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

[TheGent2U]

@JohnD131536 - This could go into the "Covers" thread, as well. Melanie Safka wrote this, from experience. Listen to her version: https://youtu.be/r44Ach4mXE4

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Master Jack" * Four Jacks & a Jill

68' -So. African politics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0WvXpyufT8&ab_channel=Conkyjoe

[JohnD131536]

Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf

[ripvanwinkle96]

"I Was Framed" * Cheech & Chong

78'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jivmeJoB-w&ab_channel=madiheem

[JohnD131536]

No Not Again - the Jive Five

[DarcyFarrow]

Breathing (Kate Bush)

[DarcyFarrow]

Fight the Power (Public Enemy)

[JohnD131536]

Ball Of Confusion - the Temptations

[wjswitzer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_jdiU47bFA

Ballroom Blitz - Sweet, 1973, #5 in the US - released as a single and the album 'Desolation Boulevard'
Inspired by a real event - when the band was bottled off the stage in Scotland

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Adagio For Strings" * Samuel Barber

Platoon - 86'

"Vietnam Veterans, may not have been the Greatest Generation, but were the greatest of our Generation."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRCubAtPiKg&ab_channel=NikhilNewse

[JohnD131536]

I Can't Take It - the Chantels

[DarcyFarrow]

Society's Child (Janis Ian)

[DarcyFarrow]

Eighth Day (Hazel O'Connor)

[JohnD131536]

I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent - the Teenagers

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Tobacco Road" * The Nashville Teens

English group singing John D Loudermilk's Americana woes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGuZY6NVXqU&ab_channel=74sodapop

[JohnD131536]

Why Can't We Be Friends - War

[DarcyFarrow]

Barry's Boys (Chad Mitchell Trio)

"We're the new kind of youth at your alma mater
Back to silver standards and solid Goldwater"

[wjswitzer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omEX35pbelI&list=PLCID_9VekLEur2svurN0QXtdYY2iLlMyv&index=6&t=0s&app...

It's a Beautiful World

Devo, 1981 - as a single and on 'New Traditionalist'

[ripvanwinkle96]

"John Brown's Body" *  Pete Seeger

America's First Terrorist or National Hero?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN8-guZkkc4&ab_channel=KevinComtois

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Salvador" * Georges Delerrue

86' Oliver Stone movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFG68mJtj8U&ab_channel=_Kedis_

[JohnD131536]

We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister

[1968Hoya46]

To Susan On The West Coast Waiting: Donovan (a “gentle” protest song).

[JohnD131536]

I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty

[TheGent2U]

Weltschmerz - Fish. The former lead singer of Marillion sharing what we should be happy with: Nothing.

https://youtu.be/0MGDh6qh-0k

[TheGent2U]

White Punks on Dope - The Tubes

https://youtu.be/XJDQFLLdZ_k

[wjswitzer]

@TheGent2U  about White Punks on Dope. Heard in person - at college, 1981 (or maybe it was 1982). Worked setup, security and teardown alongside the roadies, at a concert with a full set by The Tubes. DANG. Lead singer wore 13 - inch platform heels and a gleaming white Elvis style suit for the song - they changed outfits every song in fact. And about those platform shoes - Fee Waybill is already an honest to God six foot six.

And now it's an oldie . . .jeez I thought I was rebellious listening to Talking Heads, Ramones, and especially the Jim Carroll Band. You know, I heard Romeo Void as BACKGROUND MUSIC, instrumental only, and a totally white bread conference. Gone full circle, it's now the music 'The Man' listens to.

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Sorry for the rant. I about lost it when I saw very respectable gentlement at the Northern Plains Aviation event humming happily to 'I might like you better if we slept together'. **bleep**. Just proves DEVO's dark vision of the future was, if anything, optimistic.

OK WJSwitzer out

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Oh PS. This.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMdimooZ2Zs

[TheGent2U]

@wjswitzer: Amen to everything you said, brother.

[JohnD131536]

You Told Another Lie - the Youngsters

[DarcyFarrow]

Revolution (Beatles)

[DarcyFarrow]

A gentle anti-war song:  Donovan's "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting"