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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 11:54 AM
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Inspired by GD thread: Post your favorite liberal songs by liberal musicians:
I'll start:

1. Live To Tell - Madonna (okay, it's been reincarnated as a political song)
2. We Are All Made Of Stars - Moby
3. Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2
4. Ball Of Confusion - Love And Rockets
5. It Says Here - Billy Bragg
6. Drive On - Johnny Cash
7. God Save The Queen - The Sex Pistols
8. I Bombed Korea - Cake
9. Imagine - John Lennon
10. Sam Stone - Laura Cantrell
11. Exhuming McCarthy - R.E.M.
12. What's The Matter Here? - 10,000 Maniacs
13. I Have Forgiven Jesus - Morrissey
14. The KKK Took My Baby Away - The Ramones
15. Minimum Wage - They Might Be Giants
16. Old Mother Reagan - Violent Femmes
17. Tell It Like It T-I-IS - B-52's
18. Christ For President - Billy Bragg and Wilco
19. I Fought The Law - The Clash
20. White Lines - Grandmaster Flash
21. Us Or Them - The Cure
22. Uncle Sam - Madness
23. Thousands Are Sailing - The Pogues
24. World Destruction - Time Zone
25. Melt The Guns - XTC




















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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 12:03 PM
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1. Just a few of mine are
Just about anything by Emma's Revolution: http://www.emmasrevolution.com/
especially their "One" CD. Excellent!

Man of God
Hiway 9
Tender Mercies
Peace Call
all by Eliza Gilkyson http://elizagilkyson.com

Support the Troops by Country Joe McDonald
Don't Lie to Me by Sherry Austin
and all the other songs on this project: http://cdbaby.com/cd/takemehome



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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 12:50 PM
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2. I'm just copy and pasting from another post I made a week ago.
Edited on Sun Mar-25-07 12:51 PM by primate1
(Some of these artists are a little to the left of "liberal" though, haha.)

Bright Eyes - "When The President Talks To God"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuyhSE2SUNE

Bright Eyes - "Road To Joy" (And most of their "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" album.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKV2bHpiH1E

Desaparecidos - "The Happiest Place On Earth" (Or basically all of their "Read Music, Speak Spanish" album.)

Desaparecidos - "Popn' Off At the F"

The (International) Noise Conspiracy - "Smash It Up" (And pretty much all of their other music.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syJ-aE6JF5E

Propagandhi - "Die Jugend Marschiert" (And any of their music, really.)
http://www.americasarmy.ca/

Cursive -"Flag and Family" (And most of their "Happy Hollow" album.)

Dead Kennedys - "Kill The Poor" (Again, almost all of their stuff.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWO4JxM3nDc

Rx Bandits - "Overcome" (Sound quality isn't great on the video.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcy9mYLQAiI

Company Flow - "Patriotism"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51YRP8-8ZSs

The Coup - "We Are The Ones" (Pretty much all of their stuff, really.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jf_8pHCqf4

Sweatshop Union - "The Thing About It" (The video was deleted from YouTube...fucking YouTube. The song is on here though: http://www.myspace.com/sweatshopunion7)

Sweatshop Union - "US"

Sweatshop Union - "Close To Home"

Sage Francis - "Slow Down Gandhi" (Set to a AMV of The Boondocks.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv1H197pL8M

Sage Francis - "Makeshift Patriot"

I could go on and on, really.
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Serendipitous Donating Member (216 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 12:27 PM
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15. Ditto on ANYTHING by Dead Kennedys. Jello Biafra is quite an interesting character.
I recently read that he was a candidate in 2000 for the Green Party presidential nomination using the Jello ad campaign catchphrase, "There's always room for Jello", as his campaign slogan.

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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 12:31 AM
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3. I've got mine - Glenn Frey
Gods of War - Def Leppard
Fall of the Peacemakers - Molly Hatchet
Something to believe in - Poisson
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 06:22 AM
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4. Anything by these guys
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Serendipitous Donating Member (216 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 07:07 AM
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5. ok
Your # 16 makes you my new bestest friend!! :)
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 07:46 AM
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6. about 2/3rds of the songs by Bad Religion
As I walk beneath the valley
I shall fear no evil
Cause thanks to King George
and his rainbow cabinet
today murder is legal

God I know that it's wrong
to kill my brother for what he hasn't done
and as the planes blacken the sky
it sounds like heaven is falling (falling)

it sounds like heaven is falling
you promised me a new day a'dawning
I see a thousand points of light
like so many points of hatred, shame and horror

God I want to be a man
but I don't want to die with a rifle in my hand
and as the planes blacken the sky
it sounds like heaven is falling (falling)

it sounds like heaven is falling
you promised me a new day a'dawning
well nothing here looks new to me
but a score of mothers' sons caught 'tween the devil and the deep blue sea
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 09:45 AM
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7. James Talley's Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again
This guy is one of Jimmy Carter's favorite musicians. He played at some of the Inaugeration stuff in 1977 but never got the fame he deserved. I only found out about him when I read about him in Guralnick's book Lost Highways.

I caught him live a couple years ago and bought one of his CDs that I absolutely love. The man is just, uh, righteous.
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 09:52 AM
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8. A couple by Neil Young
Let's Impeach the President

Leave the Driving
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slj0101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 09:56 AM
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9. God Bless the USA by Lee Greenwood.
:P
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 10:09 AM
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10. Can't Make it Here Anymore--James McMurtry; more below
End of the Innocence--Don Henley
Civil War--Guns N Roses
For What It's Worth--Buffalo Springfield (originally a song protesting the closing of a club)
everything by Woodie Guthrie

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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 10:10 AM
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11. Fast Car--Tracy Chapman
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philosophie_en_rose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 10:17 AM
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12. Not Ready to Make Nice
Dear Mr. President
Love me, I'm a Liberal
Give Peace a Chance
Kyoto Now
Head like a Hole
Take me Home, Country Roads
Rainbow Connection

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regularguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 12:18 PM
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13. "Conservative, Christian, Right-Wing Republican,
Straight, White, American Males"
By Todd Snider.
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Lindsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 12:25 PM
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14. American Idiot-Green Day
Not Ready to Make Nice - Dixie Chicks
Imagine - John Lennon
That's all I can think of right now but I know there are many, many more.
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 12:34 PM
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16. Just a few...
Alice's Restaurant-Arlo Guthrie
Something in the Air- Thunderclap Neuman
Chicago-CSNY
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