A few suggestions that I’d embed if I knew how.
Bad Religion, “A New America”
Billy Bragg, “Help Save the Youth of America”
Bad Religion, “Los Angeles Is Burning”
Green Day, “Burnout”
Midnight Oil, “Sometimes” (not their best, but the message is timely at the moment)
And of course ….
The Clash, “Death or Glory” (which isn’t really political at all).
I could go on, but what recharges your batteries?
Please share widely!
SomervilleTom says
These should be played LOUD.
Two anthems, from the best anthem band of the era:
Volunteers.
War movie
A response to the first wave of “post-truth” Americans:
Fixing to die rag
SomervilleTom says
After enjoying my three links, my youngest son (studying sustainable agriculture at UMASS-Amherst) offers the following:
Spirit’s cradle.
JimC says
Radioactive Chocolate.
I saw these guys on the Boston Common in (I think) 1983. They were fun. They kept changing what the acronym MDC stood for.
And they reunited the other day to protest Trump.
Jasiu says
Couple covers my band does:
Hüsker Dü: It’s Not Funny Anymore
Nirvana: Territorial Pissings
(just because you’re paranoid / don’t mean they’re not after you)
Jasiu says
Fugazi: Greed
Replacements: God Damn Job
Minor Threat: just about anything (e.g., I Don’t Wanna Hear it)
And currently anything in the Riot Grrrl genre.
This all leans more cathartic than political – just let me turn up the volume and scream. For political, I can always put on Bruce Cockburn.
jconway says
Jim James, the frontman for My Morning Jacket has gone solo and political in Eternally Even. A sample.
The tribe reunited just in time to take on Trump.
I’ll also second all the others on this list. Particularly Buffalo Springfield and Jefferson Airplane which I grew up on thanks to my dad, the Clash and Billy Brag who my college roommate introduced me to, and I’ll add the latters collaboration covering Woody Guthrie with Wilco is sublime and topical.
We all need guitars to kill facists now.
johntmay says
The Call
The Walls Came Down.
johntmay says
If only these people had a college education!
This room cost 2, 000 dollars a month
you can believe it man it’s true
somewhere a landlord’s laughing till he wets his pants
No one here dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything
they dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard
petr says
These songs are about how I feel right now:
Chains and Things B.B. King (Live version)
Eminence Front, The Who
Get Down Moses Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer John Lee Hooker (bonus descriptive track: Tupelo John Lee Hooker)
Gimme Shelter Playing for Change (so not the Stones…).
These songs always recharge me:
Yes Indeed! Ray Charles
To Know You Is to Love You B.B. King
Stay David Bowie (the loss of whom was, in fact, still the worst thing about 2016)
JimC says
Strangely underrated as a singer.
jconway says
N/T
bob-gardner says
by Gil Scott Heron, Mendacity by Abbey Lincoln