Protest Songs.

[NoshowJones]

Let's hear your favourite Protest Songs.

The beautiful voice of Joan Baez.

[NoshowJones]

Not a great singer, but a very sexy voice.

[NoshowJones]

How nice is this?

[NoshowJones]

The Byrds, the best Vocal, Harmony, and Instrumental band ever.

[SoiBiker]

[pgrahmm]

https://youtu.be/tlAPDQdHqCY

Dire Straits....Industrial Disease....

[pgrahmm]

https://youtu.be/-k3MTH9Bu8g

War....With a little help from a couple of unknowns....

[NoshowJones]

One of the better bands during the Beatles era.

[NoshowJones]

Fantastic song by a fantastic performer.

[bannork]

[NoshowJones]

Yes Bannork, that John Lennon song was really tragic.

[bannork]

The draft in the USA was far worse though possum if we use the number of body bags as the criterion for tragedy.

[NoshowJones]

The draft in the USA was far worse though possum if we use the number of body bags as the criterion for tragedy.

Yes, it was, you have heard the song 'Fifty Thousand Names Carved in the Wall'.

[bannork]

And what about the many more Vietnamese casualties, like today in Iraq, Syria and Beirut? Local deaths are ignored by the mass media.

I protest against this but i can't think of a song right now referring to that.

[xen]

Eve of destruction - Barry Mcquire

Just as appropriate today after recent events as what it was when it was written by P F Sloan in the sixties and made famous by Barry McGuire.

https://youtu.be/qfZVu0alU0I

Edited November 17, 2015 by xen

[xen]

Screaming Jets - Johnny Warman

https://youtu.be/Q26zl7x_EFE

Edited November 17, 2015 by xen

[xen]

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Soldier Blue (1971)

https://youtu.be/LlrOaJFf6tg

Edited November 17, 2015 by xen

[xen]

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Universal Soldier

https://youtu.be/j6imjvgJFvM

[xen]

Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell

https://youtu.be/94bdMSCdw20

[xen]

Roy Orbison-There Wont Be Many Coming Home

https://youtu.be/3eIDqJa5za0

Hope you enjoy this one Possum.

[zyphodb]

Fischer Z Cruise Missiles

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Edited November 18, 2015 by zyphodb

[zyphodb]

How do you get youtube videos to embed in your replies someone?

[zyphodb]

Ha ha forget that last question, I seem to have managed it... lol

[zyphodb]

Heres another great one, as relevant today as the day it was written by John Lennon, I prefer this version by Marianne Faithfull myself...

Working class hero by Marianne Faithfull

[NoshowJones]

Roy Orbison-There Wont Be Many Coming Home

https://youtu.be/3eIDqJa5za0

Hope you enjoy this one Possum.

Thanks xen, I enjoyed it. I put this one up on my 'Songs of War' topic.

When this song first came out, I understand some people complained about it thinking it was about the Vietnam war.

They obviously never read the words 'look real closely at the soldier coming at you through the haze, he may be your younger brother who ran away'.

It was obvious it was about the American Civil War 1861-1865.

[NoshowJones]

How do you get youtube videos to embed in your replies someone?

Press and hold 'Ctrl', while quickly pressing 'V'. then print in the box that comes up.

[SoiBiker]

[SoiBiker]

Eve of destruction - Barry Mcquire

Just as appropriate today after recent events as what it was when it was written by P F Sloan in the sixties and made famous by Barry McGuire.

https://youtu.be/qfZVu0alU0I

Also appropriate today as a tribute to Mr Sloan, who died a just a few days ago. RIP.

[SoiBiker]

[pgrahmm]

https://youtu.be/xWwUJH70ubM

Protest songs don't always have to be about war....

Joni Mitchell → Big Yellow Taxi