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.
RATM - Wake Up is also a good one as well.
okay i see that first chorus could be interpreted as ice being white supremacist. its definitely fun add the genra to the mix
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Nazi Punks Fuck Off - Dead Kennedys
Freedom is a Verb - Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird
Color in Your Cheeks - The Mountain Goats
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
Bad Religion, Propaghandi, Dropkick Murphys, Good Riddance, Thought Riot, Regan Youth, Crass, T.S.O.L., MDC, The Nerve Agents, Earth Crisis, Dead Kennedys, NOFX, Body Count, Pussy Riot, Death By Stereo, and Cattle Decapitation are all social-politically outspoken punk/hXc/metal bands that have plenty of songs that would fit your list.
Dropkick, Billy Bragg, Tom Morello, Eyes of Salt, and the Boss all have anti-ICE specific songs out recently.
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Look up no$hu. "Fuck ICE ICE baby", "Against Occupation" and a bunch of his other songs. Check out Jesse Welles "Join ICE".
Edit to add: "The Guillotine" by The Coup. Goes so hard.
Upvote for Jesse Welles. I appreciate his music can be topical, but also humorous and chill. Maybe not the sort of protest songs you play to fire people up, but definitely ones that will get their message stuck in your head.
If you haven't heard of Carsie Blanton, give her a listen too!
Thanks for the rec!
always get irked by join ice by jesse welles because it kinda makes joining ice look good to the point were it kinda sounds like recruitment song.
the noshu is interesting
I mean, irony is kind of dead haha. No$hu slaps.
Anti-Flag - Die for the government, NOFX - Idiots are taking over, NOFX - 72 Hookers, Jesse Welles - Join Ice
A few suggestions:
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.
'Peace frogs' by: The Doors
It's Okay (To Punch Nazis in The Face) - Cheap Perfume is a great one I heard the other night.
Fight The Power - Public Enemy
Pretty much anything by Rage Against The Machine
Peace Sells by Megadeth. War Pigs by Black Sabbath.
If it's punk yer wantin, you'll want Dead Kennedys and MDC - both old bands (MDC is still kicking as I understand it, tho) but lots and lots of highly relevant stuff.
Notable: on their first LP, Millions Of Dead Cops, which came out in 1984 if I recall correctly, there is a trans-positive tune called America's So Straight. You wanna talk ahead of the curve...
You should look up some old labor movement songs
Two very different protest songs I heard this year
Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals - The Iron Wall
Hen Ogledd - Scales will fall
these songs are very free form, might need to grow on me
"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.
About half the songs on the new Sturgill Simpson/Johnny Blue Skies album (the other half are about sex)
The closer Ain't That A Bitch is pretty unambiguous.
Satronica, Unexist - Fuck The System
Party Animals - Die Nazi Scum
This is the guy who wrote "867-5309" and "Perfect World" by Huey Lewis. He's also a friend of sorts, I got my dog from him and his wife. It's not famous but it's a decent tune, and anti-ICE as shit.
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.
If you like hip hop at all, What's Peace? off the new Statik Selektah album had some great lines. Some gems for me:
What's peace? Is it locking up people like me For selling weed, but then you go and let a pedophile free? Is it Capitalism or privatizing the prisons Or giving corporations freedom to poison food that we eat?
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That's why I get the skeevies knowing Stevie's pulling strings Take a look inside the cabinet, see it's clearly Miller time You got a lion in your pocket, you lying You got a long line of far-right conservative actors going on Grindr
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How insecure you gotta be to pretend Christ was White? And hate those that look like what Christ really looked like? They call you Marxist, Socialist and Commie They hate you if you Haitian or Somali They blaming 9/11 on Mamdani
Bob Dylan - Masters of War
The whole "American Idiot" album applies here, I think.
Why can't we be friends? by WAR
Edwin star- war. Literally a song protesting war
Maybe check out Fragile (by Sting) and it's background story
Rise Against - Hero of war
Not a "play at protests"-song, but powerful nevertheless
A lot of Rise Against song could fit this
man that rise against song is depressing af...
Yeah. Powerful message though
I can't reccomend moon walker enough.
"Youre next" is their new song. I think its very topical
Some of my favorites in no particular order: Monopoly money, Ban this song, Apocalypticism.
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
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