Troubled times. But where’s the anger in popular music? Your favourite examples of protest music past, present or future.
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Musings on the byways of popular culture
July 13th, 1985. The Style Council take to the stage at Wembley in front of a global audience of millions and present a programme for revolution.
Yay!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WoJRegd5QM
Government has done me wrong, I’m mad about that.
And it makes me feel like I don’t belong, I’m mad about that.
It’s making life a misery, you wouldn’t have taken the liberty
Government has done me wrong, I’m mad about that.
Jesus, this feels like a golden age now. How depressed would we have been in 1985 if you’d told us that? When there were a few people around who you agreed with. Now I’m living in an almost totally stupid, small-minded little country where everybody hates each other and votes accordingly. The Thatcherite project is complete.
I think you’ll find Morrissey is right (and I don’t say that often ) about why there’s aren’t too many protest songs
“No it’s just more lock jawed pop stars,
Thicker than pig shit,
Nothing to convey
They’re so scared to show intelligence,
It might smear their lovely career”
Prince has written a song about the current state of Baltimore
https://soundcloud.com/prince3eg/baltimore
Sex for the Disabled by Momus. It’s like a Spitting Image style satire on Thatcher and David Owen. Great stuff.
… and an Irish protest song. We want Blood by the Mighty Stef…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBy_ppG4hY
37% of the 65% of the registered voters who bothered to turn out to vote!
The first thing I wanna say is “Mandate My Ass”
Here’s Steve Earle, suggesting The Revolution Starts Now!
Sadly for us, I think Easterhouse sum it better – Whistling In The Dark
but returning to The Redskins, 30 years old and it sounds as relevant now as then