Post lyrics, or a youtube video, or embed the music (not on auto play plz), or just the song name... any kind of music that makes a political point or would be played at a political rally or has been used in a political context at any point in history.

Quote :

"Today, the song is probably best remembered as the campaign song for Franklin Delano Roosevelt's (FDR) successful 1932 Presidential campaign. Since FDR's use of the song, it has come to be recognized as the unofficial theme of the Democratic Party. The lyrics suggest optimism and buoyancy"

-wiki

8/16/2010 8:34:00 PM

pretty much anything by Rage Against the Machine counts, but a rather blatant one is the last song from the 1999 album The Battle of Los Angeles, "War Within a Breath"

Quote :

"Every official that comes in Cripples us, leaves us maimed Silent and tamed And with our flesh and bones He builds his homes Southern fist Rise through tha jungle mist Clenched to smash power so cancerous A black flag and a red star A rising sun loomin' over Los Angeles Cause for Raza livin in La La Is like Gaza on to tha dawn of Intifada Reach for tha lessons tha masked pass on And seize tha metropolis It's you that it's built on Everything can change on a new years day(x3) And everything changed on a new years day, c'mon War within a breath It's land or death (these two lines x3) War within a breath It's land! Their existence is a crime Their seat their robe their tie Their land deeds Their hired guns They're tha crime Shots heard underground round tha rapture Tha world's eye captured At last in a Mexican pasture Tha masked screaming land or death Within a breath A war from tha depth of time Who shot four puppet governors in a line Who shook all tha world bankers Who think they can rhyme Shot tha landlords who knew it was mine Yes, it's a war from tha depth of time Everything can change on a new years day (x3) And everything can change on a new years day, c'mon Oh, Hear the masked scream War within a breath It's land or death [more lyrics like this]"

a call for a revolution that is one part Aztlán

[Edited on August 17, 2010 at 1:33 AM. Reason : and one part Communist

8/17/2010 1:33:09 AM

Eire Og - Sam Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r_3oGkCjyI

[Edited on August 17, 2010 at 12:28 PM. Reason : 0]

8/17/2010 12:01:15 PM

Quote :

"Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man His enemies say he's on their land They got him outnumbered about a million to one He got no place to escape to, no place to run He's the neighborhood bully. The neighborhood bully he just lives to survive He's criticized and condemned for being alive He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in He's the neighborhood bully. The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land He's wandered the earth an exiled man Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn He's always on trial for just being born He's the neighborhood bully. Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized Old women condemned him, said he could apologize Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad The bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad He's the neighborhood bully. Well, the chances are against it, and the odds are slim That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him 'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back And a licence to kill him is given out to every maniac He's the neighborhood bully. Well, he got no allies to really speak of What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side He's the neighborhood bully. Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep He's the neighborhood bully. Every empire that's enslaved him is gone Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand In bed with nobody, under no one's command He's the neighborhood bully. Now his holiest books have been trampled upon No contract that he signed was worth that what it was written on He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health He's the neighborhood bully. What's anybody indebted to him for ? Nothing, they say. He just likes to cause war Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed He's the neighborhood bully. What has he done to wear so many scars ? Does he change the course of rivers ? Does he pollute the moon and stars ? Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill Running out the clock, time standing still Neighborhood bully."

-Bob Dylan

8/17/2010 12:25:01 PM

Quote :

"It's been a long time Now it's time to get your bubble burst Things are bad enough in this world Why do you have to make them worse? Day after day, you just gotta get it So sick and tired of your bitching and complaining So long you've been oppressed while others lives are gaining Want reparations, you're needy and deserving Can't understand why some are served while you're doing the serving Anything but responsibility Where's my slice? I want more than equal rights I want everything for free! You waste your time concerned with what others are earning You want a revolution to start the tables turning A demonstration to make a better nation We'll spend the day protesting all the problems that we're facing Anything but face reality Where's my slice... Your brilliant theory how the world owes you a living You'll take away from others the things they should be giving They own the pie and you want your share Whoever told you life was fair? You were dealt your hand - now play it Where's my slice..."

NOFX - Cheese/Where's My Slice - Ribbed

Good song from a great album.

8/17/2010 1:20:02 PM

Sage Francis

8/17/2010 1:34:12 PM

Green Day - American Idiot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkmEZs_Kcms

8/18/2010 1:45:32 AM

"The Star-Spangled Banner" by Jimi Hendrix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx9ZPHX3z7U

8/18/2010 1:58:11 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKJHltEI788

"Peruvian Cocaine", Immortal Technique

8/26/2010 11:08:46 PM

http://www.nme.com/news/lily-allen/43881

Quote :

"Lily Allen gets political in LA Lily Allen got political at her sold-out show at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles last night (April 2), giving the middle finger to former US President George W Bush. The sassy singer, dressed in silver-sequined shorts and a black bustier, spoke out against Bush when introducing her song 'F**k You'. "This song is about George W Bush, who by the way I'm quite happy isn't president anymore," she said before launching into the tune, which got nearly the entire audience holding their middle fingers in the air during the chorus, "Fuck you very much." Allen and the crowd were bathed in red, white and blue lights during the flashy number. "

8/26/2010 11:23:45 PM

For some reason the Soviet National Anthem is always on my mind when I wake in the morning. It's so catchy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yDrtNEr_5M

In case you want to sing-along...I know I do!

1.
Soyuz nerushimy respublik svobodnykh
Splotila naveki velikaya Rus'!
Da zdravstvuyet sozdanny voley narodov
Yediny, moguchy Sovetsky Soyuz!

PRIPEV:

Slav'sya, Otechestvo nashe svobodnoye,
Druzhby narodov nadyozhny oplot!
Partiya Lenina — sila narodnaya
Nas k torzhestvu kommunizma vedyot!

2.
Skvoz' grozy siyalo nam solntse svobody,
I Lenin veliky nam put' ozaril,
Na pravoye delo on podnyal narody,
Na trud i na podvigi nas vdokhnovil!

PRIPEV

3.
V pobede bessmertnykh idey kommunizma
My vidim gryadushcheye nashey strany,
I krasnomu znameni slavnoy otchizny
My budem vsegda bezzavetno verny!

PRIPEV


English translation:
1.

An unbreakable union of free republics,
Great Russia has united forever!
Long live the created-by-the-will-of-the-peoples,
The united, the mighty Soviet Union.

CHORUS

Glory to our free Fatherland,
The stronghold of the friendship of the peoples!
The Party of Lenin is the power of the people,
It leads us to the triumph of Communism.

2.
Through storms the sun of freedom shone to us,
And the great Lenin lighted us the way.
He raised peoples to the right cause,
He inspired us to labor and to acts of heroism.

CHORUS

3.
In the victory of the immortal ideas of Communism
We see the future of our country,
And to the Red banner of our glorious Fatherland
We shall always be selflessly true.

CHORUS

Chords! http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/m/misc_traditional/national_anthem_of_the_ussr_tab.htm

Sure beats the hell out of our say can you see bullshit. They have the Red Army Choir, we have Rossane Barr.

[Edited on August 26, 2010 at 11:49 PM. Reason : I'm so psyched to find the transliteration! The cyrillic alphabet makes my head hurt.]

8/26/2010 11:42:09 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s

8/26/2010 11:50:50 PM

^Excellent choice.

8/27/2010 1:18:54 AM