Music Is Getting Political. Name a song that is political

[AntiParty]

Music is finally getting political..Or was it political before?

Today I see a HUGE step by Country music singer Kacey Musgraves stating, "kiss girls if that's something you're into".
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8xqyoZXCc]Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow - YouTube[/ame]
I started thinking about this and a few songs later I heard

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYY2FQHFwE]Merle Haggard -- Okie From Muskogee - YouTube[/ame] *note that growing your hair long and shaggy is actually a Christian movement, not a hippy movement. But don't tell the Robertsons. They will simply repeat what I just said. Christians by the bible aren't supposed to shave. But I digress......

And of course we didn't see what blacks were going through in the '90s.
Gangster rap was the art of expressing their current situations because they were FINALLY free Americans. Through their adaptation of their new freedom they made songs like. And they came out with this [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PArF9k2SbQk]Bone thugs-n-harmony - 1st of tha Month - YouTube[/ame]
Talk about a rough interpretation of black people struggling in America.

Today, I wonder who is the music leader on Politics.

MACKLEMORE came out with save love. It was the most directly political song in history, or maybe you can counter that, I love information. First it was



http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=macklemore same love&sm=1
I can't move past the irony that Obama acts like Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want)

 

[CaféAuLait]

Always been political IMO.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6irfBMm48g&feature=kp]Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Ohio - (live audio 1970) - YouTube[/ame]



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UC9pc4U40sI]DONOVAN - The Universal Soldier - YouTube[/ame]

(The message is that the soldier should take personal responsibility for his actions, instead of automatically responding to orders. If there were no soldiers, doing the leaders’ bidding, the wars would cease)


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ljthTa6-Es]sam cooke (ain't that) good news - YouTube[/ame]

(end segregation and prejudice)


And sooo many more....

Cool thread [MENTION=47936]AntiParty[/MENTION]

 

[AntiParty]

Always been political IMO.


Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Ohio - (live audio 1970) - YouTube



DONOVAN - The Universal Soldier - YouTube

(The message is that the soldier should take personal responsibility for his actions, instead of automatically responding to orders. If there were no soldiers, doing the leaders’ bidding, the wars would cease)


sam cooke (ain't that) good news - YouTube

(end segregation and prejudice)


And sooo many more....

Cool thread [MENTION=47936]AntiParty[/MENTION]

Ty for the compliment. I want to thank you for the lyric "How can you run when you know" A very important message for America. It was in the song "Ohio"

 

[CaféAuLait]

Always been political IMO.


Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Ohio - (live audio 1970) - YouTube



DONOVAN - The Universal Soldier - YouTube

(The message is that the soldier should take personal responsibility for his actions, instead of automatically responding to orders. If there were no soldiers, doing the leaders’ bidding, the wars would cease)


sam cooke (ain't that) good news - YouTube

(end segregation and prejudice)


And sooo many more....

Cool thread [MENTION=47936]AntiParty[/MENTION]

Ty for the compliment. I want to thank you for the lyric "How can you run when you know" A very important message for America. It was in the song "Ohio"

I refer to those who raised me as 'late hippies'. I grew up with music that was past their time. BUT much of it with meaning. "Ohio" (the song you line you targeted on), as I am sure you know, was a time in the states where things were contentious, which resulted in shootings at Kent State after days of unrest and upheaval.

The crazy part about it, such resulted as a protest against the war ( a good thing), but a protest which was full of violence ( a bad thing)... irony.

 

[Mojo2]

I can divorce my political orientation from my aesthetic senses.

These protest songs have much to say musically.

Politically, not so much.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEFsBF1X1ow]Chicago - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwgz-6Z1UPk]Incubus - Megalomaniac (Lyrics) - YouTube[/ame]

This video features a few songs and they all rock.

They aren't so much political as they are, literally, fight songs for our warriors in harm's way.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_0h8jI005Y]Fallujah - Tankers Dream - YouTube[/ame]

I especially like the Steppenwolf remix of Magic Carpet Ride and the terrific, "Name of the Game" by The Crystal Method.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1TcDHrkQYg]Alphaville - Forever Young ~Official Video - YouTube[/ame]

A moldy oldy from the 80s about nuclear war.

 

[MisterBeale]

Agreed. I think music has always been political. I remember when I was young watching the movie Amadeus, some of his compositions had to be changed for political reasons.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ScisGFllPY]Fortunate Son -- CCR -- - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phHe6aNcocQ]Federal Funding - CAKE (Official Video) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntLsElbW9Xo]Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Truthseeker420]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLDyybNv1Iw"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLDyybNv1Iw[/ame]

 

[Truthseeker420]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68g76j9VBvM"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68g76j9VBvM[/ame]

 

[Truthseeker420]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ[/ame]

 

[Truthseeker420]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy3-R97wDKs"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy3-R97wDKs[/ame]

 

[Truthseeker420]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4kTnP5VJ1k"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4kTnP5VJ1k[/ame]

 

[Steven_R]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTsXHXMkJA&feature=kp]The Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ8ERBr9yKI]Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon - Love me,I'm a liberal - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sZCC6_PD9c]Ted Nugent - Kiss My Ass (with lyrics) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[MisterBeale]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6NQ42F1x7g]Nero Fiddling While Rome Burns/ Acie Cargill - YouTube[/ame]

 

[MisterBeale]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJauNgI9b3s]Mustard Plug - 06 - Throw a Bomb - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Music has always been political.

Always.

 

[jwoodie]

Long posts require less thought.

 

[CorvusRexus]

You people with all of your old music. Pfft. All of your country and rap. Pfft.
Ever heard of metal?
Megadeth- Washington is Next, Amerikhastan, United Abominations, Symphony of Destruction, etc.
Disturbed- Deify, Another Way to Die, Never Again, Land of Confusion, etc.
Device- Hunted, Out of Line, Opinion
Dethklok- Impeach God
Slipknot- All Hope is Gone, Pulse of the Maggot, etc.
None of you have ever listened to metal, have you?
Just to name a few.

 

[Vandalshandle]

 

[The Professor]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGWs1HK8iDU]The Last Farewell ~ Roger Whittaker - YouTube[/ame]