[Music] Favourite political song!

[jcdenton08]

So I’m thinking why not blend two of many people’s very favourite aspects of NSC, with a thread full of political/protest songs.

Edit: Context is quite helpful so for this one:

I’ll kick things off with this banger, from former Barenaked Ladies front man Steven Page. The song appears to be about the Quebec City protests, specifically the police brutality during the Summit of the Americas 2002. A literal wall was built to keep protestors away from the summit, with peaceful protestors being beaten and tear gassed by the RCMP’s Thug With a Badge Division. The “wilted rose” represents the death of the symbolic red rose of social democracy.

 

[AK74]

Ohio - Neil Young

 

[WATFORD zero]

Victoria Park, 1978

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[jcdenton08]

Forgot to add, context is really helpful if it’s a relatively obscure (to me) issue…

 

[hart's shirt]

Sunday Bloody Sunday really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday - you wake up in the morning, you’ve got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running around, you’ve got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think “Sunday, bloody Sunday!”

 

[Bodian]

Most of Billy Bragg, Most of New Model Army, and quite a lot of Midnight Oil. Too many to choose from!

Here's a recent one, and I don't need to explain the context.

 

[Official Old Man]

I was 16 when this was released and a huge Beatles fan so jumped on this straight away. At the time, Ireland was a country miles away whose politics meant nothing to me. I just loved the song.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Rant against corruption and violence and poverty in Jamaica, that most beautiful and edgy of islands

 

[Machiavelli]

There are quite a few in A Complete Unknown

 

[jcdenton08]

Sunday Bloody Sunday really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday - you wake up in the morning, you’ve got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running around, you’ve got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think “Sunday, bloody Sunday!”

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Got your big plate, @hart's shirt ?

 

[Machiavelli]

This. If you don't know the context then check it out:

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

[Machiavelli]

Along a not too dissimilar theme:

 

[Bigsul]

Julian Cope, always entertains and always open with his opinions. This one gets straight to the point



Billy Bragg, on the right side of history, and an educational song to boot



The Exploited, always angry! And a cracking performance from Tim Roth. Visceral.

 

[Frutos]

 

[pocketseagull]

Reaction to 9/11


About Warren Anderson, CEO of company responsible for Bhopal disaster.


About anarchism and Emma Goldman.

 

[WATFORD zero]

 

[Flounce]

 

[A1X]