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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

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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”

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Thanks so much for sharing this! I've forwarded to the NPR station I volunteer at.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2oYVhs6sqHc

This one is a prayer, MariGolds

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s5lOIy5u19A

Paper airplane/ John Denver biden

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q4w3hTZxNDI

Grasshopper Kaplan

Did you get injexted?

Thanksgiving nearly two years old now

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Ironically(?), Bono has not only become a Zionist (Always was?), but a supporter of the Zelensky regime, an insider of the warmongering and genocidal Democrat Party, as well as a poster child for the vicious WEF. Smh… (What Americans don’t know.) From here on in, he’ll always be “Bonobo” in my book.

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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/

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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.

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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.

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Indeed.

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At least crass is in the top 100.

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Some pretty good punk songs made the list

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It’s missing “death - politicians In my eyes”

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