Uh, you young'us need more protest/peace music.

[elehhhhna]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sjSHazjrWg
I'll spot ya this circa-70's Peacetrain (LVE) by Cat Stevens (a mooooslim!!1!one!!)

and mention Pretender by the Foos Fighters

Steve Earle gets a big nod BUT

where's the protest rock (rap/dub(?)/etc.) ??/?

[KT2000]

1. Excellent point

Some were not too happy about the oldster such as Joan Baez singing at OWS at Zucatti park so the young uns need to step up.

[DFab420]

2. Yes because we need to do this the exact same way you old'uns did it in the sixties...

...Rock music was your way of getting the message out. We have twitter and youtube.

Thank you for your concern though. I'll make sure to take this up at the next "30 and under" secret council meeting.

[kestrel91316]

5. Your snark directed at the OPer is extremely inappropriate.

She's no troll. She's probably been on DU since you were in diapers, dude.

[elehhhhna]

11. awwwwww

'sokay, doc, I have a 15 y/o

used to it

[elehhhhna]

6. riiiight. music NEVER EVER enhanced ANYTHING! WHAT was I THINKING

sheesh

[DFab420]

8. My snark was totally appropriate. I didn't mean to imply that she was a troll tho.

so for that I am sorry. Was just being snarky.

[JuniperLea]

12. Well for those of us with kids your age...

And a long history of protests, with or without the music, it made you look like a snippy little know nothing twerp.

My kids know the power in music... the kids over, and under 30... all of them. Come to think of it, all three are musicians... not that it should matter.

[DFab420]

14. Ouch juniperlea. Those comments actually hurt coming from you. I already apologized for what I felt

Was wrong of me. But seriously a know nothing twerp? I mean I've been here for two years now and you and I have talked about a wide range of issues. I get that I may have been snarky. But I felt like it was in the spirit of the OP which has it's own amount of snark and humor. Seriously. Not sure if you wanted to get at me but you certainly did.

[JuniperLea]

18. My sincere apologies, DFab420...

I didn't think before hitting that button. I guess I got my dander up (something us old folks say) :) when I read your post. Or maybe I'm just not coming to terms with my age? :)

I really am sorry. I have this bad habit of reciprocal snarking... you're a good cat for a young whippersnapper. :)

Now where's that onion I had on my belt? Can you give me five bees for a quarter?

Get off my lawn!

:rofl:

[DFab420]

22. Thank you!

:hug: :hug:

I completely understand the reciprocal snark reaction. I am usually guilty of it at least once a day :).

You also are a very good cat.. that's why I was so taken aback. I would not want to face your ire in anyway. :P


I'll stay of the lawn but not off the grass.......... :D

:hug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Shh check Makana.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq3BYw4xjxE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

He is one of yours...and yes, he is channeling Dylan there.

Great protest song and I suspect the first of many to come.

[DFab420]

9. dupe.

dupe.

[Angry Dragon]

17. A lot of people that need to hear the message do not do twitter

and youtube

Music is just one more avenue and what could it hurt??

[Andy823]

3. Here is another one

From Quick Silver Messenger Service "What About Me". Late 60's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUszp9QFmq4

[Huey P. Long]

4. I started compiling a while back- there are about 6 here

I've seen a few more since...

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=2217839

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Joseph Arthur - We Stand As One (#occupywallstreet)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWg1GVVUE2A&feature=player_embedded

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We Are the 99% (as we gather together)
These are the words of The Declaration of the Occupation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgEdrh617qs&feature=player_embedded# !
Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir
Song We are the 99% (as we gather together) by Nehemiah Luckett &
Laura Newman (lead vocal)
Free Download
http://www.revbilly.com/work/music/songs/we-are-the-99

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I am one of the 99
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoe-qvkWq0&feature=player_embedded

I have been songwriting for several years and I couldn't finish putting lyrics to it until I started following the "Occupy Wallstreet" movement. I have written this song for the protestors in New York, thought you might need a battle hymn

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Boots Riley of the hiphop group, The Coup, performs "5 million ways to kill a CEO" at Occupy Oakland on October 13th, 2011.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l96bK2zuMMQ&feature=player_embedded

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KMFDM - A Drug Against Wall Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z98WP_ejQLQ

In support of the October 15th Global Day Of Action KMFDM releases "A Drug Against Wall Street"
Download the free track and free printable poster here: http://kmfdm.net/adrugagainstwallstreet /

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Immortal Technique - Rich Mans World (1%) (The Martyr) {Produced By Shuko}
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRTifRH4hRY

Immortal Technique - Rich Mans World (1%)

The Martyr - Immortal Technique

DOWNLOAD HERE: http://www.mediafire.com/?9crubh5wp9nbm9i

"The Martyr" - Immortal Technique
(October 27th 2011) Free Download.

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Occupy Wall Street - Jeremy Gilchrist Original Music - We Are the 99%
I wrote this song for all those protesting in NYC as part of the Occupy Wall Street Demonstrations. Lyrics below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlQM8G7_WGQ

They can take our money
They can take our homes
They can steal the future
Mortage our souls

Occupy the politicians mind
Buy the truth and sell us lies

But there's a rising on wall street
I am you and you are me
We are the 99%'ers
On the right side of love and history

It's hard to say where it went wrong
Decades before me and this song
Through the banksters and the wars
You know I just can't take it anymore

There's a rising on wall street
I am you and you are me
We are the 99%'ers
On the right side of love and history

Jeremy Gilchrist
2011

[elehhhhna]

7. I'm Afraid of America by Bowie

and his "Heroes", for that matter!

[The Straight Story]

10. We are the many by Makana:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq3BYw4xjxE&feature=related

[Capitalocracy]

13. Here's a modern antiwar one...

by Tool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yN-jJLj0k

[riverwalker]

15. political protest rap

is all in world music. Some of the rap coming from the arab spring countries is razor sharp.

[Odin2005]

16. We have plenty of protest music, it just doesn't get airtime on most radio stations.

Here is a song about Global Warming by the metal band Disturbed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwELajFteTo&ob=av2e

[JuniperLea]

19. Thanks for this...

I love Disturbed... even more now.

[Odin2005]

24. They are one of my favorite bands, they are great musicians.

[arcane1]

23. Remember the late 80's, when every metal band had a "greenhouse effect" or "nuclear war" song

on every album???

It's out there, it's just no longer on the radio or MTV or wherever the hell people get their music now :)

[eridani]

25. And with modern production costs so much lower, there is actually way more of it

--thereby making it harder to pay attention to or follow any single one of them.

[dana_b]

35. exactly

RATM/Tom Morello, System of a Down, Outernational, Rise Against, Ben Harper, Anti Flag, The Coup, MIA, Bright Eyes, Pearl Jam, Prodigy, Ani DiFranco, and on and on... there is a lot of good political/protest music out there that just doesn't get played and this is from some BIG bands.

[arcane1]

20. 99% of my protest music is mid-90's Skyclad

Too many to list:

Civil War Dance
Cardboard City
Land of the Rising Slum
A Bellyful of Emptiness
Gammadion Seed
The Truth Famine
Still Spinning Shrapnel
Jeopardy
Turncoat Rebellion
Inequality Street
Science Never Sleeps
History Lessens
Bombjour!
Master Race
Eirenarch
Troublesometimes

Ah, I feel a jam session coming on :)

Extra bonus for a few songs by local rapper Paris:

Evil
AWOL
Sheep to the Slaughter


There's PLENTY of good populist music out there!! :D

[Kat45]

26. Here's a couple of political songs/videos by rock bands who usually aren't political

I think it's great that these usually nonpolitical musicians were moved to write these political songs, with videos that illustrate what they're singing about. Both videos have some text illuminating the issues.

The first one "Stand" by Candlebox, and it was out a few years ago. (The lyrics include "Fuck you, consumption.")


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIt0r-Wohm8


The next one is by Buckcherry, whose songs usually are about partying (and sex), raunchy with words that can't be played on the radio. But last year they wrote this song, "Our World," about the problems facing the world, and after the BP oil spill they rewrote it to address the situation.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybw66xbFPVo

[Modern_Matthew]

27. There's plenty of songs trickling out from the Occupy movement...

You just have to look for them. :D

Political Videos has a few.

Also: Check out Flobots, Rise Against, and Muse for a few political songs.

[flvegan]

28. Rise Against.

Where's the "protest rock" it's right there. And that's just for starters.

[LeftyMom]

29. Step 1. Go to youtube Step 2. Search for Anti-Flag. Step 3. Play any song

I have too many tabs open, and I'm getting tired of seeing this same thread every few days.

[flvegan]

30. Look up one, dammit.

Friends, doggone it.

[LeftyMom]

31. Only since you asked so nicely. Hmph. This one is neatly Occupy-y even though it's a bit older.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbdAod0xh98

[flvegan]

34. Goldfinger's "Spokesman" isn't here either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVmcAGFdWKs

[upi402]

32. I miss Rage Against the Machine

Call me an American Idiot..

[flvegan]

33. We all do.

RATM blazed the way and did it like no other.