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Recently, John J. Miller of the National Review wrote an article: Rockin the Right, The 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs, in which he interpreted iconic rock songs as expressions of certain conservative values. Subsequently, he published a follow-up containing an additional 50, though it seemed to some particularly on the left that he was starting to stretch the conservative theme a bit. Even in the first 50, while "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Sweet Home Alabama" are indisputably "conservative," the inclusion of songs like "Wouldn't it be Nice" are questionable. In fact, the whole exercise prompted some rather predictable responses as Miller notes in his encore article, as well as some more engaging responses including a hilarious satire (what makes the satire even more amusing than face value is that there is a little bit of overlap between the satirical list and Miller's follow-up 50). So I wrote to Miller suggesting that in the interest of turnabout-as-fair-play somebody should publish a list of liberal country songs. He responded by encouraging me to come up with a list, and promising to link to it. I've now posted to Kos and Miller posted the link from NRO, and I've been swarmed with criticisms about what's in the list, what's not in the list, my definitions of "country," "liberal," and whatever. Well, maybe Prine doesn't belong on the list, and maybe Charlie Daniels does. Anybody else is perfectly free to come up with his/her list. Anyway, the comments section is really entertaining. http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2006/06/50-liberal-country-songs.html And my follow-up. http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2006/06/were-certainly-emotional-about-our.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| pnews-news - (NEWS) - Send "subscribe" or "unsub" in subject to pnews-news-request(at)inyourface.info pnews-views - (VIEWS) - Send "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" as subject to pnews-views-request(at)inyourface.info |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Everything begins at The Worm Hole: http://pnews.org/ ----- Something Really Nice for your Honey - http://blackhillsg0ld.com/ Something Really Sexy for Her for Holloween: http://tinyurl.com/q878y --------------------------------------------- NEVER pay for a podcast again: Check it out - http://tinyurl.com/mnr7r -----
