Taxman - Beatles
Political Science - Randy Newman
Apolitical Blues - Little Feat / Van Halen
 

A Change is Gonna Come...Sam Cooke

Fortunate Son...CCR

Ohio...CSNY

Yes, Minister, Yes, Prime Minister theme



 

Blowin In The Wind- Bob Dylan
What's Goin' On- Marvin Gaye
Fly Little White Dove Fly- The Bells
Reach Out In The Darkness- Friend & Lover
Fight The Power- Public Enemy
Big Yellow Taxi- Joni Mitchell
The Maple Leaf Forever- Various artists
Canadian Railroad Trilogy- Gordon Lightfoot
Canada- The Sugar Shoppe

Bastille Day - Rush (cancon)
Everything Counts - Depeche Mode
The Men Behind the Wire - Dublin City Ramblers
I Think the Answer's Yes - The Beautiful South
Tin Omen - Skinny Puppy (cancon)
The Eleventh Earl of Mar - Genesis
Open Up the Border - Clutch
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Complain - The Vandals
New Frontier - Donald Fagan
​Breathing - Kate Bush
Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden
Get Up Stand Up - Bob Marley
Full Metal Jackoff - Jello Biafra and D.O.A (cancon)
Pristeen - Julian Cope
Uprising - Damn Yankees
Total Invasion - Killing Joke
A.D.A.M - X-Clan
Which Side Are You On? - Pete Seeger
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Western Decay - Atari Teenage Riot
Where Next Columbus? - Crass
Masters of War - The Flying Pickets
Biko - Peter Gabriel
Off With Your Head - Sleater-Kinney
Between the Wars - Billy Bragg

Mostly left-leaning, sorry. It tends to be artistically difficult to write angry songs about punching down.

Re right wing politics in music I have read that Morrisey of the Smiths supports an extreme anti immigrant stance. We all know about Ted Nugent. Since Covid Van Morrison has expressed some surprising views.

There was a right wing response to Eve of Destruction called The Dawn of Correction by the Spokesmen.

I don't believe Dave Cousins and the Strawbs were right wingers but when Hudson/Ford were with them they released the anti union Part Of The Union. A song that almost grazed the Top 40. Ray Davies is no right winger but the Village Green Preservation Society strikes me as somewhat luddite. I love the wordplay of the song though.

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For What It's Worth (There's something happening here) Buffalo Springfield.
American Woman The Guess Who
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye  The Band
 

Lorne wrote:

Get Out And Vote - Johnny Standley
The One On The Right Is On The Left - Johnny Cash
Snoopy For President - Royal Guardsmen
Tricia Tell Your Daddy - Andy Kim
Ball Of Confusion - Temptations
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
You Haven't Done Nothin' - Stevie Wonder

Ok Lorne I will get back to that Sweet home with Alabama and Southern Man by Neil Y.

Great thread and can't resist more

The Mothers - Trouble Coming Every Day about the Watts Riots ( Released before Gordon Lightfoot's Black Day in July about the Detroit riots)
Sen Bobby - Wild Thing
Crosby and Nash - Immigration Man 









 

Last edited by Fitz (April 26, 2025 7:25 pm)

One Tin Soldier by The Original Caste
https://youtu.be/VGY9k5PeoQA?si=f2_YDgoyhxoJPT8x
MLK by U2

Killing In The Name from Rage Against the Machine

The Politics of Dancing by Re-Flex

Last edited by betaylored (April 26, 2025 7:44 pm)

SteveM wrote:

Do The Fuddle Duddle - House of Commons 1971 GRT CANCON

Fitz wrote:

Lorne wrote:

Get Out And Vote - Johnny Standley
The One On The Right Is On The Left - Johnny Cash
Snoopy For President - Royal Guardsmen
Tricia Tell Your Daddy - Andy Kim
Ball Of Confusion - Temptations
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
You Haven't Done Nothin' - Stevie Wonder

Ok Lorne I will get back to that Sweet home with Alabama and Southern Man by Neil Y.

I did think of including them, but felt that they relate more directly to racial and social injustice and aren't as overtly political as Sweet Home Alabama with its mentions of the Governor and Watergate. An argument can certainly be made for both songs, though, and I thought that someone was likely to suggest them.

"Money's Too Tight (To Mention)" by Simply Red.

Also, "If It Happens Again" by UB40, which was meant to be a response to Maggie Thatcher's victory in the 1983 UK election.



PJ

Last edited by Paul Jeffries (April 26, 2025 11:21 pm)

Remembered this as a CHUM FM Jazz staple. Did not know until just now when I looked it up on YT that it was written by Gene ( Hundred Pounds of Clay ) McDaniels. Compared to What. My guess is that CHUM FM never touched it after 1975 or so but CFNY picked up on it after that.

Also American Dream by CSNY from the late 80's MTV years. I am sure many here will recall the video and scandals political and other-wise,







 

Last edited by Fitz (April 27, 2025 9:50 am)

"Yakety Yak" would have been perfect in the Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke riding, where Barry's Bay's John Yakabuski was MPP for at least twenty years. Yakabuski didn't run in the most recent provincial election, but his successor, PC candidate Billy Denault, won the riding.