Alternative Socialist Music

[Terminal Frost]

You say communist music - you hear Rage. OK, they are damn good, but how about other artists, from different genres of music.

My artist of choice: Pink Floyd:

From the sardonic lyrics of "Money", the attack on corporate structure seen in "Welcome to The Machine" and "Have A Cigar" and the social issues highlighted in the album "The Wall", the band [whilst not commies] frequently expose the folly of modern capitalist life.

Great lyrics from Waters, and that Gilmour plays a mean guitar.

Any other alternative artists you want to list?

[CommieBastard]

The Canadian Punks, Propoghandi, with such great hits as Stick That Fucking Flag Up You're Ass.

Altho I can't think of any more off the top of my head...

anyone know any heavy rock, metal, heavy metal, power metal, speed metal, black metal or death metal bands that are commies?
just trying to find some so i canm do a talk about commie music for my schools heavy rock society :)

[libereco]

for leftist metal check out Sepultura. Brazilian Band.

but have no idea if they're communists or what they are, but just listen to their lyrics (or read them) and i guess you'll see.

and yes, propagandhi is a great band you should go buy/download all of their albums ;D

[Kez]

Most music is anti-capitalist, which not neccerily makes them commies, although machine head have sed theyre commies or summit

comrade kamo

[Rob]

ok, although they aren't commies, CRASS, conflict, and flux of pink indians are good old school english peace punk. there are a bunch of good french leftist/redskin oi! bands, such as brigada flores magon, action directe, sons de la lucha, bolchoi, and les partisans. stateside, we've got the GC5, hopeless dregs of humanity, aus rotten, the unseen, anti-flag, chainsaw little kids, and for bands that don't really exist anymore, dead kennedys (it's not a reunion without Jello), the MC5, and RATM

[CommieBastard]

RATM is NOT dead...

[libereco]

well, there won't be another RATM album anytime soon.
not under that name, not with Zack...

[bleed3r]

Try the band "Thursday". Particularly the songs "Autobiography of a nation" and "Paris in flames". You can get the lyrics here (http://www.maecker-web.de/lyrics/T/thursday_fullcollapse.html).

[revolutionary]

Pearl Jam- a bit old 80's rock and not very leftist but still good- try the song Jeremy and Even Flow

[revolutionary]

Also At the Drive-in-the best song in my opinion is Pattern against user but again not very heavy

[libereco]

Quote: from revolutionary on 5:20 pm on Jan. 27, 2002
Pearl Jam- a bit old 80's rock and not very leftist but still good- try the song Jeremy and Even Flow


their song "Do the Evolution" (i think thats the tiltle) is great. And the video to it is even better.

[psycho chicken]

pennywise's latest album, "land of the free?" is very good
system of a down have a few good songs, but i believe they are wasting their political talent

[bleed3r]

try bad religion... most if not all of their stuff is pretty political. my particular favorites are american jesus, i want to conquer the world, leaders and followers, modern man, and suffer

[TheGranma]

Pink Floyd are/were absolutely outstanding.

I agree, Money is a fantastic song, I love the lyric:
"Money, it's a crime"

"When the Tigers Broke Free" is incredible and personal, the writer (waters?) commenting on how his father was killed in Italy in WWII.

"The Fletcher Memorial Home" is great, i especially like the passage:

"ladies and gentlemen, please welcome reagan and haig
mr. begin and friend mrs. thatcher and paisley
mr. brezhnev and party
the ghost of mccarthy
the memories of nixon
and now adding colour a group of anonymous latin
american meat packing glitterati''

All of their other stuff is cool though, really progressive stuff like Shine on You Crazy Diamond etc

[bleed3r]

the unsung zeros have some good political stuff, theyre a more pop punkish type band... try "draft" or "corporate giants killing our friendships"...

posting more as i think of them :)

[sirfrancis18]

system of a down is a great band, they're lyrics are very good and their musical talent is amazing... they deal with some issues not dealt with here (in america) all too often in music, especially semi-mainstream that actually gets out to a lot of people, prison song, ATWA, science, war?, peephole, all good songs, get both albums, very quality

[vox]

I'm tellin' ya, get some Dropkick Murphys.

Fuckers. ;)

vox

[elizquierdista]

System and Rage are great bands with really good songs. But what about the most obvious bands with good left wing ideas in their songs and protest songs as well. I suggest:
Guns n' Roses "Civil War"
Papa Roach "Between Angels and Insects"
Silverchair "Anthem for the year 2000"
Ill Niño "Revolution Revolución"
U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

If you speak Spanish or Italian I suggest:
Jovanotti "O è natale tutti i giorni"
Francesco Guccini "Stagioni" (song about Che)
Mercedes Sosa "Sobreviviendo"
Mercedes Sosa "Todo Cambia"
Boikot "Hasta Siempre" (song about Che)
"Zamba del Che" (sorry, don't know the artist)

[psycho chicken]

i saw system of a down last week, seems most fans don't realise the meaning of the songs.

the chant of "fuck the system" which got going was joined in by the whole crowd (which was amazing) but i most people were just joining in for the hell of it, not really knowing what it meant.

but none the less, it was a great mosh pit :D

[Guest]

I'd invite you all to check out Red Square http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/194/red_square.html
Synth pop (somewhere between NIN and Depeche Mode) commie music. Something different. Anything.

[guerrillaradio]

I dunno if any of you guys have heard of a Welsh band called Manic Street Preachers. They started out as a glam-punk band, mixing Gun 'n' Roses and The Clash just about equally. Most of their first three albums (up to The Holy Bible, by far their best) are political, and defiantly left-wing, although not quite commie. I think they're now members of the UK's Socialist Labour Party (Arthur Scargill broadcast a message to their crowd during their Millenium Eve gig @ Cardiff). Unfortunately, in 1995, their guitarist/main lyricist Richey disappeared and they've become fat ugly men making music for fat ugly men. Think MOR, think bullshit. They were the first Western rock band to play in Cuba though in February 2001...

Apart from that, check out Pitchshifter (techno-punks from Nottingham, UK, left-wing...best album: www.pitchshifter.com) and Asian Dub Foundation (dub-rock from Glasgow, UK, left-wing...I'm not much of a fan but hey). And Radiohead have shown empathy for the left, although in more libertarian way than anything else. And there's always Atari Teenage Riot, Germans who make techno-noise (complete utter chaos), but they're more anarchists than anything else...

[Anne]

There's a lot of stuff by propaghandi that is quite good. I saw them this fall live and they were amazing. I particularily like "Nation States" and "Anti-manefesto" Also "the only good facist is a dead facist"

The Weakerthans are quite emo, but several of their songs have communist undertones

The (international) noise conspiracy makes some good stuff. I really like "Airports" off of First Conspiracy

There's a local band aroudn these parts called The Martyr Index that are excellent. www.themartyrindex.com

[Guest]

boy sets fire.

[rob the 1st]

an australian ska band, area7 , not the best music but som good lyrics-

try the song second class citizen