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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I have always been a Billy Bragg fan and love my political or protest singers.

So who is on your list.

Recently it's Gracie petrie for me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Billy Bragg obviously, Chris T-T is another

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Skrewdriver - Ian Stuart

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No Remorse - Paul Burnley/England/Bellany

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've met Billy Bragg a few times. Nice chap to chat too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Saga - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yCRG6V62ss0

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've met Billy Bragg a few times. Nice chap to chat too.

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I have too and he's very approachable and friendly

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've met Billy Bragg a few times. Nice chap to chat too.

I have too and he's very approachable and friendly "

He is

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By *radleywigginsMan
over a year ago

northwest

Profit in peace by Ocean Colour Scene is a beautiful anti-war song.

Cap in Hand by the Proclaimers is probably the greatest ‘protest song’, if you’re a jock.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Good lord the list is massive...

Neil Young and Bob Dylan off the top of my head

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate


"Good lord the list is massive...

Neil Young and Bob Dylan off the top of my head"

Oh Neil Young

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Skrewdriver - Ian Stuart "

I thought protest songs were more loony left, liberal snowflake types? Are an openly neo-nazi band really a protest band?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Although a lot of their songs aren;t overtly poltical, when NOFX do political songs they nail them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Good lord the list is massive...

Neil Young and Bob Dylan off the top of my head

Oh Neil Young "

A woman after my own heart

Go on tell us your favourite tune by him

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is Labi Siffre a protest singer?

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate


"Good lord the list is massive...

Neil Young and Bob Dylan off the top of my head

Oh Neil Young

A woman after my own heart

Go on tell us your favourite tune by him"

Oooh I don't know if I could choose just one! Every song on Harvest is perfect.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Good lord the list is massive...

Neil Young and Bob Dylan off the top of my head

Oh Neil Young

A woman after my own heart

Go on tell us your favourite tune by him

Oooh I don't know if I could choose just one! Every song on Harvest is perfect. "

I know what you mean lol

Great album.

Personally speaking, if I had to pick 1 Young song, although not a protest song, it would be “Don’t let it bring you down” - the 1971 BBC live version

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I have always been a Billy Bragg fan and love my political or protest singers.

So who is on your list.

Recently it's Gracie petrie for me"

Abba

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Skrewdriver - Ian Stuart

I thought protest songs were more loony left, liberal snowflake types? Are an openly neo-nazi band really a protest band?"

Well if they are protesting against society and the government one way or another then yes.

However as skrewdriver were very political and working class, songs like

‘Power from profit’ & ‘pennies from heaven’ do actually sound almost socialist.

Plus how many singers or bands do you know other than the right wing ones who were targeted by left wing extremists, other right wing extremists, banned from playing, had their records confiscated, been locked up, and despite having died in 1993 are still the poster boys of a violent political movement?

And a global facist brand still?

Look at any documentary or footage of extreme right wing groups from Poland to America and skrewdriver logos and merchandise or B&H or Combat18 stuff is everywhere.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Levellers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ferocious Dog

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What does the fox say?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE

There is always this passionate song

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Is Labi Siffre a protest singer?"

Not sure but 'Something inside so strong' was definitely a protest song

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By *obyn GravesTV/TS
over a year ago

1127 walnut avenue

third world war..uk band from early 70s..

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By *alldarksurreyMan
over a year ago

surrey

Pretty much any song by Rage against the machine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bob Dylan , Neil young, woody Guthrie , Springsteen has written a few born in the USA was a protest song that was hijacked just listen to the lryics .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Probably the biggest protest singers to have an influence over my thoughts have been Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell.

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By *heIcebreakersCouple
over a year ago

Cramlington

Random responses....

Tom Robinson seems to have been overlooked, along with his old mate Peter Gabriel for Biko...

Little Steven does a good line in political songs, as you'd expect from a Springsteen sidekick.

RIchard Thompson can be acidicly political - Time To Ring Some Changes is pretty damned good.

Big props to Elvis Costello for Shipbuilding, and to The Specials for Ghosttown

Curtis MAyfield, obviously, is one of the greatest black protest singers but there's a host of good political records by black acts from the 1970s, but there's one guy stands out..

Gil Scott-Heron - nuff said.

And finally, a hat tip to the lady who got rock and roll started - Sister Rosetta - This Train is a piece of magic, aside from the sheer political balls of being a queer black woman performaing in the USA under segregation, and the fact that This Train shines through in 'People Get Ready' by Curtis Mayfield, 'One Love' by Bob Marley, all the way up to Land of Hope and Dreams by Springsteen means she's the greatest.

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By *lik and PaulCouple
over a year ago

cahoots

Lots of greats already mentioned. Can't not mention country Joe and the fish "whoopee we all gonna die"

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By *eplicant JoWoman
over a year ago

Sussex countryside

That chap from The Beautiful South is quite political these days

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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

Another vote for Gil Scott-Heron and Curtis Mayfield here .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Billy Bragg without a doubt also rights great live songs

And Paul Heaton the bloke from beautiful south. Billy and Paul record on sale record label and have collaborated together over the years

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gil Scott Heron deserves a mention for The revolution will not be televised alone. Public Enemy, NWA, 2pac

All on the list from my not so distant youth. Dylan deserves a mention. Phil Ochs

Gerry Cinnamon on the rise and has the potential to be an important socio political voice

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nina Simone - Why? (The King of Love Is Dead) is one that stands out for me, as a child my dad played it on vinyl. I've always admired Tracy Chapman.

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Some excellent ones already mentioned - another name to throw into the mix is The Redskins - their album Neither Washington Nor Moscow is sublime.

UB40 also did a great line in protest songs in their early days before they became a crap reggaeoke band.

Some other individual songs to mention though:

Free Nelson Mandela - The Special AKA - probably the biggest driver for bringing his plight to people's consciousness and therefore possibly one of the most influential protest songs ever.

(Waiting For) The Ghost Train - Madness - an anti-apartheid song, they're often written off as that funny band with the funny videos but have a stream of social consciousness in a lot of their stuff.

Redemption Song - Bob Marley

Two Tribes - FGTH - a rail against the escalating differences between the US and Russia at the time and the fear of nuclear war that abounded.

There are actually a lot of individual songs by acts that at first glance don't strike you as protest songs but when you look beneath the surface are exactly that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Pretty much any song by Rage against the machine"

You know last night I was trying to think of their name to put them on this thread. I had the songs rushing round my head, I have a CD, but absolutely refused to go look or Google the name. I was at war with my tired brain and wasn't backing down until it remembered!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"That chap from The Beautiful South is quite political these days"

He's mellowed compared to some of his lyrics back in the days of The Housemartins!

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

Lots have been mentioned already, but I'll add: Dick Gaughan

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