Your Personal Top 5 Protest Rock tunes

[NES]

Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie
For what its worth - Buffalo Springfield
War - Edwin Star
Feel like Im fixin to die rag - Country Joe and the Fish

 

[whalewager]

Rock the Casbah by The Clash

 

[PBR]

Blowin' in the Wind

Eve of Destruction

 

[PBR]

Me and You and a Dog Named Boo

 

[whalewager]

My Posses on Broadway

 

[MichaelScott]

1. Fortunate Son - CCR (?)
2. We're not gonna take it! - Quiet Riot (?)
3. Fuck da Police - NWA
4. You are the government - Bad Religion
5. Keep ya head Up - 2Pac

:cripwalk:

 

[JakeT.]

Antiflag - Protest Song

 

[MichaelScott]

Antiflag - Protest Song

Damn, I missed the "Rock" part of the thread title. So I am adding your song as one of mine. Good song.

But then again, what Anti-Flag song isn't politically motivated or against the war?

I will also have to add that "Vieques, Puerto Rico" song to my list by Anti-Flag as well. Not really anti-war, but close.

 

[FairWarning]

For What its Worth - Buffalo Springfield
What About Me - Quicksilver Messenger Service
World-wide Suicide - Pearl Jam
Fight The Power - Public Enemy
We Care A Lot - Faith No More

 

[Teddykgb]

were not gonna take it -TWISTED SISTER

fight for your right to party -BEASTY BOYS

get back you dont know me like that-LUDICRIS

war pig -SABBATH

get sum-WU TANG CLAN

 

[NES]

were not gonna take it -TWISTED SISTER

fight for your right to party -BEASTY BOYS

get back you dont know me like that-LUDICRIS

war pig -SABBATH

get sum-WU TANG CLAN

Still one of my favorite bass lines of all time. I dont think any of these songs really fit into the Protest Rock genre but I will give you props for putting some sabbath in your list.

 

[NES]

1. Fortunate Son - CCR (?)
2. We're not gonna take it! - Quiet Riot (?)
3. Fuck da Police - NWA
4. You are the government - Bad Religion
5. Keep ya head Up - 2Pac

:cripwalk:

Great pick IMHRNO(in my humble redneck opinion)

 

[HAT]

F*ck Authority-Pennywise

 

[barman]

Almost Cut My Hair

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[barman]

Still one of my favorite bass lines of all time. I dont think any of these songs really fit into the Protest Rock genre but I will give you props for putting some sabbath in your list.

This absolutely fits into Protest Rock....

Politicians Hide Themselves Away
They Only Started the War


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[quantumleap]

This one has special meaning to me since I taught at the school:

"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio."
("Ohio" lyrics by Neil Young) ​

Here are pictures of the dead along with how far away from the shooting that they were:​

The Four Dead in Ohio

 

[NES]

This absolutely fits into Protest Rock....

Politicians Hide Themselves Away
They Only Started the War



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100% correct Barman, I meant to say "none of these other songs", Great lyrics on that one. Isnt it true that not only did Geezer Butler come up with the name of the Band but alwso wrote most of the songs and lyrics?

 

[Nomad1951]

Won't Get Fooled Again, The Who. Lyrics say it all. Period.

 

[FairWarning]

Five more:

We Got To Get Out of This Place - The Animals
Sky Pilot - The Animals
Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman
In the Year 2525 - Zager and Evans
The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

 

[NES]

How about "The Legend of Billy Jack" by Coven.
And "He aint heavy(he's my brother)"