off the top of my head, I can think of 9 to 5 by dolly parton, and Blood and Money and We Are The Ones by the orion experience
lorde is so cool. her second album was so fucking good. hate that it didnt go as popular. louvre, green lights, liability. shit was awesome
Chumbawumba was an anarchist punk band on crass records. I think they gave away all the money from Tubthumping
"Alternative"
TMBG are my favourite band, they belong in that "we do our own thing" genre more than anything. They were founded with the idea of "Zappa and The Residents via the Monkees and The Beatles" and as they themselves observed ("spent our whole lives just digging up our music's shallow grave"), they never really changed from that.
John Flansburgh calls them a Punk band, just to really confuse the issue.
ooo that's a good one
yeah i don't understand the difference between indie and pop, other than that I generally like songs labeled indie more
If you like that, they have a lot of communist music.
Put your hand inside the puppet head
Kiss me son of God
Black Ops (I love the alt version)
Minimum Wage
Kiss Me Son Of God is so obviously about Reagan, but if you go on the wiki or the comments on YouTube, it's full of people insisting it's about communism.
I figured it was about figures like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, but Reagan makes a lotta sense
M.I.A. is a chart topping musician who started life as a Tamil refugee from the Sri Lankan civil war and has maintained consistently great messaging throughout her entire discography. She's more focused on revolutionary anti-imperialism and womens/ethnic liberation than explicit anti-capitalism but she fits that in too. She's never achieved the highest honour of an assassination attempt courtesy of the US State but she did get on the US no fly list and Oprah to call her "crazy and a terrorist" on record so that's got to count for something.
She started her career by getting a song explicitly stanning PLO and Tamil Tiger fighters on the radio and to the top of the charts in 2004 and is still going strong today. Absolute badass music and genuinely popular, her top video has 190 million+ youtube views and she regularly gets 10 million+ on her newer videos, and again, I don't think she's released a single video that doesn't center some form of radical messaging. She also personally directs or personally chooses the director of all of her music videos. Hard to recommend strongly enough.
paper planes! that brings back memories. damn, that's a late 00s early 10s classic. didn't know she's south asian. that's cool. "all i wanna do is bam bam bam bam karemoved** take ya money" honestly a mood.
It's not anti-capitalist per se, but I actually got kind of emotional the first time I heard Stressed Out....it really captures the sense of betrayal of everything you are told as a child under capitalism
Redesign Your Logo, and I Earn My Life (both by Lemon Demon / Neil Cicierega) are anticap bops
Common People, but specifically the William Shatner cover.
Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted - Billy Bragg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzX695XcKgc
This song made me cry, being totally honest. Just felt utterly hopeless.
My first ever concert was a dropkick murphys show. Totally ruined the shoes I wore there in the mosh pit. Wouldn't change a thing.
