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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Ryan on November 29, 2008, 04:42:28 am
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so what are some of you guys fav protest songs? i know thats kind of a vague description but shit like:
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hee hee was gonna say phil ochs and there's not marching anymore!
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yeah thats what i was gonna say
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nah but in all seriousness ochs pretty much got a lock on the sincere protest song with a message, dylan followed, and then protest songs kind of degenerated into acoustic guitars singing about peace so there aren't too many great ones. if you wanna go political songs I've got a few of those.
the problem is music as a vehicle for message often results in it basically being a sonic equivalent of medicine hidden in candy and people wise up to the fact that there's coumadin in their skittles.
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the grand prize goes to Green Day - American Idiot :fogetbackflip:
man it seems lately any band that includes a political message in their music is almost automatically shit. maybe i'm forgetting some good ones but the only recent overtly political albums i can remember are american idiot and FLOBOTS. flobots are much better than green day but they're still pretty mediocre and they try way too hard with the socialist thing.
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I think lars's "Christianity Should be Illegal" is a good album full of protest songs
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The average Black male
Live a third of his life in a jail cell
Cause the world is controlled by the white male
And the people don't never get justice
And the women don't never get respected
And the problems don't never get solved
And the jobs don't never pay enough
So the rent always be late; can you relate?
We livin in a police state
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AGAINST ME!
What We Worked For
maybe?
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We're Not Gonna Take It -Twisted Sister
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I think lars's "Christianity Should be Illegal" is a good album full of protest songs
hey i forgot all about this
off topic but does anyone here have it and want to upload it for me??
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can you upload it lars? im curious.
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i dont have it! that's why im asking if someone who has it could upload it
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I found a site that listed 20 'protest songs that matter'. Here they are in order:
#20 Get Up, Stand Up by Bob Marley and the Wailers
#19 Minority by Green Day
#18 We Shall Be Free by Garth Brooks
#17 We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister
#16 Diamonds From Sierra Leone by Kanye West
#15 I Ain't Marching Anymore by Phil Ochs
#14 Clampdown by The Clash
#13 California Uber Alles by Dead Kennedys
#12 Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds
#11 Fuck tha Police by NWA
#10 Allentown by Billy Joel
#09 World Wide Suicide by Pearl Jam
#08 Maggie's Farm by Bob Dylan
#07 Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud by James Brown
#06 Boom! by System of a Down
#05 Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday
#04 War by Edwin Starr
#03 Take This Job and Shove It by Johnny Paycheck
#02 Fight the Power by Public Enemy
#01 What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
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Lars, I might be able to upload it, I just have to remember where it is on my computer.
EDIT: I've found the folder containing this CD, but "The Room" is mysteriously missing. I will look a little longer, but if I cannot find it would you mind if I just upload it sans "the Room"?
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while that list is kind of awful, What's Going On is a fabulous album no one else mentioned yet. but some of those are more political than direct protest, unless lynching was still an issue during Holliday's time.
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while that list is kind of awful, What's Going On is a fabulous album no one else mentioned yet. but some of those are more political than direct protest, unless lynching was still an issue during Holliday's time.
I was about to say, I never really thought of Whats Going On as a protest album, it was definitely a political for sure.
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My fav is "Earth Song" by the big MJ... beautiful @_@
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I found a site that listed 20 'protest songs that matter'. Here they are in order:
#20 Get Up, Stand Up by Bob Marley and the Wailers
#19 Minority by Green Day
#18 We Shall Be Free by Garth Brooks
#17 We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister
#16 Diamonds From Sierra Leone by Kanye West
#15 I Ain't Marching Anymore by Phil Ochs
#14 Clampdown by The Clash
#13 California Uber Alles by Dead Kennedys
#12 Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds
#11 Fuck tha Police by NWA
#10 Allentown by Billy Joel
#09 World Wide Suicide by Pearl Jam
#08 Maggie's Farm by Bob Dylan
#07 Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud by James Brown
#06 Boom! by System of a Down
#05 Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday
#04 War by Edwin Starr
#03 Take This Job and Shove It by Johnny Paycheck
#02 Fight the Power by Public Enemy
#01 What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
lollin at Boom! and world wide suicide.
also yeah steel i have what's going on on vinyl and CD. it's one of my favorite albums!
also god damn that list is bad. blowin in the wind isn't even on there and that's like THE protest song.
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goddamn Marvin Gaye rules
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who the fuck would ever seriously list we're not gonna take it
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goddamn Marvin Gaye rules
Fuck man Jamerson is awesome in that vid.
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THIS AIN'T NO PICNIC
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I like Against Me! alot, so pick any 2/3s of their songs and there's a politcal theme.
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goddamn Marvin Gaye rules
The bass player in me want's to chime in and say "James Jamerson rules too,." but yeah, I love this song. Marvin had such a voice.
This Ain't No Picnic is great too, actually the whole album is pretty great.
EDIT: haha, I totally missed the other Jamerson comment.
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who the fuck would ever seriously list we're not gonna take it
yeah for real. I was kidding when I posted it, since it seems like just a dumb rock song with a protest song's name. I got no idea why it appeared on that list. what a shitty list!!!
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Not sure to what extent this counts as a "protest song," but it is enjoyable song nonetheless and most of the band's work is similarly political in nature.
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THIS AIN'T NO PICNIC
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KW8DRSvEoQ remember that war when a man covered in chains punched an obese gulliver full of money?
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There are tears in my eyes after watching that disturbed video....
so...so...beautiful...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KW8DRSvEoQ remember that war when a man covered in chains punched an obese gulliver full of money?
lol
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dude nazie kiss my ass ill kick there ass if i see them they fucking killed 6mill jews man hitler sucks cocks, with hid fucking tiny mustch
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Lars, I might be able to upload it, I just have to remember where it is on my computer.
EDIT: I've found the folder containing this CD, but "The Room" is mysteriously missing. I will look a little longer, but if I cannot find it would you mind if I just upload it sans "the Room"?
yeah sounds good man!
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The band worked on the video for it with director, Dori Oskowitz. It begins with Nickelback in the studio playing the song. Scenes of this are intercut with images and videos of past social justice and human rights events, essentially when an individual "cared" and ended up changing the world. The people shown are Betty Williams, who led a march of 35,000 women to the gravesites of three Northern Irish children after witnessing their deaths, Bob Geldof starting up Live Aid, Peter Benenson igniting what would become known as Amnesty International, and Nelson Mandela leading South Africa to its first democratic election, (which would end the racist apartheid régime that had divided the country for 46 years). The video ends with a quote from Margaret Mead that reads "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Notable clips from the video
The following is a non-exhaustive list of historical and/or stock footage in the music video:A scorpion
Clockwork
A soaring bald eagle
Desertification
Aerial targeting footage of a missile strike from the Gulf War
A rear shot of riot police
A 1960s civil rights demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama
A firefighter carrying a child from a burning building
A riot in South America
A Canadian Forces CH-113 Labrador search and rescue helicopter
The Vietnam War
Global Warming
Urbanization
Pollution
Poaching (Ivory)
Deforestation
a Polar Bear
Citizens of the world's least developed countries
Obesity
An anorexic woman
Starvation
Effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans
Stonehenge
Hagia Sophia Great Pyramid of Giza
Parthenon
Vitruvian Man
Mother Teresa
Robert F. Kennedy
Mahatma Gandhi
Buddha
Mao Zedong
Abraham Lincoln Memorial
Fidel Castro
Ku Klux Klan
Adolf Hitler
Saddam Hussein
9/11
Cellular meiosis
Reproduction
Birth
Genetic engineering
Drug abuse
a Penguin
Oil spills
The Trinity Test mushroom cloud and other Atomic weapons testing
Ethnically diverse children with American Flags (Brad Delson) Palestinian child (holding an AK-47)
Auschwitz concentration camp
Joseph Stalin
Nationalism (particularly Americanism)
Acropolis of Athens
Sultan Ahmed Mosque
Robert Mugabe
Benito Mussolini
Martin Luther King Jr.
Oklahoma City Bombing
true protest songs. you don't even need anymore.
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the first one
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what a great protest song
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most of anti-flags entire library are protest songs. as are the majority of all politcal punk groups songs. some better than others, (some are so liberal they make even me go come on really?)
one of my favorite modern protest songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cBc1dO1Rkc
imbedding code was disabled and i dont know enough html.
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true protest songs. you don't even need anymore.
Erm. Completely disagree in every way.
Especially on the Linkin Park, they're too absorbed into themselves that I really feel it's a song they wrote about how they feel disguised as something else when coupled with a few minutes of 9/11 and Hitler.
Plus these are two mainstream (generic as hell) rock bands... So I don't see how you can say that really... unless you're joking?
Oh and I think you could easily fit this one in here: