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)
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