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Thread started 06/10/07 10:19am

actionthisday

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Your favorite song about social unrest, upheval, pro-war,anti war...

Ball of confusion-The Temptations
CCR-Fortunate Son
CCR-Have you ever seen the rain
Billie Holiday-Strange Fruit
Edwin Starr-War (Yes I know I was in the military, but a good song is a good song)

...and yours?
'A pillow covered in all our tears'
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Reply #1 posted 06/10/07 10:20am

mdiver

Anything from the first RATM album thumbs up!
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Reply #2 posted 06/10/07 10:22am

IAintTheOne

Hendrix-Machine Gun
Richie Havens-Handsome Johnny
Bob Marley-Get up,stand up
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Reply #3 posted 06/10/07 10:26am

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IAintTheOne said:

Hendrix-Machine Gun
Richie Havens-Handsome Johnny
Bob Marley-Get up,stand up


Wow could I leave Marley off the list?
'A pillow covered in all our tears'
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Reply #4 posted 06/10/07 10:36am

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wrong forum.

boxed


Please excuse the org being down while I move this.
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Reply #5 posted 06/10/07 10:46am

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CarrieMpls said:

wrong forum.

boxed


Please excuse the org being down while I move this.


There you go again messin up the place wink
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Reply #6 posted 06/10/07 10:49am

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actionthisday said:

Ball of confusion-The Temptations

Great song.
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Reply #7 posted 06/10/07 10:57am

Afronomical

Funkin' Lesson - X-Clan
Small Thing - Newkirk
Sign 'O' The Times - Some purple-lovin', short dude
Heed The Word Of The Brother - X-Clan
Make Afros not War fro grenade
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Reply #8 posted 06/10/07 11:53am

Kush

RICH GET RICHER-The O'Jays
FIGHT THE POWER-Public Enemy
A CHANGE IS GONNA COME-Sam Cooke
WAKE UP EVERYBODY-Harold Melvin and The Bluenotes
B MOVIE-Gil Scott Heron
INNER CITY BLUES-Marvin Gaye
LIVING FOR THE CITY-Stevie Wonder
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Reply #9 posted 06/10/07 12:01pm

Anxiety

:shutting my eyes and pointing randomly at a dead kennedys track list:
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Reply #10 posted 06/10/07 12:05pm

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Talkin bout a revolution-Tracy Chapman.
The Most Important Thing In Life Is Sincerity....Once You Can Fake That, You Can Fake Anything.
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Reply #11 posted 06/10/07 12:46pm

datdude

Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos - Public Enemy
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Fight the Power - Public Enemy
By The Time I Get to Arizona - Public Enemy
Pride (In the Name of Love) - U2
F*#k the Police - NWA
Russians - Sting
Future Love Paradise - Seal
Black or White - MJ
Party Up - Prince
Live 4 Love - Prince
Pearls - Sade
No Grey Lines - Corey Red & Precise
They Don't Care About Us - MJ
Another Day in Paradise - Phill Collins
You Haven't Done Nothin' - Stevie Wonder
Propaganda - Corey Red & Precise

i'll stop for now
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Reply #12 posted 06/10/07 12:53pm

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What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
What's Happening Brother - Marvin Gaye
You Haven't Done Nothin' - Stevie Wonder
He's Misstra Know-It-All - Stevie Wonder
People Get Ready - The Impressions
A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Fight the Power - Public Enemy
Revolution - The Beatles
Brother's Gonna Work It Out - Public Enemy
Blowin' in the Wind - Bob Dylan

...and plenty more.
"Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis
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Reply #13 posted 06/10/07 1:51pm

dseann

Prince - Money Don't Matter Tonight
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Reply #14 posted 06/10/07 2:27pm

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Pete Seeger:
Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Turn! Turn! Turn!


Bob Dylan:
Blowin' in the Wind
The Times They Are a Changin'
Masters of War
With God on Our Side
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall


Curtis Mayfield/The Impressions:
Keep On Pushing
We're A Winner
Mighty Mighty Spade And Whitey
We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue
If There's A Hell Below We're All Gonna Go


Stevie Wonder:
Big Brother
You Haven't Done Nothin'
Living for the City


Jimi Hendrix:
House Burning Down
Straight Ahead
Machine Gun


Marvin Gaye:
What's Going On
Inner City Blue
Mercy Mercy Me


Gil Scott-Heron:
Johannesburg
Winter in America
Whitey on the Moon


Public Enemy:
Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
Fight the Power
By the Time I get to Arizona



Misc:
We Shall Overcome - Mahalia Jackson
A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
Driva' Man - Max Roach/Abbey Lincoln
Mississippi Goddam - Nina Simone
People Got To Be Free - The Rascals
I'm Fixin' To Die Rag - Country Joe & The Fish
Ghetto Scene - Oscar Brown Jr.
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
OHIO - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Society's Child - Janis Ian
WAR - Edwin Starr
Universal Soldier - Buffy Sainte-Marie
Southern Man - Neil Young
The Ghetto - Donny Hathaway
Compared To What - Les McCann & Eddie Harris
Get Together - The Youngbloods
Save The Country - Laura Nyro
No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed - Richie Havens



tA

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"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all."
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Reply #15 posted 06/10/07 2:31pm

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Choice of Color: Impressions
People Get Ready: Impressions
Keep On Pushing: Impressions
Hair: Graham Central Station (I'm a brotha with long hair lol )
Say It Loud (I'm Black & I'm Proud: James Brown)
Process: Hank Ballard (another song about hair)
Man of War: Jacksons
PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever
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Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It
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LittleBLUECorvette said:

Say It Loud (I'm Black & I'm Proud: James Brown)

Can't believe I forgot that one. disbelief
"Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis
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Reply #17 posted 06/10/07 2:53pm

LittleBLUECorv
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AlexdeParis said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Say It Loud (I'm Black & I'm Proud: James Brown)

Can't believe I forgot that one. disbelief

LOL, it seems everyone forgot that song.
PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever
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Reply #18 posted 06/10/07 4:43pm

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theAudience said:

Pete Seeger:
Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Turn! Turn! Turn!


Bob Dylan:
Blowin' in the Wind
The Times They Are a Changin'
Masters of War
With God on Our Side
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall


Curtis Mayfield/The Impressions:
Keep On Pushing
We're A Winner
Mighty Mighty Spade And Whitey
We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue
If There's A Hell Below We're All Gonna Go


Stevie Wonder:
Big Brother
You Haven't Done Nothin'
Living for the City


Jimi Hendrix:
House Burning Down
Straight Ahead
Machine Gun


Marvin Gaye:
What's Going On
Inner City Blue
Mercy Mercy Me


Gil Scott-Heron:
Johannesburg
Winter in America
Whitey on the Moon


Public Enemy:
Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
Fight the Power
By the Time I get to Arizona



Misc:
We Shall Overcome - Mahalia Jackson
A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
Driva' Man - Max Roach/Abbey Lincoln
Mississippi Goddam - Nina Simone
People Got To Be Free - The Rascals
I'm Fixin' To Die Rag - Country Joe & The Fish
Ghetto Scene - Oscar Brown Jr.
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
OHIO - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Society's Child - Janis Ian
WAR - Edwin Starr
Universal Soldier - Buffy Sainte-Marie
Southern Man - Neil Young
The Ghetto - Donny Hathaway
Compared To What - Les McCann & Eddie Harris
Get Together - The Youngbloods
Save The Country - Laura Nyro
No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed - Richie Havens



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peace Tribal Disorder

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all excellent songs (the ones I know anyway)
'A pillow covered in all our tears'
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Reply #19 posted 06/10/07 4:50pm

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Kush said:

RICH GET RICHER-The O'Jays
FIGHT THE POWER-Public Enemy
A CHANGE IS GONNA COME-Sam Cooke
WAKE UP EVERYBODY-Harold Melvin and The Bluenotes
B MOVIE-Gil Scott Heron
INNER CITY BLUES-Marvin Gaye
LIVING FOR THE CITY-Stevie Wonder


Great choices.
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Reply #20 posted 06/10/07 10:39pm

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Peter Tosh

Equal Rights
Apartheid
Stop that Train
400 years
Can't blame the youth
Mark of the beast
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