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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I feel like there are lots of parallels between the eighties and now (recession/inflation, yuppies/inequality, skin-heads/fascists, hot-cold wars etc.) but there used to be protest music! Where is that stuff now? Music that's intelligent and outraged - like we should be!

I'm out of touch now, so if it exists, educate me! Or have the protest songs been removed from tiktok by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act (UK specific, but suppression of protest seems to be everywhere)? (I've linked to the Levellers - maybe it really was better back in the day?)

edit: Maybe not the right audience, but if the song is old enough to vote then I might already know it! What's happening now? Any songs from the last 10 years!

edit: Thanks for everyone's insights. I've spent the day discovering music that I'd never have found otherwise. Really enjoying a load of these, but thanks to everyone! It seems like protest music is confined to certain genres/places, and lots of older songs - maybe they just last longer... which is maybe a little interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

You mention the UK, so I'll just drop a couple of names of folks/bands talking about racism, immigration and toxic male culture.

Bob Vylan

We live here - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VFqhJyvly1g

Wicked and Bad - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KRJ-s7jRyAM

Idles

Danny Nedelko - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QkF_G-RF66M

Lambrini Girls

Lads lads lads - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IuLK56UrCL0

There's a lot of good punk still happening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Should also add Hacktivist. A few of their songs are politically charged, and several calls BoJo a cunt.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YWzwEPYIjYM

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@frazorth you've got going down rabbit holes ... I wonder what I else I can do to scare a tory

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Listen to Boris Johnson is a fucking cunt?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uGwCykQwgTU

Or just Fuck The Tories

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TppbFVcfBcU

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Guilty as charged. Good stuff - I'll look out for these - my new years resolution is to see some live music.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All these bands being UK based, you should have an opportunity to see them.

I don't know whereabouts in the UK you are, but you could find some new stuff at things like the Futurama festival in Liverpool.

https://www.cultureliverpool.co.uk/events/futurama-festival/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'll be seeing IDLES in a few months in Texas

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Never fight a man with a perm!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bob Vylan and Idles are great, will check the Lambrini Girls, thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Music created in the UK by people who are fucking furious is still alive and well.

Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes

Sleaford Mods

Kid Kapichi

Panic Shack

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I know Sleaford Mods. Will check the others too, thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Frank Carter did this lovely little ditty with Joe Talbot from IDLES.

My Town.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gx59hOw2HcA