PROTEST & REBELLION SONGS.."get it off your chest"

[LookOverYonder]

The only stipulation here is that the song should be commentary,  controversial, expressing a rebellious, protesting "frame of mind"; generally, or speciffically, about society, culture, economics, wealth, poverty, politics, war, peace, relationships, etc, etc, etc.

How about some songs which, when you heard them, you thought, "Yeh, those lyrics tell it like it is!" or maybe you were offended by the controversial lyrics.

Your song selection may be from any time period in history and about any topic you choose, old songs and new songs.

Please be free to post protest & rebellion songs which either you agreed with or which "honked" you off.

Here is an opportunity to "Get it off your chest!" Go ahead and briefly include memorable lyrics of the song if you like [ if you remember 🙂 ]

To begin.....here's a protest song:     Subterranean Homesick Blues     Bob Dylan

[mm84796826]

One tin soldier from the movie Billy Jack

[ls5904395]

Give peace a chance

[cesimms]

'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' - Gil Scot-Heron

The Song excerpt is used as an intro to this season of Homeland!

One of the first Rap Artist!

[ls68854476]

Blowin' in the wind  and Where have all the flowers gone?

[ReTiReD51]

“I-feel-like-I’m-fixing-to-die-rag” Country Joe McDonald and the Fish

The anti-Vietnam song him and the fish sang and played at Woodstock in 1969.

[rb20636194]

Ohio

War

Ain't No Stopping Us Now

Strange Fruit

The World Is Black/The World Is White

Society's Child

Black Pearl

Mercy, Mercy Me

Aquarius

Stomp

[cb5512270]

We shall overcome...

A very simple song that anyone can sing... in many different languages

[kklausing]

John Lennon... Give Peace A chance

[Epster]

Twisted Sister   We're Not Gonna Take It

[NonnaGail]

Eve of Destruction

[LookOverYonder]

Woodstock     Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young   #11 in 1970

"And I dreamed I saw the bomber death planes
Riding shotgun in the sky;
Turning into butterflies
Above our nation"

[LookOverYonder]

I'd Love To Change The World     Ten Years After   1971

[nyadrn]

Killing in the Name.  Rage Against the Machine.  

https://youtu.be/bWXazVhlyxQ

[LookOverYonder]

In The Year 2525     Zager & Evans   #1 in 1969

[m342424j]

STAR SPANGLED BANNER - Jimi Hendrix

[grammyjmb]

goosebumps!

[TheGent2U]

Nice!!!

[labyrinth51]

"Revolution" by Jefferson Airplane.

[po4393]

"19" by John Hardcastle..... "Where have all the Flowers Gone" by Peter, Paul &Mary. Hard to top these.

[c227907f]

Eve of Destruction and Give Me Shelter

[grammyjmb]

sad, but very well could be true... 😞

[rockaria]

Resistence by Queensryche

[rp8149]

War by the Commadore, What going on by Marvin Gage:

[grammyjmb]

EXACTLY!!!

[dk9757]

The Rebel Jesus by Jackson Browne and The Chieftans.

[nkozub]

Ohio--Neil Young

[tsmonk83]

Pretty much anything from The Last Poets is protest music. They were some angry MF's.

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@LookOverYonder wrote:

The only stipulation here is that the song should be commentary,  controversial, expressing a rebellious, protesting "frame of mind"; generally, or speciffically, about society, culture, economics, wealth, poverty, politics, war, peace, relationships, etc, etc, etc.

How about some songs which, when you heard them, you thought, "Yeh, those lyrics tell it like it is!" or maybe you were offended by the controversial lyrics.

Your song selection may be from any time period in history and about any topic you choose, old songs and new songs.

Please be free to post protest & rebellion songs which either you agreed with or which "honked" you off.

Here is an opportunity to "Get it off your chest!" Go ahead and briefly include memorable lyrics of the song if you like [ if you remember 🙂 ]

To begin.....here's a protest song:     Subterranean Homesick Blues     Bob Dylan

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[do81186384]

"On The Subway" was the only one on their first album that could be played on the radio.

[do81186384]

The only song I ever heard on the radio was "On The Subway".  It probably was the only one they could play. 

[TheGent2U]

Taking it across the Pond: "Taxman", by the Beatles (which takes a shot at two Prime Ministers: Harold Wilson and Edward Heath).