Ask Lemmy

System of A Down

Rage Against The Machine

Grandson

Gonna be showing my age here, but I was heavy into the likes of Dead Kennedys, Ministry, the whole D.C. Underground punk scene (Black Flag, Fugazi, etc). Anymore, though, I don’t actively seek out music with strong political messages. I prefer to hear artists sing about their personal experiences, their struggles, triumphs, losses…and a political slant is okay as long as it’s an organic part of the song’s message and not just endless proselytizing or ruining your own music by being a political douchebag. (Looking at you, Ronnie Radke!)

Edit: Almost forgot, dude, if hip hop is your thing, check out Run the Jewels.

Midnight Oil (because I'm Aussie so very relevant)
Rise Against
RATM
Billy Bragg
Peter Gabriel
Green Day
Pink Floyd
NWA

Dead Kennedys

Jesse Welles has been coming up on youtube lately with some very good lyrics.

Dropkick Murphy's and NOFX!

Crash Worship.

They were an anarchist art collective out of New Orleans that put on these incredible live shows.

Some recent bands I've been enjoying include Sister Wife Sex Strike, Cricket!, SPY, Cheap Perfume, and JER

Rise Against.

Someone mentioned RATM but no one ever talks about The Nightwatchman. Also Boots Riley and The Coup. Street Sweeper Social Club is a Tom Morello and Boots Riley project. Bad Religion is great also. Greg Graffin has several country albums that are pretty good.

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Incendiary

Propagandhi

I appreciate you mentioned Immortal Technique. Hip hop as a genre is generally very political, and doesn’t get a ton of recognition for it.

Bad Cop Bad Cop

IDLES touches on politics, but isn't entirely focused on it.

Bikini Kill for more focused gender politics.

Napalm Death Dead Kennedies Irish folk/rebel songs Liked 90s sepultura for that

off the top of my head from my playlists:

• folk-punk: Rail Yard Ghosts and Jesse Stewart
• punk-rap: Bob Vylan
• french hip-hop: Kalash Criminel talks a lot about colonialism
• US hip-hop: Sole, The Coup, Dead Prez
• lots of punk, too much to name

and of course (unclassifiable): Manu Chao

Recently discovered this fun little ditty:

Ugly Nasty Commie Bitch

I see nobody has mentioned Public Enemy.

Minutemen

There is inti illimani from Chile and Racionais MCs from Brazil. There is the language barrier though...

Massive Attack have their hearts in the right place. Their recent collaboration with Tom Waits is excellent.

I am not a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, but I admire him being the voice of the blue collar worker. I also loved Streets of Minneapolis (however sad the reason)

Hangyouth is one of the more politically laden bands in our country. One of their biggest hits is 'You do not hate mondays, you hate capitalism'.

PS: I love this thread.

I love me some Pete Seeger

Also anything by Pat the Bunny

Angry.

I like most of the original Punk stuff, even Sex Pistols, fond of Dead Kennedys. RATM, German Industrial, second Midnight Oil.

One missed so far is KMFDM, lyrics like 'Your Government Hates You,… Hate Your Government' and 'Those who would trade liberty for security, deserve neither and will lose both' seem especially on point today.

Neil Young

Public Enemy, RATM, The Coup , Dropkick Murphys all have been mentioned, but I'll mention them again.

Brother Ali isn't always political, but Uncle Sam Goddamn is so on the nose it is worth including him here.

I'm sure I'm leaving out some more good ones, but go watch that Brother Ali video if you aren't already familiar with the song. :)

Also there is !leftymusic@lemmy.world

Yes but it needs to be something like Black Flag or Rage Against The Machine where the lyrics and themes are dealing with ideals as opposed to explicitly naming candidates/parties/shibboleths.

Mostly punk and punk adjacent music, but that’s all I really listen to anwyay

Green Day, NOFX, The Living End, that kind of stuff