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Wha? Musicians always have and always will have a message. The best music ever came as part of a message. Hell many people today listen to some of the greatest songs of the Vietnam era, not realizing the meaning behind them.
Darryl Whorley - Have You Forgotten
CCR - Fortunate Son, Run through the jungles, Long as I can see the light, Someday never comes, Who'll stop the rain
Jimi Hendrix - American Woman
Soul Asylum - Runaway train (It's a Message song, I think it still qualifies.)
Dixie Chicks - Travelling Soldier
Toby Keith - Angry American
Chicago - It better end soon
Neil Young - Ohio
Graham Nash (Crosby Stills & Nash) - Oh Camil!
Jefferson Airplane - Rejoyce
Bob Dylan - Blowing in the wind, The times they are a changin', masters of war, Rainy day women, With God on our side
REM - It's the end of the world as we know it
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
John Lennon - Imagine
Allman Brothers - Morning Dew
Rolling Stones - Street fighting man
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Black Eyed Peas - Where is the love?
The Clash- Rock the Casbah
Other artists who have been big into protest songs: Pink Floyd, Sting, Elvis Costello, Faith No More, Bad Religon, Jello Biafra, Ani Difranco, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, James Brown, Dead Kennedys, Arlo Guthrie, Iron Maiden, Cat Stephens, Live, Bob Marley, Curtis Mayfield, Randy Newman, Rage Against The Machine.
This is nowhere NEAR a comprehensive list. This is just what I can muster off the top of my head
You want to take the politics out of music? You just lost some of the greatest songs ever written.
Anyone here want to wipe out this list of music?
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