No Politics, but Protest and Satire songs

[Timcognito]

 

[JRowland]

 

[DannyBoyNYC]

 

[JRowland]

 

[Timcognito]

 

[tifune]

This version probably speaks to a broader audience, but the original FEAR version is also great (if you're into that sort of thing)

 

[Timcognito]

 

[bluefuzz]

 

[mhardy6647]

Politics (but very vintage politics -- i.e., should be benign at this late date), Protest, Satire, and Nostalgia -- and a big hit.

 

[mhardy6647]

not quite protest, but a famous song with Something to Say.
When we lived in "the Bay Area" (late '80s-early '90s), this song would play in my head whenever I was going up from the Silicon Valley into "the City" (there is only one City in the Bay Area; ask anyone from that city), as we were passing the little boxes made of ticky-tacky on the hill in Daly City.

Malvina Reynolds.

I have to think that the Dead* were thinking of Malvina one day in 1967 when they posed for this iconic photo in Daly City.

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* or, at least, photographer Bob Seidemann

(THE ORIGINAL) The Daly City House | The Grateful Dead in Daly City, 1967 | Facebook

The Grateful Dead in Daly City, 1967 Shot in front of 203 Morton Drive in Daly City. By Bob Seidemann "This was the second attempt to make this picture. On a previous attempt the police stopped us....

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[Soandso]

Amazing how true the lyrics are 60 years later

[pardon comment format below of what I just wrote as I've had repeated glitches trying to post it]

 

[bluefuzz]

All you can eat ...

 

[pablolie]

To me, the Playing for Change vids show what beautiful creations we're capable of when we enrich each other and accept each other. Plus this song utterly rocks.

 

[Soandso]

 

[pablolie]

And this one beautifully reflects the truth that black-and-white polarization (as we are increasingly experiencing) makes our world a sad, colorless place... it's one of my fav videos of all time.

 

[mhardy6647]

One of my "protest song" faves, For What It's Worth*
Buffalo Springfield.

I guess this was fundamentally about The Man hasslin' kids in LA ("The Sunset Strip Curfew Riots") in 1966 -- but it got co-opted adopted in the context of anti-war protests in those hazy days of yore.

What a field day for the heat...

PS I really like this version by a local MA singer/songwriter called Seth Glier. We saw him perform this live somewhere in MA years back.
EDIT: changed the video link -- this is essentially the way we saw him perform it, just Glier and his blind blues harp playing sidekick.

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* See what I did there?

 

[somebodyelse]

Amazing how true the lyrics are 60 years later

But what is it? All I see is "Video unavailable"

 

[JustJones]

 

[olds1959special]

 

[bluefuzz]

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