Rock reflects whose values?

Sure, Neil Young just released “Let’s Impeach the President” and Green Day scored a huge hit with its 2004 “American Idiot” album, one track featuring the anti-Bush lyric “Zieg Heil to the president gasman.”

“But some rock songs really are conservative -- and there are more of them than you might think,” political reporter John J. Miller writes on the website of the conservative magazine National Review.

Starting with the Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” deemed the No. 1 right-leaning rock anthem, Miller’s list of “the 50 greatest conservative rock songs” will be published in the magazine’s June 5 issue.

However the songs’ authors might feel about their embrace by the right, the magazine says all of its choices convey conservative ideals or sentiments such as skepticism about government or support for traditional values.

“Won’t Get Fooled Again” could be the theme song of the disillusioned revolutionaries who fill the conservative movement, Miller writes. He cites lyrics such as “Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss.”

At No. 2, the Beatles’ “Taxman” -- “If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street/If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat” -- was a list natural. Miller says No. 3, the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil,” attacks moral relativism and notes Bolshevism’s cruelties with “Killed the czar and his ministers/Anastasia screamed in vain.”