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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
Merely OneTokeOTL
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"You Dropped A Bomb On Me" * Gap Band
Nuclear bombs on civilians
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Protesting in the personal sense.... I think
Carrie Underwood - Wasted
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"Prisoners" John Denver. Written about P.O.W.s. This clip includes John talking about song writing, and this song, with Johnny Carson.
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James (Hold The Ladder Steady): Sue Thompson (Though certainly not in the same category as previously posted songs of protest and rebellion, I suppose eloping is an act of rebellion). Sue Thompson is no Joan Baez, but she had her share of cutesy hits.
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"Punk Parade" * Alex Gibson
Suburbia - penelope sphears- 1983
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"On The Turning Away" - Pink Floyd. And kudos to David Gilmour for auctioning off his guitar collection and donating the proceeds - $ 21 Million Dollars - to climate research. Talking the talk and walking the walk.
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Not sure if this is a repeat or even qualifies....
Rush - "Subdivisions"
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"One" * Metalllica
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
I watched this movie that was my first and last. Great film, but truly disturbing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paoJ1s7yg_0
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"Why Don't You Get A Job?" * Offspring
Huntington Beach group
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@ripvanwinkle96 wrote:"Why Don't You Get A Job?" * Offspring
Huntington Beach group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH-i8IvYIcg
OMG I remember them, are they still singing? My kids used to go see them....'keep 'em separated'. And the one I should know by heart is "Self Esteem".
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I think so, I heard something on 106.7 about them playing somewhere with a new record.
"Mr. Rebel" * Eddie & the Showmen
Early 60's So. Cal. surf group, Eddie Bertrand.
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@1968Hoya46 wrote:Who'll Stop The Rain
Bad Moon Rising
(Can't really explain how or why, but both of these CCR songs seem to be, at some level, protest songs).
I've always thought the same, and I like to explore song meanings. Sure enough, I googled it and this is what I found.
Who'll Stop the Rain:
Interpreting the song in its time period (1970), and the resigned but somewhat angry feeling of the song, many see "Who'll Stop the Rain" as a thinly veiled protest against the Vietnam War, with the final verse lyrics and its references to music, large crowds, rain, and crowds trying to keep warm being about the band's experience at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27ll_Stop_the_Rain_(song)#History
Bad Moon Rising: Fogerty explains - "I wasn't just writing about the weather."
The Story Behind the Song: Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival
https://www.loudersound.com/features/story-behind-the-song-bad-moon-rising-by-creedence
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40JmEj0_aVM CCR'S - "FORTUNATE SON".
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"Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" * Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention
we're only in it for the money......
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