Protest Music of the Bush Era

“During the Vietnam War, every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.” - Kurt Vonnegut

i don't think there's ever been a faggier abortion of a 'punk' band than green day

Losers.

I have like a weakness for protest music, my brain is only satisfied by a song protesting some injustice. This video is great, I know ur not on here anymore but man is this video just a great thing (also I’m a huge sinead fan so it’s hard not to like a protest song video)

My favorite anti George bush song is “dead cowboy” by lightning bolt. The message is staunchly early 2000’s and the music is insane

DIRTY HARRY

Dixie Chicks were eviscerated for no reason

No mention of gospel, r&b and hip hop anti govt songs?

”WE WON’T GET FOOLED AGAYYNNNN”

Counting bodies like sheep is a remix of an earlier song pet on the thirteenth step album. The original is far more subtle since Maynard is singing with a soothing tone for most of the song while talking about censorship

You can NOFXs The War on errorism. They had a whole album about bush

Ah yes pop singers tightly controlled by the record industry not speaking up on a controversial subject, who would have thought

There is no alternative

"Protest Music" 😂
Green Day sucks a**.

The issue with art is it is designed to impact the public with it’s message, and the public doesn’t control foreign policy.

Uhh I skipped around, and seen you mentioned, and joked, about rock against bush, but NOFX had an absolute banger of an album the year before, called "the war on errorism." And they aren't a clown capitalist band, just dress like clowns once in a while. But I dunno, maybe you just never heard of them, either way Don't call me white.

It's hilarious how petty and cringe the "anti-Iraq" era was compared to every other REAL war protest era. Just lazy with no substance for like 99% of the songs, you never ever really got a grip of what they were AGAINST per se in their songs, just.. we're there, some ppl might be dying and... that's about it, just sophomoric rage with little substance.

The greenday take is just.... like "I hope you have the time of your life" is a sarcastic line about his girlfriend who dumped him but the majority of their other songs have political messages. This just ruined the video.

why did i watchh this. didnt feel like you actually said anything of substance about the actual music just pointed out surface level information we all knew

Somebody had to pay for 9\11 and Saddam WAS a bad guy. Also those protesting were really hypocrites. Why did they care? I am a veteran and nobody was drafted. We were professionals and it was our job. We did what we were paid to do. People talking about morality are naive. Or lying.

Yeah because Warning and other songs before 2004 by Green Day weren’t angry at authority or anything

Yeah I’m just gonna blacklist your channel lol idk what music you like but it’s got to be boring.

fuck you for the pearl jam dissing

I would love to hear this kinda music made today about the defense contractors making money off our tax dollars in order to kill people.

Lamb of God's Ashes of the Wake was a pretty good protest album

“Hands Held High” by Linkin Park.

Michael Moore was not booed by the actors at the Oscars. He has spoken about this. He says he was booed by a few people who were sitting in the back of the theatre. He said they were wealthy people.

Just completely writing off SOAD, easily one of the most prominent, coherent and outspoken anti-war voices in American popular music at that time and one of the only ones to have any personal connection to the middle east, because the drummer later became a Trump supporter really undercuts the credibility of this video. They released a whole protest album against U.S. imperialism one week before 9/11 that was very successful and widely-played, and is still viewed by many critics as a classic!

System of a down? Steal this album, also while it is green day, they're punks no?

Pigs came from America to Iraq for oil and were easily deceived by Bush

Pigs came from America to Iraq for oil and were easily deceived by Bush

It's very amusing that I immediately thought about Todd during your intro before he appeared

Sidenote: Bu$hleaguer is a great song and not sure how you don't understand the 'genx caterwauling' lol

This became one of my new favorite channels so quickly

I get this is all top 40 stuff, but the whole video, I'm just thinking of the tada of Will Smith meme, and he's pointing at the band Anti-Flag.

The very idea they would impeach a president for lying a country into war is silly. If Bush had made a phone call then he would have been impeached.

Some "Afghan Era" songs have a huge meaning, some are just


The fuck

how recording industry cashed in on resistive sentiment, while picking the safest choice to ensure they don't offend anyone and it's inconsequential.

This chick doesn’t get rap music

Give peace a chance must be the stupidiest shit ever said

great video but no mention of Rage against the machine?

So no....... Megalomaniac by Incubus? This really misses the mark....

Enjoy the ad revenue.

Ill never not love how un subtle the 9/11 imagery was basically throughout the whole i brought you my bullets mcr era

YT without Lindsay still feels SO wrong

WE'LL PUT A BOOT IN YER ASS!!! lol I laughed when Hasan recently compared Toby's "opus" to Jason Aldean's "Try That in a Small Town"

I would love to watch a video just on Woody Guthrie and roots of folk and country stemming from class warfare.

unfortunately theres a song called "better days" (I actually enjoyed during lockdowns) but in the context of the pandemic, I think serves the same function of john mayers "waiting on the worldto change"

i miss lindsay :(

I feel like we're leaving out the part where Vietnam protest music was young people who didn't want to go to war and Iraq war promotion music was those same people, old now, who wanted (someone else) to go to war.

There was quite a bit of protest music that wasn’t mainstream. Le Tigre comes to mind specifically. Their music, while not all protest music, did hit on political points and they were never apathetic

What about rap?