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Let's make a political CD.

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Diablos

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That's right. Screw doing a CD snail mail club, that takes too long and there are only so many good political songs out there. Here's how it works: Post some songs, links to the lyrics, and if you feel like it, why you think the song is good choice. Or do whatever you want, if you have a lot of songs just post a tracklist and be done with it. Whatever.

Some suggestions so far...

Sonic Youth - Youth Against Fascism
Travis - Peace the Fuck Out
Trail of Dead - Perfect Teenhood
Radiohead - 2+2=5
A Perfect Circle - Pet
Broken Social Scene - Cause=Time
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of
Thursday - Signals Over the Air
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - U.S. Government
Abandoned Pools - Monster
At the Drive-In - A Devil Among the Tailors
Death Cab for Cutie - Pictures In An Exhibition
Smashing Pumpkins - Blue Skies Bring Tears
REM - Bad Day
Pink Floyd - Us and Them
 
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enjoy bell woods

Banned
Super Furry Animals - The Piccolo Snare

Have you ever seen the sun
(Have you ever seen the sun, have you ever seen the sun)
Rising high to the sound of a gun?
Blue and white and yellow sun
(Blue and white and yellow sun, blue and white and yellow sun)
Capturing imagination
We went down to the piccolo drum
Never made it into the hum
Down to the piccolo
Down to the piccolo
Down to the piccolo snare
Have you ever seen the sea
(Have you ever seen the sea)
Painted red by a bleeding army?
Sky hawks gather for a feast
(Sky hawks gather for a feast)
Of pawns who will never find peace
Tumbledown to the piccolo snare
Never made it into the square
Down to the piccolo
Down to the piccolo
No one particular cared

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming
Now! We can go home again
To our old haunts again
Together
Now scatter us all around
Far from the bugle sound
Surrender
Safe in the exclusion zone
Catch me and take me home
As brother fights brother
Wrapped up in tarnished flags
Banners and body bags
Surrender!
(Surrender!)
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming
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Hey haters, I don't care what you say. That's one of the most powerful songs I've ever heard.

Piccolo Snare is a song about societies torn apart by war and the waste of human life for nothing, pawns in a worthless game. A lot of the vocabulary for that song comes from the Falklands War, the Malvinas War, whatever you want to call it: "Tumbledown" and "Skyhawks", etcetera. It could be about any war, but that was a war I remembered from when I was a kid where people from my area were dying, as the media tried to maintain some ridiculous degree of jingoism...Apart from using the vocabulary it�s generally a song about people's misguided belief in flags. All flags are tarnished; they were only invented so that people wouldn't shoot their own side in the war. It's a song in at least three parts. It starts off folk rock in feel, and builds up to a cosmic funk coda!
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xsarien

daedsiluap
The Beatles - Revolution
Dead Kennedys - [Jesus, throw a dart at a board with everything in their catalog listed and it'll probably be fine]
Genesis - Land of Confusion
Green Day - American Idiot
John Lennon - I Don't Wanna be a Soldier Mama
John Lennon - Imagine
Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
Nena - 99 Red Balloons
R.E.M. - Orange Crush
Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.
System of a Down - Prison Song
 
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Manabanana

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Diablos said:
That's right. Screw doing a CD snail mail club, that takes too long and there are only so many good political songs out there. Here's how it works: Post some songs, links to the lyrics, and if you feel like it, why you think the song is good choice. Or do whatever you want, if you have a lot of songs just post a tracklist and be done with it. Whatever.

Some suggestions so far...

Sonic Youth - Youth Against Fascism
Travis - Peace the Fuck Out
Trail of Dead - Perfect Teenhood
Radiohead - 2+2=5
A Perfect Circle - Pet
Broken Social Scene - Cause=Time
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of
Thursday - Signals Over the Air
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - U.S. Government
Abandoned Pools - Blood
At the Drive-In - A Devil Among the Tailors
Death Cab for Cutie - Pictures In An Exhibition
Smashing Pumpkins - Blue Skies Bring Tears
REM - Bad Day
Pink Floyd - Us and Them
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Damned nice! I didn't know anyone who didn't know who Yoshiki is listened to Abandoned Pools.
 
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Triumph

Banned
Public Enemy- Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos(you could use almost any PE song, tho)
Arlo Guthrie- Alice's Restaurant
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Fortunate Son
John Lennon- Give Peace a Chance
Sam Cooke- A Change is Gonna Come
Bob Marley- Redemption Song

and innumerable others.
 
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Mercury Fred

Banned
Gil Scott Heron- Revolution Will Not Be Televised
You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be right back after a message
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.
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Lambtron

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Pidgeon - "Nationalism Moves West"
Atari Teenage Riot - "Destroy 2000 Years of Culture"
Ted Leo/Pharmacists - "Shake the Sheets"
!!! - "Pardon My Freedom"
Hot Snakes - "Paid in Cigarettes"

I'm not going to bother finding lyrics. You can do that, or 'sample' them however you see fit. They all rock, though. I'd use "Peace Attack" by Sonic Youth instead of "Youth Against Facism" but that's me.
 
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sc0la

Unconfirmed Member
Raoul Duke said:
Public Enemy- Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos(you could use almost any PE song, tho)
Arlo Guthrie- Alice's Restaurant
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Fortunate Son
John Lennon- Give Peace a Chance
Sam Cooke- A Change is Gonna Come
Bob Marley- Redemption Song

and innumerable others.
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You forgot City Hall by Tenacious D ;)
 
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Dilbert

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Wow...people have missed some obvious ones:

Randy Newman, "Political Science"
Neil Young, "Rockin' In The Free World"
DJ Danger Mouse + Gemini, "Bush Boys"
Bob Dylan, "Masters Of War"
 
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IJoel

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Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction

You take a mortal man,
And put him in control
Watch him become a god,
Watch peoples heads a'roll
A'roll...

/Chorus/
Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionettes,
Swaying to the Symphony...
Of Destruction

Acting like a robot,
Its metal brain corrodes.
You try to take its pulse,
Before the head explodes.
Explodes...

/Chorus/

The earth starts to rumble
World powers fall
A'warring for the heavens,
A peaceful man stands tall
Tall...

/Chorus/
 
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teepo

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dj krush - song for john walker

a good intro for you u.s haters
mr. lif - intro ft. akrobatik and brotha
 
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Litigation Manuel

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Country Joe McDonald: The "Fish" Cheer/I-feel-like-I'm-fixin-to-die rag
It's the song from the original Woodstock, where he opens with the "gimme an f! gimme a u!..."
 
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Christoff Yurievich

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The Clash - Know Your Rights

great fuckin' song, and it needs to be on the cd.

This is a public service announcement
With guitar
Know your rights all three of them

Number 1
You have the right not to be killed
Murder is a CRIME!
Unless it was done by a
Policeman or aristocrat
Know your rights

And Number 2
You have the right to food money
Providing of course you
Don't mind a little
Investigation, humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation

Know your rights
These are your rights
Wang

Know these rights

Number 3
You have the right to free
Speech as long as you're not
Dumb enough to actually try it.

Know your rights
These are your rights
All three of 'em
It has been suggested
In some quarters that this is not enough!
Well..............................

Get off the streets
Get off the streets
Run
You don't have a home to go to
Smush

Finally then I will read you your rights

You have the right to remain silent
You are warned that anything you say
Can and will be taken down
And used as evidence against you

Listen to this
Run
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Diablos

Member
-jinx- said:
Wow...people have missed some obvious ones:

Randy Newman, "Political Science"
Neil Young, "Rockin' In The Free World"
DJ Danger Mouse + Gemini, "Bush Boys"
Bob Dylan, "Masters Of War"
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And that's why I made a thread! So the obvious one didn't end up being missed. :D
 
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Chony

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Don't forget Bob Dylan: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Lyrics:

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin',
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin',
I saw a white ladder all covered with water,
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin',
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin',
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin',
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin',
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter,
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony,
I met a white man who walked a black dog,
I met a young woman whose body was burning,
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
I met one man who was wounded in love,
I met another man who was wounded with hatred,
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin',
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden,
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
Where black is the color, where none is the number,
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',
But I'll know my song well before I start singin',
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
 
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enjoy bell woods

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Manic Street Preachers - IfWhiteAmericaToldTheTruthForOneDayItsWorldWouldFallApart

Images of perfection, suntan and napalm
Grenada - Haiti - Poland - Nicaragua
Who shall we choose for our morality
I'm thinking right now of Hollywood tragedy

Big mac: smack: phoenix r: please smile y'all
Cuba, Mexico can't cauterize our discipline
Your idols speak so much of the abyss
Yet your morals only run as deep as the surface

Cool - groovy - morning - fine
(If white)
Tipper Gore was a friend of mine
(America)
I love a free country
(told the truth)
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy
(for one day)

Conservative say: there ain't no black in the union jack
Democrat say: there ain't enough white in the stars and stripes

Compton - Harlem - a pimp fucked a priest
The white man has just found a new moral saviour
Vital stats - how white was their skin
Unimportant - just another inner-city drive-by thing

Morning - fine - serve your first coffee of the day
Real privilege, it will take your problems all away
Number one - the best - no excuse from me
I am here to serve the moral majority

Cool - groovy - morning - fine
(If white)
Tipper Gore was a friend of mine
(America)
I love a free country
(told the truth)
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy
(for one day)

Zapruder the first to masturbate
The world's first taste of crucified grace
And we say: there's not enough black in the union jack
And we say: there's too much white in the stars and stripes

Fuck the Brady bill
Fuck the Brady bill
If God made man they say
Sam Colt made him equal
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That entire album.
 
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Substance

Member
robojimbo said:
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
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Eh, it's lyrics are more apocalyptic than political. I'm not a fan of political songs at all, but 'Street Fighting Man' is a better suit. It being a reflection of all the political climate of the time.
 
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