Woke bands you listen to

[Troon Petty and the 41ers]

I like Type O Negative even though I disagree with the message of "Kill All The White People"

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

RATM & Public Enemy have many bangers despite being somewhat politically retarded.

 

[Zyklon C]

Neil Young is the absolute zenith of boomer liberalism: spent his 20s smoking pot and snorting coke in Topanga Canyon watching the world burn from afar, settled down on a rural ranch with his wife and kids and has spent every decade since whining about politics and the environment.

I don't give a shit, his music is awesome.

One of the best concerts I ever saw -- I think it was 1993 -- was Neil Young backed by Booker T and the MGs and the opening acts were Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.

For the second encore, Young, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam all came out and hammered the living fuck out of "Rockin' the Free World". To early 20-something Zyklon C, it was one of the finest moments of his life.

I'm sure I listen to bands with woke attitudes/songs, but in recent years I've consciously stopped listening to those who are overt about it. I had a chance to go to RAtM a few years back and I just couldn't stomach hearing Zach de la Rocha sperg on about bullshit.

I saw Pearl Jam just prior to the Chinese Flu and although the music was enjoyable, Eddie Vedder couldn't stop pontificating about stupid shit. I think that killed my ability to tolerate overt woke by musicians.

 

[Soup Sammiches]

Mike and the Mechanics, Hanson, you know. Hard rock

 

[ZsaZsaBinks]

Immortal Technique

 

[Nuclear Unwarfare]

6arelyhuman, it's really good if you just ignore the album covers and music videos. Literal sissy music

 

[Chad Holdenford]

I still really like Incubus, despite their (or maybe just their lead singer's) chasing of every Current Thing from George Bush derangement to muh'sogyny to eco bullshit.

And no I don't mean the faggy songs like Drive and Wish You Were Here. Stuff like Sick Sad Little World, New Skin, Nice to Know You, and Vitamin.

I'm not sure if those are political songs. Nice To Know You always felt more of a "celebration of life" kind of tune, free from drugs and mass consumption. New Skin and Vitamin have more of a sci-fi dystopia theme going. Maybe SSLW is one if you interpret the lyrics as a screed against being idle in times of trouble.
I read somewhere that Brandon Boyd and the Incubus guys identify more with libertarian politics, but that was a long time ago and must have changed. I also remember reading Boyd bitching about how the nu-metal label they got was "sexist" or something like that.
The only political song of Incubus I know is, obviously, Megalomaniac.

Anyways, for my thread tax I include Moby, Björk, Green Day, at least one half of System of a Down, Sonic Youth, Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend, Cage the Elephant and Coldplay. At least from the most outspoken types.

 

[JohnnyG]

I'm not sure if those are political songs

I agree, I guess my post was confusing because I pivoted from their GloboHomo politics right to the song list. Nothing really wrong with Drive & Wish You Were Here, they're just slower/sappier and after many years I prefer their higher energy stuff.

And maybe they're more libertarian now (or maybe the rest of the band always was), I haven't kept up. But whining extra-hard about Bush Jr. and how not-sexist they were compared to other bands, always stuck out. Maybe they thought it would separate them from Korn & Limp Bizkit, but their music was unique enough to do that by itself.

 

[General Patton]

Chumbawamba. Pretty much anarchist communists.

 

[General Patton]

Nice To Know You always felt more of a "celebration of life" kind of tune,

He said it was about his finger or hand being asleep for a long time and then it went away.

I still really like Incubus, despite their (or maybe just their lead singer's) chasing of every Current Thing from George Bush derangement to muh'sogyny to eco bullshit.

And no I don't mean the faggy slow/sappy songs like Drive and Wish You Were Here. Stuff like Sick Sad Little World, New Skin, Nice to Know You, and Vitamin.

I can't believe you left out New Skin and A Certain Shade of Green.

 

[JohnnyG]

I can't believe you left out New Skin and A Certain Shade of Green.

New Skin is the second on my list. And I was thinking of including A Certain Shade of Green, with its Primus-y slappy bass, but decided to leave it at four. Both great suggestions.

 

[General Patton]

New Skin is the second on my list. And I was thinking of including A Certain Shade of Green, with its Primus-y slappy bass, but decided to leave it at four. Both great suggestions.

Funny. When I saw them live I thought they were covering Primus. It was Immigrant Song by Zeppelin.

 

[CervixHammer]

KMFDM said "no human is illegal" on their new album.

 

[Alien Observer]

Chat Pile is awesome, but they had a song about le atrocities in gaza on their last album

 

[Korpon]

Roger Waters. His politics are what I call "being an obnoxious dickhead".

 

[i440BX]

KMFDM said "no human is illegal" on their new album.
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I wonder when did they start adopting establishment views?
They were always leftists, but even in the 1990s they werent as woke as what I heard they are today.

Anyways, their most recent album I have listened to is [symbols] from 1997. The oldest album is What Do You Know Deutschland? from 1986. [never listened to Opium].

That's personally my cut-off since I heard Attack album was the start of political infiltration in their songs.

 

[smtp]

not a band but ive been enjoying immortal technique recently

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

The closest I could say to enjoying "woke" musicians would be how I like some music from the Vietnam-era of progressive Boomers, whose music was just a relic from the time. Creedence Clearwater Revival is a good example: I really like John Fogerty's music regardless of his politics, but again, it was a product of its time. I can give Roger Waters a free pass because he's grandfathered in for helping create some of the greatest albums known to man.

One of my few guilty pleasures from the progressive Vietnam-era Boomer genre of music is a heavy rock song from a band called Ten Years After. It pains me to say that I really like the music on this song -- it's a great early heavy rock song -- but lyrically it's the 1960's radical left call to arms. Hell, Michael Moore even used it one of its movies.

Some people mentioned Nirvana, and I think that's questionable since the band was just 90's-era "woke", and obviously we can't exact predict how they would be in the modern era since Kurt is no longer here. I think a lot of it was just being a group of clueless Gen X slacker progressives led by a mentally unstable drug addict, so I chalk up a lot of their "wokeness" to just that.

That's honestly it for me. I can tolerate musicians being leftists -- hell, most are -- but the preachy woketard musicians are usually so bad that I can't enjoy them regardless. For instance, Rage Against the Machine completely sucks, totally. The music sounds like shit, and the lyrics/subjects are complete shit. I have nothing to gain by listening to them. If in a hypothetical bizarro scenario where the band were a based right-wing musical group but sounded identical in terms of music and singing, my honest reaction would be, "Wow, it's a shame this band sounds like shit and the singer is obnoxious as fuck, because I really agree with their lyrics otherwise!"

I dislike most punk bands, and I never liked KMFDM, Chumbawumba, MC5, nor Ministry. Their music always sucked, and doubly their message/lyrics sucked too. I also never cared for political folk musicians like Bob Dylan, Joan, Baez, nor Pete Seeger.

 

[YouDoNotHaveTheRight]

I liked Thy Art Is Murder before all except former frontman said they love sucking gock.

 

[Anakin Soywalker]

I probably shouldn't admit this anywhere but 100 Gecs has like 3 really good songs