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Where are the good political songs?

I feel like there are lots of parallels between the eighties and now (recession/inflation, yuppies/inequality, skin-heads/fascists, hot-cold wars etc.) but there used to be protest music! Where is that stuff now? Music that’s intelligent and outraged - like we should be!

I’m out of touch now, so if it exists, educate me! Or have the protest songs been removed from tiktok by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act (UK specific, but suppression of protest seems to be everywhere)? (I’ve linked to the Levellers - maybe it really was better back in the day?)

edit: Maybe not the right audience, but if the song is old enough to vote then I might already know it! What’s happening now? Any songs from the last 10 years!

edit: Thanks for everyone’s insights. I’ve spent the day discovering music that I’d never have found otherwise. Really enjoying a load of these, but thanks to everyone! It seems like protest music is confined to certain genres/places, and lots of older songs - maybe they just last longer… which is maybe a little interesting.

cmhickman358 ,

Poor Man’s Poison has put out a few good political/social songs recently, I’m not sure if I would call them “protest” but still fairly close

Feed The Machine

Give And Take

Pratai ,

Wait… we should be outraged?

fellowmortal OP , (edited )

I feel like I should. (edit:accent)

TheDoctorDonna ,

The Offspring. Americana, Stuff is Messed up, the Kids Aren’t Alright…

sonovebitch ,

Someone sent me this one recently, and the lyrics are interesting.

“Rich Men North of Richmond” by Oliver Anthony

some_guy ,

Questionable politics. Not sure the intent, but this raised some red flags last year in various circles. Google will turn them up.

fellowmortal OP ,

I have been trying to remember this one.

EssentialCoffee ,

Well, NPR did an entire article of 20 protest songs that came out in 2020. Looks like they might have made a Spotify playlist of them at one point too.

Here are 30 protest albums that came out in the first half of 2022

Here are 50 protest songs from 2023.

These are just results from pretty simple Google searches. ‘protest songs year’.

fellowmortal OP ,

Hmm… using google to find anti-establishment songs… ;)

RizzRustbolt ,

And then listening to the Spotify playlist…

some_guy ,

Old School Pig, by Tilt.

Shapillon ,

Moscow Death Brigade for example

SVcross ,
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La Bala - Juana Fé

TheLongPrice ,

New, political, angry

Spy - Bootlicker

youtu.be/z57PP1Kh00s?si=gTT0NMamA4Dy7HH_

BreadOven ,

Well I found a new band to listen to. I just wish they would have kept that energy at like 30s, and just ended at 1 minute.

Thanks for the recommendation though.

TehBamski ,
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Cowbee ,
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Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture

Chat Pile - God’s Country

2 recent albums I’ve been slapping. Dangerously spicy at times, and unapologetic.

iamericandre ,

Pretty much anything by minutemen but a personal favorite youtu.be/7zjcut9IQRM?si=aAh3wqGp2WjzqwGA

kerrigan778 ,

Billy Bragg is still making bangers

macrocephalic ,

I don’t know if I’d call his new stuff “bangers”.

kerrigan778 ,

I mean, a lot of meh too but I thought Bridges Not Walls was a great EP

Geobloke ,

For the UK specifically I’d recommend Bob Vylan

fellowmortal OP ,

thanks - I’m checking some of the live dates.

Geobloke ,

He’s a mix of punk, rap and grime in that order, but he’s very angry and very political

AFC1886VCC ,

Bob Vylan is top notch.

Zoomboingding ,
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2020 Visions by Michael Guy Bowman is about the insurrection

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