The People Fought the Leader and Up He Flew

If you ever want to see anyone reading too much into something, then I suggest checking out the National Review's Top 50 Conservative Rock Songs.

For example: Led Zeppelin's Battle of Evermore?  It contains the line "the tyrant's face is red" therefore it must be about the Cold War.  And folks, almost the entire list is like this.  The Kinks's "gotta be wearing the latest clothing"-ode Dedicated Follower of Fashion?  Gotta be about liberals.  Iron Maiden's Rime of the Ancient Mariner?  Well, it's inspired by a literary classic, therefore it must be conservative.  (Is there something about the poem that I'm missing?  Edit: Re-read the poem.  I had forgotten about the very end of it.  Their reasoning is poorly stated though.))

That's not to say that there aren't songs on the list that qualify, but some of the choices are just beyond of confusing.

I mean, among others we've got the the Dead Kennedys (wha?) and the Clash (for no apparent reason other than that Rock the Casbah was deemed "too provocative" after Sept. 11, 2001).  Yes, the second is same band who named an album after Marxist rebels (Sandinista!), wrote a song called I'm So Bored with the USA ("Yankee dollar talk to the dictators of the world"), and wore Red Guard armbands.

Yeah, I'm confused as you are by it.

(On another note, I also suggest that the author should check out the album version of the Beatles's Revolution.  "Count me out," the reason for making the list, is only in the single version.  The album version includes both "Count me out" and "Count me in" resulting in something sounding like "Count me out... in.")