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

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

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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God Save Ireland -- The Wolfe Tones

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"ORANGE CRUSH"- RPM;
SUPERGIRL, NO REALLY I MEAN IT! HER REAL NAME & MINE ARE THE SAME( FIRST 2 NAMES ARE)
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Give Me Some Truth - John Lennon

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"GIVE PEACE A CHANCE"- JOHN & YOKO?
SUPERGIRL, NO REALLY I MEAN IT! HER REAL NAME & MINE ARE THE SAME( FIRST 2 NAMES ARE)
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Hey Big Brother     Rare Earth   


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Power To The People - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Epue9X8bpc

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Back Home In Derry -- Bobby Sands    This is sung to the tune of "The Wreck Of the Edmund Fitzgerald" 

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Sky Pilot:  The Animals

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This song is my favorite, I would consider it more of a sentimental tragic lament than an angry protest. But the point nonetheless is made..the loved ones left behind of the fallen.

{The Old Man Walks in} ECHO PARK * Keith Barbour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFcRRKqcaEI&ab_channel=IncognitoMan

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"No Matter Who You Vote For, The Government Always Gets In"

{Bonzo Dog Band}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-pT-w7qFl4&t=5s&ab_channel=Goatess674

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"MRS ROBINSON"- SIMON & GARFUNKEL-"GOING TO THE CANIDATES' DEBATE... YOU LOSE..."
SUPERGIRL, NO REALLY I MEAN IT! HER REAL NAME & MINE ARE THE SAME( FIRST 2 NAMES ARE)
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Don't Drop That Bomb On Me     Bryan Adams   1991


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"Orange Crush" {agent orange} * REM

{graphic video-USAF Vietnam}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBTiTvYLJZY&ab_channel=DinaCardin

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HARD TO GIVE A "KUDO" FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT GLAD YOU POSTED IT. WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET.
SUPERGIRL, NO REALLY I MEAN IT! HER REAL NAME & MINE ARE THE SAME( FIRST 2 NAMES ARE)
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You're right, and I wouldn't have posted it unless I had served in the AF {67-70}. I was wondering what you mean about that second sentence that's included in all your posts

 

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THE REAL NAME OF SUPERGIRL IN THE ORIGINAL COMIC SERIES WAS ___ LEE- WHICH IS MY NAME!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. MY BROTHER WAS A MARINE KILLED IN THE TET OFFENSIVE 2-18-68.
SUPERGIRL, NO REALLY I MEAN IT! HER REAL NAME & MINE ARE THE SAME( FIRST 2 NAMES ARE)
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La Marseillaise.

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Blaze of Glory    The Alarm   1984


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"Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing"  * Buffalo Springfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SmxEw3b1qg&ab_channel=Steev625

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This Is Not a Song, It's an Outburst     Rodriguez   from Detroit


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When The Children Cry     White Lion   #3 1987


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Eve of Destruction 1965

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Grace -- Rod Stewart, among others

 

 

The back story on this song is heartbreaking. Grace is Grace Gifford, an Irish artist, who married her sweetheart, Joseph Plunkett, in Kilmainham Gaol just hours before his execution for taking part in the Easter Rising. It's a love song, but also considered a protest song because of it's anti-British sentiments.

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For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield

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"Rebellion!!" {everytime you close your eyes, LIES LIES} * arcade fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK7M71quSrg&ab_channel=MergeRecordsonYoutube

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Still Irish

 

The Bold Fenian Men -- The Clancy Brothers

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"Born in the USA" Bruce Springsteen

"Revolution" The Beatles

"For What It's Worth" Buffalo Springfield

"Fortunate Son"  Creedence Clearwater Revival

"Sunday Bloody Sunday" U2

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Barry McGuire’s version of On the Eve of Destruction.

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