# Music for the Revolution **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2003, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986 "2003-11-24T10:52:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DaPearl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@DaPearl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaPearl)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/1 "2003-11-24T10:52:12Z")
The revolution is here, and you need to put in your Revolutionary mix tape to get it going What songs will you use. Oh yeah, and this isn’t some pussy revolution of “love” and “non-violence”. This is the real, bloody thing. For starters, I’d use: _Terrordome_ - Public Enemy _Voodoo Child_ - Jimmy Hendrix _Gimme Shelter_ - Rolling Stones _Street Fighting Man_ - Rolling Stones And of course, the big, bad-ass mother-fucker of revolution songs: _Won’t Get Fooled Again_ - The Who ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/2 "2003-11-24T11:16:23Z")
“Children of the Revolution” as performed by U2 “Der Koniggratzer March” “Beds are Burning”—Midnight Oil “I Never Picked Cotton”—Johnny Cash “I Will be Heard”— Hatebreed “The Fight Song”— Marilyn Manson “Kashmir” as performed by the London Philharmonic “Life is a Lemon”— Meat Loaf “Motherf\_cker”— Beck ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/3 "2003-11-24T11:26:35Z")
What, no Rage Against the Machine? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/4 "2003-11-24T11:27:57Z")
“VX Gas Attack” – Skinny Puppy “Carmina Burana” – Carl Orff “N.W.O.” – Ministry “Fuck You” – Dean and the Weenies There are so many Midnight Oil songs that fit… I’ll go with [“U.S. Forces”](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/midnight-oil/93265.html)… ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/5 "2003-11-24T12:13:34Z")
> [@](#): > > And of course, the big, bad-ass mother-fucker of revolution songs: > > Won’t Get Fooled Again - The Who Not to nitpick, but isn’t Won’t Get Fooled Again an anti-revolution song? ---
**Author:** ![DaPearl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@DaPearl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaPearl)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/6 "2003-11-24T12:50:33Z")
Technically yes, but still, how many other songs can get people pumped up like _Won’t Get Fooled Again_? ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/7 "2003-11-24T13:38:51Z")
Working Class Hero - either the original John Lennon version or Marianne Faithfull’s remake ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/8 "2003-11-24T13:52:30Z")
The Who pumps people up to buy a Humvee nowadays. Hardly the soundtrack for bloody revolution. How about: “Police Truck”, Dead Kennedys “F— the Police”, Public Enemy “Cop Killer”, Ice-T “Pigs”, Cypress Hill ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/9 "2003-11-24T16:00:52Z")
The _Internationale_. And not Billy Bragg’s version, either. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/10 "2003-11-24T16:02:10Z")
it is NOT here. 😃 But wasn’t there a good song by Jefferson Airplane? ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/11 "2003-11-24T16:26:14Z")
Dead Kennedy’s “Kill the Poor” and/or “California Uber Alles”–surprisingly relevant even today. And no mix tape for the revolution would be complete without some MC5. “Kick out the jams, motherfucker!” The MC5 played on the street during the protests surrounding the 1968 Democratic convention. Talk about your revolutionary bona fides! ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/12 "2003-11-24T20:11:50Z")
Will the revolution be televised? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/13 "2003-11-24T20:34:10Z")
Ask [Gil Scott-Heron](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDCASS80311061539251112&sql=Br7ke4j571wa4), **Ilsa** **Volunteers** – Jefferson Airplane ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/14 "2003-11-24T21:33:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Smapti \* > \*\*Not to nitpick, but isn’t Won’t Get Fooled Again an anti-revolution song? \*\* Maybe it can be on the soundtrack for a militant-apathist revolution? I’d be up for that, but then, why bother? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![burntsand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@burntsand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burntsand)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/15 "2003-11-25T01:50:01Z")
White Riot - the Clash Blues for Ceaucescu (The Only Solution mix) - the Fatima Mansions To Hell With Poverty - Gang of Four ---
**Author:** ![WonTon\_Sean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WonTon\_Sean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WonTon_Sean)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/16 "2003-11-25T03:00:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ranchoth \* > “Beds are Burning”—Midnight Oil I heartily second that one. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/17 "2003-11-25T04:29:51Z")
“We Can Be Together” by Jefferson Airplane. “Revolution 9” by the Beatles. Might be too abstract, though… “Plastic People” by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, which was meant as a critique of American society but was adopted by Czechoslovakian revolutionaries as their anthem against the USSR. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-the-revolution/214986/18 "2003-11-25T04:42:46Z")
Let me suggest: “Get Up, Stand Up” by Bob Marley; “Fight the Power” by Public Enemy; “Maggie’s Farm” by Bob Dylan.