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    20 Protest Songs That Matter: No. 20

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    In 'The Wild One,' angry young rocker Marlon Brando answered an innocent question -- "Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?" -- with a curt reply that spoke volumes: "Whaddya got?" Rock never settles for the status quo, teaching generations that questioning authority is a cornerstone of democracy. Here are 20 all-time declarations of independence, each spun at 45 revolutions per minute.

    'Get Up, Stand Up'
    --Bob Marley and the Wailers (1973)

    Rebelling Against: Opression!

    The late, saintly Bob Marley's signature anthem has become a fill-in-the-blank template for righteous causes of all stripes. Not only is it the official fight song of Amnesty International, but Peter Tosh's sung-spoken interlude – "You can fool some people sometime/ But you can't fool all the people all the time" -- has been called a precursor to rap.
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    ahmadat 2-12-2008

    wuzz gud i digg dis song

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    Jayregenat 3-01-2008

    Hey, Don't forget the best protest song of all..." Revolution " by the Beatles. Thanx - Jay

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    Vat 1-18-2010

    No, sorry "The Revolution will Not be Televixe" by the Last Poets

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    Jay Regenat 3-01-2008

    Hey !!! You can not forget the best protest song of all. It was " REVOLUTION " by the Beatles. Thanx...JAY

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    Carraigheat 5-06-2008


    NO " FEEL LIKE IM FIXIN TO DIE RAG" ????????

    no protest list without that.

    the best!!!!!!!!!!

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    khurstseniorat 5-10-2008

    Actually Peter Tosh , taught Bob Marley, Bunny Livingstone, and Alton Ellis (caonsidered one of Jamaica's best) how to play music!. Peter wrote 'Get Up -Stand Up by himself. His lyric was 'sick and tire of this game of technology, humbly asking Jesus for his mercy' Bob changed it to sick and tired of the ism sischsm and some other less militant words. People act like they don't overstand rasta lyrics. Electric Avenue? downtown babylon! - ras-k

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    Jerryat 6-29-2008

    PROTEST SONGS/MUSIC....Do you idiots think this is still 1967????
    GET A LIFE!!!!

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    kv5350at 9-02-2008

    Take your own advice, you f_cking retard

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    meat 1-19-2010

    guess what Jerry.. prejudice still is around.. not just for the blacks.. the many spanish people today are only looked at to cook and clean go figure!

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    jlsat 8-07-2008

    You all missed it.

    "SAVE THE COUNTRY" by Laura Nyro was the quintessential protest song for ending war that my generation had. Check it out. It should be our song of the century.

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    zk650at 9-02-2008

    "Welcome to the Machine" - Pink Floyd

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    kv5350at 9-02-2008

    Another Brick in the wall

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    kv5350at 9-02-2008

    Another Brick in the wall

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    kevin d. hurstat 9-19-2008

    Peter Tosh wrote this anthem, taught Bob,( Bunny Wailer whom wrote The Electric Slide)and Alton Ellis , one of Jamaica's best musicians, how to play MUSIC. As far as rap, Jamaicans outside Kingston did not have electricity so enterprising men drove there with 'sound systems' on trucks and held dances with bands and people would get up and 'signify ' just like calypso where they did not watch the government controlled evening news on tv. They listened to the truth being spewed by Sparrow or whom ever who would turn in out during carnival. Third world's lead Singer Rugs said when he was a lickle bwoy he saw King Stitt and some of the founding fathers of reggae were DJs U-Roy, Eek-A-Mouse etc. and when the Wailers were teens making a record was a hustle, they rented the facilities to record, engineer, and pressed their own records! It seems americans think of the 3rd world as backwards. In remote parts of the world India e.g.the first phone they had was a cell, first tv a satellite for the whole village! Jamaicans were 'rapping' in the 50s and mixing in the 60 sand by the 70s Biggie Smalls mom was a Jamaican. Teenage Jamaicans in NYC invented Rap! Bob Marley worked at a facory in Delaware where his mom lived to make money to do 'Catch A Fire' recorded in Jamaica then he took the tapes to England where they added rock licks and pressed the records in Canada!

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    big daddiat 1-18-2010

    EVE OF DESTRUCTION BY BARRY MCGUIRE should have been #1 song of the top 20. your selection of the top 20 of which 1 song was in there that i believed was worthy. you guys better research better when you make selections cause you are way off on this one. there are plenty of songs that are far,far better than the ones you picked. check you bloggers remarks.

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    dragon keeperat 1-18-2010

    You missed some great ones. The Great Mandala by: PP&M, Richie Havens, Pete Seagar, who wrote it, Revolution, Let It be, and several others by the Beatles, And so many. Get real about the rap, Those are hate songs, not proteat songs.

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    Mike Testat 1-18-2010

    During that time, I enjoyed Johnny Rebel on the jukebox.
    Now that was some great music,, and still is..

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    Mike Testat 1-18-2010

    Johnny Rebel on the jukebox back in the sixties was the best there ever will be..

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    p curleyat 1-18-2010

    How about the "Ballad of Ira Hayes" by Johnny Cash, which was a protest against the way we treated Indians, or "Blowin in the Wind", written by the Godfather of protest songs, Bob Dylan, which blended the Civil Rights and the anti-war movement into a common cause. The real target of this song was apathy. ("How many times can a man turn his head and pretend he just doesn't see?")

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    al8189at 7-15-2007

    Comparing Bob Marleys lyrics and musical talent to Rap music is sacreligious. The person who even thought of the comparison is a sick, sick person. One day, the world will come to realize that the fall of the modern civilization is because of Rap music and its followers

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