Fun:Greatest songs, liberal, leftist, and conservative

Now that some crappy blog has a running commentary on the Greatest Conservative Songs, we think it's high time we started one of our own for the liberal side.

Please add the title, the artist or writer, and a brief description of the liberalness of the song.

Greatest Liberal Songs

Political

• "Banned in the USA" - 2 Live Crew. Licensed parody of the Springsteen song. Wrote to protest the censorship or their records and the arrest of the group in Florida.
• "Rockin' in the Free World" - Neil Young. Criticizes Bush Sr.'s policies.
• "Waiting on the World to Change" - John Mayer
• "The Internationale" (Billy Bragg's version) - "freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all."
• "Chocolate City," Parliament-Funkadelic. "Who needs the bullet when you've got the ballot?"
• "The Star-Spangled Banner," Jimi Hendrix - Because America belongs to everyone, including Black hippies. To say nothing of the fact that His version actually "has" bombs bursting in air in it.
• "War," Bob Marley and the Wailers - Based on a speech by Haile Selassie: "Until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes, then I say 'war'."
• "Revolution", Beatles. Anti-war and anti-discrimination.... very liberal traits.
• "Imagine", John fucking Lennon. "Living life in peace"? Oh yeah, liberal. And that "imagine no religion" part, ooh, a thumper!
• "Power to the People", ditto, self explanatory.
• "Give Peace a Chance," anti Vietnam war anthem , ditto, ditto
• "Sheep," Pink Floyd. About the lower-class. Slightly more socialist than it is liberal.
• "Dogs," Pink Floyd. About the middle-class. Slightly more socialist than it is liberal.
• "Freedom", Jimi Hendrix (explanation needed)
• "What's Going On?" Marvin Gaye, (a cry out of the ghetto for justice.)
• "Ohio", Neil Young/CSNY. Decrying the murder of unarmed students by the National Guard.
• "For What It's Worth", Stephen Stills/Buffalo Springfield. Tales of block parties and police crackdowns in LA.
• "This Land Is Your Land", Woody Guthrie. (Liberal populist verses no one knows.)
• "Battle Hymn of the Republic", Julia Ward Howe. Shivers... "As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free"
• "I Am Woman (Hear me Roar)" Helen Reddy (She can't travel in the Bible Belt without armed guards now)
• Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, "Eroica", Ludwig van Beethoven - Was originally dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte, but renamed after the Liberal Beethoven heard of the former's autocoronation as Emperor.
• "1812 Overture" Tchaikovsky. Celebrates the defeat of republican leader Napoleon Bonaparte in Russia by digital cannon - say no more.
• "We can't make it here" James McMurty (Powerful critique of the state of conservative policies)
• "Long-Haired Radical Socialist Jew" Hugh Blumenfeld (So let's all sing out praises to that long-haired radical socialist Jew - guess who?)
• "Signs", Five Man Electrical Band. Decries bias based on appearance.
• "Hurricane", Bob Dylan. Concerns a racist "justice" system.
• "Alice's Restaurant", Arlo Guthrie (Classic anti-draft song - so we'll wait till it comes around again, and this time with four part harmony and feeling.)
• "Six-Fingered Man", Elvis Costello/Alan Toussaint. A thinly veiled attack on the Bush administration and its response to Hurricane Katrina ("His acheivements multiply/Pity half of them seem to be lies/Always helps to advertise/Oh, it's never enough...").
• "Police and Theives" Murvin/Perry. "From Genesis, to Revelation... Bustin' up the nation..."
• "Gimme Shelter" Jagger/Richard/Rolling Stones. Mick regrets letting the Hell's Angels work security, tries to make up for it.
• "Capital (It Fails Us Now)", Gang of Four. "Let's get drunk on cheap wine!"
• "April 29,1992 (Miami)" Sublime. Great song about the Rodney King Riots.
• "The Decline" by NOFX. 18 minutes long. "Place a wager on your greed/A wager on your pride/Why try to beat them when, a million others tried?"
• "Idiot Son of an Asshole" by NOFX. Dedicated to President George W. Bush.
• "Nazi Punks Fuck Off", Dead Kennedys. Anti-Nazi skinheads, anti-conformism ("You'll be the first to go...you'll be the first to go...you'll be the first to go..."unless you think"!").
• "Riot", Dead Kennedys. Condemns rioting as inherently counterproductive ("Riot! Playing right into their hands...Tomorrow you're homeless, tonight it's a blast!").
• "We've Got A Bigger Problem Now", Dead Kennedys. A rewrite of the band's first single, "California Über Alles", with new lyrics attacking Ronald Reagan.
• "Bleed For Me", Dead Kennedys. Anti-torture, anti-corporations, anti-Reagan, anti-Cold War era foreign policy. But mostly anti-torture. What more do you want? Creepiest line: "Any time..anywhere...maybe you'll...just disappear..."
• "Pigs (Three Different Ones)," Pink Floyd. In which Margaret Thatcher is referred to as a "fucked-up old hag."
• "We Can Be Together", Jefferson Airplane, a rousing tribute to the late 60s protest movements. Deserves listing here because of the line "up against the wall, motherfuckers!" alone.
• "A Child Is Coming", Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship. Anti-draft; "what are we gonna do when Uncle Samuel comes around, asking for the young one's name? Lookin' for the print of his hand for their files and their numbers game? I don't want his chances for freedom to ever be that slim. Let's not tell 'em about him."
• "Layin' It On the Line", Jefferson Starship. A generic 80's "protest song" about nothing in particular; the MTV video was anti-U.S. Central America policy though.
• "Prologue/Someday/Liberation", Chicago. The "real" Chicago back when they were known as Chicago Transit Authority and hadn't yet turned into mushy pop crooners. About the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention.
• "The Law Is For Protection of the People", Kris Kristofferson. Anti-police brutality.
• "Best of All Possible Worlds", Kris Kristofferson. Anti-police brutality.
• "World In Motion", Jackson Browne. "Sun goin' down on the USA...we're all gonna be eradicated." I dunno, this one could just as easily be about teh New World Order or survivalism. Probably not though.
• "The Hand That Feeds", Nine Inch Nails. An attack on the Bush Administration, urging people to make a stand for their beliefs: "Will you bite the hand that feeds you? Will you stay down on your knees?".
• "American Idiot", Green Day. Criticizes post-9/11 America's obsession with the media and criticizes Bush and the "redneck agenda."
• Anything by Megadeth. Particulary "Symphony of destruction" and "Peace sells".
• "Die For Your Government", Anti-Flag. "You give 'em your life, they give you a stab in the back."
• "Deportee" (sung by various country artists, best version probably by Highwaymen w/ Julio Iglesias), decries draconian anti-immigration measures and celebrates the humanity of Mexican immigrants.
• "Land of Confusion" by Genesis (despite what Conservapedia says...). Anti-militarist, anti-Reagan. (If you've never seen the video, do so immediately.)
• "All You Fascists", Woody Guthrie. Woody literally had the words "This Machine Kills Fascists" on his guitar.
• "America", Kim Mitchell. Biting cynicism and criticism of U.S.-centeredness by Canadian guitarist who was not otherwise known for any cynicism nor political commentary. The only other time he ever approached anything resembling social comment was "Go For Soda", which seems to have an anti-drunk driving message.
• "L.A.P.D.", The Offspring, L.A. riots of 1992, anti-police "Because justice in L.A. comes in a can of mace"
• "Long Road Out of Eden", Eagles. Protests the Bush administration's imperialism, cronyism, and indifference towards the environment.
• "Cocaine Socialism", Pulp. Questioning New Labour's political honesty.
• "Bourgeoisie Blues", Alabama 3. Socialist anthem: "You're so hungry for that smell of money, you've been wasting away for years".
• "Woody Guthrie", Alabama 3. Anti-nationalist, anti-corporate, anti-military and anti-NRA, "I don't need no country. I don't fly no flag".
• "God Save the Queen", The Sex Pistols. Pisstake out of the royal British establishment, "The fascist regime, it made you a moron."
• "Eve of destruction" - Barry McGuire. 60s anti-nuclear.
• "Free Nelson Mandela" - Special AKA. Must be liberal, considering how Reagan, Bush Snr and Maggie Thatcher's vetoing of sanctions against the apartheid regime kept him behind bars until the early 90s.
• "America for Beginners" - Latin Quarter. Given the current feeling amongst the Rabid Right, the opening lines are a treat: "What's keeping the White House white? It is chalk, is it fog, is it fear?"

Special Political Category - The Clash!

• "White Riot"
• "London's Burning (With Boredom Now)" about the futility and boredom of inner-city life, similar to "Career Opportunities"
• "White Man in Hammersmith Palais" "If Adolf Hitler came here today, they'd send the limousine anyway"
• "I'm So Bored With the U.S.A."
• "Hate and War" - "Hate and war, the only thing we've got to hate"...
• "I Fought the Law, and the Law Won", about the idiocy of armed robbery and crime. Not very liberal, but definitely not conservative. Not actually written by the Clash (although their version is the better known one). This is one of the songs listed by Andy Schlafly himself on his blog.
• "Career Opportunities"
• "English Civil War"
• "Spanish Bombs", in memory of the anarchist and socialist factions in the Spanish Civil war. Mentions "The Red Flag" (see farther down)
• "Tommy Gun"
• "Stay Free"
• "Lost in the Supermarket" - decrying consumerism
• "Koka Kola" - an indictment of Wall Street type clowns
• "(I'm Not Working For The) Clampdown" - A little bit of everything in an incredible song.
• "Death or Glory" - "I believe in this, and it's been tested by research, that he who fucks nuns, will later join the church"
• Sandinista - Oops, that's an album title. Catalog number 'FSLN1'. Get it?
• "Washington Bullets" clarifies above reference.
• "Ivan Meets G.I. Joe" European perspective of the way the superpowers might fight a video game war on the chessboard of their countries. If you're a child of the 1980s, try to pick out which video games make up the background noise (hint: Defender, Pac Man, Centipede...???)
• "Somebody Got Murdered"
• 'The Leader" about corruption in politics.
• "The Sound of Sinners" - a lively spoof of holy roller gospel music and end times paranoia
• "The Equaliser" raw socialism
• "The Call Up" anti draft
• "Charlie Don't Surf" inspired by a line from "Apocalypse Now!". "Charlie don't surf, and we think he should".
• "Stop the World" anti-nuclear weapons thing. B-side of "The Call Up" single.
• "Know Your Rights" ("all three of them!")
• "Straight to Hell", about the culturally stranded kids of Viet Nam GIs and local women.
• "The Guns of Brixton," about the racial tensions between the community of Brixton and the po-leese.
• "Something About England", a biting retrospective on how even the shared horrors of two world wars couldn't heal the class divisions confronting Britain.

Special Political Category - U2

• "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
• "New Year's Day"
• "MLK"

Special Political Category - Bob "Zimmerman" Dylan

• Anything on The Times They Are A Changing
• Anything on Highway 61 Revisited
• In fact anything from the 60's

Special Political Category - Frank Zappa

• "Trouble Every Day" - Attacks Great Society-era racism (“I'm not black/But there's a whole lots a times/I wish I could say I'm not white), racial violence (“He wants to go and do you in/Because the color of your skin/Just don't appeal to him/No matter if it's black or white/Because he's out for blood tonight”), media sensationalization (“And if another woman driver/Gets machine-gunned from her seat/They'll send some joker with a brownie/And you'll see it all complete”), and economic inequality (“If all that you can ever be/Is just a lousy janitor/Unless your uncle owns a store").
• "Who Needs The Peace Corps?" - Depicts police brutality towards hippies ("I will love the police as they kick the shit out of me on the street.") Then again, it also makes fun of those hippies a lot.
• "Concentration Moon" - More state brutality, and warnings about possible concentration camps for "creeps" and hippies ("Concentration Moon/Over the camp in the valley/Concentration Moon/Wish I was back in the alley"; "Thousands of creeps/Killed in the park").
• "Mom & Dad" - A girl's parents don't speak out about violence directed towards "creeps" by the police, and their daughter is killed in the park "by the side of the creeps she knew."
• "Porn Wars" - Lampoons the PMRC and Congressional hearings about objectionable content in music that helped lead to RIAA explicit content labels ("What is the reason for these hearings...Sex!")

Philosophical

• "Within You, Without You", George Harrison/Beatles. Mystical ideas of saving the world through love.
• "All You Need Is Love", Lennon/McCartney/Beatles. Humorous ideas of saving the world through love.
• "Castles Made of Sand", Jimi Hendrix. It's just... philosophical. And it's Jimi.
• "The End", Lennon/McCartney/Beatles. "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love... you make".
• "Blowin' In the Wind", Bob Dylan. "How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man?"

War and Peace

• "War Pigs" Black Sabbath. Ozzy harangues the "generals gathered in their masses/Just like witches at black masses" in an eight-minute, anti-Vietnam sludge-metal epic.
• "War" Edwin Starr. Sums up the pacifist view pretty damn well.
• "The Pilgrim's Address" Fish, AKA Derek Van Dick. From the viewpoint of an ex - soldier who rhetorically asks the President who was on the moral side after all.
• "Masters of War" Bob Dylan (Anti-War Message)
• "Goodbye Blue Sky" Pink Floyd. Anti-war song about life in the post-WW2 world.
• "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" Tears for Fears. Decries the dangers of warfare by the power hungry.
• "Give Peace a Chance" John fucking Lennon, self explanatory.
• "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" John Lennon. See above.
• "Generals and Majors" XTC "...are never happy unless they've got a war"
• "(What's So Funny About) Peace, Love, and Understanding?" Nick Lowe/Elvis Costello and the Attractions.
• "Two Little Hitlers", Elvis Costello and the Attractions.
• "99 Luftballons" Nena. Cautionary tale about the end of the world being caused by a simple misunderstanding.
• "Born in the U.S.A." Bruce Springsteen. A song with a patriotic chorus that Ronald Reagan called a "message of hope" until someone on his staff actually listened to the verses and realized it was an anti-war song.[1]
• "Fortunate Son" Creedence Clearwater Revival. An anti-war song that speaks out against The Draft.
• "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" Public Enemy. Sung from the point of view of a black man drafted by the government during the Vietnam War and refusing to serve. "They wanted me for their army or whatever Picture me given a damn - I said never... They could not understand that Im a black man And I could never be a veteran"
• "Us and Them" Pink Floyd. Stellar anti-war song from Dark Side of The Moon.
• "The Unknown Soldier" The Doors. Underrated, semi-obscure anti-war song about Vietnam.
• "American Woman", The Guess Who, also covered by Lenny Kravitz. Another Anti-Vietnam War song.
• "One" Metallica. Inspired by a movie/book about a veteran that gets badly wounded fighting in WW1.
• "Let's Have a War" Fear. Pro-war parody. "There's so many of us there's so many of us there's so many LET'S HAVE A WAARRR!" Lee Ving, notorious right-winger he, may have actually been serious, but that just means the joke's on him.
• "Machine Gun" Jimi Hendrix. Jimi Hendrix singing about the Vietnam War "Evil man make me kill you, Evil man make you kill me, Even though we're only families apart"
• Anything from Pink Floyd's "The Final Cut" album (really?)
• "When the Tigers Broke Free" Pink Floyd. Roger Waters relating the story of how his father died in WW2.
• "Wooden Ships" Crosby Stills and Nash/Jefferson Airplane. Presumably the aftermath of a devastating war. Who won?
• "Manhattan Project" Rush. About the atomic bomb droppings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII. Hints at an anti-war stance.
• "Enola Gay", Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD). About the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
• "If You Tolerate This, Then Your Children Will Be Next", The Manic Street Preachers. About the Spanish Civil War. Title is from a poster of the time that shows a dead child.
• "Orange Crush", R.E.M. About 'Nam, even has helicopters chuttering in the middle of it.
• "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag", Country Joe and the Fish. Anti Vietnam war song. Sing along to "Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box"
• "Sky Pilot", Eric Burdon and the Amimals

In the morning they return/With tears in their eyes/The stench of death drifts up to the skies/A soldier so ill looks at the sky pilot/Remembers the words/"Thou shalt not kill"

• "Lucky Man", Emerson, Lake & Palmer

A bullet had found him-His blood ran as he cried/No money could save him/So he laid down and he died-Ooooh, what a lucky man he was.

• "The Butcher's Tale, The Zombies.

Trench warfare in World War One. Enough said

• "Where have all the flowers gone", Pete Seeger, Kingston Trio, PP&Mary, the Searchers and others

Where have all the soldiers gone?/Gone to graveyards every one/When will they ever learn?

• "Universal Soldier", Buffy St. Marie and many others

He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,/A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew./And he knows he shouldn't kill,/And he knows he always will,/Kill you for me my friend and me for you.

• "Let Them Eat War", Bad Religion. "From the force to the union shops,/the war economy is making new jobs,/but the people who benefit most,/are breaking bread with their benevolent hosts"
• "There Were Roses", Tommy Sands.
• "Flesh Storm", Slayer. Criticises media manipulation by the government, and the media's portrayal of conflicts: "The cameras are whores for the daily bloodshed".
• "Dust", Mr. Mister. Everybody was doing songs about Vietnam in the 80s.
• "Goodnight Saigon", Billy Joel. Everybody was doing...
• "Bulls on Parade", Rage Against the Machine.
• "Prophets Of War", Dream Theater. Suggests ulterior motives for the Iraq War: "Can we help them break away? Are we profiting from war?".
• "Unknown Soldier", The Casualties. "Joey is off to die, for another senseless war/No arms, no legs - his mother cries at home/Joey wears the flag, so proud to fight for us/And for a government, that doesn't give a fuck."
• "Bombs Not Food" by the US Bombs. Discusses how the United States would rather spend money on "national security" than food for the poor.
• "16 Military Wives" by the Decemberists. Takes shots at both conservative war hawks and ineffectual, liberal Hollywood celebrities, but mainly focuses on the human cost of war.
• "Oliver's Army" - Elvis Costello
• "For Those About To Rot" by Soulfly. About soldiers being sent to die, and takes shots at the Bush Administration ("Why don't presidents die in wars").
• "BYOB" by System of a Down. "Why don't presidents fight in wars, why do they always send the poor."

Social Issues

• "Moral Majority" Dead Kennedys "Blow it out your ass Phyllis Schlafly"
• "Downtown" performed by Petula Clark. Celebrates the city, diversity, the pleasures of "other people's company".
• "Dedicated Follower of Fashion", Ray Davies/The Kinks. Mocking crass consumerism.
• "Well Respected Man", Ray Davies/The Kinks. Mocking conformism.
• "Father and son", Cat Stevens. The conflict between generations
• "Pleasant Valley Sunday", Monkees (written by Gerry Goffin and Carol King). Bustin' on the lame-o 'burbs.
• "If 6 Was 9", Jimi Hendrix, Mocking conformism.
• "Shout", Tears For Fears. Encouraging political protest.
• "She's Leaving Home", Lennon/McCartney/Beatles. The young must leave the nest, even if parents don't understand.
• "Industrial Disease", Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits. Rips the human degradation of capitalism.
• "Southern Man", Neil Young. Pissed Lynyrd Skynyrd off good, that Canadian boy did when he whined about lynching.
• "Mary and Child", Born Against. Best pro-choice song (at least best one written by a man).
• Everything by Pansy Division. (The gay right to parody heavy metal songs!)
• "Under Pressure", Queen and David Bowie. The pressure of everyday life is what tears apart families and society, and only by loving each other and caring for "people on streets" can we "give ourselves one more chance."
• "Smalltown England", New Model Army. True of Britain in the 1980s, still holds true today.
• "Battle of the Beanfield", The Levellers. Police brutality. Was written about the 1985 Stonehenge clashes but also made a good anthem for those opposed to the 1994 Criminal Justice Bill.
• "Ich Bin Ein Auslander", Pop Will Eat Itself. An attack on the far right and the associated violence.
• "Biko", Peter Gabriel. A protest song about the death of anti-apartheid protester Steve Biko while in police custody.
• "Not One Of Us", Peter Gabriel. "It's only water/in a stranger's tear… but you know how it is/You're not one of us."
• "Don't Drink the Water", Dave Matthews Band
• "Don't Step on the Grass, Sam", Steppenwolf. Marijuana is bad, m'kay?
• "Two Hangmen", Mason Proffit. Anti-death penalty and pro-civil disobediance.
• "Something To Do", Depeche Mode. About living in a small town...where there's nothing to do.
• "American Life", Primus. About the plight of immigrants and veterans in the USA.
• "Kerosene", Big Black. Also about living in a small town with nothing to do.
• "San Quentin", Johnny Cash. Tough on crime, huh? Mr. Congressman, you'll never understand.

Psychological

• "To Sir With Love"-- Lulu (London, Black), Perfect illustration of the "Stockholm Syndrome" (at that time it was a psychological manifestation yet to be named).
• "Where is my Mind?" by Pixies - "Your head will collapse, and there's nothing in it and you'll ask yourself..." According to this prat, mental illness is a disgusting thing common only in disgusting liberals.

Guns

• "Gun Control", Ian Hunter.
• "Happiness Is A Warm Gun", Beatles. Making fun of an NRA slogan, while also celebrating sex. Yet another song on Conservapedia's list (see top), because irony is far, far beyond them.
• "Put Out the Fire", Brian May/Queen. "People kill people - people with guns!"
• "Mr. Saturday Night Special", Lynyrd Skynyrd. Funny how CP left this one out.
• "Shot 18", New Model Army. Anti gun violence song from Bradford's finest.
• "The Guns of Brixton", The Clash. Oops, this one's not anti-gun... Well, it might be. Kinda hard to tell, but Strummer was a die-hard socialist, so we'll leave this up.

Capital Punishment

• "No rope as long as time" - Latin Quarter. It's about hanging, 'nuff said.

Sex and Love

• "Let's Get It On" Marvin Gaye - Obvious.
• "Sexual Healing", Marvin Gaye - Ditto
• "Lola", The Kinks. A positive portrayal of transexual love, even if a bit confused. It doesn't get much more liberal than that.
• "Fetish," Joan Jett. "Restrained... while I fuck your head"
• "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", Meatloaf. Showing how abstinence fails and leads to unhappy marriages.
• "How Many Licks" Lil Kim ft. Sisqo (does this even need an explanation?)
• "Wouldn't it be Nice" Beach Boys (Young People.... having sex? For SHAME!!!!)
• "Girl", Lennon/McCartney/Beatles. Ahh, girl.... obvious sound of inhalation of herbal jazz cigarette.
• "My Love" performed by Petula Clark. OK, it rocks me, maybe that's not enough.
• "If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free", Sting. Regrets writing "Every Breath You Take", tries to make up for it.
• "Mystery Acheivement", The Pretenders. It's all about the "O", boys.
• "Tattooed Love Boys", The Pretenders. "I shot my mouth off and you showed me what that hole was... for"
• "Venus in Furs," The Velvet Underground. S@M sex! "kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather"
• "I Touch Myself", The Dyvinyls. Ooh, dirty, dirty.
• "A Really Good Time", Roxy Music. About a women who always has "a really good, really good, really good... time"
• "I Wanna Be Your Dog," The Stooges. About as kinky as it gets.
• "Tie Your Mother Down", Queen. Yeah, save all your "love" for me...
• "Some Girls", Rolling Stones. "...girls just want to get fucked all night, I don't have that much jam!"
• "Darling Nikki," Prince. It offended Tipper Gore so much that she decided to found the PMRC in the 1980's.
• Anything by Pansy Division.
• "Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too"-Say Anything. atheism, stoned, and having phone sex. obviously pushing somebody's agenda...
• "Rattlesnake Shake", Fleetwood Mac. Guess which snake this shake is about?
• "She Bop", Lyndi Lauper _ the Rattlesnake Shake for girls (women too)

Hey I've been thinking of a new sensation-I'm picking up - good vibration -Oop - she bop

They say I better stop - or I'll go blind-Oop - she bop - she bop

• Almost any blues song singing about cars, trains, ham-bones and a bunch of other things.

You got a nice pair of headlights, etc

• "Guacamole" the Texas Tornadoes

I grabbed her tomatoes, she grabbed my chili pepper and we were making guacamole all night long. (also done by the Pathetics)

• "Bodies" by the Sex Pistols. According to the band, it's pro-choice.
• "D-I-V-O-R-C-E", Tammy Wynette. A minor scandal when released because the subject matter just wasn't something discussed in polite company.
• "Closer", Nine Inch Nails. "I wanna f*ck you like an animal." Bonus: "You bring me closer to God."
• "Viðrar vel til loftárása" by Sigur Rós. The lyrics don't say much on their own, but the music video makes clear the song's pro-gay message.

Labour Rights

• "The Red Flag", traditional. #The people's flag is deepest red/It shrouded oft our martyr'd dead/And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold,/Their hearts' blood dyed its ev'ry fold.#
• "There Is Power in a Union", traditional, performed by Billy Bragg. 'Nuff said.
• "Roll On" The Living End. Cuz who doesn't love a good dock worker strike?
• "Part Of The Union", The Strawbs. While apparently written to attack the unions, it was adopted by union members and is now probably better known as a protest song than being anti-union.
• "Crushed by the Wheels of Industry", Heaven 17. Rather poppy for a labour song.
• "Penthouse and Pavement", Heaven 17. Danceable, though.
• "Joe Hill", Joan Baez (written by Alfred Hayes), performed at Woodstock.
• "Dark and Bloody Ground", Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers. The coal company against the miners. Co-written by Bruce Springsteen.
• "Blue Sky Mine", Midnight Oil. Suffering asbestos miners get their victory in court.
• "Piss Factory", Patti Smith. An angry post-folk, pre-punk anomaly. Denouncing the monotony of factory piece-work. The missing link between Carole King and The Clash.
• The entire albums Coal (Kathy Mattea), and The Unbroken Circle (Tom Breiding). Labor songs about coal mining and miners. Both musicians are from well, where did you expect?
• The works of Joe Hill, such as "Preacher and the Slave" and "The Girl Question"
• "Marshall Riley's Army", Lindisfarne. About the Jarrow Crusade.

Environment

• "Beds Are Burning", Midnight Oil. Environmental catastrophe denial is a Conservative value, although this song is actually about Aboriginal land rights ("It belongs to them, now let's give it back").
• "Dreamworld", Midnight Oil. Anti-development.
• "River Runs Red", Midnight Oil. "So you cut all the palm trees down, poisoned the sky and the sea...the river runs red, black rain falls on my bleeding land."
• "Progress", Midnight Oil. Takes on a whole bunch of environmental issues in one song - including Australia becoming overpopulated. "Some say that's progress, I say that's cruel".
• "Antarctica", Midnight Oil "There must be one place left in this world..."
• "Earth and Sun and Moon", Midnight Oil. A bunch of environmental issues in one song.
• "My City Was Gone", The Pretenders. Anti-development. Rush Limburger has been sekritly programming his listeners with radical liberal enviro-whacko propaganda all this time.
• "You Can Run", Grateful Dead, possibly inspired by the Exxon Valdez oil spill
• "Mercy Mercy (The Ecology)", Marvin Gaye. Oldie but goodie from around the first Earth Day, 1970.
• "Fallen Eagle", Steven Stills, which is also an anti-war song, using the plight of endangered species as a metaphor for the Vietnam War
• "Look Out Any Window", Bruce Hornsby, it's about fishermen and farmers unable to make a living because of pollution, oddly enough released before the Exxon Valdez oil spill and hit the charts right as it hit the news.
• "Rainbow Stew", Merle Haggard. Kinda silly but has an ecology theme.
• "Glenwood Canyon", C.W. McCall. The river ran wild but it was only a matter of time before the developers came.
• "There Won't Be No Country Music (There Won't Be No Rock & Roll)", C.W. McCall. Really.
• "Little Fighter", White Lion. Tribute to the Greenpeace "Rainbow Warrior" after it was sunk by teh French.
• "The Last Resort", Eagles. "Call someplace Paradise, kiss it good bye".
• The entire Sunfighter album, Paul Kantner and Grace Slick. Okay, more of a burned out, druggy, and openly neopagan vision of environmentalism, but worth hearing to get an idea what the post-hippie scene was into circa 1971. Bonus points for songs about cannibalism and werewolves and for trying to link them to radical environmentalism (see, the future world is going to be "really" overpopulated, and...)
• "Big Yellow Taxi", Joni Mitchell, originally. "They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum and charged all the people a dollar and a half to see 'em." Maybe this is a conservative song after all.
• "The Landscape is Changing", Depeche Mode - "I don't care/If you're going nowhere/Just take good care/Of the world".
• "After the Gold Rush", Neil Young "Look at mother nature on the run"
• "Moon Over Marin", Dead Kennedys. Depicts a future ruined by environmental damage. ("Another tanker's hit the rocks/Abandoned to spill out its guts/The sand is laced with sticky glops...").
• "Monkey Gone To Heaven", Pixies. Talks about global warming and the hole in the ozone layer. (Now there's a hole in the sky/And the ground's not cold/And if the ground's not cold/Everything is gonna burn/We'll all take turns/I'll get mine too...")
• "Oh, Susquehanna!" Defiance, Ohio. A song lamenting the affects of urban sprawl on a childhood home.
• "Isle of Man", Ministry. Al Jorgensen sings about the greedy use of natural resources as a warning to future generations. (I'm writing/this letter/so no one will forget/some future/cave dweller/will find these notes an isle of man)
• "Guns Guns Guns", The Guess Who. Hunting eagle and caribou is bad m'kay?
• "Rocky Mountain High", John Denver. "They try to tear the mountains down to bring in a couple more. More people, more scars upon the land"

Anti-racism

• "Strange Fruit", Billie Holiday (1939)
• "Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud (Parts 1 & 2)", James Brown (1969)
• "Damn Right I Am Somebody", Fred Wesley & the JB's (1974)
• "Chocolate Rain", Tay Zonday. Some stay dry while others feel the pain.
• "We Don't Need That Fascist Groove Thang", Heaven 17. Exactly what the title says.
• "Proud To Be Black", Run-DMC
• "Sun City", Artists United Against Apartheid. Title track from a 1985 benefit album featuring several popular acts of that time.
• "Silver and Gold", U2. As explained by Bono in concert in the "Rattle & Hum" film, an anti-apartheid song.
• "Blackbird", The Beatles. Blackbird singing in the dead of night, take those broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arrive.
• "Ghost Dance", Robbie Robertson asks you to look at the Indian Holocaust from a different direction.
• "And Sadness Will Sear", Trivium. About the killing of Matthew Shepard (Specifically this is about homophobia, but it fits this category well)
• "Don't Call me Nigger, Whitey" - Sly and the Family Stone
• "Society's Child", Janis Ian
• "Colorado Kool-Aid", Johnny Paycheck (also recorded by Red Sovine). Don't pick racist bar fights.
• "We Don't Need No Colour Code", Steve Taylor. A Christian musician no less, smacking Bob Jones University upside the head for their no-interracial-dating policy.
• "Black or White", Micheal Jackson. "It don't matter if you're black or white"
• "Melting Pot" By Blue Mink - although the idea that we all ought to end up the same colour is a bit weird.
• "Bruises", Skindred. About fighting drunken racists "I never trusted you lot, and why don't you go back to Africa".

Religious hypocrisy, televangelism and related hysteria

• "Miracle Man", Ozzy Osbourne. That liberal Prince Of Darkness attacks G-dfearing televangelists!
• "Send Me Your Money", Suicidal Tendencies. Send it all!
• "Startin' Up A Posse", Anthrax. Slams Tipper Gore and the PMRC something fierce.
• "Jacob's Ladder", Huey Lewis and the News; Bruce Hornsby and the Range (both recorded versions of this song)
• "Long Haired Country Boy", Charlie Daniels Band
• "Uneasy Rider", Charlie Daniels Band, both songs anti-religious hypocrisy from back before Charlie Daniels turned into one himself.
• "From Here To There Eventually", Steppenwolf. Hypocritical preachers should use their influence to end poverty and hunger, instead they campaign against premarital sex.
• "Harper Valley PTA", Jeannie C. Riley. Wherein a liberated woman exposes the uppity church ladies for their hypocrisy.
• "Bullet the Blue Sky", U2, live version. "...and the preacher on the Old Time Gospel Hour, stealing money from the sick and the old. Well the god I believe in isn't short on cash, mister!"
• "Good Christian Soldier", Kris Kristofferson. Good Baptist kid gets sent to Vietnam and finds out the God-and-Flag he was fed doesn't quite cut it.
• "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore", John Prine. The Baptists 'n' Birchers are in for a big surprise at the pearly gates.
• "Jesus He Knows Me", Genesis. Phil Collins and bandmates spoof televangelism and rein in the big bucks. Too bad this was from the height of Genesis' crappy pop period. You shut your whore mouth! People like Genesis?
• "Heavy Metal Poisoning", Styx. Spoof of anti-rock evangelists.
• "Hypocrites", KoRn. While there's speculation that the song is a diss towards former band member Brian "Head" Welch, the song pretty much slams televangelists.
• "Greater good of god" by Iron Maiden. Suggests that religion is evil.
• "The Last Stop", Dave Matthews Band. An atheists call to stop violence in religions name.
• "Blasphemous Rumours", Depeche Mode. A girl's god fails to save her life after an accident.
• "The God That Failed", Metallica. James Hetfield's mother was an ardent believer in Christian Science and refused medical treatment for her cancer because of this.
• "Heresy", Nine Inch Nails. Aggressive attack on Chrsitianity, condemning the "atrocities done in His name". See also "Terrible Lie".
• "Would Jesus Wear a Rolex?", Recorded by Ray Stevens. Christian comedian mocking TV evangelists.
• "Dear God", XTC. If you really exist, you should take some responsibility for what you did here. And read the Bible while you're at it, it's gonna freak you out. Nah, who am I kidding?
• "The freakin' FCC, Family Guy. Lampons the freakin' FCC for being the "stuffiest of stuffiest interest groups".

Unclassified

• "Purple Haze" Jimi Hendrix (Because ALL liberals are drug using hippies)
• "Walk on the Wild Side", Lou Reed/Velvet Underground. - Transvestite, homosexual, drug use? Only libruls "give (or take?) head"
• "It Never Rains in Southern California" Albert Hammond - Denigrates the "American Dream"
• "What a Wonderful World" Louis Armstrong - Obvious environmentalist message, and friends shaking hands, saying I love you? HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA!!!!!!
• "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" George & Ira Gershwin - Compromise.... a Liberal tactic to subvert our bad ideas
• "The Liberty Bell (March)" John Philip Souza. If the Monty Python's Flying Circus theme isn't a liberal favorite, what is? Phblllt!!!
• "Mr. Roboto", Styx. Rebellion? Fighting the established order? Disobeying the Law? LIBERAL!!
• "Breakin' the Law", Judas Priest. Only Liberals break laws. If Conservatives break laws, it's only because they're Liberals practicing deceit. Plus we all "know" what leather-daddy Rob Halford is "really" talking about here wink wink nudge nudge...
  • Also see under "Sex", Pansy Division's version is, er, a little "different".
• "Smoke Two Joints" Sublime. For all you hippies who want the herb legalized.
• "Take the 'A' Train" Billy Strayhorn, encouraging publicly owned mass transit to places no decent American wants to go.
• "Comfortably Numb", Pink Floyd. Though ultimately a song about the death of innocence, Comfortably Numb has been embraced as a pro drug anthem, despite casting the one admistering the drug as a negative figure. Those dirty hippies just don't know what they want.
• "Border Lord", Kris Kristofferson. "Darkness had us covered as we split from Minnesota in the morning, in the rain...when you're headed for the border, lord you're bound to cross the line." Unpatriotic draft dodgers!
• "Punky's Dilemma", Simon and Garfunkel. More draft dodging hippie peacenick traitors.
• "Louie Louie", The Kingsmen. Can anyone out there understand teh lyrics? Neither can I. Must be a lib'rul plot to indoctrinate our kids with premarital sex and communism! Why else would they conceal the lyrics like that?

Not far off. J. Edgar Hoover had a team working on these lyrics and what they came up with makes fascinating reading.

• "Get A Haircut and Get a Real Job", George Thorogood. Anti-conformist hippie anthem.
• "Almost Cut My Hair Today", Crosby, Still, Nash & Young - Crosby's paranoids' anthem.
• "Tom Sawyer", Rush. "No, his mind is not for rent, to any God or government."
• "Theme From An Imaginary Western", Mountain. Speaking of unintelligble lyrics...the lyrics "do not" match what is on the official lyric sheet, that's for sure. It's hard to tell exactly what they are singing but they sound suspiciously druggy and probably part of the Communist plot against America.

Written by Jack Bruce, a Britisher (Scot??) of Cream (sometimes) so it's really Britain's problem

• Anything by black metal bands Immortal, Dimmu Borgir and Emperor.
• Anything by Rage Against the Machine
• Anything by Devo
• "Party Down" by Reel Big Fish. Anti-corporation and pro-party. What more could you ask for in a liberal?
• "The Juggernauts" by Zebrahead. A fitting anthem to those repressed. (On that note, their song "Anthem" as well)
• Anything by Anti-Flag (uh duh, look at the name)

Greatest conservative songs

• "California Uber Alles", the Dead Kennedys. Jerry Brown and his wimpy girly-man Zen Fascists.
• "Holiday In Cambodia", the Dead Kennedys. Anticommunist.
• "Kill the Poor", the Dead Kennedys. Most succinct summary of the Republican platform ever put to music.
• "White Minority", Black Flag. White pride, you're an American.
• "Los Angeles", X. She had to leave Los Angeles because the Mexicans and the homosexuals and the idle rich gave her a lot of shit.
• "New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones", Fear. New York's alright if you're a homosexual.
• "Slaughterama", GWAR. What to do with the smelly hippie Dead Heads and the art fags.
• "Kiss My Ass", Ted Nugent. Tells Hillary, Jesse Jackson, Sarah Brady, and all those liberals to kiss his ass.
• "S.F.C.C.", The Mentors. Tells women where their place is.
• "Heterosexuals Have the Right to Rock", The Mentors. Yeah baby!
• "Against the Modern World", Sol Invictus. Enough with the effete modern west, bring back the dark ages.
• "Bomb Iran", Vince Vance and the Valiants. Yeah baby!
• "We're Not Gonna Take It", Twisted Sister. You're all worthless and weak, and we're right, we're free, we'll fight, you'll see. Wolverines!!!
• "Killing An Arab", The Cure. This here is that song about killing Ay-Rabs.
• "My Beach", Surf Punks. This is my beach, my chicks, and my waves so you outsiders keep the hell out.
• "Macho Man", Village People. God bless these fine upstanding men for providing masculine role models who look like REAL men instead of like a bunch of metrosexual girly-men.
• "The End", The Doors. A bunch of Freudian bullshit if you ask me, but it's about killing commies in the 'Nam since it was in that movie, right? So it has to be good.
• "Speak English Or Die", S.O.D. Speak English or die.
• "Hells Bells", AC/DC. If good's on the Left then I'm sticking to the Right.
• "Dog Eat Dog", AC/DC. And the French eat frog. Also pro-capitalism.
• "Burn Hollywood Burn", Public Enemy. A protest against liberal Hollywood values.
• "Total War", Boyd Rice. Do you want total war? Yes you want total war.
• "Fight To Live", Blitz. Pro-war without just cause (think Iraq): "We fight to live, we live to fight. We don't give a sh*t what's wrong or what's right."
• "Bombs Over Baghdad", Outkast. Enough said, really.
• "One Holy Bible", Reagan Youth. Heaven shall be your reward.