O/T Protest songs

[Tower Power]

Seems like all sections of the country are all protesting about something (especially AVFTT!). What are your favourite protest songs across the decades?
I start with Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Shout to the Top - Style Council
We shall overcome - various
Sunday Bloody Sunday-U2 Ghost Town - The Specials
Eton Rifles -The Jam
Edwin Starr - War

 

[tangerine_neil]

Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - Afroman

 

[Chunkylad]

Killing in the name of - RATM

Or

Music is Shit - New Fads

 

[AllezBlackpool]

Shipbbuilding

 

[bill40]

Just Can't get Enough - Depeche Mode.

Wasn't getting that much myself at the time, sometimes none at all.

 

[Bloodtangerine]

Shuddupayaface…….Joe Dolce

 

[1966_and_all_that]

Give Peace a Chance, John Lennon.

 

[Dave62]

Imagine - John Lennon

Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols

American Idiot - Green Day (anti George W Bush and the Iraq invasion, the record made a comeback when Trump became President)

 

[Recidivist3]

The Wolfe Tones

The Men Behind the Wire

 

[20togo]

Part of the Union.

 

[Toastrack]

Galveston - Glen Campbell
A pretty brave choice of single, given the ongoing Vietnam war & his popularity at the time.
"Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear your sea waves crashing
While I watch the cannons flashing,
I clean my gun
And dream of Galveston"

 

[Old_Laytonian]

Between the Wars Billy Bragg

 

[Trammo]

Blowin’ In The Wind-Stevie Wonder cover version
Let Me Be- P.F. Sloan
A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall- Bob Dylan
EU You Gave Me The Worst Years Of My Life- 52 Per Cent Community Choir

 

[Tangerinemoss]

Woody Guthrie. This Land is your land

 

[Beverleypool]

I’m a union man Strawbs

 

[Philbfctrois]

"We got the Oystons out like we said we would"

"Oyston is a rapist he wears a rapists hat"

"Karl Karl wherever you may be"

"Get out of our club'

Sing

 

[This is Ska]

Hurricane by Bob Dylan.

 

[Albert Ross]

The lonesome death of hattie carol by Bob Dylan. Anyone who hasn’t heard this should give it a listen.

 

[Loco]

Alternative Ulster - SLF

 

[Trammo]

"We got the Oystons out like we said we would"

"Oyston is a rapist he wears a rapists hat"

"Karl Karl wherever you may be"

"Get out of our club'

Sing

All lyrics allegedly written by the Catford rewriter of history who also claims to have organised all the protests all by himself.

 

[Curryman]

What a World - Benny Hill.

benny hill what a world - Google Search

 

[Meliora]

Dylan's With God On Our Side

 

[Lytham_fy8]

 

[B_Side_The_C_Side]

Marvin Gaye's best (ever) album.....What's Going On

Mercy Mercy Me......Being the stand out track, and still relevant today of how the USA was falling to bit's in the 1970's....and is still falling.