Here at the Carolina Review we strive for the highest standards of excellence. Therefore, I was as shocked as the rest of you that “Tik Tok” and “Bad Romance” have somehow occupied the two top spots on our playlist.

Rest assured, the person responsible for repeatedly playing these songs in our office will be hunted down, identified and to erase this great shame they have caused our publication they will be given a wakizashi and encouraged to commit seppuku like a disgraced samurai.

In place of the last list, I would like to invite you to browse the National Review’s list of the Top 100 Conservative Rock Songs of all time:

The Top 50 Conservative Rock Songs of All Time

The Next 50

PS – “Tik Tok”?! Seriously? “Tik Tok” is down there with “Wannabe,” “Surfin’ Bird,” “Your Body is a Wonderland,” “Crank Dat” and anything by the Dixie Chicks in competition for the title of Worst Song of All Time. I fear for the future of my generation…