Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder! I bought Taj's 2nd album soon after it was released. So good. Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas and Crossroads soundtracks are quite good. Neil!
Very good selection of cartoons, doing what political cartoons are supposed to do.
I wrote these songs 1998-2002, played them with the band but never promoted them.
These recordings are live from our rehearsals. I have used them to post political videos on YouTube relevant to each election cycle since then. I like these links because each one takes you to a page for that song that shows you the lyrics and background info.
Eliza Gilkyson’s song “Highway 9” was among the few, and one of the best indictments of Bush’s phony “War on Terror”. From the album Land of Milk and Honey - (the title song is also a beautiful and sad tribute to a world gone mad).
As I understand it American Idiot was published in 2009 and Green Day’s album came out in 2004. I didn’t know about Pierce’s book and I think I’m going to get a copy. Thanks for the info.
Greg, Springsteen's "Rainmaker" is a poignant comment on the Bush years, but could be applied to the current Trump presidency. Released in 2020, but may have been recorded in 2007.
Thanks for the Lucinda! Didn't know about that one. The Canadian power pop band Sloan came out with their own special kind of protest song a while back. https://youtu.be/DorF5qxbCxc?si=M97XIwVKz0xjqY0V
Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World
Give us all the Ry you got!
and I got a lot to give....
I can think of plenty.
Golden Country -REO
Rebel Jesus and There are lives in the balance-Jackson Browne
War Pigs-Black Sabbath
Still in Saigon- CDB
Walking On A Thin Line- Huey Lewis
Fortunate Son- CCR
Southern Man- Neil Young
All pre 2000.
Still need more post-2000. Or post-2024.
Look into Jesse Welles.
I don't listen to country.
Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder! I bought Taj's 2nd album soon after it was released. So good. Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas and Crossroads soundtracks are quite good. Neil!
Very good selection of cartoons, doing what political cartoons are supposed to do.
Re: Protest Songs
I wrote these songs 1998-2002, played them with the band but never promoted them.
These recordings are live from our rehearsals. I have used them to post political videos on YouTube relevant to each election cycle since then. I like these links because each one takes you to a page for that song that shows you the lyrics and background info.
Powerful People
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=4808966
Who Gave You the Right?
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=5458329
It’s the Money
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=5457676
and for 2024
https://youtu.be/i_ZxR_g16fw?si=_2KPrRgeJlpcRZAr
Eliza Gilkyson’s song “Highway 9” was among the few, and one of the best indictments of Bush’s phony “War on Terror”. From the album Land of Milk and Honey - (the title song is also a beautiful and sad tribute to a world gone mad).
There are places for laments and for fight songs. Different places in our future.
Has anyone said Muse’s “Uprising” and The Decemberists’ “This Is Why We Fight”? Gut pounding.
“Looking for a Leader” seems to have even more meaning this term
Even more folk are rather uneducated as time goes on and don't seem to be able to
think for themselves
I believe we are in crisis mode or rapidly approaching it
Perhaps the Mid-Terms are the last chance to take back America as we know it
yes, sadly true...
I think you could include some of Green Day’s songs as protest songs.
They certainly were prescient with American Idiot. Though wasn't Charlie Pierce way ahead of that with his book "Idiot America"?
As I understand it American Idiot was published in 2009 and Green Day’s album came out in 2004. I didn’t know about Pierce’s book and I think I’m going to get a copy. Thanks for the info.
https://youtu.be/Cuzl_QTBlWI?si=rj1Ch_2KIyaq7j4v
Fall of the peacemakers (a Favorite of mine)-Molly Hatchet
I got mine- Glen Frey
That's just the way it is- Bruce Hornsby
Another day in Paradise- Phil Collins
Cuttin' Heads and Days Of Farewell- John Mellencamp
Drowning- Hootie and the Blowfish
Livin' on the edge -Aerosmith
I have to ask (at my age) how many of these are post-2000.
Zero
took oldster Ry Cooder to write best (only?) financial collapse/Occupy Wall St anthem in 2011 https://youtu.be/ZXHckAFMzaw?si=mLgI_lNr-XQZqIKV
Greg, Springsteen's "Rainmaker" is a poignant comment on the Bush years, but could be applied to the current Trump presidency. Released in 2020, but may have been recorded in 2007.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2APM75augo (5:11)
partial lyrics:
Rainmaker says white's black and black's white
Says night's day and day's night
Says close your eyes and go to sleep now
I'm in a burning field unloading buckshot into low clouds
Rainmaker, a little faith for hire
Rainmaker, the house is on fire
Rainmaker, take everything you have
Sometimes folks need to believe in something
So bad, so bad, so bad
They'll hire a rainmaker
yes, I recall it on that from album about 5 years back, good album, half of it great, half so-so....
YOU ROCK!!!!🎶 in many ways
Thanks for the Lucinda! Didn't know about that one. The Canadian power pop band Sloan came out with their own special kind of protest song a while back. https://youtu.be/DorF5qxbCxc?si=M97XIwVKz0xjqY0V