one of the greatest protest artists in history in on lb's pages

yeah cant imagine dylan doing 2 years in a russian prison

IDLES are pretty spot on politically and that shows in their lyrics! ‘The only way to scare a Tory is to read and get rich’.

Idles are the Radiohead of post punk and I love them

Will lookup on tidal later?

Don't want to start a war between them but... Dave > Stormzy :P

edit - don't know whats going on with lb but this post went wacky, anyway jokes aside Dave actually deserves a little shout in this. The live performance of Black was really invoking and things like Question Time and Children of the Internet will appeal to any stoned thinker haha :) - at least the UK scene isn't just kids dying on cough medicine after one youtube hit, wtf happened to America?!

Bob Vylan are a great UK act not getting enough attention

https://youtu.be/ckf5Awk4fuU?si=2goqti20l5Wl2mEc

This has one of the greatest lyrics lines of any song ever written imo

"No liberal lefty cunt
Is gonna tell me punching Nazis ain't the way"

I'd say for this definitely Run The Jewels. Akala is still about as well. Immortal technique is meant to be releasing a new album soon. I don't think we will see the likes of a band like RATM again for sometime

Left a RATM gig with cracked rib from the most hectic mosh pit I’ve ever known, mega fun. Second best mosh was the Pogues in 88.

I saw someone with there arm twisted the wrong way being carried out of a RATM set. Reading 96' I believe. Great set, terrifying moshpit.. Did it anyway though. Fun times.

Cant believe nobody's mentioned Sleaford Mods

I’m quite liking these ‘Kneecap’ fellas! I like the cut of their jib!

Some "friends" of mine, sadly not currently performing together.

I agree the power of the music to inform and protest is lost, but straight out of the gate, you have macklemore Hinds Hall (this came out of nowhere!). Whatever your position on the conflict (or the tune) it sums up what the issue is. Bands are commodities and businesses know they can be used to influence, so they invest heavily. And if you don't tow the line then your out!

Toomaj Salehi is facing a death sentence for telling truths about the country he loves

he was released from prison in 2024

Money speaks louder than protest ;-)

Jesse Welles , not sure if it's protest music,but worth a gander.

Mudrat, Bob Vylan, Seb Lowe

Skinner brothers, ren

I forgot Public Enemy are still going strong.
I think they cornered the market in the American black protest field fighting fire with fire to show the other side of the American nightmare.

Tom MacDonald

Protest the Hero + Show Me the Body are two bands that spring to mind. These are certainly not protest artists sonically, as they are both heavier guitar bands, but are both aggressively anti-establishment, discussing topics you won’t hear other artists sing about.

What ever happened to Billy Bragg?

Anyone remember chumba wumba, great live band.

Unfortunately he grew up and joined new labour.
Saw him live at least dozen times, used to do loads of small gigs and protests. I was in socialist workers party and he was doing loads of fundraisers for the miners.

Today's protest singers? Taking shit on social media.at a guess.

it's tiktok's finest hour

Name calling,ie liberal, woke, lefty, there’s a trend to criticise caring views.

Just as much intolerance on the left as on the right. We live in a shallow social media driven world. In which we all eat consume far too much whilst slowly killing ourselves and the planet. Facebook, mcdonald's,nike etc. It's a shallow,plastic world and that's not a suitable environment for growing protest singers.

Sort of agree, unfortunately the mass media (particularly print media) are owned run by right wing, ie Sun, times, telegraph etc

The BBC, THe Guardian Newspaper, Channel 4, ITV to name a few left wing media outlets.

And for the BBC to be so biased is a disgrace just look at the stats over 14% LBGTQ within there workforce as opposed to 0.4% in most other organisations massively disproportionate.

Also the mainstream media seems to love to demonise the working classes.

The white indegoius male is despised by the main stream media especially the BBC.

All I do know is before all this WOKE nonsense started we had not been at this much level of war activity since the second World War and now look at all this mess.

Weak leftist policies have risked our safety and security to the point where I worry about my relatives safety in the UK and have also made us a target from forces that want to destroy us.

You need only look at who was the London mayor best mate at UNi for example ? None other than the leader of Albasha terror GROUP. and if that does not worry you to realise that if all this wokey business continues there won't be no western songs ti sing no more because they will be banned.

I remember the cold War, I remember living in the troubles and feeling and hearing the sounds of cemtex around me and going through the checkpoints. I talk from experience and no the real dangers that all this liberal far left nonsense brings as I have lived and breathed this shit before.

"The perceived partiality of the BBC comes from both sides of the political spectrum. Of the people in the YouGov survey who identified as supporting the Conservatives, 15% thought the BBC is generally a little more favourable towards the left and 23% thought they were much more favourable. Conversely, 26% of those who identified as supporting Labour thought the BBC is generally a little more favourable to the right and 20% thought they were much more favourable."

https://www.politics.co.uk/reference/bbc-bias/

Oh look your are wrong in the very first statement

Hilariously you are a excellent example of media manipulation imo

Billy Bragg is still going strong and sticking it to the suits and mega rich.

I blame the growing influence of the network - attentions turning inwards as the younger generation start living in the fantasy of the online world. I showed my teenage step daughter the matrix the other day thinking she'd love it - her response "why would anyone choose not to stay in the matrix"!

Oh, no. Humanity has reached that place. We are all fucked then.

its a perfect substrate for protest. people have the means and motive.

that's why there is tons of it in rap, singing is as dead as springsteen.

You said substrate! A thumbs up purely for that mushroom related word!

Anything by Elton John fucking hate the cunt and his music, my wife ruined my Xmas day few years back by telling me a gay singer i didnt like had died.
I was so exited then she told me it was George Michael and i was gutted.

Nearly choked when i read this, im a terrible person lol

and i feel better about myself, you know plotting his murder and all. george michael on the other hand was a genius and worth a quickie in the facility of his choosing

Hahahaha

Hahahaha, I actually like Elton, well as much as a straight man can but that made me laugh man.

Your terrible mate im rofl

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Fairground simply red, gives me violent thoughts of grabbing mick by his flowing red curls and bouncing his head of every hard surface available. Total pissflap

i went straight to the curls when you said simply red

Yeah anything by Simply Red can give me Forrest Whittaker eye but Fairground is especially bad

Listen too long and you get Evander Holyfield ear.

😆Evand-Ear!

If i listened for too long i'd be praying for Iron Mike to turn up 😬👂🏻

stop, you're making me hungry

God save the queen.

Two things that influence our lives so much but aren’t real

we mean it man

Come on Eileen, it is the worst thing ever created. Can’t stand the guys voice.

And imagine being called Eileen when it came on down the pub back in the day…. Poor cow needed 3 packs of baby wipes.

oh were gonna cum on eileen alright

oh come on

Too many but Will Smith - Wild Wild West has got to be up there surely. It’s like some record execs put a gun to his head and said ‘Dance bitch!’

Do you think they did it again to willow ? I whip my hair even for a 13 year old was fucking awful

that movie had so much going for it and they still blew it, would make a better series than a lot of shit

Nothing Compares to You by Sinead Depressing Cunt O'Connor that song has the warmth and charm of a dead Rat lying next to a used Tampon.

i dont mean to get personal but why did you need the rat if you had a tampon?

this is hilarious :)))))))

Isn't it just.... I'm reading this thread howling. Great start to day

That Barbie girl tune, need I say why! Lol
And the “grandma I love you” tune, showing my age! Lol

but barbie girl got me through a tough breakup

Here's why I disagree with this wholeheartedly.

Ok you win… The grandma I love you song was fucking horrendous, then they felt the need to create the sequel… Grandpa I love you… I mean we got the message the first time.

written and produced by herbie flowers, one of the greatest session musicians of the late 60's and 70's (google him - he's was an amazing musician and played bass on many of the greatest recordings of the era from lou reed, scott walker, david bowie, t rex, bryan ferry, many more) who was sick of getting paid session rates and living in a two bed semi in ditchling while everyone who employed him got super rich so came up with the st. winifred's school choir records as a retirement plan, possibly also as revenge against a cruel, unjust and uncaring world/record buying public and maybe a bet with lou reed that he could make something even worse than metal machine music and still get it to number one.

you are right though, they are truly the worst songs ever recorded.

surely anything by Celine Dion or the like

Woah slow up man, she taught me that my heart will go on, you can’t buy that wisdom bro.

Lol. She is a liar too, when that Leo chap drowned in the ice, his heart certainly didn’t go on….

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Touché lol

Justin Beaver song with the trumpet. Just Fuck right off with that shit

thats not a trumpet thats his ass whinging

Remember when the greatest rapper alive went mad?

i actually like that track the beat is tight

Take That's cover of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' is all kinds of horrible :)

OMG!!!!!

take that and shove it up your ass

Babycakes - 3 of a kind.... ? It's a horrible ear worm haha

Ob-la-fuckin-di, ob-la-fuckin-da

Or Octopuses Garden. Stick to yer shit drummin', Ringo.

Watch this with your sound on, and I think you will agree no further explanation is required.

Scarred me for life this one

Bruno Mars.

"When I see your face
There's not a thing that I would change
'Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are"

My question is - how many faces did he previously change to suit his needs. He's amazed he found someone who's face doesn't need rearranging. This man is a psycho folks.

Peter Andre, Mysterious Girl.

Keane - Bedshaped.

Stupid, depressing lyrics that make no sense at all.

Bedshaped? That'll be a bed then...


I hate it because it reminds me of the two weeks I spent crawling around a 20 inch deep subfloor void for 8 hours a day, doing timber treatments on a huge old house.
That shit was on the radio every 20 mins for the whole time we were there.


Scarred me 🙉

Steppin' Out by Joe Jackson. Ain't rock, ain't disco, can't dance to it without looking like Steve Martin doing a retarded dance.

Bohemian rhapsody.
I’d be happy to never listen to that again.

Also majority of her songs. She did a cover of September by earth wind and fire that haunts me... She turned funk into folk what the actual fuck.

thats a frightening thought so i had to check it out.

even worse than i imagined

D'yer Maker by those Blood and Fire Roots Reggae Heroes Led Zep.
Why? Because it's 'kin awful

all the weed on lb couldnt get me through this

hahaha.. funny to see Zeppelin here because it did occur to me too . Seems like everybody has to adore their music :P

Not often you hear Zeppelin and fuckin awful.

Boy George song called 'I'll tumble for you'. Worst song and artist ever.

do you really want to hurt me

I forgot all about this,Hey plenty of Zepp stuff is fine but that song really gets my goat the first time i heard it i never knew who it was my missus had been putting cd's in the laptop and they kept getting synched to my ipod it came on random one day and i just went wtf is this shit before looking who it was, it sounds to me like a holiday camp band doing reggae.

Sometimes they stole good shit....Sometimes they stole fucking awful shit.

All musicians steal mate and say they were inspired. A lot of that era were the same. Keith Richards does it. Don’t think that takes away from them as musicians.

Yeah I know, I was just trying to be funny. They're still my favourite band from that era.

Cool, mine too. Sometimes I feel like the great Alan in your photo speaking to younger people. AHA. I was sick with laughter when he got hit with a cow. Steve coogans characters are genius. All the way back to the calf family

Best Zeppelin

as a punk i was always compelled to hate led zep, it was a mistake, i still hate most classic rock still (with merit now) but these guys were really in a class by themselves.

Its not theft.... its "inspiration"
😘

zep had range

I’m too nice to downvote as maybe that’s how you feel but seriously? The band who gave us in my time of dying can never be fuckin awful.

Led Zep - Best covers band ever!

whats the story on this?

What's so annoying is that it's high in the UK charts atm

Anything by ladbaby,pair of tossers

any yeat song

.... you guys forgot ..... Black lace .... no explination needed also the birdy song.

Perfect by Fairground Attraction

Because nothing ever is…😉

Lil Wayne Lollipop

Now it wont leave my head

Anything by/from:
Enya
Engelbert Humperdinck
The "Top 20"
Eurovision
Status Quo
Enya
Enya
--- all should be banned as Weapons of Mass Destruction of the ear'oles

Las Ketchup

Driving my girls in my car when they were younger they always put the radio on. I'm fine with that but I had to insist on three strict rules. 1. No Phil Collins; 2. No UB40; and 3. No Starship "We Built This Fucking City". I consider myself a pretty mellow guy but if the station wasn't changed when any of them came on I could change into a raging beast.

moves like. jagger

Sweet Caroline... It's everywhere... I wish it would fuck off 😂 it irritates me

Anything by James blunt ..that man's tone of voice makes me want to murder kittens !!

Or anything by them

Friday by Rebecca Black

Red Dead 2- massive map and Amazing score

Thank you, I think I might get this one it does look very good

Brilliant game, prepare for a long download too if you haven’t already... graphics are beautiful but the player control system is slightly annoying, it feels very heavy. Never the less i love the way you can ‘greet’ and ‘antagonise’ npc’s🤣...

Try ‘greet’, ‘greet’, ‘antagonise’, I’ve had many of laughs from it.

-It’sWeed

Good game