Favorite Protest Songs

[ChrisLong]

Chicago: "The Whole World is Watching"

https://www.google.com/search?q=the...ate=ive&vld=cid:1d727d69,vid:ORuS1-437bA,st:0

 

[swingline]

And, pontiff, how are you?

 

[Woody Long]

I was 10 years old when the first Gulf War was on the way, and Pete Seeger was at a family event, as he's a semi-distant relative. Anyhow, of course guitars and banjos came out, and songs were sang, the most poignant, in retrospect, was this one:

 

[vonnegutnaked2]

Many I would have named have been mentioned.

I’ll add this one.

 

[I Should Coco]

Chicago: "The Whole World is Watching"

https://www.google.com/search?q=the...ate=ive&vld=cid:1d727d69,vid:ORuS1-437bA,st:0

Another good one from Chicago: “Dialogue Parts 1 and 2.” We can make it happen!

 

[Baron Scicluna]

And yet, there still a lot of changes to come.

 

[garrow]

Not as famous as What's Going On.....but superior in my opinion



Plus an unheralded gem

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Men at Work had 4 all-time great songs ...

Overkill
Who Can It Be Now
Down Under

... and this protest song:

In the same vein ....

1983-84 was the peak of nuclear hysteria. Then the USSR got Gorby and we could breathe.

 

[micropolitan guy]

"Fortunate Son."

"Millworker."

"The Times They are a Changin."

"Ohio."

Whatever that "Give me an F" song by Country Joe McDonald and the Fish" was called.

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[waterytart]

Feel-like-I’m-fixin-to-die Rag

I saw Country Joe perform it at a club in the Village in the late ‘70s. When he got to the Fish cheer, he told the audience that the show was being broadcast live by a local radio station, and we should be mindful of that while responding to the cheer.

Joe: Give me an F
Us: F
Joe: Give me an I
Us: I
Joe: Noooo! Weren’t you listening??? It’s important to get this right on the radio! Now, give me an F!
Us: F
Joe: Give me an I
Us: U

 

[Batman]

Protest against bouncers preventing clubbers from pogoing back in the day.

STICK IT TO THE MAN, MEN WITHOUT HATS!

 

[Batman]

"Fortunate Son."

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Frank Turner’s take on the Trump era.

 

[Songbird]

A woman’s protest against male cocksuckery. Also one of the few Oscar caliber videos in MTV history; might start a thread.

 

[TigerVols]

A woman's protest against male cocksuckery. Also one of the few Oscar caliber videos in MTV history; might start a thread.

Even more powerful song on the same topic.

 

[Slacker]

"So where are the strong ... and who are the trusted?"

 

[Slacker]

 

[Starman]

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

 

[DanOregon]

I do wish there were more "up-tempo and rousing" protest songs. Way too many are wistful laments about things getting better "eventually."