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Protest Song
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A piece of music, normally written about a political subject and intended to drive home some message. Quite often Anvilicious, not that there's anything wrong with that. Since they are also used to educate people, unite them in the cause, and should be easy to learn, they are often prime candidates for a rousing Crowd Song or an Audience Participation Song. Name a recording artist from between 1964 and 1978. Chances are they have at least one protest song, and it's a folk song about the Vietnam War. More recently, common subjects include racism (especially police brutality, racism, and profiling, which has created its own subtrope, the Anti-Police Song), the Iraq War, corruption, censorship, environmental issues, and big governments controlling lives. Lyrical Dissonance often arises when a director fails to appreciate that a sufficiently-subtle protest song is not in fact the upbeat anthem he believes it to be. Or sometimes it's entirely intentional on the part of the writer. If the song is in protest of a job, than it's a Working Class Anthem. This sort of music is at least Older Than Steam, and may well be older still. Often prone to becoming Unintentional Period Pieces. Compare Hail to the Thief, which can sound similar but is used to emphasize setting instead of making a direct political point. Not to be confused with Music Is Politics, which is about the music industry politics that have to be navigated for an album to be produced. |
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"White People For Peace" by Against Me! expresses frustration about the limitations of the format. | |
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Get Back from Let It Be, a protest song against the immigration restrictions in the United Kingdom. | |
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"Ohio", by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, which was specifically about the Kent State shooting in 1970. Along with its B-side, "Find the Cost of Freedom". Crosby & Nash (sans Stills and Young) also recorded "To the Last Whale...", which depicts the last whale in the ocean being hunted and killed by whalers. "Wooden Ships", written in the very early CSN (no Y yet) days (And also originally recorded and released by Jefferson Airplane), is a protest against nuclear war. Not a very direct protest considering the (later) in-your-face "Ohio" mentioned above, but the line "silver people on the shoreline / let us be" is a reference to hazmat suits. |
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Metallica's sadly-underplayed "Disposable Heroes". Lars Ulrich described the following album, ...And Justice for All, as their "CNN years" - he and James Hetfield would watch CNN and write songs about whatever displeased them. | |
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron also had a lot of protest songs. | |
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If the rock musical Hair doesn't count, then no work of musical theatre does. ("Three-Five-Zero-Zero", anyone?) | |
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In "Over the Moon" from RENT, Maureen protests the impending eviction of the artists and homeless people from the 11th Street lot. It turns into an Audience Participation Song towards the end. | |
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"Waiting on the World to Change" by John Mayer is about world leaders' mismanagement of international affairs, and the media's skewed coverage of the same. | |
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Songs in the Key of Life: Pastime Paradise. | |
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Nevermind The Bollocks Heres The Sex Pistols by The Sex Pistols is full of protest songs but also emphasizes that the band is pretty vacant and doesn't care. "God Save the Queen" by The Sex Pistols was intended to be just a protest against unemployment and elitism, but due to the timing of its release, it accidentally also became a protest against the Queen's Silver Jubilee. |
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"Shame, Shame, Shame" from Treme (about George W. Bush's handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with a couple jabs at Barbara Bush for her comments about Katrina refugees). | |
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"Fingerprint File" from It's Only Rock 'n Roll criticizes government monitoring and surveillance activity. | |
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Elvis Presley: "Pieces Of My Life", "We Can Make The Morning", "Separate Ways" and many others. | |
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Parodied in the The Simpsons episode "Last Exit to Springfield", where Lisa composes a protest song (unnamed in the episode, but subsequently known as "Union Strike Folk Song (Parts 1 & 2)" on its CD release) for the power plant workers after Mr. Burns cons them out of their dental plan. It uses the style of Depression-era folk music. Later parodied in the Season 12 episode "Pokey Mom", where the prisoner that Marge befriends is described as being such a terrible person that "Bob Dylan wrote a song to keep him in prison!" |
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During the Greatest Hits and Song Styles games in Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the designated singers would usually default to Bob Dylan if 'protest songs' was suggested. | |
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Fear of a Black Planet and It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy. | |
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Catch a Fire: Concrete Jungle, No More Trouble, Slave Driver, 400 Years. | |
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Fela Kuti: Most of the songs he wrote were protest songs, aimed at the Nigerian government. He often got in trouble for it too. One time the police raided his house and beat him black and blue, burning the place to the ground. Kuti's mother died in the incident. | |
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A lot of System of a Down's songs, such as "B.Y.O.B." from Mezmerize/Hypnotize, "Deer Dance" from Toxicity, and "Boom!" from Steal This Album! protest either the war in Iraq or militarization of the police. Some even talk about the War on Drugs and environmentalism. Word of God (Malakian, the guitarist) says they have more non-political songs than political ones. This may be true, but a lot of their lyrics are open to numerous interpretations, and most of their well-known songs are among their most anvilicious. |
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"King for a Day" by Battle Beast speaks of a Revolving Door Revolution of Corrupt Politicians who come in saying they'll improve things, and instead profit off the office for as long as they can before being "dethroned" in favor of "another greedy, rotten puppet on a string". | |
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We're Only in It for the Money: A Concept Album against flower power, hippies, police brutality, squares, and the government. | |
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In the second episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Marzipan writes a song to protest song called "Justice Combo Meal" as part of a protest against Strong Bad's house arrest for violating the King of Town's new email tax. Strong Bad considers it just as bad as the actual house arrest. | |
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Exodus: Guiltiness, The Heathen. | |
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Masaki Yamada also debuted Fire Fire with EZO, also an anti-nuclear war song. | |
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Tracy Chapman has a few of these, particularly, "Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution." | |
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Two Tribes" was one of the classic 80s anti-war songs. Its music video featured Ronald Reagan and Konstantin Chernenko fighting in a wrestling match, with other world leaders as spectators. | |
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Animaniacs has Ol' Scratch sentence the Warners to whiny protest songs from the '60s (which turns out to be something even they can't stand): | |
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The Score by The Fugees has several protest songs against racism and gang violence. | |
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Guns N' Roses, "Civil War". | |
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The song "Mau Mau" from Jefferson Starship's Blows Against the Empire is a classic anti-war protest song of the sort the Jefferson Airplane had done several times previously. | |
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"Zombie" by The Cranberries, against the IRA. | |
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"Pacific Ocean Blues" by Dennis Wilson from Pacific Ocean Blue is essentially a protest song about the slaughter of sea animals. | |
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The Muppet Show reworked "For What It's Worth" into an anti-hunting song. | |
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Natty Dread: Them Belly Full (But We Hungry), Rebel Music, Revolution. | |
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Charles Mingus' "Fables of Faubus" from Mingus Ah Um from 1959 slammed Arkansas governor Orval E Faubus for refusing to admit African-American children into "white" schools. | |
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Machine Girl: ...BECAUSE IM YOUNG ARROGANT AND HATE EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR is a protest album, with pervasive themes of raging against the system and destroying the out-of-touch, fascist, racist, ineffectual powers that be. "Kill All Borders" is unabashedly aggressive about anarchism and the destruction of colonialist imperialism, as is evident from the title. |
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"Cosmik Debris" (Apostrophe (')): aimed cult leaders and fortune tellers. | |
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"Blinded By Rainbows" from Voodoo Lounge is a critique of war and terrorism, especially religiously motivated violence. | |
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"Us and Them" from The Dark Side of the Moon addresses popular attitudes towards war and suffering, and the album Animals is basically a long rant about popular culture, with some rather specific Take Thats in "Pigs". | |
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Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird: A number of their songs — such as "The Butcher's Share", "Freedom is a Verb", "March of the Jobless Corps", "Arbeter Froyen", and "Vampirn" — qualify. | |
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In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, a discussion of Teleportation Sickness includes two anti-teleporting protest songs. | |
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"Sweet Neo-Con" from A Bigger Bang is a criticism of the neo-conservatives within the American government and should be understood as protest against the George W. Bush administration. | |
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Piggies from The White Album, also by the Beatles could be counted as another protest song, lamenting the greed of the high class. | |
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"When The Levee Breaks" from Led Zeppelin IV as covered by Led Zeppelin,note originally by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy an apocalyptic blues-rock nightmare about the 1927 Mississippi floods and the resulting misery endured by the blacks (forced to work on the levees, abandoned once their properties were destroyed, attempting to leave to the Northern states to alleviate poverty). | |
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Uprising: Real Situation, Bad Card | |
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Disturbed's "Legion of Monsters" is a very angry song about how media glorification of murderers like the Boston Bomber only inspires new murderers to do the same thing. | |
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"We Can't Make It Here" (2005), by James McMurtry,note son of Larry has similar things to say about the longer-term trend of outsourcing and hollowing out local economies. Robert Christgau (from the Village Voice) named it the best song of the 2000s, and Stephen King said it "may be the best American protest song since 'Masters of War'" (by Bob Dylan—see the 1960s folder). | |
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Legalize It | |
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The Final Cut is more about The Falklands War. | |
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In the 1980 film One-Trick Pony, Jonah's only hit from ten years ago was "Soft Parachutes," about a teenager in The Vietnam War. He doesn't play it anymore because it's not topical. | |
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His father, Woody Guthrie, also had his share of these, up to and including "This Land Is Your Land". Woody's guitar had a sign on it: "This Machine Kills Fascists". And it's an odd commentary on the American Culture. "This Land Is Your Land" is sung by every kid in grade school, though they hardly ever get past the first verse and when they grow up it's dismissed as just a children's song. In reality, it is subversive, powerful, and even more relevant as an adult: |
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"Taxman" from Revolver was a protest against the 95% taxes on the group's income in Britain. The lines "Let me tell you how it will be, it's one for you, nineteen for me" and "Should five percent appear too small, be glad that I don't take it all" weren't jokes or empty rhetoric. This was one of the reasons they started earning so much of their income in the United States, to be taxed at a lower rate. | |
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Burnin': Get Up, Stand Up, Burnin' And Lootin'. | |
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"The Universal Soldier" by Buffy-Sainte Marie, later made into a hit by Donovan. Parodied, in a protesting-the-protesters Take That! move, as "The Universal Coward" by Jan Berry of Jan and Dean fame. (Dean Torrence objected and did not participate.) Also by Sainte-Marie, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee", covered by the Indigo Girls. |
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Delain's "Your Body is a Battleground" is very critical of the medical-industrial complex. | |
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The 2019 song "Afilando Los Cuchillos" (Sharpening the Knives), by Bad Bunny, Residente, and iLe, written in response to a political scandal involving the governor of Puerto Rico at the time: | |
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Italian indie group Pinguini Tattici Nucleari have "Cancelleria" and "Me Want Marò Back", both of which criticise far-right politics in Italy. | |
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"Imagine", which can also be interpreted as a Religion Rant Song with the opening line "Imagine there's no Heaven". | |
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Voices from the Dead by Taiji Sawada is a War Is Hell antiwar song. | |
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The Tragically Hip prefer non-obvious lyrics, but a number of their songs can be considered protest songs, such as "Vaccination Scar" (against Bush-era jingoism), "Gus The Polar Bear From Central Park" (about how the Bush presidency, in using fear as a political tool, was getting upset when people weren't afraid enough), and so on. | |
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Infant Sorrow, the fictional band featured in the film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, recorded a similarly satirical piece entitled We Gotta Do Something; | |
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Idle's collaborator on Rutland Weekend Television, Neil Innes, created a skewering Dylan parody who performed a vaguely all-purpose Protest Song. | |
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The Rolling Stones have tried their hand at a few of these: "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" from Out Of Their Heads has some protest-song elements, particularly in the first two verses (with their still-on-target jabs at the media and advertising worlds). "We Love You" (1965), was written as a homage to the band's fans who supported them after they were jailed for marihuana possession. It's a large Take That! against the police. "Street Fightin' Man", from Beggars Banquet, was inspired by the 1968 student protests, but actually takes on a more cautionary position "Fingerprint File" from It's Only Rock 'n Roll criticizes government monitoring and surveillance activity. "Hang Fire" from Tattoo You is a protest song against the unemployment in Thatcherite Britain. "Undercover of the Night" from Undercover criticizes the political corruption in Central and South America in the 1980s. "Sweet Neo-Con" from A Bigger Bang is a criticism of the neo-conservatives within the American government and should be understood as protest against the George W. Bush administration. "Blinded By Rainbows" from Voodoo Lounge is a critique of war and terrorism, especially religiously motivated violence. |
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Scorpions' "Crossfire." | |
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SCTV had hardcore British punk band the Queen Haters on the "American Bandstand"-style "Mel's Rock Pile" to sing "I Hate the Bloody Queen", making no impression on the squarish North American audience. | |
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Anaïs Mitchell's "Song of the Magi". She sings of a baby being born in Bethlehem, to the joy of his parents... except the lyrics and imagery ("West Bank town", "your home is a checkpoint now") alludes to the modern, war-torn state of the region. The imagery used at the end (lions laying with lambs) is a common call for peace and the end of conflict. | |
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"That Is The War On Terror" compares Al Qaeda to Popeye the Sailor. It Makes Sense in Context. | |
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"Child's Play" by TNT was written by singer Tony Harnell as a protest against nuclear weapons. | |
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Loudness contributed several protest songs during the era. Among them were Slaughter House, which protested animal testing, Racing The Wind being a Rage Against the Heavens Religion Rant Song, Miles High and Dogshit which protested society in Japan and the US respectively, and MANY more. | |
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The Zombies' "Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)": Despite being released during The Vietnam War, it was actually about a soldier fighting in World War I. Still, the overall message is "War Is Hell, and those that support wars generally do so because they don't know what it's like to be in one". | |
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"Unfair" from Fiorello!, whose lyrics the picketing girls are instructed by Fiorello to sing in a "most unladylike voice." Tenderloin, its Spiritual Predecessor, had "(Keep Your Hands Off) Little Old New York." |
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One episode of Daria revolved around a teacher's strike, and Mr. O'Neill asks Trent Lane to help him and the other teachers write a protest song. | |
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Earlier, there was the entirety of Animals, which served as a critique of Britain's capitalistic nature. "Dogs" is a critique of the dogmatic business owners who instill their reign upon the masses, while "Sheep" calls out the hive minded people who buy into the lies they're fed, but in particular, "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" calls out the shadowy bureaucratic leaders behind the scenes who get no repercussions, going so far as to call out Moral Guardian Mary Whitehouse by name. | |
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Two in Les Misérables, though they refer to the in-story society of early 19th century France: "Red and Black", and "Do You Hear the People Sing?" Both are awesome, and the latter was used in union protests recently. | |
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In a similar vein, The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" is a parable about the revolution succeeding, only for its leaders to become as entrenched and corrupt as those they replaced. "Meet the New Boss...same as the old boss..." The Who also has a surprising number of protest songs, such as My Generation, Behind Blue Eyes, Helpless dancer and Eminence Front. |
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Elvis Costello's "Oliver's Army" was about many political issues: Oliver Cromwell's invasion of Ireland in the 17th Century (hence the title), human rights abuses during The Troubles, British Army recruiters targeting young unemployed men (Costello described the song as being based on the premise that 'they always get a working-class boy to do the killing'), and various geopolitical hotspots in the late 1970s). | |
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John Rich (of Big & Rich) had "Shuttin' Detroit Down", a protest against the 2008-09 automotive crisis and government bailouts. "We Can't Make It Here" (2005), by James McMurtry,note son of Larry has similar things to say about the longer-term trend of outsourcing and hollowing out local economies. Robert Christgau (from the Village Voice) named it the best song of the 2000s, and Stephen King said it "may be the best American protest song since 'Masters of War'" (by Bob Dylan—see the 1960s folder). |
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"Street Fightin' Man", from Beggars Banquet, was inspired by the 1968 student protests, but actually takes on a more cautionary position | |
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Survival: An entire album full of protest songs. | |
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Trombone Shorty's "Right To Complain" appears to be a protest against excessive protesting - those who don't take any steps themselves, have no right to complain. | |
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"Hang Fire" from Tattoo You is a protest song against the unemployment in Thatcherite Britain. | |
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Freak Out: "Hungry Freaks Daddy", "More Trouble Every Day'', "Who Are The Brain Police?" | |
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Bloodywood's original material takes heavily after Rage Against the Machine. Most of Rakshak's runtime consists of political protest music of one form or another: "Gaddaar" is targeted at political demagogues stoking ethnic and religious tensions to energize and radicalize their voting bases, while "Dana Dan" opposes India's pervasive problem with violence against women. | |
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The Men They Couldn't Hang's song "Ironmasters" was a protest song linking the Merthyr Rising in 1831 to contemporary mistreatment of the working class under the Thatcher regime. | |
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Also, the whole album Plastic Beach is about how we have to stop polluting and being wasteful. | |
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"I'm The Slime" (Over-Nite Sensation): aimed at television. | |
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Nik Kershaw wrote several songs in the straightforward protest song style around common '80s themes: I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me (nuclear war), Cloak and Dagger (secretive, unaccountable government agencies controlling the fate of the planet), Roses (environmental impact of consumerism), Save the Whale (saving the whale). He also wrote several other songs which are not such straight examples but still have a strong element of "this thing is not a good thing" about them: Wouldn't It Be Good, Don Quixote, You Might (escapist fantasies causing people to lose sight of the real problems), Dark Glasses (what it is like to work for one of the agencies of Cloak and Dagger), Wide Boy (social shallowness and conspicuous consumption). This is not an exhaustive list. | |
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"Wars" by Hurt. Take a wild guess at what it's protesting. Several of their other songs ("Rapture," "Adonai," etc.) target religious extremism as well. |
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Nena's "99 Luftballons". Though not as much as some other protest songs. Particularly considering that the inspiration came from an actual viewing of a mess of party balloons. At a concert. |
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UB40's early albums reflected the malaise of the times, particularly their own experiences with unemployment, and the crushed dreams of Martin Luther King. | |
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Old Crow Medicine Show has an interesting one: "Big Time In the Jungle" is a Vietnam protest song, but it was written in the early 2000s (released on 2004's O.C.M.S.). It was probably intended in part as a protest at the ongoing Iraq/Afghanistan thing, albeit perhaps more as a reminder of the horrors of war than an actual protest. | |
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Bryan Adams doesn't usually venture into this kind of territory. The one exception was "Don't Drop That Bomb On Me", the final track of 1991's Waking Up The Neighbours. Five years earlier, he refused to include his song, "Only The Strong Survive", on the Top Gun soundtrack because he felt the film glamourised war. | |
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Rastaman Vibration: War, Rat Race, Who The Cap Fit | |
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A number of songs on The Wall and The Final Cut have the unusual distinction of being protest songs about World War II, written 35 years after the war ended. More specifically, The Final Cut is a Concept Album about the teacher in The Wall, now the protagonist, and a World War II veteran, gasping in horror at images of The Falklands War unfolding in front of him on TV, and feeling disappointed that Margaret Thatcher had betrayed "the post-war dream" Britain promised to its people of working for peace and unity, rather than leading men to war. It also addresses his frustrations of holding back his memories of the war to those he loves, for fear of being misunderstood and rejected, and his anger at trying to teach the "little ingrates" in school about history and the futilities of war to deaf ears. The Final Cut is more about The Falklands War. |
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"(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" by Heaven 17 is very unsubtle about its purpose as an anthem against the fascism and racism; it even specifically calls out Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher by name. | |
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"Southern Man", Neil Young's famous protest song against the mistreatment of blacks in the Deep South. How About his "Let's Impeach the President" from during the George W. Bush-years? "Rockin' in the Free World", which attracts a certain amount of Misaimed Fandom from people who don't listen past the chorus. Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama", meanwhile, was a counter-protest song written in response to "Southern Man" and "Alabama". It serves as an interesting example because Young and the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were actually good friends. Incidentally, "Sweet Home Alabama" could also qualify: |
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"The Alice's Restaurant Massacree" (sic) by Arlo Guthrie, an 18-minute-long talking blues ballad that many classic rock stations traditionally play in its entirety on Thanksgiving Day, is a song about dodging the draft. You know it is, because Guthrie says so about 7 minutes in. One of the big reasons it's still played on Thanksgiving, besides pure tradition, is to give DJs a chance to get some Thanksgiving food. His father, Woody Guthrie, also had his share of these, up to and including "This Land Is Your Land". Woody's guitar had a sign on it: "This Machine Kills Fascists". And it's an odd commentary on the American Culture. "This Land Is Your Land" is sung by every kid in grade school, though they hardly ever get past the first verse and when they grow up it's dismissed as just a children's song. In reality, it is subversive, powerful, and even more relevant as an adult: |
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Related to a "real" protest song above, when Doctor Who skipped a season in 2016, Five Who Fans recorded a new version of "Doctor in Distress" to make sure it had a glorious return. | |
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Crass, as arguably the first Anarcho Pun, pretty much only wrote songs about political subjects. Targets of protest include: Government: "Big A, Little A", "Do They Owe Us a Living?" Military/War: "Fight War, Not Wars", "Major General Dispair" Religion: "Sucks", "So What", "Reality Asylum" |
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Boardwalk Empire has one sung by the Atlantic City Women's Temperance League towards the end of "Nights in Ballygran", as Van Alden shuts down the Celtic dinner and arrests Jim Neary for transporting the liquor being served at it.note It's a real Prohibition-era hymn by C. M. Williams, except it originally said "saloons" not "drink". | |
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Matthew Good likewise doesn't protest against specific things (he uses his blog for that), but many of his songs carry anti-war messages, such as "Black Helicopter" (with the eminently-quotable line "Only killers call killing progress"), "Silent Army In The Trees" (about how war veterans can be abandoned by their country when they return home broken and suffering from PTSD), and "If I Was A Tidal Wave" (talks about washing the world clean of the problems that afflict it, mostly man-made). He also has the song "Sort of a Protest Song", which isn't really against anything in particular, but can be applied to the general apathy modern people apply to third-world problems. |
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In Showdown in Seattle, protesters (and viewers) are treated to Sweet Honey in the Rock rousing up a labor rally crowd. | |
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Black Sabbath had a lot of these on their early albums before their lyrics started becoming more and more cryptic: "Wicked World" (from Black Sabbath), "War Pigs", "Electric Funeral", "Hand of Doom" (all from Paranoid) and "Children of the Grave" (from Master of Reality) all come to mind. | |
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The Human League's "Being Boiled" protested silk farming (sericulture), which as the title suggests, involves pupating silkworms being boiled to death in their cocoons. | |
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"One Tin Soldier" by Original Caste, covered on the Billy Jack soundtrack by Coven. | |
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What's Going On by Marvin Gaye is an entire album full of protest songs. | |
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"The Message" by Grand Master Flash And The Furious Five is a protest song too against life in the ghetto. | |
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Iron Maiden has "Holy Smoke" (on televangelists), "Be Quick Or Be Dead", "Face in the Sand", "Age of Innocence", "Two Minutes to Midnight", whose title references the Doomsday Clock, and their latest song, "El Dorado". Some of their historic battle-inspired songs that enter War Is Hell territory might count. | |
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Also "Born in the U.S.A." from Born in the U.S.A., though many people fail to recognize it as one. | |
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Much earlier, of course, Fogerty penned "Fortunate Son" from Willy and the Poor Boys for Creedence Clearwater Revival. "Fortunate Son" was a working-class protest song against the Vietnam War, but today most people probably know it from Wrangler's reprehensible ad that makes it sound like jingoistic propaganda by only using the first couple lines of the first verse, which were intended ironically. | |
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John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band: "Working Class Hero" | |
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Peter Tosh: Legalize It |
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Innervisions had "Living For the City" which dealt with systemic racism. | |
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In a similar vein, "Alright" by Kendrick Lamar, with its chorus calling for hope in the face of systematic racism, has become a popular chant/song at Black Lives Matter protests. | |
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BTS: Have released several politically charged songs, such as: "No More Dream" and "N.O", which protest the structure of the Korean education system and the pressures society forces on students to achieve academic success. "Baepsae", which criticizes class inequality and the burdens society, and particularly older generations who are unreasonably demanding, places on younger generations. "Am I Wrong", released in 2016, calls out indifferences to current events, with SUGA's line "We all are dogs and pigs We get angry and become dogs" being a Take That! of the classist remarks of a government official during the then soon-to-be-impeached Park Geun-Hye's government, who said that "99% of South Koreans have no ability to move up in the world and can be treated like animals". "Strange" from Agust D (SUGA)'s mixtape D2 (featuring RM) is a commentary on the state of today's society which is dominated by capitalism. He opens the song with "Capitalism injects a morphine called hope, using dreams as its collateral", stating that everyone is a slave to the system and that capitalism is feeding people false hope. |
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"Undercover of the Night" from Undercover criticizes the political corruption in Central and South America in the 1980s. | |
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Absolutely Free: "Plastic People", "Brown Shoes Don't Make It". | |
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Family Guy has done many, including the "Bag of Weed" song and the "Freakin' FCC".'' | |
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Just about everything Rage Against the Machine has ever written. Same goes for their forebears, Public Enemy. Tom Morello's solo career is 100% protest music as well, particularly his Dylan-esque folk-rock outfit the Nightwatchman. |
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Poor Ivan Dobsky, he never done it... | |
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2017's Is This the Life We Really Want? from Roger Waters is littered with these. Songs like "The Last Refugee", "Picture That", "Broken Bones" and the title track, tackle a variety of subjects from war, social media, climate change, and President Trump, who can be a favorite subject multiple times on the record. | |
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Another '60s subversion of protest songs (and protesters of all stripes) is Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth": "Singin' songs and a-carryin' signs. Mostly say hoo-ray for our side." "For What it's Worth" and Edwin Starr's "War" are both rather interesting cases of quasi-protest songs about unrelated local issues (unrest following a nightclub closure in the former's case, gang violence in the latter) that picked up an entirely different interpretation once they entered mainstream cultural canon. The Muppet Show reworked "For What It's Worth" into an anti-hunting song. |
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Country Joe And The Fish's "I-Think-I'm-Fixing-To-Die Rag" was about the Vietnam war. Famously featured in the film Woodstock. | |
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hide's Oblaat is a scarily prophetic denunciation of Apathetic Citizens living in a total surveillance society, Damage and Bacteria are War Is Hell and antiwar (and the latter is Humans Are Bastards as well), Doubt is mocking politicians and leaders as no better than groupies and prostitutes, Sold Some Attitude is... well, protesting something (possibly hide's own addictions), and Easy Jesus is a Religion Rant Song. | |
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