the link I posted is metal gear solid song that i wanted to play at a protest. It’s not necessarily a protest song its about turning away the torment’s of your heart and turning towards eternal joy, but the Gaelic lyrics does make me thing of the songs that were written by all the conquered people throughout history and how those would make great anti war songs.
I do want songs about working class solidarity that are modern. I’ve picked up Iran ai lego songs, they’re actually pretty good and the lyrics are pretty good, I haven’t found any quite on the level, the Iranians go hard on trump.
seems like all the anti war songs are not from this decade and anti ice is lacking.
here are some songs I’ve picked out for protest for protest:
MACKLEMORE - HIND’S HALL 2 (feat. Anees, MC Abdul, Amer Zahr)
The Genocide That Is Not Over | Iranian LEGO War-Themed Video By Akhbarenfejari
Les Misérables | Do You Hear the People Sing?
About half of Jesse Welles songs fit here.
-God Abraham and Xanax -Red -Join ICE -Walmart -Don’t blow the whistle -War isn’t murder -Great Caucasian god -The poor -No Kings
Two very different protest songs I heard this year
Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals - The Iron Wall
Hen Ogledd - Scales will fall
- Waterparks - Ice
- Badflower - Machine Gun
- Seb Lowe - Don’t say no to Hitler
- Moon Walker - You’re next
- Grandson - Little White Lies
- Grandson - Brainrot
- Against me! - Baby, I’m an anarchist!
- Harris J - Hourriya
- Flanger Moose - Fascists don’t have friends
- Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis
- Gus the Bardic troubador - GTFO
- Devil Said Jump - Make me buy a gun
- Palaceburn - And you wonder why they kneel
The discographies of Grandson, Moon Walker, and Dropkick Murphys have a lot of good, recent, messages. Pussy Riot has a couple of generic and America themed songs as well. Otep has several, though they are more fueled by reaction than actual artistic talent.
I wouldn’t rule out older titles from the Vietnam or Coal Wars/Battle of Blaire Mountain Era.
waterparks song is high energy but cursing i like the moon walker youre next. i do wish is was more explicit in class solidarity hourriya is fun i get the teto version of facists dont have friends
“I HATE RICH CUNTS” and “YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT POOR PEOPLE” by Mudrat
nice Australian band. tooks me a second to understand the lyrics
Think it’s just the one guy actually. I really like his take on punk.
A few suggestions:
- Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
- RATM - Bulls on Parade
- Dead Kennedys - Kill the Poor
And for a more optimistic, but still defiant take, R.E.M.'s Living Well is the Best Revenge.
I think Masters of War is Dylan’s best protest song. The lyrics go hard
Ah yeah, that would have been a better choice actually, good shout.
I like to think anything by jesse wells is appropriate but then there are some songs I just feel that much more in the modern age but are not necessarily good protest songs. rat in a cage, head like a hole, down with the sickness. Also many jethro tull songs.
Nazi Punks Fuck Off - Dead Kennedys
Freedom is a Verb - Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird
Color in Your Cheeks - The Mountain Goats
RATM - Killing In the Name, and this one is particularly prescient right now with ICE roaming the streets given it was originally written to protest police brutality in response to the Rodney King riots.
okay i see that first chorus could be interpreted as ice being white supremacist. its definitely fun add the genra to the mix
Bella Ciao :)
Look up no$hu. “Fuck ICE ICE baby”, “Against Occupation” and a bunch of his other songs. Check out Jesse Welles “Join ICE”.
always get irked by join ice by jesse welles because it kinda makes joining ice look good to the point were it kinda sounds like recruitment song.
the noshu is interesting
I mean, irony is kind of dead haha. No$hu slaps.
Upvote for Jesse Welles. I appreciate his music can be topical, but also humorous and chill. Maybe not the sort of protest songs you play to fire people up, but definitely ones that will get their message stuck in your head.
If you haven’t heard of Carsie Blanton, give her a listen too!
Thanks for the rec!
Which Side Are You In? By Pete Seger. Not modern but it’s moving.
It’s fine just interesting like past generations were really about protest songs. Artist now don’t seem to do protest or social commentary
Doesn’t necessarily work in an actual protest but https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jSZWslqjfPE&pp=ygUgd2hpY2ggc2lkZSBhcmUgeW91IG9uIHJlYmVsIGRpYXo%3D is pretty good and uses Which Side in the chorus.
The whole “American Idiot” album applies here, I think.
Grandson’s most recent album (INERTIA) is really good. Violence by Kid Kapichi is a banger too. WHO’S THE ENEMY from Grandson is very very good and has Bob Vylan on it.
Why can’t we be friends? by WAR
You should look up some old labor movement songs
