Top 10 Protest Songs
iTunes Links Below to Buy the Songs in the Video!
Give them three chords and they’ll give you the truth. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we’re counting down our picks for the top 10 protest songs.
“Killing in the Name” (1992)
Rage Against the Machine
“Give Peace a Chance” (1969)
Plastic Ono Band
“We Shall Overcome” (1963)
Pete Seeger
“Get Up, Stand Up” (1973)
The Wailers
“The Times They Are a-Changin'” (1964)
Bob Dylan
“What’s Going On” (1971)
Marvin Gaye
“Fortunate Son” (1969)
Creedence Clearwater Revival
“Born in the U.S.A.” (1984)
Bruce Springsteen
“Fight the Power” (1989)
Public Enemy
“Ohio” (1970)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
“Fuck tha Police” (1988)
N.W.A.
“Sunday Bloody Sunday” (1983)
U2
“For What It’s Worth” (1967)
Buffalo Springfield
“I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” (1967)
Country Joe and the Fish
“A Change Is Gonna Come” (1964)
Sam Cooke
“Born Free” (2010)
M.I.A.
Special thanks to our users dave2318, happychaosofthenorth Noah J. Odom, antonius1903 and Margaret Rd for submitting the idea on our Suggest Page at WatchMojo.com/suggest!
Check out the voting page here,
If you want to suggest an idea for a WatchMojo video, check out our interactive Suggestion Tool at 🙂
Check us out at Twitter.com/WatchMojo and Facebook.com/WatchMojo
We have T-Shirts! Be sure to check out for more info.
Give It All – Rise Against
You Gotta Fight – Beastie Boys
We're Not Gonna Take It – Twisted Sister
Brick In The Wall – Pink Floyd
War is for the rich. They don't fight, they profit.I ain't no senators son.
No mention of American Idiot by Green Day?
There is also Alice's Restaurant
before watching.. RATM – Sleep nos in the fire or testifed
I was expecting Zombie from Cranberries 🙂 Edit: I see Cranberries is in the top 10 anti-war songs. I hope SOAD is too
Are you kidding me? No Alice's Restaurant?? biggest protest song ever!
Do you hear the people sing!
where is they don't care about us by michael jackson? it is the greatest protest song ever
Scorpions Winds Of Change.
WHERE THE FUCK IS AMERICAN IDIOT!!!!!
Where the fuck is "God Save The Queen" by The Sex Pistols?
Nelson Mandela – the specials
Les Mis 'Song of the Angry Man' is my favorite
N0 beds are burning, realy
Come onnnnn where's war pigs???
Another brick in the wall?? Refuse/resist??Symphony of destruction???
God save the WatchMojo… Where the hell is Sex Pistols!?!?!?
protest songs and no Woody Guthrie?
where is They Don't Care About US ???
Parachute Club 'Rise Up'
Sentimentally, Lennon. But hardly the best song on the list. Peace, Tex
Where the fuck is Prayer Of the Refuge?!
why are some parts of the songs censorted?
No Guthrie? Starting to think WatchMojo should stick to TV and film and leave music alone.
your fie goverment
FUUUUUUCK YOU WATCHMODJO FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
How about Mississippi Goddam? A Nina Simone classic.
The comments are cancer.
you don't know whats a real revolutionary song! grandola vila morena is the best one without even thinking. But thinking really well every Zeca Afonso song is way better than this
No freaking God save the Queen?
system of a down? rise against? green day?
my favorite protest is guns by Justin Moore
and I like Johnny Rebel
Come to Latin America, you'll plenty of great protest songs
blackbird by the Beatles anyone?
Left out "wind of change" by scorpion
come at u black and tans by wolftang anyone??
God Save The Queen woulda been nice to see 😀
Were not gonna take it
And where is our Madonna`s American life?)
Censoring the protest songs is irony at its best! 🙂
Freewill anyone?
sad that U2 went from cool and edgy to this todays white washed pop/rock band that is every mainstreams stations darling …. i see that now with metallica on anything metal and hard rock affiliated
Civil war by Guns n Roses? Where is it