Anti-Establishment Songs

Jimmy_Jazz · 23-02-2005 3:44pm #1

What's your favourite?

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

Doctor J · 23-02-2005 4:30pm

Reaganomics by D.R.I.

Sarky · 23-02-2005 5:53pm

Two Minutes To Midnight.

superconor · 23-02-2005 10:43pm

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 · 23-02-2005 11:39pm

The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Capitalism Stole My Virginity

weemcd · 23-02-2005 11:42pm

I fought the Law - The Clash
Minority - Green Day

MellonCollie · 24-02-2005 7:36am

Adema - The Way You Like It

MrJoeSoap · 24-02-2005 10:15pm

Jeff Buckley - The Sky Is A Landfill

Robbo · 24-02-2005 10:17pm

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 · 24-02-2005 10:23pm

Anything by Anti-Flag. ANYTHING.

weemcd · 24-02-2005 10:28pm

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 · 24-02-2005 10:34pm

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

Robbo · 24-02-2005 10:36pm

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 · 24-02-2005 10:43pm

nevar

John · 24-02-2005 11:54pm

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 · 25-02-2005 1:38am

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

Ro: maaan! · 25-02-2005 1:48am

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 · 25-02-2005 3:38am

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 · 25-02-2005 10:29am

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

cournioni · 25-02-2005 10:45am

Slayer - Dittohead

Velvet Vocals · 25-02-2005 3:25pm

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

daymobrew · 25-02-2005 6:48pm

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 · 27-02-2005 11:02pm

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 · 28-02-2005 7:55am

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 · 28-02-2005 12:02pm

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 · 28-02-2005 7:14pm

"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 · 28-02-2005 7:42pm

Handbagging ^

Leftover crack - Gang control

Talliesin · 28-02-2005 11:42pm

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 · 02-03-2005 11:04pm

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

funk-you · 03-03-2005 5:52am

Five to One-The Doors.

Talliesin · 03-03-2005 10:37am

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.

cournioni · 03-03-2005 12:20pm

Fear Factory - Scapegoat.

03-03-2005 12:25pm

Hotpress did a list of the top 50 Anti-Establishment Songs a while ago.

dregin · 03-03-2005 12:44pm

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upmeath · 03-03-2005 10:30pm

Fear Factory - Cyberwaste
RATM - Revolver/Freedom
NWA - Fock Tha Police! (DLed a great cover of that by RATM live in Philly tonight)
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage (get Cash's cover version too)
Black Flag - Rise Above
Arch Enemy - We Will Rise

Rage Against The Machine were a voice for Anti-Establishment America when they weren't needed. The Republicans come into power and where's Rage when they're needed most? It's a shame. SOAD should leave the frat boy **** behind (eg Shimmy, Jet Pilot, Cigaro) and take things up where Rage left up lyrically. System have the drive, the power, the voice, and what I've heard of the new album is riddled with double-bass. Should be good...

Cousin it · 03-03-2005 10:47pm

Body Count - Cop Killer

D'associashun · 04-03-2005 4:35pm

Hotpress did a list of the top 50 Anti-Establishment Songs a while ago

Sure what could be more anti-establishment than Hot Press? :rolleyes:

04-03-2005 7:58pm

Oh piss off, and don't rolly eye me!

irokie · 05-03-2005 12:37am

Metallica - ...And Justice For All.
and the rest of the album too.
i also like Green Day's American Idiot

also, hotpress annoys the piss out of me... it's so ****ing condescending and very much convinced that it's the coolest thing around... it's not that good, the writing's mediocre with a love of hyperbole and a tendency to blow U2 every chance they get. the bands they interview are... meh. and they follow every single band-wagon they can.
if you're looking to hotpress for anything interestingly musical, you're going to have to set it on fire and listen to that.

dead air · 05-03-2005 1:15am

Colony by Damien Dempsey

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