Good list. I forgot about System of a Down. Green Day, Pearl Jam and Radiohead and other such bands I didn't really count because they had a large footprint before the Iraq War, so even though they have incorporated it, it wasn't their originating muse.

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Ok, so I should never tell you I like Sweet Sir Galahad?

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Just to play it safe, I'd never mention liking a Joan Baez song to anyone.

Jarvis Cocker: "Running the World" (used to be a free download from his site, dunno if it still is). It's a couple of years old now and I guess more a song against the ruling class than outright political protest.

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Joan Baez has one of the greatest voices in all of music, saying you shouldn't like her is rather a silly thing to say.

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In a similar vein is a recent Morrissey song called "America is Not the World." Not a bad song if you're a fan of Moz's mopey melodrama, but thematically it's kind of a rehash of the Clash's far superior "I'm So Bored With the USA" from three decades prior.

Roger Waters has a song called "Leaving Beirut" that he played on his last tour and released as a single. It's a long, talky story about a Lebanese family that was kind to him as a teenager, and how he fears that they (and the rest of the middle east) are unjustly in the crosshairs of the US and UK now.

If you want to get your ACLU groove on, in this era of profiling and wire-tapping, dig up the old Stones song "Fingerprint File" from the mid-1970s. Play that funky music, white boys.

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I haven't heard it. And I mean something memorable that has seeped into the public consciousness, like Buffalo Springfield or any number of songs from artists of the '60s and '70s. What the heck. Let's just listen to the oldies:

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

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There's no denying Baez has a great voice. On the other hand, she likes to sing "Kumbaya." So it's a wash.

(I kid with Adam because I care. Honest. I actually own stuff by the Smothers Brothers.)

Anyway, who has a copy of the "Golden Protests" bit by National Lampoon?

Clear Channel Radio (look them up) refuses to play any Bruce Springsteen songs that are anti establishment.

You may not have been paying attn but the Govt, or those aligned with the status quo, have purchased most commercial radio staions.

Don't believe a word he says. He is trying to tear apart this internet community. That good natured and civilized tone is merely a cover for his more dastardly schemes.

I highly recommend him as a passenger in a car, though.

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