the link I posted is metal gear solid song that i wanted to play at a protest. It’s not necessarily a protest song its about turning away the torment’s of your heart and turning towards eternal joy, but the Gaelic lyrics does make me thing of the songs that were written by all the conquered people throughout history and how those would make great anti war songs.

I do want songs about working class solidarity that are modern. I’ve picked up Iran ai lego songs, they’re actually pretty good and the lyrics are pretty good, I haven’t found any quite on the level, the Iranians go hard on trump.

seems like all the anti war songs are not from this decade and anti ice is lacking.

here are some songs I’ve picked out for protest for protest:

MACKLEMORE - HIND’S HALL 2 (feat. Anees, MC Abdul, Amer Zahr)

The Genocide That Is Not Over | Iranian LEGO War-Themed Video By Akhbarenfejari

Les Misérables | Do You Hear the People Sing?

IT AINT GONNA GO AWAY - ODE TO THE EPSTEIN FILES

Billionaire Buffet (feat. Kasane Teto)

  • JayJay@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I can’t reccomend moon walker enough.

    “Youre next” is their new song. I think its very topical

    Some of my favorites in no particular order: Monopoly money, Ban this song, Apocalypticism.

  • jwiggler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Two very different protest songs I heard this year

    Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals - The Iron Wall

    Hen Ogledd - Scales will fall

  • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    Bad Religion, Propaghandi, Dropkick Murphys, Good Riddance, Thought Riot, Regan Youth, Crass, T.S.O.L., MDC, The Nerve Agents, Earth Crisis, Dead Kennedys, NOFX, Body Count, Pussy Riot, Death By Stereo, and Cattle Decapitation are all social-politically outspoken punk/hXc/metal bands that have plenty of songs that would fit your list.

    Dropkick, Billy Bragg, Tom Morello, Eyes of Salt, and the Boss all have anti-ICE specific songs out recently.

  • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Burn the house down by AJR https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UnyLfqpyi94

    Used to keep it cool.
    Used to be a fool.
    All about the bounce in my step.
    Watch it on the news.
    Whatcha gonna do?
    I could hit refresh and forget.
    Used to keep it cool.
    Should I keep it light?
    Stay out of the fight?
    No one’s gonna listen to me.
    If I write a song.
    Preaching what is wrong.
    Will they let me sing on TV?
    Should I keep it light?
    Is that right?

    Way up way up we go.
    Been up and down that road.
    Way up way up, oh no.
    We gon’ burn the whole house down.
    Watch me stand in the line.
    You’re only serving lies.
    You’ve got something to hide.
    We gon’ burn the whole house down.
    We gon’ burn the whole house down.
    Yeah, used to let it go.

    Walk into the show.
    Gawking at the tricks up your sleeve.
    Too good to be true.
    But I’m in a room.
    Full of entertainers and thieves.
    Used to let it go.
    Woah, oh no.
    (Woah, oh no).

    Way up way up we go.
    Been up and down that road.
    Way up way up, oh no.
    We gon’ burn the whole house down.
    Watch me stand in the line.
    You’re only serving lies.
    You’ve got something to hide.
    We gon’ burn the whole house down.
    We gon’ burn the whole house down.

    Should I hang my head low?
    Should I bite my tongue?
    Or should I march with every stranger.
    From Twitter to get shit done?
    Used to hang my head low.
    Now I hear it loud.
    Every stranger from Twitter is gonna burn this down.

    Way up way up we go.
    Been up and down that road.
    Way up way up, oh no.
    We gon’ burn the whole house down.
    Watch me stand in the line (whoa oh).
    You’re only serving lies (yeah).
    You’ve got something to hide.
    We gon’ burn the whole house down.
    Woah oh, yeah.
    We gon’ burn the whole house down.
    We burn it down, we burn it down.
    We gon’ burn the whole house down

  • JTode@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    If it’s punk yer wantin, you’ll want Dead Kennedys and MDC - both old bands (MDC is still kicking as I understand it, tho) but lots and lots of highly relevant stuff.

    Notable: on their first LP, Millions Of Dead Cops, which came out in 1984 if I recall correctly, there is a trans-positive tune called America’s So Straight. You wanna talk ahead of the curve…

  • barooboodoo@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    If you like hip hop at all, What’s Peace? off the new Statik Selektah album had some great lines. Some gems for me:

    What’s peace? Is it locking up people like me For selling weed, but then you go and let a pedophile free? Is it Capitalism or privatizing the prisons Or giving corporations freedom to poison food that we eat?

    …

    That’s why I get the skeevies knowing Stevie’s pulling strings Take a look inside the cabinet, see it’s clearly Miller time You got a lion in your pocket, you lying You got a long line of far-right conservative actors going on Grindr

    …

    How insecure you gotta be to pretend Christ was White? And hate those that look like what Christ really looked like? They call you Marxist, Socialist and Commie They hate you if you Haitian or Somali They blaming 9/11 on Mamdani

  • deifyed@lemmy.wtf
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    1 month ago

    Rise Against - Hero of war

    Not a “play at protests”-song, but powerful nevertheless