Comments | silverangel08: protest songs! YAY!

silverangel08

protest songs! YAY!

Nov 26, 2006 13:14

sindin asked her flist for their favorite protest songs, which made me think of all the protest songs that i like. in the chance that i feel the desire to make a protest mix tape anytime soon, i figured i'd list all the protest songs i like that i can think of ( Read more... )

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silverangel08 December 2 2006, 21:36:30 UTC

thanks muchly. i have pink's first two albums, but never got around to the others. downloading right now.

deirdre_c November 26 2006, 22:00:37 UTC

R.E.M.s got a ton of them... off the top of my head: Exhuming McCarthy, Ignoreland, Fall On Me.

Also, all the fantastic anti-establishment rap of the mid-80s:
NWA's Fuck Tha Police; Public Enemy's By the Time I Get to Arizona, Welcome to the Terrordome, Revolutionary Generation, Burn Hollywood Burn; Ice T's Cop Killer, Squeeze the Trigger, Colors, Escape from the Killing Fields, The Tower; etc.

silverangel08 December 2 2006, 21:37:27 UTC

i've never really gotten into REM, so thanks for those suggestions. 80s/early 90s rap, of course. silly me for forgetting.

raftguy November 27 2006, 02:03:13 UTC

One of my favorite war protest songs is Let Them Eat War by Bad Religion. It's one of many on my Rock against Bush CD

silverangel08 December 2 2006, 21:38:20 UTC

i have one of those. perhaps i should investigate tracks off of it...

bluegarnet November 27 2006, 04:13:05 UTC

The two songs that came immediately to mind are both by the band Live and both have to do with war. The first is 'What Are We Fighting For?', and the second is 'Home'. The second is a more polite version of the first and it raises the question of when are they going to bring the soldiers home.

silverangel08 December 2 2006, 21:39:39 UTC

oh live, how i loved you in my high school days. i don't think i've heard those two songs though. will have to check them out. thanks!

bluegarnet December 5 2006, 03:49:23 UTC

Not a problem! The two songs are on their most recent two albums respectively, 'Birds of Prey' and 'Songs from Black Mountain'. If you were once a fan, I would definitely recommend checking out both full albums. :)