What are the best political songs?
My wife's favorite is Famine by Sinead O'Connor.
U2's Bad is another strong entry.
Then there is this:
What think you?
Best political songs?
Monday December 31, 2007
Categories: Politics, Popular Culture
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Also:
Bob Dylan -- Hurricane
Traditional -- We Shall Overcome
How about:
Sunday, Bloody Sunday-U2
Cult of Personality-Living Colour
Holiday-Green Day
Volunteers of America-Jefferson Airplane
Do You Hear The People Sing?-Les Miserables
Masters of War - Bob Dylan (and maybe about 10 other Dylan songs)
War - Edwin Starr "War, huh, yeah...What is it good for...Absolutely nothing...Say it again, y'all"
Redemption Song - Bob Marley
Your Flag decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Any More - John Prine
Police & Thieves - Junior Murvin
We Shall Overcome - PPM, Pete Seeger, and everybody else on planet Earth
And I should throw in "Okie From Muskogee" by Merle Haggard because at the time it came out it really pegged the moonshine drinking confederate license plate redneck jerks that might run you over hitching through vast swaths of this country. Yep, then as now, that was their politics. That's who they were and they were proud of it. Pair that up with "Ballad of the Green Berets" and you get a pretty fair idea of what today's GOP leaders though was cool back in the day.
Here's a bit from John Prine's song mentioned above:
But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
They're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
ummm rage agains the machine and system of a down are very political in there music greenday also
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