Conservative Top 40

17. Lee Greenwood, “God Bless the U.S.A.”
Greenwood is a well-known country and western singer. This song was originally released in 1984, hitting number 7 on the country chart. But in 1991, in the wake of the Gulf war, it was re-released, crossing over to the pop chart. It reached number 30 in June and was on the chart for 5 weeks

21. Whitney Houston, “The Star Spangled Banner”
In the midst of the Gulf war in 1991, Miss Houston was asked to sing the National Anthem at the opening of Super Bowl XXV on January 27. Although a difficult song for even the best singers, she electrified the crowd with this rendition. Released as a single, this live performance reached number 20 on the chart.

Since I'm not a political conservative, I can't speak for them -- though I suspect that the ILX righties (keith? dave q?) would probably also be embarrassed by this list because musically it sorta sucks. On the same principle that ILX lefties might be embarrassed by a list full of Indigo Girls, Billy Bragg, Rage Against the Machine, or Consolidated songs?

does "Nikita" anticipate the fall of Communism, or something?

As for James Brown he should've picked "If you Don't Work (You Can't Eat)" which even more clearly shows his conservative agenda.

And what about The Sensational Alex Harvey Band's cover of Tomorrow Belongs To Me?

Now the million dollar question... what were you looking for that led to you finding this.

lennon voted tory on the quiet.

there is a lot of small-c conservatism in rock, though. more back-to-the-old-ways, respect-the-roots, i'm-afraid-of-the future stuff than explicit Republicanism though. I started this thread The Conservative Impulse of Punk a couple of months ago. I'm a bit muddled about it all still there's so much ambivalence: "okie from muskokie" can be read as parody or tribute and it's probably both. more worldweary "andy griffith show" than altman's "nashville" though, y'know?

"fightin' side of me", also by merle, souinds less jokey to me. though he does call pacificists "squirelly" which always cracks me up.

I agree that the Kinks are pretty conservative - but kinda like Haggard when they spell it out. "Village Green Preservation Society", "Last of The Steam Powered Trains" etc. Yes, the narrator is kinda mocking the cliches of conservatism but he definitely feels their tug

Revolver is an obscure, poorly-selling album?! WTF?!

A similar article. Links are minimized if too large, right? Tinyurl isn't working.

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:z0EWRvj2ce4J:www.nationalreview.com/nrof_bartlett/bartlett120501.shtml+Bruce+Bartlett++kinks+&hl=en

..."well covered." Uh-huh.

Also, I submit that the "Watergate don't bother me" line is less about Skynyrd throwing their support behind Nixon (for one, "Severe abuse of the public trust: I don't mind!" isn't much of a rallying cry) but rather about Skynyrd not giving a flying fuck about politics.

And what's up with all the conservative pundits attempting to whitewash Nixon lately? Everyone's favorite hate-filled Nazi bitch Ann Coulter has been screeching about it for years, but now Ben Stein has written in a WSJ editorial that Nixon was a wonderful man unfairly hounded out of office by a biased investigation, and that by outing Nixon, Mark Felt was directly responsible for the rise of the Khmer Rouge. No joke, he really said that.

Sigh. Sorry about the tangent, but Nixon apologists fill me with quiveing rage.

Interesting link, Cunga.

This is because it's about a useless dandy that doesn't want to work for a living!!!! Not really the best of "tax protest" songs.

It's actually kind of sad, it has this really melancholic subtext to it, like the guy is desperatley trying to reconcile his politics with his taste in music.

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.” Nevertheless, it makes my list because the lyrics are drawn straight from the Book of Ecclesiastes. I figure that any song based on the Bible deserved inclusion.

Did Leonard Cohen have any hits?

Bastards all. With that bunch, all apologies are tactical, insincere and temporary.

I hope to live long enough to see a game show called "Seize Ben Stein's Money." It would involve subpoenas and kicks to the eponymous host's groin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypVdRv3dIpA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64z16Vd69Vs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t85_stbHwBI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICjqAkV3pVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J8muxBuU4U

where is Frank Turner band?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnGRI8jbgzw

Maxx Militscher 3 years ago
This guy is true poet, he has the best lyrics.
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AmySergeantMusic 3 years ago
yep and they make sense, they arent any lines just there becuase they rhym :)
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i've been leaving faux positive comments on shit band videos and i never get called on them. just done a new Frank:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1L5zJ2afLs

see if you can guess which one's mine

fazveedub 11 months ago
Are there any sons of liberty left ?
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MickeyKraut419 11 months ago
Keep faith my friend(s)... our numbers grow everyday. The day is soon approaching the voices of liberty and reason will echo throughout the world. No force of men can stand in the way of an idea that's time has come... Soon the world will witness the dawn of the age of liberty.
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zpridgen75 9 months ago
listen to the song and shut the fuck up you cunts

I know that the lyrics mean something else among the UK working class Oi! types than what the Tea Baggers go on about but I still think this could be their mantra :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMwIOdfYU8E

We're sick and tired of your liberal views
What's politically correct?
Come judgement day, I'll be trying the noose
And slipping it around your neck

Can't you hear me shout?
There are a lot of people like me about
But for you there's just no hope

Get a rope, get a rope

see if you can guess which one's mine

― the arpeggio as will and idea (Noodle Vague),

I wondered who was doing all the spam posts to win ipads on youtube

Question: has anyone encountered any Frank Turner fans who are 'into' his political philosophy? When the guardian outed him as a right-winger/libertarian I seem to remember there was talk along the lines how of his supposedly left-wing fan-base would be horrified, but I don't think any of the Frank fans i have met are self consciously 'political'; his appeal to the fans I know is that he's 'authentic' and 'meaningful' in some way, but I don't think they would think/talk about this in political terms. Are there parts of his fan-base that self-identify as libertarian, though?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4260325/Tories-wheel-out-Wombles-man-for-theme-song.html

Does this exist online anywhere?

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZVkX232oZGZtV05sipAJ1vC43oOJa_Xm

lol@ the amount of Morrissey on this playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keegq7anD4I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chwjQGNJ1sY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5im_bMvQs8

I know laughing at this stuff is the cheapest of cheap laughs, but jesus christ.

woah wait.. who the F was behind that 'Militant Out' song?? never heard of it before. sounds like Orange Juice.

A comment on the youtube page says this:

this was not by labour members its paul feather a tory hotel owner

http://www.feathers.uk.com/

They attempted to whip up what Engels called the 'enraged petit bourgeois' behind a hastily organised 'movement', called 'Liverpool Against Militant' (LAM). This body was supposedly indignant at the alleged 'antics' of the city council and particularly of the 'Militants'. However, the organisers were far from being the 'ordinary ratepayers' presented by the media.

What ordinary ratepayers could afford an aeroplane for publicity on the day of the demonstration? Paul Feather, the principal spokesperson of LAM, was a failed Tory candidate and was also representing the Hotels and Restaurants Association within LAM. The local press, who had played down the massive demonstrations in the previous two years of 20,000, 40,000 and 50,000, gave huge publicity to the preparations for a LAM demonstration on 6 October.

The meeting of 400 people which initiated the demonstration was mostly composed of businessmen with a smattering of so-called 'Labour moderates' whom nobody had ever heard of. On, Mr Hugh McCafferty, a retired dockworker, was quoted in the Daily Telegraph as describing Derek Hatton as 'a Militant skunk'. The day of the demonstration saw a motley crowd, less than 4000 strong, gathering at the Pier Head, with a number of Labour activists counter-demonstrating.

The managing director of a car business in what the Daily Express(21 October) called the 'pleasant suburb of Allerton', Tinnion took a weekend off from his caravan and cod-fishing outings in Anglesey to sweep Liverpool clean of the baleful influence of Militant Marxism. The troops were railed by a new theme song 'Militant Out', specially composed for the rally. The lyrics ran: 'Militant out – everybody shout Militant out, Militant out... M is for Militant, their image, their pretence; I is for Indifference, those who sit on the fence; N is for our nation, who play it by the rules; T is for the traitors destroying Liverpool.' Not exactly in the mould of The Beatles!

Does anyone know where you could find some good writing about the Militant Tendency, particularly Militant in Liverpool, and the experiences of Marxist groups that achieve office in capitalist countries? I've read Michael Crick's book and some of Militant's own books but I guess I'd like to read an analysis by someone outside of Militant that 'Militant Out' type stuff.

should read: an analysis by someone outside of Militant that isn't 'Militant Out' type stuff.

It peaked pretty far south of the top 40 but I just heard this gem for the first time. Same as it ever was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6SM5Uf8AsE