Most ideologically conservative music you listen to...

[Gaffey Duck]

Probably Manowar or Iced Earth. (I love power metal.)

[eek]

1. Handel and Bach

n/t

[Magrittes Pipe]

2. Wagner.

Alice Cooper is a flaming wingnut; but his good records didn't really have any ideological slant at all, so I won't count Love It to Death or Billion Dollar Babies.

[Union Thug]

6. Wagner? That unabashed purveyor of HEATHENISM and pagan ideology?

Oh my god, how could you defy the christian base so egregiously by relating this man to the good, humble, born again, beautiful-minds, nazi-tru, evangelical, shotgun waving, god fearing fundamentalist christians? How could you? You must be some kind of lib'rul

[lilymidnite]

3. Mark Heard

[XNASA]

4. Bryan Ferry has always been a big influence.

Then I find, to my chagrin, that he's a Tory.

Oh well.

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. "Open-plan living, bungalow ranch style

All of its comforts seem so essential."

See, he loves the suburbs, and is a blow-up-doll-loving sex pervert.

In other words, a Tory.

[XNASA]

7. I blew up your body.......

But you blew my mind.

Yeah, what is with with Bryan channelling William Randolph Hearst anyway? Seems like he could have picked someone better better looking than that.

[progdonkey]

8. Rush

Their drummer Niel Peart, who writes all the lyrics, is heavily influenced by Ayn Rand. Their record label is even called "Anthem," along with a song of the same name. It's an awesome song, but it has such Objectivist gems as "I know everyone told you selfishness was wrong, but it was for me not you, that I came to write this song."

Or there's the song "The Trees," which is a great anti-Union song: "The problem with the Maples, and their quite convinced their right. They say the Oaks are just to lofty, and they grab up all the light. But the Oaks can't help their feelings, if they like the way they're made; and they wonder why the Maples can't be happy in their shade.... So the Maples formed a Union, and demanded equal rights. 'The Oaks are just greedy, we will make them give us light!' Now there's no more Oak opression, for they passed a noble law. And the trees are all kept equal, by hatchet, axe, and saw."

They're extremely talented musicians, and I look to composers and bands for their excellent music, not their politics. (That was the stupidest thing about the whole Dixie Chicks issue: you had people who loved their music a week earlier saying "they don't like Bush, so their music now sucks!")

[amber dog democrat]

9. bluegrass

everything from Bill Monroe's dead old woman songs to the gospel - and this is a suspension of disbelief since i am an agnostic.