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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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"Are You Lost In The World, Like Me?" * Moby

how ironic that i saw this video from my phone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASywEuqFd8&ab_channel=Moby

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@ripvanwinkle96 wrote:

"Are You Lost In The World, Like Me?" * Moby

how ironic that i saw this video from my phone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASywEuqFd8&ab_channel=Moby


The song and video speak volumes. Thanks for sharing.

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” - Jimi Hendrix
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"Indiana Wants Me" {Lord I can't go back there} * RD Taylor

Hoosier trouble

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

 

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Revolution (Part One)     Dennis Brown

 

Do you know what it means to have a revolution?
And what it takes to make a solution?
Fighting against oppression
Battering down depression
Are you ready to stand up and fight the right revolution?
Are you ready to stand up and fight it just like soldiers?

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"REVOLUTION"- REVOLUTION NUMBER NINE "- BEATLES
SUPERGIRL, NO REALLY I MEAN IT! HER REAL NAME & MINE ARE THE SAME( FIRST 2 NAMES ARE)
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@l483260l Good Stuff! Thanks!

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This Is Not a Song, It's an Outburst     Rodriguez   1970's Cold Fact CD
 
Woke up this morning with an ache in my head
Splashed on my clothes as I spilled out of bed
Opened the window to listen to the news
But all I heard was the Establishment's Blues
 
Gun sales are soaring, housewives find life boring
Divorce the only answer, smoking causes cancer
This system's gonna fall soon, to an angry young tune
And that's a concrete cold fact

Merely OneTokeOTL
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I Fought The Law:  Bobby Fuller Four (He fought the law; unfortunately for him the law won the fight).

 

(sorry if this song was posted previously)

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Civil War by Guns N' Roses

 

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"feeds the rich while it buries the poor"

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Question - The Moody Blues

 

Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war?
'Cause when we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need
In a world of persecution
That is burning in its greed

 

 

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” - Jimi Hendrix
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John Henry (traditional folk ballad); Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, many many others. (Man vs. Technology)

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"In The Name Of The Father"   *   U2

sectarian images from Northern Ireland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zubZQqPfpi4&t=10s&ab_channel=tacitblue

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Fun Fun Fun: Beach Boys (a rebellious teenage girl gets her daddy’s T-bird by lying to him, saying she’s going to the library. Instead, she cruises to the hamburger stand and then drag races through the city streets, beating all the boy drag racers. Daddy eventually wises up and takes away her keys. Not quite Rebel Without A Cause or Romeo and Juliet, but it’s the best California in the 60’s could muster).

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"All These Things That I've Done * The Killers

  "In War, It's about the men next to you. That's it. That's all it is."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wFwgB3YyLs&ab_channel=MapleFilms

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Charlie Brown: Coasters (smoking in the auditorium, shooting craps in the gym, graffitiing on the walls, throwing spitballs, calling a teacher Daddy-O? I’d say that young Charlie is a rebellious sort).

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"Silent Running {Can you hear me Brother?} * Mike & The Mechanics

Red Dawn (invasion & rebellion}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-KFhT9O6-A&ab_channel=shadw30

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CnPv_1SVh0- "BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS"- JOHNNY HORTON;
SUPERGIRL, NO REALLY I MEAN IT! HER REAL NAME & MINE ARE THE SAME( FIRST 2 NAMES ARE)
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"You Don't Own Me!" * Leslie Gore

This tune preceeds H Reddys anthem and seems more defiant.

Which is okay..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtC7FYf8a90&ab_channel=johnreynolds71

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Great choice, and I remember it well. Thanks for the add.
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Both the Kinks and the Monkees (an unlikely pairing) satirized the superficial aspects of the culture they saw. The Monkees: Pleasant Valley Sunday. The Kinks: Dedicated Follower of Fashion and Well Respected Man.

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Great adds! By the way, "Pleasant Valley Sunday" was written by Carole King.
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Reminds me ofg another Kinks. Their "rock opera", "Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One" is a huge sendup.

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Similar to the Stones taking a shot at the medical-pharmaceutical industry in “Mother’s Little Helper”?

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Taxman - The Beatles

 

George Harrison wrote the song in protest to high British taxes. The Beatles had just started to make some real money, and found themselves in the top tax bracket paying a whopping 95%. 

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” - Jimi Hendrix
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" Laugh At Me" * Sonny Bono

featuring "Chastity"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6uDSgyrZds&ab_channel=Naxxseb

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I still have my original 45 of this song. It spoke loudly to a fat kid who would rather be in a library than playing with kids who made fun of me. Don't get me wrong - not all of them, but enough that the library was the better place. I was there so much that I was allowed to man the front desk and check out and receive books.
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"I Am A Rock" * Simon & Garfunkel

Speaking of libraries, this song always reminded me of one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSqFX1o1HqA&ab_channel=Lakhsmi777

 

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@ripvanwinkle96 @l483260l Thanks for the kind thoughts. Not a career as a librarian, though I was a page in one for two years. And, as you can imagine, "I Am A Rock" really spoke to me as well. And Paul Simon impressed my dad, God rest his soul. He became as big a fan of Simon and Garfunkel as I was. And took me to see them at the Hollywood Bowl.

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Two songs from the great CCR (video has Viet Nam footage and might be too tough for some to watch...but it went with the songs and times).  Thank you to those who served including the families back home ~ they served, too.

 

Fortunate Son

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06CPuM0UVVM

 

Run Through The Jungle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3tvaSSJoyI

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