Ooh, "Sun City!" I loved that song and video, and not just because Bono looked really hawt in his beard.
There was a full album spun off from that, which included a U2 song "Silver and Gold," later to be found live on "Rattle and Hum." So there's another one.
My Levellers cds are pretty much all protest songs, with pretty fiddles.
Curious - in my post of the Police lyrics - do you see the whole post in the "quote" font (looks like a typwriter font) or just the first paragraph? Because my browser (Firefox on XP) has shown it both ways.
Only the first paragraph is the fixed-width font. The rest is the standard font. The
t p
tags you've embedded in the post close the
t tt
tag on most browsers (I'm using IE).
What about "Elvis Costello Totally Wants to Make Out With Heather Alayne"?
Or does that one not really count as a "protest song"?
Thanks Jon. Will fix.
(Wondering why Firefox does it both ways....)
eta: Weird. When I went to edit, it looked OK. I discovered that each <p> tag had been closed before the next <p> began a new paragraph, even though I did not enter any </p> tags.
Only if it's protesting his marriage to Diana Krall, Heather.
I like "Less Than Zero" and "Pills and Soap," for Elvis protest songs. "Tramp the Dirt Down" is angriest, but i'm not sure its best.
When I saw Elvis C. live, he did this cover that had lyrics like "Everyone talks about justice, but I don't think they know what it means" or WTTE.
Any ideas what this might be? (This was about 13 years ago so I don't remember much of it.)
Only if it's protesting his marriage to Diana Krall, Heather.
Y'know they have those cds at Starbucks with songs that inspired a particular artist. I checked to make sure there was an Elvis song on hers.