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No Politics, but Protest and Satire songs

Tom Lehrer thought of "Sail Away" as Randy Newman's masterpiece:

 
Me thinx this song reflects the 1990s' societal satire, rather than that era's political swamp.
LazyBoy "Underwear Goes Inside the Pants"
Love the lines about the "Obesity Epidemic"!
 
File under really weird protest song or obvious act of self-promotion. Ladies and gentlemen, the Sex Pistols with "EMI":

 
mhardy6647 said:
In the context of The Graduate, I'd opine that Mrs. Robinson fits this thread. :)

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Mrs. Robinson was about drug addicted housewives which in that era for middle class adults entailed abusing prescription medicine. See Mrs. Robinson song lyrics below where the reference is to a drug clinic program ("files…sympathetic… grounds") and later lyrics about stashing drugs ("hiding…little secret") to keep their addiction from being found out.

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Slovak song published almost forty years ago, shortly before Velvet Revolution and communist regime collapse in Czechoslovakia:

 
From the Kinks great album, Author, Ray Davies delivered the best biting songs with stiff upper lips, in this classic dreamy song, Shangri-La

 
Dead Posey - Welcome to the Nightmare
Burn burn it down to hell
America she's unwell
Welcome to the nightmare tonight
Where leaders lie and freedom dies

 
 
 
 
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