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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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"Talk Shows On Mute" * Incubus
Come one, come all into 1984!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAY4xG0ZIbs&ab_channel=RichardWong
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@ripvanwinkle96 Great add, and it reminds me of another song:
1984 - Spirit https://youtu.be/JCJKskxf6CQ
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"Brown Eyed Woman" {stay away baby} * Bill Medley
Medleys homage to Darlene Love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lIG4SAG6Ds&ab_channel=DantzMusicStudio
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"Authority Song" by John (Cougar) Mellencamp
"I fight authority, authority always wins
Well, I fight authority, authority always wins
Well, I been doing it, since I was a young kid
I've come out grinnin'
Well, I fight authority, authority always wins"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsEwK69LXjQ&list=RDwsEwK69LXjQ&start_radio=1&t=0
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Two songs about civilization halting (To say the least.), both on the same album, by Procol Harum. If you don't know them, please listen to them in the order I post them.
Power Failure https://youtu.be/YvTRrq1N9cE
Broken Barricades https://youtu.be/w3vlfYscXzQ
Released in 1971. Two months before that year's Wage and Price Freeze.
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"Small Town Boy" * The Bronski Beat
Even of your not gay you can still relate to feeling isolated and looked down upon. 83'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88sARuFu-tc&ab_channel=LondonRecordings
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This is a song that I have thought about, a lot, since the pandemic began. An angry shout. Me being cynical. May we all be protected.
(Grave) New World - Strawbs
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During these stressful & trying times, the pandemic seems to make all other protests kind of obscure. But other maladies are still out there, waiting to assert themselves once and if the pandemic is cured.
This one has to do with pollution off the east coast it seems.
"This Monkey's Gone To Heaven" * The pixies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQTl7Jz4TcY&ab_channel=unarrosalforn
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"Someday Never Comes" * CCR
Make someday be today.........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9TNXFurt5w&ab_channel=VidzGB
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"St. Patrick's Battalion Song" * The Ballad of John Riley
Mexican American War 1846 {One Man's Hero}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JwjceS5HLg&ab_channel=JOSEJESUSLAVIGNE
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"We Didn't Start The Fire"
by Billy Joel (his best song IMO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g
OR
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"Strange Fruit"
A blues song about the unusual fruit hanging from trees - people who had been lynched.
Here is Lady Day:
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Hi, yes I certainly think so. Having served in the USAF during 67-70. Pretty much every thing detailed in this video exposes the horrors of Agent Orange. With the REM song in the background it seems like a perfect fit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBTiTvYLJZY&ab_channel=DinaCardin
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"Living For The City" * Stevie Wonder
Hard Time, Mississippi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSRyf5G2uI8&ab_channel=cctaximan
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"We Are The Normal!" * The Goo Goo Dolls
Superstar Car Wash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyzPcw4ZnLE&ab_channel=GooGooDolls
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@1968Hoya46 Great add. I used to sing "All My Trials" at church. Back in my college days.
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