Anti-Establishment Songs

Jimmy_Jazz

What's your favourite?

Mine would be "Up In The Sky" by Oasis.

Doctor J

Reaganomics by D.R.I.

Sarky

Two Minutes To Midnight.

superconor

Authority by Biohazard
any Rage Against The Machine
God Save The Queen - Sexpistols / Motorhead
Rise - Pantera
**** The Police - NWA
Dead Kennedys stuff

Hmm..thats all i can think of!

radiospan

The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Capitalism Stole My Virginity

weemcd

I fought the Law - The Clash
Minority - Green Day

MellonCollie

Adema - The Way You Like It

MrJoeSoap

Jeff Buckley - The Sky Is A Landfill

Robbo

weemcd wrote:

I fought the Law - The Clash

I realise I'm no longer "down with the kids", as it were, these days, but how is getting caught anti-establishment?

dregin

Anything by Anti-Flag. ANYTHING.

weemcd

Robbo wrote:

I realise I'm no longer "down with the kids", as it were, these days, but how is getting caught anti-establishment?

I rebelled they ran me down ?

i dont see how getting caught has anything to do with it

dceire

Rage Against the Machine - Sleep Now In The Fire
Green Day - American Idiot
Bad Religion - Los Angeles Is Burning

Robbo

weemcd wrote:

I rebelled they ran me down ?

Are you somehow, in your mind, mangling the song with lines from the Fields of Athenry?

weemcd

nevar

John

Black Flag - My War
NWA - **** The Police
Einstuerzende Neubauten's entire back catalogue, particularly Kein Bestandteil Kein (To be no part of it)
Swans - Cop
Anything by A Silver Mt Zion or Godspeed You Black Emperor

NotMe

Dead Kennedys - I Fought The Law (and I won)

Ro: maaan!

Robbo wrote:

Are you somehow, in your mind, mangling the song with lines from the Fields of Athenry?

I Fought The Law isn't even a Clash song. Its a cover.
It was originally by Bobby Fuller Four.

Robbo

Ro: maaan! wrote:

I Fought The Law isn't even a Clash song. Its a cover.
It was originally by Bobby Fuller Four.

Thank you for pointing out that which I already knew. However, I was referring to the line that weemcd insists he heard being remarkably like one of the lines of the Fields of Athenry.

weemcd

i insisted nothing you prtentious prick, you seem to be picking fights here boyo

cournioni

Slayer - Dittohead

Velvet Vocals

Killing in the name of - Rage against the machine!!!

daymobrew

RATM - No Shelter (from the Godzilla soundtrack)

Quite amusing that it slags off the Godzilla film in the lyrics

And Godzilla pure mutha****in filler
To keep ya eyes off the real killer

With RATM gone, who fills the gap they left (apart from Biohazard and SOAD)?

Aside: The best line I ever heard from band was at a Biohazard gig: "Thanks, you've been great; this is the first gig where there hasn't been a fight".

dregin

daymobrew wrote:

RATM - No Shelter (from the Godzilla soundtrack)

Quite amusing that it slags off the Godzilla film in the lyrics


With RATM gone, who fills the gap they left (apart from Biohazard and SOAD)?

Aside: The best line I ever heard from band was at a Biohazard gig: "Thanks, you've been great; this is the first gig where there hasn't been a fight".

Seriously. Stop reading kerrang and go look for some real bands. What does fighting have to do with anti-establishment? Fighting is for drunken retards at gigs.

There are hundreds of "anti-establishment" bands out there.

daymobrew

dregin wrote:

Seriously. Stop reading kerrang and go look for some real bands. What does fighting have to do with anti-establishment? Fighting is for drunken retards at gigs.

I never read Kerrang or fight or drink at gigs.

dregin wrote:

There are hundreds of "anti-establishment" bands out there.

Please list a few.

MrJoeSoap

Jimmy_Jazz wrote:

"Up In The Sky" by Oasis.

I realise that song is very open to interpretations but what is it that makes you think it is "anti-establishment"?

Jimmy_Jazz

"Hey you, wearing the crown,
Making no sound,
I heard you feel down,
Well that's just too bad,
Welcome to my world"

"Hey you, up in a tree,
You wanna be me,
Well that couldn't be,
'Cause the people here they,
They don't hear you calling"

The song is mainly just an expression of anger at the upper-class Conservative government of the early nineties in Britain, who thought they were "down with the people". I know you could read into it differently but there's definitely some element of anti-establishment in it.

I am MAN

Handbagging ^

Leftover crack - Gang control

Talliesin

Well it's a blues song rather than a rock song, but no rock song is as passionately, as powerfully or as brilliantly anti-establishment as Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit".

rainbow kirby

Killing In The Name Of - Rage Against the Machine
F**k the System - System of a Down

funk-you

Five to One-The Doors.

Talliesin

funk-you wrote:

Five to One-The Doors.

That's a pastiche anti-establishment song criticising the counter-culture for being naïve and not really doing anything that poses a true danger to the establishment.