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as for the songs on the list, too many choices to make fun of: some because they’re right on (Sweet Home Alabama with its defense of Watergate and George Wallace, and Heroes, with those wonderful lines: “You can be mean/And I’ll, I’ll drink all the time”–great conservative values), and some because they were picked:
“Who’ll Stop the Rain” a great anti-Viet Nam war song is a great conservative rock song!?!?! nothing more needs to be said.
“My City was Gone”–any song that complains that the farms of Ohio “Had been replaced by shopping malls/And muzak filled the air” isn’t about a conservative’s dissatisfaction with change, but Rush Limbaugh learned the lessons of his hero and understood that for his listeners, a great bass line trumps liberal lyrics.

]]> http://prairieprogressive.com/2006/05/26/seeing-music-from-different-perspectives/comment-page-1/#comment-214 So-Called Austin Mayor Tue, 30 May 2006 02:14:00 +0000 http://prairieprogressive.com/?p=732#comment-214 This is the definitive convservative rock song: http://tinyurl.com/lxpbt This is the definitive convservative rock song:
http://tinyurl.com/lxpbt

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