Oh, please, the top 50 Conservative songs? As if. Granted, it doesn’t surprise me that one may come across a conservative idea in a song, but to treat these songs as if they were written from a conservative perspective smacks of desperation. It’s also simple minded and fails to recognize the complexity in lyrics, and therefore the complexity in art itself. And they are just wrong, about most of these songs.

Just how the fuck is “Sympathy for the Devil” conservative? Yes, the devil was the “sinister inspiration for the cruelties of Bolshevism,” but keep reading the song… The devil is also the sinister inspiration for the 100 years war:

I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made

Smells to me like human folly (religion anyone?) and the devil are the synonymous culprits here. Is that conservative? Hardly. It’s cynical, if anything. Let’s keep reading. Hitler. Yep. The death of the Kennedys. Check. We are killing ourselves, we are idiots, we are evil. This is hardly the realm of politics, folks.

And while “Bodies” is seemingly anti-abortion, it was most likely only being critical of crazy Pauline who tormented Johnny Rotten.

And “Revolution?” I can’t even go there. What a bunch of fools the National Review are.

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