Guardian Politics List

...and some great political songs to accompany them...

1000 songs everyone must hear

Politics and protest: part five of 1000 songs everyone must hear

My selection of 63 from the Guardian.co.uk list of 141

• I Am the Walrus (The Beatles, 1967)
• Revolution (The Beatles, 1968)
• War Pigs (Black Sabbath, 1971)
• Cop Killer (Body Count, 1992)
• Between the Wars (Billy Bragg, 1985)
• Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud (James Brown, 1968)
• White Riot (The Clash, 1977)
• Running the World (Jarvis Cocker, 2006)
• Brother Can You Spare a Dime? (Bing Crosby, 1932)
• Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, 1970)
• Thou Shalt Always Kill (Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, 2007)
• California Über Alles (Dead Kennedys, 1979)
• Television: The Drug of the Nation (The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, 1991)
• Maggie’s Farm (Bob Dylan, 1965)
• Masters of War (Bob Dylan, 1963)
• The Times They Are a-Changin’ (Bob Dylan, 1964)
• We Care a Lot (Faith No More, 1985)
• Two Tribes (Frankie Goes To Hollywood, 1984)
• Respect (Aretha Franklin, 1967)
• Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (Marvin Gaye, 1971)
• What’s Going On? (Marvin Gaye, 1971)
• The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, 1982)
• American Idiot (Green Day, 2004)
• This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie, 1944)
• 19 (Paul Hardcastle, 1985)
• The Star-Spangled Banner (Jimi Hendrix, 1969)
• The Eton Rifles (The Jam, 1979)
• Going Underground (The Jam, 1980)
• Give Peace a Chance (John Lennon, 1969)
• Eve of Destruction (Barry McGuire, 1965)
• Material Girl (Madonna, 1985)
• Redemption Song (Bob Marley, 1980)
• Kick Out the Jams (MC5, 1968)
• Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell, 1970)
• Police and Thieves (Junior Murvin, 1976)
• Fuck tha Police (NWA, 1988)
• Monkey Gone to Heaven (Pixies, 1989)
• In the Ghetto (Elvis Presley, 1969)
• Come Together (Primal Scream, 1990)
• Sign o’ the Times (Prince, 1987)
• Bring the Noise (Public Enemy, 1987)
• Fight the Power (Public Enemy, 1989)
• Killing in the Name (Rage Against the Machine, 1992)
• Street Fighting Man (The Rolling Stones, 1968)
• I’m Coming Out (Diana Ross, 1980)
• Whitey On the Moon (Gil Scott-Heron, 1970)
• Anarchy in the UK (Sex Pistols, 1976)
• God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols, 1977)
• To Be Young, Gifted and Black (Nina Simone, 1970)
• Swimsuit Issue (Sonic Youth, 1992)
• Revolution (Spacemen 3, 1989)
• Ghost Town (The Specials, 1981)
• Free Nelson Mandela (The Special AKA, 1984)
• Born in the USA (Bruce Springsteen, 1984)
• The Man Don’t Give a Fuck (Super Furry Animals, 1996)
• The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II) (Rod Stewart, 1976)
• Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2, 1983)
• We Are the World (USA for Africa, 1985)
• Get Up, Stand Up (The Wailers, 1973)
• My Generation (The Who, 1965)
• Shipbuilding (Robert Wyatt, 1982)
• Harrowdown Hill (Thom Yorke, 2006)
• Rockin’ in the Free World (Neil Young, 1989)

1000 songs everyone must hear

Politics and protest: part five of 1000 songs everyone must hear