State Of The Nation songs

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For any nations, and in various eras... I'm looking for songs that maybe both sum up a specific time, and also that take on further (altered perhaps) resonance years/decades later.

A few I can submit...

US: Simon and Garfunkel: America
Elvis Presley: An American Trilogy
Patrick Juvet: I Love America

UK: John Cooper Clarke: Beasley Street
Barry Booth: After The War
Kinks: End of the Season

― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 5 September 2004 12:34 (twenty years ago)

US:
X, The New World
X, Country at War
Husker Du, Turn on the News
Prince, Sign o' the Times
Neil Young, Rocking in the Free World

UK
Elvis Costello, Shipbuilding

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 5 September 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

UK
Robyn Hitchcock: 1974

US
Elvis Presley: An American Trilogy (pyrotechnics and delusion...?)

― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 19 September 2004 16:55 (twenty years ago)

US:
Bob Dylan, "Masters of War" (US/World for this one)
Bob Dylan, "With God on Our Side" (he even allowed the Neville Brothers to sing a new verse on their 1989 recording)
Sam Cooke, "A Change is Gonna Come"

UK:
The Rolling Stones, "Gimme Shelter," "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and "Salt of the Earth"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Waterboys - "Old England"
Stone Roses - "Waterfall"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Scorpions "Wind of Change"
Falco "Ganz Wien"
Dayglo Abortions "Proud to Be a Canadian"

― dave q, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:59 (twenty years ago)

neil young, "keep on rockin' in the free world"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:42 (twenty years ago)

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