- #11
- Posted: 09/18/2011 04:54
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| Bork wrote: | Steve Earle keeps churning them out. I guess he's not generally considered mainstream though.
I don't think there ever really was room for protest songs on main mainstream. A handful slipped through over the years, but not so much because they were protest songs as that they were the latest single by an artist big enough to get to do what they feel like (Dylan and Lennon come to mind here). The Iraq/Al Qaida protests got to the charts and airplay for a while because it was a hot topic and anyone who wanted to exploit that got to sell a bunch riding on the wave, but in general the protest song has always been a bit of a fringe phenomenon. |
Well, all I know is a LOT of great songs were made because of the "police action" in NAM
And also songs like CSN&Y's song Ohio written by Neil Young about how protesters were being treated (killed) by our own national guard troops.
Thank God Neil wrote that song because, like most of the U.S. government's wrongs, it would have been swept under the rug and quickly forgotten.
IMO protest songs can be powerful and are needed today more than ever
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