# Conservapedia's Greatest Conservative Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 27, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962 "2011-06-27T00:28:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/21 "2011-06-27T12:07:09Z")
Moved MPSIMS --\> Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/22 "2011-06-27T12:27:55Z")
For a serious choice: “[Money](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRzVCR8P-YM)” by the Lovin’ Spoonful is a lesson on how capitalism works. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/23 "2011-06-27T14:25:01Z")
Five years ago, National Review came up with their own list of the 50 best conservative rock songs: [http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/217737/rockin-right/john-j-miller](http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/217737/rockin-right/john-j-miller) As even the author notes, many of the artists who wrote and performed these songs are NOT conservatives by any stretch of the imagination… but the themes frequently are. To use one example, Don Henley is as liberal as anybody, but the Eagles’ “Get Over It” is still a great conservative song. John Lydon is vocally pro-choice, but it’s hard to listen to the Sex Pistols’ “Bodies” and not be repulsed by the concept of abortion. Vernon Reid is no Republican, but Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality” is still a great conservative anthem. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/24 "2011-06-27T14:30:47Z")
What’s conservative about Cult of Personality? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/25 "2011-06-27T14:42:50Z")
I can see cons taking Randy Newman’s “Drop the Big One” non-ironically. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/26 "2011-06-27T15:20:22Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > What’s conservative about Cult of Personality? 😕 Wanna name me some other songs that are anti-Stalin and anti-JFK? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/27 "2011-06-27T15:21:24Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > What’s conservative about Cult of Personality? 😕 Because the only reason anyone would vote for somebody like Barack Obama or Bill Clinton is because they’re a foolish liberal who is blinded by their celebrity charisma. This is, of course, totally different from the way thoughtful conservatives vote for Ronald Reagan or Sarah Palin. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/28 "2011-06-27T15:30:50Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Wanna name me some other songs that are anti-Stalin and anti-JFK? It’s also anti-Mussolini. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/29 "2011-06-27T15:31:27Z")
_ **Backdoor Man** _ by \*The Doors \*- espouses letting the free market handle desegregation. _**(Take a Walk on the) Wild Side**_ by Lou Reed - industrious young men pull themselves up by the bootstraps seeking employment in New York. \*\*\*Legal Tender \*\*_by the_ B-52’s \*- acknowledges that money is good. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/30 "2011-06-27T15:31:42Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > So now the game is come up with the most unlikely song you can think of and misconstrue it into having a conservative message. “The Internationale” – The yearning of all peoples to throw off their overbearing governments. “Born In The USA” – The importance of native-born citizenship. “Imagine” – A paean to freedom from Democrat wars and Jeremiah-Wright-style false prophets. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/31 "2011-06-27T16:10:05Z")
From the link in the OP: \*98. YMCA by Village People – This song praises youth activities at the Young Men’s Christian Association; one of the biggest hits of alltime. \* ROFLMAO 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/32 "2011-06-27T16:27:55Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m kind of surprised they didn’t mention “Anthem” which is an explicit paen to Ayn Rand. Of course, Ayn Rand was an atheist, so that might make her anathema on Conservapedia. In what sense was Ayn Rand an atheist? She acknowledged her own existence, didn’t she? ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/33 "2011-06-27T16:30:58Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > “Born In The USA” – The importance of native-born citizenship. I’ve heard this one seriously suggested, on the grounds that only pencil-necked geeks actually listen to the words of anything but the chorus. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/34 "2011-06-27T16:39:32Z")
_Animal (Fuck like a Beast)_ - WASP. WASP = White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, right? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/35 "2011-06-27T16:43:04Z")
What, no _America, Fuck Yeah!_ by Trey Parker? ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/36 "2011-06-27T16:49:03Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > From the link in the OP: > > \*98. YMCA by Village People – This song praises youth activities at the Young Men’s Christian Association; one of the biggest hits of alltime. \* > > ROFLMAO > 😃 😃 😃 [Best conservative cover of this one…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys9xn60IBXA) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/37 "2011-06-27T16:51:07Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > _Animal (Fuck like a Beast)_ - WASP. WASP = White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, right? Actually, that one _kind_ of works. _Fuck Like a Beast_ was a focus of the [PRMC hearings](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center#Senate_hearing). Obscenity in music was one of Al Gore’s causes celebre before [del]ManBearPig[/del] global warming, and conservatives hate Gore, so anything that he opposed they’d be for. I think. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/38 "2011-06-27T17:10:27Z")
While the National Review list makes somewhat more sense, there is still evidence that the compiler(s) weren’t paying attention to the entire song. Example: The Georgia Satellites “Keep Your Hands To Yourself”, described as "An outstanding vocal performance, with lyrics that affirm old-time sexual mores: “She said no huggy, no kissy until I get a wedding vow.” Which he doesn’t give her. Moral: nice girl loses boyfriend. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/39 "2011-06-27T17:20:58Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > So now the game is come up with the most unlikely song you can think of and misconstrue it into having a conservative message. “Hurricane,” Bob Dylan: Demonstrates the fairness of the American justice system by showing that even a famous athlete cannot avoid doing time for murder “God,” John Lennon: Affirms the existence of God\* while denouncing belief in false idols like Buddha, Kennedy and the Beatles “Private Dancer,” Tina Turner: Because without songs like this, the Democrats would be imposing socialized collective dancers on us “Drug Store Truck Driving Man,” The Byrds: OK, I haven’t actually heard it\*\*, but Joan Baez dedicated the song to then-governor Ronald Reagan when she covered it at Woodstock, so it’s gotta be conservative “God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind),” Randy Newman: When so many songs mock God and faith, it’s heartwarming to hear one about God’s love for His creation, man \*Mainly as “a concept by which we measure our pain” but let’s not pick nits \*\*I really have heard it (Just to head off anyone who feels the need to explain to me what the song’s about) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962/40 "2011-06-27T19:01:32Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > “No Son of Mine” > “Land of Confusion” Well, at least the band’s name has a nice biblical ring. > [@42fish](#): > > “Private Dancer,” Tina Turner: Because without songs like this, the Democrats would be imposing socialized collective dancers on us 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedias-greatest-conservative-songs/586962.md?page=3)