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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
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"MaMa Said" * The Shirelles
rebellious teen angst amongst a civil rights backdrop
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{I Can't Get No} Satisfaction * Rolling Stones
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"Ball of Confusion" * The Temptations
68' Democratic Convention
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Songs Protesting Love Denied (In the order of their release):
The Wagoner's Lad - The Serendipity Singers https://youtu.be/oGerOQXoPh8
Down in the Boondocks - Billy Joe Royal (written by Joe South) https://youtu.be/v4CeR9Mkjs4
Society's Child - Janis Ian (performed live; introduction by Leonard Bernstein) https://youtu.be/300LiZtuDPw
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"Heartbreaker" {doo doo doo doo doo} * Rolling Stones
NYPD 75 precinct - The Seven Five documentary
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Richard Cory - Simon & Garfunkel (Paul wrote this from a poem by Edward Arlington Robinson.)
https://youtu.be/HNmfhCbpbJU (performed live)
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The Rain Came Down - Steve Earle (Plight of the farmer.) https://youtu.be/lOB_C3BSt9c
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Working In The Coal Mine: Lee Dorsey
Sixteen Tons: Tennessee Ernie Ford
Strictly speaking, perhaps neither song is a protest song or a song of rebellion but more of a lament for the harsh, dangerous and low-paying job of a coal miner, at least at the time the songs were written. In their own way, each song drew attention to those awful working conditions.
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"The Wall Street Shuffle" * 10cc
Greed is Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0LOH0ycvc4&ab_channel=TheWhiteCat1965
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"The World Is A Ghetto" * War
not very pretty world for the kids......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPZ2oSlUSBo&ab_channel=MichaelCarroll
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"Behind Blue Eyes" * Limp Bizkit
interacial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxoRHqc1iDk&ab_channel=fbesomi
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@ripvanwinkle96 I had no idea Limp Bizkit did "Behind Blue Eyes". I remember the original, by the Who, very well.
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"King Rat" * Modest Mouse
Whale hunting-reversed, produced by Heath Ledger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi7KDOAj4Xo&ab_channel=MODESTMOUSEVEVO
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The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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"White Lines" * Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five
A street kid gets arrested, gonna do some time
He got out three years from now just to commit more crime
A businessman is caught with 24 kilos
He's out on bail and out of jail
And that's the way it goes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS3sEvRffbI&ab_channel=MC%3AMus1cCollection
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@1968Hoya46 In re repeat submissions - I've wondered that about a couple of mine, too. Hopefully they are deep in the thread. Ah, well, as Adrian Belew sings (well, says) in King Crimson's "Indiscipline": "I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress....."
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@TheGent2U wrote:@1968Hoya46 In re repeat submissions - I've wondered that about a couple of mine, too. Hopefully they are deep in the thread. Ah, well, as Adrian Belew sings (well, says) in King Crimson's "Indiscipline": "I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress....."
I have to plead guilty to repeats, including my own!
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