#TalkinBoutARevolution by #TracyChapman (1988)

"Don't ya know
They're talking about a revolution?
It sounds like a whisper
Don't ya know
They're talking about a revolution?
It sounds like a whisper

[While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sittin' around waitin' for a promotion

Don't ya know?
They're talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take what's theirs

Don't ya know you better run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Oh, I said you better run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run

'Cause finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' 'bout a revolution
Yes, finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' 'bout a revolution, oh no
Talkin' 'bout a revolution, oh no..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv8FBjo1Y8I
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Another gem from #DJShaxx's show #LeftOfTheDial!

#Oligarchy by #TeenMortgage (2023)

"Can we all agree we got an issue?
Watching all these rats cheat the race
'Specially when they told you, "go get a tissue,"
For all the ones who'd made last place, well

Pigs with power in their ivory tower
Mothers shop for four down at the dollar store, and
Tons of cowards make them work those long hours
Because corporate flaws, they make all the laws

I think we all agree it's getting kinda gnarly
Unless you're part of the oligarchy
'Think we all agree it's getting kinda gnarly
Unless you're part of thе oligarchy, yuh"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YIjoEWoflw
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As heard on #LeftOfTheDial with #DJShaxx ....

#TheGovernmentFly by #DeadKennedys (1986)

"The government flu
The government flu
The government flu

Slip it abroad
Keep a-slowin' down the USSR
But meanwhile, we'll keep an eye
On what it's doin' to you"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlWRs00EAp0
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#Rise by #PublicImageLtd

"Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy"
- #PIL, 1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPj-8_wOZcA
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#WorldDestruction by #TimeZone

"Putting people in racist categories
Knowledge isn't what it used to be
Military tactics to control a nation
Who wants to be a president or king? Me!
Mother Nature is gonna work against you
Nothing in your power that you can do
Yes, the world is headed for destruction
You and I know it, the Bible tells you
If we don't start to look for a better life
The world will be destroyed in a time zone!"

- #JohnLyden, #AfrikaBambaataa & #BillLaswell, 1984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1T6l70XlqU
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gil scott-heron!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw

As heard on #WMPG this week!

#NyashaMunashe - PARTY (2025)

"Red party, blue party
Red party, blue party..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmfCypgd5IE
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#NinaSimone - #Revolution pts 1 and 2

"And now we got a revolution
'Cause I see the face of things to come
Yeah, your Constitution
Well, my friend, it's gonna have to bend
I'm here to tell you about destruction
Of all the evil that will have to end.

Some folks are gonna get the notion
I know they'll say I'm preachin' hate
But if I have to swim the ocean
Well I would just to communicate
It's not as simple as talkin' jive
The daily struggle just to stay alive

Singin' about a revolution
Because we're talkin' about a change
It's more than just evolution
Well you know you got to clean your brain
The only way that we can stand in fact
Is when you get your foot off our back..."

From "Songs of Freedom and Spirit," 1969.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6yyqoBmI0M
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