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Rage Against The Machine
Grandson
Listened to plenty of rage but never heard of grandson. Have a song or album to recommend?
Something To Hide, Despicable, Blood // Water, Dirty, Thoughts & Prayers, Darkside, Things Change, Peaches (feat. K.Flay), Is This What You Wanted, Apologize, Riptide, Zen...
This should suffice for a great musical afternoon. :)
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.
I love run the jewels! Agree with the rest of what you said too.
Brother Ali is also an excellent option in that genre, although his most directly political tracks are not his best IMHO.
I have the same opinion. I think his best is the collaboration between immortal technique and killer Mike "Civil war".
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Midnight Oil (because I'm Aussie so very relevant)
Rise Against
RATM
Billy Bragg
Peter Gabriel
Green Day
Pink Floyd
NWA
Great list
Jesse Welles has been coming up on youtube lately with some very good lyrics.
Yeah I like him
Saw him a couple of months ago. Along with writing great lyrics hes also a great musician with a very fun show!
Dead Kennedys
Rise Against.
Never listened to them but I've heard of them. Have a song or album to recommend?
A good starting point would be the songs "Re-education (Through Labor)" and "Prayer of the Refugee." If you like those, I would recommend pretty much any of their albums from Siren Song of the Counter-Culture to Wolves. I haven't kept up with anything more recent than those so can't give an honest recommendation there, but I would imagine they would also be solid.
Did you never listen to „The Unraveling“ or „Revolutions per Minute“? Do you just don’t like them? The Unraveling is the first Rise Against Album I stumbled upon and it opened my musical tastebuds for hardcore(ish) music.
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Dropkick Murphy's and NOFX!
As much as I hate my country's devolution into fascism, I love that Murphys are having a resurgence.
Refused
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.
Haven't heard of any of the three you mentioned. Have any song recommendations?
Propagandhi is as good as Bad Religion
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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.
Bad religion is fantastic
Bad Cop Bad Cop
IDLES touches on politics, but isn't entirely focused on it.
Bikini Kill for more focused gender politics.
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
Bob Vylan is a great choice. Been really digging their stuff this year.
Same! Thanking the news for advertising their pro-palestine stance which made me take notice. Kneecap as well, although I'm more hesitant to label them political (mainly because I don't understand the lyrics 🤣 )
"Get Your Brits Out" from Kneecap has been my jam lately lol
Get Your Brits Out”
Wow great recommendation! I'm an album-guy, singles like that escape my attention. Listening now, sounding great!
Napalm Death Dead Kennedies Irish folk/rebel songs Liked 90s sepultura for that
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.
I see nobody has mentioned Public Enemy.
Neil Young
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.
I agree with that
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.
Learn some history.
Paul Robeson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson
Bonus. The Ballad For Americans. FDR era micro-opera.
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The Future of the Left, Dog Park Dissidents, SOFT PLAY, Viagra Boys, The Toxhards, Alexisonfire (though most of their songs are about life rather than politics), Kill Lincoln, Maruja
I had never heard of this person but this is a great song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61I4hlig78w
(they were playing it at a no kings demo I was at)
Next would be anyone whose songs have ever been misused by some dingbat politician, e.g., Springsteen's "Born in the USA" or CCR's "Fortunate Son."
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