Favourite Garage Protest songs

[danny havoc]

Whats your fave rave Garage Protest song from the 1960s??
I accept that songs about "evil chicks" are possibly protest songs, but lets discount these types for the purpose of the discussion, I'm looking for anti war, pro war??( they exist!!), demonstration supporting, demonstration bashing, "me against the cold, dark world," my life is a mess and its everyones elses fault" type protest songs, serious or otherwise!!! ( In fact , i think i enjoy the puerile, naive, insensitive, plain stupid ones more than the sensible ones)

My fave ever protest song would have to be " Trouble Every Day " by The Mothers of Invention, a searing indictment of the terrifying stupidity of the media and people inciting the 1965 summer riots in Watts, Detroit, etc

However, Zappa and co. weren't exactly garage, so , my All time fave Garage Protest song is " Crazy , like a Fox" by Link Cromwell... the lone angry voice of a man at the edge... edge of what i dont know, he wont specify, but man, is he pissed off about it.
http://youtu.be/hXKT_vRvsiQ

 

[Michael W]

The Acoustics - "My Rights" was the first to spring to mind.

 

[Laurent Bigot]

One of my fave is this french one (still unreissued)

 

[Sancho Panza]

To me, Jason Merrick & The Finders - I'm Not What You Are sounds like a protest song, the chorus anyway.

And maybe The Savages - The World Ain't Round, It's Square

 

[M.T. Wallet]

anti-war:
2+2 is on my mind
the Shays' Brainwashed

anti-moptop:
the Exterminators - Declaration of Independance '65

 

[Laurent Bigot]

one sick one is Arthur et Les Jaguars' "Dites moi pourquoi" from Quebec (1966), pretty right wing/xenophobic lyrics.

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

love this folk protester punker double-sider, easy and cheap to find too-

"take your eyeballs,
screw them back,
into your herrairrrrairrrrr head"

"Tell us what you've left for us,
say it if you've got the guts"

 

[Laurent Bigot]

unissued french one from '67 (protesting against the BS in the media)

 

[bosshoss]

There are quite a lot of 'em, both anti and pro war...

 

[danny havoc]

another fave in the " me against the square world" category, ..... " if they wanna laff an stare, go ahead 'cos I DONT CARE !!!"

http://youtu.be/J3WcYcL-epY

 

[mansson66]

 

[mansson66]

 

[Andreas]

I'm not a particular big fan of this genre, due to the novelty factor. That said, there are some cool ones out there, including this here jangler:

A protest song protesting on protesters!

And let's not forget this one:

Dylan about the song in 1966:
"Well, you know my songs are all mathematical songs. Now, you know what that means so I’m not gonna have to go into that specifically here. It happens to be a protest song. …and it borders on the mathematical, you know, idea of things, and this one specifically happens to be … Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 happens to deal with a minority of, you know, cripples and Orientals and, uh, you know, and the world in which they live,…. It’s another sort of a North Mexican kind of a thing, uh, very protesty. Very, very protesty. And, uh, one of the protestiest of all things I ever protested against in my protest years…"

 

[howlin' hoosier]

"Why don't you choke yourself and leave me alooooooone!?!?!?" - I nominate The Knaves grouch-fest Leave Me Alone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDCXWsOCw6U

 

[The Raven]

My absolute all time fave garage punk protester is 'Practice What You Preach' by The Laymen on Rise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnXRPRgbuK4

underneath the youtube clip here it sez they were from Fla., is this true?

 

[danny havoc]

absolute ball tearer...!! the whole thing is just magnificent as heck

 

[franku]

Probably not quite up to the stiff competition already presented, but here are a couple others I dig from Michigan (apparently a hotbed of such records, as the Illusions, Just Luv, and Seger's "2+2=?" listed above were also from here):

Terry Knight and the Pack - "How Much More (Have I Got to Give)" (Lucky 11)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGTxNuyOl88

The Prodical Sons - "Long Hair Blues" (Cascade)

This one's not posted online, but it has plentiful fuzz and the great chorus line, "If I have to die in Vietnam, I want to go with my long hair on"

 

[franku]

Another from Michigan (well, released on a Michigan label), that deserves wider acclaim, is the Phalanx 45 "Get Off My Back" by Blues, Inc. (a band from Fort Wayne, Indiana). Surprised this was never on a BFTG, as it is quite worthy, with great punky vocals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZBXnG4rYf0

 

[MopTopMike]

My absolute all time fave garage punk protester is 'Practice What You Preach' by The Laymen on Rise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnXRPRgbuK4

underneath the youtube clip here it sez they were from Fla., is this true?

No, not the same group from Florida.

 

[soundog III]

Truth be told, with my Portugese language skills not being quite up to the task as best I can make out and from what I've been told "Era Um Rapaz" is a plea of sorts for fans of the of the bands to get along in a harmonious & conciliatory manner. Fat chance... The Turtle covers pretty boss as well.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNwiDHhISAY