Songs for the Revolution!!1

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Need me a playlist of songs on the theme; revolution, politics, class discontent, i don't know. Find the good stuff.

I'm getting started with Working Class Hero, with some Rise Against and Thrice thrown in for good measure. I don't listen to this kind of music usually so I'm drawing a blank really.

Go forth!

Here are three French classics;

La Carmagnole:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6dAV5kB9CY[/youtube]

Ça ira, ça ira:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rauZMrXqRu0[/youtube]

And the Marseillaise
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfNLYgXVXFU[/youtube]

Linkin Park- "No More Sorrow" and "Hands Held High" are both pretty good ones.

Queensryche- "Speak" from Operation: Mindcrime
The whole album is semi-political, but that song is the most so.

It's late, i can't think of more right now.

And from the Peasants War/Rebellion in Germany 1524/26 - Des Geyers schwarzer Haufen:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB5Rs6z1ES0[/youtube]

Than there is one famous Russian "Bravely, Comrades, In Step"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBQ_XKkoaxo[/youtube]

Which has been used ironically by the quite moderate German Social Democrats widely:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtAVd4YnSto[/youtube]

I heard Chumba Wumba does a lot of political stuff with their songs. Maybe you should check them out.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mJb_Cp-xYs[/youtube]

red october hymn. doesnt get any more revolutionary :]

If a revolution is long enough ago, a revolutionary song may serve well as a National Anthem. This happened to the Marseillaise and to the Wilhelmus - here a version of 1629, the original was from the 1580s:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkvn_BmGCIc[/youtube]

And - not to forget - l'Internationale

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysLnZqIyFNE[/youtube]

or in a longer version:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E2QW4GHYYY[/youtube]

How about 'Wake up' by Rage against the Machine?

The poor Soviets; they had lyrics to their anthem, then have spent decades debating what the new words should be after Stalin kicked off...

If you want punk music, like Rise Against, I mostly listen to this type of music.
My favorite is Anti-Flag, they are exactly the theme you are looking for. Some other punk bands would be, Bad Religion, NOFX, Bouncing Souls, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Pennywise, The Misfits, Thought Riot, Whatever It Takes
These are just the bands that come to mind, search youtube to see if you like any of them.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-OXmMtod5k&feature=related[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp0Bju0H4Q4

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr5OyWtBB3M[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOG97KzYslI[/youtube]

Here are a couple more by Thought Riot

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cqGJP44Lpw[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VECoe6aBJrs[/youtube]

"When the Ship comes in" by Bob Dylan

Dussel- your suggestions make me jump up and down in a fit of historian nerd glee