Oh DAMN, how could I forget "Fortunate Son?" LOVE that song.
How about "A Change Is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke? That one gets another "LOVE that song" from me.
You're nice, and you're funny and you don't smoke, and okay, werewolf, but that's not all the time. I mean, three days out of the month, I'm not much fun to be around, either.
Willow ,'Get It Done'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Alicia K - Nov 04, 2004 5:44:10 pm PST #5735 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Lyra Jane - Nov 04, 2004 5:48:20 pm PST #5736 of 10003
Up with the sun
I was thinking of "Fortunate Son," but I left it off my list! Great song.
"Rockin' In the Free World," either the Neil Young version or the Pearl Jam cover, should be mentioned.
Alicia K - Nov 04, 2004 6:00:12 pm PST #5737 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Dang, another good one. Oh, can't forget Dylan, "Masters of War."
Jen - Nov 04, 2004 6:04:19 pm PST #5738 of 10003
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
"Masters of War" by Bob Dylan:
"You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud"
"Roll With It" by Ani DiFranco:
"all I know is that those
who are going to be killed
aren't those who preside
on capitol hill
I told him,
don't fill the front lines
of their war
those assholes aren't worth dying for"
"Know Your Rights" by the Clash:
"You have the right not to be killed
Murder is a crime!
Unless it was done by a
Policeman or aristocrat"
KYEO by Fugazi:
"we must, we must, we must keep our eyes open
see what we see, what once was promised now will be.
still uncertain? get off that hang, don't wait for the bang,
the tools, they will be swinging, but we will not be beaten down"
DXMachina - Nov 04, 2004 6:05:36 pm PST #5739 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I've always been amused by the fact that Creedence managed to sneak all those protest songs onto top 40 AM radio. And giving that it's frelling pouring outside (and through) my windows, here's another - "Who'll Stop the Rain."
"Eve of Destruction" - Barry Maguire
Lyra Jane - Nov 04, 2004 6:13:01 pm PST #5740 of 10003
Up with the sun
Oh, speaking of Fugazi, "Suggestion." ("She did nothing to deserve it ... We blame her for being there."
Also: "White Lines" and "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, and "Killing in the Name Of" by Rage Against the Machine.
Alicia K - Nov 04, 2004 6:13:58 pm PST #5741 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Bob Marley "Get Up Stand Up"
Sinead O'Connor "Black Boys on Mopeds"
U2 "Bullet the Blue Sky" and "Mothers of the Disappeared"
The Police "Invisible Sun"
Sting "They Dance Alone (Gueca solo)"
Jen - Nov 04, 2004 6:27:15 pm PST #5742 of 10003
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Oh, and how could I have forgotten the Clash's "Guns of Brixton"?:
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row
You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Angus G - Nov 05, 2004 1:37:18 am PST #5743 of 10003
Roguish Laird
I'm not really a huge fan of protest songs, but I'd nominate:
Public Enemy - "Fight the Power"
!!! = "Me and Giuliani Down By the Schoolyard"
"La Marseillaise"
Fred Pete - Nov 05, 2004 3:28:39 am PST #5744 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'm not sure it's quite a protest song, but "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" by Bing Crosby hits me hard every time.