complete list of leftist/anarchist music

[lovebombanarchy]

I'm trying to compile a complete list of all major leftist/anarchist musical acts for my website, www.fuckauthority.org

just add anything you can think of

Immortal Technique
RATM
Radiohead
dead prez
the coup

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Public Enemy
Sun R.A.
Paris (?)
Shadowyze
Big Lo
T-K.A.S.H.

[Creature]

It depends, there are some songs by some bands that are leftist, but the rest of their songs are just normal. Like Godsmack have a few that are leftist, but most are just the usual hard rock.

A Perfect Circle (Songs - Let's have a war,
KMFDM (Songs - Anarchy, WWIII, Witchhunt [Probably more])

Pennywise (Songs - Fuck Authority, Perfect People, Society)
John Butler Trio (Not really sure if it's leftist, but in some of their songs they seem to be against capitalism)
Godsmack (Songs - Bad religion)

[BitchBrew]

radioheads leftist????

[lovebombanarchy]

Originally posted by *****[email protected] 3 2005, 04:38 PM
radioheads leftist????
very much so.

they have quotes from Chomsky in one of their ep's booklets

thom yorke has written anti-globalization articles for the Guardian

etc etc
very political

[Pawn Power]

-Leftover Crack/Choking Victim
-Morning Glory/InDk

maybe
-Propaghandi

[Organic Revolution]

all of riot folk, riotfolk.org

[Organic Revolution]

also joey only, http://www.joeyonly.com/

[Rockfan]

The Nightwatchman AKA Tom Morello.
Nofx
Anti-flag
Rise Against
SOAD
Tool to an extent.

Does Leftist music mean singing about politics for like every song cos other wise theres gonna be a shit load of bands who had like one politiaclly motivated song e.g Alice In Chains whos song Man In A Box is anti cenoership.

[CCCPneubauten]

Let's not forget Dead Kennedys...

[gewehr_3]

Godsmack cannot be called leftist!!!! I have been to one of their concerts and on their screens in the backround they had american flags waving and videos of our tanks shooting things.

[Creature]

Your kidding right? Damn... My mistake then. It's just the song "bad religion" kinda comes from a leftist view.

But anyways, my mistake, sorry for the intrusion.

[BitchBrew]

OMG, i really like radihead but i hade no idea they were left! :D

[Lorca]

much to my joy ...Nirvana are considered to be leftists ...therye socialists ...
read it in their website somewhere that their bassist was talking politics...very very progressive socialists ...
...
theres the beastie boys ..anyone heard of them ???
wud they considered leftists ..(i think they are ..)

[Stormshield]

I really wouldn't say SOAD are leftist, they're just generally against injustice, to quote Daron himself, SOAD aren't a political band any more than they are a band of stand-up comedians... :D

[Bazza]

Redskins (http://www.redskins.co.uk)
Newtown Neurotics
Attila The Stockbroker
Billy Bragg
The Strike
Blaggers ITA

[Rockfan]

Originally posted by [email protected] 5 2005, 04:41 AM
I really wouldn't say SOAD are leftist, they're just generally against injustice, to quote Daron himself, SOAD aren't a political band any more than they are a band of stand-up comedians... :D
Yes well that kind of relates back to my question. And well if your against injustace than you oviously have some sort of left wing opinion on things.

[Stormshield]

Supposing I am left-wing ;)

Irony aside, you got a point.

[farleft]

The Manic Street Preachers
The Clash
Bob Marley
Damian Marley
Big Audio Dynamite

[SanPatricio'sSoul]

As far as hip hop here are a few I can think of that are leftist (that I don't believe have been said)

Akir
Diabolic
Hasan Salaam
Sun RA
Zearle
(Me)
MURS to an extent (Paint by Numbers is one of the best songs I've ever heard)
Talib Kweli
Mos Def
Common
Dead Prez (they love the word cracker)
Some stuff on the new Kanye album is left leaning
Aesop Rock to an extent
Sage Francis to an extent
the whole Reavers crew
MF Doom to an extent

Thats all I can think of, but I could hit you up with a lot of individual leftist songs here and there.

[robob8706]

The (International) Noise Conspiracy

Great rock swedish leftist rock group. Sounds similar to The Hives, garage band type rock.

Against Me!

Punk. Although a growing trend among emos which is starting to piss me off cause they aren't emo.

[rioters bloc]

Originally posted by [email protected] 5 2005, 09:24 AM
The (International) Noise Conspiracy

Great rock swedish leftist rock group. Sounds similar to The Hives, garage band type rock.
you beat me to it by 25 minutes! ;)

[Craig]

Originally posted by [email protected] 3 2005, 08:23 AM
I'm trying to compile a complete list of all major leftist/anarchist musical acts for my website, www.fuckauthority.org
Damn, I don't even know where to begin. There are a million punk bands that are leftist in one form or another:

Dead Kennedys, Crass, Subhumans, DOA, Propagandhi, Good Riddance, Bad Religion

All of those are reasonably popular bands with large followings.

Hell, even NOFX's latest record was 30 minute rant against Bush.

-Craig

[Jimmie Higgins]

I think you should limit the bands to only ones that openly talk about activism and leftist issues otherwise your list will start looking like Amazon.com's music section.

I'd say 80% of rock and hip hop and soul bands could be considered vaguely leftist... and at certain periods of time and in certain generes 99.9% of bands would be leftist!

At any rate, I like a lot more bands than the ones I am about to list, but they are the most openly and didactically leftist that I can think of right now:

The Redskins - "Neither Washington Nor Moscow"
Gil Scott Heron! - you know, he wrote 'Whitey on the Moon'
Last Poets - grandaddys of consious hip-hop. The were all bongos and black liberation in the 70s
The Clash - maybe I missed it, but did no one mention them yet?
Public Enemy
Dead Prez and Dead Kennedys are both worth mentioning again.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Bread
Asia
Hall & Oates
Nokturnal Mortum

[syme]

Originally posted by [email protected] 3 2005, 08:23 AM
I'm trying to compile a complete list of all major leftist/anarchist musical acts for my website, www.fuckauthority.org

visit plyrics.com. find thousands of punk bands and their lyrics, so you can verify the extent of their affiliation with the left.

[Body Count]

IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/3250/techfront5up.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Talking]
The new age is upon us
And yet the past refuses to rest in its shallow grave
For those who hide behind the false image of the son of man
shall stand before God!!! It has begun
The beginning of the end
Yeah..
Yeah... yeah, yeah

[Verse 1]
The voice of racism preaching the gospel is devilish
A fake church called the prophet Muhammad a terrorist
Forgetting God is not a religion, but a spiritual bond
And Jesus is the most quoted prophet in the Qu'ran
They bombed innocent people, tryin' to murder Saddam
When you gave him those chemical weapons to go to war with Iran
This is the information that they hold back from Peter Jennings
Cause Condoleeza Rice is just a new age Sally Hemmings
I break it down with critical language and spiritual anguish
The Judas I hang with, the guilt of betraying Christ
You murdered and stole his religion, and painting him white
Translated in psychologically tainted philosophy
Conservative political right wing, ideology
Glued together sloppily, the blasphemy of a nation
Got my back to the wall, cause I'm facin' assassination
Guantanamo Bay, federal incarceration
How could this be, the land of the free, home of the brave?
Indigenous holocaust, and the home of the slaves
Corporate America, dancin' offbeat to the rhythm
You really think this country, never sponsored terrorism?
Human rights violations, we continue the saga
El Savador and the contras in Nicaragua
And on top of that, you still wanna take me to prison
Just cause I won't trade humanity for patriotism

[Hook]
It's like MK-ULTRA, controlling your brain
Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change
They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto
The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle
A bandana full of glittering, generality
Fighting for freedom and fighting terror, but what's reality?
Read about the history of the place that we live in
And stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

[Verse 2]
Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs
Broken apart like a woman's heart, abused in a marriage
The brink of holy war, bottled up, like a miscarriage
Embedded correspondents don't tell the source of the tension
And they refuse to even mention, European intervention
Or the massacres in Jenin, the innocent screams
U.S. manufactured missles, and M-16's
Weapon contracts and corrupted American dreams
Media censorship, blocking out the video screens
A continent of oil kingdoms, bought for a bargain
Democracy is just a word, when the people are starvin'
The average citizen, made to be, blind to the reason
A desert full of genocide, where the bodies are freezin'
And the world doesn't believe that you fightin' for freedom
Cause you fucked the Middle East, and gave birth to a demon
It's open season with the CIA, bugging my crib
Trapped in a ghetto region like a Palestinian kid
Where nobody gives a fuck whether you die or you live
I'm tryin' to give the truth, and I know the price is my life
But when I'm gone they'll sing a song about Immortal Technique
Who beheaded the President, and the princes and sheiks
You don't give a fuck about us, I can see through your facade
Like a fallen angel standing in the presence of God
***** niggaz scared of the truth, when it looks at you hard

[Hook]
It's like MK-ULTRA, controlling your brain
Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change
They wanna rearrange the whole point of view in the ghetto
The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle
A bandana full of glittering, generality
Fighting for freedom and fighting terror, but what's reality?
Martial law is coming soon to the hood, to kill you
While you hanging your flag out your project window

[Talking]
Yeah..
The fourth branch of the government AKA the media
Seems to now have a retirement plan for ex-military officials
As if their opinion was at all unbiased
A machine shouldn't speak for men
So shut the fuck up you mindless drone!
And you know it's serious
When these same media outfits are spending millions of dollars on a PR campaign
To try to convince you they're fair and balanced
When they're some of the most ignorant, and racist people
Giving that type of mentality a safe haven
We act like we share in the spoils of war that they do
We die in wars, we don't get the contracts to make money off 'em afterwards!
We don't get weapons contracts, nigga!
We don't get cheap labor for our companies, nigga!
We are cheap labor, nigga!
Turn off the news and read, nigga!
Read... read... read...

[Noah]

You can consider System Of a Down, leftist.

They said socialism was good and Serj's book 'Cool Gardens' can be said to have leftist ideas in it, they are against American corporations and war and so on so they're definitely not capitalist. Their music is not all political but if it is, it is based on leftist ideas and 'morals'.

[Atlas Swallowed]

T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty)

The Exploited

[FidelCastro]

My Chemical Romance
The Used.........................
............HAHAHAHAHAHAHA those are such crappy bands

Pink Floyd?

[RASH chris]

The Oppressed
Blaggers ITA
Oi Polloi
Kortatu
Banda Bassotti
Klasse Kriminale
Angelic Upstarts
Red London
Red Alert
Fighting Chance

lots of others.

The Exploited are not leftist. There used to be lots of pictures of Watti shooting off a zeig heil with some RAC band. Plus there are mad rumors about them using boneheads as bouncers at their shows.

[farleft]

Are these going to be compliled into one big list, so we know who all the leftist bands are?

Maybe the first post in the thread could be edited and the band names could be added to it.

[Invader Zim]

http://www2.wbs.ne.jp/~manics/Pict00041.jpg

[celtopunk]

Originally posted by Atlas [email protected] 18 2005, 05:33 PM
T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty)

The Exploited
Exploited? LEftist?

see this, note pic at bottom:

http://www.libreopinion.com/members/decibe...itedKlasse.html (http://www.libreopinion.com/members/decibelios/TheKriminaleExploitedKlasse.html)

[Atlas Swallowed]

My bad.

Not into the exploited just heard the song Fuck The System, sounded leftist to me, but I guess some right wingers despise the system also(for the wrong reasons of course).

[spartafc]

McCarthy

[Body Count]

Originally posted by [email protected] 19 2005, 05:10 PM
http://www2.wbs.ne.jp/~manics/Pict00041.jpg
Whose this?

[farleft]

Is it a pic of the Manic street preachers? if it is it must be a very old pic, James Dean Bradfield has put on alot of weight since then :lol:

[celtopunk]

Originally posted by [email protected] 20 2005, 01:16 PM
Is it a pic of the Manic street preachers? if it is it must be a very old pic, James Dean Bradfield has put on alot of weight since then :lol:
And Richey James has lost quite a bit of weight since then.

[farleft]

Originally posted by celtopunk+Dec 20 2005, 01:42 PM--> (celtopunk @ Dec 20 2005, 01:42 PM)
[email protected] 20 2005, 01:16 PM
Is it a pic of the Manic street preachers? if it is it must be a very old pic, James Dean Bradfield has put on alot of weight since then :lol:
And Richey James has lost quite a bit of weight since then. [/b]
Harsh man, that aint funny. :(

[spartafc]

And Richey James has lost quite a bit of weight since then.


Harsh man, that aint funny. sad.gif.

made me laugh

[celtopunk]

Originally posted by farleft+Dec 20 2005, 02:45 PM--> (farleft @ Dec 20 2005, 02:45 PM)
Originally posted by [email protected] 20 2005, 01:42 PM

[email protected] 20 2005, 01:16 PM
Is it a pic of the Manic street preachers? if it is it must be a very old pic, James Dean Bradfield has put on alot of weight since then :lol:
And Richey James has lost quite a bit of weight since then.
Harsh man, that aint funny. :( [/b]
You set it up for me, it seemed a shame not to spike it.

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by [email protected] 20 2005, 09:15 PM



And Richey James has lost quite a bit of weight since then.


Harsh man, that aint funny. sad.gif.

made me laugh
Yes because anorexia, self harm and suicide are hilarious...

... prat.

[commie anarchist rebel]

refused
international noise conspricy
sex pistols
the clash
black flag
green day
rise against
rage against the machine
soad

[ComradeAnubis]

Come to think about it, Isnt Killswitch Engage leftist?

[SanPatricio'sSoul]

I was thinking about this thread and theres definitally some people I forgot

Black Market Militia
Tragedy Khadafi
Pumpkinhead
Hell Razah
4th Disciple
Self Scientific
Zion I
Konfident
Little Brother
Most of the Wu-Tang Affiliates

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

bright eyes
the decemberists
southerly
phil ochs
elliott smith
the smiths
hazel dickens
joann riedl
pete seeger
woodie guthrie
pedro the lion(see the song "forgone conclutions" blaitant attack on the religious right)
live(the lead singer sang at an anti-war rally)
tracy chapman
tom waits
david rovics
tom paxton
david byrne
ok go
the ataris(heavens falling)

[Rockfan]

Midnight Oil - Blue sky minings a pro union song and beds are burning deffernatlly has a leftist theame, I wouldn't say there too far left thou.

[Enragé]

Propagandhi if it hasnt been said before

[against all authority]

against all authority
jack johnson
fireapple red
seize the day (various artists)
operation ivy
leftover crack
anti-flag
the unseen
living things?

[The Grey Blur]

Originally posted by celtopunk+Dec 19 2005, 08:56 PM--> (celtopunk @ Dec 19 2005, 08:56 PM)
Atlas [email protected] 18 2005, 05:33 PM
T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty)

The Exploited
Exploited? LEftist?

see this, note pic at bottom:

http://www.libreopinion.com/members/decibe...itedKlasse.html (http://www.libreopinion.com/members/decibelios/TheKriminaleExploitedKlasse.html) [/b]
What, three drunken twats giving the Nazi Salute means songs like Army Life (http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/exploited/armylife.html), Fuck The USA (http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/exploited/fucktheusa.html), Law For The Rich (http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/exploited/lawfortherich.html) and counless other anti-war, ant-authoritarian, leftist songs don't mean shit? Fuck That!

Here's the lyrics to one of the "Nazi's" songs :rolleyes:

"Hitler's In The Charts Again"

Listen to the sound of the soldiers dancing
Armageddon time on the firing line
Don't know what they're doing
Looks like troundles brewing
Wunderbar auf Wiedersehen
Hitler's in the charts again
You look like a tramp put you in a camp
Join the shower quenue in your dancing shoes
Be the dancing champ of your concentration camp
Keep on movin' fast remember Belsen was a gas
Hitlers in the charts again
Moving in trance watch the soldiers dance
Bloodstains on their feet scared of everyone you meet
Armys on the street can you feel the heat
Watch the soldiers fall it couldnt happen here


Riot starting, bouncer bashing, cop baiting, hotel trashing, foul talking, noise making, chaos causing, venue wrecking, government hating, rule breaking, piss taking, unrelenting, punk rocking…. Clearly we're not talking about Pepsi adverts here, or indeed the many so-called punk bands that would gleefully sell themselves to such corporate giants for a palm full of silver. Whoo-hoo! The taste of a generation! Fuck off! Let's get one thing straight: The Exploited are not 'punkers' or any of the other cutesy, watered down, MTV friendly names you might want to call them.

also,


They've been accused of being dumb (yes, sometimes, but wilfully so) and causing trouble (guilty again, but smashing stuff is fun and punks are supposed to be obnoxious). But The Exploited are also fiercely (not to mention bluntly) socially and politically aware, covering everything from the Criminal Justice Act to the increasing use of Big Brother CCTV and never wavering from their anti-authoritarian, anti-war stance. And while a critic once suggested they were stating the obvious (politicians are liars and war is bad), someone is still voting for the fuckers and we seem to be on the brink of World War Three. Someone should be shouting about it for Christ's sake! And no one shouts louder than The Exploited!

The Exploited are Leftist punk rock!

[Ligeia]

Maybe the young Depeche Mode.They were leftist at the beginning of their career,they gave a concert in the DDR for free and the album covers of their first 3 or 4 albums looked like they were using leftist symblos and some of their lyrics were,too having a leftist kind of message in it and as far as I know the songwriter said once they were marxists but I think they already changed their minds....well,nevermind.

[reddagger]

Zearle has several albums for free on his site. Some really good lefty music for free.
zearle (http://www.zearle.com)

As far as being left, an artist who does not profit from making socialist music is pretty rare.

[reddagger]

I have made several "revolutionary mix cds" here are two:
You will need Azereus, bittorrent, or similar program to download.

If anyone has webspace to host some albums, I have 5 or 6 that I could upload for people to share in the revolution. Please let me know if interested in helping...

Here are the links to the torrents and tracklists...

Red Dagger Political Hip Hop Mix Volume 2 (http://www.chomskytorrents.org/DownloadTorrent.php?TorrentID=411)
Red Dagger Political Hip Hop Mix Volume 2

01-Shuffering & Smiling - Dead Prez, Talib Kewli, Jorge Ben and Bilal .mp3
02-askari_x_guerilla-ride-rns.mp3
03-Mumia Abu-Jamal-The depth of our courage.mp3
04-goodie_mob_free-whoa.mp3
05-Zearle-Wits_End-Revolutionist.mp3
06-Ward Churchill-the key agitator index.mp3
07-Immortal Technique - Bin Laden (Remix) feat. Chuck D & KRS-One (Street)
08-sabac-fight_until_the_end_ft._immortal_technique-cms.mp3
09-Zearle-I'm_Attacking_You.mp3
10-Orishas_Habana.mp3
11-tallib_kweli-the_revolution-cms.mp3
12-public_enemy-field_ngga_boogie_(xlr8r_remix).mp3
13-planet_asia-upside_(feat_goapelle)-ego.mp3
14-immortal_technique-caught_in_a_hustle-cms.mp3
15-the politicization of street organizations.mp3
16-eric_b_and_rakim-casualties_of_war_(radical_radio_edit).mp3
18-cointelpro & politically objectionable citizens.mp3
20-j_live-satisfied_(re-rip)-cms.mp3
21-ward churchill - solidarity.mp3
22-zearle-theme_music.mp3


Red Dagger Political Reggae Volume 1 (http://www.chomskytorrents.org/DownloadTorrent.php?TorrentID=405)
Red Dagger Political Reggae Mix Volume 1

01-linton-kwesi-johnson-More Time.mp3
02-bob-marley-Zimbabwe.MP3
03-julian_marley-systems-whoa.mp3
04-Linton Kwesi Johnson-Sonny's Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem).mp3
05-the_viceroys-we_must_unite-ras.mp3
06-peter_tosh-here_comes_the_judge-don.mp3
07-cornel_campbell-fight_against_corruption-ras.mp3
07-Steel Pulse - No More Weapons.mp3
08-Alpha Blondy-Bloodshed in Africa.MP3
09-bob-marley-Revolution.MP3
10-FireBurn-AdelanteKymani.mp3
11-Dennis Brown-Wolves And Leopards.mp3
12-Linton Kwesi Johnson-Di Anfinished Revalueshan.mp3
13-Dennis Brown - Malcom X.mp3
14-Steel Pulse - George Jackson.mp3
15-Mutabaruka - Freedom.mp3
16-ziggy-thesong.mp3
17-Aswad w Dennis Brown - Promised Land.mp3
18-junior murvin-Police And Thieves.mp3

Forward Always
Red Dagger

[Iroquois Xavier]

Where is GreenDay! :o they are blatantly left wing 15+ years still going strong just look at American Idiot, Minority, Wake me up when september ends. Nearly all the songs they have done are protesting against the American government! :D