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]

"Come Back When You Grow Girl" * Bobby Vee & The Strangers

immature girlfriend, or maybe underage?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2C3ZTMwaek&ab_channel=That%27sMusic

[cm9889168]

Authority Song

by John (Couger) Mellencamp

           (one of my favorites)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsEwK69LXjQ

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White" * The Standells

Good guys, bad guys which is which?

The white collar worker or the digger in the ditch..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6v4hbHkT5Q&ab_channel=John1948TwelveA

[cm9889168]

I Fought the Law and the Law Won

         by The Crickets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKrxq5U8SBY

[ripvanwinkle96]

 "Plastic Jesus" * Paul Newman

Cool Hand Luke - 67, one of my favorite hero's or anti-hero, depending on one's point of view, I reckon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG9tuuznL1Y

[TheGent2U]

@ripvanwinkle96 I had forgotten all about "Plastic Jesus" - nice!

[Butterfly565]

Okay....this one was a hit a long time ago, but I do believe in a sense it is a rebellious type?

Lynn Anderson - "D-I-V-O-R-C-E"

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[l483260l]

REMINDS ME OF HENSON CARGILL'S "SKIP A ROPE".

[ripvanwinkle96]

" La Marseillaise" * Madeline Lebeau

Casablanca -1941 - The tears are real. The extras were displaced French citizens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJM

[TheGent2U]

Nice!

[1968Hoya46]

Give Him A Great Big Kiss: Shangri-Las (walks with a dancing beat, long hair, singing all day, always wearing shades, dirty fingernails, tight pants, high button shoes, good-bad but not evil...I’d say he was rebelling [in an innocent way] against the then-culture as he saw it).

[RDP1951]

Bad Religion--"21st Century Digital Boy"

[Butterfly565]

"Grand Illusion" by Styx

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[ripvanwinkle96]

"Immigration Man" * C-S & Nash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzE227yE1hk&ab_channel=TrevorDodd

[LookOverYonder]

"World Wide Suicide"     Pearl Jam

[MaVolta]

American Woman - The Guess Who

[MaVolta]

Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Flagpole S-itter"

Harvey Danger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wkooyZ210E&ab_channel=RyanFatula

[1968Hoya46]

Fly Like An Eagle: Steve Miller Band (now that I think about it, it’s not really a protest song, unless I’m missing something: he lists some of society’s issues, but sort of soars above them, as if that’ll somehow help).

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Electric Avenue" * Eddy Grant

Jamaican protest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG8_f0HdlMQ&ab_channel=andrew91118

[TheGent2U]

"Ball of Confusion" - The Temptations 

https://youtu.be/iYAEhgLgddk

[l483260l]

"PAPA WAS A ROLLING STONE"- TEMPTATIONS

[PatriciaP18794]

Take This Job and Shove It by, Johnny Paycheck

Get A Job by, The Silhouettes

Momma, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys  by, Loretta Lynn

Manic Monday  by, The Bangals 1980's music

Vacation by, the Go Gos 1980's music

STOP in the Name of Love by, The Supremes

You Better Shop Around by, The Miracles

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@LookOverYonder wrote:

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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[ripvanwinkle96]

"All Things Great and Small" * Brian Jonestown Massacre

{Night of the Hunter-56}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAarrw8PLsA&ab_channel=iosonofederico

[1968Hoya46]

Leader Of The Pack: Shangri-Las

[1968Hoya46]

The Rebel-Johnny Yuma: Johnny Cash

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Billy Don't Be A Hero" *  Paper Lace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmKRdSmlLq0&ab_channel=Boston4Evaa

[l483260l]

"MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COWBOYS"- WILLIE NELSON;

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Fourteen Or Fight" * Max Storm & the Troopers

{Wild in the Streets-68'} Unintentional rebellious camp makes for some halarious dated funny stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmeTftBlOVY&ab_channel=MichaelDare

[1968Hoya46]

Takin’ It To The Streets:  Doobies. (Sorry if this a repeat post...)