What's your favourite political song?

[durhamleft]

Could you also briefly explain them?
I know they have somewhat conflicting messages but:

Woody Guthrie- Jarama Valley


Buffy Sainte-Marie- Universal soldier

(youtube them- I cant post links as I've only posted 7 times :S)

For anyone who doesnt know the Guthrie song is about the Spanish civil war and the battle of jarama valley in which many people from different countries fought against the fascists and Universal soldier is a song that criticises soldiers for fighting in wars.

[syndicat]

Solidarity Forever, by Ralph Chaplin

[The Red Next Door]

El pueblo Unido

[Crusade]

Lady Gaga feat Beyonce- 'Telephone'

Dead Prez- 'Cop Shot'

RATM's entire life

[durhamleft]

Lady Gaga feat Beyonce- 'Telephone'

Dead Prez- 'Cop Shot'

RATM's entire life

Please explain what I fail to see. :blushing:

[Crusade]

Please explain what I fail to see. :blushing:

It's a feminist backlash against oppressive restrictions that come from a traditional monogamist relationship. Nah, I put it there for the lulz.

[Broletariat]

Crass - Banned From the Roxy, Do They Owe Us a Living

[Os Cangaceiros]

Lately for me it's been "Let's Lynch the Landlord", by the Dead Kennedys.

Because I don't really like my landlord.

[Lyev]

Lately for me it's been "Let's Lynch the Landlord", by the Dead Kennedys.

Because I don't really like my landlord.I prefer "Kill, kill, kill the poor" by the same artist.

[Sam_b]

I like the stirring song "let's move this to the music forum"

[Os Cangaceiros]

I prefer "Kill, kill, kill the poor" by the same artist.

I like the DK's sarcastic take on politics...it comes off as a lot less pretentious than some other bands. *coughAntiFlagcough*

[Lyev]

I like the DK's sarcastic take on politics...it comes off as a lot less pretentious than some other bands. *coughAntiFlagcough*They also have a song about skinning children, which is off the same album. Skinning children is a pretty leftist thing to do. Can't remember its name though. That is such a classic album.

[Weezer]

L'Internationale

[Os Cangaceiros]

Can't remember its name though.

"I Kill Children", perhaps?

[Lyev]

"I Kill Children", perhaps?Something along those lines, yes.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I also like that song "Bleed for Me", just because it includes the line "Dine on a charbroiled nun!" :lol: The song "Riot" (off the same album) is excellent, too...really cool progression. I actually like Plastic Surgery Disasters a lot more than Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (their debut)...it's just a much more accomplished album musically, I think.

[Lyev]

I also like that song "Bleed for Me", just because it includes the line "Dine on a charbroiled nun!" :lol: The song "Riot" (off the same album) is excellent, too...really cool progression. I actually like Plastic Surgery Disasters a lot more than Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (their debut)...it's just a much more accomplished album musically, I think.Yes, that is pretty cool. Jello Biarfas voice is what keeps it all together. On Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables the bassist had only been playing it for about 3 years. Nonetheless, it's interesting to see how a band like them can progress musically. You can definitely hear how they have improved.

Edit: to the OP, anything by Billy Bragg.

[MilkmanofHumanKindness]

"March of the Covert Batallions" -Billy Bragg
"Waiting for the Great Leap Forward" -Billy Bragg
Anything and everything on Bragg's "Internationale", and "Talking With the Taxman about Poetry"

[28350]

The Internationale.

[Abyss Crown]

I really can't stand anything obnoxious and generic, it's really irritable for me. One song that instantly comes to mind that annoys me is the The International.
Personally, I like Ay Carmela.

Actually, about The International pet peeve, I just can't stand Billy Bragg's version, I'd rather hear babies crying. Combined in with the song implying humans as a whole are a race (we can discuss that off of the thread, if you want) and I really don't like the tune of the song, both Bragg's version and all versions. Sorry.

But yeah, I like a lot of Spanish Republican songs from the Spanish Civil War

[Tavarisch_Mike]

"There is power in a union" - Billy Bragg

"Arbeiter von Wien"

[Chambered Word]

Kill The Poor and Nazi Punks Fuck Off by the Dead Kennedys (Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables is win). :thumbup1:

Also, God Save The Queen.

[Proletarian Ultra]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx7A3UYKXj4

The Internationale - Chinese Metal style!!!

[Comrade Hoxha Hysni]

I like all types of revolutionary songs from all times, but I prefer folk style or marches.

It's hard to pick one, but since the topic asks only for one, I choose Enver Hoxha Tungjatjeta!. It's really beautiful.

[freepalestine]

this is quite good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud-bVvbcbYg

[freepalestine]

Nasheed AL-Intifada Marcel khalife نشيد الانتفاضة - مارسيل خليفة


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxqF3vvVMFk

[Ocean Seal]

Hasta Siempre, Venceremos, and My Little Armalite.

[chegitz guevara]

Bandiera Rossa!

[Zeus the Moose]

In addition to several of the songs named here, I'd add Rote Wedding, an anti-fascist song from the KPD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iPKogptwII

Also, and I believe this has been posted here before, but there's a video up for Sozialistische Weltrepublik that I enjoy. It's a bit defencist, but it's cute:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPKH4GHiihg

[graymouser]

Hmm.

A couple of the old socialist anthems - The Internationale and Solidarity Forever - speak deeply to me. I have a deep and abiding love for the old Wobbly songs too, We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years and There Is Power In a Union and a dozen or so other tunes from the Little Red Songbook. And then there are a few overtly political rock songs that stick with me like Black 47's James Connolly and the Clash's Spanish Bombs. James Connolly I guess hits me the most directly.

[The Ben G]

Well, since Dead Kennedys seem to keep popping up, I might as well change it up.

Night Train by Public Enemy
Guns for the Afghan Rebels by Angelic Upstarts
Propaganda by Sepultura
Legalize it by Peter Tosh

Just to name a few.

[maskerade]

The Clash, anyone?

Personal favorite:
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[Joesky]

Massive Attack - False Flags
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjAV8PpZWX4

My first Youtube post! :thumbup1:

[comradeRed:)]

The Internationale! its so inspiring

[A.R.Amistad]

Request to move this thread to Music.

Also, my favorite is Pete Seeger's rendition of "Which Side Are You On?"

[Red Commissar]

I'll post some old ones

-Der Heimliche Aufmarsch. This was posted above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNK7biw9r5c

-L'Internationale

-Bandiera Rossa

-Hijos de Pueblo (having trouble find my particular version... youtube has a bunch that are either a punk remix or a different singer)


-"Joe Hill" by Luke Kelly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2OivplOBq8

This one is really folksy, but I like it the most out of all the versions.

As for more modern songs, I don't have any that haven't been posted yet.

Edit:

Wouldn't this topic be better suited in Music?