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When in doubt,
I whip it out…
Yep, apparently Ted Nugent and Larry Craig do share similar philosophies.
Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
Not right-wing at all, especially by today’s standards, but it paradoxically compared political correctness in California to Hitler’s regime. I’m thinking that’s an argument you’re more likely to hear on the Rush Limbaugh Show than at your local farmer’s market.
Really, quite a lot of punk and related genres like trad Oi! (yes, the non-racist/anti-racist kind) seem to engender anti-statist feelings. Once you go far enough left, after all, you hit anarchism, and if you add just a drop of realism, voila, you’ve got libertarianism–and now you’re right of center.
[qoute=spoke-]Also, some of Oingo Boingo’s stuff seems pretty law-and-order, like Only a Lad
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Yep, I always wondered about that song…
Oh, and half of The Who was staunchly anti-drugs at a time when that pretty much pegged you as a conservative. A few years ago, I wrote a 13-page analysis of Tommy which argued (with quite a lot of support, if I do say so myself) that the album was essentially about Pete Townshend trying to get spiritual without LSD.
Phil Ochs wasn’t a right-winger, but no one could have skewered a subset of the Left any better than he did in “Love Me, I’m A Liberal”:
"Once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to the socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
But I’ve grown older and wiser
And that’s why I’m turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal"
Frank Zappa on unions:
There are a couple of anti-cyclist Pit threads that now make a lot more sense. Thanks.
I know Ray Davies is not a Conservative, but he’s often conservative.
That is, I don’t think he had much use for Margaret Thatcher, but “The Kinks Are the Villlage Green Preservation Society” was a very conservative album, in that it celebrated OLD rustic England, and its customs and traditions (including virginity).
That must have SEEMED mighty reactionary at the height of Free Love and the hippie movement.
Maybe I’m wrong about this song, 'cause I haven’t heard it in years, but I seem to remember George Thorogood had a song called “Get A Haircut.”
Get a haircut
and get a real job…
I don’t know anything about Mr. Thorogood’s politics. However, this song doesn’t work as a right-wing anthem- quite the opposite, in fact. It’s about his parents urging someone to get a haircut and a real job, but they instead stick with their band and eventually hit it big.
I like that song
I loved this song, but it isn’t righty in any way. Both righty’s and lefty’s were happy about the fall of communism. Communism isn’t any more lefty than fascism is righty.
Start a GD thread if you like, but I think most folks would agree that Communism is lefty (albeit way out on the far end of the spectrum). The fact that those of us more toward the center-left celebrated the end of Communism doesn’t negate the fact that it’s a lefty philosophy.
And what makes the song righty is the taunting of Tracy Chapman in the first stanza:
A woman on the radio talkin’ bout revolution
When its already passed her by
Now if you know Tracy Chapman’s Talkin bout a Revolution, well, you have to admit it’s kinda pinko:
Poor people gonna rise up
and take what’s theirs
And it seems pretty clear that Jesus Jones is taking a poke at that particular brand of lefty thinking
Apparently so, as explained here. If it makes you feel better, I didn’t get it either, and I must have heard that song a million times. I kind of thought his girlfriend had killed herself because he broke up with her. Other than the “baby’s breath” line, is there really anything to indicate it’s about an abortion?