Been working on a playlist recently. Would love any suggestions.
I guess maybe the album Drones by Muse would count, although that was released under Obama…
It doesn’t need to be pointed at Trump or the Republicans. Expanding covert drone strikes is something I was and am still against, even if overall I had a mildly favorable opinion of Obama.
Fortunate Son - CCR
Revolution - The Beatles
For What Its Worth - Buffalo Springfield
American Idiot Album - Green Day
Killing in the Name – Rage Against the Machine
Testify – Rage Against the Machine
a bunch more.
Plenty of Dead Kennedys you could add.
California Uber Alles and Nazi Punks Fu*k Off for starters. Holiday in Cambodia too I guess.
F*ck the Police - NWA
Or a cover of the same tune by a number of other bands including Rage against the machine.
Tear the Fascists Down - Woody Guthrie
War Pigs - B/S
Big Brother - Stevie Wonder
Night Rally - Elvis Costello
Fight the Power - Public Enemy
All You Facists - Billy Bragg/Wilco
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott Heron
Summary
Boss man said he ain’t got enough to go around
But he got bread he don’t want you to know about
He took it from the sick and the poor
Now his plate full and he ain’t never gon’ dough it out
Ain’t no shock that buddy got got
How could he be stopped?
Well, fuck it, that’s how
Spent our whole looking up at that spot, then drop
Now he looking up at us now
And I’m sure he’d agree that murder ain’t good
But death is okay, sometimes (sometimes!)
As long as a loss can create a gain
For someone who needs that, right?
So we can agree? (huh? what?)
So we can agree! (okay!)
Sometimes a death is a need
For you it was money, for us it was just to be free
Ain’t that funny?
Not so fun when the tables get turned
Ain’t that funny?
See the boss man’s bread goes straight to the law man
Law man says: “I can make a couple calls, man”
Boss man says: “now we can have it all, man!”
Then they both laugh, what a real good system!
If the biz requires a victim
Guess what? Then the biz shouldn’t be here
Your denial of claims and a ludicrous price will kill ten thou-y just this year
See the boss don’t know what it’s like to be broke, and what he don’t know just killed him
If you ain’t want smoke when our backs to the ropes
Then you should’ve thought of that when you billed them
Maybe I’m being too crazy… maybe I’m not crazy enough
Lotta folks be taking their life
Just when they’re boutta speak up
Something bout that timing is weird
Something bout that timing is strange
Don’t make me pull up their names
So it’s fine when you blow the ones with a whistle
But we hit back, suddenly we got an issue
Never before have I seen the opposition move so fast
Just to catch a man with a pistol
Maybe they were shocked that we aimed so high, when we normally aim across the aisle
And the minute they think, we think that we’re on the same side
They lose their smile, huh…
Ain’t that funny?
Not so fun when the tables get turned
Ain’t that funny?
I guess music and life really ain’t so different
Looks like we both need a hit, man
If you big leagues don’t stop acting like fools
You gon’ end up on someone else’s list, man
Bit of a swerve toward capitalism and how the police exist to protect capital, but it’s all intertwined.
Child in Time by my namesake, Deep Purple is an anti-war song. Ironically, it is a song that I don’t like very much. The theme is fine, and the lyrics/message of the song are fine, but the song is mostly just a lot of Ian Gillan’s melancholy wailing over Jon Lord’s slow depressing minor-key dirge. Ian Gillan didn’t like the song either, because the power and range needed to perform it live was taxing on his voice.
That’s what got Randy Meisner fired from The Eagles.
Yeah, there’s a lot of parallels between the infighting of the Eagles and the infighting of Purple