The Top 50 'Conservative' Songs

[andy2002]

i dunno if i agree... i mean, Lydon had quite a lot of 'disgust' for want of a better word for all matters sexual really, so i dunno how specifically critical of abortion it is - it's more like a general 'yeucch' about the whole thing

Yeah, see what you mean. But, if you take those lyrics at face value (without knowing anything about Lydon or his history, as I guess the writer of the original article doesn't) you could only really come to one conclusion. As a result, I can kind of see how Bodies has found its way onto the Conservative song list.

Actually, I think Bodies is just about the angriest song I've ever heard, never mind the most Conservative.

 

[phildwyer]

Don't Skrewdriver count as conservative these days?

 

[ViolentPanda]

*pours lead in own ears*

'streak, mate. You're supposed to melt the lead first, not pour lead shot into your ears.

That's cheating.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Don't Skrewdriver count as conservative these days?

Do you think so?

 

[gentlegreen]

Curiosusly I just felt the need to listen to Neil Young's "Southern Man" and the first track I found by searching Live365 was by Lynyrd Skynyrd - not "Sweet Home Alabama" though ....

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[ViolentPanda]

nah, read the site. he actually "analises" the lyrics

I've corrected your typo.

I mean, you really have to fucking spin the accepted of the lyrics on around 2 thirds of the songs to make a "conservative" interpretation of them.

If I were being disingenuous I'd concede the two Rush numbers by default, being aware of Lifeson's politics, but if I'm honest I'd give them the benefit of the doubt too.

"Wishful thinking on the part of Mr. Miller" is my conclusion.

 

[david dissadent]

A song celebrating Satans influence across the history of mankind is the third most important conservative song in the world.

Right here right now by Jesus Jones........ Is it me or does the sound of a conservative top 50 sound remarkably like the sound of a barrel being scraped.

 

[ViolentPanda]

A song celebrating Satans influence across the history of mankind is the third most important conservative song in the world.

Right here right now by Jesus Jones........ Is it me or does the sound of a conservative top 50 sound remarkably like the sound of a barrel being scraped.

In my humble opinion anything that includes Jesus Jones in a top 50 ( obviously excluding a top 50 of shittiest bands) scrapes the bottom of the barrel.

 

[phildwyer]

Do you think so?

Personally I think "radical" and "conservative" is a meaningless dichotomy. I think the journalist's choice of "conservative" songs bears this out.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Personally I think "radical" and "conservative" is a meaningless dichotomy. I think the journalist's choice of "conservative" songs bears this out.

Which has exactly what to do with "Don't Skrewdriver count as conservative these days?"

And this time, if you answer, do at least try to stay "on subject", there's a dear.

 

[tangerinedream]

A song celebrating Satans influence across the history of mankind is the third most important conservative song in the world.

Right here right now by Jesus Jones........ Is it me or does the sound of a conservative top 50 sound remarkably like the sound of a barrel being scraped.

Isn't much of right wing thinking influenced by the basic ideal that humans are imperfect and therefore survival of the individual is more important because you can't trust yer fellow human?

Therefore a song celebrating the 'evil' in the world isn't as daft as it sounds. If we take 'left' as meaning marxist we therefore must accept that a satanist song has no place in that ideal as god as no place there.

If we boil the world down to left an right then hey presto.

Why have I typed this?

 

[ViolentPanda]

Drugs.

 

[tangerinedream]

Drugs.

fraid not no.

 

[ViolentPanda]

fraid not no.

In which case; psychosis?

 

[Mr Smin]

ugh

Sandi Thom.

I had never heard of this so i stupidly looked at the website. Are all the spelling errors meant to look classily continental? Well done Sony BMG, who would have thought you could top last year's "Now That's What I Call Rootkit"?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/01/sony_rootkit_drm/

 

[Byronik]

Journalists such as John J Miller can be thanked for reinforcing the two stereotypes for the price of one: firstly that Americans have no sense of irony and secondly that journalists the world over are profoundly shallow in their appreciation of the arts. To say Bodies is pro-life is like saying Noel Coward's WWII-era masterpiece "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans" was pro-German.

 

[phildwyer]

Which has exactly what to do with "Don't Skrewdriver count as conservative these days?"

Obviously (to all but the wilfully obtuse) Skrewdriver were both conservative (as in political right-wing) and radical (as in seeking fundamental social change). Such instances obviate the dichotomoy, you prat.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Obviously (to all but the wilfully obtuse) Skrewdriver were both conservative (as in political right-wing) and radical (as in seeking fundamental social change). Such instances obviate the dichotomoy, you prat.

Phil, you bite every time, don't you?