is there a band or song that expresses your political views

[Quiet Reflections]

i think Anti-Flag(yes it means pretty much what you think and please youtube them)perfectly expresses my political views. i really want to hear from everyone on this and i know there have been other favorite music threads but on this i dont care about your favorite i just want to know which shares your same views.

[Quiet Reflections]

there are a ton of very smart and opinionated people on this site so suffice it to say sarcastic anwsers just will not do.

[twowaybro]

Some songs:

Dear Mr Man - Prince
What would You Do - Paris
God is gonna strike you down - Johnny Cash
War - Prince
Jou nu revolte - Boukman Esperyans
Soul Black - Burning Spear
Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos - Public Enemy

etc...etc...etc... 8) 8)

[lupinIII]

One of the most moving anti-war songs I've heard is 'I Was Only 19' there are 2 versions, both fantastic. It's just a beautifully personal dissection of the horror of war, on the part of Vietnam veterans. Not to mention a sort of helpless rage at conscription, and one of the most amazing depictions of Post-Traumatic-Stress disorder.

The original was by a band called Redgum

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY

The cover version's by the Hip Hop group The Herd.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ns82tHhJOr0

[meghanchavalier]

Talkin Bout A Revolution By Tracy Chapman says it all for me

[Fox]

Rage Against The Machine

[lupinIII]

Damn you Fox, that was my next answer! Did you ever see them live? I saw them earlier this year at the Sydney Big Day Out, fucking amazing.

Another one from The Herd, 77%. Addressing the latent racism in Australian society as perpetuated through the media.

Ignore the lame video, it's a great song...

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=pQnGqdFO9EY

Unlike the above song there's very little melody, it's just balls out Aussie hip-hop. There's so much rage in this song too, from lines like "I fucken hate myself, take Aussie from my name, erase this endless shame" to the chorus "Wake up! This country needs a fucken shake up. Wake up! These cunts need a shake-up!"

Hard-arse mother fuckers.

[Wino the SuperHero]

David Banner.
Nas.

Song i'm really into right now.
My President's Black -by Young Jeezy feat. Nas

[unctrld1]

Immortal Technique . . .

Welcome to the 3rd Wprld

[Cuchulain]

Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks
Goin' someplace there's no goin' back
Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge
Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
Shelter line stretchin' round the corner
Welcome to the new world order
Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest
No home no job no peace no rest

The highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad

He pulls prayer book out of his sleeping bag
Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
Bathin' in the city aqueduct

The highway is alive tonight
But where it's headed everybody knows
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad

Now Tom said "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me Mom I'll be there
Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand
Or decent job or a helpin' hand
Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free
Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me."

The Ghost of Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp-oDAxx8So

[hippifried]

"What About Me"
~Quicksilver Messinger Service~

Pretty much summed up the general attitude of the "hippy" (anarchist) movement in the late '60s & early '70s. 1972 if memory serves. It got a lot of air time on the new-fangled FM stations, but was never a "hit" because it couldn't be pared down to 3 minutes & therefore couldn't be released as a single. There was never a video made either.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=OUszp9QFmq4

[peggygee]

Talkin Bout A Revolution By Tracy Chapman says it all for me

That would be one for me.

Another two, might be;

The Revolutionn Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scot Heron

Don't Believe The Hype - Public Enemy

[khorne]

KMFDM - World War III

I declare war on the world
War in outer space
I declare war in a nutshell
War all over the place

I declare war on every government
War against all odds
I declare war on your inner sanctum
On your bloodthirsty gods

World war three - be all that you can be
World war three

I declare war on the axis of morons
All out war on complacent consent
I declare war on the war against drugs
Rape and slaughter of the innocent

War on big brother
Warmongers and profiteers
War on your dogma dubya
Armageddon’s engineers
World war three

World war three - be all that you can be
World war three

War in a heartbeat
I declare war on so-called civilization
World trade globalization
Organized disinformation

War on ambassadors of pretense
War on MTV and CNN
McDonald's, Walt Disney, and Bethlehem
On Christina, Britney, and Eminem

I declare war on the world of anti-choice
On violent unilaterality
On the amassment of murderous high-tech toys
And all crimes against humanity

War on the moral majority
On corporate dot com imperialism
On mindlessly bumbling stupidity
And police-state terrorism

World war three
World war three - be all that you can be
World war three - be all that you can be
World war three

KMFDM - Preach/Pervert

Blackened blood that stains this bed
My sweet addiction I thee wed
You will work
I will win
I will drink in all your sin
Till gallon drunk I hit the ground
Your reason rhymes with pence & pounds
Money makes morality
Your dividends
My decency

You will condemn
I'll convert
You will preach
I will pervert

Condemn!
Convert!
You preach
Pervert!

Your cheapest cut is sweet corrosion
The interest due is never frozen
Pass the bill
Have your thrill
There's a pill for all your ills

You will condemn
I'll convert
You will preach
I will pervert

Condemn!
Convert!
You preach
Pervert!

[Oli]

When ever Sarah Palin opens her mouth, this song runs through my head
(God loves the Sex Pistols)

"Pretty Vacant"

There's no point in asking you'll get no reply
Oh just remember I don't decide
I got no reason it's too all much
You'll always find us out to lunch

Oh we're so pretty
Oh so pretty we're vacant
Oh we're so pretty
Oh so pretty
A vacant

Don't ask us to attend 'cos we're not all there
Oh don't pretend 'cos I don't care
I don't believe illusions 'cos too much is real
So stop you're cheap comment 'cos we know what we feel

Oh we're so pretty
Oh so pretty we're vacant
Oh we're so pretty
Oh so pretty we're vacant
Ah but now and we don't care

There's no point in asking you'll get no reply
Oh just remember a don't decide
I got no reason it's too all much
You'll always find me out to lunch
We're out on lunch

Oh we're so pretty
Oh so pretty we're vacant
Oh we're so pretty
Oh so pretty we're vacant
Oh we're so pretty
Oh so pretty ah
But now and we don't care

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci5SZx3VI_U

[Craig]

Anything by Kid Rock supports my political views.
His response to dealing with the town sheriff:
"Gonna paint his town black, and then paint his wife white, uh"

:D

[Mac_Hine]

beyonce

[SarahG]

I think Pink Floyd's The Wall album is a strong social commentary.

[Mac_Hine]

beyonce

Beyonce? Forgive my ignorance, what political song(s) has she sung?

independent woman

survivor (holocaust tribute)

and so on

[sugdaddie69]

Winter in America---Gil Scott Heron
Crazy-Young Jeezy

[Realgirls4me]

Good one, Sugdaddie69! :)


How about my war views, which can't escape being political.


Here's a song about privilege that was released almost 40 years ago. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how one approaches it, it's shelf life has not diminished one bit since its original release. ... The video anchoring it is a very good one too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woyvGwGNGSo

:(

[Realgirls4me]

Here's another one which shelf life will probably continue into perpetuity. It was also released about 40 years ago and it deals with the hypocrisy of those men of the cloth who give their blessings and send young men off to die. It's the long version replete with the sounds of jet engines and bagpipes, and I still believe that it was a precursor to REM's hit years later, though I've never looked it up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8RbXV6gDU0


:(

[wankmaster]

Toby Keith - Angry American (Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue).
Darryl Worley - Have You Forgotten

[boondocksaint]

It Says Here..by Billy Bragg


When you wake up to the fact
That you paper is tory
Just remember, there are two sides to every story

that anarchy symbol is the same one for 3rd Army patch, my unit.
back to the topic
GWAR has some great sarcastic political songs
one is 'War is all we know'

[boondocksaint]

http://www.hungangels.com/board/files/anarchy_symbolsvg_571.png

speaking of anarchist, isn't it kind of a paradox if they have a symbol that represents anarchy?

heres my units patch

[marissaazts]

ted nugent
kiss my glock

[transmaven]

political views?

I prefer other views:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3wdoxxPqf4

[KalisaD]

i always liked these lyrics:

"...There's almost nothing worse than never being real
Strained voices crying wolf when nobody can hear
If I had a gun I'd pump your ethics full of lead
If I believed in meat I'd eat a plateful of our dead

There's merit in construction when it's done with your own hands
There's beauty in destruction, resurrection, another chance
There's a you and I in union but just an I in my beliefs
There's a crashing plane with a banner that reads everyone's naïve..."

A Plateful of Our Dead by PROTEST THE HERO

[Caff_Racer]

The song "Sarri, Sarri" by the Basque ska band Kortatu:

Ez dakit zer pasatzen den
azken aldi hontan
jendea hasi dela dantzatzen sarritan
zerbait ikustekoa du
bi falta direlakoz
«Recuento generalean».
Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri,
Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri askatu,
Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, bi batu.

Irratikoak han ziren
emititzen zuzenean
paella jango zutela
eta Piti eta Sarri bere muturretan
saltzan zeudela konturatu gabeak.

Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri,
Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri askatu,
Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri.

Zaila dugu sortzea
doinu gogozagorik
Sarri dio herriak
txanpainaz ospaturik
Iruñeko entzierroa
desentzierroa hemen
zapi gorriak
zerua du estaltzen.

Ez dakit zer pasatzen den
azken aldi hontan
jendea hasi dela dantzatzen sarritan
zerbait ikustekoa du
bi falta direlakoz
«Recuento generalean».

Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri,
Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri askatu,
Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, bi batu

Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, bi badoaz,
Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, hanka kalera
Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, bafleetatik...
kriston martxa dabil!

Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri,
Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri askatu,
Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, bi batu

Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, bi badoaz,
Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, hanka kalera
Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, Sarri, bafleetatik...
kriston martxa dabil!

The song celebrates the way in which two Basque political prisoners - who, according to the Spanish government, were members of the Basque separatist organisation ETA - Iñaki Pikabea "Piti" and Joseba Sarrionandia "Sarri" (after who the song is named) escaped from Martutene prison, hidden in sound equipment after a concert in the prison by Imanol Larzabal. Several years later the "Asociación de Victimas del Terrorismo" which is an offshoot of the Spanish neo-Fascist Partido Popular political party, used the lyrics of the song as an excuse to have the band's ex-singer Fermin Muguruza put on trial for glorifying terrorism. Although Kortatu never hid their separatist political views, they had no connection whatsoever with the more radical elements of Basque separatism who are the ones who commit bomb attacks in Euskal Herria and in Spain.
To this day, anybody who supports Basque culture and heritage, or who is favourable to dialogue in order to resolve the political problems in Euskal Herria is still considered to be a "terrorist" by the Spanish government and press. I myself have been hassled by Spanish police just for wearing the shirt of the Athletic Club de Bilbao soccer team... and yes, I am in favour of independence for Euskal Herria (the Basque Country), but via peaceful methods. Here's a link to the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGJxA0w3pJQ

http://gaztelera3c.nireblog.com/blogs/gaztelera3c/061017111335euskal%20herria.jpg


http://www.espacioblog.com/myfiles/euskal-herria/1201387411_f.jpg

[beandip]

"I fucking hate you" by Godsmack.

Dedicated to the fucking blatant liars like Bush, Mcinsane, Obama, Biden, Palin, Clinton(s) and all their totally fucking lamo asshole sucking war mongering "followers".

I don't need a phucking "leader", if you do you're a complete idiot and should put your skull in a ten ton press....make some grape juice for me, ok?.

[twowaybro]

Message to the Corporatocracy that has successfully taken over this country..... 8) 8)

What Would You Do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC8Zrtah1AQ

God's Gonna Cut You Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0EQlQXoEo

Jou Nou Revolte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcKlXLm2ksE

On The Battlefield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd3pcSQ_e9M

These are dangerous times. Disconnect from the Obama/McCain political madness and look within for guidance and direction. Make the connection with whatever higher power/intelligence that you acknowledge and be ever vigilant in maintaining and protecting one's family and community. The jackals have been loosed and are salivating at their prey. Make the necessary preparations now to weather the coming storm that is sure to devastate millions.
8) 8)

[Janie2261]

We're Not Going to Take It

by

Twisted Sister

[sunairco]

Unless I missed it, I can't believe that nobody metioned Barry Maguire's "Eve Of Destruction"

1965 and still as relevant today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8SfiCnwF28

[yodajazz]

I ran across this great song. Just a couple of days ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTW0y6kazWM

It's called "We Can't Make it Here Anymore". By James Mcmurtry

Powerfull words.

[beberebozo]

My current fave by an underappreciated group called "The Bottle Rockets" and recently covered by John Hiatt. My favorite verse pokes fun at Rush Limburger

Lyrics to Welfare Music :

Quit school when she was seventeen
Senator on TV calls her welfare queen
Used to be daddy's little girl
Now she needs help in this mean ol world

Buys cassette tapes in the bargain bin
Loves Carlene Carter and Loretta Lynn
Tries to have fun on a Saturday night
Sunday mornin don't shine too bright

Its welfare music
Watch the baby dance
To the welfare music
Will she ever stand a chance

Takes two to make three
But one ain't here
Still chasin women and drinkin beer
Says nobody understands how he feels
But that don't pay them monthly bills

Angry fat man on the radio
Wants to keep his taxes way down low
Says there oughta be a law
Angriest man you ever saw

Welfare music
Watch the baby dance
To the welfare music
Will she ever stand a chance

Baby dance circles on the floor
Round and round just like before
Baby fall down
Baby get up
Baby needs a drink from the loving cup

Its welfare music
Watch the baby dance
To the welfare music
Will she ever stand a chance (2X)

And in case you'ld like it with music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4cymsN6qvw

[ed_jaxon]

CSNY was and is one of the best protest groups ever.

Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" album

Someone already said P/E

Song? "Fish Ain't Biting" Lamont Dozier