I PROTEST! AT TWO DIFFERENT SPEEDS!

Recently I reviewed the book 33 Revolutions Per Minute, Dorian Lynskey’s history of protest music in the 20th century and the protest movements that inspired them.

Among the multiple appendices at the end of the book, Lynskey included a playlist of 100 recommended protest songs – none of which are the 33 songs he used as a writing prompt for each chapter. As the book came out long before Spotify and similar services were a thing, I thought I’d assemble the playlist for you.

As you might notice, there are only 95 songs here. That’s because five of the songs on Lynskey’s list aren’t on Spotify right now, though a few of the artists in question are. But I decided to leave those out instead of taking liberties. If Spotify ever adds them later, I’ll add them here.

Meanwhile, here are the missing ones:

The United States of America, “Love Song For The Dead Che”

Gary Byrd, “Are You Really Ready For Black Power?”

McCarthy, “The Home Secretary Briefs The Forces of Law and Order”

Marxman feat. Sinead O’Connor, “Ship Ahoy”

Fun-Da-Mental, “Wrath of the Blackman”


BONUS PLAYLIST

I made a protest playlist a few years ago inspired by the 2019 protests in Hong Kong, which apparently I never posted here. So here is that, if the above is not nearly enough protest music for you.

Fight the power,

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