So being that it’s Radio Active I’m going to be try to look a little at what a political song means. Is it political because of who wrote it, when it was written, or the content? (and still anticipating getting a mic soon!)
Slight Return 3
Rodriguez – This Is not a Song, Its An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues
Lupe Fiasco – Dumb It Down
Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction
The Animals – We gotta get out of this place
Pixies – Monkey gone to heaven
Indio – Hard Sun
Christy Moore – Viva La Quinta Brigada
Cymande – Breezeman
Billy Bragg – Between the Wars
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Ohio
Richie Havens – Freedom
Manic Street Preachers – Design for Life
U2 – Red Hill Mining Town
Pulp – The last day of the miners strike
Pete Seeger – Which side are you on?
Marvin Gaye – Mercy mercy me (The ecology)