What is Your Favorite Protest Song? Old and New?

[TomCADem]

Lets keep it safe for work.

My favorite older song is "For What Its Worth":

My favorite new song is "This is America":

What I find is interesting is how the songs of the 1960s seem equally applicable to our current times.

What about you? What is on your Protest Playlist?

[jalan48]

1. Fortunate Son--CCR

[questionseverything]

2. whose side you on boys?

n/t

[octoberlib]

35. Second this!

[Just_Vote_Dem]

4. Dylan-A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall

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[Chainfire]

5. Give me an F

[Poiuyt]

43. I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die

Mine too

[Jim__]

6. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll

One of my favorites anyway:

[LakeArenal]

7. Testing to see if it plays....

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[WheelWalker]

8. Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher

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[tblue37]

9. "For What It's Worth." nt

[50 Shades Of Blue]

10. The Universal Soldier by Buffy Ste. Marie

Here's it's performed by Donovan because I imprinted on this version in 1965 when I was 13.

[Mike 03]

11. One of my favorites: Sun City (Artists United Against Apartheid)

It's also probably one of the longest protest songs ever written.

The number of well known people involved in this project is quite staggering.

[EarthFirst]

12. So many...

[judeling]

13. The Mighty Stef

[Journeyman]

14. John Stewart: "Botswana". . .

Oft times, the most meaningful protests are those we make of ourselves . . .

[LuvLoogie]

15. "Evil minds that plot destruction..."

[lkinwi]

16. Another Pete Seeger

[Trailrider1951]

17. Here's to the State of Mississippi

Phil Ochs. He doesn't pull any punches.

[pitchforksandtorches]

27. My favorite also.

Though this version of Phil’s is also great:
Here’s To The State of Richard Nixon

As someone on YouTube commented, “Just change the name to "Donald  Trump" and it fits perfectly.  Still, after all these years.”

[treestar]

63. +1

That is a good song.

[meadowlander]

49. Mine too

and unfortunately still just about as true now as it was then.

[emmaverybo]

18. Pete Seeger concert for SNCC. Michael Row the boat ashore.

[Glorfindel]

19. Pete Seger: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"

Tears my heart out every time...

[PatSeg]

37. Oh yes

I think that was the first folk song I fell in love with.

Also Joan Baez's version of:

"Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream"

Last night I had the strangest dream
I ever dreamed before
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put an end to war
I dreamed I saw a mighty room
The room was filled with men
And the paper they were signing said
They'd never fight again

And when the papers all were signed
And a million copies made
They all joined hands end bowed their heeds
And grateful prayers were prayed
And the people in the streets below
Were dancing round and round
And guns and swords and uniforms
Were scattered on the ground

Last night I had the strangest dream
I ever dreamed before
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put an end to war

But I think my all time favorite will always be "We Shall Overcome", it is timeless.

[Duncan Grant]

20. Green Day: "Holiday"

For my “old” (it was such a different world):

[NightWatcher]

21. Anything Tom Morello (Rage/ Nightwatchman) or David Rovics.

Here's Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

[treestar]

64. The Halliburton one

is very good.

[CaptYossarian]

22. Gary Wright--Stand For Our Rights

Got me through the Scott Walker Fuster cluck years here in WI.

[Coventina]

23. Old: There'll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame

[Coventina]

24. New(ish) The Call Up

[Celerity]

47. Newish? That song is 40 years old.

[meadowlander]

50. Who's still writing good protest songs?

The most modern one I could think of was "Killing in the Name Of" and that's 30 years old.

[Celerity]

52. there's a tonne of hip hop, punk, etc. that protest social/racial/economic inequality that are new

the OP listed one: This Is America by Childish Gambino

here are some links

cheers!

YG, Che Lingo, Kendrick Lamar: the protest songs of Black Lives Matter 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/10/yg-che-lingo-kendrick-lamar-protest-songs-of-black-lives-matter-2020-george-floyd


CATEGORY: 2020: THE YEAR IN PROTEST MUSIC

https://www.ongoinghistoryofprotestsongs.com/category/2020-the-year-in-protest-music/


All the New Protest and Benefit Music Released in Response to Police Brutality

https://www.vulture.com/article/protest-benefit-music-police-brutality.html

[Coventina]

54. I'm aware, thanks, hence the "ish". It was meant to contrast with my OLD protest song

immediately above it, which was written in 1791.

Cheers!

[Celerity]

62. 1791 deffo qualifies as old!

[onethatcares]

25. "I ain't marching anymore"

Thank you Phil Ochs. You died way too early.

[spanone]

26. Dylan - Masters of War

[aidbo]

33. I Was going to post masters of war

But since you beat me to it.

[Totally Tunsie]

28. It's not a protest without Joan Baez!

[StarfishSaver]

29. I have two: "This Little Light of Mine" and "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round"

[stillcool]

30. Thunderclap Newman..

Something in the air

[pwb]

31. I only have an old one.

Joe Hill by Joan Baez .

[Straw Man]

32. This one:

[RockRaven]

34. For older, Bob Dylan - When The Ship Comes In

For newer, Green Day - American Idiot

[Brother Buzz]

36. Old AND New by the same artist - Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction

Original:

Updated lyrics:

[octoberlib]

38. Nina Simone- Mississippi Goddam

We Shall Overcome by the Morehouse College Glee Club because it's beautiful

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Help Save the Youth of America by Billy Bragg

[Xolodno]

39. My two fav's....

Metallica - One

Guns n Roses - Civil War

[IcyPeas]

40. Ball of Confusion.... twice

[pecosbob]

41. Redemption Song - Bulls on Parade

[Wiseman32218]

42. Ohio - CSNY

[jcgoldie]

44. Just about anything by Bob Marley

[Mister Ed]

45. Sons of the Revolution, by Tonio K.

Because it's a game all right they're playin'
But it ain't like on TV
Nobody shakes hands when it's over
And there ain't no referee
And the stands are full of broken men
And the field's grown up in weeds

And the winners get your children
Yeah, they do just what they please
And they'll cut you for no reason
'Cept they wanna watch you bleed

So forget everything you've heard or read or seen
It's a game all right they're playin'
But they're playin' it for keeps

[Hekate]

46. What a great thread. I'm old, & feel like once I knew them all by heart, so can't choose just one

However, as an honorable mention, the great “Masters of War.“

I knew it in the 1960s during the Vietnam War, so it was a shock to listen to it again during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq by BushCheney, and discover new layers of truths. Fcking mercenaries of Blackwater.

Two newer songs in my personal repertoire are “Willie McBride” and “The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda.“

Bookmarking to listen to tomorrow when the household is not asleep, as currently it is 1:30 am.

[Celerity]

48. Old one, Newtown Neurotics ‎- Kick Out The Tories! (1981)

Label:
CNT Productions ?– CNT 004, No Wonder Records ?– NOW 5
Format:
Vinyl, 7", Single
Country:
UK
Released:
1981
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Punk

[Hortensis]

51. "For What Its Worth," tho, was an ANTI- counterculture

protest song, in that respect like the Beatles' great "Revolution." Those were my days. Both groups were smart guys who rejected radical destruction for its own sake.

… But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be
All right, all right, all right…

On the plus side, the old anti-war protests of my era had a huge effect. We still war, but now almost no one goes off to them. For better and worse...

I don't have a favorite protest song for this era. Democracy wasn't under huge attack in that one, but it is now and for me it's all about uniting to protect and fight the destroyers.

Speaking of, "This is America" is nice to dance to, but I'd never listened to the lyrics. Protest in this era is incredibly more, as people marching in over 700 cities showed. Good thing, because we're all in very grave danger from RW authoritarianism, though only Jews and a few other vulnerably small groups more than black people and few as much.

[Rstrstx]

53. You can't leave Malvina Reynolds off the list

[malaise]

55. Get up Stand Up!

[Leith]

56. Muse Uprising

Surprising that nobody posted this one yet.

[marmar]

57. You Haven't Done Nothing by Stevie Wonder

[obamanut2012]

58. Bread & Roses

[RT Atlanta]

59. two of mine:

Marvin Gaye's "What's going on"

Jimi Hendrix's "Machine gun"

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

60. Bruce Springsteen

41 Shots--American Skin

[MissMillie]

61. I don't know if you can call this a protest song...

but I'm feeling this one today.

"Thank you, I'll get it myself."