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(@mark_fambrough)
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Riki Tiki Tavi by Donovan

(Alternate Version)

"Hind sight is 20/20"


   
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(@progressions)
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LOL, here's a "good" one: "Bush Was Right" :)

Jeff

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(@jsnood)
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I'm just going to throw out the name Phil Ochs and let it speak for itself.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. - A.J. Muste


   
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(@uno-pulgar)
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Hurricane - Bob Dylan (possibly my favorite Dlyan song,but that's another thread)
Kiss My * - Ted Nugent
King Heroin - James Brown
1040 Blues - Robert Cray

Avatar- Correy Harris 8/12/2006 Heritage Music Blues fest, Wheeling WVa


   
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(@misanthrope)
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...just heard Jack Johnson's Cookie Jar, that's a worthy addition.

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(@teleplayer324)
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Stones- Street Fighting Man
Stones- Hang Fire
Jefferson Airplane- Go Ask Alice
Liam Clancy- When All Her Rivers Run Free

Immature? Of course I'm immature Einstein, I'm 50 and in a Rock and ROll band.

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(@alangreen)
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Pansies, the lot of em LOL. My vote goes to:

White Riot - The Clash
Up bondage, up yours - X-Ray Spex
Winter of 79 - Tom Robinson
Glad To Be Gay - Tom Robinson
God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols

They don't make 'em like they used to.

Best,

A :-)

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I have always felt that it is better to do what is beautiful than what is 'right'" - Eliot Fisk
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(@tim_madsen)
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White Riot - The Clash

A :-)

Did the Clash write anything that wasn't a protest song :?:
They're my favorite protest band of all time, but I've grown to old for protest now. I still love their songs just for the music.
Now when I think of protest my moto is a hundred years from now it wont mean anything. Protest is for the young, life will beat it out of you if you live long enough.

Tim Madsen
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.

"What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away you keep forever." -Axel Munthe


   
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(@anonymous)
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pocahantas - neil young

what's going on - marvin gaye

percy's song, let me die in my footsteps, a hard rain's a gonna fall, when the ship comes in, walls of redwing - dylan

star spangled banner, castles made of sand - jimi hendrix


   
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(@zacharias)
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For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield (suprised that one hasnt been mentioned)
Alabama - Neil Young

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(@ricochet)
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"Sweet Home Alabama" -- Lynyrd Skynyrd

"I hope Neil Young will remember,
A southern man don't need him around anyhow."
:lol:

"A cheerful heart is good medicine."


   
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(@gorobei28)
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Killing In the Name -RageAgainst The Machine
Vietnow-Rage Against the Machine

ok, ok anything by Rage Against the Machine


   
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(@jonny-guitar)
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Some of my favourites have been mentioned (Marvin Gaye).

Off the top of my head:

Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies
A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello
The Eton Rifles - The Jam
Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud - - James Brown

Wikipedia has a large section on Protest songs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protest_songs

Good one!

What about "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by The Beatles?


   
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(@musenfreund)
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"Revolution", the Beatles
"Imagine", John Lennon
"Bring on the Lucie (Freeda People)", Lennon
"Ohio", Neil Young
"Let's Impeach the President", Young

Well we all shine on--like the moon and the stars and the sun.
-- John Lennon


   
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(@vic-lewis-vl)
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Somehow I missed this first time around.....

Very surprised no-one's mentioned "Working Class Hero" by Lennon - or Gimme Some Truth.....

Waiting for the Man - Lou Reed & the Velvet Underground....also "Heroin"....
Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
Piggies - The Beatles
Highwire - Rolling Stones
Allentown - Billy Joel
Good Morning Britain - Aztec Camera

and an obscure one from the punk era - "Back in the DHSS" by Half Man, Half Biscuit....for non-Brits, the DHSS (Department Of Health and Social Security) was where the unemployed went to sign on for their weekly unemployment benefit....

Of course, as previously mentioned, Dylan and the Clash are virtually sub-genres of their own.......but "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and "This is England" deserve a mention.

:D :D :D

Vic

"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)


   
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