Rock & Politics

   The benefit of a democrat president is we would have another four years free of political rock songs.  #bushliedmusicdied

National Review actually compiled a list of the top Conservative Rock songs. Let's look at ther top 10.
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  Nation Review's greatest conservative rock songs. 
Last year, National Review asked readers to nominate conservative rock songs. Hundreds of suggestions poured in. they’ve sifted through them all, downloaded scores of mp3s, and puzzled over a lot of lyrics.

   What follows is a list of the 50 greatest conservative rock songs of all time, as determined by me and a few others. The result is of course arbitrary, though they did apply a handful of criteria.

​ What makes a great conservative rock song? The lyrics must convey a conservative idea or sentiment, such as skepticism of government or support for traditional values. And, to be sure, it must be a great rock song.

1. “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” by The Who.
The conservative movement is full of disillusioned revolutionaries; this could be their theme song, an oath that swears off naïve idealism once and for all.

• “There’s nothing in the streets /
• Looks any different to me /
• And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye. . . .
• Meet the new boss /
• Same as the old boss.”

2. “Taxman,” by The Beatles. buy CD on Amazon.com A George Harrison masterpiece with a famous guitar riff (which was actually played by Paul McCartney):

• “If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street /
• If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat /
• If you get too cold, I’ll tax the heat /
• If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.”
• The song closes with a humorous jab at death taxes:
• “Now my advice for those who die /
• Declare the pennies on your eyes.”

3. “Sympathy for the Devil,” by The Rolling Stones.
Don’t be misled by the title; this song is The Screwtape Letters of rock.

• The devil is a tempter who leans hard on moral relativism
• he will try to make you think that “every cop is a criminal /
• And all the sinners saints.”

What’s more, he is the sinister inspiration for the cruelties of Bolshevism:

• “I stuck around St. Petersburg /
• When I saw it was a time for a change /
• Killed the czar and his ministers /
• Anastasia screamed in vain.”

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4. “Sweet Home Alabama,” by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
A tribute to the region of America that liberals love to loathe, taking a shot at Neil Young’s Canadian arrogance along the way:

• “A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow.”

5. “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” by The Beach Boys.
Pro-abstinence and pro-marriage:

• “Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray
• it might come true /
• Baby then there wouldn’t be a single thing we couldn’t do /
• We could be married /
• And then we’d be happy.”

6. “Gloria,” by U2.
Just because a rock song is about faith doesn’t mean that it’s conservative. But what about a rock song that’s about faith and whose chorus is in Latin? That’s beautifully reactionary:

• “Gloria /
• In te domine /
• Gloria /
• Exultate.”

7. “Revolution,” by The Beatles.

• “You say you want a revolution /
• Well you know /
• We all want to change the world . . .
• Don’t you know you can count me out?”

What’s more, Communism isn’t even cool:

• “If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao /
• You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow.”

(Someone tell the Che Guevara crowd.)

8. “Bodies,” by The Sex Pistols.
Violent and vulgar, but also a searing anti-abortion anthem by the quintessential punk band:

• “It’s not an animal /
• It’s an abortion.”

9. “Don’t Tread on Me,” by Metallica.
A head-banging tribute to the doctrine of peace through strength, written in response to the first Gulf War:

• “So be it /
• Threaten no more /
• To secure peace is to prepare for war.”

​10. “20th Century Man,” by The Kinks.

• “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, & Gainsborough.
• 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 / ’​
• Cause the 20th-century people /
• Took it all away from me.”

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/217737/rockin-right-john-j-miller

Top Liberal Rock Songs

Maddy McCann couldn't let that conservative list go unanswered. Here is the list of liberal anthems.

1) "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" (Bruce Cockburn)

• I don't believe in guarded borders
• and I don't believe in hate
• I don't believe in generals
• or their stinking torture states
• And when I talk with the survivors
• of things too sickening to relate
• If I had a rocket launcher...I would retaliate

2) "Welcome To The Occupation" (REM)

• Listen to the Congress
• Where we propagate confusion
• Primitive and wild
• Fire on the hemisphere below

3) "Cuyahoga" (REM)

• This land is the land of ours,
• this river runs red over it
• We are not your allies,
• we can not defend
• This is where they walked,
• this is where they swam
• Take a picture here, take a souvenir

4) "Fall on Me" (REM)

• Buy the sky and sell the sky
• and bleed the sky and tell the sky

5) "Imagine" (John Lennon)

• Imagine no possessions
• I wonder if you can
• No need for greed or hunger
• A brotherhood of man
• Imagine all the people
• Sharing all the world 

6) "Working Class Hero" (John Lennon)

• "A working class hero is something to be"

7) "Ohio" (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young)

• Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
• We're finally on our own.
• This summer I hear the drumming,
• Four dead in Ohio.

8) "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World" (Neil Young)

• We got a thousand points of light
• For the homeless man
• We got a kinder, gentler,
• Machine gun hand

9) "Born in the USA" (Bruce Springsteen)

• Got in a little hometown jam
• So they put a rifle in my hand
• Sent me off to a foreign land
• To go and kill the yellow man

10) "Bullet the Blue Sky" (U2)

• You plant a demon seed
• You raise a flower of fire
• See them burning crosses
• See the flames higher and higher