Favorite Protest Songs

[Songbird]

Up-tempo is what you seek and crave?

Jello and the Dead Kennedys ...

 

[swingline]

**** you, I won't do what you tell me.

 

[Slacker]

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

 

[dixiehack]

Call out the idea of accidental nuclear war, but make it a bop.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Another great song on an album full of them.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

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

This track, "What's Going On" and "What's Happening Brother" were all on the same Marvin Gaye album named "What's Going On." All three of these are stellar ... and I wouldn't hesitate to put "Right On" up there as well.

 

[FileNotFound]

 

[Inky_Wretch]

 

[WolvEagle]

"2+2=?" by The Bob Seger System and "Persecution Smith" by Bob Seger & The Last Heard.

The latter song is appropriate for the current political atmosphere.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

 

[Starman]

 

[Driftwood]

 

[TigerVols]

You don’t have to sit back and take this crap!

 

[Webster]

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Brand Nubian - Black and Blue



KRS One - Sound of Da Police

 

[Songbird]

 

[justgladtobehere]

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

A minor upset that Huggy didn't post this one.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

I used to hear this song on the jukebox at a hangout across from high school. I can still hear the pinball machines clattering and ringing in my mind.

 

[I Should Coco]

Here's one I hadn't heard in a while, from 1990, and it still sounds great: