[lbo-talk] where have all the antiwar songs gone?

Shane Taylor shane.taylor at verizon.net
Sun Mar 30 12:38:03 PDT 2008


Michael Pollak wrote:


> There were great political songs in
> early 80s -- by the Clash, the Gang
> of Four, Public Enemy -- that
> everybody knew and recognized and
> that most of us can still sing along
> with today. They just weren't crowd
> sing-along songs. Basically folk's
> the only music you can do that with.
> So when folk stopped being popular
> there were no new songs like that.

Agreed, but where did people first hear those songs in the 1980s? On the radio?

Shane



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