Happy Election Day fellow Americans! To celebrate here are ten fantastic songs with more or less political messages (some more overt than others):
1. What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye
2. Girl America - Mat Kearney
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
4. War Pigs - Black Sabbath
5. Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine
6. What It's Like - Everlast
7. Another Bag of Bones - Kevin Devine
8. Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
9. I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After
10. Blowin in the Wind' - Bob Dylan
Once you open this category up, you can find a ton of political songs; there's songs about history, society, economics, war... all political. Here's 50 more: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/386276/the_50_greatest_political_protest_songs.html?cat=33, but I'm sure there's many others. What are your favorite political songs?
*Liberty Leading the People (1830) by Eugene Delacroix was used for the cover art of Coldplay's latest album Viva la Vida (the title "Viva la Vida" is actually taken from a Frida Kahlo painting of watermelons)
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Another one that comes to mind is "When the President Talks to God" by Bright Eyes.
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