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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 09:14 AM
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Post your runners-up to National Review's top 50 conservative songs.
As referenced here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5201102&mesg_id=5201102


The objective: post a song and strip it of its context and irony, and there you go. Here are two of my picks:


Pet Shop Boys- "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)"- the British synth duo's rallying tribute to the free market economy.

Dead Kennedys- "California Uber Alles"- warns of the dangers of a Liberal utopia, where people are forced to jog for the master race. Because Jello Biafra was a Reagan conservative. Right?....right?
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:19 AM
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1. I can't see how one can strip to the Dead Kennedys.
Pet Shop Boys, maybe, but Dead Kennedys? Nope, I don't see it.
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:21 AM
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2. I can make my pasties twirl in sync with "Police Truck."
It's a sight to be had...
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:51 PM
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14. I... I can't SEE!!!!! MY EYESSSSS!!!!!! MY EYESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't feel my legs...

Thump.
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Aiptasia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:23 AM
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3. Tears for Fears, "Everybody wants to rule the world"
They forgot that one.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:27 AM
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4. "Keep On Rockin' in the Free World"
Note that he doesn't say "in the Islamo-fascist world."
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:30 AM
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5. "Tears in Heaven"
For no other reason than I really hate that song.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:34 AM
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6. The Doors' "The End":
A pithy comment on the phenomenon of rock songs concluding prematurely, just when you're, like, really geting into them.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:36 AM
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7. Link to a Freeper's Top 40 All-Time Conservative songs
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5019021
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:40 AM
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8. Revolting Cocks, "Beers, Steers and Queers."
It's about Texas. Yee-haw!
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:31 PM
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9. "Every Breath You Take" by the appropriately named Police
"I'll be watching you...."
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:37 PM
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10. Nowhere Man, The Beatles--attributed to J. Lennon.
This some is an anthem for us "gut-feeling" real Americans. Nowhere Man lives in his own isolated bubble without any liberal-biased "facts" to get in the way of his simplistic existance as a pair of hands for working and a mouth for consuming. He does need to know the evidence. He knows the truth in his gut. His life is great as far as he knows.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:41 PM
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11. Pretty much anything by Skrewdriver would fit right in...
...at the GOP convention. :thumbsdown:
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RedStateShame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:42 PM
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12. "Sgt. Baker" by Primus
An obvious tribute to our soldiers!!
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:48 PM
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13. "Living on a Prayer" by noted conservative Bon Jovi
Early support for faith-based social services.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:53 PM
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15. The Authority Song-John Mellencamp
Clearly it is about the futility of fighting authority and the status quo. Authority always wins, so there's no point in fighting. The only people that deserve to do well are in authority positions already, which is why they always win. Just accept your lot in life and let the adults make the decisions sonny, and be thankful if they accidentally let you have any scraps.
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:55 PM
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16. You sound like a lot of people in GD! nt
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:56 PM
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17. Walk This Way by Run-DMC
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KFC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:58 PM
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18. Eighties - Killing Joke
A tip of the hat to the Regan era.
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 01:01 PM
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21. Wasn't "Last Caress" off Metallica's Garage Days
originally a Killing Joke song? I was thinking of that for the list:

I've got something to say, I just killed your baby today and it
doesn't matter much to me as long as it's dead.

Only I can't decide whether it's about abortion or foreign policy.
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RedStateShame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 01:04 PM
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22. No, sir!
That was a Misfits song, before Glenn Danzig's ego outgrew...well..him.
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 01:09 PM
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23. Thanks, I just figured out my confusion
When I was in h.s. I used to party with Cliff Burton's cousin. CRAZY chick. She had actual Metallica garage tapes with the band practicing Kill Em All stuff, talking and bullshitting, she always cried while playing them (this was after Cliff died.) She also happened to be the biggest Killing Joke fan I ever met, so I guess I mix them up with early Metallica in my mind.
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izzybeans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:58 PM
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19. CB4: "Straight out of locash"
Because the comedy comes at the same price as conservative brains, very cheap laughs all around.
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 01:00 PM
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20. "Imagine," by John Lennon
Because it makes conservatives imagine how terrible a peaceful world would be.
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 01:22 PM
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24. Noone lives forever, for the rapture rightists.
...by Oingo Boingo.

"Let's have a party. There's a full moon in the sky.
It's the hour of the wolf and I don't want to die.

I'm clever as can be. I'm very quick, but don't forget,
we've only got so many tricks. Noone lives forever!"

They had Boingo's Capitalism on their list...without any sense of irony. They were mocking the libertarian evangelists who worship at the invisible hand.
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