I feel like there are lots of parallels between the eighties and now (recession/inflation, yuppies/inequality, skin-heads/fascists, hot-cold wars etc.) but there used to be protest music! Where is that stuff now? Music that’s intelligent and outraged - like we should be!
I’m out of touch now, so if it exists, educate me! Or have the protest songs been removed from tiktok by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act (UK specific, but suppression of protest seems to be everywhere)? (I’ve linked to the Levellers - maybe it really was better back in the day?)
Pokemon Liberation Army https://pokemonliberationarmy.bandcamp.com/album/tm101
Billy Talent
Distillers
Bad Cop, Bad Cop
So many more but I gotta dip
Sharptooth
The Baboon Show
The Halluci Nation - (Pretty cool Hip Hop group)