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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 ๐ ]
To begin.....here's a protest song: Subterranean Homesick Blues Bob Dylan
Merely OneTokeOTL
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"Are You Lost In The World, Like Me?" * Moby
how ironic that i saw this video from my phone
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@ripvanwinkle96 wrote:"Are You Lost In The World, Like Me?" * Moby
how ironic that i saw this video from my phone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASywEuqFd8&ab_channel=Moby
The song and video speak volumes. Thanks for sharing.
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"Indiana Wants Me" {Lord I can't go back there} * RD Taylor
Hoosier trouble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRWuwrjiEeM
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Revolution (Part One) Dennis Brown
And what it takes to make a solution?
Fighting against oppression
Battering down depression
Are you ready to stand up and fight it just like soldiers?
Merely OneTokeOTL
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Splashed on my clothes as I spilled out of bed
Opened the window to listen to the news
But all I heard was the Establishment's Blues
Divorce the only answer, smoking causes cancer
This system's gonna fall soon, to an angry young tune
And that's a concrete cold fact
Merely OneTokeOTL
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Civil War by Guns N' Roses
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"feeds the rich while it buries the poor"
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Question - The Moody Blues
Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war?
'Cause when we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need
In a world of persecution
That is burning in its greed
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"STAND!!" * Sly & The Family Stone
Bumptown Blast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q_Fyv_znkw&ab_channel=MajesticFlexxEntertainment
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"In The Name Of The Father" * U2
sectarian images from Northern Ireland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zubZQqPfpi4&t=10s&ab_channel=tacitblue
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Fun Fun Fun: Beach Boys (a rebellious teenage girl gets her daddyโs T-bird by lying to him, saying sheโs going to the library. Instead, she cruises to the hamburger stand and then drag races through the city streets, beating all the boy drag racers. Daddy eventually wises up and takes away her keys. Not quite Rebel Without A Cause or Romeo and Juliet, but itโs the best California in the 60โs could muster).
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"All These Things That I've Done * The Killers
"In War, It's about the men next to you. That's it. That's all it is."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wFwgB3YyLs&ab_channel=MapleFilms
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"Silent Running {Can you hear me Brother?} * Mike & The Mechanics
Red Dawn (invasion & rebellion}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-KFhT9O6-A&ab_channel=shadw30
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"You Don't Own Me!" * Leslie Gore
This tune preceeds H Reddys anthem and seems more defiant.
Which is okay..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtC7FYf8a90&ab_channel=johnreynolds71
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Taxman - The Beatles
George Harrison wrote the song in protest to high British taxes. The Beatles had just started to make some real money, and found themselves in the top tax bracket paying a whopping 95%.
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" Laugh At Me" * Sonny Bono
featuring "Chastity"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6uDSgyrZds&ab_channel=Naxxseb
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"I Am A Rock" * Simon & Garfunkel
Speaking of libraries, this song always reminded me of one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSqFX1o1HqA&ab_channel=Lakhsmi777
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@ripvanwinkle96 @l483260l Thanks for the kind thoughts. Not a career as a librarian, though I was a page in one for two years. And, as you can imagine, "I Am A Rock" really spoke to me as well. And Paul Simon impressed my dad, God rest his soul. He became as big a fan of Simon and Garfunkel as I was. And took me to see them at the Hollywood Bowl.
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Two songs from the great CCR (video has Viet Nam footage and might be too tough for some to watch...but it went with the songs and times). Thank you to those who served including the families back home ~ they served, too.
Fortunate Son
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06CPuM0UVVM
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