Aussie Left music

[Comrade BNS]

who else here likes aussie left oriented music or bands? I love John Butler trio and also really like Cog....ne other aussie left bands ppl like?

Comrade BNS

[Ian]

Cog played the the anti-WTO rally a few years back.

The Herd are quite political, not very musical, download 77%.

[SittingBull47]

i don't know of any aussie music, but i'm up for some good politically oriented songs. what are good political rock bands down under?

[celtopunk]

I don't know many Aussie bands.

How about H-Block 101 and Mutiny?

[Comrade BNS]

some good aussie rock bands left oriented are well.....cog that's all I know, their song open up is really awsome! check em out!

Comrade BNS

[Palmares]

Left Wing? Well, there is always good 'ol Midnight Oil. They sing about Aboriginal rights in some song. I dunno much about them though.

Cog aren't too bad. I heard them at the Falls Festival. Thinking about it, I've actually heard some hippy/greenie bands, but they aren't that great.

[celtopunk]

Here's some H Block 101 lyrics
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~gzombie/hblock101.htm

Great Australian Joke (Mautner)

Now you see that woman
Sheís running for parliament
Sheís spreading all her racist views
The fucks and the followers
Think she makes a valid point
ëCause they saw it on the news

None of them seem to be under 50

Their racist views will fuck the country

I know you know - the government has got to go
Kick ëem out - vote ëem in - do it all again

See the fat pig, heís syphened out the public fund
Donít treat him like an honest man
Built himself a home, took a little holiday
Ripped us off however he can

He owes us all for what heís got
A man like that he ought to be shot

I know...

Inbred - over fed - never get your family fed
Fucking **** - hereís a stunt Kick him til heís dead

[Floyd.]

To be completely honest here isn't really an established aussie political music scene outside of the rap world which is mostly shit, but if you know about australian immigration and aboriginal policies the i agree listen to 77% by the herd. better yet listen 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 by midnight oil. politics borders closely on social comment here umm who else does it... area 7, i'm sick of the john butler crap, i'd rather xavier rudd or the beautiful girls (last 2 not political really) umm paul kelly does some okay aussie folky stuff with political comment; see from little things big things grow. we have some bad unoriginal pop punk here that thinks it's political. We have accidentally political bands like the hard-ons who are loved nazi skinheads in europe just because they're hard and fast. umm we actually do have stuff like the warumpi band which is an aboriginal band with political comment and then we have some other great aboriginal political musicians who amazingly aren't rap archie roach i recommend his album looking for butter boy and then we have jimmy little. fuck i can't be bothered anymore. Most oz politics is either gangsta style rap with thick oz immigrant accents or it's imported (vocalists for both the resin dogs and for 1200 techniques) or it's people putting shit on wannabe homeboys and saying how rap is shit amazingly enough... in a rap song. just buy some midnight oil

[Monty Cantsin]

midnight oil take the cake.