Ancestors

Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-20 at 19:33

Let's see if we can create our own soundtrack to accompany US inauguration day. Let me start with a few suggestions; replies with more are appreciated!

Kicking things off with a classic: All You Fascists Bound to Lose by Woody Guthrie. 🧵

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcKwGS7OSQ

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-20 at 19:34

Next up is Jarvis Cocker with "Running the World". As a member of Gen X, its cynicism is as familiar to me as a cozy blanket. It's not enough, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deiWnZK-duM

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-20 at 19:38

Ratcheting things up a few notches, and then a few notches more, we have "Burn it Down" by Fever 333. Echoes of Linkin Park, but with a clearer through line.

Sometimes you gotta ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuNLJuSUDqo

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-20 at 19:39

Xenophobia is resurging under Trump and around the world. All the more important to celebrate the migration of people, ideas, languages, across borders. "Immigraniada" by Gogol Bordello is a high energy celebration.

(The video includes Puerto Rico, which is US territory, but whose residents are certainly treated like immigrants on the mainland.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKpgb2WrGo0

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-20 at 19:52

Closing this list out, let's come full circle. This one's age-restricted on YouTube and punk as it should be. I don't believe in violence, but that doesn't mean that one has to treat fascism with civility, either.

"Fuck these Fuckin' Fascists" by The Muslims.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-7-DDgUh_E

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Toot

Written by Sam Whited on 2025-01-20 at 23:05

@eloquence I always come back to Grace Petrie when I'm feeling down:

https://gracepetrie.bandcamp.com/album/build-something-better

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Descendants

Written by Sam Whited on 2025-01-20 at 23:07

@eloquence Or "Wurk" by LINQUA FRANQA (or Bellringer, or The Whole Bank, or anything else by them):

https://linquafranqa.bandcamp.com/track/wurk

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-20 at 23:07

@sam

New to me - love it!

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