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« on: May 05, 2014, 12:54:15 AM »
I'll state the obvious: "Somebody To Love" by Jefferson Airplane. It's 1968 in four minutes.
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« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2014, 08:16:16 AM »
"I Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil Ochs has got to be up there.
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« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2014, 09:43:39 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRmBChQjZPs
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« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2014, 09:50:10 AM »
"Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire.

Also, "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield.
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« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2014, 12:48:47 PM »
Several Dylan songs to choose from (and I would like to opine that cliché of him being solely a "protest singer" is highly annoying), but of all of them, I’d say “Masters of War”, "Blowin In The Wind", and "Hattie Carroll" are my favorites.

But my all time favorite protest song is Pete Seeger's "We Shall Overcome."
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« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2014, 04:05:32 PM »
"Venceremos" no contest
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« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2014, 05:53:10 PM »
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« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2014, 05:59:01 PM »
"Eve of Destruction" like DemPGH said.


A song that dares to end with "hate your next door neigbor and don't forget to say grace" way back in 1965 has earn it number one.
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« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2014, 05:59:30 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2014, 11:17:31 PM »
We Shall Overcome
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« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2014, 11:27:35 PM »
my dick ain't racist by akafrank
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« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2014, 11:57:46 PM »
There's no other choice than this
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« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2014, 01:32:58 AM »
Quote from: DemPGH on May 05, 2014, 09:50:10 AM
"Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire.
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« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2014, 02:18:21 AM »
Granted, it's because of when I grew up, but I'm partial to this song: http://youtu.be/V9AbeALNVkk
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« Reply #14 on: May 06, 2014, 09:46:41 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY
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« Reply #15 on: May 06, 2014, 09:54:28 AM »
Stop trolling people.

Everyone knows it's Bohemian Rhapsody.   
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« Reply #16 on: May 06, 2014, 10:03:27 AM »
Quote from: Senator North Carolina Yankee on May 05, 2014, 05:59:01 PM
"Eve of Destruction" like DemPGH said.


A song that dares to end with "hate your next door neigbor and don't forget to say grace" way back in 1965 has earn it number one.

Haha, that was precisely the line that came to my mind! That's a brave song. when I heard that as a kid I imagined the singer as this grizzled war guy with battle scars and such emerging from Vietnam or some other hell.   
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« Reply #17 on: May 06, 2014, 11:25:08 AM »
Fortunate Son.
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« Reply #18 on: May 06, 2014, 01:03:51 PM »
For what it's worth-Buffalo Springfield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHn1zogeyO4
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« Reply #19 on: May 06, 2014, 03:05:00 PM »
Establishment
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« Reply #20 on: May 06, 2014, 09:08:57 PM »
It's gotta be hands down "What's Goin' On" by the great Marvin Gaye.
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« Reply #21 on: May 06, 2014, 10:56:50 PM »
Gil Scott Heron deserves a mention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3QOtbW4m0#t=16
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« Reply #22 on: May 06, 2014, 11:15:52 PM »
Refused - Rather Be Dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC58HzENhoQ
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« Reply #23 on: May 06, 2014, 11:18:03 PM »
Peremen, by Kino.
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« Reply #24 on: May 06, 2014, 11:35:32 PM »
I'd go with John Cage's classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY7UK-6aaNA
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