Conservative Pop Music

http://www.townhall.com/phillysoc/bartlettpaper.htm ^ | 10/4/02 | Bruce Bartlet

[TheBigB]

Considering how FReepers like to discuss conservative actors, movies, etc. I thought this might make for a good discussion...

[Trust but Verify]

7. The Byrds, “Turn! Turn! Turn!”

This song came on the radio on July 3rd, 1994 as I drove home from my fathers home. I had been at his bedside throughout the night until he passed on that morning.

I know the Lord was telling me everything was going to be OK. I'll never forget the gift He gave me that morning.

[KC Burke]

Pop music?.....how about anything by Bach....

[KC Burke]

But seriously, for country, Don Williams and for rock, Ted ****ing Neugent.

[Benrand]

55. Rick Dees "Disco Duck". I include this because it shows just how easy it is in the US to take money from music listeners.

In twenty years, what will they be able to write about pop music? Nothing, because it's nothing. Justin Timberlake??? Puhleeze.

[Senator Pardek]

THE TREES

[Dane]

I always thought of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" as an anti-communist song about the Iron curtain which at the time(1971) was very strong, especially with this stanza,

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking

JMO, but the above stanza describes thoughts of a person contemplating to get over the Iron curtain.

[Pahuanui]

7. The Byrds, “Turn! Turn! Turn!” This is an odd conservative classic, having been written by old time lefty Pete Seeger and performed by a group that later glorified drugs in “Eight Miles High.”

Bzzzzzt! Try again. "Eight Miles High" is not about drugs or their glorification.

As for that Paula Anka tune, you might think it conservative, but that's about the only thing it's got. What saccharine, maudlin dreck.

[JAWs]

The problem with MTA is that it was origially a campaign tune for a socialist politician.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I can't say much about groups, but here are a couple awsome songs with anti-liberal themes:

When the Levy Breaks, Led Zepplin [about consequences, harsh reality]

Freedom of Choice, Devo [hardly ever played on the radio, and incredible. I miss it. It's about freedom in general]


And here is a misunderstood singer. Gads I could take some heat for this: Dio. He put on the trappings of a satanist. But in reality, Dio was a Christian. He made one song about the End Times with Black Sabbath [Falling off the Edge of the Earth.] MOB RULES was a warning about how the mob was taking control. Neon Knights was about angels warring against the minions of hell. The Dancer was a song saying you have to bleed for Jesus.

Breaking from Black Sabbath, Dio made a very pro-Christian album. One song was Rock & Roll Children, about rebellious children going to hell, forever.

Maybe I'm biased toward Dio, but he was fooling a lot of kids into hearing his hell-fire ministry. LOL. That is how I take it. FReegards....

[Alex Murphy]

There's an awful lot on that list that I'd consider a long stretch, especially calling "Jesus is just all right" a conservative song just because it uses the name Jesus. If nothing else, it shows the author's blindness to the existence of the Christian rock/pop music industry, including crossover singers like Amy Grant.

I'm not saying the Christian music industry is conservative, mind you (some artists are notoriously liberal), but if inclusion of "Jesus" and "God" makes a song conservative in this guy's book, he's going to need an encyclopedia to document them all.

[southernnorthcarolina]

There must surely be room on your list for the Eagles' "Get Over It," off the otherwise mediocre Hell Freezes Over album:

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I turn on the tube and what do I see
A whole lotta people cryin' "Don't blame me"
They point their crooked little fingers at everbody else
spend all their time feelin' sorry for themselves
Victim of this, victim of that
Your momma's too thin; your daddy's too fat

Get over it
Get over it
All this whinin' and cryin' and pitchin' a fit
Get over it, get over it

You say you haven't been the same since you had your little crash
But you might feel better if they gave you some cash
The more I think about it, Old Billy was right
Let's kill all the lawyers - kill 'em tonight
You don't want to work; you want to live like a king
But the big, bad world doesn't owe you a thing

Get over it
Get over it
If you don't want to play, then you might as well split
Get over it, get over it

It's like going to confession every time I hear you speak
You're makin' the most of your losin' streak
Some call it sick, but I call it weak

You drag it around like a ball and chain
You wallow in the guilt; you wallow in the pain
You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown
Got your mind in the gutter, bringin' everybody down
Complain about the present and blame it on the past
I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass

Get over it
Get over it
All this bitchin' and moanin' and pitchin' a fit
Get over it, get over it

Get over it
Get over it
It's gotta stop sometime, so why don't you quit
Get over it, get over it

Get over it

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I don't know about themes, but Led Zepplin's Kashmire was a song I searched out for years with utter persistance back in my days before politics. Listening to Kashmire makes me think about the sands of history. The loss of a once-great civilization. The foolish quest for petty, fleeting glory. I feel wisdom in that song.

As for Buying a Stairway to Heavan, it makes people think about Heavan. It makes people wonder about some lady going to make a salvation purchase at a church as though it were a discount store. I stresses the importance of that purchase, and taunts those who throw money at it rather than their souls.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Eagles Motel California and Life in the Fast Lane, very conservative. Awsome.

[PMCarey]

How could you NOT have the Beatle's "Tax Man" on this list?

[PMCarey]

Oops nevermind, I see that you're only including Top-40.

[Notforprophet]

Ronnie James Dio bump

When I see lightinin'

you know it always brings me down...

[eshu]

all you hippies better start to face reality.
all your far fetched dreams of anarchy.
better start to see things the way they are, cause the way things are going they won't be goin' far.

world peace can't be done.
it just can't exist.
world peace can't be done.
anarchy's a mess.

things are gettin hectic.
it's all gonna end.
you don't know what's waitin' up around the bend.
open your eyes.
perhaps you'll realize.
if AIDS don't get ya then the warheads will.

world peace can't be done.
world peace.
it just can't exist.
world peace.
world peace can't be done.
world peace.
anarchy's a mess.
world peace.
world peace can't be done.
world peace.
no it can't.
world peace.
it just won't exist.
world peace. world peace. world peace.

The Cro-Mags - Age of Quarrel

[Revolting cat!]

No sense disagreeing with your choices, Bruce, they're yours, and there is no accounting for taste to repeat a cliche. It's not your choices that stand out as much as, sorry to have to say that, your lack of discriminate taste. Helen Reddy? Johnny Burnette and Paul Anka way past their prime? Jay and the Americans? Linda Ronstadt in the same sentence as Chuck Berry? Pleeeze!

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Even the Beatles made their contribution to wisdom, which is the essense of conservatism, is it not?
I know. Much was liberal. But there are a few gems:

Nowhere Man. I have no idea what the writer was thinking, but one thing is clear, Nowhere Man is powerful.

The Long and Winding Road.

Revolution. [their stand against a violent revolt in the free world by communist zealots]

All the Lonely People. It brings me closer to God.