Conservative Rock Songs, Deconstructed (Is there such thing as conservative rock music?)

National Review ^ | 05/31/2010 | John J. Miller

[Fry]

Excellent Kinks reference and song. Here is another Ray Davies song that a lot of people don't know but I think fits this topic well. (Dave wasn't part of this one so technically it isn't a Kinks song.)

It is from the Return to Waterloo sound track.

"Expectations"

Now all the lies are beginning to show,
And you're not the country that I used to know.
I loved you once from my head to my toe,
But now my belief is shaken.

And all your ways are so untrue,
No one breaks promises the way that you do.
You guided me, I trusted you,
But now my illusion's shaken.

Thought this empire would be here
At least a thousand years.
But all the expectations and aspirations,
Slowly disappear.

Now all the lies have gone on too long,
And a million apologies can't right the wrong.
Soldiers die but the lies go on,
But soon we will awaken.

In our expectations for the future,
We were not to know.
We had expectations, now we've reached
As far as we can go.

And all your manners are too, too polite,
Just to prove that your conscious is white and bright.
You had your day so get ready for the night,
For another dawn is breaking.

We had expectations, now we've reached
As far as we can go.

[SandyLynn]

What’s the deal with Sponge Bob? I watch it with my son, and I’ve only seen goofy humor.

I agree!! Please don’t tell me there is a liberal hidden agenda in Sponge Bob Square Pants? My girls and I absolutely love the goofy humor of the show..we watch the episodes many times over! Anyone? Anyone?

[skeeter]

Rest in Peace - Extreme

[Fiji Hill]

Taken as a whole the song sends a very positive Christian message.

Perhaps so. However, I get more inspiration from tunes such as the great Methodist gospel song Over There, which covers the same subject as "Spirit in the Sky" but is both grounded in scripture and musically superior.

[Pelham]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/fashion/24norman.html/partner/rssnyt/?_r=2&oref=slogin

“Oddly, the tune that’s turned out to be Mr. Greenbaum’s salvation is in part a shout out to Jesus, written and performed by a nice Jewish boy from Massachusetts. As one verse of “Spirit in the Sky” proclaims:

Never been a sinner, I never sinned

I got a friend in Jesus

So you know that when I die

He’s gonna set me up with

The spirit in the sky

Mr. Greenbaum claimed that he has received thousands of e-mail messages and letters about that verse. “A lot of them say, ‘We’re all sinners, we were born sinners, how dare you,’ ” he said. “O.K., so what do I know? ‘Sanford and Son’ was written by Jews and what did they know about being black?”

Mr. Greenbaum had a traditional Jewish upbringing. “My parents weren’t Hasidic, but they were almost Orthodox,” Mr. Greenbaum said. Growing up in Malden, Mass., he attended Hebrew school and was bar mitzvahed.”

[Chi-townChief]

Sputnik Baby - Roosevelt Sykes

[teeman8r]

have you heard lennon’s... woman is the nigger of the world...

google it... powerful.

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[Raven6]

If you want some real metal, check out Sons of Liberty... No video, but audio found here:

Tree of Liberty

Regards,
Raven6

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Yes, and that song was written when he had a religious reawakening and spent time in Israel..He is still deeply religious.

[ElayneJ]

Silent Running - Mike and the Mechanics