QotD: "Conservative" rock music

As for anti-authoritarianism, if there's one thing the last six years have taught us, it's that conservatism and authoritarianism are more than compatible — hey go hand in hand, so long as the authoritarians themselves are sufficiently conservative. Sorry. But Miller can't claim anti-authoritarian anthems like "Won't Get Fooled Again" or "Cult of Personality" (is there a better recent of Corey Glover's warnings about ceaseless devotion to political power than the right's bizarre allegiance to President Bush, despite his record?).

Of course, there's also something humorously desperate about trying to compile a list of songs from a style of music whose very existence defies the fundamental tenets of conservatism, and claim them for conservatism. Everything about rock n' roll, from its roots to its composition to its rise, was in defiance of the "tradition" conservatives hold sacred.

Radley Balko, "Reagan Rock", The Agitator, 2006-05-30