Playlist: Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
This is shaping up to be quite a time, kids. Quite a time. Basically The Occupy Movement has shown us we’ve got enough people on our side to win this thing if we all just mobilize properly. Therefore it’s important to be as militantly committed to your politics at all times, so that we can mind control the government into getting their shit together. This music will help keep you in a state of constant Occupation.
Career Opportunities – The Clash (1977)
Revolution – The Beatles (1968)
Stars and Stripes of Corruption – The Dead Kennedys (1985)
Grandmaster Flash – The Message (1982)
Let’s Get Together – The Youngbloods (1969)
Power to the People – John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band (1971)
Hammer and a Nail – The Indigo Girls (1991)
American Idiot – Green Day/Broadway Cast Recording (2009)
Changes – Tupac (1992)
Which Side Are You On? – Natalie Merchant (cover, originally written in 1931)
The Times They Are A-Changin’ – Bob Dylan (1964)
Redemption Song – Bob Marley (1980)
Freedom 90 – George Michael (1990)
Rebel Girl – Bikini Kill (1992)
If the Kids are United – Sham 69 (1978)
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye (1971)
Uprising – Muse (2009)
Talkin’ Bout a Revolution – Tracy Champman (1988)
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oooh + They Don’t Care About Us – Michael Jackson
(and maybe Uprising by Muse)
YEAH
Unstoppable by Foxy Shazam! and I second Uprising. Muse is badass.
Yeah, Uprising for sure.
when she walks, the revolution’s coming… YESSSS to Bikini Kill. so great.
^this.
Oh, and the rest of the list is fab, too.
added the muse song!
“Get off the internet” by Le Tigre is a pretty great one…#occupyspotify
“with my own two hands” — ben harper. one of my personal faves, always helps me get out of bed and get a hammer & nail :)
Pretty much anything by The King Blues should be here. The Schemers, The Scroungers and The Rats seems appropriate. Also, anything by Frank Turner. Also, Juggernauts by Enter Shikari. Also, all the proper punk music ever.
I have a lot of political music-based feelings.
I would add some Billy Bragg and probably Dead Prez as well. Great list!
Sour Patch Kids – Asher Roth
Seriously one of his better songs, after I Love College you’d never know he has a brain, but this is actually really angry and wonderfully revolutionary. And also DC or Nothing by Wale, even though that’s half just about how badass DC is.
Billy Bragg. Between the Wars. That is all.
The Beatles were certainly ahead of their time, but not THAT much. Revolution came out in 1968.
Also, I third the call for some Billy Bragg.
I was just here to post the same!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_(song)
rose you work here, so i’m sure by what you meant to say is “i was just here to send an email to riese to tell her she put the wrong date on the song b/c being corrected in the comments is embarrassing for everyone and i wouldn’t want to add to that”
Yeah sorry I should have done that! :(
everyone is forgiven
love is forever
I’d also suggest “Chicago” by Crosby, Stills and Nash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmIGo3d2Q10&feature=related
Also “For What It’s Worth” by Stephen Stills’s previous band, Buffalo Springfield:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIoKr9VDg3A
And how bout:
– Raining in paradise – Manu Chao
– Tweak on your nipple – Faithless
– Seven Nation Army – Flaming Lips
– Amerika – Ramstein
– Twist in my sobriety – Pet Shop Boys and Liza Minnelli
– CIA Man – Sun city girls
– Hasta siempre – Nathalie Cardone’s version is nice
– Virtual insanity – Jamiroquai
– Design for life – Manic street preachers
– Mis-shapes – Pulp
– 1969 – Sisters of Mercy
– Toxicity – System Of A Down
How about “Democracy” by Leonard Cohen?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JwmIBSMzSM&feature=related
I love that song so much… what an amazing lyricist.
The WAND by Flaming Lips.
That song makes me want to fuck shit up.
I think this is the first playlist I’ve ever seen that includes the Beatles, the Dead Kennedys, Bikini Kill, and Marvin Gaye. I APPROVE.
Also, fun story about Rebel Girl; Rebel Girl helped me realize I am totally gaymosexual because I was all, “mm, cool girls! I want to kiss them! They taste like revolution!” and then I thought, “hmm, that was kind of a gay thing to think” and then I thought, “fuck it. I am so gayyy.” THANKS BIKINI KILL.
I would also like to add this song (“Asskickatron” by Fagatron) – http://fuckyeahqueercore.tumblr.com/post/6225324496
You just made me laugh out loud in the middle of an osteology class! I got lots of weird looks but don’t care because your comment is priceless and almost exactly how I finally admitted I’m gay!! Scissor bump :)
“children of the revolution” by t.rex
“g.r.i.n.d.” by asher roth
“march of the pigs” by nine inch nails
“tomorrow belongs to us” by the casualties
and pretty much anything by rage against the machine.
“Rise Above” -Dirty Projectors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biLrX4YPmAk
Nooooo please American Jesus nevar use the Ron Paul Revolution image.
That said, my revolution songs would be “The Queen is Dead” by The Smiths and “Search and Destroy” by Iggy and the Stooges.
I second that. ugh Ron Paul.
let’s not shit ourselves (to love and be loved) by bright eyes. he pretty much has a song for everything.
“Well, ABC, NBC, CBS bullshit
They give us fact or fiction, I guess an even split
And each new act of war is tonight’s entertainment
We’re still the pawns in their game
As they take eye for an eye, until no one can see
We must stumble blindly forward, repeating history
Well I guess we all fit into your slogan in that fast food marquee
Red-blooded, white skinned, oh and the blues
Oh, and the blues, I got the blues, that’s me!”
Through the dust bowl, through the debt
Grandma was a Suffragette
Blacklisted for her publication
Blacklisted for my generation
Go, go, go.
Go by the Indigo Girls
Love it!
And and and also, The international noise conspiracy – smash it up
Life During Wartime – Pinhead Gunpowder
I Want to Conquer the World – Bad Religion
You Are (The Government) – Bad Religion
Persistence – Big Rig
Cool This Madness Down – Common Rider
Merry May Folk – Emerald Rose (it’s a different kind of revolution)
Peace Now – Gaia Consort
Through the Roof ‘N’ Underground – Gogol Bordello
Immigrant Punk – Gogol Bordello
Minority – Green Day
Static Age – Green Day
Know Your Enemy – Green Day
Fuck You – Lily Allen
SONGS – Morning Musume
The Meaning of Life – The Offspring
Unity – Operation Ivy
Gonna Find You – Operation Ivy
Freeze Up – Operation Ivy
Room Without a Window – Operation Ivy
Freedom Is – Pinhead Gunpowder
I Wanna – Pinhead Gunpowder
Battle for the Sun – Placebo
Spite & Malice – Placebo
Power of Equality – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down – The Toasters
i am listening to my playlist right now and I find it quite empowering
yes!!
The Coup’s “5 million ways to kill a CEO” or “Fat Cats, Bigga Fish” or really pretty much anything by them.
Bonus: Boots Riley has been to Occupy Oakland!
Also “The Ghost of Tom Joad” by Bruce Springsteen or RATM’s cover!
Also also, I would add Bob Marley’s song “Small Axe”
“If you are the big tree, let me tell you that
We are the small axe, sharp and ready
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
To cut you down”
Oh geez, I can’t believe I forgot:
Pretty much every Rage Against The Machine song ever is appropriate here.
Is it only me who remembers Jefferson Airplane & friends, like:
“Flowers of the Night” on “Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun” (1973)
“Mau Mau (Amerikon)” on “Blows against the Empire¨ (1970)
“War Movie” on “Bark” (1971)
“Volunteers” on “Volunteers” (1969)
Also:
“Prologue”/“Someday”/”Liberation” by/on “The Chicago Transit Authority” (1968/69)
‘People Have the Power’- Patti Smith!
Bob Marley – Get Up Stand Up
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can’t fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light,
We gonna stand up for our rights!