National Review's list of top 50 conservative rock songs

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2006-05-30 12:26am

Joe wrote:Is that off American Idiot? I haven't heard that one. Is that the whiny one that sounds like it was written and recorded in 1994? I just can't keep track of Green Day's songs, they all sound so different.

It is off American Idiot, one of the two songs from that album that the radio around here played ad nauseum, making me sick of them. Green Day has come along way in terms of being whiny as hell, but that one was pretty dang whiny.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2006-05-30 12:34am

I'm just glad Billy Joe or whatever the fuck the lead singer's name is didn't blow his brains out. All the stupid, Gen-X rock journalists who are still gobbling Kurt Cobain's nuts even to this day - it would be like that, a hundred fold.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2006-05-30 01:24am

Joe wrote:I'm just glad Billy Joe or whatever the fuck the lead singer's name is didn't blow his brains out. All the stupid, Gen-X rock journalists who are still gobbling Kurt Cobain's nuts even to this day - it would be like that, a hundred fold.

That is true. Nirvana became alot more popular at my high school after Cobain excavated his head.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2006-05-30 07:23am

our new boss at work has been going on that we just like Cash because of the movie. We have been pointing out to him, that growing up in conservative redneck communities the majority of us like Cash because he was the country voice of dissent. I mean who else could play Folsom prison? Who else in country says "I wear it for the people who have died, believing that god was on our side."- refering to the abuse of religion by politics.

Plekhanov · Post by **Plekhanov** » 2006-05-30 10:25pm

A-Wing_Slash wrote:This last bit with Mao is blatantly anti communist, and thus conservative.

Taking a swipe at Mao doesn’t make you a conservative, it doesn’t even mean you are anti-communist. I know a self defined socialist revolutionary (ie a Communist) who hates Mao because of he disagrees with Mao’s particular take on Marxist theory. Are you gonna claim that makes him a conservative too?

Kettch · Post by **Kettch** » 2006-05-30 10:48pm

Darth Wong wrote:I think the most disturbing thing about this is the mental picture of conservatives sitting there trying to figure out if a particular rock song is ideologically acceptable, and then actually compiling this list.

I think that the genesis of the interlligent design of the piece had more to do with interns.

Editor: Son what are you listening to? It doesn't seem to be county or western. And those lyrics don't come from the psalms. Is that rock and/or roll?

Intern: Er Rush, they're Canadian...

Editor: Free health care Canadian music in my office!!!

Intern: Ah but sir, actually its a Conservitive Canandian song.... [Insert desperate bullshiting] ... And so you see Beetles stood for small government.

Editor: Amazing, do the research and I want the ten, best, no fifty best conservitive rock songs! Research that & then give it to Miller to write it up. We gotta find an excuse to pay him, you're doing this for free.

Intern: Yes Sir.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2006-05-31 12:12am

Joe wrote:
Durandal wrote:According to this moron, Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is a conservative punk song because the lyrics "I walk a lonely road; The only one that I have ever known" endorse the idea of a self-made man and personal responsibility.
Is that off American Idiot? I haven't heard that one. Is that the whiny one that sounds like it was written and recorded in 1994? I just can't keep track of Green Day's songs, they all sound so different.

Yes, it's the fourth track. And you're definitely not thinking of that one. You may be thinking of "Wake Me Up When September Ends".