Fun fact.. lyrics from this were in historic WANK Worm hack.. the first politically motivated cyber-protest and foreshadowed hactivist culture decades before it was broadly adopted.
What I see on that list is a glowing example of propaganda. Out of all the superb protest music that was produced in the late '60s and early '70s, only half a dozen made this so-called list, while the bulk of what's listed is a menu of current C/PMC (the Comfortable/Professional Managerial Class identity politics. Where is "We Shall Not Be Moved" ( https://youtu.be/KMO4kB0ft2o)? Where is Pete Seeger? Still exiled as a communist, no doubt. And despite the (likely manufactured) controversy, leaving out Buffy St. Marie's "You Got to Run" or "The War Racket"? Donovan's "Universal Soldier"? And while I love "Blowin' in the Wind" as much as the next Boomer, Dylan has half a dozen better ones.
Dylan has "Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" and "Masters of War," both better than "Blowin' In the Wind," and included. Pete Seeger is on the list with "We Shall Overcome." I don't know how you can say the bulk is identity politics. Don't even know to what you're referring besides maybe a handful of tunes.
Just reading this list brings tears to my eyes. Nearly a century of protest songs, messages to power and the people. Yet, here we are, today...
Do y’all like calypso music? This one is from the fifties. “Macbeth the great - buy me a zeppelin”
https://youtu.be/5We2FZAUvx8?si=Mjry4D5aAVFEE-7R
Kinda embarrassing to say that “legalize it” is a protest song. Peter Tosh wrote a lot more powerful stuff like “can’t blame the youth”
Thanks so much for sharing this! I've forwarded to the NPR station I volunteer at.
Finally, the words of Scott Ritter, not a song a t all....https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vFn5zdsD5g4&pp=ygUoU2NvdHR0IHJpdHRlciBzcGVlY2ggZ3Jhc3Nob3BwZXIgS2FwbGFuIA%3D%3D
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2oYVhs6sqHc
This one is a prayer, MariGolds
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s5lOIy5u19A
Paper airplane/ John Denver biden
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q4w3hTZxNDI
Grasshopper Kaplan
Did you get injexted?
Thanksgiving nearly two years old now
97. Midnight Oil - “Beds Are Burning” [1987]
Fun fact.. lyrics from this were in historic WANK Worm hack.. the first politically motivated cyber-protest and foreshadowed hactivist culture decades before it was broadly adopted.
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/may/14/nasa-wank-worm/
What I see on that list is a glowing example of propaganda. Out of all the superb protest music that was produced in the late '60s and early '70s, only half a dozen made this so-called list, while the bulk of what's listed is a menu of current C/PMC (the Comfortable/Professional Managerial Class identity politics. Where is "We Shall Not Be Moved" ( https://youtu.be/KMO4kB0ft2o)? Where is Pete Seeger? Still exiled as a communist, no doubt. And despite the (likely manufactured) controversy, leaving out Buffy St. Marie's "You Got to Run" or "The War Racket"? Donovan's "Universal Soldier"? And while I love "Blowin' in the Wind" as much as the next Boomer, Dylan has half a dozen better ones.
Dylan has "Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" and "Masters of War," both better than "Blowin' In the Wind," and included. Pete Seeger is on the list with "We Shall Overcome." I don't know how you can say the bulk is identity politics. Don't even know to what you're referring besides maybe a handful of tunes.
At least crass is in the top 100.
Some pretty good punk songs made the list
It’s missing “death - politicians In my eyes”