Cite Your Favorite Songs That Disrespect the United States.

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"51st State" by New Model Amry, "Fuck the USA" by the Exploited, "I'm So Bored with the USA" by the Clash, "America" by Killing Joke

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

A bit of a stretch...

Buju Banton - Til I'm Laid to Rest:

Til I'm laid to rest
Always be depressed
There's no life in the West
I know the East is the best
All the propaganda they spread
Tongues will have to confess

― Rob Upt1ght, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Swamp Dogg, "God Bless America For What"

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

"Jose Can You See"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Blur, "Magic America"
Oh wait, I don't like this song at all. Well, *somebody's* favorite, I'm sure.

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Outkast, "Gasoline Dreams"

Gah. I have no idea why I'm drawing a blank on songs for this thread, given my politics...

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

"One Horse Town" - The Mekons (this is a cover, I think, but I don't know the original artist). "...burn the Stars and Stripes..."

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Most songs by the Dead Kennedys...

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Bruce Springsteen - "Born In The USA"

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Ice Cube - "I Wanna Kill Sam"

"Cos he ain't my motherfucking uncle."

― More like Tony GAYO am I right? Fellas? (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Stone Roses - "Waterfall" (?)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

suicidal tendencies "i shot reagan"....and more i cnat think of right now...

billy bragg "help save the youth of america"...actually

― b b, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Burritos, "My Uncle"

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

the the's back cat is full of stuff that is appropiate.

but my own fave is 'sweet bird of truth' full on 12" version of course

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

"Frankie Teardrop"!

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

I think "Imagine" runs contrary to just about everything the US stands for, no?

― tgb (torn_frayed), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

I think "Imagine" runs contrary to just about everything the US stands for, no?

...as well as every other capitalistic society....

― PB, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Dead Prez: "Know Your Enemy"
The Coup: "Ride the Fence"
All Natural feat. Slug: "Uncle Sam"

The Slug verse on the last song is brilliant, wish I could find the lyrics online somewhere...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

i find this song pretty disrespectful, and i'm not even a citizen. http://www.americawestandasone.com/

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

US Forces - Midnight Oil.

"US Forces give the nod, it's a setback for your country. Bombs and trenches all in a row..." ...etc.

― Michael Collie (Sans Sushi), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Manic Street Preachers - "IfwhiteAmericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart"

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

"God Bless the U.S.A." by Lee Greenwood
"Have You Forgotten?" by Darryl Worley

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Not actually my favorites, but I do feel that they disrespect my country.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

There is a good bookend to that trilogy named "The Bumper of my SUV" by some horrible, horrible female country singer.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

God Bless America for What? by Swamp Dogg.

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Washington Bullets--The Clash

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

dig - "australia don't become america" (which i actually don't like at all

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

Ted Leo - Loyal to My Sorrowful Country

― pinder (pinder), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

what about

The Guess Who - American Woman

― aeh (aeh), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Dunno, s'pose 'Political Science' by Randy Newman off the top of my head. There must be a few of Zappa's. 'Dumb All Over' comes to mind as a similar kind of critique of US foreign policy, though more specifically targeting the Arab angle.

Not a 'song' obviously, but Hendrix's musical equivalent of flag burning, the 'Star Spangled Banner' at Woodstock always seemed to me to be a pretty trenchant statement of anger and disillusionment.

As for the supposed to be profound, but just dumb, how about 'America' by Jewel?

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

"it can't happen here" - zappa
lots of songs by consolidated, propagandhi, and atari teenage riot

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

also, does "O Superman" count?

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

dig - "australia don't become america" (which i actually don't like at all

That wasn't dig, Jim. That was Cranky. Awful song, anyway.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

Lots of Gil Scott-Heron's songs.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

xpost ah of course, i always associate the two

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

The Fall - C'n'C -S Mithering

Riot 99 - Fuck America

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.epitonic.com/art/artists/desaparecidos/Desaparecidos-Read_Music_Speak_Spanish_250.jpg

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

MC5 - The American Ruse

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

Non Phixion's "The CIA is Trying to Kill Me." Bonus points for directly referencing the Suicidal Tendencies track mentioned upthread.

― ng, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

Sun City Girls' "CIA Man" rules this thread.

― sleeve away from home, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

Violent Femmes - "America Is" !!!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

The The "Heartland" "this is the 51st state of the USA..."

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

Eminem "White America"

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

Iris DeMent "Wasteland of the Free"

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

Crass- "Smash the Mac"

― naus (Robert T), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

"Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos" Public Enemy

"Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver)" Merle Haggard

"American Woman" The Guess Who

"Winter In America" Gil Scott-Heron

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

Most of these songs aren't anti-U.S., they're anti-U.S. government.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

The Work, I Hate America

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Rammstein, "Amerika"!!!!

― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

"Der Sheriff" D.A.F.

they even torch the us flag in the video... though as Mr. Snrub states this is more of an Anti-Government statement.

― ehbenoit, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

The Skids, Working For the Yankee Dollar

... tho with Richard Jobson singing it's difficult to make out exactly what it is about

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I want to say something that's long overdue -- this disrespecting the States has got to be through.

― MCA (MarkR), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Bright Eyes - Let's Not Shit Ourselves

― DJMonsterMo, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Mellencamp, "Pink Houses"

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Most of these songs aren't anti-U.S., they're anti-U.S. government

You know, you're sounding an awful lot like someone who hates freedom to me.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

The Pagans "Dead End America"

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

(wonders if Alex likes the Pagans, heck, wonders if anyone else does...)

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

i do!

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

CCR - "Fortunate Son"

Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
They send you down to war,
And when you ask them, "How much should we give?"
They only answer More! more! more!

― david day (winslow), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

The Coup "Piss on Your Grave."

An excerpt:
That bitch ass on the front of a buck
never gave a fuck
he forced his black women slaves
to give him dick sucks
and when he bust a nut
he'd laugh and cackle
let the leather whip crackle
send 'em back to pick tobacco
shackled
wouldn't give 'em nil
so his homies stacked bills
fought on flatland and hill
to keep the british out the till, scrill
kept Washington dumpin' 'em in ditches
so slave owning son of a bitches
could keep their riches
which is how the war got funded
with two centuries of juice
from Black slaves bodies
and the profits they produced
you could deduce
that these men might win
fit right in
and make rights then
just for rich white men
so they quit fightin'
and wrote up a declaration
protective decoration
for their business operations
a gorilla pimpin' nation, no freedom - just savage
now the whole world's ravaged
from their hunger for the cabbage
Your fifth period history teacher
tellin' lies like a tweeker
bump this song through the speaker
watch they face get weaker
'less they righteous and they kickin' the facts
they gon' smile cuz this shit is on wax
one thing I gots to ask
George Washington down in hell can you see me?
I'm standin' on your grave
and I'm finsta take a pee-pee!
Tour guide: Excuse me sir, did you say you have to pee?
Boots: Nah, I said I love it here in D.C.
Tour guide: Well, anyway folks, continuing on with the tour.
We're here at the Arlington National Cemetary.
Behind all of you, right where the gentleman with the afro is
standing,
is the grave of of America's first and greatest hero, our first
president --
Pants unzipping
George Washington
Piss hitting the ground
Ohh, uh-uhhhh.
Cameras click

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I second "51st State" as well.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

McCarthy - "Antiamericancretin"

― Hydrochloric Shaved Weirds (Bimble...), Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

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