This is the thread where you can namecheck right-wing rockers/pop stars

i seem to remember mark e smith bigging up the tories quite enthusiastically as well.

those who claim to be lefties but vote Tory on the quiet, as Lennon did really??? when did this fascinating info come to light?

and of course all those tax exiles from the '70s - bee gees, emerson lake and palmer (the latter now reduced to writing songs for jim davidson pantos) - oh yes and errol brown, who sang lennon's "imagine" at the '87 tory election rally!

also paul young has been seen at tory rallies.

my understanding is that Lennon never voted.

I think Lemmy thought it was a terrible mistake getting rid of Thatch.

Conservative Bastards: James Brown, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton (on occasion), Bob Dylan (when he feels like it: Bob Dylan is to politics as Bob Dylan is to religion), Eazy-E, Sammy Hagar, Stan Lee (of The Dickies), Mike Love obv, Keith Morris (of The Circle Jerks), Ted Nungent, Elvis Presley, Prince and Young M.C.

It had never ocurred to me before that "True Blue" might have been a political comment!

What about Springsteen? His feverish patriotism makes him rather conservative I would guess.

A lot of the concervative rockers just don't want to pay tax.

??? I think you have confused him with someone else. Or do you mean Lem Springsteen, keyboardist with Masters at Work?

I greatly enjoyed the tory press going into spasms when he met various miners' support groups and made contributions during the Miners' Strike. This big US rock star that they'd all been going overboard about due to Born in the USA suddenly had something to say about things a little closer to home and they didn't like it.

And his support for various workers' causes in the States is well documented.

and in all the '97 hoohah about "i'll leave this country if labour get in" - phil collins, paul daniels, lloyd webber - i believe david essex said the same thing.

Shaun Ryder as well.

that is destiny's child, you understand, not shaun ryder.

I'm not saying it's impossible or even improbable for DC to be Republicans, but you'll have to give me better evidence than that. Singing at a Repblican Convention would be a lot more convincing.

Have a read and make your own mind up.

Back when the NME was good

FWIW, Billy Ray Cyrus supported Gore (not Bush).

Matchbox 20
Hear "Disease" from their forthcoming disc.

Busta Rhymes
Listen to new song, "Make It Clap."

Supposedly he just right wing stuff just to rile people up, but who knows. The translated lyrics from Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh could easily be taken as right-leaning.

If only he had swallowed rather than dribbling the stuff out in 'releases'.

Didn't Art Alexias from Everclear appear at a Republican fund raiser of some sort?

-- Andrew L (andrewlittlefiel...), October 31st, 2002.

hahaha

How about Screwdriver? :-)

Springsteen is definitely sympathetic towards labour issues, so I'd severely doubt he'd ever vote Republican. His 'Ghost of Tom Joad' album was a tribute to a California labour activist, iirc. His patriotism, as I understand, is more in the name of working class America than 'God and Country'.

Eazy E wasn't a Republican; he pretty resented all the inaccurate publicity that supported that contribution or appearance or whatever.

The Ramones once supported Reagan, but "Howling at the Moon" and "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" and "The KKK Took My Baby Away" seemed to unwind that. Perhaps Johnny gritted his teeth during that period.

A lot of rap is broadly right wing socially and economically, while being countercultural and anti-establishment. And Boot from the Coup cops to being a communist.

And Weller, yeah. Anyone remember the Marc Riley and the Creepers tune ("Bard of Wokking") about "dim-wit Weller!" Heh.

Being "New Labour" in the US would place you right about the middle of the Democratic Party, and in large parts of the country get you labelled a commie.

And writing a song that says capitalism is OK - even the Greens are supportive of capitalism over here.

What about Paul McCartney? Didn't he pull right after 9/11?

HOW did you acquire this information?

from this site:

Gore is pushing hard for voters such as Nelson to reconsider his candidacy in this final week of campaigning, saying a vote for Nader will only help elect Bush. He's already changed the mind of one country music star, Billy Ray Cyrus, who earlier this year wrote the Bush campaign's theme song, "We the People."

According to Salon.com, a spokesperson for Gore said Cyrus has asked Bush to stop using the song now that he's a Gore backer.

i knew that i wasn't hallucinating this (esp. since, unlike mr. sinker, i don't do billy ray's hair). billy ray rejected the dark side!

Bruce Springsteen is most certainly not a right wing guy. He's more of a left-leaning centrist.

How asinine can you get? Let me guess - you're an American.

there's a better joke in there, but I ain't up to it today.

Gore should have encouraged the Greens to make their protest votes in hopeless states, instead of attacking them at every turn.

He ultimately would have built up goodwill with the Greens in general, maybe even convinced a few of them that he was decent enough to vote for in a state that mattered (say, Florida).

James Brown is politically independent, or so he's said.

HOW COULD PEOPLE FORGET ALICE COOPER?!

Ian Curtis voted conservative.

Mark E. Smith is politically right on some issues (just look at the Classical and his feelings on the tokenism and conceit of multi-culturism "there is no culture is my brag", "this is the home of the vain"). I wouldn't be surprised if he voted Tory or made comments supporting them.

Paul Weller has said that music should be apolitical, but that was probably a cover for his Tory-love.

I'll break my second rule and put Van Morrison down.

Conservatism notoriously thrives in places featuring a bottom-line (military, business, etc), hence why liberals tend to run the arts.

New wave: Busted.

Mark E. Smith has voted Conservative at least once; he mentioned it in an interview.

And there are several artists supporting the Liberat Democrats this time too.

Brian Eno sez vote Lib Dem!

The Tories never have much luck with pop stars. Didn't they try and use a Massive Attack tune a couple of years back, only for 3D to threaten legal action?

Um ... nowadays it's so fucking easy. Bush / corporate America is following an agenda straight out of the 19th century. Doing all the things Marx said capitalists wanted to do, and we all thought "c'mon, you're exagerating." Marx is *scarily* appropriate for the noughties.

Errrrrrrrrrrrrr, what are you on about Geir?

Has it ever been any different? Substitute "Clinton/corporate America" and the analogy still works.

Thankfully, he got crushed. But of all right wing rock stars, he may be the farthest right based on his candidacy. The guy was like a complete nutjob.

Oh, that makes me want to cry. I'm not a huge fan in general, but "Blood and Roses" and "Behind the Wall of Sleep" are two of my favorite pop rock songs from the '80s, and now I won't be able to hear them without thinking about that.

He does say he admires Alan Keyes, but he also says he admires Ralph Nader, so that balances it out a bit.

I probably wouldn't vote for the guy, but I don't think he's Ted Nugent, either. What did he say during the actual campaign that made him sound so far right-wing, kornrulez?

Although, that's not why it's a long thread, admittedly.

But of all right wing rock stars, he may be the farthest right based on his candidacy.

That'd be Varg Vikernes.

Anyway, Paul Weller has been mentioned here several times, but according to a recent feature (in Mojo, I believe) Weller was never a Tory, he just claimed to have voted for Thatcher because his manager told him to ("Sex Pistols are anarchists and The Clash are left wing - be conservatives")

His manager is his dad. And they say kids vote the same way as their parents...

This thread reminds me of IMDB boards where every other question about a young actor (though young actresses usually actresses get this treatment the most) is, "Is ______ a Christian?" followed with obscene amounts of speculation, sourceless interviews, and sadness and fanbase loss when the truth is finally discovered.

His manager is his dad. And they say kids vote the same way as their parents...

I remember reading him talking about his father's devout atheism in MOJO. Again, how I know this...

surprised nobody mentioned Kid Rock back in the fray...

Admittedly not very exciting, but waped tour-ish bands Guttermouth and Avenged Sevenfold are proudly right-wing. I think the Vandals might be too.

(ahem) "WARPED"

The Vandals did (maybe still do) the whole 'entertain the troops' circuit, but then so did Rollins, poss. the same ones in fact

Since when does "entertaining the troops" make you right wing?

"Anyway, Paul Weller has been mentioned here several times, but according to a recent feature (in Mojo, I believe) Weller was never a Tory...."

Well, he certainly wasn't always a Tory: remember Red Wedge?

".... he just claimed to have voted for Thatcher because his manager told him to ("Sex Pistols are anarchists and The Clash are left wing - be conservatives")"

"His manager is his dad. And they say kids vote the same way as their parents..."

(Where did the last line of my last post go?)

".... And they say kids vote the same way as their parents..."

I don't know about anyone else here, but I can say with absolute cast-iron certainty that I have never voted the same way as my parents.

Since when does "entertaining the troops" make you right wing?

Was my point re: Rollins

any right-wing rappers out there?

This thread reminds me of IMDB boards where every other question about a young actor (though young actresses usually actresses get this treatment the most) is, "Is ______ a Christian?" followed with obscene amounts of speculation, sourceless interviews, and sadness and fanbase loss when the truth is finally discovered.

Just out of curiosity, which answer tends to cause sadness? I'd do the research but I am deathly afraid of the free-floating Stupid on the IMDB boards and they changed it a while back so you have to register to even read them...

Is there a lolcat for "yes, I are a christian" ?

Billy Zoom is conservative and Christian.

Hmm there was this guy called Ian Stewart who used to sing in a band called Skrewdriver; I always had the impression he was a tad to the right.

And who could forget Cliff Richard?? Evil Evil Evil.

Cliff Richard is first and foremost a very Christian conservative guy, isn't he?

Which, if he was American, would probably make him politically conservative as well. But things aren't quite as easy in Europe.

Good lord -- "I voted for who my manager told me to" is surely ten million times more embarrassing than just admitting that you were a fucking Tory, isn't it?

Just out of curiosity, which answer tends to cause sadness? I'd do the research but I am deathly afraid of the free-floating Stupid on the IMDB boards and they changed it a while back so you have to register to even read them...'

Usually some sadness is always involved. Sadness from men if a gorgeous actress won't do nudity or raunchy material because of some moral code and also disappointment is common (seemingly from tweenage girls) if a young actor/actress that they look up to is revealed to not be a Christian. It's funny how the reasons for disappointment seem to be stem from mirror opposite hopes!

any right-wing rappers out there?

-- henry s, Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:04 PM

i wouldn't be surprised if fiddy votes repub.

Oh, and Gloria Estefan's comments on the Elian Gonzalez case seem to indicate she's somewhere to the right of sanity.

her dad was one of batista's thugs in cuba. her family was forced to flee after the revolution.

pete townshend, not long after 9/11: see me, hear me, touch me...bomb me?

"I voted for who my manager told me to" is surely ten million times more embarrassing than just admitting that you were a fucking Tory, isn't it?

The way I interpreted him, they didn't neccessarily vote for Tory.

In fact, weren't The Style Council actually part of the Red Wedge movement a few years later?

Yes, they were. Check this link:
http://www.braggtopia.com/musicxchange/1986-03-21-2-Tracks.htm

Jay Z and Nas are black republicans

Were they Republicans before the $$$$$ started coming into their accounts too?

eazy-e got a bunch of shit for donating money to attend a repub. fundraiser and attend dinner at the white house when bush I was prez.

Re: Townshend: I'm a liberal and I wanted to wipe the Taliban and any of its supporters out after 9/11. I have no idea what that has to do with beign "right wing".

G-Unit: The Oversized Blackshirts Of A New Proto-Fascism

Things were a bit weird for the first couple of months after 911. But from the Iraqi war onwards, things have been normalized again, and those who stood briefly behind Bush against terrorism were once again his critics.

anybody else remember when Sting said "when you're as rich as I am, you don't have to be political"?

I can not believe nobody has brought up Alice Cooper.