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May 2006

Just in time for May Day is an hour and half-ish of protest music. Mostly new protest music, but there is a song or two from the olden days.

This list was inspired from a few different sources. 1) I don't think enough protest music is diseminated nowadays, and 2) On his LJ page a friend of mine mentioned "...as much as I detest hip hop..." which made me think. I too, dislike hip hop, but it was primarly a music of protest when it first started, and there is much of that kind of rap I actually DO like (911 is a joke in your town). So there is one or two hip-hop songs included in part to see what he (Hi Ameer) says about that.

If you have suggestions for future web streams please drop me a line.

Playlist

 

 

1. Utah Phillips - Shoot or Stab Them

2. Violent Femmes - Jesus of Rio

3. Rickie Lee Jones - Lap Dog

4. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

5. Randy Newman - Political Science

6. Bob Dylan - Hurricane

7. Neil Young - Rocking In The Free World

8. ben Harper - Fight For Your Mind

9. Willie Nile - Cellphones Ringing In the Pockets of The Dead

10. Lou Reed - Strawman

11. Disposable Heros of Hiphopicry - Television

12. Michael Franti - Bomb The World

13. Dionne Farris - Stop To Think

14. Tom Waits - Starving in the Belly of a Whale

15. Patti Smith - Death Singing

16. Otis Taylor - Ten Million Slaves

17. Chumbawumba - Stitch That

18. Oscar Brown - Sixteen Tonnes

19. Moxy Fruvous - Gulf War Song

20. Robbie Robtson - Sacrifice

21. John Prine - Some Humans Arent Human

22. Joan Osborn - War