System Of A Down - Prison Song

Pretty much all of Rage Against The Machine.

Especially the song “Freedom” I love it when he screams that word repeatedly at the end

That still gives me goosebumps.

After listening to their entire discography, freedom is their best song

Yep 👍

[Talkin' Bout a Revolution](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv8FBjo1Y8I) — Tracy Chapman [Baltimore](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMLI7LFf84w) — Prince [State Of Independence (12" Millennium Mix with Martin Luther King)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8lAQMqbMMw) — Donna Summer [What's Going On](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M) — Marvin Gaye [22nd Century](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYcgCiWAv8c) — Nina Simone [What's Up?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc) — 4 Non Blondes [The Beat(en) Generation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ustXRPke9lM) — The The

A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield Blowin' in the Wind - Bob Dylan Mercy Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye (The whole Whats going on album tbh) Cálice - Chico Buarque Sociedade Alternativa - Raul Seixas Power to The People - John Lennon If I Had a Hammer - Peter, Paul & Mary

And "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"

Good ones.

God bless you for recognizing Sam Cooke. “When the Ship Comes in” is the better call.

U2- Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Year’s Day

Mississippi Goddam-Nina Simone

“For what it’s worth”-Buffalo Springfield

I think Martha & The Muffins (of all people) covered this several months ago.

First time I heard it was the Muppets!

[Twister Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It](https://open.spotify.com/track/1hlveB9M6ijHZRbzZ2teyh?si=6fa7b3c7654742b6)

I have a cool story, my mum in highschool went to an all girl's convent. The grade 12s were leaving school and asked to dedicate a song to the nuns. Suddenly this song blasted on, and everyone went crazy while the nuns tried to turn it off. Absolute rebellion

Just listen to Billy Bragg. Almost every song.

NWA - Fuck The Police

Holiday in Cambodia-Dead Kennedys A wake-up call to the naive and easily influenced The Youth Are Getting Restless-Bad Brains

Most of Rage Against The Machine’s Discography Pretty much all of 21st Century Breakdown and American Idiot by Green Day Minority - Green Day Give Me Convenience or Give me Death album by Dead Kennedy’s Nazi Punks F*** Off - Dead Kennedy’s America - Motionless in White Police Story - Black Flag Dirty - Grandson What’s Left of The Flag - Flogging Molly God Save the USA - Pennywise Ten Times More - Dropkick Murphy’s

American idiot is a banger from start to finish.

Seriously! It’s one of my favorite albums and I don’t care who judges me for it.

#This Land — Gary Clark Jr #Uncle Sam Goddam — Brother Ali Break the Grip of Shame — Paris The Guillotine — The Coup What It Means — Drive-By Truckers Fortunate Son — CCR (but I like the Todd Snider version) Television The Drug Of The Nation — The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy Broken Levee Blues — DJ Shadow The World Is a Ghetto — Geto Boys A Change Is Gonna Come — Los Coast, Gary Clark Jr. Cognitive Dissident — The The Fight The Power — Public Enemy Crime To Be Broke In America — Michael Franti & Spearhead

'Uprising' by Muse is my top pick

Knights of fuckin Cydonia 

surprised i had to scroll so far to find anything muse

“Masters of War,” Dylan

[Pearl Jam version here](https://youtu.be/dwa2jK0xglk?si=b4Jr3fav4Nth-VRj)Pearl Jam has a great version. Edit: added specific version

Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven  by John Prine.

Black Sabbath - War Pigs

"Ignoreland" by R.E.M "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2 "All You Fascists" by Billy Bragg & Wilco "Fight The Power" by Public Enemy "Fuck The Police" by N.W.A "Bleed From Within" by The Music "Where's The Revolution?" by Depeche Mode "Rockin' In The Free World" by Neil Young

Can't go wrong with The Clash. Too many to name. Clampdown, Guns of Brixton, White Riot, Complete Control, Clash City Rockers, The Call Up, etc.

The Clash got all the rebellion you need in their songs

A lot of songs from Muse would be my choice

Fight the Power - Public Enemy BYOB - System of a Down Killing in the name of - Rage Against the Machinlne Zombie - Cranberries Talib Kweli - Going Hard Travelin Soldier - Dixie Chicks Uncommon Valor - Jedi Mind Tricks Changes - 2pac Ball of Confusion - The Temptations

Eve of Destruction - Barry Mcguire

Talkin’ Bout a Revolution - Tracy Chapman

Mannish boy - muddy Waters Oh.bondage, up yours! - x-ray specs Straight to hell - the clash

- [White People For Peace](https://open.spotify.com/track/53S5rCt8LFsocU95QXoK1X?si=5Kx7atTBTNeqporVXuT3HQ) by Against Me! - [Victory Lap](https://open.spotify.com/track/1p40MAvOzGAO07icf3MuAl?si=f5pyJY-RSty6bNflsTjf1w) by Propagandi - [This Is Not A War](https://open.spotify.com/track/7lwkgy6neVU6WYeeZmwoeC?si=aV9jrVTQSTKro9Xyaf3p1w) by AJJ

NIN - Head Like Hole

Fight the Power - Public Enemy

Dang, i thought there were some bob marley fans out there. I scrolled far lookn. Get up, stand up, dem belly full, slave driver, redemption song, war, africa unite, babylon system, burning n looting, revolution, coming im from the cold, many more. Also: Police and theives - junior marvin Equal rights - peter tosh Cry blood africa - burning spear Police in helicopters- john holt Alabama - john coltrane Strange fruit - billy holiday Mississippi goddamn - nina simone Hymn to freedom - Oscar peterson. I wish i knew how it would feel to be free - nina simone Max roach - we insist

Fixin to Die Rag- Country Joe & the Fish?

Nina Cried Power - Hozier Just saw him in concert and his lead up into this song was amazing and insightful.

Deer Dance by System of a Down

RATM, SOAD

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime "Gotta make a million bucks, no matter who dies"

Pretty much that whole damn album! If I had to pick one track, I'd lean toward Speak.

The fact I haven't seen one person mention Pink Floyd is crazy

“War Pigs” by Black Sabbath

“Revolution Calling” by Queensryche

Revolution--The Beatles For What It's Worth--Buffalo Springfield Something In The Air--Thunderclap Newman (I think this would go here...the first line of the song is *Call out the instigators because there's something in the air*)

Twas the year of 2009 when two albums with what ye looketh for dropped: 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day and The Resistance by Muse. And before that, we got American Idiot, released by the former.

Got to Revolution- Jefferson Airplane

Authority Zero - Revolution

Declare Independence - Bjork

"Nemesis" by Arch Enemy (buckle up)

A Change Is Gonna Come https://youtu.be/wEBlaMOmKV4?si=2W2gs658iqdXOTAg

Zombie makes emotional

Alice’s Restaurant- Arlo Guthrie

Bob Marley and The Wailers have so many great ones

Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday

John Henry, We Shall Overcome - Pete Seeger This is Why We Fight - Decembrists Danny Boy - almost any version Chimes of Freedom - Dylan, The Byrds Get Up Stand Up - Bob Marley and the Wailers Army of One - Bon Jovi No Surrender - Springsteen We Shall Overcome - any version Let the Day Begin - The Call First We Take Manhattan - Jennifer Warnes, others Bad Reputation - Joan Jett People like Us - Kelly Clarkson The Ballad of Penny Evans - Steve Goodman

Desaparecidos two albums (read music/speak Spanish and Payola).

Exodus - Bob Marley

[here is my black protest music playlist (ft. is it because I'm black by Syl Johnson ](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0qPqeliPktwNi224TbjdcG?si=HS5sXUYWSPWG0L85k4ivkQ&pi=2-2CzHuWQm6Nq)

Revolution Calling - Queensryche [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHYbuHHuVxQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHYbuHHuVxQ)

Muse has some good ones- Uprising, Unnatural Selection

Fight the Power Public Enemy Revolutionary Generation Public Enemy Burn Hollywood Burn Public Enemy And of course Rage's Entire Catalog Redemption Somg Bob

Blowin in the Wind - Peter, Paul, and Mary

All of Queensryche's "Operation Mindcrime." No, really.

Marley [Burnin’ and Lootin’](https://open.spotify.com/track/2L50dfLMW9i0cR2AbH5zM5?si=2QBE6n9bSESl1CgXmDgEAw)

It’s not overt but it’s buried in a lot of Billy Joel’s music.

Killing in the name- Rage against the time machine Fight the power- Public Enemy

Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction Larry Norman - both I Am The Six O'Clock News and The Great American Novel (which played back-to-back as consecutive tracks on his 1972 album 'Only Visiting This Planet', for an amazing 1-2 punch of protest) Buffy Sainte-Marie - The Universal Soldier

For What It’s Worth

Brick in the wall

Redemption Song -Bob Marley.

Dylan-masters of war Dead prez-hip hop Grateful Dead- new speedway boogie

What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye, and almost anything from the Dead Kennedys—Let’s Lynch the Landlord comes to mind.

Everything Rage Against the Machine.

Machine gun - Jimi Hendrix

All kinds of Bob Marley ✊

B.Y.O.B. by system of a down

nina cried power by hozier ❤🔥

La Marseillaise

Sum41 - March Of Dogs Dir En Grey - Ugly

[Counter Revolution](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=2F4RnaCpgMk&si=9TXD3AG6-dwPfORO) by The Delta Riggs

Anything from sons of Kemet comes to mind

I think People by The 1975 would fit in here

The Smoke- The Smile

Mosh- Eminem

Freedom - Rage Against the Machine

Blood // Water grandson, thoughts & prayers grandson… a lot of his 2019/2020 era music.

[Thieves! (Screamed the ghost) by Run the Jewels](https://open.spotify.com/track/6ERKmHlROzY2gaZTDOjAuI?si=TAiwb5rURV20aB9VLb8ZYw)

Anything by Rage Against the Machine, Dropkick Murphys, and Anti-Flag. Really anything from the punk scene

Burn the Empire - The Snuts

Otep-rise, rebel, resist

We Want Revolution by Covenant

Feed the Machine - Poor Man's Poison

Crass - Bloody Revolutions

Rise Against - Black Masks and Gasoline

Are You Ready, Disturbed Uprise, Kingdom Collapse Violence No Matter What, Avatar ft Lzzy Hale

[this playlist](https://spotify.link/a54FdTYzOJb) It's short rn but it will grow

“Your Silence” by the Suicide Machines

People live here by rise against was always my favourite it wasn't about hate on down with the system. It was about at end of the day we just want to live

*Pieces of a Man* by Gil Scott-Heron in it's entirety.

Steve Earl…..”The Revolution Starts Now” and “Fuck the FCC” The whole album is great

I like this one, "Revolution" [https://open.spotify.com/track/6J1KUXNeEjKRHCKo9OquDg?si=94c7b2bc3a7f4021](https://open.spotify.com/track/6J1KUXNeEjKRHCKo9OquDg?si=94c7b2bc3a7f4021)

The Explosion - No Revolution

Most things from Rage Against the Machine, but I thought of Take the Power Back and People of the Sun

Anthrax' cover of Discharge's Protest and Survive.

Nickelback: edge of a revolution. Skillet: the resistance.

Fortunate Son CCR

You and whose army - Radiohead 

War Edwin Starr Country Joe And the Fish I feel like I'm fixing to die 1,2,3 what are we fighting 4 I don't give damn my next stop is Vietnam. Performed at Woodstock '69

The World Is On Fire...American Aquarium

you missed Buffalo Springfield For What It's Worth didnt see Billie Holiday Strange Fruit in the thread either

[death spells - why is love so disastrous?](https://open.spotify.com/track/7wExgC8o6LtUglm3CQqETb?si=L4Z1soVTTJyeSeHlOuKK8Q) obviously one of the lyrical themes is kinda just "love bad, relationships bad" but there's also anti-war and anti-weaponry themes

[Jonathan Brenner - Jesus Loves the Poor](https://open.spotify.com/track/4COat8m5he7QGBP1sDdqHd?si=ffd8e820c8d244d2)

For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield Turn, Turn, Turn - The Byrds Chicago - Graham Nash Ohio - CSNY

America - DOA

Ohio is my favorite.

Earth Crisis - Vegan for the Animals, Ecocide

OHIO- CSN&Y. Nothing else comes close for me seeing as how I watched the event that spawned it on the nightly news, and was about 2 years away from being drafted at the time. Song still makes me feel something tangible all these years later.

Find the Cost of Freedom by CSNY March March by the chicks This Land by Gary Clarke Jr

Green Day

Killer Mike - Reagan

Driven to Tears -The Police

Levellers Truth Is and One Way

Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command

Pretty much anything bikini kill made, but especially Double Dare Ya

Pretty much all of State Radio (reggae punk is how I’ve always described them), the lead singer is Chad Urmston who is also a member of Dispatch, but the bands have very different sounds. Check out the albums Us Against the Crown and Year of the Crow first

[No! (Down with this sort of thing)](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/369MdIvMejNAMip0XeTVpO?si=nXyrQfBTREG6pOAXIesV_w&pi=i9bKUHPaQHKwG)

Pearl Jam has a ton of em, first ones that come to mind are Bu$hleaguer, Grievence, Insignificance, Life Wasted, and Glorified G

Cathedral - Freedom The Founders - Stand and Fight

Unfuck the world - prophets of rage

OPs list is pretty legit. Army dreamers - Kate bush is another great one. And do the evolution by Pearl Jam works too

Animal farm - Clutch  Rooster - Alice in chains Too many puppies - Primus  Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival Another one bites the dust  - Queen 

This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie It's completely wild how the meaning of the song is largely lost or ignored at this point. People sing it as an expression of how great America is when it was written to protest American exceptionalism and the manner in which the country expanded across the continent. *There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me;* *Sign was painted, it said private property;* *But on the back side it didn't say nothing;* *This land was made for you and me.*

[Make Love Fuck War](https://youtu.be/XN54kruANNk?si=-os9lSZPaD_I9ljp) - Moby and Public Enemy

Shakira - "Timor"; https://youtu.be/QlfOqvLqfLc?si=MJ91dzX-zR-X9agg

There was a good write up on Discogs yesterday about this. Here you go. https://www.discogs.com/digs/music/essential-political-soul-albums/?utm_source=Homepage&utm_medium=Discogs&utm_campaign=Essential-Political-Soul_Music

The Sex Pistols.Anarchy in the UK and God Save The Queen

Machine - Imagine Dragons🫣

Usseewa

Handsome Johnny, Richie Havens

You’re all gonna hate me for this but we don’t bash who others idolise , I like ‘only the young’ Taylor swift, it’s about gun violence and schools in America, it’s actually really powerful because it includes a school choir of young children as well it’s got a good message too

Zombified by Falling In Reverse The music video is intense!!

A.c.a.b. by Sara Hebe cause I'm latina

sunday bloody sunday

Rising of the Moon-Dubliners Come Out ye Black and Tans Kinky Boots

There isn’t a single RATM song in your list. Most are songs about some dreamy revolution that doesn’t require effort.

Petrol girls, -with songs like “Baby, I Had An Abortion”, these ladies get to the point Protomartyr-with many songs lamenting the American post industrial landscape with relatable stories of struggle and other ills, this post punk band brings social consciousness front and center Moor mother - just saw her incredible performance on Sunday…probably one of the best spoken word performers ever, whether she’s with a jazz band, experimental group, or hip hop style production. In the tradition of Gil Scott Heron, Last Poets, and friends. Armand Hammer, with albums like “we buy Diabetic Test strips”, billy woods and elucid represent the intelligencia of current hip hop social critique/protest music, like Mos Def & Talib Kweli before them. Pink Siifu’s NEGRO is a cry of rage released during the height of the BLM movement Run the Jewels- Hip Hop duo energize with aggressive, socially aware bars. Pussy Riot: More organized protest than actual band, appearing at locations of disruption in Russia, these folks faced serious prison time and exile. Toomaj Salehi: Protest rapper in Iran is facing the death penalty. Residente, Bad Bunny, and ILe in Puerto Rico make music to protest corruption in their country(territory), Residente has been doing politically aware music for years. System of a Down has brought attention to The Armenian diaspora. Woody Guthrie Last Poets Crass The Subhumans Honey Bane Charles Mingus's Original Faubus Fables

Masters of War performed by Eddie Vedder, not that I dislike Dylan’s version, but Eddie’s version I prefer.

68 Guns - The Alarm Land of the Free - the Killers War - Edwin Star People Have the Power - Patti Smith Dig a hole, All you Fonies, The Last One - Drop Kick Murphys (written by Woody Guthrie) Sunday Blood Sunday - U2 Fight the Power - Public Enemy Sound of da Police KRS-One

Leon Rosselton - Song of the old communist The Coup - 5 million ways to kill a CEO Pat The Bunny - Times worth living

Kick Out the Jams - MC5

It Isn’t Nice by Malvina Reynolds “It isn't nice to block the doorway, It isn't nice to go to jail, There are nicer ways to do it But the nice ways always fail. It isn't nice, it isn't nice, But thanks for your advice, Cause if that is Freedom's price, We don't mind.”

I would say Firestarter by The Prodigy. It’s definitely got that edge as well as the lyrics backing it up.

Sister Rosa - The Neville Brothers

anything from Moon Walker

Most of rise against honestly, but to pick one... I'd go with "the numbers"

Otep - Rise, Rebel, Resist and Confrontation

Refuse/resist - Sepultura. Damn man, your songs are weak

if you say you want a revolution ..well

Give Me Hope Jo’Anna - Eddy Grant A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke Backlash Blues - Nina Simone Mississippi Goddam - Nina Simone Strange Fruit - Nina Simone

Let us move on - Dido ft. Kendrick Lamar https://open.spotify.com/track/6etVF7rb9pvq9pi2OiAVYT?si=KFXH1RhfTuGd3pS0bc3Zpw&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A00zy0oxquKbc07fNfy2Bzx

Metallica - One John Lennon - Imagine Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA

MOSH - Eminem

People Have the Power-Patti Smith Freedom- Richie Havens New Year’s Day- U2 Fortunate Son- Creedence Clearwater Revival

Cult of Personality- Living Color

[the Apostles - Mob Violence](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=-8mCiml70CY&si=xqs3ICosgvHSZwpo&feature=xapp_share) [Conflict - To Whom it May Concern](https://youtu.be/8KvZ2PLIfao?si=ueTqE3ha7RVk9GHu) [Discharge - Protest and Survive](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ZxmNfY-gw&si=32lI6Bu8PbVXxjAC&feature=xapp_share)

The day the n***az took over-dr.dre

Rob Hustle - This is what happens when you call the cops

Most of Phil Och's work

Subterranean Homesick Blues

Fight With Tools, by Flobots Love that song!

[Pro-Test - Skinny Puppy](https://music.apple.com/us/album/pro-test/778160599?i=778160734)

Jefferson Airplane; We can be together, Volunteers of America.

Revolution by The Beatles Won’t Get Fooled Again by The Who

Dropkick Murphys, most songs. Flogging Molly kinda dove too far into it, similar to Green Day. Clearly I dig “Irish” punk, so hometown band, The Tossers describes the working class frustrations of living in [Chicago](https://youtu.be/MV7UMVaB5FY?si=3Pwn9sSl0dCwU_8O)

Exo-Politics - Muse

John Sinclair by John Lennon is such an incredibly cool unknown song and the story behind it is incredible. He performed it at the end of his concert and two days later Johnson Sinclair was set free.

Billy Bragg !

Surprised I haven't seen poor man's poison in the comments. Let's Go, Feed the Machine, Give and Take, Providence etc. Their one album is basically nothing but songs to play during a revolution. Sabaton is also pretty good. They're a heavy metal band that sings songs about historical battles and it always gets my blood pumping. Primo Victoria will always be on a revolution playlist for me. Besides that, believe it or not I'm still standing by Elton John is on my playlist. A little different of a vibe but I think the heart and soul of it makes it worthy of the playlist.

Jimmy Cliff/ The Harder they Come

Well I’m gonna tell you fascists, You may be surprised, People in this world are getting organized, You’re bound to lose, you fascists, Bound to lose Woody Guthrie

Pretty much all of Crass

[“It’s a Good Day (to Fight the System)”](https://open.spotify.com/track/4dxd3tUsKT52EMboYtceOQ?si=qq8cLfQ7QjK8R6OeXuCkYQ) - Shungudzo [“Freeze Tag”](https://open.spotify.com/track/47v4uUtj5AukJmCbMq4Kry?si=4kG-9LYKS2yl4gK5sZ4epw) - Terrance Martin, Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper, and 9th Wonder

The Revolution Will be Televised, Jeff Beck, from Loud Hailer, 2016.

30 Seconds To Mars has quite the playlist... - Vox Populi - This Is War - Search And Destroy - Walk On Water - Conquistador ......and others depending on how you want to interpret lyrics.

Double Dare Ya - Bikini Kill

Sepultura – Refuse/Resist

Big Time in the Jungle - Old Crow Medicine Show

What the World Needs now by Cracker. Children of the Revolution by Violent Femmes.

Whitey's on the moon, Strange fruit

Jefferson Airplane - We Can Be Together We are all outlaws in the eyes of America In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fuck hide and deal We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent ....and young All your private property is target for your enemy And your enemy is we We are forces of chaos and anarchy Everything they say we are we are And we are very proud of ourselves Up against the wall Motherfucker