I feel like there are lots of parallels between the eighties and now (recession/inflation, yuppies/inequality, skin-heads/fascists, hot-cold wars etc.) but there used to be protest music! Where is that stuff now? Music that’s intelligent and outraged - like we should be!
I’m out of touch now, so if it exists, educate me! Or have the protest songs been removed from tiktok by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act (UK specific, but suppression of protest seems to be everywhere)? (I’ve linked to the Levellers - maybe it really was better back in the day?)
one of my favorite groups is Mischief Brew from Philly. Very folksy, anti-cop, anti everything government lol
boycott me
Old Tyme Memry
Farewell Goodfellows
Roll me through the gates of hell
Every Town will Celebrate