Best Of the New Protest Songs

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3. Eminem, "Mosh"

Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 May 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link

^^^ kind of corny in places but really chilling as a recording. I mean this isn't mindblowing on paper, but he delivers it with real venom, like just this once he's going to drop his self-obsession and clowning and talk about something that matters:

For this monster, this coward,
That we have empowered
This is Bin Laden, look at his head noddin'
How could we allow something like this without pumping our fists
Let the president answer a higher anarchy
Strap him with an AK-
47, let him go, fight his own war
Let him impress daddy that way [...]
Look in his eyes its all lies
The stars and stripes, they've been swiped,
washed out and wiped
And replaced with his own face, Mosh now or die

Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 May 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link

4. John Rich - Shuttin' Detroit Down
5. Living Things - Bombs Below
6. Merle Haggard - That's The News
7. The Flatlanders - Homeland Refugee

There's lots of post-9/11 songs, too (not to mention lots of protest songs of every stripe that aren't very good), but I won't bother with those.

xhuxk, Monday, 11 May 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

The amateur group whose Women's March protest song went viral:

MILCK, feat the GW Sirens and Capital Blend - "I Can't Keep Quiet"
http://youtu.be/8pEcvteQo9g?t=4m16s
Starts at 4:20.

Sanpaku, Thursday, 26 January 2017 15:52 (seven years ago) link

three years pass...

Where are the best post-2016 protest songs?

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link


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