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

[LookOverYonder]

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

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Talk Shows On Mute" * Incubus

Come one, come all into 1984!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAY4xG0ZIbs&ab_channel=RichardWong

[TheGent2U]

@ripvanwinkle96  Great add, and it reminds me of another song:

1984 - Spirit  https://youtu.be/JCJKskxf6CQ

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Brown Eyed Woman" {stay away baby} * Bill Medley

Medleys homage to Darlene Love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lIG4SAG6Ds&ab_channel=DantzMusicStudio

[cm9889168]

"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

[TheGent2U]

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.

[ripvanwinkle96]

"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

[Raynyky]

Save The World-George Harrison

[LouLit01]

This Land is Your Land

Woody Guthrie

This verse always gets cut.

One bright Sunday morning

In the shadow of a steeple

By the relief office

I saw my people

They stood there hungry

I stood their wondering

If this land was made for you and me

[TheGent2U]

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

https://youtu.be/D-xF4gi_q8c

[ripvanwinkle96]

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

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Someday Never Comes" * CCR

Make someday be today.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9TNXFurt5w&ab_channel=VidzGB

[ripvanwinkle96]

"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

[Raynyky]

Bring on the Lucie(FredaPeople)-John Lennon

[MLUCY]

we should include "Imagine"- also John Lennon.

[cm9889168]

"We Didn't Start The Fire"  

            by Billy Joel (his best song IMO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g

OR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p3DzUwxI0o

[TheGent2U]

@cm9889168 - Great add! This is high on my list, too, with "Captain Jack", "I've Seen The Lights Go Out on Broadway", and, thanks to what I call Uncle Jeff's Worldwide General Store: (and a protest song in its own right) https://youtu.be/LVlDSzbrH5M

[TheGent2U]

"Strange Fruit"

A blues song about the unusual fruit hanging from trees - people who had been lynched.

Here is Lady Day: 

https://youtu.be/-DGY9HvChXk

[MaVolta]

Wrote A Song For Everyone - John Fogerty

[Raynyky]

What's Going On-Marvin Gaye

[MLUCY]

CLASSIC-ONE OF THE BEST! THANKS FOR POSTING;
"LOOK AT US"(TO GOD)- JOHN TRUDELL

[dragons3]

Go On Home British Soldiers -- Irish Rebel Song

[MLUCY]

WOULD "ORANGE CRUSH" BY  R.E.M. BECONSIDERED A PROTEST SONG {ABOUT AGENT ORANGE?}

[ripvanwinkle96]

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

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Believe" * The Bravery

1984 >>>2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oStvr1NMjt0&ab_channel=drones200

[1968Hoya46]

I Can't Take It No More: John Fogerty

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Living For The City" * Stevie Wonder

Hard Time, Mississippi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSRyf5G2uI8&ab_channel=cctaximan

[ripvanwinkle96]

"We Are The Normal!" * The Goo Goo Dolls

Superstar Car Wash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyzPcw4ZnLE&ab_channel=GooGooDolls

[MaVolta]

Can't Happen Here - Rainbow (lyrics by Joe Lynn Turner, 1981) 

[1968Hoya46]

All My Trials: Joan Baez

[TheGent2U]

@1968Hoya46  Great add. I used to sing "All My Trials" at church. Back in my college days.