignant plea for normalcy is as timely today as it was when people had actually heard of Ten Year's After.

6. Devo
"Jocko Homo"
No, it's not a gay song, but a powerful rebuke of Darwinism: "They tell us that/We lost our tails/Evolving up/From little snails/I say its all/Just wind in sails/Are we not men?"

7. U2
"Bullet in a Blue Sky"
"Across the field you see the sky ripped open/See the rain through a gaping wound/Pounding on the women and children/Who run/Into the arms/Of America." Who loves America more than Jesse Helms' friend Bono?

8. Meat Loaf
"I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)"
In these times where it seems anything goes, Meat Loaf reminds us there are limits.

9. Billy Joel
"We Didn't Start the Fire"
Billy Joel's stirring rebuke to the blame America first crowd.

10. Iggy Pop
"I'm a Conservative"
"When you're conservative you get a better break/You're always on the right side" This is so true.

11. Barry Sadler
"Ballad of the Green Berets"
"Fighting soldiers from the sky/Fearless men who jump and die/Men who mean just what they say/The brave men of the Green Beret." If it weren't unmanly to cry I'd be tearing up right about now.

12. Neil Young
"Let's Roll"
If he wrote more songs like this and stopped writing songs that dis Lynyrd Skynyrd and our President, I wouldn't have signed the petition to have him deported back to Canada.

13. Bob Dylan
"Gotta Serve Somebody"
Bob Dylan used to write good, Christian songs with words you can understand. What happened to him?

14. Genesis
"Illegal Alien"
The message of this song: Stay home because "it's no fun being an illegal alien."

15. Paul Anka,
"(You're) Having My Baby"
What more could a woman want out of life than to have Paul Anka's baby? And the idea of aborting it never even enters her mind.

16. James Brown
"It's a Man's Man's Man's World"
"…but it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl." Don't ever let it be said that Republican soul singer James Brown doesn't value the contribution of women. Honorable mention: "Living in America."

17. Beatles
"Happiness Is a Warm Gun"
There are so many great conservative Beatles songs. The National Review had two, "Taxman" and "Revolution," but I especially love this celebration of gun ownership. I'm sure that John Lennon would be a member of the NRA if he were alive today since he was a great believer in individual freedom.

18. Byrds
"Turn, Turn, Turn"
All the lyrics come from the Bible, which is, of course, conservative.

19. TLC
"No Scrubs"
You need a steady income to buy the key to these girls' hearts. Clearly, they are going to end up with Republican men.

20. Gang of Four
"I Love a Man in Uniform"
Who doesn't? I mean, not in a gay way.

21. Pet Shop Boys
"Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)"
A great song about the virtues of capitalism.

22. The Village People
"In the Navy"
A moving tribute to our fighting forces by a group of men who dress like real men from a time when no one had ever heard of a metrosexual.

23. Ted Nugent
"I Just Wanna Go Hunting "
It's a mystery why the most prominent conservative, NRA card-carrying, non-drug-taking, beef jerky-selling rock 'n' roller was left of the National Review's list.
24. Pink Floyd
"Another Brick In The Wall, Part II"
"We don't need no education." Clearly, this is an argument for home schooling.

25. Jennifer Lopez
"Jenny from the Block"
Liberals think there is something wrong with making money but as JLo proves, making a lot of money didn't make her any more arrogant than she already was.

26. Puff Daddy
''All About the Benjamins''
Money, guns and women who know their place. The Republican Party really should make some overtures to the gangsta rap community. I wonder why there was no hip hop (http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2006/05/top-conservative-songs-lack-soul.html) on the National Review list.

27. Band-Aid
"Do They Know Its Christmas?"
"Well tonight thank God it's them/instead of you" I don't think I've ever seen a better summation of the conservative view of the rest of the world. If this were truly a liberal song it would be called "Do They Know It's a Holiday."

28. Barrett Strong
"Money (That's What I Want)"
Which is nothing to be ashamed of.

29. Gorillaz
"Dirty Harry"
"I need a gun to keep myself from harm." A tribute to the Second Amendment, although since they live in England the amendment probably has a different number.

30. Limp Bizkit
"My Way"
"Some day you'll see things my way," is something I'm constantly saying to liberals.

31. Morrissey
"Bengali in Platforms"
"Life is hard enough when you belong here," Morrissey sings, meaning you'll be a lot happier if you just stay in your own country. Abstinence proponent Morrissey is one of the great conservatives in pop music today.

32. Nelly
"Air Force Ones"
Hip Hop is full of great entrepreneurs, but it took Nelly to come up with the innovative idea of skipping the step of selling his song for use in a commercial by making the song itself a commercial.

33. Beastie Boys
"Fight for Your Right (to Party)"
Civil rights, schmivel rights. Here's a fight a conservative can really back wholeheartedly.

34. Crosby Stills Nash and Young
"Ohio"
"Should have been done long ago," CSN&Y sing about the shooting of anti-war protesters at Kent State, which sounds harsh but true. A cautionary song about what could happen when you protest against the government.

35. Nick Lowe
"Cruel to be Kind"
Conservatives are often accused of not caring about the less fortunate, but as this song illustrates we really do actually care even when it seems we are being cruel and unfeeling.

36. Bruce Cockburn
"If I had a Rocket Launcher"
Just another rock 'n' roll fantasy.

37. Beach Boys
"In My Room"
Brian Wilson's celebration of abstinence.

38. The Rascals
"People Got To Be Free"
Any song that talks about freedom is conservative, of course.

39. Kinks
"Village Green Preservation Society"
"God save little shops, china cups and virginity." Ray Davies, whose "Twentieth Century Man" made the National Review list, may be the most conservative songwriter in rock. Honorable mention: "Young Conservatives" and "Sunny Afternoon," where he sings "The tax man's taken all my dough."

40. Randy Newman
"Political Science"
"We give them money-but are they grateful?/No, they're spiteful and they're hateful/They don't respect us--so let's surprise them/We'll drop the big one and pulverize them" I bet this song is on Wolfewitz's Ipod.

41. Guns N Roses
"One in a Million"
Axl Rose's "Anti-Immigrant Song."

42. Bob Marley
"Redemption Song"
"Have no fear for atomic energy." Marley's "song of freedom" from the "mental slavery" of environmentalism.

43. Toby Keith
“Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)”
"You’ll be sorry that you messed with/The U.S. of A./'Cause we'll put a BOOT in your ass/It's the American way." President Bush now says he regrets the tough language he used but I'm sure Toby Keith doesn't.

44. Edgar Winter Group
"Frankenstein"
I included this song because the National Review list included "Godzilla," though I'm not sure why. I think it's because monsters are conservative for some reason.

45. Lee Greenwood,
"God Bless the U.S.A."
"I'm proud to be an American/where at least I know I'm free." I almost didn't include this song because the "at least" sounds suspiciously liberal.

46. Outkast
"Bombs Over Baghdad"
A tribute to our soldiers fighting in Iraq.

47. Madonna
"Papa Don't Preach"
Although this song does seem to approve of pre-marital sex, it is one of the few anti-abortion pop songs. Runner-up: Madonna (http://justemilieu.blogspot.com/2006/05/49-most-conservative-madonna-songs.html)'s "Material Girl."

48. Britney Spears
"Oops...I Did It Again"
Bush supporter, wife, mother and role model Britney Spears doesn't feel the need to apologize for her "mistakes" because the men who might have thought she led them on should take personal responsibility for their actions.

49. Ozzy Osbourne
"Thank God for the Bomb"
Family man and anti-animal rights activist Ozzy Osbourne's salute to the policy of mutually assured destruction (MAD).

50. Buddy Holly
"That'll Be the Day"
What could be more conservative than a song that takes its title from a John Wayne quote?

[FakeLaser]

I was being sarcastic.

[Kane Knight]

I was being sarcastic.

Did you really feel the need to explain that to me? I thought it was obvious, but responded as snarky as I could.

[Skippord]

43. Toby Keith
“Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)”
"You’ll be sorry that you messed with/The U.S. of A./'Cause we'll put a BOOT in your ass/It's the American way." President Bush now says he regrets the tough language he used but I'm sure Toby Keith doesn't.

How in Sabin's name is this not #1

[Kane Knight]

Also, I think Jaye Muller should have a couple of songs on there. "Have a Good Night Tonight" is a lovely and upbeat song about being interred as a non-citizen by the US government.

"Let Me Take You" is a touching song about how great it is that freedom came to Germany.