"One" by Metallica, not only is it a great song, but the video is just perfect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwW9L_qzqp8
The clips are from the movie "Johnny got his gun", which the song also is based on.
I recommend everyone to read the book "johnny got his gun", which is much better than the movie.
"Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage."
Miss America - Styx
Great White Buffalo - Ted Nugent
Saturday Night Special - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Ballad of Curtis Lowe - Lynyrd Skynyrd
My Generation - The Who
I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After
If I claim to be a wise man , it surely means that I don't know .
Waiting for the Man - Lou Reed & the Velvet Underground...
An old favorite of mine.
Ballad of Curtis Lowe - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Another old favorite.
Saturday Night Special - Lynyrd Skynyrd
That one's gotten my blood pressure up, caused me to turn off radios and stopped me listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd for 30 years as my own form of silent protest. Bar stewards.
Oh well, I'll hush up now, because this is a thread for posting one's favorite songs of social protest and really shouldn't degenerate into a political argument about the topics that were protested in the songs.
:D
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
Apeman - Kinks
If I claim to be a wise man , it surely means that I don't know .
necroposting eh?
ok, umm how about "almost cut my hair" or "Beds are burning"
#4491....
Politician - The Cream
2000 Man, Sympathy for the Devil, Salt of the Earth - The Stones
Imagine - John Lennon
More in the social commentary category, than protest, I think:
One Tin Soldier - Coven
In the year 2525 - Zager & Evans
Trouble Every Day - Zappa
If I had A Rocket Launcher, They call It Democracy, and most of Bruce Cockburn's other songs
And Ricochet has already mentioned
I'm the Slime - Zappa
Edit
Thought of another
War - Springsteen (Or Edwin Starr, if you prefer)
I wrapped a newspaper ’round my head
So I looked like I was deep
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by The Beatles, anyone? That's definitely one of my favorties.
"2+2=5" by Radiohead
And many that have already been mentioned. Especially "Almost Cut My Hair" by CSN.
Four pages into this thread and nobody's mentioned Gil Scott-Heron?
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Some of my favourites in this class of song are:-
For What It's Worth---------Buffalo Springfield
Blowing In The Wind--------Bob Dylan
Big Yellow Taxi--------------Joni Mitchell
Line E'm Up------------------James Taylor
and of course Vic has already mentioned:-
Working Class Hero---------John Lennon
and Jonny Guitar has mentioned:-
A Change Is Gonna Come--Sam Cooke
and finally there's one that always sticks in my mind:-
N--N--N--Nineteen--------- Afraid I've forgotten who sang it! Can anyone help? It was all about the average age of GI's who served in Vietnam being just 19.
Chris
The guitar is all right John but you'll never make a living out of it! (John Lennon's Aunt Mimi)
Ninini Nineteen was Paul Hardcastle.
Another good Vietnam protest song was Steve Goodman's a capella number - "The Ballad of Penny Evans"
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Thanks Noteboat.
I'd never have got it without help.
Chris
The guitar is all right John but you'll never make a living out of it! (John Lennon's Aunt Mimi)
Most of mine are from Lennon
"Woman is the nigger of the world"
"Sunday bloody Sunday"
"John Sinclair"
"Luck of the Irish"
You gotta realize I was only about 16 or 17 when that came out. A very impressionable age.
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" Mr Dylan of course
"One in ten" UB40
Be excellent to each other & party on dudes!
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Since I'm an environmental chemist...
Iron Butterfly "Slower Than Guns"
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Gimme Some Truth - John Lennon
You Are (the Government) - Bad Religion
Taxman - The Beatles
Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan
London Calling/Clampdown/Guns of Brixton - The Clash
Peace Sells - Megadeth
United Abominations - Megadeth (from their new album)
Grievance/Love Boat Captain/Do the Evolution/pretty much the entire Pearl Jam album - Pearl Jam
My Own Country/American Dream - Pennywise
entire Animals album - Pink Floyd
The Way the Wind Blows - Rush
Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols
Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Bible Vs. Gun - Will Hoge
