(1969)

The song "Tricia, Tell Your Daddy" (Steed Records # 715), performed on this single by Andy Kim in 1969, targeted President Nixon's daughter Tricia. The narrator pleaded with her to spread "love and peace", and stop the "people dying needlessly" because Nixon "is everybody's daddy now". Composed by Jeff Barry & Marty Joe Kupersmith (aka Marty Sanders) of the band Jay and The Americans, who released their own version of the song in 1970: Tricia Tell Your Daddy, arranged by Donald Fagen & Walter Becker, otherwise known as Steely Dan.

Vietnam War Songs Project

[2008]
Lyrics & music by Sean T. Wright
Album: War No More

War No More, released at the end of March 2008, “is a very special album”, Wright said. “It's my first album that carries a strong anti-war motif throughout. It tells a story that switches narrative, from my strong personal views to the wider perspective of my alter-ego Jimmy, who appears in many of my songs. It completes a very traumatic and paradoxically creative year. It culminated with the loss of my father to cancer on the eve of the album's completion, as well as working with the innovative production genius of Mark Tinley (Duran Duran, Adamski, Dandy Warhols)”.

(2017)
feat. Macaco

[1988]
Album: Straight Outta Compton
Songwriter(s): Ice Cube; MC Ren; The D.O.C.

Chicago police scanners hacked by Anonymous to play N.W.A.’s ‘Fuck Tha Police’

In the wake of the death of George Floyd who died on Monday, May 25th due to police brutality, Anonymous has joined up with protests and hacked Chicago police scanners to play N.W.A.’s ‘Fuck Tha Police’.

This past week has seen the Black Lives Matter movement escalate to an entirely new level. Following the death of a 46-year-old man named George Floyd, who died due to asphyxiation from being held to the ground by a police officer placing his knee in the crook of Floyd’s neck, the USA, and many places around the world, have seen pure outrage.

Beyond peaceful protests, there has been rioting, looting, and many people calling for a systematic change, including many musicians using their social platforms to promote justice.

Now,... (continuer)

The lyrics of this song give the song a dramatic type of feel. The lyrics are saying that during the fight to win freedom, the soldiers (fighters) have had struggles and emotional and mental breakdowns but couldn't give up and had to continue to fight. The overall story being told in the song is very drama filled but real experiences and situations that real people had to go through.
-A'Tora Richardson
(From Smithsonian Folkways Recordings )

Music was essential to the African-American struggle for civil rights and equality. "We Are Soldiers in the Army" demonstrates how the Black American traditional song repertoire and older styles of singing were used to inspire and organize the Civil Rights Movement. The singers here remind us that the days of open discrimination and bigotry are not far behind us, and that "it's people's hearts we're trying to change now."

"History will have to record... (continuer)

Fairmont 1969
(c) 2007 Bill Kostelec
Storyteller 2

Memories of the area around where Bill grew up south of Chicago. We must remember the stories, we must make change, and we must have hope.

Memorial Day
(c) 2004 W. A. Kostelec
Railroad Boy

(c) W. A. Kostelec
Working Man 2004

Who Will Break the Chain?
(c) Kathy Kostelec, March 22, 2008

1974
Album: The Force Of Life

Words and Music by Mike Stout
Additional Words by Red Star Singers - 1974

We heard "Vietnam Will Win!" on a tape from New York made by Mike Stout.

We liked it but we wanted to rework parts of it. Gary rewrote some of the words and added a verse and Michael made some changes in the music. All this was done without Mike Stout ever hearing it. When we finally contacted him to let him know we changed the song and wanted to use it be was (fortunately) very pleased.

Et ma poupée ?

Chanson française – Et ma poupée ? – Marco Valdo M.I. – 2020

Quelques histoires albanaises, tirées de nouvelles d’Ismaïl Kadaré, traduites par Christian GUT et publiées en langue française en 1985 sous le titre La Ville du Sud.(7)


Dialogue Maïeutique

Laisse-moi, Lucien l’âne mon ami, d’abord te conter une petite anecdote à propos de nos petits dialogues maïeutiques.

Soit, dit Lucien l’âne.

Donc, reprend Marco Valdo M.I., il y a quelques jours notre ami R.V. dans le commentaire introductif qu’il consacrait à la chanson Asia de Francesco Guccini, dont je compte faire prochainement la version française, et la clôture peut-être provisoire, probablement selon moi, du Chansonnier du Coronavirus – qui, soit dit en passant comporte 140 chansons et je pense même qu’il en manque.

Oh, dit Lucien l’âne, une anecdote ? Pourquoi pas ? C’est toujours distrayant.

Ainsi, dans le commentaire... (continuer)

1974
Album: The Force Of Life
Testo da YouTube

In the '60's a lot of spirituals and rock 'n' roll songs were overhauled to become freedom songs for civil rights demonstrators. “Pig Nixon” comes from “Oh Wallace,” (“you're never gonna jail us all”) which people sang in Alabama. We use “Pig Nixon” as an all-purpose song, writing verses for the occasion, each verse about a current issue.

[1970]
Lyrics & music by Skeeter Davis
Album: It's Hard To Be A Woman

In 1970 Skeeter Davis aimed “When You Gonna Bring Our Soldiers Home” directly at president Nixon. Voicing a woman’s perspective, Skeeter declared, “Every mother has to worry about the son she loves, And every sweetheart has to worry too". Although Nixon did not think she should “protest” or “question” his policies, “I think I’ve got a right 'cause I just got word tonight, The Man I love was killed there yesterday, When you gonna bring our soldiers home?”. The following year, Arlene Harden’s “Congratulations, You Sure Made a Man Out of Him” was equally bitter and provided an even more frontal challenge to the South’s patriotic militarism. Unlike Lynn’s and Davis’ songs, in which the US soldiers had died, the character in this song had returned home profoundly impaired: “I watch him just sit by the window and silently... (continuer)

1996
Città Invisibili

Dallo spettacolo di Nuova Scena "Qui tutto bene e così spero di te - Emigrazione e imperialismo", 1971, di Vittorio Franceschi.
testo trovato su ildeposito.org

1974
Han gridato scioperiamo

Canzone di Francesco "Ciccio" Giuffrida e Pierangelo Bertoli
Poi Pierangelo Bertoli riutilizzerà questa canzone per la ben più famosa Eppure soffia

Si veda anche Mario Lupo


Parma, 25 agosto 1972. Mario Lupo, militante di Lotta Continua ucciso dai fascisti

Il giovane militante di Lotta Continua Mario Lupo viene accoltellato davanti a un cinema della città. A ucciderlo, una squadra di fascisti.

Sono le dieci di sera del 25 agosto del 1972, una calda serata di agosto. Mariano Lupo, detto Mario, con altri suoi compagni, si avvia verso il cinema Roma, dove aveva un appuntamento. Mario non è solo ma va con fare non spensierato perché già dal pomeriggio era stato minacciato da alcuni neofascisti che militavano nella locale sezione del Msi-Dn di Parma.

All’improvviso, da una siepe del lungo viale, una squadra di fascisti si scaglia violentemente contro il piccolo... (continuer)

1974
Han gridato scioperiamo

Canzone di Francesco "Ciccio" Giuffrida e Pierangelo Bertoli

1974
Han gridato scioperiamo

Canzone di Francesco "Ciccio" Giuffrida e Pierangelo Bertoli

[2004]

Album :Esplosioni nucleari a Los Alamos

[2018]
Lyrics & music by Jon Pizarro
Album: The White Plague

"The White Plague" is the new album of the American One-Man Band Dead Work. This new chapter draws its influences in Atmospheric Black Metal, Crust and Acoustic Folk for all fans of Panopticon, Falls of Rauros or Nechochwen Jon Pizarro (Dead Work): "This album has been a passion project of mine since I first started Dead Work back in 2012. In high school my teacher would hand out excerpts from A Peoples History by Howard Zinn to go along with our textbook readings. Viewing history from the viewpoint of the oppressed was both heartbreaking and infuriating, but also eye opening. Of all the injustices covered in that book, the one that struck hardest was the cold and calculated extermination of Indigenous populations. My father being Puerto Rican, I first started reading about the indigenous populations of the Caribbean that... (continuer)

(2020)

Il primo singolo del nuovissimo disco di Seasick Steve in uscita a luglio

(2020)

“FTP,” standing for “Fuck the Police,” is a single from California rapper YG. The track, released during nationwide protests regarding George Floyd’s May 2020 murder, is meant to address the trends of police brutality inequitably affecting Black Americans.

The track was first announced by YG on Instagram on June 1, 2020, where he revealed the track’s cover art and imminent release later in the week.

This is not the first time YG has made a politically-driven track. In March 2016, he released a similarly-acronymic track “FDT (Fuck Donald Trump)” to address his issues grievances with Donald Trump, who was running for president at the time (before his eventual election).

YG – FTP - Genius

A due anni di distanza dall’uscita del singolo FDT (Fuck Donald Trump), YG ha pubblicato in risposta alla morte di Floyd e alle proteste dei giorni successivi il pezzo FTP, acronimo di “Fuck The... (continuer)

1991
Album: Attenti All'Uomo

(1989)
Album: Biancaneve e Gorbaciov

1988
Album: Biancaneve E Gorbaciov