The Top 40 ALL-TIME Conservative Pop Music

[underpants]

With explanations
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/763186/posts

1. Paul Anka, “(You’re) Having My Baby”
2. The Beatles, “Revolution”
3. Chuck Berry and Linda Ronstadt, “Back In the U.S.A.”
4. James Brown, “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World”
5. The Browns, “The Three Bells”
6. Johnny Burnette, “God, Country and My Baby”
7. The Byrds, “Turn! Turn! Turn!”
8. Judy Collins, “Amazing Grace”
9. Charlie Daniels Band, “In America”
10. Neil Diamond, “America”
11. Doobie Brothers, “Jesus Is Just Alright”
12. Yvonne Elliman and Helen Reddy, “I Don’t Know How To Love Him”
13. Miss Toni Fisher, “West of the Wall”
14. Connie Francis, “God Bless America”
15. Bobby Fuller Four, “I Fought the Law”
16. Cast of Godspell, “Day By Day” “
17. Lee Greenwood, “God Bless the U.S.A.”
18. George Harrison, “My Sweet Lord”
19. Edwin Hawkins Singers, “Oh Happy Day”
20. Johnny Horton, “Battle of New Orleans”
21. Whitney Houston, “The Star Spangled Banner”
22. Ferlin Husky, “Wings of a Dove”
23. The Impressions, “Amen”
24. Jay and the Americans, “Only in America”
25. Elton John, “Philadelphia Freedom”
26. Kingston Trio, “M.T.A.”
27. The Kinks, “Sunny Afternoon”
28. Laurie London, “He’s Got the Whole World (In His Hands)”
29. Lynyrd Skynyrd, “Sweet Home Alabama”
30. Madonna, “Papa Don’t Preach”
31. Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Andy Williams, “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
32. Ocean, “Put Your Hand in the Hand”
33. Elvis Presley, “Crying in the Chapel”
34. Kenny Rogers & the First Edition, “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town”
35. SSgt. Barry Sadler, “The Ballad of the Green Berets”
36. Dusty Springfield, “Wishin’ and Hopin’”
37. Diana Ross and the Supremes, “Love Child”
38. The Temptations, “Ball of Confusion” This
39. Aaron Tippin, “Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly”
40. Tammy Wynette, “Stand By Your Man”

[madinmaryland]

1. Freepers like Elton John?

:wtf:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

21. Apparently they don't get it.

I mean, Elton's a scary commie gayo....

:sarcasm:

:D

[blondeatlast]

49. Huh--WHAT? Elton John is gay?

Do CD's burn Farenheit 400?!

Damn. Damndamndamndamndamn.

[Fenris]

2. "Turn! Turn! Turn!" ? HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Arranged by that right-wing protest-singer Pete Seeger. :rofl:

Truly idiots of the highest order and rank.

[underpants]

4. "coming close to being erotic while still being deeply religious"

12. Yvonne Elliman and Helen Reddy, “I Don’t Know How To Love Him”


Elliman was a member of the cast of the rock opera, “Jesus Christ Superstar,” written by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. This is a song from that show, sung in the voice of Mary Magdalene. Elliman’s performance is incredible, coming close to being erotic while still being deeply religious. It reached number 8 in May 1971, and was on the chart for 6 weeks as a single. Helen Reddy had a simultaneous hit with the same song. Her version rose to number 13 the same month.

[fudge stripe cookays]

48. But see...

it's from the Bah-bul. They can't help it that a pinko commie liberal wrote a song about it.

[Fenris]

55. Written by Jews

They couldn't possibly be comfortable with that.:D

[Beaverhausen]

3. "Revolution" is #2? WTF?

:crazy:

[RandomKoolzip]

5. That thread killed me.

Political ignorance I can understand, but the stunning MUSICAL ignorance of these numbnutses...How DARE they appropriate my beloved Ray Davies for their shallow poltical ends?! :cry: Freeps: Ray Davies is neither left nor right. He's a contrarian.

And did you catch that one post praising hard-core Crass-affiliated anarcho-left punkers Chumbawamba? :rofl:

[HuskerDU]

78. Considering the artists already on the list why not throw Crass

in there too? How did 'This Ain't no Picnic' not make their list?

[Mad_Dem_X]

6. Why am I not surprised by #1?

:puke:

[no name no slogan]

39. They COMPLETELY missed the boat on that one

to whit:

1. Paul Anka, “(You’re) Having My Baby” This is a remarkable song by an extremely prolific singer and songwriter. It reached number 1 in July 1974, and stayed there for 3 weeks. What is remarkable about this song is its explicit pro-life message. In praising his wife for having his baby, Anka sings:

Didn’t have to keep it Wouldn’t put ya through it You could have swept it from your life But you wouldn’t do it No, you wouldn’t do it

Considering that Roe v. Wade had already been decided by the Supreme Court, and that being “pro-choice” had already established itself as liberal dogma, it was very courageous for Anka to put such a line in one of his own songs. The fact that the song was a massive hit also tells us something important about what most Americans really think about abortion. I can think of no similarly pro-choice song ever to make the charts.

Um, dumbasses, the song is NOT about a man and his wife having a baby-- it's about a man and his unwed LOVER having a baby out of wedlock. The song was "courageous" in that it celebrated an unwed couple having a baby without getting married.

Jeebus, these people REALLY are clueless. :eyes:

[Initech]

7. Why are the Beatles on that list?

John Lennon was against everything that the freepers stand for!

[RandomKoolzip]

9. They even angrily call "Imagine" a "neo-fascist" song

later in that thread.

I guess it's the "neo" part that pisses them off.

[Initech]

60. The freeps contradict themselves so much that...

they wouldnt know "truth" if it jumped up and bit them in the ass.

[arwalden]

8. 41. John Ashcroft, "Let The Eagle Soar"

http://www.newwartimes.com/eagle.html

"Let the eagle soar,

Like she’s never soared before.

From rocky coast to golden shore,

Let the mighty eagle soar.

Soar with healing in her wings,

As the land beneath her sings:

'Only god, no other kings.'

This country’s far too young to die.

We’ve still got a lot of climbing to do,

And we can make it if we try.

Built by toils and struggles

God has led us through."

[TheMightyFavog]

10. And Sweet Home Alabama?

IIRC, Skynyrd campaigned for Jimmy Carter.

[RandomKoolzip]

12. No, that was the Allman Brothers.

Phil Walden, owner of Capricorn Records, was a friend of Carter's, and arranged for several appearances for his label's brightest lights, the Allmans, on Carter's electoral campaign.

Skynyrd, I believe, voted for Tootski McRootski that year...in fact, I think they pretty much voted a straight Nose Candy ticket in 1976.

[Zomby Woof]

67. Skynyrd DID raise money for Carter

Walden's brother Alan managed Skynyrd at the time (before they hired the same manager as the Rolling Stones), and floated the idea by Ronnie Van Zant.

Van Zant eagerly supported Carter because of his honesty and his support of working people. They raised quite a bit of money - even more than the Allmans, who had split up in 1975 before Carter's campaign had momentum.

I have a picture of Ronnie wearing a "Georgia Loves Carter" t-shirt. On their summer 1976 tour, (and documented on film when they played in Knebworth, England) he added a plug for Carter at the end of 'Sweet Home Alabama', ad-libbing the closing lyrics.

Kind of puzzled by your last comment. Skynyrd was no stranger to coke, but in comparison to just Gregg Allman alone... I have to say... :rofl:

[underpants]

14. Charlie Daniels too

http://www.charliedaniels.com/bio-chronology.htm

1976: With the album, Saddle Tramp, the CDB joins Epic Records. Daniels aligns himself with presidential candidate Jimmy Carter. “I didn’t think he had a chance. When I was asked about doing something for him, he was ‘Jimmy Who?’ But he called me one night. I read some clips about him, and felt good about him. We’d come out of a catastrophic political time...Carter personified honesty and goodness.” When ‘Jimmy Who?’ becomes President Carter, the CDB are among the performers at his inaugural.

[no name no slogan]

42. Which is funny, because Charlie has become a neocon Freeptard now

He was a big Iraq war supporter, unfortunately.

[JerseygirlCT]

56. Charlie Daniels is an ass. nt

[seemunkee]

11. My Sweet Lord?

umm, freeps, you know its not about Jeebus don't you? I would think the words Hare Krishna would give it away but maybe they think he's saying Merry Christmas.

[RandomKoolzip]

13. Well, as the freepster explains later:

Any song with a deep religious conviction is a conservative song.

Which is why you see so much Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on that list. :eyes:

[jpgray]

15. Ooh the ignorance. Talking about McCartney writing lines in "Revolution"

:rofl:

[RandomKoolzip]

18. Right. And ignoring Lennon's famous ambivilence about singing

"When you talk about destruction/Don't you know that you can count me out/in," because he hadn't made up his mind yet.

Also it shows just how dumb they are that not wanting to take part in destruction being a typical tenet of pacifist thought never even enters into the picture.

[ghostsofgiants]

25. My guess is it's solely based on the Chairman Mao lyric.

:eyes:

[jpgray]

30. Carrying pictures of Chairman Mao composed of ROFLs will get you far

[mvd]

16. To the Freepers - patriotic doesn't mean conservative

They are as patriotic as Bush is when he uses soldiers at events to shield him from boos.

[RandomKoolzip]

24. And "Religious" doesn't mean "Conservative," either.

Pete Seeger knew what he was doing when he took the words for "Turn! Turn! Turn!" directly from the bible.

[underpants]

32. Arlo Guthrie apparently closes with "Amazing Grace"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Grace

That frickin' Neo-Con :grr:

[Left Is Write]

37. Thank you.

Yes, indeed, Freepers - it IS possible to be patriotic, religious, AND liberal.

[mvd]

40. Yep - well said

:thumbsup:

I'm a spiritual Christian and consider myself a true patriot - and I'm quite liberal!

[Aristus]

72. Amen, brothers and sisters!

:-)

[Radical Activist]

52. The Bible doesn't mean liberal either.

I guess he thinks Turn Turn Turn is conservative because it comes from the Bible. He totally misses the point that yes indeed, the Bible does have a lot of liberal messages in it. Moran.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

17. Elton John? The Beatles? George Harrison? The Doobies?

Writing CONSERVATIVE songs? :wtf:

And apparently the sardonism/irony of "Sweet Home Alabama" (Lynyrd Skynyrd were LIBERALS, fucktards! :rofl:) is lost on them....

How musically ignorant can one get?

:rofl::rofl:

[underpants]

22. The Doobie Brother who is protecting America

Doobie Brother now a secret weapon on terror
Rock ’n’ roll guitarist Jeff Baxter is one of the country's top experts on counterterrorism. ‘Today’ show correspondent Jamie Gangel reports

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10480407/

It began in the mid-’80s, when Baxter started researching music technology. He then started reading about weapons systems, became a self-taught expert and, for the fun of it, wrote a five-page paper on missile defense.

Baxter: So, one day, I don't know what happened. I sat down at my Tandy 200 and wrote this paper about how to convert the Aegis weapon system — why it would make sense to convert it to do theatre missile defense because it would be on a mobile platform and give the United States a new role in NATO in the 21st century. I have no idea. I just did it.

Conservative congressmen Dana Rohrabacher and Ed Royce are Baxter’s biggest fans.

Rohrabacher: I want you to tell me we're not getting BS'd about missile defense and that it's actually going to have an impact here.

Baxter: It's a hard thing to do.

[SteppingRazor]

19. Wow. They apparently have no sense of irony.

Half these songs were not meant to be taken literally -- I mean, "I Fought the Law" is a law-and-order message? Sheesh!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

20. I know.

And that "Revolution"--What conservatives the Beatles were!

:crazy:

[RandomKoolzip]

23. And "Back Door Man" is about having a good escape plan

in case of a fire.

It's just a good thing they didn't try to even get into the aesthetics of any of these songs. I'd need fucking sedatives just to READ a thread that tried to accomplish that...

[jpgray]

29. Yeah, and "Sunny Afternoon" is an ownership society anthem

:eyes:

"Dead End Street" I suppose is a triumphant validation of social Darwinism.

[RandomKoolzip]

34. Approaching the Kinks' ouevre without a healthy dollop of

irony is like walking into a forest in Minnesota in late summer without Deep Woods OFF!

I'd like to see these freepers take a shot at "House in the Country."

[mvd]

33. That's no surprise

They ARE Freepers.

Only they could make Turn Turn Turn into a conservative song - probably just because it's taken from the Bible. It's a simplistic, black and white type thinking.

[jmowreader]

73. Play 'em the Dead Kennedys' version of that

It contains lines like "you can get away with murder if you've got a badge."

He also sings "I fought the law and I won."

[MiniMandaRuth]

26. Okay, some of that doesn't make sense at ALL.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

27. Only some?

"Sweet Home Alabama" as a conservative pop song....

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[MiniMandaRuth]

28. Hey, WIMR!

I was going to post this picture to prove my point that it doesn't make sense, but I decided against it:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

31. OMFG--Their irony meters are broken

All spelling errors quoted are FReeper-made

"I always thought of Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven' as an anti-communist song..."

And then later, another poster chimes in:

"I can't say much about groups, but here are a couple awsome songs with anti-liberal themes:

When the Levy Breaks, Led Zepplin"

And even later:

"Eagles Motel California and Life in the Fast Lane, very conservative. Awsome."

Yet later:

"Did anyone mention 'Another Brick in the Wall'? "

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

35. They're responding to "We don't need no education"

That line grabs them, and they don't catch the message of the rest.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

57. A-fucking-men.

:rofl:

[Radical Activist]

53. When the levy breaks is hilarious

Consequences is somehow conservative? He actually believes the Hannity BS!

If anything, the conservative stance is to cut taxes and starve federal funds so that the levy is never strengthened or built and thus is more likely to break, like in umm...New Orleans! Hello!! McFly!! The Levy already broke and it was Bush who didn't fund its repair in time!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

58. I KNOW!

I read that and just started laughing my fucking ass off...considering Katrina and NOLA this year, it's fucking ironic.

:rofl::rofl:

[underpants]

75. Life in the fastlane

I believe that song is pretty autobiographical of the Eagles in the nose candy phase....isn't it?

Maybe it reminds this asstoad of Rush or something.

[Left Is Write]

36. Are they INSANE?!

Some of those artists would be VERY VERY surprised to have their music included in the "All Time Conservative Pop Music" list.

[NoPasaran]

38. The MTA Song?

The song, based on a much older tune called The Ship That Never Returned (or its railroad successor, Wreck of the Old 97), was written in 1948 as part of the election campaign of Walter A. O'Brien, a Progressive Party candidate for mayor of Boston. O'Brien was unable to afford radio advertisements, so he enlisted local folk singers to write and sing songs throughout Boston on a truck with a loudspeaker on it (he was later fined $10 for "disturbing the peace").

One of his major campaign planks was to lower the price of riding the subway by removing the complicated fare structure involving exit fares - so complicated that at one point it required a 9-page explanatory booklet. In the Kingston Trio recording, the name "Walter A. O'Brien" was changed to "George O'Brien," apparently to avoid risking right-wing protests that had hit an earlier recording during the Joseph McCarthy Hollywood blacklist era, when the song was seen as celebrating a progressive politician.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTA_(song)

[no name no slogan]

41. I love how they take one line out of context

extrapolate an entire philosophy from it.

For example, "Ball of Confusion": “Politicians say mo’ taxes will solve everything.” Therefore all taxes are bad, and THEREFORE the song is advocating Freepism!

Yeah, Marvin Gaye complained about his taxes, too, but that didn't make him a Nixon man, did it? :wtf:

And how dare they say "The Snake" by Al Wilson (one of my favorite singers) is anti-liberal? It's JUST A SONG, YOU MORANS! IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS!!!

Thanks for the chuckle.

[JohnKleeb]

43. Wow

I was surprised they didnt make Ronnie Reagan's mistake Springsteen's with Born In The USA. Seriously they're nuts.

[Beware the Beast Man]

44. Wow. That guy is full of shit.

"Revolution" IS a pro-revolution song. It only speaks out against violent revolution.
"It's A Man's....World."- Perhaps he forgot the second line of the song?
"My Sweet Lord"???? Does this guy even know that the song is about? It's not about just the judeo-Christian version of the Lord.
"Sweet Home Alabama"- denounces stereotypes of Southern people, not enforces them.
"Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town"- about as anti-war as they get.
"Philadelphia Freedom"- it's about Billie Jean King, forfuckssakes.

I could go on and on.


on edit- Yet "I've Never Been To Me" didn't make the list. Funny.

[Gatchaman]

45. 55. Rick Dees "Disco Duck". I include this because it shows just how easy

it is in the US to take money from music listeners.


Gotta agree with them about that.

[jmowreader]

46. It's slightly unbelievable that the most famous freeper song isn't there

I speak, of course, of Ted Nugent's monument to Repuke idiocy, "Kiss My Ass."

[norml]

70. Nugent's noise got bumped in favor of Anti-Freeper Hippie Music.

[FarLeftRage]

47. Hummm....

I don't see Pat or Debbie "you lite up my life" Boone on that list...

[blondeatlast]

50. Idjits! "War" isn't there?

Edwin Starr singing the praises of the Nixonadministration and the Viet Nam top brass?

How could they omit that one?

[Radical Activist]

51. WTF? More than a few of those are liberal.

Including Ruby by Kenny Rogers, which has an anti-war message.

[Radical Activist]

54. "Won't Get Fooled Again"....

Someone actually wrote: Boggles the mind that the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" has not been mentioned yet.


You have got to be fucking kidding me!! It boggles the mind that anyone could hear that song and not think of Vietnam and Iraq!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

59. ROFLMAO! The Sex Pistols are pro-life!

I don't know much about Sid Vicious, but I doubt he'd care much about it one way or the other.

[PittPoliSci]

61. here's the biggest laugh.

To: TheBigB
Just came across this one now; what's missing is the libertarian anthem "People Got to be Free" by the Rascals, a great counterpoint to John Lennon's neo-fascist "Imagine."



48 posted on 02/14/2006 5:58:35 PM PST by Chi-townChief

***

Yeah, the Rascals, what a great counterpoint to the "neo-fascist" Imagine....BWWWWWWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!

[blondeatlast]

62. If they could THINK, this would make their heads explode...

"Papa Don't Preach" may be "pro-life," but it glorifies sex before marriage.

Of course, they can only dream about sex before, during, or after marriage.

Perhaps there is a benevolent divine spirit after all.

[Left Is Write]

77. It may not even be "pro-life" per se.

The girl in the song has it all figured out - her boyfriend will marry her, and they'll "raise a little family." Isn't that the outcome in many a pregnant teenager's fantasy? What if that's the song's meassage. Or...maybe instead of being "pro-life" it's just "anti-adoption"? ;)

[last_texas_dem]

63. The Doobie Bros.'s cover of "Jesus Is Just Alright"...

...is a very funny inclusion. The FReepers should check out the gatefold cover of the Toulouse Street album, which features "Jesus Is Just Alright" if they think the Doobie Bros. (like the name didn't give it away) are some sort of Christian conservatives!

Oh yeah, and "Ball of Confusion" becomes a conservative anthem because it has a line about politicians raising taxes. Good stuff these guys are smokin'...

Lots of funny assumptions were definitely made to compile this list. I guess 'cause you really have to stretch to dig up songs with a politically conservative message that actually charted.

[Floogeldy]

64. NEWS FLASH: They're Idiots.

And so are you for involving yourselves in it.

[norml]

65. What?!?! No Wayne Newton?!?!

[blondeatlast]

69. they don't want to claim him either, I guess! nt

[meow2u3]

66. You forgot the sexist rant by the Stones

"Under My Thumb" by the Rolling Stones

[u4ic]

68. What about "She's a Lady" by Tom Jones?

Perfect freeper woman, if you ask me...

Well she's all you'd ever want,
She's the kind I'd like to flaunt and take to dinner.
Well she always knows her place.
She's got style, she's got grace, she's a winner.

She's a lady, whoa, whoa, whoa, she's a lady.
Talkin' about that little lady, and the lady is mine.

Well she's never in the way
Always somethin' nice to say, what a blessing.
I can leave her on her own
Knowing she's okay alone, and there's no messing.

She's a lady, whoa, whoa, whoa, she's a lady.
Talkin' about that little lady, and the lady is mine.

Well she never asks very much and I don't refuse her.
Always treat her with respect, I never would abuse her.
What she's got is hard to find, and I don't wanna lose her
Help me build a mountain from a little pile of clay. Hey, hey, hey.

Well she knows what I'm about,
She can take what I dish out, and that's not easy,
Well she knows me through and through,
And she knows just what to do, and how to please me.

She's a lady, oh, whoa, whoa, she's a lady.
Talkin' about the little lady, and the lady is mine.

Yeah yeah yeah, she's a lady
Oh whoa whoa, she's a lady
Listen to me people, she's a lady
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, she's a lady
Whoa whoa whoa, she's a lady
Talkin' about the little lady
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa she's a lady
Yeah yeah yeah, she's a lady
Whao whoa whoa, she's a lady
I can't live without that little lady
Ooh ooh ooh, she's a lady...

[tyedyeto]

71. Anything by Barry Manilow n/t

[TheBaldyMan]

74. no John Ashcroft with 'Let The Eagle Soar' ?

:shrug:

This has to be the lamest excuse for a top 50 ever.

[sarge43]

76. No "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha" ?! n/t

[tigereye]

79. cripe

these guys think Ball of Confusion was a conservative song!

incredible. :rofl: