Protest Songs

[Guadaloopy 10926]

On 4/3/2019 at 9:01 PM, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

 

Same songwriter.  Another heart-wrenching anti-war anthem:

 

[Grandioso 2592]

 

Movie Producers: "Hey, get those Rage Machine guys to do a song for this soundtrack. They're hot right now and Godzilla is going to need hard rock!"

RATM: (ring ring) "Hello?"

Movie Producers: "Can you guys put together a song for the Godzilla movie soundtrack? It's gonna be a BLOCKBUSTER!"

RATM: [Writes song about how Hollywood and consumer culture keep people stupid and distracted and are bullshit, talks about movies whitewashing history, expressly calls the movie "Godzilla" itself "pure muthafuckin' filler." Sends in tape to the executives.]

Producers: "Super!"

 

[JimmyJames 12271]

8 minutes ago, Grandioso said:

 

Movie Producers: "Hey, get those Rage Machine guys to do a song for this soundtrack. They're hot right now and Godzilla is going to need hard rock!"

RATM: (ring ring) "Hello?"

Movie Producers: "Can you guys put together a song for the Godzilla movie soundtrack? It's gonna be a BLOCKBUSTER!"

RATM: [Writes song about how Hollywood and consumer culture keep people stupid and distracted and are bullshit, talks about movies whitewashing history, expressly calls the movie "Godzilla" itself "pure muthafuckin' filler." Sends in tape to the executives.]

Producers: "Super!"

 

The producers did not care what the song meant.

[washparkhorn 9935]

War is failure.

[Grandioso 2592]

1 minute ago, JimmyJames said:

The producers did not care what the song meant.

I imagine someone listened to the first 20-30 seconds to make sure it was catchy, then they sent it to legal to make sure they could sneak it in to the soundtrack without having to put a parental advisory sticker on it. They probably didn't figure out what the song was about, if ever, until the single came out.

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[WhatTheBuck 28716]

3 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

It is striking to me how much of the music in the late 80s recognized what was happening at the time and what was to come. It was a warning. 

1988

 

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[Bookman 4611]

Not sure how I missed this thread. Love it.

While the following albums aren't a collection of "protest" songs per se, they accurately depict much of what I feel about Trump's America:

 

 

 

[cactusflinthead 27594]

 

 

[NAVY 6739]

 

 

 

 

[brakeman 28254]

 

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[brakeman 28254]

 

[cactusflinthead 27594]

Come on down!

[brakeman 28254]

 

[washparkhorn 9935]

Meet the new boss - same as the old boss.

[brakeman 28254]

CHILLS.

[cactusflinthead 27594]

It's cool when someone gets to post and goes off.

Somewhere there are guitars and banjos.

Singers of song in the face of hate.

[dogbreath 431]

Some selections from my protest songs playlist.

Racist Friend - The Specials

Your Racist Friend - They Might Be Giants

Let's Face Facts - The Masqueradors

Israelites - Desmond Dekker 

This is Why We Fight - Decembrists

House Un-American Blues Activity Dream - Mimi and Richard Farina

Burden of Shame - UB40

If There is a Hell Below - Curtis Mayfield

This is Not a Song, It's an Outburst - Rodriguez

I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After

A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke

The Heart of the Matter - Rupert Hine

The Free Mexican Air Force - Peter Rowan

The Sadder But Wiser Girl For Me - Robert Preston

For Jefferson and Liberty - Oscar Brand

Badges - Minutemen

The Partisan - Leonard Cohen

 

[TheStoicPaisano 9904]

 

[NWBuck 8548]

1 hour ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

 

I love this song, and Rhiannon Giddens (I like to imagine her as Raylan Giddens and Rachels Brooks' kid...)

[WhatTheBuck 28716]

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[BehoId, The Underminer! 11668]

listened to this one today.

 

 

[Longhorn Fever 267]

Not the quality of most of the above, but protest songs for us (former?)fundies:

 

 

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Edited March 18, 2021 by Hugo Stiglitz

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[tchookem 3900]

 

Thank you for sharing this one. I'm probably showing my ignorance/unhipness, but I'd never heard of Saul Williams. I'm glad I have now.

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Edited March 18, 2021 by Hugo Stiglitz

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[Fudge Nuggets 19151]

My RATM playlist hasn't been getting enough play since dotard got his ass fired.  I have to say one of the only positives from the reign of terror was I got in some seriously good workouts after getting pissed off to high heaven by dotard then firing up RATM.

[brakeman 28254]

Piss up a Rope

my fav!

[UpperWestside 6136]

On 3/2/2021 at 12:50 PM, TheStoicPaisano said:

 

I worked with one of the women who sings with them when she is not singing with her own band. She is one of the sweetest people I have ever run across. She is from Romania and had her first child not too long ago. She’s got a great soul and I am very proud of all the good she has been able to spread through singing. 

[WhatTheBuck 28716]

Now I’m actually weeping because I forgot about it this year. I missed the anniversary by two weeks from this coming Tuesday. That was four days after my first vaccination shot. But goddamnit.

 

[fattyflattie 4636]

9 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Now I’m actually weeping because I forgot about it this year. I missed the anniversary by two weeks from this coming Tuesday. That was four days after my first vaccination shot. But goddamnit.

 

I’ve listened to that song a thousand times and never put the lyrics together.  I wasn’t alive for that, but right over my head.  

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[JimmyJames 12271]

On 1/15/2021 at 10:21 PM, JimmyJames said:

Unintentional protest song.  1989 FTW.

 

Now more important than ever.