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20 Protest Songs That Matter: No. 19

'Minority'
--Green Day (2000)

Rebelling Against: The Moral Majority!

In which rambunctious Billie Joe Armstrong goes explicitly political, pledging eternal allegiance to society's misfits, the downtrodden and the outnumbered. Since this song, the poster band for juvenilia has been active in alternative energy advocacy, Hurricane Katrina relieve and a rock opera about nonconformity.
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I have yet to see an intelligent comment.

Years ago, people would actually PROTEST.

Today, the spineless sit back and wait for some halfassed band write a song for them. How ambitious.

August 02 2008 at 10:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tori

i agree- animals weren't put here for us to eat.
but hypothetically, even if they were, that doesn't make it any less of a good protest song.
just because what you are protesting against isn't wrong does not change the effect of your protest- what matters is that you protest for what you think is right.

July 27 2008 at 11:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
AMB

"if god didn't want us to eat animals then why did he make them out of meat" Homer Simpson my hero


P.S. yes i am a little pudgy so you can shut up now

May 09 2008 at 3:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
hbycaihong1988

this song is good!Ilike it !we need more green day songs like this one!

December 26 2007 at 1:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ryan

You Green Day haters are probably Bush lovers and a member of that exact moral majority they speak of.

I feel sorry for you right-wingers that enjoy rock music. What do you guys have Ted Nugent and Toby Keith? LOL no wonder your all mad. Go ahead and boycott Green Day I am sure they don't want narrow minded right wingers listening to them anyway for they haven't sold out!

Rock on Green Day!!!!!

December 13 2007 at 4:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom

Green Day is a front for George Soros. If you want to help those in trouble due to Hurricane Katrina, then you need to write a protest songs regarding Louisiana and New Orleans corruption that has been there for 200 years. Any of us who know the area know that the corruption was probably responsible for 90% of the problem. So what does the government do? They give them billions and billions more to rip off. Greenday, start singing about things you know. Oh yeah, you would never sing again. You are another group I would like to punch.

December 12 2007 at 6:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jessica

Thanks BG, it's good to know i'm not the only one who gives a crap about anyone but myself! Yay!

December 12 2007 at 6:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jessica

Kent, I can't think of another reason that you would post this other then to piss people off, so, PLEASE keep it to yourself, you don't have to announce that your not going to quite eating meat, ok?

December 12 2007 at 6:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jessica

chas1266, Animals where put on earth to serve us as food JUST as much as we where put here on earth to be eaten by them! Doesn't it strike you as the SLIGHTEST bit selfish so say that a living, breathing animal such as YOURSELF is put on earth so that you can kill it and eat it!? How self-absorbed can you get? Once again, it's not all about you! GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD!!

Also, thank you cody! (And yeah, incase you hadn't guessed, i'm vegan, i'm a hippie and i'm PROUD OF IT!!)

December 12 2007 at 6:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Pete

Green Day are incredibly over-rated. I preferred them in their early 90's incarnation over the holier-than-though version of the 2000's.

December 12 2007 at 5:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply