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My favorite older song is "For What Its Worth":
My favorite new song is "This is America":
What I find is interesting is how the songs of the 1960s seem equally applicable to our current times.
What about you? What is on your Protest Playlist?
jalan48
(13,869 posts)questionseverything
(9,655 posts)n/t
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Response to TomCADem (Original post)
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Just_Vote_Dem
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(17,542 posts)Poiuyt
(18,125 posts)Mine too
Jim__
(14,077 posts)One of my favorites anyway:
LakeArenal
(28,819 posts)WheelWalker
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"tblue37
(65,391 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,004 posts)Here's it's performed by Donovan because I imprinted on this version in 1965 when I was 13.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)It's also probably one of the longest protest songs ever written.
The number of well known people involved in this project is quite staggering.
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)judeling
(1,086 posts)Journeyman
(15,035 posts)Oft times, the most meaningful protests are those we make of ourselves . . .
LuvLoogie
(7,009 posts)lkinwi
(1,477 posts)Trailrider1951
(3,414 posts)Phil Ochs. He doesn't pull any punches.
pitchforksandtorches
(338 posts)Though this version of Phils is also great:
Heres To The State of Richard Nixon
As someone on YouTube commented, Just change the name to "Donald Trump" and it fits perfectly. Still, after all these years.
treestar
(82,383 posts)That is a good song.
meadowlander
(4,395 posts)and unfortunately still just about as true now as it was then.
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)Tears my heart out every time...
I think that was the first folk song I fell in love with.
Also Joan Baez's version of:
"Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream"
Last night I had the strangest dream
I ever dreamed before
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put an end to war
I dreamed I saw a mighty room
The room was filled with men
And the paper they were signing said
They'd never fight again
And when the papers all were signed
And a million copies made
They all joined hands end bowed their heeds
And grateful prayers were prayed
And the people in the streets below
Were dancing round and round
And guns and swords and uniforms
Were scattered on the ground
Last night I had the strangest dream
I ever dreamed before
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put an end to war
But I think my all time favorite will always be "We Shall Overcome", it is timeless.
Duncan Grant
(8,264 posts)For my old (it was such a different world):
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Here's Halliburton Boardroom Massacre
treestar
(82,383 posts)is very good.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Got me through the Scott Walker Fuster cluck years here in WI.
Coventina
(27,120 posts)Coventina
(27,120 posts)Celerity
(43,398 posts)meadowlander
(4,395 posts)The most modern one I could think of was "Killing in the Name Of" and that's 30 years old.
Celerity
(43,398 posts)the OP listed one: This Is America by Childish Gambino
here are some links
cheers!
YG, Che Lingo, Kendrick Lamar: the protest songs of Black Lives Matter 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/10/yg-che-lingo-kendrick-lamar-protest-songs-of-black-lives-matter-2020-george-floyd
CATEGORY: 2020: THE YEAR IN PROTEST MUSIC
https://www.ongoinghistoryofprotestsongs.com/category/2020-the-year-in-protest-music/
All the New Protest and Benefit Music Released in Response to Police Brutality
https://www.vulture.com/article/protest-benefit-music-police-brutality.html
Coventina
(27,120 posts)immediately above it, which was written in 1791.
Cheers!
Celerity
(43,398 posts)onethatcares
(16,168 posts)Thank you Phil Ochs. You died way too early.
spanone
(135,841 posts)aidbo
(2,328 posts)But since you beat me to it.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)Something in the air
pwb
(11,275 posts)Joe Hill by Joan Baez .
Straw Man
(6,625 posts)RockRaven
(14,972 posts)For newer, Green Day - American Idiot
Brother Buzz
(36,440 posts)Original:
Updated lyrics:
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)We Shall Overcome by the Morehouse College Glee Club because it's beautiful
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Help Save the Youth of America by Billy Bragg
Xolodno
(6,395 posts)Metallica - One
Guns n Roses - Civil War
IcyPeas
(21,884 posts)pecosbob
(7,541 posts)Wiseman32218
(291 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)Mister Ed
(5,937 posts)Because it's a game all right they're playin'
But it ain't like on TV
Nobody shakes hands when it's over
And there ain't no referee
And the stands are full of broken men
And the field's grown up in weeds
And the winners get your children
Yeah, they do just what they please
And they'll cut you for no reason
'Cept they wanna watch you bleed
So forget everything you've heard or read or seen
It's a game all right they're playin'
But they're playin' it for keeps
Hekate
(90,708 posts)However, as an honorable mention, the great Masters of War.
I knew it in the 1960s during the Vietnam War, so it was a shock to listen to it again during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq by BushCheney, and discover new layers of truths. Fcking mercenaries of Blackwater.
Two newer songs in my personal repertoire are Willie McBride and The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda.
Bookmarking to listen to tomorrow when the household is not asleep, as currently it is 1:30 am.
Celerity
(43,398 posts)Label:
CNT Productions ? CNT 004, No Wonder Records ? NOW 5
Format:
Vinyl, 7", Single
Country:
UK
Released:
1981
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Punk
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)protest song, in that respect like the Beatles' great "Revolution." Those were my days. Both groups were smart guys who rejected radical destruction for its own sake.
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be
All right, all right, all right
On the plus side, the old anti-war protests of my era had a huge effect. We still war, but now almost no one goes off to them. For better and worse...
I don't have a favorite protest song for this era. Democracy wasn't under huge attack in that one, but it is now and for me it's all about uniting to protect and fight the destroyers.
Speaking of, "This is America" is nice to dance to, but I'd never listened to the lyrics. Protest in this era is incredibly more, as people marching in over 700 cities showed. Good thing, because we're all in very grave danger from RW authoritarianism, though only Jews and a few other vulnerably small groups more than black people and few as much.
Rstrstx
(1,399 posts)malaise
(269,022 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)Surprising that nobody posted this one yet.
marmar
(77,081 posts)obamanut2012
(26,079 posts)RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)Marvin Gaye's "What's going on"
Jimi Hendrix's "Machine gun"
Ghost of Tom Joad
(1,355 posts)41 Shots--American Skin
MissMillie
(38,559 posts)but I'm feeling this one today.
"Thank you, I'll get it myself."