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Top 7 Worst Protest/Cause Songs (PVT*)
PA Times | 5/23/06 | Senor Pissanto

Posted on 05/23/2006 11:11:37 AM PDT by pissant

The world is full of bad songs and horrific singer-songwriters. Just tune in to any radio station, be it country, top 40, "classic rock", or alternative and you are bound to have your ears offended in short order.

But there is NOTHING more irritating than hearing some lunatic, left-winger try to elevate the pop song into some kind of overt, intellectual commentary on the evils of America or the glory of being a hippie. Sure, some artists managed to cut a decent song. I still like the Mommas and the Poppas "California Dreaming", for example. But the whole genre wreaks to high heaven.

The List:

7. We are the World -- Various Artists. An utterly hideous attempt to feed starving Biafrins. If these idiots would have just given the money it took to assemble, to produce, and advertise this turd and donated it to the charity, it would have saved us alot of misery.

6. White Bird -- It's a Beautiful Day. Sappiness, your name is White Bird. Don't even know what the song is about exactly. I turn the station too fast.

5. Sky Pilot -- Eric Burden and the Animals. While I generally liked this band, this song is unlistenable, and unintelligible.

4. What's Goin On -- Marvin Gaye. In my estimation, this was the beginning of the downfall for a talented Motown star. It was apparent that he had no clue of "what's goin on".

3. Big Yellow Taxi -- Joni Mitchell. I liked Joni's early, breezy brand of folk pop. Her album Blue is still likable. The problem is not the tune here, it's the insipid lyrics. Uhg.

2. Eve of Destruction -- Barry McGuire. Complete idiocy. Apparently influenced Algore and John Kerry. Apparently that was a long "eve" he was carterwauling about.

1. Imagine -- John Lennon. This was proof to me that Paul McCartney was the real talent in the Beatles.


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1 posted on 05/23/2006 11:11:40 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant
What's Goin On? is a great song.

How you could put that in and not The Hammer Song by Peter, paul and Mary is beyond me.

2 posted on 05/23/2006 11:13:03 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (An immigration-thread-free FReeper as of...now!)
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To: Darkwolf377

If I had a hammer...




I'd beat your effing head in...



All over this land...


3 posted on 05/23/2006 11:15:00 AM PDT by CATravelAgent (Unless you're the lead dog, the view is always the same)
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To: pissant

Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson

American Idiot--Green Day


4 posted on 05/23/2006 11:15:15 AM PDT by misterrob
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To: pissant
What's Going On?!?!? That's a brilliant pop song.

Worst protest song ever? How about "I Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil Ochs, or anything ever warbled by Joan Baez.

5 posted on 05/23/2006 11:15:51 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: misterrob

Born in the USA--Bruce Springsteen

Fight the Power--Chuck D/Public Enemy


6 posted on 05/23/2006 11:17:00 AM PDT by misterrob
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To: pissant
Can you dance to protest songs?


7 posted on 05/23/2006 11:17:02 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Darkwolf377

I hate what's going on. The Hammer song I sung in grade school, so it gets a pass. LOL


8 posted on 05/23/2006 11:18:25 AM PDT by pissant
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To: misterrob

I never heard either. Too new I guess for ol pissant.


9 posted on 05/23/2006 11:19:33 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

No way "What's Goin' On?" belongs on a worst list.


Meanwhile you missed "In the year 2525 . . . if man is still alive . . ."


10 posted on 05/23/2006 11:19:46 AM PDT by Petronski (I just love that woman.)
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To: pissant

What? No Dixie Chix? "Not Ready to Make Nice"...oh that doesn't count, does it....


11 posted on 05/23/2006 11:20:06 AM PDT by uncitizen (" We are a nation of NATIVES")
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To: dead

Uhg. You are the 2nd person to support that dirge.


12 posted on 05/23/2006 11:20:11 AM PDT by pissant
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To: misterrob

Now those qualify. Bruce has a special place in hell, in my book.


13 posted on 05/23/2006 11:21:07 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant
You should hear Leonard Nimoy's version of The Hammer Song.

It beats Shatner's Lucy in the SKy with Diamonds.

14 posted on 05/23/2006 11:21:35 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (An immigration-thread-free FReeper as of...now!)
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To: dead

Apparently you can. LOL


15 posted on 05/23/2006 11:21:37 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

"Signs! Signs! Everywhere a sign!
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this don't do that, don't believe in signs..."


16 posted on 05/23/2006 11:21:38 AM PDT by Petronski (I just love that woman.)
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Or Black is Black, I want my baby back. For the umpteenth time, What's Going On sucks!


17 posted on 05/23/2006 11:22:27 AM PDT by pissant
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To: uncitizen

It hasn't been and won't be a "hit". LOL


18 posted on 05/23/2006 11:22:55 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant
Little Steven came out with a Lib-Anthem album decades ago called Voice of America...it was so bad, even the Lib critics ripped it.
19 posted on 05/23/2006 11:23:23 AM PDT by DesScorp
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To: Darkwolf377

I have had the good fortune of being spared both!!


20 posted on 05/23/2006 11:23:49 AM PDT by pissant
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