A thread of protest songs

[Buzzer]

I feel like making an itunes playlist of protest songs:

so far:

Edge of destruction - Barry(?) Something
For what it's worth - Buffalo Springfield
What's going on - 4 non-blondes
War - Edwin Starr
Southern Man - Neil Young
99 Balloons - Nina

...and hit a wall. Especially looking for protest songs that aren't 60s hippy stuff but gladly take any suggestions.

Except that Boy George song that goes something like "boy, war is stupid and people are stupid" which is a terrible song by a bloke that's had far more than his 15 minutes worh and should now just f*** off.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The Beat - 'Stand Down Margaret'

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Or... 'Career Opportunities' by The Clash.

Sample lyrics:

They offered me the office, offered me the shop
They said I'd better take anything they'd got
Do you wanna make tea at the BBC?
Do you wanna be, do you really wanna be a cop?

 

[Buzzer]

- knew you wouldn't disappoint, Tom!

Does Kirsty MacColl New England count?

If not then Interesting Drug will do as she sang backing on that one.

 

[Horsham Gull]

Rage against the machine

 

[Buzzer]

Rage against the machine

D'oh - fantastic call. Much, much better than that crappy Green Day American Idiot nonsense.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Bricks and Mortar

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Sort of. Tho Kirsty's rendition is sweet AS, you'd have to give the writing credits to Billy Bragg innit

 

[Gully]

Pretty much anything by Billy Bragg in his early days was protesting, or at least making comment, about the way the Tories were ruling the country and how much of the press supported their right wing ideals.

 

[Buzzer]

Seems bloody obvious now, doesn't it!! I had a complete mental block and was thinking - didn't anybody protest after the 60s?

Elvis Costello, Throbbing Gristle (what a band), Tom Robinson...

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

On a me-me-me technicality, you COULD include Amy Winehouse 'Rehab'

 

[Buzzer]

hmmm...a tad leftfield, which reminds me of Open Up (great track), but well worth the addition.

In that case, Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours. Quite why some people despise Basildon's finest is beyond me.

 

[coventrygull]

In that case, Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours. Quite why some people despise Basildon's finest is beyond me.

I love Depeche Mode. You could also include People are People.

 

[bhaexpress]

Born in the USA - Actually an anti American song so often played to celebrate America !

 

[dougdeep]

Give Ireland back to the Irish. Wings.

 

[Icy Gull]

Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Hurricane - Bob Dylan
Lives in the Balance - Jackson Browne

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Wired for Sound - Cliff

 

[El Presidente]

Shipbuilding: Elvis Costello (although the Robert Wyatt version is better)

I'm with Stupid: Pet Shop Boys

Waltzing Matilda: The Pogues

Soldier Soldier: Spizz Energi

 

[supaseagull]

Stomp by Steps

 

[dougdeep]

Postman Pat. All about the exploitation of felines.