Protest songs
Crapaud
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With protesting the new 'thing', it's time to re-visit the classics. What are the best protest / revolution songs?
I'd suggest ...
Peter Gabriel - Biko... and the classic ...
I'd suggest ...
Peter Gabriel - Biko... and the classic ...
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
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John Lennon - Give Peace A Chance
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday0 -
The Levellers always had a thing or two to say - but.. Battle of the Beanfield about the mistreatment of travellers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqE3SqSpT50
Same with Rage against the Machine - Killing in the Name - a tirade against racism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNzIKoAy2pk0 -
Non-linkey posts need moar links, chaps!A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill0
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Roy Harper - McGoogans Blues, I Hate the White Man,
Groundhogs whole album - Who will save the World
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Cutty Wren?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nfzxtBjosY
About the orignal peasants revolt (the original poll tax). The song dates to 1381.
I mean, if you're going for the classics an' all!How would I write my own epitaph? With a crayon - I'm not allowed anything I can sharpen to a sustainable point.
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But my personal favourite?
Eric Bogles 'The Band Played Wallzing Mathilda'
Sung here, by the man himself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG48Ftsr3OI
If we forget, we're destined to repeat.
Then we're f**ked.How would I write my own epitaph? With a crayon - I'm not allowed anything I can sharpen to a sustainable point.
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Free nelson mandela
Anti Malvinas Song. Crass=Class
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doesnt get better than this..Be the first one on your block to have your son come home in a box
Old hippies eh?The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.0 -
One of my faves, apparantly he refuses to play it anymore after being slagged off for using the n word in the song
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 061800516#0 -
Ignoreland by REM - specific to the US but applies equally to Maggie's reign here2011 Bianchi D2 Cavaria in celeste (of course!)
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Sarah Jones- "Your revolution will not happen between these thighs":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRgIGMwZd2o
..and, obviously, the original. Everybody can find that.0 -
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVjNPNNxySc
stiff little fingers -alternative ulster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gn_DwcFH4I
angelic upstarts -leave me alone. (feel the teen angst
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]labbi siffri -something inside so strong. if youre old enough to remember the people getting shot in the street in south africa day after day the hair on your neck must stand on end when you hear this song-total classichttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otuwNwsqHmQDeath or Glory- Just another Story0 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-uSWcF13Js
More Tommy Sands than Dolores Keane.
Seeger's own renditions of his songs are up there - Woody Guthrie (has to be mentioned if you are citing Dylan) - and Tommy Sands writes some powerful stuff himself.0 -
balthazar wrote:Sarah Jones- "Your revolution will not happen between these thighs":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRgIGMwZd2o
..and, obviously, the original. Everybody can find that.
Excellent. Literate and funny; powerful combination. Nice post y'allThe dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.0 -
Marvin Gayes 70's album, 'Whats Going On'0
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Elvis Costello's 'Tramp the Dirt Down' (from the album 'Spike') was almost a direct message to Margaret Thatcher to 'hurry up and die' - the Special's 'Ghost Town' was directed at the same Government. Whether these qualify as genuine 'protest' songs is unclear.
The protest song movement goes way further back though, to the Slave Songs of the Plantations, through to the 20th Century writers such as Dylan, Baez et al. In some ways the whole Punk movement was about protest, for the few moments it existed before modern media and Malcolm McLaren took control. Mark Perry of Sniffin' Glue said the Punk Movement dies the day that the Clash signed with CBS Records, and he was probably right.
My fave? 'Complete Control' by The Clash -a protest song against their own record company!
"They said 'Release Remotte Control',
But we didn't want it on the label!"
Tell 'em Joe!!Raymondo
"Let's just all be really careful out there folks!"0 -
Anything by Billy Bragg, the big nosed b&stard from Barking.
His lyrics are gems in a sea of shyyyyte, words of truth and wisdom in a world of crass. The more you listen the better they get.0 -
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You might be right, Rick.Rick Chasey wrote:Protest songs are sooo 20th Century.... :P
I was wondering, before I posted last night, whether they'll make a comeback now with all the austerity, unemployment and economic pain. Or are we destined to have to put up with shallow waffle about 'shaking your booty'?A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill0 -
Crapaud wrote:
You might be right, Rick.Rick Chasey wrote:Protest songs are sooo 20th Century.... :P
I was wondering, before I posted last night, whether they'll make a comeback now with all the austerity, unemployment and economic pain. Or are we destined to have to put up with shallow waffle about 'shaking your booty'?
Protests are a lot less static (unless you're kettled, obviously) and it's a lot more about evading police who are angry because some anarchist 5 streets away threw a bottle in their face.
Leading the charge via twitter - giving 140 character updates about what's occuring and uploading videos of stuff that supports your cause is what it's all about. Apparently.0 -
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Not to eveyones taste but a true 'protest' song-there's a lot of choice with Neil Young!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o106BuPR4B8
Beds are Burning-Midnight Oil, great song, chorus even better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMjAo1d1xO4
a lot of Bob Dylan but this maybe the best known
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_oJPnSaPlQ
Enjoy!I disapprove of what you say but will defend....your right to say it. Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire08 Cotic Soda-deceased!10 Bianchi 928 c2c23 Marin Nicasio20 -
The revolution will not be televised by Gil Scot Heron http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw&feature=related
Im black and im proud James brown http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWp8TUvX258&feature=related
Letter from America The Proclaimers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy9GmieAEaQ
And Cap in Hand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u3KeIsi-OISuburban studs yodel better than anyone else0 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9eLeZS9OeY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Just hit the top of my bonce on the lampshade.
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Which side are you on
http://youtu.be/Hp1xn6R4PSM
Lots of people have done it written in America in the 30's during a particularly bitter miners strike when the families of miners were intimidated too by the bosses henchman
Surprised no one has mentioned The Red Flag.
http://webpages.dcu.ie/~sheehanh/songs/rf-wc-dg.m20
