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

yeah cant imagine dylan doing 2 years in a russian prison

There is still a pretty decent punk scene out there. (or was before the pandemic)Human Project, Random Hand, SB6, Crazy Arm- all inherently political. Solo artists- Babar Luck, Chris TT, Prolefeed, Carol Hodge.

personal fave on my rotation at the minute would be ‘the hunstman comes a marching’ chris tt. Check it out!

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?!

You've got a lot to choose from in metal.
Check out some of the following:
Body Count: Black Hoodie
Body Count: No Lives Matter
Lamb of God: Poison Dream
Lamb of God: Now you've got something to die for
Dead Label: Dystopian Complex
Lock Horns: Blood and Oil
Gojira: Silvera
And I know this is basically a pisstake, but Dethklok Detharmonic in on point.

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"

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

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.

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

Future of The Left. Still going. Still moaning about shit 😃

I agree the power of the music to inform and protest is lost, but straight 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!

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!

He’s still about

Insight foresight, the clock on the wall reads a quarter past midnight..

Literally the instrumental hip hop album of the late 90s in my eyes.

Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (managed to see them in NYC for Rock The Bells 2010 performing the whole album was a dream comes true) and the second best album for me would be Gang Starr - Moment of Truth

In my top 5 Hip Hop LPs for sure. Love that lo-fi, scuzzy sound! 👌🙌

Peace peace

Tribe Called Quest - Low-End Theory

De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising

Roni size - new forms
Massive attack - blue lines

finally someone said Blue Lines. It's odd because in a lot of ways musically I don't rate it highly, it's kind of clumsy in parts, some of the ideas are underdeveloped, some of it almost makes me cringe. But there was just something so special about that time and the sound felt so new and yet familiar. Even though their later stuff is "better" Blue Lines has such a permananet special place in my heart.

It’s definitely the whole vibe.

Prodigy - Music For Jilted Generation
Leftfield - Leftism

Could list plenty but these 2 are special 😎🥳🤯👽

Leftism is immense. It's been a while, I'm gonna have to fish it out the old collection.

Got few hours in car tomorrow think I'm gonna blast it myself been a good while

Time well spent. As for The Prodigy, I saw them at Glasto in '95. They were flying high off the back of Music for the Jilted Generation. I vividly remember Keith (RIP) rolling onto the stage in a giant hamster ball. They were awesome. So much energy.

I last saw them around 2008 at Manchester arena invaders must die tour. Awesome gig. 😛

dark side by pink floyd and blonde by frank ocean. i absolutely rinse both year after year :)

Full albums I've actually listened to over and over are "The Wall" & "Graceland"

Really love listening to Graceland on a fresh sativa high)

Graceland brings back memories of my mum blasting that album most days when I was a kid

That's how I first heard it too when my mums friend got them the album back in the early 80s)

Tom Waits "Blue Valentine", Ry Cooder "Bop Till You Drop" - honourable mention to Joni Mitchell "Blue", Janis Joplin "Pearl", David Crosby "If I Could Only Remember My Name", and a gazillion others...

Some really nice choices there but I'm afraid that I can't see past Raindogs.
Cheers G

Fantastic LP.

The best Waits' in a catalogue where the bar is astonishingly high.

Bone Machine 🤣

I know I’m cheating but I got
Outkast- Aquemini (and stankonia)
Fugees - The Score
Jay Z - The Blueprint
Kanye - MBDTF
Nas- Illmatic

Some absolute works of art here.

ok computer

Nirvana - Unplugged in New York

Nas and Damien Marley - Distant Relatives

Damien Marley first album 🔥

Soundgarden - Superunknown
Beastie Boys - ill Communication

I’m a grump about Ill Communication. It has some great tracks on it. But the jazz filler does nothing for me.

What's going on- Marvin Gaye..almost goes as a mix album the way the songs blend into one another. So relevant to today too.

Another I've played to death over the years is Joni Mitchell- Blue. Just a sublimely chilled album.
Many more, but these two I think I have probably played the most in my lifetime so far

The doors,LA woman
The complete stone roses
And many many more.

Future sound of London - Lifeforms
Funkadelic - Maggot brain

Aphex Twin - Ambient Works 85-92

DJ Shadow - The Private Press

Soundtracks to a digital existence

#OneLife #WhoAreYou 💯❤️

If you don’t know…wake up! 💯❤️

i didn't know bjork was originally an anime character

Since my favourite 2 have already been picked by loads of people, I'll go for...
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Portishead - Dummy

System of a down - toxicity

The Streets - Original pirate material

Great shout. Loved Original Pirate Material when it came out.

1. Aphex Twin - selected ambient works
2. TLC - Crazy, sexy, cool

Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Massive Attack- Blue Lines

Ohhh tough probably Floyd dark side of the moon and the doors soft parade

+1 for dark side of the moon, and wish you were here.

Dark Side of the Moon has got to be my first pick. Millionaires by James is great when you've got some sativa running through your system.

The b-side of the sit down single is Live at the Manchester Gmex. On headphones is still the best crowd singing of a song to date.

The Baby Huey story The living legend and Radiohead The bends.

The Bends is one of the finest albums ever made in my opinion.

My favourite of theirs.

Great great album

Baby Huey good shout crate diggers classic love it

Easy Star All Stars - Dub Side of the Moon.
L'Entourloop - Chickens In Your Town.

Never heard Dub Side of the Moon until today- bloody great👍- so big thanks for the heads up!!!

Its bloody awesome 👌

Once discovered, it's a beautiful thing. Enjoy!

Dub Side is great, but the Radiodread is awful!

I completely agree. They massacred it.

Wow!!!! Just WOW!
Dubside of the moon 🌙
Amazing..... how this has escaped me is beyond me 🤷‍♂️ I love darkside that much I have the prism tattood on my chest

Kaleo - A/B
Audioslave - audioslave
Dre - 2001
Linden park - meteora

Yes Dre 2001 epic at the time

I can safely say that Appetite for Destruction is the album I've listened to the most. Carousel by Subcircus has had well over 20 years love from me as well

2 is incredibly difficult, and I can't be the only one with eclectic tastes and a butterfly mind where these will all change regularly anyway. So I'll go with:

Ash - 1977

and

Kent - Hagnesta Hill (available in English and Swedish, so surely I get to choose both?)

The jam All mod cons
Nwa straight outta compton

Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Bowie - Low

Both as fresh today as ever

"The Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd: Released in 1973, this album is considered a masterpiece and one of the greatest progressive rock albums of all time. It features a conceptually unified theme and explores various philosophical and existential topics. Tracks like "Money," "Time," and "Us and Them" are widely loved.

"Thriller" by Michael Jackson: Released in 1982, "Thriller" is the best-selling album of all time and a cultural phenomenon. It revolutionized pop music, blending various genres and delivering iconic hits such as "Billie Jean," "Beat It," and the title track "Thriller."

1st. Chase & Status - More than a lot (2008)
2nd. Nipsey Hussle - Victory Lap (2018)

Muse - Absolution( regardless if you like the band the story of the end of the world from start to end is amazing!)

Nirvana - Unplugged in New York

Dark Side of the Moon, best album ever, bar none. 50 years old this year, same as me!
950 weeks on Billboard 200 chart! 750 of them consecutive!!
Lee 'Scratch" Perry - Open the Gate. Sadly deleted and expensive to buy, but can be downloaded online. 2 CDs of heavyweight 12". Jimmy Cliff got me listening to reggae, this album burnt it into my soul.

Up Cornwall Emmets out!! ;)

Lol, Emmet ground zero here! Happy campers can feck orf!

This is tough but going on repeats alone I reckon these pip it,

Riding with the king - Clapton and BB King
We're new here - Jamie xx and Gil Scott-Heron

Rust in peace by Megadeth and Obzen by Meshuggah.

I second Rust in Peace, esp. Hangar 18 & Lucretia - Marty Friedman's finest hour

I absolutely love tornado of souls. One of the greatest guitar solos of all time

So glad someone has shouted out Jamie xx, amazingly talented music producer the first album with him and his sister The Xx I can’t even guess how many times I’ve listened to it, song 1 known as intro is a work of art. I’m gutted they or he have released so little but sadly he probably earns more producing for other artists who are more mainstream?
Not heard of your other suggestions but will check them out based on your clearly good taste !

There are loads of full albums I’ll listen to…naming just two, well the two most recent ones that spring to mind for me Acid Bath-when the kite string pops and Oasis - definitely maybe not a bad track on either one.

I think 2001 is the last time I listened to an album :)

My picks:
The Velvet Underground & Nico - just a classic album. Spaceman 3 "The Perfect Prescription" with an honorable mention for Ode to Street Hassle

Quality

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
The Roots - Undun

Rumours…Fleetwood Mac
Transformer….Lou Reed

Script of the Bridge by The Chameleons. Some friends told me they would bury the album with me, I'd go to sleep listening to it.
Scary Monsters by Bowie, time of life thing for me 'Teenage Wildlife'.

Second skin from Script of the Bridge is a monumental track.

Mrdeeds36, yes it is, blinding track, good to hear from another fan. 'Up the down escalator' is my anthem for a crazy world today.

Light up, smile and wave.

"They sit at their tables and throw us the scraps
For Christ's sake leave us something!
Now they can erase you at the flick of a switch
How long now will it take now?
There must be something wrong boys"

I adore this period of post punk before brit pop came along and fudged it. IMO lol

Swamp Thing from Strange Times is another brilliant song.

You nailed it with the lyric mate.
They were a good band live, too.

I agree with you.

'The storm comes, or is it just another shower'

Hi Mate, Got 'Script of the bridge' playing again this weekend. The album seems more poignant than ever.
Light up and have a good weekend.