"A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit." - Phil Ochs
Please add your favorite's below!
In no particular order my top 10 favorite protest songs
1) For What Its Worth - Buffalo Springfield
2) Ohio - CSNY
3) Killing In The Name - Rage Against the Machine
4) Get up Stand up - Bob Marley and The Wailers
5) Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
6) All You Fascists Bound to Lose - Woodie Guthrie
7) American Idiot - Green Day
8) Blowing in the Wind - Bob Dylan
9) Fuck tha Police - NWA
10) We shall overcome - Pete Seeger
11) Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil
12) Deportee - The Byrds
13) Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
14) “Talkin’ Bout a Revolution” - Tracy Chaprman
15) ‘Sun City’ - Artists United Against Apartheid
16) They Killed Him - Kris Kristofferson
17) Electric Avenue - Eddie Grant
18) Nazi Punks Fuck Off - Dead Dead Kennedys
19) This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
20) Imagine - John Lennon
@cvvhrn Not exactly what you are looking for, Freddy, but this song is painfully on point. Ouch.
(cc'ing @czarbucks)
Hail Hail Freedonia, from Duck Soup:
@czarbucks It's almost like Groucho Marx was satirizing Donald Trump, but 92 years ago.
@cvvhrn
It's mind-bending. I think this kind of thing comes in waves as each of the generations who lived through it die off...
That was so great.
@czarbucks @BobHorowitz @cvvhrn They Dance Alone - Sting; Biko - Peter Gabriel.