Favourite song of a society/social awareness perspective.

[1eyedog]

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I got banned from the milk bar across the road from my High School in year 7 for wearing a Bad Religion hoodie.

They would have hated my Slayer hoodie then.

[1eyedog]

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I was there. I thought I remembered the name. It was one of those "can you blokes play a Stooges song" type situation.

The BC was always like that, same crowd same opinions same song requests and only Carlton Draught on tap. Not anymore though...

Some great bands went through there though. I used to write for a street mag called Forte in Geelong, similar to Melbourne's Inpress I suppose and I got to interview a number of really cool bands before they went on stage. Propagandhi was one of them and they were articulate, shy and quietly spoken, get them on stage though and things changed dramatically.

The best band I interviewed / saw live there was Sprung Monkey (California) circa 1999, although Budd (Queensland) and Fu Manchu (California) were great gigs as well.

[Twodogs]

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Speaking of the Barwon Club Poppin' Mommas are playing in July. At the Gravys show.

[1eyedog]

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Speaking of the Barwon Club Poppin' Mommas are playing in July. At the Gravys show.

Ha ha the resident BC band! I wonder if stink finger is still playing with them... He stole my ex for a month and had his way with her. I should go to that gig and throw beer at him, problem is he'd probably think that was rock and roll.

[Twodogs]

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Ha ha the resident BC band! I wonder if stink finger is still playing with them... He stole my ex for a month and had his way with her. I should go to that gig and throw beer at him, problem is he'd probably think that was rock and roll.

Everything you just said is rock'n'roll man.

[1eyedog]

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Closest I will ever get to rock and roll. Unless you count hardly leaving the house for 5 years in my 20s?

[LostDoggy]

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Just came across this thread. Most enjoyable.

I really love the nominations of Strange Fruit (hearing live recordings of Billy singing this live in the 50s are mesmerising - I voted for this as 1 of my 3 songs of the century when an online vote was taken in 1999) and Shipbuilding (another of my votes), I quoted this song more than once in a Post Grad economics thesis - it is a profound statement on the way we live and how our lives are ordered "Diving for dear life, when we could be diving for pearls" - not to mention Chet Baker's divine trumpet - a truly magical piece of music.

[whythelongface]

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The Clash had a way of cutting straight to the heart of a social issue.

Definitely agree with this. Particularly their debut album - White Riot; Career Opportunities; I'm so bored with the USA.

Another song of a political nature that fascinates me is 'if white america told the truth for more than one day its world would fall apart' - by the Manics. Interesting lyrics and great music.

[LostDoggy]

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For me it's Rage Against the Machine. Especially relevant on a global social perspective level.

[LostDoggy]

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I remember them getting beer thrown all over them and booed off stage at the Barwon Club in Geelong in the late 90s. Great band but that particular pub was not the place to sell far left ideals.

Bad Religion did it better. By far my fav punk rock band.

They would've been better off playing at The Nash (R.I.P)