by hillary_step 122 Replies latest social entertainment
Hard to believe that Jackson Browne wrote this piece twenty-two years ago. Hard to believe just how apt it is for the modern America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPFdbKLUmQk&feature=related
Any other "protest" favorites? I will even countenance listening to a gangster rap lyric where he is protesting 'cos his bitch will not go out on the streets to earn money to buy his crack cocaine. Tis a hard life for some. ;)
HS
I'm not quite sure whether this is a protest song or not - maybe a counter-protest song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFZ2w0RV-8
We Will Rock You by Queen
Or what about Give Peace a Chance by John Lennon? Gotta be a classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NRriHlLUk
Neil Young
4 DEAD IN OHIO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvg4n8Txgdc
I was 12 years old and I was never the same.
Imagine, by John Lennon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCCR2huE2m8
One Tin Soldier
The late Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros doing Marley's Redemption Song
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TRwmZ2bp_B0
A few words from Strummer before the song comes in.
It's very moving, IMO.
Also Wilco's cover of Comment(If All Men Are Truly Brothers)written by Charles Wright of the Charles "Express Yourself" Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band.
Comment(If All Men Are Truly Brothers)
Watch out for your friends
Well they may lose in the end
Sometimes their child can make you sin
What is a man without a friend?
We all live within a game
The word 'excuse' has many names
Where true friends really come
You can't afford to lose one
If all men were truly brothers
Why then do we hurt one another?
Love and peace from ocean to ocean
Somebody please second my emotion!
All men were born to be free, yeah
What about you? And what about me?
This world is filled with hate!
There's nothing left
If you enslave me, you'll never rescue yourself
Well jealousy, as I recall
Has always been man's hardest fall
To conquer fear, well that's quite a quest
Until we do never rest
A child was born yesterday
Nothing but an innocent babe
Someone sowed a bitter seed
How could it grow but a bitter weed?
Society, how can you teach
If you don't practice what you preach?
If all men were truly brothers
Why then, can't we love one another?
Love and peace from ocean to ocean
Somebody please second my emotion!
All men were born to be free, yeah
What about you? What about me?
This world is filled with hate!
There's nothing left
If you enslave me, you'll only hurt yourself
Hey you! Over there!
I want to know why you left
With all your riches and your fancy things
Can you tell me how many friends can you truly say you have?
Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade
One of the most ferocious, f*ck you, hell no we won't go, sticking it to the man songs I've ever heard...you have to listen to it to get the full effect. Zach de la Rocha is brilliant.
This microphone explode, shattering
The molds
Ya eighter drop tha hits like de la o or get tha
Fuck off tha commode
Wit tha sure shot, sure ta make tha
Bodies drop
Drop an dont copy yo, dont call this
A co-opt
Terror rains drenchin, quenchin tha thirst of
Tha power dons
That five sided fist-a-gon
Tha rotten sore on the face of mother earth gets
Bigger
Tha triggers cold empty ya purse
They rally round tha family
With pockets full of shells
Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed tha war canibal animal
I walk tha corner to tha rubble that used to be a
Library
Line up to tha mind cemetery
What we dont know keeps tha contracts alive an
Movin
They dont gotta burn tha books they just remove em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as tha cells
Rally round tha family, pockets full of shells
Rally round tha family
With pockets full of shells
Bulls on parade
