The 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs

[Rakhmetov]

Bastard-conservatives hated rock 'n' roll calling it the devil's music. Now what?!

In one of the campfire scenes late in the 2007 documentary Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Strummer:_The_Future_Is_Unwritten), a Granada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granada) friend states that Strummer wept when he heard that the phrase "Rock the Casbah" was written on an American bomb that was to be detonated on Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. The friend notes that he heard Strummer say, while crying, "Hey, man, I never could think that a song of mine could be written as a death symbol on a fucking American bomb.


http://article.nationalreview.com/281095/rockin-the-right/john-j-miller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_the_casbah

[Sir Comradical]

Wait wait "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Stones is a conservative song? Come on...

[IllicitPopsicle]

Blink-182 I can see. The Offspring? Wth?

[The Ben G]

The Majority of these songs aren't even Conservative. Its just the idiots on the website not understanding the meaning. Its like calling Punk Rock Fascist.

The guy that wrote that article clearly doesn't know what Tongue in Cheek is. Some of these songs the lyrics that he put weren't even political.

[Il Medico]

We already had a thread on this....

[redSHARP]

what a load of crap. you know what?!! i think we should make our own list of songs that could be misinterpreted and call it "the 50 greatest leftist tunes ever". then we make a real list.

[ed miliband]

Since when do (modern) conservatives hate rock music? If anything, rock is probably the chosen genre of the modern conservative, and is arguably the most reactionary of modern, popular genres.

[The Ben G]

Since when do (modern) conservatives hate rock music? If anything, rock is probably the chosen genre of the modern conservative, and is arguably the most reactionary of modern, popular genres.

Thats an overstatement. You could also say that Hip Hop is made only for gang members, couldn't you?

[ed miliband]

Thats an overstatement. You could also say that Hip Hop is made only for gang members, couldn't you?


When I say rock music is reactionary I mean musically. I like a lot of rock music (most of it being on the experimental fringe) but I do sometimes feel the limits of the genre have been pushed, and many rock acts merely rehash a sound popular a few decades beforehand (notice the amount of 'revivals' or genres prefixed with 'new' in the last decade). There are very little extremes anymore (and I cherish them when I find them); a lot of what is called rock music just chugs along with no passion, or danger or rebelliousness, trying to capture a bygone era.

I mean, Electric Wizard are fucking amazing precisely because they take Sabbath's sound and give it a lot more depth, make it a lot more psychedelic and doom ridden, etc. There are plenty of bands, however, they take Sabbath's template and do very little to alter it. It's boring.

[The Ben G]

When I say rock music is reactionary I mean musically. I like a lot of rock music (most of it being on the experimental fringe) but I do sometimes feel the limits of the genre have been pushed, and many rock acts merely rehash a sound popular a few decades beforehand (notice the amount of 'revivals' or genres prefixed with 'new' in the last decade). There are very little extremes anymore (and I cherish them when I find them); a lot of what is called rock music just chugs along with no passion, or danger or rebelliousness, trying to capture a bygone era.

I mean, Electric Wizard are fucking amazing precisely because they take Sabbath's sound and give it a lot more depth, make it a lot more psychedelic and doom ridden, etc. There are plenty of bands, however, they take Sabbath's template and do very little to alter it. It's boring.

I can see what your talking about, but I wouldn't call rock music Reactionary. There are just so many kinds, you just have to look for good bands. I mean, there are bands like Green Day or Blink 182 that are total Shit, then there are bands like Samael, Isis, or Godflesh that are interesting and very original.

[badgerboy1848]

Im sure anything from Toby Keith fills the bill

[Nietzsche's Ghost]

The person who wrote that list is an imbecile. Take things out of context a wee bit?