There are so many great conservative rock songs, the National Review couldn’t include them all. Here are 50 more.

According to the official Godsmack site, “Sully holds his own!”

Could someone please explain exactly how that conclusion can be reached? What an idiot.

I haven’t checked out the new Killing Joke, Hosannahs from the Basement of Hell, yet, but the new Ministry, Rio Grande Blood, is a full-force scathing thrashing heavy metal assault on Bush. Their last effort in 2004, Houses of the Mole, was an assault on Bush as well, but they’ve taken it up a notch. The cover has an unflattering likeness of Bush. In the title song, their Bush impersonator at one point says, “I’m an asshole†(while also saying other things like being a tyrant and a dictator). This album will easily be the most acerbic protest album this year (lyrics and thrashing heavy metal music combined).

There’s protest music out there for all musical tastes. Dixie Chicks, Neil Young, Pearl Jam, and Ministry, for starters.

Personally, unlike the cretins who turned on the Dixie Chicks, I can handle liking artists with a different political point of view. I can’t handle artists who make stale, derivative music.

Dave Mustaine, like Ted Nugent, Gene Simmons, and Alice Cooper, is now a professed Republican. I think the other three are hacks, but Mustaine made a solid comeback with The System Has Failed after basically bowing out of the music business. Despite his political persuasion, I’ll still buy his albums as long as he makes decent music. And Mustaine is quite intelligent, probably one of the most intelligent of mainstream heavy metal musicians (though his common sense may not be so great—he’s been a difficult person, alienating many of his fellow bandmates, and has a long history of drug and alcohol problems). Which makes his support of Bush baffling—how can anyone with any intelligence support him?

I think the worst thing about the Sully interview is how stupid it makes him look. He just looks like another dumb rock musician, perpetuating that stereotype, clueless about why he thinks or behaves a certain way. About all he can do is regurgitate the talking points of cable tv and say, “that’s not what I meant and you know it†a lot without expressing his view point clearly that is in any way different from what the interviewer said to get him riled up.

He seems like just one of the many gullible sheep out there. If you spoke to him at length on a variety of topics, he’d probably have a liberal or libertarian stance on the issues (the guy’s a Wiccan, for crying out loud). But he supports Republicans and buys into their talking points because he thinks that’s the way to go, possibly because it’s the tough, manly way to be.