Music can be a powerful tool for inspiring and teaching people the need for change. We’ve compiled a YouTube and Spotify playlist with some of our favorite songs of defiance.
Do you have a favorite song you’d like to see on our playlist? Let us know in the comments and we’ll add it.
Just one? Okay: “The Wheel” by Leslie Fish. Horrible link incoming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_HPflWziNI&t=0s&index=54&list=PL15plVQu88RHRLKfyTd5Lqr6mfGL-Wj5Y
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Ha, well, if you have more than one, feel free to share!
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Okay, here’re five more, from two of my great loves: filk and ’80s pop.
“Wicked Girls” by Seanan McGuire (seemed appropriate):
“You’re the Voice” by John Farnham:
“Hush, Now, Little Citizen” by the Bedlam Bards:
“Silent Running” by Mike and the Mechanics:
And finally, “Joan” by Heather Dale, not least because I had the good fortune to be singing along in this audience:
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I made the list in Google Play, too: https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXyk2OX9MTeKCNQaPmPb4I08G4MQpn3jP3e1JQ8iehCvgQ_tVfUL3P0GnYQctlzXNitblWedQ3tfe9OuacWC36BoubunE_A%3D%3D
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Thank you!
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Anything by Tom Morella, esp off his first post-Rage album, the eponymous “The Nightwatcman”. He doesn’t have much on Spotify, but here’s him and the Boss and Tom Joad:
And looks like he curated this list of his and others’ music:
Hey, it even has a song from “Jesus Christ, Superstar” in it!
@MadamAtom, bless you for remembering the wonderful Mike & the Mechanics! Gonna play them right now.
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