What songs do you feel have a Conservative slant?

[youngFreeper]

Just for fun I would like to see what songs everyone feels has a coservative flavor.

[GoreIsLove]

Buffett's "The Wino and I Know",

Strange situation, wild occupation, living your life for a song

Whenever I see your name I wonder if it's because of the album title...

[timestax]

goo goo googoobalagajagle...

[timestax]

BTTT

[timestax]

PARANOID by Grand Funk Railroad !!!!

[NYCVirago]

That may be true, but a little known fact is the Wallace OWNED the black vote in Alabama. He was more popular among the black population than the white (and he was genuinely adored by whites, as well). His percentage of the black vote in his gubanatorial races was astounding, but I cannot recall exactly how high. Something like 70% consistently. The media outside Alabama, of course, NEVER reports this. We're all supposed to hate the little bigot, you understand.

Those numbers had to be for the later Wallace years, after he got shot and apologized for his segregationist views -- they couldn't have been in the early years, as the blacks weren't even able to vote in most areas of Alabama until the Voter Rights Act was passed.

But one of the more little-known facts about Wallace was that when he first ran for governor in the 50s, he promised in his campaign to give everyone a "fair shake" regardless of color! It was when he lost that election, to someone who was an ardent racist, that he vowed to "never be outn*ggered" again, and became such a vocal segregationist. It was opportunism, to be sure -- people who blame Wallace for his attitudes forget that our politicians are a reflection of the voters -- but people won't forget him saying "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever" at his first inaugural. It's ironic -- Wallace gave the people what he thought they wanted to hear, and he would be haunted by what he said for the rest of his life.

[NYCVirago]

Along those lines, I saw Elvis Costello (left or right?) on SNL sing this line: "Wasn't it a millionaire who said 'imagine no possessions,'" effectively lancing the boil of leftist hypocrisy.

I hadn't heard about Elvis Costello doing that, but I do know that Lorne Michaels forbade him from playing his anti-music industry song "Radio Radio" on SNL. Elvis started to play another song, and then broke into Radio Radio. Lorne Michaels gave him the middle finger through the whole song!

[NYCVirago]

Lorne Michaels makes me nervous since he did a skit in which he played a child molester.

Did you know that Mike Myers based the Dr. Evil character in the Austin Powers movies on Lorne Michaels? Same voice.

[LaBradford22]

Lynrd Skynrd "Sweet Home Alabama"

My favorite line is "Now Watergate does not bother me"

[Skooz]

Those numbers had to be for the later Wallace years, after he got shot and apologized for his segregationist views

You are correct. This was in the 1970s. He was wildly popular among most, if not all, sectors of society. I lived in Alabama but am not from there, so I was never a big Wallace fan. But I have never seen a politician so adored by his constituents.

[Nowyadunnit]

"Revolution" by the Beatles? Because it takes a shot at Mao Zedong? The Beatles were about as liberal as they come, with their clothes, their drug use and their womanizing. Let's not forget how much money they wasted, as if they were liberal politicians! Face it, the only song the Beatles ever did that can be called "conservative" is "Taxman." And that was by George Harrison, who with his experimentation with Eastern religions was far more libertarian than conservative. (For those too young to remember or unfamiliar with British politics, "Mr. Wilson" and "Mr. Heath" were the Party Leaders at the time. Labour's Harold Wilson was Prime Minister 1964 to 1970 and again 1974 to 1976. The Conservatives' Edward (Ted) Heath was PM in between Wilson's terms.)

[Nowyadunnit]

"American Pie" is not conservative. Unless you believe that Mick Jagger really is the Devil (not really, but a remarkable simulation) and that the Holy Trinity really lives in California. ("The Father, Son and Holy Ghost, they caught the last train for the coast." Why would God need a train?) "American Pie"? Nostalgic, sure. Conservative, no way. Don McLean is one of the New York guys in the save-the-Hudson-River project along with Pete Seeger and Robert Kennedy Jr., no friends of this board.

[GoreIsLove]

Oh I took a wrong turn, it was the right turn
My turn to have me a ball
Boys at the shop told me just where to stop
If I wanted to play for it all
I didn't know I'd find her on daytime TV
My whole world lies waiting behind door number three

I chose my apparel, I wore a beer barrel
And they rolled me to the very first row
I held a big sign that said, "Kiss me I'm a baker
And Monty I sure need the dough"
Then I grabbed that sucker by the throat until he called on me
'Cause my whole world lies waiting behind door number three

And I don't want what Jay's got on his table
Or the box Carol Merrill points to on the floor
No I'll hold out just as long as I am able
Or until I can unlock that lucky door
Well, she's no big deal to most folk
But she's everything to me
'Cause my whole world lies waiting behind door number three

Oh Monty, Monty, Monty, I am walkin' down your hall
Got beat, lost my seat, but I'm not a man to crawl
Though I didn't get rich, you son of a bitch
I'll be back just wait and see
'Cause my whole world lies waiting behind door number three
Yes my whole world lies waiting behind door number three

[Nowyadunnit]

"Born In the USA," as Bruce Springsteen pointed out to Ronald Reagan in 1984, is NOT a conservative song. It's about how the surviving Vietnam vets got shafted, and that can be blamed on liberals and conservatives alike (Carter & the Democratic Congress, Reagan and the GOP Senate of the early Eighties). There's plenty of culpability to go around there. But the song is not conservative.

[Nowyadunnit]

<< Heck, almost every country song - Country music is one of the few popular music forms where loving God, your country and your parents is still and always has been, OK. >> Let me get this straight: Rock and roll, full of songs about drugs and violence and death and cheating on your significant other, is liberal; but country music, full of songs about drinking and violence (lotta gun and knife songs) and death and cheating on your significant other, is conservative? This has always puzzled me. There are a lot more pro-nationalism, pro-family songs in country music, but the reason is clear: It's a more "mature" (I'm being loose with the language here) form, geared toward middle-aged people as well as young ones, where rock is generally for teens and young adults, who are more apt to seek rebellious art forms. Most of them don't HAVE families to champion yet. At that age, your parents aren't YOUR family, YOU are THEIR family. Usually, the only references to family in rock are calling someone "mama" or "daddy-o" or "brother," as metaphors. "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother," for example, based on the Boys Town statue.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

"Country music is one of the few popular music forms where loving God, your country and your parents is still and always has been, OK"
Don't fergit your dowgee!

[Skooz]

It's on the mat!

It isn't moving!

One!
Two!
Three!

That's it! The fat lady has sung! This thread is over!

[mlocher]

brings to mind the wedding song

i think wedding is the topic on a different thread today. but, i like your answer