🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[vagrantx]

Day 17: A protest song

This song's a masterclass in lyricism... The metaphors, the references, the humour, it's all so incredibly well crafted. Impostor Jesus catching black lung has me rolling... Knopfler's a gosh darn genius.

there's a protest singer, he's singing a protest song!
[...]
they're pointing out the enemy, to keep you deaf and blind
they wanna sap your energy, incarcerate your mind
give you Rule Britannia; gassy beer and Page Three
two weeks in España and Sunday striptease!

Dire Straits - Industrial Disease

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 17: A protest song

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
Vote for me and I'll set you free
Rap on, brother, rap on

Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) - The Temptations

 

[PrettyLilPussy19]

Day 17: A protest song

Delilah Bon - Dead Men Don't Rape

 

[Masters_slutpussy]

Day 17: A protest song
Wyclef Jean- Gunpowder

 

[lingus60]

Day 17: A protest song

Chris Rea: The road to hell

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 17: A protest song
"Born in the USA" - Bruce Springsteen

 

[orangecurious]

Day 17: A protest song

Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
one of the greatest covers ever? Wyatt made this his own.

"diving for dear life when we could be diving for pearls"

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 17: A protest song

"Power has been cried by those stronger than me
Straight into the face that tells you to grab on your chains
If you love bein' free"

"Nina Cried Power," Hozier ft. Mavis Staples

 

[SluttyShannon]

Day 17: A protest song

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Day 17: A protest song

I aint gettin my head blown off
While Bush old ass on TV playin golf

Fuck a War - Geto Boys

 

[IrrelevantFacts]

Day 17: A protest song
I was going to post the United Health song, but since that was already taken we have another one from Jesse Welles- War isn't Murder.

 

[Anastasia1999]

Day 17: A protest song

 

[curious_slut]

Day 17: A protest song

Mashrou' Leila - Cavalry (English Version)

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 17: A protest song

Somehow just gets more relevant. Which I guess means it ain’t exactly working. But still.

 

[XShadynzX]

Day 17: A protest song

Damn the Dam- John Hanlon​

John Hanlon's song 'Damn the dam' was originally recorded as a jingle for a home-insulation advertisement. In 1973 it was adopted by environmentalists as a protest song against a government proposal to raise the water level of Lake Manapōuri for a hydro-electric dam. ​

https://www.cromwellheritageprecinct.co.nz/​

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 17: A protest song
Ohio Crosby, Stills, Nash

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 17: A protest song

Street Dogs - Final Transmission

 

[RockstarPapa]

Day 17: A protest song
"Born in the USA" - Bruce Springsteen

It's amazing how often this song is misinterpreted/misunderstood as a supremely patriotic, almost jingoistic song!

 

[RockstarPapa]

Day 17: A protest song

 

[Bry1313]

Day 17: A protest song
"Born in the USA" - Bruce Springsteen

One of the most misunderstood songs ever

 

[Bry1313]

Day 17 - Protest Song

 

[LustfulIntentions2]

Day 17 - A protest song

Lots of good stuff here already, but I picked one that, when I heard it here on the MTV VMAs (or whatever) at 14, 15 years old, I didn't fully get it. At the time, I just saw Pearl Jam, a very 'in' band that I enjoyed, with Neil Young, who I only knew in passing because of my father. And then they did this. Loud, and angsty and very clearly pained at the world we've allowed to be built around us. So, not a war protest like so many others here, but a fist in the air at the damage done by neglecting the least privileged amongst us.

 

[TXRafe]

Day 17 - A protest song

one of the unquiet voices of rage at a time when i was 16 years old and just starting to listen...

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 17 - A protest song

I just realized protest songs are my favorite genre

So as someone who works in the depths of capitalism and sees how rotten the system is, this music gives me life.

The Men Who Rule The World - Garbage

 

[The_Quiet_Man]

Day 17: A protest song