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1 posted on 05/23/2006 11:11:40 AM PDT by pissant
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What was that awful caterwauled song about killing your neighbor in the name of heaven?
26 posted on 05/23/2006 11:25:20 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Every lady in this land hath 20 nails on each hand five and twenty on hand and feet)
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I have to agree wholeheartedly with 7, 4 and 1. We Are The World was insipid and self-indulgent. What's Goin' On? was the kind of helpless stupidity that you'd expect from somebody who was much younger than Gaye.

McCartney's weakness was his bubble gum lyrics and Lennon's big signature solo song has some of the most juvenile lyrics around.

29 posted on 05/23/2006 11:27:49 AM PDT by AmishDude ("They are so stupid. It's breathtaking how stupid they are." -- veronica)
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I love Bob Dylan, but Masters of War is just dreadful.


34 posted on 05/23/2006 11:29:49 AM PDT by Hugin
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1. Imagine -- John Lennon. This was proof to me that Paul McCartney was the real talent in the Beatles

Well then, what about Ebony and Ivory?

Personally, I like Imagine; I just ignore the lyrics. Musically, it's a great song, and one I can play on the piano!

36 posted on 05/23/2006 11:31:24 AM PDT by handk (The truth is the truth even if no one believes it, and a lie is a lie even if everyone believes it.)
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"Society's Child", "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"


44 posted on 05/23/2006 11:34:16 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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"Imagine No Possessions...."

45 posted on 05/23/2006 11:36:13 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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And who can forget George Carlin's great folk protest song...

Don't want no war
Don't want no war
Don't want no war
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Don't want no job either

by Danny and the Demonstrators??


50 posted on 05/23/2006 11:39:08 AM PDT by bwteim (First-time reader, long time poster - posting since Oct 5, 2001)
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How could you not include this insipid POS written by the King of the Commie Folksingers, Pete Seeger?

WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE

Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone, long time passing?
Where have all the young girls gone, long time ago?
Where have all the young girls gone?
Gone for husbands everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the husbands gone, long time passing?
Where have all the husbands gone, long time ago?
Where have all the husbands gone?
Gone for soldiers everyone
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the soldiers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards, everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone, long time passing?
Where have all the graveyards gone, long time ago?
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Gone to flowers, everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Words and Music by Pete Seeger (1955)
(c) 1961 (renewed) by Sanga Music Inc.


52 posted on 05/23/2006 11:42:04 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must)
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Several of those songs I've never even heard. We Are The World and Imagine are the only two that I know.


59 posted on 05/23/2006 11:52:57 AM PDT by shekkian
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"People Let's Stop the War" GFR

I loved GFR, but this as just insipid.


76 posted on 05/23/2006 12:02:49 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (I LIKE you! When I am Ruler of Earth, yours will be a quick and painless death </Stewie>)
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5. Sky Pilot -- Eric Burden and the Animals. While I generally liked this band, this song is unlistenable, and unintelligible.

I remember liking this song when it came out.Not his best work,but good nevertheless.Back then,I was pretty apolitical so didn't consider it in political terms.

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".

Musically speaking,it was a true classic,even if the politics behind it were fouled up.

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.

IMO,Joni Mitchell's early songwriting qualifies her as a true genius.Never cared for her performing talents,but she wrote four or five of my very favorites songs of all time...all in 1970 or earlier.

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

Another fine piece of music,IMO.The politics behind it may be another story.

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

The Beatles,up to Abbey Road,showed amazing talent.I don't know enough about music in general or the Beatles in particular to be able to determine how that talent should be apportioned to the individual members.IMO,neither Lennon nor McCartney showed any talent after about 1969.As for "Imagine",I still marvel at how many "possessions" he left Yoko each time I walk past the Dakota, a place where some of the richest folks on earth live,and have lived.

86 posted on 05/23/2006 12:10:17 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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Anything by Phil Ochs.


88 posted on 05/23/2006 12:11:03 PM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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Big Yellow Taxi

UGH! "Pave over paradise and put in a parking lot." HOW TRITE CAN YOU GET!

Much as I love Simon and Garfunkel, their first album includes two of the most insipid protest songs ever written, "He Was My Brother" and "The Sun is Burning."

One of my favorite Dylan songs is not so much a protest song (contrary to what some of his admirers say) but about the APOCALPSE, "A Hard Rain is Gonna Fall." They should play that song in Church whenever they quote the book of revelations.

92 posted on 05/23/2006 12:13:11 PM PDT by Clemenza (Populists Socialists, AND YANKEES FANS Will be Shot on Site)
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