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Part 5 : Politics and Protest
My selection of 141 from the Guardian.co.uk list of 141
- Me and Giuliani Down By the Schoolyard (A True Story) (!!!, 2003)
- Another World (Antony and the Johnsons, 2008)
- Windowsill (Arcade Fire, 2007)
- (What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue (Louis Armstrong, 1929)
- Stand Up for Judas (Roy Bailey, 1979)
- A Day in the Life of a Tree (The Beach Boys, 1971)
- I Was Born This Way (Carl Bean, 1977)
- Stand Down Margaret (The Beat, 1980)
- I Am the Walrus (The Beatles, 1967)
- Revolution (The Beatles, 1968)
- War Pigs (Black Sabbath, 1971)
- Melting Point (Blue Mink, 1969)
- Cop Killer (Body Count, 1992)
- And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Eric Bogle, 1971)
- Stop the Violence (Boogie Down Productions, 1988)
- When the President Talks to God (Bright Eyes, 2005)
- Smalltown Boy (Bronski Beat, 1984)
- Between the Wars (Billy Bragg, 1985)
- Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud (James Brown, 1968)
- Slavery Days (Burning Spear, 1975)
- Army Dreamers (Kate Bush, 1980)
- The Sun Is Burning (Ian Campbell Folk Group, 1964)
- Company Policy (Martin Carthy, 1988)
- Rainin’ in Paradize (Manu Chao, 2007)
- Straight to Hell (The Clash, 1982)
- White Riot (The Clash, 1977)
- Running the World (Jarvis Cocker, 2006)
- Alabama (John Coltrane, 1963)
- A Change Is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke, 1964)
- All the Blowing-Themselves-Up Motherfuckers (Will Realise the Minute They Die That They Were Suckers) (Julian Cope, 2008)
- Tramp the Dirt Down (Elvis Costello>, 1989)
- Brother Can You Spare a Dime? (Bing Crosby, 1932)
- Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, 1970)
- Thou Shalt Always Kill (Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, 2007)
- California Über Alles (Dead Kennedys, 1979)
- 16 Military Wives (The Decemberists, 2005)
- Television: The Drug of the Nation (The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, 1991)
- Not Ready to Make Nice (Dixie Chicks, 2006)
- Hurricane (Bob Dylan, 1975)
- Maggie’s Farm (Bob Dylan, 1965)
- Masters of War (Bob Dylan, 1963)
- The Times They Are a-Changin’ (Bob Dylan, 1964)
- When the Ship Comes In (Bob Dylan, 1964)
- John Walker’s Blues (Steve Earle, 2002)
- Role Model (Eminem, 1999)
- We Care a Lot (Faith No More, 1985)
- Two Tribes (Frankie Goes To Hollywood, 1984)
- Respect (Aretha Franklin, 1967)
- I Fought the Law (Bobby Fuller Four, 1965)
- Víctor Jara of Chile (Dick Gaughan, 1985)
- Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (Marvin Gaye, 1971)
- What’s Going On? (Marvin Gaye, 1971)
- The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, 1982)
- Just Say No (Cast of Grange Hill, 1986)
- American Idiot (Green Day, 2004)
- This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie, 1944)
- Okie from Muskogee (MERLE b Haggard, 1969)
- On the Blanket (Mick Hanly with Christy Moore, 1980)
- 19 (Paul Hardcastle, 1985)
- The Star-Spangled Banner (Jimi Hendrix, 1969)
- (We Don’t Need) This Fascist Groove Thang (Heaven 17, 1981)
- Strange Fruit (Billie Holliday, 1939)
- Check Out Your Mind (The Impressions, 1970)
- People Get Ready (The Impressions, 1965)
- The Eton Rifles (The Jam, 1979)
- Going Underground (The Jam, 1980)
- The “Fish” Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag (Country Joe and the Fish, 1967)
- The Village Green Preservation Society (The Kinks, 1968)
- Zombie (Fela Kuti, 1977)
- The Proud (Talib Kweli, 2002)
- The Bourgeois Blues (Leadbelly, 1938)
- Give Peace a Chance (John Lennon, 1969)
- The Ballad of Sharpeville (Ewan MacColl, 1960)
- Eve of Destruction (Barry McGuire, 1965)
- Material Girl (Madonna, 1985)
- Suicide Is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H) (Johnny Mandel, 1970)
- Redemption Song (Bob Marley, 1980)
- Zimbabwe (Bob Marley and the Wailers, 1979)
- Kick Out the Jams (MC5, 1968)
- Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell, 1970)
- Trouble Every Day (The Mothers of Invention, 1966)
- Police and Thieves (Junior Murvin, 1976)
- Short People (Randy Newman, 1977)
- Fuck tha Police (NWA, 1988)
- I Ain’t Marching Anymore (Phil Ochs, 1965)
- Monkey Gone to Heaven (Pixies, 1989)
- Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six (The Pogues, 1988)
- In the Ghetto (Elvis Presley, 1969)
- Come Together (Primal Scream, 1990)
- Sign o’ the Times (Prince, 1987)
- Sam Stone (John Prine, 1971)
- Bring the Noise (Public Enemy, 1987)
- Fight the Power (Public Enemy, 1989)
- Killing in the Name (Rage Against the Machine, 1992)
- How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? (Blind Alfred Reed, 1929)
- Fall On Me (REM, 1986)
- Glad to Be Gay (Tom Robinson, 1978)
- Street Fighting Man (The Rolling Stones, 1968)
- I’m Coming Out (Diana Ross, 1980)
- Now That The Buffalo's Gone (Buffy Sainte-Marie, 1964)
- Days of Fire (Nitin Sawhney, 2008)
- Whitey On the Moon (Gil Scott-Heron, 1970)
- We Shall Overcome (Pete Seeger, 1963)
- I’m Gonna Be an Engineer (Peggy Seeger, 1973)
- Anarchy in the UK (Sex Pistols, 1976)
- God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols, 1977)
- If the Kids Are United (Sham 69, 1977)
- The Internationale (Sheffield Socialist Choir, 1992)
- To Be Young, Gifted and Black (Nina Simone, 1970)
- Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey (Sly and the Family Stone, 1969)
- Swimsuit Issue (Sonic Youth, 1992)
- Revolution (Spacemen 3, 1989)
- Ghost Town (The Specials, 1981)
- Free Nelson Mandela (The Special AKA, 1984)
- American Skin (41 Shots) (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, 2000)
- Born in the USA (Bruce Springsteen, 1984)
- War (Edwin Starr, 1970)
- Monster (Steppenwolf, 1969)
- Suspect Device (Stiff Little Fingers, 1978)
- The Man Don’t Give a Fuck (Super Furry Animals, 1996)
- Long Walk to DC (The Staple Singers, 1968)
- Peace Train (Cat Stevens, 1971)
- The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II) (Rod Stewart, 1976)
- BYOB (System Of A Down, 2005)
- Dad’s Gonna Kill Me (Richard Thompson, 2007)
- Legalize It (Peter Tosh, 1976)
- Keep Ya Head Up (Tupac, 1993)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2, 1983)
- We Are the World (USA for Africa, 1985)
- Get Up, Stand Up (The Wailers, 1973)
- The Day After Tomorrow (Tom Waits, 2004)
- The Old Man’s Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime) (Scott Walker, 1969)
- Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) (Wham!, 1982)
- My Generation (The Who, 1965)
- You Haven’t Done Nothin’ (Stevie Wonder, 1974)
- The Cottager’s Reply (Chris Wood, 2008)
- Asbestos Lead Asbestos (World Domination Enterprises, 1985)
- Shipbuilding (Robert Wyatt, 1982)
- Harrowdown Hill (Thom Yorke, 2006)
- Rockin’ in the Free World (Neil Young, 1989)
- Southern Man (Neil Young, 1970)
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