The Ted Nugent medal

Not so long ago, I complained at the predictability of pop star politics. Where, I asked, are all the centre right rock stars? Where are all the moderate, but still trenchant, lyrics calling for neo-con foreign policy? Where are the hymns to stability, family life, the middle class and suburbs? Where the chorus line with a great hook arguing for evolutionary change?

What I got back was - you've forgotten about Ted Nugent. I was not overwhelmed with this response. Neither his politics (too rabid), nor his music, quite takes the prize.

It's time for the wisdom of crowds to set to work.

I want nominations of centre-right singers and centre-right songs. I'll not be too picky. The centre-right singers may be singing non-political songs, and the centre-right songs may come from people with non centre-right politics who happen to have written a sound song by accident. You get the idea?

My first nomination is The Who singing "Won't Get Fooled Again", a fantastic attack on revolutionary politics, which you can watch below if you want.

I will be creating a centre-right iTunes playlist of the best suggestions and will burn a CD of this playlist for the person who provides the best item for it, along with the best argument for its inclusion.

For those who prefer not to post comments, you can send me an email on commentcentral@thetimes.co.uk.

Comments

[R.B. Glennie]

I recommend "Everyone's a Victim", by the Proclaimers, from their album, Perservere, released in 2001:

I demand recompense
For sitting on the fence
Throughout my adult life
You've got to put my parents in jail
For raising me in Fife
It doesn't matter what I do
You have to say it's alright
And I need you to send somebody around
To tuck me in at night...

[B]

How about "Okie from Muskogie" by Merle Haggard?

[Tim Worstall]

George Harrison's (with The Beatles, natch) Taxman.

[Dave]

"Rock the Casbah" by the Clash

Apparently inspired by the banning of rock music in Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini. Sadly the defence of individual liberty against theocratic tyranny doesn't seem to be a cause the left supports these days, so I suppose this qualifies as centre-right rock.

[Peter Briffa]

Great minds think alike.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzZkNDU5MmViNzVjNzkzMDE3NzNlN2MyZjRjYTk4YjE=

[Steve]

Sorry, perhaps I have missed the point somewhere. 'Centre-right' seems to hark back to the dawn of politics where we had Hitler standing on one end of a neat continuum and Stalin standing at the other end. Both, of course, doing very much the same to very much the same sorts of people using very much the same methods. In between these vastly similar stereotypes stood the whole bulk of humanity finely adjusted into gradations of political thought. Presumably, centre-right is one of these vitally meaningful categories?

By the way, why pop stars and not, say, gas fitters ot telephone sanitisers or health and safety executives. All of whom are at least - nay, much more - likely to have something worthwhile to say?

[William]

I nominate "Love Vigilantes" by New Order. Sung in the first person, the main character of the song returns from war; one learns of the soldier's motto early in the song, "With our soldiers so brave
your freedom we will save
With our rifles and grenades
And some help from God."
The chorus of the song focuses on the soldier's longing to return to his family, "I want to see my family
My wife and child waiting for me."

These sentiments: an unflinching determination to serve one's country in war and contentment with a simple (nuclear) family life, drive the song which is otherwise devoid of cynicism or protest.

[dizzy]

You want a hymn to stability Danny? Well clear Too Much Drama by The Vandals deserves the award. I post thelyrics for you here, but if you look on You Tube you will find the live version. Great to drive too.

Too Much Drama

Hot step moms and surrogate dads
It breaks my heart to see him so sad
Lying alone in his room with a frown on
Reruns show him what he's missing out on

If life could be, like he sees it on TV
He wouldn't have to hurt so bad
Hurts so bad `cause

It's too much drama, too much drama Dad and Mama
Traded back and forth til he turns 18
It's too much drama, the kid don't need no new step grandma
So he joins a family on the screen
Can't you see? Too many parents leave
Too many sets of parents leave a kid who can't believe
How they can think that he can take it
It's all he can do to fake it

Off for a weekend with real Dad but
The only thing real is how real bad he
Just wants his life to be black and white
Those people never fight

If he could Xerox a home from the talking picture box
He wouldn't have to hurt so bad

So he turns to TV for help and for guidance
A lot of his virtues he picked up from Linus
Fonzie taught him what it means to be cool
From Doogie he learned that he must go to school
Three's Company taught him that just acting gay
Could lower the actual rent he would pay
Cops showed beating your wife and your neighbor
Could immortalize you and your double wide trailer

[Sean aka RWB]

I would suggest that Bob Dylan's catalog contains a lot of what you might have in mind. Hymns to stability and family life? "Sign On The Window" from 1970:

"Build me a cabin in Utah,
Marry me a wife, catch rainbow trout,
Have a bunch of kids who call me 'Pa,'
That must be what it's all about,
That must be what it's all about."
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/signwindow.html

Neo-con foreign policy? Well, leaving aside arguments over definitions, how about his defense of Israel, 1983's "Neighborhood Bully":

"Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood bully."
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/bully.html

There's a good deal more that could be said about Dylan's subversively non-leftist role in the "counterculture," but I guess that's why I have my own blog.

[Chris C]

Easy peasy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-z2D9lo9-8

[dizzy]

I found the video and posted it on my blog.

[Alex R]

considering its impact, david hasslefoff's - talking about freedom.

[Tom Greeves]

Many American country singers have few qualms about espousing conservative values.

I'd argue that supporting the troops is, today, a feature of the centre right. How about this song from Toby Keith? It's called 'American Soldier':

I’m just tryin’ to be a father, raise a daughter and a son
Be a lover to their mother, everythin’ to everyone

Up and at ‘em bright and early, I’m all business in my suit
Yeah I’m dressed up for success, from my head down to my boots

I don’t do it for money, there’s bills I that I can’t pay
I don’t do it for the glory, I just do it anyway

Providing for our future’s, my responsibility
Yeah I’m real good under pressure, being all that I can be

And I can’t call in sick on Mondays when the weekend’s been too strong
I just work straight through the holidays, and sometimes all night long

You can bet that I stand ready, when the wolf growls at the door
Hey I’m solid, hey I’m steady, hey I’m true down to the core.

And I will always do my duty no matter what the price
I’ve counted up the cost, I know the sacrifice

Oh and I don’t want to die for you, but if dyin’s asked of me
I’ll bear that cross with honor, cause freedom don’t come free.

I’m an American Soldier an American
Beside my brothers and my sisters, I will proudly take a stand
When liberty’s in jeopardy, I will always do what’s right

I’m out here on the front lines, sleep in peace tonight
American Soldier, I’m and American, Soldier.

An American Soldier an American
Beside my brothers and my sisters, I will proudly take a stand
When liberty’s in jeopardy, I will always do what’s right

I’m out here on the front lines, sleep in peace tonight
American Soldier, I’m and American, an American, an American, Soldier.

[Fritz]

Since I have good taste in music and sensible politics I don't know the genre very well (and would dislike the ode-to-boring anthem you seek), but why don't you look in the Christian Rock aisle?

Or how about these cute little "centre right" blonde girls from sunny California, USA?
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1231684&page=1

[Lerxst]

Right wing... has to be Rush.

Too many lines to quote them all, but how about Something For Nothing:

"Waiting for the winds of change
To sweep the clouds away
Waiting for the rainbow's end
To cast its gold your way
Countless ways
You pass the days

Waiting for someone to call
And turn your world around
Looking for an answer
To the question you have found
Looking for
An open door

You don't get something for nothing
You can't have freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dreams might be

What you own is your own kingdom
What you do is your own glory
What you love is your own power
What you live is your own story
In your head is the answer
Let it guide you along
Let your heart be the anchor
And the beat of your own song

You don't get something for nothing
You can't have freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dreams might be"

Or some of my own favourite lines from Anthem:

"Live for yourself...there's no one else
More worth living for
Begging hands and bleeding hearts Will only cry out for more"

[Decline and Fall]

Speaking of Bob Dylan, how about "My Back Pages," which punctures radical politics in favor of carefully-reasoned pragmatism and the prevailing notion (also elucidated in The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again") that revolutions inevitably turn on themselves:

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

[James Kennett]

"Part Of The Union" (1973) by The Strawbs.

Trade union leaders reputedly sang the song, unaware of its irony. The single captured the public mood and reached No. 2 in the UK; it was one of the first signs of the turning tide that culminated in the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979.

It was provocative without being rabid; it was not just a right-wing song, but a right-wing protest song. And it had a damned good tune as well.

[David Anhtony]

Well if you are looking for some 'classical' composers with centre-right ideologies look no further than Schoenberg:

Quote from the book "Shoenberg and his World" by Walter Frisch:

"Schoenberg's brand of modernism continued, until the late 1960s, to appear as a non-subversive but forward-looking contemporary line of defense of individuality and freedom against uniformity and tyranny within the "free world."

I'm not sure how a Schoenberg song would blend in on the CD however.

There was also Stravinsky, but he, apparently, had sympathies with Mussolini. A little too far to the right.

[David Anthony]

Pink Floyd: The Wall Part Two

We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

Not a right-wing band by any stretch of the imagination, but this could be interpreted as a very anti big brother state song. But didn't Maggie Thatcher bring in the National Curriculum ... shame on her!

[Iain Murray]

Two possibilities - Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks, for similar reasons to Taxman, and Lucy by The Divine Comedy (Wordsworth set to music...)

A special award could go to Billy Bragg's Between The Wars for revealing exactly how impoverished (not to mention impoverishing) socialism is.

[David Anthony]

One more. This song is anti-Palestine but it's also anti-Israel so I guess it doesn't count. But the lyrics are different from the usual fair anyway:

http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/tom_waits/road_to_peace.html

[Praguetory]

I've never known them to be overtly political (good sign), but check out the lyrics to Rooster - an ode to a Vietnam soldier from grungers Alice In Chains.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/a/alice+in+chains/rooster_20005966.html

The song and video are outstanding.

[Graeme Archer]

If you ignore the clearly intended irony, Pet Shop Boys' Let's Make Lots Of Money might make it into an 80's compilation, perhaps in a doubly-ironic uber-cool fashion? i.e. you were mocking us, but we won, so now we sing your mocking song in celebration of the defeat of socialism. It made my teenage body bounce around the living room in sheer giddy optimistic joy anyway, which is a far sight from the gloomfest of the Coldplay-U2 axis we are now lumbered with.

Home Thoughts From Abroad by Clifford T. Ward always makes me cry with the pain of the loss of innocence - surely that's a Tory notion, nostalgia? And he mentions poets from the Western canon, which I believe is something Oasis have never gone in for. "And I know how Robert Browning must have felt, cos I'm feeling the same way about you". You have to ignore the non sequitur.

You're forcing me to admit that the best band in the history of the universe, Belle and Sebastian, probably don't qualify for this competition.

[David Barker]

Has to include Lynrd Synyrd's 'Sweet Home Alabama'for lines that include 'In Birmingham they love the governor'and 'the governors true' (presumably the slightly right of centre George Wallace)and 'Watergate does not bother me, does your conscience bother you'and finally 'yea yea Montgomerys got the answer'

[Guido Fawkes]

As someone mentioned The Pet Shop Boys' "Opportunities - lets make lots of money" certainly provided a sound-track (without any irony) to my life in the 80s.

To wind up lefties without doubt "Bush was Right" is hard to beat.

My personal favourite tune is (ex-Massive Attack) Nicolette's "No Government". Cool Acid Jazz with an anarchist philosophy in lyric form. Before you protest, Anarchy is right-of-centre if you are an anarcho capitalist.

It starts "No government is a way of life.
No government means to trust your friends.
I know who I am, and you know who you are.
If everybody knew what they wanted,
There'd be nothing, nothing left.
People would do what they wanted,
And there'd be no government."

[Bryan Appleyard]

Bob Dylan or, failing them, The Velvet Underground, esp Sister Ray

[Soupy Twist]

How about Iggy Pop's "I'm A Conservative"

I can't find a source, but apparently Mr Pop really is a Conservative.

Rock and roll.

[Julian H]

Guido - anarcho-capitalism is centre-right, but anarcho-syndicalism is most certainly not. I'm not convinced that Nicolette is an anarcho-capitalist (which isn't to say that she's an anarcho-syndicalist either).

Then there's evolutionary-anarchism; the belief that we should work towards anarchism as an ideal end, even if an unachievable one.

Has no one mentioned Morrissey's Bengali In Platforms?

[Nigel B]

Jilted John surely ?

Altogether now, "Gordon is a moron, Gordon is a moron..."

Three suggestions:

PCP by the Manic Street Preachers

A Liberal Education by the New Model Army

Integral by the Pet Shop Boys

[Praguetory]

Gene Simmons out of Kiss is an intelligent family man and a avowed right-winger.

http://tatemeorloveme.blogspot.com/2007/03/i-am-so-impressed-with-this-man.html

Suggest "Crazy nights" which is all about doing your own thing no matter what others might think.

[Clive Davis]

If sung completely without irony Randy Newman's "Political Science" would be up there in the Top 10. ("No one likes us, I don't know why. We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try.") But I suppose that's not the point.

Otherwise, I'd nominate Cole Porter's send-up of the Gulag in "Siberia". From "Silk Stockings", On the very edge of bad taste.

[James]

Mind Electric - Dirty Cash (Dirty South Remix)

The lyrics remind me of Blair, Levy, and the whole stinking cahs-for-honours sleazefest.

[Rob Fisher]

I nominate Don't Tread On Me by Metallica. It mentions liberty and the need to fight wars to ensure peace (at least as I interpret it). The Black Album that it's from features the snake from the Gadsden flag on the cover, too.

[Adam]

I've always thought 'Another day in Paradise' by Tory-in-exile Phil Collins was fairly right of centre.

It starts off with a homeless woman begging from a man, who ignores her. The chorus seems to suggest we rich people should just remember how lucky we are. Then, in the middle 8, a solution - prayer ('Oh Lord, is there nothing more anybody can do. Oh Lord, there must be something you can say. Talk to me'). None of these pinko rehabilitation programmes or housing benefit!

[HF]

for the public sector big govt lefties....

Talking Heads "Dont Worry about the Government"

I see the states, across this big nation
I see the laws made in Washington, D.C.
I think of the ones I consider my favorites
I think of the people that are working for me

Some civil servants are just like my loved ones
They work so hard and they try to be strong
I'm a lucky guy to live in my building
They all need buildings to help them along

[Andrew]

Clearly it should be Neil Young's Welfare Mothers, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Never_Sleeps.

[The Labour Humanist]

Oh no! Don't do this to yourself. How about the chart of all time oxymorons like "conservative rock"? Conservatives are the estabslishment, you are "the man", rock's default position has you down as the bad guys...quite right too!

For a full "pre-buttal":
http://humanistsforlabour.typepad.com/labour_humanists/2007/03/oh_no_how_embar.html

[Decline and Fall]

Billy Joel, "My Life":

I don't need you to worry for me cause I'm alright
I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home
I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life
Go ahead with your own life, and leave me alone

I never said you had to offer me a second chance
I never said I was a victim of circumstance
I still belong, don't get me wrong
And you can speak your mind
But not on my time

[Subtle Subtitle]

Jesus Jones "Right Here, Right Now." - On the dramatic revelation that the West was right in the Cold War.

Five for Fighting "Superman" - On the struggle to be a benevolent superpower in the face of unprovoked attacks.

Elvis Costello's "The Other Side of Summer" - On the malevolent failure of '60s "idealism," the myth of the "Summer of Love," and how the world stubbornly remains.

I love the dig on John Lennon's Imagine:

"Was it a millionaire who said imagine no possessions? A poor little schoolboy who said we don't need no lessons?"

But the best line is the last:
"Now you can't afford to fake all the drugs your parents used to take.
Because of their mistakes you'd better be wide awake."

[JACK PITT-BROOKE]

If you want something more modern, and I dare say more fashionable, I commend 'Strasbourg' by The Rakes. It's about a young couple resisting the Stalinists in East Germany in 1983.

"The courage that your father plucked
From inside a cattle truck
Will help us fix the exit polls
Our children must have rock'n'roll
Surveillance cameras captured dawn
Breaking on the autobahn
I knew for sure our chance was blown
When rifles made us feel at home
.....

"Ideas can change the government
But they never listen to our arguments
On TV our friends smashed cement
And pulled down the bastards monuments

http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/rakes_the_lyrics_4530/capture___release_lyrics_14657/strasbourg_lyrics_170087.html

[dm60462]

OPEN SEASON
by Stuck Mojo

Video on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymLJz3N8ayI

Music: Ward
Lyrics: Aborn, Nelson
String Arrangement: Eric Frampton

I speak peace when peace is spoken, But I speak war when your hate is provoking, The season is open 24-7-365, Man up yo time to ride, No need to hide behind slogans of deceit, Claiming that you're a religion of peace, We just don't believe you, We can clearly see through, The madness that you're feeding your people, Jihad the cry of your unholy war, Using the willing, the weak and poor, From birth drowning in propaganda, rhetoric and slander, All we can say is damn ya

My forefathers fought and died for this here
I'm stronger than your war of fear
Are we clear?
If you step in my hood
It's understood
It's open season

I don't need a faith that's blind, Where death and hate bring me peace of mind, With views that are stuck deep in the seventh century, So much sand in your eyes to blind to see, The venom that you leaders preach, Is the path to your own destruction, Your own demise, You might say that I don't understand but your disgust for me is what I realize, Surprise!
Your homicidal ways has got the whole world watching, Whole world scoping, So if you bring it to my home base, Best believe it, The season's open

I see you, Hell yeah I see you, Motherfucker naw, I don't wanna be you, If you come to my place, I'll drop more than just some bass, Yo you'll get a taste of a, Sick motherfucker from the Dirty, I ain't worrying not a fucking bit, I'm telescoping like Hubble, Yo you in trouble, Yo on the double, I'm wild with mine, Bring that style with mine, Fuck with my family I'll end your life, Just the way it is, Just the way it be, Do you understand? No matter if you're woman or man, or child, My profile is crazy, That shit you do doesn't amaze me, I'm ready to blaze thee

I don't give a damn what god you claim, I've seen the innocent that you've slain, On my streets you're just fair game, Like a pig walk to your slaughter, The heat here is so much hotter, And my views won't teeter totter or fluctuate, Step to me you just met your fate, And I'll annihilate, With the skill of a Shogun assassin, Slicing and dicing precise with a passion, In any shape form or fashion, Bring it to my home, Welcome to the danger zone, Cause your attitude's the reason, The triggers keep squeezing, The hunt is on and it's open season

It's Open Season

[James M.]

Everclear's done the pro-wealth "I Will Buy You a New Life" and the pro-family "Father of Mine."

[B]

Can i nominate another song - 'everything counts' by Depeche Mode?

The lyrics are pure loadsamoney Thatcherism. And i dont mean that in a bad way - here is a small taster:

The grabbing hands
Grab all they can
All for themselves
After all

Its a competitive world
Everything counts in large amounts

[Mike]

It has to be "If you tolerate this then your children will be next" by the Manic Street Preachers. Shiver up the spine and makes me think of 1930's Europe when they did tolerate 'this' and their children were next. Think the band tho are a bunch of lefties - doesn't negate it for me though

[JACK PITT-BROOKE]

I think that MSP song is actually about the Spanish Civil War, in honour of the Welsh socialists who went to fight against Franco.
"If I can shoot rabbits, then I can shoot fascists" etc

[Bill D]

The Kinks - Twentieth Century Man

[Kit]

How about the socially destructive, stupefying, commercialized, anti-religious effects of mass media/liberal media? This one's for the CrunchyCons:

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"Television, the Drug of a Nation," by Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

One Nation under God
has turned into
One Nation under the influence
of one drug

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V., it satellite links
our United States of unconciousness
Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive
the methadone metronome pumping out
a 150 channels 24 hours a day
you can flip through all of them
and still there's nothing worth watching

T.V. is the reason why less than ten percent of our
Nation reads books daily
Why most people think Central America
means Kansas
Socialism means unamerican
and Apartheid is a new headache remedy

absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us
It shapes our minds the most
maybe the mother of our Nation
should remind us
that we're sitting to close to. . .

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V. is
the stomping ground for political candidates
Where bears in the woods
are chased by Grecian Formula'd
bald eagles

T.V. is mechanized politic's
remote control over the masses
co-sponsered by environmentally safe gases
watch for the PBS special

It's the perpetuation of the two party system
where image takes precedence over wisdom
Where sound bite politics are served to
the fastfood culture

Where straight teeth in your mouth
are more important than the words
that come out of it
Race baiting is the way to get selected
Willie Horton or
Will he not get elected on . . .

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V. is it the reflector or the director?
Does it imitate us or do we imitate it
Because a child watches 1500 murders before he's
twelve years old and we wonder how we've created
a Jason generation that learns to laugh
rather than abhor the horror

T.V. is the place where
armchair generals and quarterbacks can
experience first hand
the excitement of video warfare
as the theme song is sung in the background

Sugar sweet sitcoms
that leave us with a bad actor taste while
pop stars metamorphosize into soda pop stars
You saw the video
You heard the soundtrack
Well now go buy the soft drink
Well, the only cola that I support
would be a union C.O.L.A. (Cost of Living Allowance)
On Television.

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

Back again, "New and Improved",
we return to our irregularly programmed schedule
hidden cleverly between heavy breasted
beer and car commericals

CNN ESPN ABC TNT but mostly B.S.
Where oxymoronic language like
"virtually spotless" "fresh frozen"
"light yet filling" and "military intelligence"
have become standard

T.V. is the place where phrases are redefined
like "recession" to "necessary downturn"
"crude oil" on a beach to "mousse"
"Civilian death" to "collateral damages"
and being killed by your own Army
is now called "friendly fire"

T.V. is the place where the pursuit
of happiness has become the pursuit of trivia
Where toothpaste and cars have become sex objects
Where imagination is sucked out of children
by a cathode ray nipple
T.V. is the only wet nurse
that would create a cripple

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
On Television . . .

[dizzy]

It suddenly dawned on me in the pub the other night that The Specials, Too Much Too Young as the calling card against teenage pregnancy?

You done too much much too young
You're married with a kid when you could be having fun with me
You done too much much too young
Now you're married with a son when you should be having fun with me

Don't wanna be rich, don't wanna be famous

Ain't he cute, no he ain't
He's just another burden on the welfare state

Call me immature, call me a poseur
I'll to spread manure in your bed of roses
Don't we wanna be rich Don't we wanna be famous
But I'd really hate to have the same name as you

You done too much much too young
Now you're chained to the kitchen making currant buns for tea

Ain't you heard of the starving millions
Ain't you heard of conraception
Do you really wanna go with the sterilization
Take control of the population boom
It's in your living room
Keep a generation gap
Try wearing a cap

[Richard]

'Pride - A Deeper Love' by C&C Music Factory, later covered by Aretha Franklin.

In the depths of the early-90s recession, that gospel-styled take on self-reliance, hard work and independence made a big impact:

"People let me tell you I work hard every day - I get up out of bed, I put on my clothes cause I've got bills to pay. Now it ain't easy but I don't need no help, I got a strong will to survive... Pride is love, pride is respect for yourself and that's why I ain't looking for hand-outs, charity - welfare I don't need..."

Around the same time, and in a similar musical style, there was the saucier 'I Got My Education' by Uncanny Alliance. The lyrics deal with advice to a friend who is pretending to be disabled in order to beg: "You better take that arm out your shirt and go fill out a job application... You should have listened when your mother told you to get an education - I got my education!"

American gospel-inspired pop-dance music can provide many more examples, and overall is probably the most consistently right-wing pop genre. Why this should be so I can't say. But it is.

[DVH]

Michel Sardou is a French centre-right singer.

"Si les Ricains n'étaient pas là
Vous seriez tous en Germanie
A parler de je ne sais quoi,
A saluer je ne sais qui."

If the Yanks hadn't been there
You'd all be in Germany
Talking about I don't know what
Saluting God knows who.

He also sings about the death penalty, rights and responsibilities, and liberal freedoms.

He's extremely well known, at least in France where he sells out the Olympia regularly.

[Ben Lyons]

Frank Zappa - Who Needs the Peace Corps?

What's there to live for?
Who needs the peace corps?
Think I'll just DROP OUT
I'll go to Frisco
Buy a wig & sleep
On Owsley's floor

Walked past the wig store
Danced at the Fillmore
I'm completely stoned
I'm hippy & I'm trippy
I'm a gypsy on my own
I'll stay a week & get the crabs &
Take a bus back home
I'm really just a phony
But forgive me
'Cause I'm stoned

Every town must have a place
Where phony hippies meet
Psychedelic dungeons
Popping up on every street
GO TO SAN FRANCISCO . . .

How I love ya, How I love ya
How I love ya, How I love ya Frisco!
How I love ya, How I love ya
How I love ya, How I love ya
Oh, my hair is getting good in the back!

Every town must have a place
Where phony hippies meet
Psychedelic dungeons
Popping up on every street
GO TO SAN FRANCISCO . . .

Hotcha!

First I'll buy some beads
And then perhaps a leather band
To go around my head
Some feathers and bells
And a book of Indian lore
I will ask the Chamber Of Commerce
How to get to Haight Street
And smoke an awful lot of dope
I will wander around barefoot
I will have a psychedelic gleam in my eye at all times
I will love everyone
I will love the police as they kick the shit out of me on the street
I will sleep . . .
I will, I will go to a house
That's, that's what I will do
I will go to a house
Where there's a rock & roll band
'Cause the groups all live together
And I will join a rock & roll band
I will be their road manager
And I will stay there with them
And I will get the crabs
But I won't care
Because . . .