Songs about survival (and hope) in our society

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1. Pet Shop Boys - The Survivors
2. Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up
3. ???

― Panagiotis Pileidis (Panagiotis Pileidis), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Metallica - Blackened

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

4. Henry Rollins : Hot Animal Machine 1

― jot eff pe (Wintermute), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

5. Gloria Gaynor - I will survive

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

6. Light Enough To Travel - Originally by Geoff Berner, also done by Be Good Tanyas, Corb Lund Band & many many more. Sample lyric: "I broke the windows at the logging company/just to get a little relief"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Killing Joke - "Love like Blood"
Black Flag - "Rise Above"
Devo - "Through Being Cool"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Word to Alex and his Devo pick.

"Shine a Light" - Spiritualized
"What Goes On" - VU (at least it feels like that to me)
"Roadrunner" - Modern Lovers

-Matt, off to the Original Pancake House.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Green Theory - "OTIS Capacity"
Green Theory - "B.I.B."

(he he...that's my band :D)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Soft Machine - Hope For Happiness
Michael moorcock & The Deep Fix - Rolling In The Ruins

― tigerclawskank, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and...

Fishbone's "Everyday Sunshine", "Unyielding Conditioning"
Beastie Boys' "Namaste"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I am in no way condoning it, but Patti Smith's "People Have the Power."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"Wheel in the Sky"

― dave q, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Foggy Notion as done by the Modern Lovers on Precise Modern Lovers Order (diff from any version I've heard the Velvets do), there's a part about getting beat up by the cops.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The last two Blind Boys of Alabama records

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a hip-hop song back in the early 90's with a chorus that went something very close to: "My people [or "our people"] will survive America." I was thinking it might have been by Lakim Shabazz or Poor Righteous Teachers. I can't ID this anywhere.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Live

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Shania Twain - Up

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"Manana" by Desaparecidos
"Hold On" & "Movin' On" by Good Charlotte
"Don't Close Your Eyes" by Kix
"We Can Do This" by Kid Panic and the Adventures of Dean Dean
"Steppin' Out" by the Fall (sorta. Definitely fills me with hope)

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Tiki Bar Is Open" John Hiatt

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Great topic! "It Takes a Busload of Faith to Get By" (Lou Reed)

― bflaska, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Love, "You Set the Scene"
John Lennon, "Imagine" (if you hope we live in socialist utopia)
Neil Young, "Revolution Blues" (not too optimistic)
Scott Walker,"On Your Own Again"

Man, I guess I prefer survival songs about the individual instead of society in general.

― Polo Pony, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Operation Ivy "Unity"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Just about every roots reggae song

― Oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"Smash It Up" (I)NC

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Parachute Club - "Rise Up"

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"the world carries on" - the frank and walters
"it's gonna be alright" - Ramones
"crazy crazy nights" - Kiss
"livin' on a prayer" - Bon Jovi

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

eddie and the subtitles, "american society"

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Braintax - Escuchame

― yellowskies, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

yazz "the only way is up"
curtis mayfield "move on up"
james brown "get up get into it get involved"
"the futures so bright i gotta wear shades" by...uh?
gloria gaynor "i will survive"

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

almost all Sly and the Family Stone cuts

― Oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Timbuk 3 - "The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades"
The Kinks - "Better Things"
Stan Ridgway - "Can't Complain"
Super Furry Animals - "It's Not The End Of The World"
The Byrds - "Change Is Now"

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

no-one's yet mentioned "here comes the sun" (OK, I just did) -- but what's up with that?

another one, though corny -- abba's "chiquitita"

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 7 February 2003 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The Coke song...

"...I'd like to each the world to sing..."

― jm (jtm), Friday, 7 February 2003 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

the fall's "bill is dead" ownz

― kieron, Friday, 7 February 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

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