Libertarian Bands (And Songs?)

[DeadheadForPaul]

I really wish there was a libertarian version of Rage Against the Machine - nothing fires me up quite like them...it's a shame that they're a bunch of Reds

any libertarian bands out there?

songs?

There's gotta be - lot of people with good music taste in the liberty movement

[Elwar]

YouTube - MTV's Aimee Allen, Ron Paul Anthem Music Video MUST SEE!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiKh9Ko3mw4)

[Fredom101]

I really wish there was a libertarian version of Rage Against the Machine - nothing fires me up quite like them...it's a shame that they're a bunch of Reds

any libertarian bands out there?

songs?

There's gotta be - lot of people with good music taste in the liberty movement

I've often thought the same thing!
I wish Rage were anarcho-CAPITALISTS instead of anarcho-COMMIES, but I love their energy and anti-government lyrics.

[Fredom101]

Rush is one of my favorites, and they have a lot of libertarian-oriented songs and lyrics. Rise Against has great energy too but I'm pretty sure they're socialists. There's an obscure punk band called Against Me that are anarchists...I haven't figured out if they are the principled kind or the nutty commie kind yet though..

[haaaylee]

Rush is one of my favorites, and they have a lot of libertarian-oriented songs and lyrics. Rise Against has great energy too but I'm pretty sure they're socialists. There's an obscure punk band called Against Me that are anarchists...I haven't figured out if they are the principled kind or the nutty commie kind yet though..



yes, there are anarchist bands like 'against me' and 'anti-flag'. they are punk rock bands. actually, within punk/hardcore music you'll find a lot of bands with political songs, those just may be the most well known. (and no, i would not say against me are the nuttie commy kind. "white people for peace" is a really good song about war.)


there is also 'state radio' that has some good political tracks.

[JeNNiF00F00]

>:)

[teamrican1]

Rush and Blues Traveler are probably the two most famous true libertarian bands, but a lot of great bands, including Black Sabbath, Metallica, and MegaDeath have libertarian or anti-statist songs.

[Sentient Void]

KMFDM (techno-industrial - I don't like most of their songs, but a few are good and very political) and Muse (rock - they kick ass)

Muse - Uprising
KMFDM - New American Century
KMFDM - Anarchy (God and the State mix)

Some examples.

[Paulitical Correctness]

http://www.myspace.com/conspiratorms

[tropicangela]

ETA: Sentient Void beat me to it.

muse?

YouTube - Muse: Matt Bellamy Talking about the Making of "The Resistance" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V3EkGr54xo)

[JCF]

Muse? I've heard something about them, they do seem a little.

Rush? Their drummer is a libertarian who writes some (most?) of their songs.


--

That's all I know besides various punk/rap songs that can be libertarian but sung by left wingers...

[Stary Hickory]

Metallica

Kill Em All
Ride the Lightening
Master of Puppets (Great one)
Justice For All( really nice one)
Black Album


Metallica has aways been a naturally libertarian type band. I don't think it was intentional but they have some songs that are freaking awesome with a libertarian theme. Some of thei anti war songs are stellar.

[JeNNiF00F00]

..

[BarryDonegan]

YouTube - LOOK WHAT I DID Music Video for "Serf Song" from ATLAS DRUGGED (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRYp-cZRRKY)

LOOK WHAT I DID has songs like:

Jekyll Island Fiat Scratch
My Girlfriend, Leo Strauss
Benevolesaurus Lex

Albums Titled such things as:
Atlas Drugged
Minuteman for the Moment

Atlas Drugged is available through online retailers like smartpunk, amazon.com and via iTunes or physically at most any Hot Topic location
Minuteman for the Moment was released on Koch/Combat in 2005 and is available at most traditional retailers such as Best Buy, iTunes etc.

Brian Virtue produced the bulk of the work, who did the latest Chevelle, Jane's Addiction,and one of the more recent Audioslave albums.

:)

Full Disclosure: I happen to know for a fact that the singer is a very involved activist for Ron Paul and C4L :p

[Stary Hickory]

YouTube - Metallica-And Justice For All (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ4GbcuBvUQ)

one of my favorites

[BarryDonegan]

Look What I Did - Jekyll Island Fiat Scratch Lyrics

Trillion Million Monies
Zillion Billion Gillion
it must be right?

and I'd do it again
if that's what it takes for this to sink
in
if that's what it takes
i'd do it again
if that's what it takes
burn them!
your little fiat monies
burn them...up in flames!

sell it
line up
run on your bank
one buck
buy out
legal?
it can't be right!

and I'd do it again
if that's what it takes for this to sink
in
if that's what it takes!
burn them!
your little paper fiat monies!
burn them...up in flames!

if you had your way
soon comes the day
we'll line up and beg from you
and I'll do it again
if that's what it takes for this to sink
in
and you'll have your day
to answer your sins
and that's what it takes before I can give in
and I'll burn your bank
and I'll burn your bank to the ground...
BURN!

Trillion Million Monies
Zillion Billion Gillion
it must be right?

[haaaylee]

YouTube - Propagandhi - with friends like these... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azcnVkmZ02E)

"with friends like these who the fuck needs cointel pro?"

YouTube - Propagandhi - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3ObasCAMVc)

"today's empire, tomorrow's ashes."


YouTube - Anti-Flag "Die For The Government" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PynWTLeUJRA)

"die for your government."


YouTube - ANTI-FLAG - "WELCOME TO 1984" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcS0NzoSJcU)

"welcome to 1984."




as far as 'against me' goes, i think they've changed a bit of the years. the went from "baby, i'm an anarchist!" to "i was a teenage anarchist." so who knows. i doubt they are commies, at the very least they just turned into democrats. . .

[BarryDonegan]

Propaghandi are anarcho-syndicalists, so they are socialists. Same with Strike Anywhere, Rage Against the Machine, Muse, and all the other half-awake political bands. Dead Kennedys are also among that crowd, but DK has the most Libertarian-friendly results probably of any activist band, with Jello Biafra's defense of the first amendment against Tipper Gore in the '80s.

Very few musicians are true libertarians, most punk anti-government sentiment comes in the form of anarcho-syndicalism or a quick drift into the Democratic Party when it's time to actually vote.

[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

Poker Face is an awesome band.

[RCA]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=205664

[BarryDonegan]

I did an election-year political column on a big heavy metal webzine called The Gauntlet a few years back (very high alexa rank for a metal webzine), in which I wrote an open letter to Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys asking him why he supports so much government control in healthcare, food, and housing when he rails against the fascism and corruption of nearly every other type of government program.

I explained the fact that corporations are not market instruments, but government chartered ones, and his manager indicated that he was going to write a reply eventually.

http://www.thegauntlet.com/dangeroustruths/article.php?id=13

"This is by no means to diminish the outstanding career both artistically and politically which Jello Biafra, famed singer of the Dead Kennedys and head of legit indie Alternative Tentacles, enjoys. I find him to be one of two old-school punks (the other being Ian MacKaye), who never did anything identifiable as “selling out” on their own principles. DK is the most socially relevant, well-researched political punk band of the late 70s and early 80s, and Biafra has since become a powerful speaker and critic of corrupt government policy. He was also an early ardent defender of first amendment rights, battling censorship in the front lines by civil disobedience and facing the music in court.

His spoken word performances are enlightening, relevant, and well-researched, primarily in the way they criticize failures of our massive, police-state style government. He rails against the military-industrial complex, the prison-industrial complex, and all of the “something bad”-industrial complexes.

There is one category, however, where I feel he slides off of the rails and could benefit with some further study. This is the typical place I part ways with Green Party style thinkers..."

etc etc

[Sentient Void]

Muse is socialist. They flipped out when Beck started using their music to support his agenda.

I didn't know that, and that's *very* unfortunate.

Regardless of his reasons for writing the song, when you hear it - it sounds tons more libertarian revolutionesque than otherwise!

Regardless of his stance - I'm officially co-opting 'Uprising' by Muse as a libertarian song! :P

YouTube - Muse - Uprising [OFFICIAL VIDEO] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog)

[haaaylee]

Muse is socialist. They flipped out when Beck started using their music to support his agenda.

How does "flipping out" 'cos Beck used their music make them socialists??

[Son of Detroit]

John Mayer supported Ron Paul...

YouTube - John Mayer - Daughters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZLbUIa7exE)

[Fredom101]

I like Muse, I know they are also 9/11 truthers (he actually war a 9/11 truth t-shirt on stage), but I wish them and these other bands would understand the fact that corporations are simply wings of the state, and being anti-corporate does NOT mean being anti-business or anti-making money like these guys think.

[Fredom101]

BTW, Glenn Beck is a phony statist fool, I would flip out too.

[t0rnado]

Papa Roach
Nirvana
Choking Victim
Bad Religion(possibly)
Sum 41
NOFX
Static-X
Nine Inch Nails

[AuH20]

Iced Earth

YouTube - Iced Earth-1776 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD47NIcdmAA)

YouTube - Iced Earth - Declaration Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVOEoo1oXBs)

[Depressed Liberator]

Muse is socialist. They flipped out when Beck started using their music to support his agenda.

Maybe they don't want to be associated with that jack ass?

Their lead singer, Matt Bellamy, has been on Alex Jones before and has considered himself a libertarian.

[libertybrewcity]

Revolution - One Drop
Modern World - Tom O'Brien

[libertybrewcity]

This is just a good song:
YouTube - Tribal Seeds - Dawn of time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2MfsCgD8aU)

[Wesker1982]

Papa Roach
Nirvana
Choking Victim
Bad Religion(possibly)
Sum 41
NOFX
Static-X
Nine Inch Nails

Choking Victim are anarcho-communists iirc. And I am pretty sure Fat Mike from NOFX is a left winger. Both good bands, but unfortunately not libertarian.

[DrillHereEnvironmentalist]

Dave Mustain, {Megadeth} is a declared Libertarian. He is a crowd attracting guest at some LP meet and greets, cocktail party type affairs.

In Iron Maidens song "The Clansman" {Scottish Clan, with correct spelling and a reference to William Wallace} .... Bruce the air raid siren Dickinson yells the word "Freedom" rather a lot.


The meat portion of Snoop Dogs "Gin ad Juice" is very much a Republican anthem, and very agreeable song for Libertarians as well. "Smoking on Endo {a stinky sweet strain of cannabis}, sipping on Gin & Juice... with my mind on my money and my money on my mind"... Now obviously, if a white person were to carry on like that... Lefty lefter left lefting leftists would be extremely angered at the injustice and the offender would be vilified and demonized as a greedy rich cliched and stereotyped Republican. It is unfair and very much a double standard that Snoop gets away with carrying on like that.

In general, it very much annoys me that some lefties cannot accomplish writing music during Democrat Administrations. It takes a Republican President to make them feel outraged and downtrodden upon. Then after earning a big pile of money, they dont even say "thank you" to that Republican president. For Example .. Green Day.

[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

YouTube - hammerfall-templars of steel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3OaO_aeQNM)

Very liberty oriented lyrics... In fact I was always hoping this song would be used in a Ron Paul video. Takes a little bit for the lyrics to start but make sure to listen close (in this video you can read along) as they are quite powerful. Hammerfall is a great band with a lot of great songs with a freedom theme.

YouTube - Jackyl - Back Off Brother (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDlemglD1lo)

Jackyl is one of my favorite bands and many of their songs speak to the freedom minded individual. In fact I think the line "Uncle Sam, kiss my ass" should be enough to make anyone a fan of this band.

YouTube - POKER FACE - KONTROL (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me--3dc6FNw)

Poker Face is an awesome band who should be making millions. They were huge backers of Ron Paul.. They have a few other songs you can hear on youtube you just have to find them.

I would also suggest Look what I did, Aimee Allen and there are numerous songs from what I call "youtube bands" on youtube that you can check out.

[Depressed Liberator]

In general, it very much annoys me that some lefties cannot accomplish writing music during Democrat Administrations. It takes a Republican President to make them feel outraged and downtrodden upon. Then after earning a big pile of money, they dont even say "thank you" to that Republican president. For Example .. Green Day.

Green Day was good when they weren't political (i.e. Dookie and the other early albums). Those were great days in my youth... I agree with a lot of their assessments of Bush, but they fail to see that Obama is not really that different from Bush.

[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

Oh yeah.... I would also check out the bands Carnivore and Type O Negative.. many of their songs have great liberty minded themes and speak out against big government, social programs and political correctness.

[Distinguished Gentleman]

The people who think reading Mises.org makes an exciting afternoon possess characteristics that don't mesh well with modern music. Good music is often guided by strong passion, not objective realism. We'll find musical support for the anti-war front, and the paranoid about government front.

Here's an interesting insight. Every time i think a song is an allegory about the nature of government, it ends up being about drug abuse, particularly heroin. Master of Puppets is an example
YouTube - Blue October - Dirt Room (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXEfa3JnPDU) This one might as well be Libertarian revenge song, but it's not even close.

[Rael]

Twisted Sister has alot of songs with libertarian lyrics.

Steppenwolf wrote some very libertarian songs.

Iron Maiden has some songs that have a libertarian feel, notably "The Prisoner", also some songs critical of politicians, such as "Be Quick Or Be Dead" and "The Age Of Innocence"

Judas Priest have many songs with a "butt out of my business" theme, like Grinder, You Don't Have To Be Old To Be Wise, and Beyond The Realms of Death

Sanctuary/Nevermore write many anti government songs.

And has been mentioned, Rush.

[Agorism]

Crass is the father band of anarchist punk. I would have posted some anti-flag as well but that's already up, but I think Crass is more anarchist and leftist than anti-flag.

Crass - Bloody Revolution

YouTube - Bloody Revolutions (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bty2DCJOoFs&feature=related)



You talk about your revolution, well, that's fine
But what are you going to be doing come the time?
Are you going to be the big man with the tommy-gun?
Will you talk of freedom when the blood begins to run?
Well, freedom has no value if violence is the price
Don't want your revolution, I want anarachy and peace

Chorus: You talk of over throwing power with violence as your tool
You speak of liberation and when the people rule
Well ain't it people rule right now, what differnce would there be?
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me

But what about those people who don't want your new restrictions?
Those that disagree with you and have their own convictions?
You say thay've got it wrong becuase they don't agree with you
So when the recolution comes you'll have to run them through
Yet you say that revoution will bring freedom for us all
Well freedom just ain't freedom when your back's against the wall

Chorus

Will you indoctrinate the masses to serve your new regime?
And simply do away with those whose views are too extreme?
Transportation details could be left to British rail
Where Zyklon B sucessed, North Sea Gas will fail
It's just the same old story of man destroying man
We've got to look for other answers to the problems of this land

Chorus

Vive la revolution, people of the world unite
Stand up of courage, it's your job to fight

It all seems very easy, this revolution game
But when you start to really play thing won't be quite the same

Your intellectual theories on how it's going to be
Don't seem to take into accoutn the true reality
Cos the truth of what you're saying, as you sit there sipping beer
Is pain and death and suffering, but of course you wouldn't care
You're far too much of a man for that, if Mao did it so can you
What's the fredom of us all agaist the suffering of a few?
That's the kind of self-deception that killed ten million jews
Just the same false logic that all power-mogers use
So don't think you can fool me wiht your political tricks
Bovernment is government and all government is force
Left of right, right or left, it takes the same old course
Oppression and restriction, regulation, rule and law
The seizre of that power is all your revolution's for
You romanticise your heroes, qutoe from Marx and Mao
Well thir ideas of freedom are just oppression now

Nothing's changed for all the death that their ideas created
It's just the same fascistic games, but the rules aren't clearly stated
Nothing's really different cos all government's the same
They can call it freedom, but slavery is the game
There's nothgin that you offer but a dream of last years hero
The truth of revolution, bother..................... is year zero



http://www.stink-finger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/crass.jpg


Originally conceived and intended as the cover artwork for a self-published pamphlet version of Rimbaud's Christ's Reality Asylum, the Crass logo represented an amalgamation of several "icons of authority" including the Christian Cross, the swastika and the Union Flag, combined with a two-headed snake consuming itself to symbolise the idea that power will eventually destroy itself.[15][16] Using such deliberately mixed messages was part of Crass' strategy of presenting themselves as a "barrage of contradictions", which also included using loud, aggressive music to promote a pacifist message, and was in part a reference to their own Dadaist and performance art backgrounds.



Also In have to mention Copperhead Road.

YouTube - Steve Earle - Copperhead Road (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk)

[TXcarlosTX]

YouTube - Propaganda - Sepultura (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo4feG0V_vo)

Why Don't You Get A Life And Grow Up
Why Don't You Realize That You're Fucked Up
Why Criticize What You Don't Understand
Why Change My Words, You're So Afraid

You Think You Have The Right To
Put Me Down
Propaganda Hides Your Scum
Face To Face You Don't Have A Word To Say
You Got In My Way, Now You'll Have To Pay

Don't, Don't Believe What You
See
Don't, Don't Believe What You Read
No!!!

I Know My Ways, I'm Here To Stay
I Didn't Start All This Yesterday
I'll Prove You Wrong All The Way
Life Teaches Me You're Always Alone

Don't, Don't Believe What You
See
Don't, Don't Believe What You Read

[TXcarlosTX]

YouTube - Sepultura - Refuse/Resist - Q Audio (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j60YLP2r5o)


Chaos A.D.
Tanks on the streets
Confronting police
Bleeding the Plebs
Raging crowd
Burning cars
Bloodshed starts
Who'll be alive?!

Chaos A.D.
Army in siege
Total alarm
I'm sick of this
Inside the state
War is created
No man's land
What is this shit?!

Refuse/Resist
Refuse

Chaos A.D.
Disorder unleashed
Starting to burn
Starting to lynch
Silence means death
Stand on your feet
Inner fear
Your worst enemy

Refuse/Resist
Refuse/Resist

[Condor Bastadon]

Somebody mentioned Iced Earth....their guitarist also has a side project called Sons of Liberty. Lol they even have a song called 'The Creature from Jekyll Island".

[Rael]

Probably should add that lots of bands have anti war songs but that does not make them libertarian. Plenty of anti war people have no problem with using violence to solve domestic problems.

[Agorism]

Blimp

[Liberty_Mike]

Crass is the father band of anarchist punk. I would have posted some anti-flag as well but that's already up, but I think Crass is more anarchist and leftist than anti-flag.


Wow, a Crass fan! Glad to see some other people here who listen to punk!

[00_Pete]

How Humans tend to worship "artists" and think they know better than us is something that puzzles me. If one has an understanding of History and what is really going on, one comes to the conclusion that the "artistic class" are some of the most easily dupped, corrupted, arrogant, elitist people around.

I couldnt care less about "artists" and their "message".

[Wesker1982]

The Exploited: Alternative.

YouTube - The Exploited -- Alternative (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HhJakyWVJg)


Something's happened what's gone wrong
Going down the dole got to sign on
Millions of kids with nothing to do
You better watch out they're after you

Alternative
I don't wanna join the army
Alternative
I know it's a waste of time
Alternative
No alternative is what they say
Alternative
The choice is mine

Politicians what do they care
They're all money grabbers they're after their share
They don't give a shit if you get shot
Cause there ain't no way they'll be there

Do you really want to die
Alternative
Kill other people just to survive
Alternative
Only the dead have their freedom
Alternative
It's the living that's got to suffer most
Alternative

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

Freedom Call is a great libertarian power metal band.

YouTube - Freedom Call - Freedom Call (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Q4MtgPPKE)

YouTube - Freedom Call - Carry On (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlosMkcZWu0)
YouTube - Freedom Call - Rise Up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f3s2uFQFMk)

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

NoFx - The Plan

YouTube - NOFX - The Plan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiIA0QgxMxc)

Good liberty song :p

Nevermore - Inside Four Walls

YouTube - Nevermore - Inside Four Walls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRJbo41oqQ)

[Wesker1982]

D.O.A: WWIII

YouTube - D.O.A - World War 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twSREBowTwQ)


WW III, WW III, WW III, don't you bloody see? WW III
It doesn't matter what you say, you won't make it no bleedin way
You haven't got any choice, you really haven't got any voice
Preventive measures have been taken, it'll really help against
nuclear rapin
No streets, no people, left on the land, the policy ran out on our
plan
That's right...
World war, lotsa fun
People in a panic, on the run
World war, lotsa fun
White House is aimin the gun
World war, lotsa fun
People in a panic on the run
World war, lotsa fun
The kremlin's aimin the gun
We're pawns in the middle, sittin ducks with no acquittal
They're gonna make us fight, protectin oil is our right
Unlock them now on the flag deck, Soviet bombers you're gonna net
It's breakin up the Richter scale, bombs away, they're gonna sail
No human lives stand in the way, cause we're on our way to a new
clear day
That's right...
CHORUS
I really don't want to die, World War III
With A-bombs droppin from the sky, World War III
Don't give me your reasons why, World War III
Just know I don't wanna die, World War III
Give'em any chance they're gonna take it, give'em any rules they're
gonna
break it
It really ain't no riddle, I just know it ain't gonna be little
We haven't got a clue on what we're gonna do
So we're just pawns in the middle, sittin ducks with no acquittal
End up dead, end up dead, end up dead
End up dead, end up dead
World War III, World War III, World War III, World War III
Give'em any chance they're gonna take it, give'em any rules they're
break it
It doesn't matter what flag you hoist, you really haven't got any
choice
No human lives stand in the way, cause we're on our way to a new
clear day
We're just pawns in the middle, sittin ducks with no acquittal
World war, world war
World war, I don't want it
World war, I don't need it
World war, I won't take it
World war, world war, world war


Screeching Weasel: My right

YouTube - Screeching Weasel - My Right (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfFdjqn7wUM)

My right to say what I want
And think the way I wanna think
My right I wanna speak my mind
My right to yell my right to scream
My right no one's ever gonna
Tell me what I have to do
I'll live my life the way I want
I don't care about your little world
And I can't believe you're telling me
What's good for me how do you know what's good?
And I can't believe you're telling me
What to believe, get away from me - my right
No matter what I do, to you
Is one big mistake
Well I'm sick of you I know I'm right
You sleazy money grubbing fake
My right my life my soul my mind
My body my existence means
That I don't have to listen to you
It's my right cause I'm a human being

YouTube - The Clash - Guns of Brixton (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcizZebcaU)

[ClayTrainor]

NoFx - The Plan

YouTube - NOFX - The Plan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiIA0QgxMxc)

Good liberty song :p

Wow, those are some great lyrics. Too bad fat mike seems to be an advocate for socialism, in many other songs. I presume he would describe himself as an anarcho-socialist.

[CCTelander]

Twisted Sister has alot of songs with libertarian lyrics.

Steppenwolf wrote some very libertarian songs.

Iron Maiden has some songs that have a libertarian feel, notably "The Prisoner", also some songs critical of politicians, such as "Be Quick Or Be Dead" and "The Age Of Innocence"

Judas Priest have many songs with a "butt out of my business" theme, like Grinder, You Don't Have To Be Old To Be Wise, and Beyond The Realms of Death

Sanctuary/Nevermore write many anti government songs.

And has been mentioned, Rush.


This isn't really a "libertarian" song per se, but it's definitely a pretty chilling warning against the surveillance state:



YouTube - Judas Priest - The Hellion/Electric Eye (Live) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TopkgGxGzQs)


Electric Eye
Judas Priest



Up here in space
I'm looking down on you.
My lasers trace
Everything you do.
You think you've private lives
Think nothing of the kind.
There is no true escape
I'm watching all the time.

I'm made of metal
My circuits gleam.
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean.

I'm elected electric spy
I['m] protected electric eye.

Always in focus
' can't feel my stare.
I zoom into you
But you don't know I'm there.
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove.

I'm made of metal
My circuits gleam.
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean.

I'm elected electric spy
I['m] protected electric eye.

Solo

Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
[There]'s nothing you can do about it.
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows.

I'm made of metal
My circuits gleam.
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean.

I'm elected electric spy
I['m] protected electric eye.
I'm elected electric spy
I'm elected
Protected. Detective. Electric eye.

[KurtBoyer25L]

Priest, awesome.

Not sure why anyone hasn't said this one.

YouTube - Billy Joel - My Life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85sIJcC8zbs)

[BULBASAUR!]

I don't know how into death metal this forum is, but Molotov Solution is a very libertarian band. They have lyrics that deal with markets and the fed. This song is basically about Obama being a puppet and a deciever. Read the lyrics, it's good stuff.
YouTube - Molotov Solution - The Harbinger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpd7t4W-KPQ)

[ClayTrainor]

I don't know how into death metal this forum is, but Molotov Solution is a very libertarian band. They have lyrics that deal with markets and the fed. This song is basically about Obama being a puppet and a deciever. Read the lyrics, it's good stuff.

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Just FYI, the embed code doesn't work on this forum. Youtube links embed automatically here. :)

YouTube - Molotov Solution - The Harbinger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpd7t4W-KPQ)

[BULBASAUR!]

Just FYI, the embed code doesn't work on this forum. Youtube links embed automatically here. :)

YouTube - Molotov Solution - The Harbinger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpd7t4W-KPQ)

Lol yeah my bad. Thanks and fixed.

[heavenlyboy34]

How Humans tend to worship "artists" and think they know better than us is something that puzzles me. If one has an understanding of History and what is really going on, one comes to the conclusion that the "artistic class" are some of the most easily dupped, corrupted, arrogant, elitist people around.

I couldnt care less about "artists" and their "message".

It's a matter of the artist being able to make subjective points in a way that is aesthetically pleasing-something that can't be done in other media. Verdi is still a hero in Italy to this day because his operas told immortal truths. (there used to be a common phrase in Italy, "Viva Verdi!". Vittorio Emanuele Re D'Italia-Victor Emmanuel King of Italy-referring to Victor Emmanuel II, then king of Sardinia.)

I'll have you know that I am an artist and I resent your rude, collectivist remarks.:p (though some artists are very worthy of such insults, especially Hollywood and TV elites)

IOW, the arts are an important way that society understands reality. Mere words are not enough.

[BetaMale]

Frank Zappa! Hugely anti-union.

http://www.americasyouthvsbiggovernment.com/frank-zappa-freedoms-last-artist/

[TheAmeros]

The Ameros
www.theameros.com

Check out their Youtube video for Terminator Seeds... Its very Rage inspired...

[tfurrh]

Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd) has some great anti-war/anti-establishment/anti-media songs. He is against Capitalism though.
Check these albums out:

The Final Cut - Pink Floyd
Radio K.A.O.S - Roger Waters
Amused Themselves to Death - Roger Waters

Another great anti-war song:
To Kill a Child - Roger Waters

[Wesker1982]

Wow, those are some great lyrics. Too bad fat mike seems to be an advocate for socialism, in many other songs. I presume he would describe himself as an anarcho-socialist.

Yeah, it makes me wonder why they made that song at all. Great song though.

[AGRP]

What makes a band "libertarian" unless they explicitly state they are?

A lot of bands who dare to speak/sing out against the state oddly appear only when a Republican is in office. Not saying they're Libertarian, but what happened to RATM and Green Day? I think GD disappeared once Obama started is term. GD appears to be more statist than anything. RATM seems libertarian.

[belian78]

I'm not sure about political affiliation, but Killswitch Engage's 'Breaking the Silence' seems tailor made for the RP Revolution. Throwing off the shackles of apathy, realizing true change starts with you, breaking the silence. Tearing down the existing system and rebuilding.. look up the lyrics, it's an awesome song. Albeit, a bit heavy for some.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPrg7q0y2UI

[TheAmeros]

[QUOTE=DeadheadForPaul;2800763]I really wish there was a libertarian version of Rage Against the Machine - nothing fires me up quite like them...it's a shame that they're a bunch of Reds

any libertarian bands out there?

songs?

The Ameros
www.TheAmeros.com

Terminator Seeds (Global Governance)

Name Your Price for Freedom (Civil Liberties Post 9/11)

H1N1 - Against state mandated vaccines

Weight of the World (Economic Struggle)

Backs Against the Wall
Finding the truth / Police State vs. Community and local solutions

The list goes on.

[Wesker1982]

RATM seems libertarian.

Definitely not.

[ClayTrainor]

Definitely not.

Pure Commies.

894

[dannno]

Definitely not.

Meh.


Word is born
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Now I got no patience
So sick of complacence
With the D the E the F the I the A the N the C the E
Mind of a revolutionary
So clear the lane
The finger to the land of the chains
What?
The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy

Now something must be done
About vengeance, a badge and a gun
So rip the mike, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against 'em

Now action must be taken
We don't need the key
We'll break in

I've got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
I've got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
Sick of sick of sick of sick of you
Time has come to pay...
Know your enemy!

Come on!
Yes I know my enemies
They're the teachers who taught me to fight me
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission
Ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams

[VBRonPaulFan]

pennywise has a lot of songs promoting the individual and against government tyranny and authority for the sake of authority. i think the singer is pretty libertarian, the drummer is a loudmouth and pretty leftist though I think, which comes out in a couple of their songs (like an anti-gun song).

My own country (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHYA-Wl_Myo)
lyrics for my own country:
Fools run the government sick foreign policy
Their words sound valiant but their hands are green
Unending quest for power Taxes that make us slaves
Don't believe a word of it ignore the fucked up things they say
I'm gonna make it on my own Dictator on a throne
Make my own philosophy U.S. of me
A citizen who's really pissed United Anarchists
Give me death or liberty I am my own country
United States Confederate of Me
Old whigs in parliament play bedroom politics
Salacious stories make them look obscene
Spin on your nemesis fill up the news today
Don't believe a word of it not all the fucked up things they say
it's ail me No secret police

Fight till you die (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dmAWvis_uI&feature=related) <-- such an awesome song!
Fuck Authority (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPnel7P8jek)
Living for today (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kBZ1mYjeBE&feature=related)

[Wesker1982]

Pure Commies.


Yep.

Didn't they just not long ago put on a show in support of some tyrannical government program? I can't remember which one it was, but I remember loling.

Good time to bring up this I guess for anyone who hasn't seen it:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQcUkd1w_TY

[VegasPatriot]

Aaron Lewis - Country Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQzw_Ax8Cw&feature=player_embedded

Aaron is lead singer for Staind. He recently has been promoting Oath Keepers by wearing an OK hat during concerts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBwhjQsuLi0&feature=player_embedded

[FreeTraveler]

Jake Kellen is a country-western singer who did a song for Ron Paul in 2007. I mixed a video on top of it. It's down there in my signature.

I particularly like the high-speed video bit about the zeppelin. :D

[DamianTV]

Sons Of Liberty


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h-4Yw0qbUA

[PreDeadMan]

lol rage against the machine i know the message may be sort of communist or left leaning but.... i love the music and some songs you try to forget what the band is about and concentrate on the lyrics like killing in the name of "fuck you i wont do what you tell me!" sort of an anti authority message that's the sort of thing i like. My band does cover RATM the song bombtrack though i don't care if they are commies or socialists i still like the music lol. I mean i'm pretty much anti violence also and i like cannibal corpse and bands that sing about killing people and crazy stuff but i'm a peaceful person doesn't really matter honestly lol.

[Marenco]

lol rage against the machine i know the message may be sort of communist or left leaning but.... i love the music and some songs you try to forget what the band is about and concentrate on the lyrics like killing in the name of "fuck you i wont do what you tell me!" sort of an anti authority message that's the sort of thing i like. My band does cover RATM the song bombtrack though i don't care if they are commies or socialists i still like the music lol. I mean i'm pretty much anti violence also and i like cannibal corpse and bands that sing about killing people and crazy stuff but i'm a peaceful person doesn't really matter honestly lol.

I know. Obviously we are not going to agree 100% politically with bands. If we are going to be that picky with bands on political and economic issues we might as well listen to the birds chirping outside.

[doctor jones]

listenlisten
Robert Ellis
Comrade

^^ Those are bands that I know are Ron Paul supporters.

Traffique
Peter and the Wolf (U.S. not UK one)

^^Those are two projects by a guy named Red Hunter that likes Ron Paul, Red wrote and recorded the song in the Phone from home video I did with the girls Ann & Kirby.

[doctor jones]

LISTENLISTEN:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynp9-BSiZ7s

ROBERT ELLIS (who grew up in Lake Jackson where Ron Paul lives, now resides in Austin, TX):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR2UjSNKQZc

PETER AND THE WOLF:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_8p3fjt4Do

TRAFFIQUE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuLQ1x_z8M

[xFiFtyOnE]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puyV00aGj54&feature=player_em.
This. Not my style but a band.
I heard rumors Tom Araya of Slayer supports RP. Would be awesome.

[KurtBoyer25L]

Blues Traveler. Ugh. It's like a two-chord, wonky music box that loops for hours at a slow or fast speed.

TSOL (True Sounds of Liberty) always claimed to be Libertarians, but they also wrote anarcho-communist songs like "Property is Theft." I suppose if you listen selectively you can find some chill liberty punk-anthems in their records.

[J.R. Wilbur]

Hello, i joined this site just to reply to this post. Go to youtube, wilburjr channel, you'll find 'em there! Thanks.

[presence]

https://assets.pando.com/_versions/libertarian-grateful-dead_featured.jpg

[J.R. Wilbur]

When I suggested that people go to wilburjr channel on youtube, I should have suggested that viewers avoid the following videos: (Trees Reunion, Band Practice, and Mac & Mire). All others, I believe, are relevant to the 2016 elections. Thanks for your time!-J.R. Wilbur.

[Anti Federalist]

Wow, lots of good members in this thread that have gotten the ban hammer or drifted off.

[Ender]

I've posted this a few times: oldie but goodie- and still pertinent.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY

And, even if you think Rage is commie, this is still awesome:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJbqKLcCjp4

[phill4paul]

Wow, lots of good members in this thread that have gotten the ban hammer or drifted off.


indeed.

[PAF]

Sleater Kinney "Combat Rock"

They tell us there are only two sides to be on
If you are on our side you're right, if not you're wrong
But are we innocent, paragons of good?
Is our guilt erased by the pain that we've endured?

Hey look, it's time to pledge allegiance
I love my dirty Uncle Sam
Our country's marching to the beat now
And we must learn to step in time

Where is the questioning? Where is the protest song?
Since when is skepticism un-American?
Dissent's not treason, but they talk like it's the same
Those who disagree are afraid to show their face

Let's break out our old machines now
It sure is good to see them run again
Oh gentlemen, start your engines
And we know where we got the oil from

Are you feeling alright now?
Paint myself all red, white and blue
Are you singing let's fight now?
Innocent people die, uh oh

There are reasons to unite
Is this why we unite?
If you hate this time
Remember we are the time!

Show you love your country, go out and spend some cash
Red, white, blue hot pants doing it for Uncle Sam
Flex our muscles show 'em we're stronger than the rest
Raise your hands up, baby, are you sure that we're the best?

We'll come out with our fists raised
The good old boys are back on top again
And if we let them lead us blindly
The past becomes the future once again


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

[AcidReign]

Frank Turner is folk/alternative/Punk. Frank considers himself a classical liberal.

Sons of Liberty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk_6kwZbNJs

Once We were Anarchists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLkGhCVRSo4

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OgkjcW0g4

Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don’t take it all
Cos I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman

If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrmQB38aT5U
I was born in a welfare state
Ruled by bureaucracy
Controlled by civil servants
And people dressed in grey
Got no privacy, got no liberty
Cos the twentieth century people
Took it all away from me.

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=46&amp;v=k8zmkzshUvE

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk_6kwZbNJs

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T-Lc9BweRo
I pay my gardener to clean up my garden/
I pay my doctor to check out da other ting/
I pay my lawyer to fight for my rights/
And I pay my bodyguard to guard my body/
There's only one man I pay/
But I don't know what I'm paying for/
I'm talking about the taxman!/

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxDuFUSSd8E




You're the boot.
Stomping on the human face forever.
You're the eye.
Staring down on everyone and ever seeing all.
You're the lie.
Twisting all our minds into your whoredom.
You are Death.
You are war.
You are slavery.
You're the law.
You're the law.
You're the law!
When laws spew like vomit from power-drunk tongues
And freedom's a lie that the old tell the young
Then out of the darkness,
The rebels arise ...

When "for your own good" is a lock and a chain
And "security's” used to enslave hearts and brains
Then out of our bondage
Rebellion will fly. ...

So crush their damned spycams, rip open your cage
Let liberty loose with a howl of wild rage
Each tyrant you smash
Is a freedom you've won

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bitxwy6okn4

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az-sQd9dP74

The State, the government, the supreme, the eternal
The aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public
All states, everywhere
Whether democratic, dictatorial or monarchical ...

For centuries, the State has robbed people at bayonet point and called it "taxation"
For centuries, the State has enslaved people into its armed battalions and called it "conscription" ...

For centuries, the State has robbed people at bayonet point and called it "taxation"
Coercion and violence by the direct threat of confiscation or imprisonment

(https://genius.com/Porter-robinson-the-state-lyrics#note-2954324)

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV7u91A3KGQ

It’s a no-knock raid,
Don’t be afraid
We’ll shoot your dogs,
In front of your kidsCuz we’re the SWAT ...


We are adrenalin junkies taking orders from the top,The KGB and the DEA,
They’ll make you disappear,
Like in Guantanamo Bay,
In the middle of the night,
You’ll have nothing to say,
If we get the wrong address it doesnt matter anyway, ...

Paramilitary police-state on parade,
It’s no-knock raid,
Don’t be afraid,
You do the time for your victimless crime, And it’s a no-knock raid,
It’s a no-knock raid,
Don’t be afraid,This is a war,
And this is your fate,
We are the face of your new police state,
We are the law,
And we’ve got the guns,
Statutory powers, ...

[AZJoe]

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

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP-IM7maxbI

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrY9eHkXTa4
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
'Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp_qMbDmB8Y
You work hard, you make money
There ain't no on in the world who can stop you
You work hard, you went hungry
Now the taxman is out to get you

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYRGjMSUoU8

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=D8wLa3-Q2CU

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqXAW2snGMI

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=iWloySIHcvg

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mEzgc_ne60

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DiWxcilWtU
Take my love.
Take my land.
Take me where I cannot stand.
I don't care,
I'm still free.
You can't take the sky from me.
Take me out to the black.
Tell em I ain't comin' back.
Burn the land
And boil the sea.
You can't take the sky from me.

[AZJoe]

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

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY

[AZJoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiKh9Ko3mw4