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06-30-2007 #11
You guys already named a lot of them. Don't forget CSNY "Four Dead in Ohio" and of course "Fixin to Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish:
And it's 1 2 3 what are we fightin for?
Don't ask me I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's 5 6 7 open up them pearly gates
There ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee we're all gonna die.
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06-30-2007 #12
oops...and the "Flag Decal" song by John Prine.....
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06-30-2007 #13
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Originally Posted by Oli
Dylan hasn't performed 'Hurricane' in perhaps 2 decades, as far as I know, so I'm not sure if he changed his mind on that issue as well.
Some good choices by Rogers, too. 'Games People Play' is a great song and Cuchulain's choice of 'Fixin' to die rag'
Navin R. Johnson: You mean I'm going to stay this color??
Mother: I'd love you if you were the color of a baboon's ass.
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06-30-2007 #14
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After Ruben got out and committed a few more crimes Bob decided it was better to keep his mouth shut about the Hurricane.
Burn Down The Malls-Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper
Mojo and Skid do the best version of "This Land is Your Land" I've ever heard. It peaks in the middle when Mojo goes off on a rant about "The Amusement Park of my mind,MOJO WORLD!!!" The man is a lunatic Genius.
Ancient Pervert.
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06-30-2007 #15
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"Plane Crash at Los Gatos" - Woody Guthrie
"Undefeated", "Vote That Sucker Out", "Freedom", Bitter Fruit", "I Am a Patriot" - Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul
"Way Down Now" - World Party
"Lawless Avenues" - Jackson Browne
"Good Morning Aztlan", "One Time One Night in America" - Los Lobos
"In My Town" - Ry Cooder
"Barbed Wire Fence" - Brian Setzer
Aside from Woody - all these songs prove that you can shake your ass and protest at the same time.
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06-30-2007 #16
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Some more I jotted down today:
Anti-Bush/Neocon:
"American Idiot" by Green Day
Anti-War:
"Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits
"Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
"19" by Paul Hardcastle
Anti-Apartheid:
"Biko" by Peter Gabriel
"Gimme Hope Jo'anna" by Eddy Grant
"Sun City" by Artists United Against Apartheid
Anti-Poverty:
"Feed The World" by Band Aid
"Harvest for the World" by The Isley Brothers NOT Marvin Gaye (my mistake!)
Environmental:
"Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" by Marvin Gaye
"Is It Like Today?" by World Party
And here's a protest song for the neocons:
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06-30-2007 #17
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Originally Posted by Rogers
Another one on the issue of poverty, though not quite a protest song, again, is Elvis Presley's "In the ghetto".
BTW, "Bob Roberts" is a great film. The clip is based on a a scene in "Don't Look Back" with Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues". There was also a scene in "Love, Actually" that paid homage to Dylan.
You could say that with this song and the musical segment, Dylan and director Pennebaker invented both the music video and what was an early form of rap:
And the homage from "Love, Actually":
Navin R. Johnson: You mean I'm going to stay this color??
Mother: I'd love you if you were the color of a baboon's ass.
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07-01-2007 #18
Good stuff LG. I definately need to increase my Dylan collection.
Some more I remembered:
Joe Hill - Joan Baez (everyone should read up on the history of the Labor Movement)
Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie (the acorn didn't fall far from the tree, hehe)
One Tin Soldier - Billy Jack theme, although it was originally recorded a few years earlier
Impeach the President - Neil Young
Link to One Tin Soldier with Iraq vid
http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_i...xUPCkFudXUheFT
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07-05-2007 #19
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Paths of Victory, Walls of Red Wing, and When the Ship comes in - all by Dylan
what about the whole of 'Berlin' by the man Lou Reed, kind of a protest album against domestic violence, ( maybe!)
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07-06-2007 #20
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Lots and lots of great songs in here!
great post, LG. anti-war songs; Hell yeah!
some of favourites are already mentioned; Buffalo Springfield's For What it's Worth, CSN&Y's Ohio, good old Country Joe Macdonald's 'rag' etc.
but for me there's one song to "rule em all"
Black Sabbath - War Pigs!
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of deaths construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor
Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait till their judgement day comes, yeah!
Now in darkness, world stops turning
As the war machine keeps burning
No more war pigs of the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings
All right now!
Another great song about the mind of a soldier returned from the war is this one: Shinedown - 45