Anybody need to hear some good old-fashioned KICK ASS protest music?

I give you the Painting Tasters, friends of a good friend. "Federal Reserve" is just a fantastic song.

Federal Reserve

Listen here: http://www.thesixtyone.com/paintingtasters/song/Federal+Reserve/39611/

we’ll make money
selling paper
to the federal reserve

printing pictures
on the paper
to show the purpose that they serve

we’ll get paper
from the bankers
with pretty pictures back again

put the numbers
in computers
to remember where we stand

there’s no love in this world
only people using people
grab yourself a girl
let your pirate flag unfurl

there’s no love in this world
only people using people
take what you can get
you can drown yourself in debt

there are two kinds
of people
fools and those who understand

we created
this illusion
to control the working man

make him struggle
his whole life
never let him see the plan

debt as money
is freedom
for the invisible hand

there’s no love in this world
only people using people
grab yourself a girl
let your pirate flag unfurl

there’s no love in this world
only people using people
take what you can get
you can drown yourself in debt

we’ll make money
selling paper
to the federal reserve

printing pictures
on the paper
to show the purpose that they serve

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Check out their other songs here: http://www.paintingtasters.com/

Good stuff. Enjoy.

"Empty Walls" by Serj Tankian. God I love this song. The lyrics are so haunting and so powerful. So many people don't know what the "empty walls" he's singing about are. They are the space in between the walls of caskets that bring dead soldiers home in them. And although I don't like many music videos out there, I happen to think the one to this song is an absolute work of genius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8alBCy42FK4

Your empty walls...
Your empty walls...
Pretentious attention
Dismissive apprehension
Don't waste your time, on coffins today
When we decline, from the confines of our mind
Don't waste your time, on coffins today

Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication

Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication

I want you
To be
Left behind those empty walls
Told you
To see
From behind those empty walls

Those empty walls
When we decline, from the confines of our mind
Don't waste your time, on coffins today

Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication

Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication

I want you
To be
Left behind those empty walls
Told you
To see
From behind those empty walls
Want you to be
Left behind those empty walls
Told you
To see
From behind those empty walls

From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
The walls
From behind those empty walls

I loved you
Yesterday, before
You killed my family

Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication

Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication

I want you
To be
Left behind those empty walls
Told you
To see
From behind those empty walls
Want you to be, left behind those empty walls
Told you
To see
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
Those walls...
Those walls...

late at night in a small club....