Playlist: Talkin' Bout a Revolution

Posted byriese

on November 7, 2011

This is shaping up to be quite a time, kids. Quite a time. Basically The Occupy Movement has shown us we've got enough people on our side to win this thing if we all just mobilize properly. Therefore it's important to be as militantly committed to your politics at all times, so that we can mind control the government into getting their shit together. This music will help keep you in a state of constant Occupation.

Career Opportunities - The Clash (1977)
Revolution - The Beatles (1968)
Stars and Stripes of Corruption - The Dead Kennedys (1985)
Grandmaster Flash - The Message (1982)
Let's Get Together - The Youngbloods (1969)
Power to the People - John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band (1971)
Hammer and a Nail - The Indigo Girls (1991)
American Idiot - Green Day/Broadway Cast Recording (2009)
Changes - Tupac (1992)
Which Side Are You On? - Natalie Merchant (cover, originally written in 1931)
The Times They Are A-Changin' - Bob Dylan (1964)
Redemption Song - Bob Marley (1980)
Freedom 90 - George Michael (1990)
Rebel Girl - Bikini Kill (1992)
If the Kids are United - Sham 69 (1978)
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye (1971)
Uprising - Muse (2009)
Talkin' Bout a Revolution - Tracy Champman (1988)

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42 responses to “Playlist: Talkin' Bout a Revolution”

roxy (member)
November 7, 2011 at 8:47 am Permalink Reply Report user

oooh + They Don’t Care About Us – Michael Jackson
(and maybe Uprising by Muse)

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Laneia (member)
November 7, 2011 at 9:00 am Permalink Reply

YEAH

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Ash (member)
November 7, 2011 at 9:21 am Permalink Reply Report user

Unstoppable by Foxy Shazam! and I second Uprising. Muse is badass.

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Sarah (member)
November 7, 2011 at 9:28 am Permalink Reply Report user

Yeah, Uprising for sure.

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dizzy (member)
November 7, 2011 at 9:42 am Permalink Reply Report user

when she walks, the revolution’s coming… YESSSS to Bikini Kill. so great.

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1. Tam Gorzalka
  November 7, 2011 at 9:54 am Permalink Reply
  
  ^this.
  
  Oh, and the rest of the list is fab, too.
  
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riese (member)
November 7, 2011 at 9:53 am Permalink Reply

added the muse song!

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taylor (member)
November 7, 2011 at 10:15 am Permalink Reply Report user

“Get off the internet” by Le Tigre is a pretty great one…#occupyspotify

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sascha (member)
November 7, 2011 at 10:27 am Permalink Reply Report user

“with my own two hands” — ben harper. one of my personal faves, always helps me get out of bed and get a hammer & nail

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Sawyer
November 7, 2011 at 10:30 am Permalink Reply

Pretty much anything by The King Blues should be here. The Schemers, The Scroungers and The Rats seems appropriate. Also, anything by Frank Turner. Also, Juggernauts by Enter Shikari. Also, all the proper punk music ever.

I have a lot of political music-based feelings.

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bookbound (member)
November 7, 2011 at 10:34 am Permalink Reply Report user

I would add some Billy Bragg and probably Dead Prez as well. Great list!

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JC (member)
November 7, 2011 at 10:39 am Permalink Reply Report user

Sour Patch Kids – Asher Roth
Seriously one of his better songs, after I Love College you’d never know he has a brain, but this is actually really angry and wonderfully revolutionary. And also DC or Nothing by Wale, even though that’s half just about how badass DC is.

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bluntspoon (member)
November 7, 2011 at 10:56 am Permalink Reply Report user

Billy Bragg. Between the Wars. That is all.

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Nika (member)
November 7, 2011 at 12:18 pm Permalink Reply Report user

The Beatles were certainly ahead of their time, but not THAT much. Revolution came out in 1968.

Also, I third the call for some Billy Bragg.

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1. Rose (member)
  November 7, 2011 at 12:39 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  I was just here to post the same!
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_(song)
  
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  1. riese (member)
    November 7, 2011 at 4:47 pm Permalink Reply
    
    rose you work here, so i’m sure by what you meant to say is “i was just here to send an email to riese to tell her she put the wrong date on the song b/c being corrected in the comments is embarrassing for everyone and i wouldn’t want to add to that”
    
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    1. Rose (member)
      November 8, 2011 at 4:07 pm Permalink Reply Report user
      
      Yeah sorry I should have done that!
      
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      1. riese (member)
        November 8, 2011 at 10:53 pm Permalink Reply
        
        everyone is forgiven
        love is forever
        
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Rose (member)
November 7, 2011 at 12:42 pm Permalink Reply Report user

I’d also suggest “Chicago” by Crosby, Stills and Nash:

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1. Rose (member)
  November 7, 2011 at 12:44 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  Also “For What It’s Worth” by Stephen Stills’s previous band, Buffalo Springfield:
  
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Eve
November 7, 2011 at 12:52 pm Permalink Reply

And how bout:

- Raining in paradise – Manu Chao
- Tweak on your nipple – Faithless
- Seven Nation Army – Flaming Lips
- Amerika – Ramstein
- Twist in my sobriety – Pet Shop Boys and Liza Minnelli
- CIA Man – Sun city girls
- Hasta siempre – Nathalie Cardone’s version is nice
- Virtual insanity – Jamiroquai
- Design for life – Manic street preachers
- Mis-shapes – Pulp
- 1969 – Sisters of Mercy
- Toxicity – System Of A Down

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Nika (member)
November 7, 2011 at 1:08 pm Permalink Reply Report user

How about “Democracy” by Leonard Cohen?

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1. dizzy (member)
  November 7, 2011 at 3:19 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  I love that song so much… what an amazing lyricist.
  
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Caitlin (member)
November 7, 2011 at 2:57 pm Permalink Reply Report user

The WAND by Flaming Lips.

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1. Caitlin (member)
  November 7, 2011 at 2:58 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  That song makes me want to fuck shit up.
  
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Rabbit
November 7, 2011 at 4:41 pm Permalink Reply

I think this is the first playlist I’ve ever seen that includes the Beatles, the Dead Kennedys, Bikini Kill, and Marvin Gaye. I APPROVE.

Also, fun story about Rebel Girl; Rebel Girl helped me realize I am totally gaymosexual because I was all, “mm, cool girls! I want to kiss them! They taste like revolution!” and then I thought, “hmm, that was kind of a gay thing to think” and then I thought, “fuck it. I am so gayyy.” THANKS BIKINI KILL.

I would also like to add this song (“Asskickatron” by Fagatron) – http://fuckyeahqueercore.tumblr.com/post/6225324496

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1. Mer (member)
  November 7, 2011 at 8:03 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  You just made me laugh out loud in the middle of an osteology class! I got lots of weird looks but don’t care because your comment is priceless and almost exactly how I finally admitted I’m gay!! Scissor bump
  
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Olga
November 7, 2011 at 6:02 pm Permalink Reply

“children of the revolution” by t.rex
“g.r.i.n.d.” by asher roth
“march of the pigs” by nine inch nails
“tomorrow belongs to us” by the casualties

and pretty much anything by rage against the machine.

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Gigie Hall
November 7, 2011 at 6:17 pm Permalink Reply

“Rise Above” -Dirty Projectors

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Claire
November 7, 2011 at 7:50 pm Permalink Reply

Nooooo please American Jesus nevar use the Ron Paul Revolution image.

That said, my revolution songs would be “The Queen is Dead” by The Smiths and “Search and Destroy” by Iggy and the Stooges.

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1. RachelwasHere (member)
  November 8, 2011 at 2:50 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  I second that. ugh Ron Paul.
  
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Emily (member)
November 7, 2011 at 7:58 pm Permalink Reply Report user

let’s not shit ourselves (to love and be loved) by bright eyes. he pretty much has a song for everything.

“Well, ABC, NBC, CBS bullshit
They give us fact or fiction, I guess an even split
And each new act of war is tonight’s entertainment
We’re still the pawns in their game
As they take eye for an eye, until no one can see
We must stumble blindly forward, repeating history
Well I guess we all fit into your slogan in that fast food marquee
Red-blooded, white skinned, oh and the blues
Oh, and the blues, I got the blues, that’s me!”

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GrrrlRomeo (member)
November 7, 2011 at 9:54 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Through the dust bowl, through the debt
Grandma was a Suffragette
Blacklisted for her publication
Blacklisted for my generation
Go, go, go.

Go by the Indigo Girls

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Josefin (member)
November 7, 2011 at 11:56 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Love it!
And and and also, The international noise conspiracy – smash it up

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Raksha (member)
November 8, 2011 at 12:29 am Permalink Reply Report user

Life During Wartime – Pinhead Gunpowder
I Want to Conquer the World – Bad Religion
You Are (The Government) – Bad Religion
Persistence – Big Rig
Cool This Madness Down – Common Rider
Merry May Folk – Emerald Rose (it’s a different kind of revolution)
Peace Now – Gaia Consort
Through the Roof ‘N’ Underground – Gogol Bordello
Immigrant Punk – Gogol Bordello
Minority – Green Day
Static Age – Green Day
Know Your Enemy – Green Day
Fuck You – Lily Allen
SONGS – Morning Musume
The Meaning of Life – The Offspring
Unity – Operation Ivy
Gonna Find You – Operation Ivy
Freeze Up – Operation Ivy
Room Without a Window – Operation Ivy
Freedom Is – Pinhead Gunpowder
I Wanna – Pinhead Gunpowder
Battle for the Sun – Placebo
Spite & Malice – Placebo
Power of Equality – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down – The Toasters

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riese (member)
November 8, 2011 at 8:57 am Permalink Reply

i am listening to my playlist right now and I find it quite empowering

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Amber
November 8, 2011 at 9:00 am Permalink Reply

yes!!

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Alice (member)
November 8, 2011 at 9:07 am Permalink Reply Report user

The Coup’s “5 million ways to kill a CEO” or “Fat Cats, Bigga Fish” or really pretty much anything by them.

Bonus: Boots Riley has been to Occupy Oakland!

Also “The Ghost of Tom Joad” by Bruce Springsteen or RATM’s cover!

Also also, I would add Bob Marley’s song “Small Axe”

“If you are the big tree, let me tell you that
We are the small axe, sharp and ready
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
To cut you down”

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Raksha (member)
November 8, 2011 at 1:53 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Oh geez, I can’t believe I forgot:

Pretty much every Rage Against The Machine song ever is appropriate here.

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jowo moe
November 8, 2011 at 6:22 pm Permalink Reply

Is it only me who remembers Jefferson Airplane & friends, like:

“Flowers of the Night” on “Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun” (1973)
“Mau Mau (Amerikon)” on “Blows against the Empire¨ (1970)
“War Movie” on “Bark” (1971)
“Volunteers” on “Volunteers” (1969)

Also:
“Prologue”/“Someday”/”Liberation” by/on “The Chicago Transit Authority” (1968/69)

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Miranda
November 9, 2011 at 7:32 pm Permalink Reply

‘People Have the Power’- Patti Smith!

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tam
November 10, 2011 at 9:25 pm Permalink Reply

Bob Marley – Get Up Stand Up

You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can’t fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light,
We gonna stand up for our rights!

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