How do you have a Beatles Sticker right next to a * one?

[noahmijo]

Alright maybe alot of you will call me closed minded on this but I'd really like to know how someone can be a big Bush fan and then claim to be a huge Beatle fan or a fan of any band that clearly invokes left wing thought.

I can understand being open minded and tolerant of music by musicians who politics disagree with that of yours or ours, I could understand someome saying "hey I like this song or that song from x group even though their politics differ from me on a vast level", but to be a hardcore fan of a left wing band that craps all over your personal beliefs as the neo-con scum that you are I just don't get that.

Similiarly at the Queensryche fanclub forumn I don't even go there anymore, it's completely full of delusional wingnut morons of the batshit stupid kind. Given their song "Empire" just how the hell is it that you have corporate apologists citing Queensryche as their favorite band of all time I just can't understand this. There they are sucking up to the most popular left wing metal band (metal as in 80's style metal) but yet Shrub is their God their hero.

This is just one example.

Someone help I feel like I'm livin in a freakin twighlight zone here.

[musette_sf]

1. Wings fan too

prolly.

[wildeyed]

2. I saw a Bush sticker on a Prius once.

:shrug:

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Easy.. they hear the music without really _listening_ to it

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. "Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac..."

...A little voice inside my head said, don’t
Look back. you can never look back.
I thought I knew what love was,
What did I know?
Those days are gone forever
I should just let them go...



:toast:

[EST]

5. Ya don't gotta unnastan duh words to like duh music.

[tatertop]

6. Lennon was left wing, the others I'm not so sure about

McCartney seems to go whichever way the wind blows.
He speaks out against something once it has become safe and
fashionable.
Steve Earle would be one thing, Mean Mr. Mustard is
something else.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

29. Macca sang, "Let It Be Kerry" at a charity event last year before

the election. Harrison, I think, was clearly left-leaning. Ringo is all about "peace and love." I can't see any of the Beatles being right wingers (pre or post-breakup).

[sniffa]

7. because they're fucking retarded

i they were Lucky, they'd be put down Like rabid animaLs. they deserve no Less.

[leanin_green]

8. Love, love, love.

[HockeyMom]

9. Imagine?

Lennon must be rolling over in his grave; his country and his adopted country.

10. Some right wing types

don't really have philosophy of life, it is about money. And many of them grew up in 60s when there were lots of cool music groups out there.

I used to go to the website of an astrologer, but then I found out she was a republican and voted for Bush, and next she did this thing bashing Cindy Sheehan. I know you can be wrong-headed in one area, and still have good contributions, but I just couldn't bear to go back to her site.

(And I realize like 99% of people think astrologers are addled-brained too, but I found I really enjoy astrology. And I am not logically-challenged. I am extremely good in logic and mathematics).

[fudge stripe cookays]

11. It wasn't Susan Miller was it?

I check astrologyzone.com for grins once in awhile.

FSC

13. no that wasn't her

I don't want to splash her name, because DUers can get a little zealous. I just parted ways with her website. She had a blog where she talked about her father being a big player in stock exchange so I guess she grew up in money and that is just part of her outlook on life.

[charlie]

12. Same way Reagan and the Repubs rocked the house

with Springsteen for most of 1984. They so loved squalling themselves hoarse -- BAAWN IN THE YEW-ESS-AAAAAY -- no one noticed the niggly bits sandwiched between choruses. Dole did the same thing in 1996.

In short, they're idiots.

[fujiyama]

21. Didn't Springsteen

tell Reagan to stop using his music? I think it pissed him off.

[charlie]

25. I recall that he did

But they listened to him about as well as they listened to his song.

I also remember Reagan making the ludicrous claim that he listened to Springsteen "all the time", that he was "one of his favorites." When pressed to name another tune he liked, he couldn't do it. Idiot.

[charlottelouise]

14. Another possibility

is a mixed marriage (D & R)-- they exist. Was one of the stickers apprecialbly older than the other -- maybe the car came with the Beatles sticker, and was purchased by a R******?

[fujiyama]

22. I saw one of those once

last year. Both a Bush and Kerry sticker.

[Piperay]

15. Same way that you can have a "Heal the Bay" sticker

next to a chimp/cheney one ... :wtf: :shrug: :silly:

[begin_within]

16. The Beatles were not really all that political (at least compared to Rage

Against the Machine). John Lennon was the most political of the 4, and was certainly a liberal, but if you look at the Beatles catalog of songs, I would say 75% of the songs have no political theme or meaning to them.

[Dorian Gray]

28. Exactly

My mother (as non-political as they come) is a HUGE Beatles fan. She likes all their bee-bop crap! I'm also a huge Beatles fan. I prefer Revolver - White Album years!

Even in those later years, when they were MORE politically active, they weren't necessarily political spokespeople. I don't see the conflict.

Heck, I have Republican friends who love Sean Penn. Not ALL Repugs are Wing Nut idiots.

[H2O Man]

30. You can't compare.

Different times, different circumstances. The Beatles were very political, and certainly led the way for other groups to become political in other ways.

[tulsakatz]

17. I can understand liking the Beatles but........

....I'm not so sure about the sticker. I mean, I think the Beatles were the greatest group of all time but I don't have a Beatles sticker on my car!

It does seem weird especially since Lennon always spoke for peace and even suggested a revolution!! These are all traits that go AGAINST the current administration's policies!!

It seems weird to me.......

[yella_dawg]

18. Because it's trendy.

I suspect a lot of so-called Republicans vote "R" because they came of age in the eighties when it was fashionable to be a "young republican". Many music fans are fans because they want to appear "cool".

The convergence of "W" sticker and Beatles sticker suggests that the individual has no actual personality, and is too stupid to be consistent in their choice of assumed qualities. In other words, the average Republican.

[msongs]

19. or...maybe the beatles transcend political and religious labels? nt

[fujiyama]

20. I saw someone

with a Bob Marley sticker next to a Bush sticker.

There are some strange people out there.

[wildeyed]

24. Ow!

That makes my head hurt.

[Clark2008]

23. Same way with my Who board.

Pete Townshend absolutely abhors war - even though, gasp, he initially supported the war in Iraq (but has since denounced that view and cited that he was, well "fooled again." LOL.)

However, I was summarily run off my Who board because I thought Bush was a bastard. I can't understand how they can listen to lyrics like, "I've known no war and if I ever do, I won't know for sure, who'll be fighting who, for the soldier's lonely tomb, now opens as soon as the referee's gun start's to roar. I've known no war." and still cheerlead this shit.

I'm sorry I can't answer your question, but I can empathize.

[Marr]

26. They like the melodies, and maybe got laid with that music on once.

And I do mean once.

[omega minimo]

27. How did the Hippies turn into the Yuppies?

Same answer.

When you find out, let us know. :hi:

[samplegirl]

31. good question!

you've got me thinking. I guess its the same reason
i've always said nobody wants to be on the losing team.
To bad for the yuppies who followed what they thought to
be the winning team, as they sure are full of losers in
Republican party these days.

[Geek_Girl]

32. It's like that Nirvana song

In Bloom:
He's the one
Who likes all the pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means

[walldude]

33. Sounds odd to me...

Bumper stickers are wierd in that it's not a casual thing to put a bumper sticker on your car. They are almost a personal statement on who is driving. Mine has one. A DU bumper sticker :D I'd be wary of a person advertising a split personality like this on the back of his car.

And I know what you mean about the Ryche fans bro.. that never ceases to amaze me. Someone once told me that some people will only hear a lyric if it's repeated over and over, beyond that it's purely the music they are listening to. Which in Queensryche's case I still didn't get because it's a little too complex and frankly a little too trippy to appeal to a freeper. Perhaps when I find all my lost socks and lighters I will also discover the secret of this bizarre mystery.