i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.
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i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.
(in other words, while the Wobblies are commendable, their hymns are not what I'm seeking right now.)
any recs?
(looking at you, the part of the fediverse with vinyl collections you haven't talked about in a while. now is your time to shine.)@DeliaChristina Well, Rage Against the Machine comes to mind. So does Public Enemy. And, a lot of Bruce Springsteen’s catalog fits the bill, too.
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i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.
(in other words, while the Wobblies are commendable, their hymns are not what I'm seeking right now.)
any recs?
(looking at you, the part of the fediverse with vinyl collections you haven't talked about in a while. now is your time to shine.)Anything by Tom Morello's solo act "The Night Watchman" is pretty good for this.
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@DeliaChristina How recent are you looking for? (This is a rhetorical question, I only have the one suggestion) Chumbawamba is from the 90s but a lot of their music is very anti-authoritarian, like "The Day the Nazi Died" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSqUBwlHld4
@DeliaChristina (another song is Enough is Enough) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0Rf-N_FVE
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@DeliaChristina How recent are you looking for? (This is a rhetorical question, I only have the one suggestion) Chumbawamba is from the 90s but a lot of their music is very anti-authoritarian, like "The Day the Nazi Died" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSqUBwlHld4
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i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.
(in other words, while the Wobblies are commendable, their hymns are not what I'm seeking right now.)
any recs?
(looking at you, the part of the fediverse with vinyl collections you haven't talked about in a while. now is your time to shine.)@DeliaChristina some favorites from the last decade or two: Billy Bragg, Midnight Oil, Trotsky Icepick, Emmett Doyle, and the Dropkick Murphys.
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i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.
(in other words, while the Wobblies are commendable, their hymns are not what I'm seeking right now.)
any recs?
(looking at you, the part of the fediverse with vinyl collections you haven't talked about in a while. now is your time to shine.)@DeliaChristina I’ce been jammin to this one a lot lately
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i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.
(in other words, while the Wobblies are commendable, their hymns are not what I'm seeking right now.)
any recs?
(looking at you, the part of the fediverse with vinyl collections you haven't talked about in a while. now is your time to shine.) -
i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.
(in other words, while the Wobblies are commendable, their hymns are not what I'm seeking right now.)
any recs?
(looking at you, the part of the fediverse with vinyl collections you haven't talked about in a while. now is your time to shine.)@DeliaChristina Ska-P from Spain have been at it for almost 30 years. In many concerts they invite onto the stage the striking labor union of some cause near the venue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7CgUgX3hZU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska-P -
i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.
(in other words, while the Wobblies are commendable, their hymns are not what I'm seeking right now.)
any recs?
(looking at you, the part of the fediverse with vinyl collections you haven't talked about in a while. now is your time to shine.) -
i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.
(in other words, while the Wobblies are commendable, their hymns are not what I'm seeking right now.)
any recs?
(looking at you, the part of the fediverse with vinyl collections you haven't talked about in a while. now is your time to shine.)@DeliaChristina Most of Woody Guthrie are classics of this genre, for an excellent cover Dolly Parton sang his "Deportee" amazingly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDfqXkYWzZM
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i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.
(in other words, while the Wobblies are commendable, their hymns are not what I'm seeking right now.)
any recs?
(looking at you, the part of the fediverse with vinyl collections you haven't talked about in a while. now is your time to shine.)This particular Nocturnal Emissions album:
https://www.discogs.com/master/26626-Nocturnal-Emissions-Songs-Of-Love-And-RevolutionWhich is unlike most of their other albums.
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i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.
(in other words, while the Wobblies are commendable, their hymns are not what I'm seeking right now.)
any recs?
(looking at you, the part of the fediverse with vinyl collections you haven't talked about in a while. now is your time to shine.)@DeliaChristina The Street Dogs - Modern Day Labor Anthem
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i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.
(in other words, while the Wobblies are commendable, their hymns are not what I'm seeking right now.)
any recs?
(looking at you, the part of the fediverse with vinyl collections you haven't talked about in a while. now is your time to shine.)@DeliaChristina
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@minmi @DeliaChristina Jesse Wells is fabulous! https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCmb7zAvq9IxHi_UnP93AVSQ
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i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.
(in other words, while the Wobblies are commendable, their hymns are not what I'm seeking right now.)
any recs?
(looking at you, the part of the fediverse with vinyl collections you haven't talked about in a while. now is your time to shine.)@DeliaChristina Capital by Amyl and the Sniffers fits that bill
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@minmi @DeliaChristina Jesse Wells is fabulous! https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCmb7zAvq9IxHi_UnP93AVSQ
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@DeliaChristina emmettdoyle.bandcamp.com/album… Rank And File Officer is a good one for my feels, as is Fuck It All
@silverwizard @DeliaChristina "Hold Fast, Hold the Line" by this same person won the Labor Notes song writing contest last year and is one of my favorites, though it's imitating traditional labor songs so may not be what you're looking for:
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Carsie Blanton?
@anne @DeliaChristina To make this more specific, "The Red Album" (both volumes) are probably worth looking into:
https://carsieblanton.bandcamp.com/album/the-red-album-vol-i
https://carsieblanton.bandcamp.com/album/the-red-album-vol-ii -
i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.
(in other words, while the Wobblies are commendable, their hymns are not what I'm seeking right now.)
any recs?
(looking at you, the part of the fediverse with vinyl collections you haven't talked about in a while. now is your time to shine.)@DeliaChristina @alcinnz do you enjoy propagandhi?
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i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.
(in other words, while the Wobblies are commendable, their hymns are not what I'm seeking right now.)
any recs?
(looking at you, the part of the fediverse with vinyl collections you haven't talked about in a while. now is your time to shine.)@DeliaChristina Countercurrent randomly did a few labor songs on their most recent album that are pretty good ("I Am the Fox" and "Six Workers"):
