Are any new Peace and Protest songs being written anymore?

All we are saying is give peace a chance No, I don’t think there are any new peace and protest songs. It would be hard to improve on the old ones.

Classic.

So much seems to be dead in the world today. I miss (some) things about the 60s; especially my beloved folk music and the passionate beliefs.

The only one that comes to mind is Julie Gold’s song, From a Distance that she wrote in 1985.

I’ve read a number of times that historians believe the ‘60s Black and student protests were the final significant wave of protest in this country.

Maybe we need to reinstitute a draft to generate some protest songs again?

A great recent one by The Black Eyed Peas

I am convinced that All These Things That I’ve Done by The Killers is a war protest song. Mind you I have no research to back up this belief, just a feeling. I mean doesn’t a video with cowboys in a trailer park just scream war protest?

I can think of quite a few. Flobots is pretty much a band comprised of protest like songs.

i really like this one by Nas and Damian Marley not about america though…

Billy Bragg has done some too.

Yep. Check out Emmas Revolution.

I’m a big fan of Michael Franti and Spearhead. “Yell Fire,” “Everyone Deserves Music,” “Time to Go Home” and “Bomb the World” are all good songs.

@janbb GA for Billy Bragg

@lloydbird Great song – I never knew the words.

I cannot really answer your question as to contemporary protest singers….though I know most socially aware artists have done some protest songs on their CD’s.

I had to plug one of my all-time and long gone favorites, though….they don’t make them like this anymore…she was one of the best!

link

Soldier’s Poem by the Muse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMYAATQDOEQ
Rooster by Alice in Chains: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAE6Il6OTcs&feature=av2n
War? by System of a Down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3WSnlP1Ijs
If Everyone Cared by Nickelback: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IUSZyjiYuY&feature=av2e

Nice job jellies. I was getting worried.