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Recent Protest Songs

22 Friday Jun 2018

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recent protest songs

Playlist by Algernon

This list takes in protest songs from the early 1980s to date.

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

Still on your side – Jimmy Barnes featuring Bernard Fanning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exsaCN4c5dc

You are the problem here – First Aid Kit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD3gdgNq-G0

Idioteque – Radiohead

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

How can poor man stand such times and live – Bruce Springsteen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-48u_uWMHY

Alright – Kendrick Lamar (Language warning)

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

Ballad of a politician – Regina Spektor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRjZoRtu0Y

Paper Plains –M.I.A.

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

Sun City – Little Steven and Artists against Apartheid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51t1OsPSdBc

Fuk da Police – N.W.A. (explicit language warning)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejorQVy3m8E

Beds are burning – Midnight Oil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxz7CYkQltE

Blackfella Whitefella – Warumpi Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQnGqdFO9EY

77% – The Herd (explicit language warning)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBZHN9MepPI

Wipe that shit eating grin off your punchable face – The Smith Street Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnh7x8aU26g

Two Tribes – Frankie goes to Hollywood

Best of 2017 Volume 6

06 Tuesday Feb 2018

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Playlist by Algernon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JwjxCGgIM4

Fathers child – Michael Kiwanuka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTcEXp1J3ns

The brooding side of madness – Walker soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTbTHlTmDX8

Galveston – Glen Campbell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EArPVHtQ5wc

Got the bull by the horns – Johnny Horton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7QzxYAjgNc

Spooky – Dusty Springfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYOT82WMC_I

Friday on my mind – The Easybeats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDdXe51yphI

It’s a shame – First Aid Kit

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

Jackson – The Hillbilly Moon Explosion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir8aXF0t4SM

Be bop a lula – Stray Cats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Nr-FoA9Ps

Mambo Italiano – Sophia Loren

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejorQVy3m8E

Beds are Burning – Midnight Oil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9eap_cKLP4

Forgotten Years – Midnight Oil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2adh27RZgZU

Confessions 1, 2 & 3 – Style Council

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

Don’t ask me questions – Graham Parker and the Rumour

 

 

Aussie Favourites

26 Friday Jan 2018

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Meat & Livestock’s entry in the Opera House Redesign Competition

Playlist by Algernon.

Yep they’ve all been presented somewhere before. Well I think.

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

To her door – Paul Kelly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XaSm9-r_4U

These Days – Powderfinger

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

Working class man – Jimmy Barnes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZD982yrmx4

Tomorrow – Silverchair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irNtyaNHq5A

Love Letter – Clairy Browne and the Banging Rackettes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqJhfE08wxE

My Boyfriends back – Spazzys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJfP6G0LSEA

Streets of your town – The Go Betweens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9M3b9lh-7s

Know your product – The Saints

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8F5mL_vRbU

Stares and Whispers – Renee Geyer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA2waTkFZAc

Girls on the avenue – Richard Clapton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHFFuukk9Y8

April sun in Cuba – Dragon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYSN8z0x7m0

Daughters of the Northern coast – Australia Crawl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRVuJxIRd9U

We’ve got to get out of this place – The Angels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sUXMzkh-jI

Long way to the top – AC/DC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj-82dn75bg

Pleasure and Pain – Divinyls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaN4vma0n0A

Shark Fin blues – Missy Higgins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fm27zZ4psw

Droving woman – Paul & Dan Kelly and Missy Higgins (and the Rockwiz band)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY

Somebody I used to know – Gotye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJJV1nruUUA

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZEodxUx2ME

My Island Home – Warumpi Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXtj21ALOHE

Beautiful child – Archie Roach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pKPNnk-JhE

Power and the Passion – Midnight Oil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URNAtC_GQ4c

Hundreds of Languages – GANGgajang

 

 

 

 

Best of 2017 Volume 5

20 Saturday Jan 2018

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Playlist by Algernon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZzA2Ne0HSo

Love and hate – Michael Kiwanuka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OAZ-BPjB0U

Omotepe – Walker soundtrack

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

Wichita linesman – Glen Campbell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pKPNnk-JhE

Power and the Passion – Midnight Oil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYYVza3j1sE

Garden of Eden – Style Council

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRc2_-BCljQ

Sound and vision –David Bowie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOMKyvWH3fQ

Girl Happy – Elvis Presley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGZXzmM1smM

The underside of power – Algiers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEZAC9B7MFQ

Are you my woman (tell me so) – The Chi-lites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cNyl18Cb18

Love Me – Bobby Freeman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a93_5AXZx18

Sexopolis – Jean Pierre Mirouze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYh6mLNlC40

La horse –Serge Gainsbourg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi49yirJiEA

Changes – Charles Bradley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXlP7PyaHdA

Raise your hand – Tom Jones and Janis Joplin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqZ2JBVXgpA

The ghetto – Donny Hathaway

 

Midnight Oil !

13 Monday Nov 2017

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Playlist by Algernon

For all those who can’t or are unable to get to a concert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IveuP25qX6k

Don’t wanna be the one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzNubP9QAZQ

Armistice Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w29r322jqlY

US Forces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pKPNnk-JhE

Power and the Passion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQVdBAU_p2w

Kosciusko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16bFBzx7I_0

The Dead Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejorQVy3m8E

Beds are Burning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzEwCc4WVKs

Put down that weapon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofrqm6-LCqs

Blue Sky Mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9eap_cKLP4

Forgotten Years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuC_k51NUqU

King of the Mountain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcxdbZ5chcc

Truganini

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4rOTwJ1PwE

The Real thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcKcjpSWmm0

Dreamworld

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3FQwovIJw0

Wedding Cake Island

The Pros and Cons of conflict redux

23 Sunday Apr 2017

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Playlist by Algernon

(Mostly from a list presented in 2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjWCPsST4xQ

Smiley – Ronnie Burns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY

I was only nineteen – Redgum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82UpqFCwe_w

Postcard from Saigon – James Blundell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTjvG4WJD_A

Khe Sanh – Cold Chisel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V94eo1F3T8

Warnings moving clockwise – Do Re Mi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9eap_cKLP4

Forgotten years – Midnight Oil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAFv2NEE-_c

US forces – Midnight Oil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG48Ftsr3OI

The Band played Waltzing Matilda – Eric Bogle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whiN4s60wPc

Homecoming – Bruce Dawe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyQyhVXUwM0

In Flanders Fields – John McCrae

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL8u00l0CnE

Can you hear Australia’s Heros Marching – Peter Barnes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceWKrsJX9N4

Hey True Blue – John Williamson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMGAzhmKd7E

Blossom and Blood – Midnight Oil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K0rK6L6a1w

Curl the Mo, Uncle Joe – George Trevare & Orchestra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tv5gBa9DQs

Battle of the Somme

 

All time Pigs Arms favourites – Part 1

20 Friday Jan 2017

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Playlist by Algernon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGbRZ73NvlY

The Buena Vista Social Club – Chan Chan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XWYefe9EzI

Massachusetts – The Bee Gees

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHbCE53s9hQ

Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T3FXFnoTzE

Don’t let me be misunderstood – Nina Simone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5dwksSbD34

Taxi – Harry Chapin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AzEY6ZqkuE

Everybody’s Talkin – Harry Nilsson

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

Dixie chicken – Little Feat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLk4vdY28Q

Halleujah – Leonard Cohen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej6_oaETVp8

Winter in America – Doug Ashdown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKxZY0DIxIk

Easy Livin – Uriah Heep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw4BjU62t5Y

Dear Prudence – Doug Parkinson

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

No Milk today – Herman’s Hermits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq8OU-7JDFA

My Old School – Steely Dan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14pitnJlcv4

Breezin – George Benson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqJhfE08wxE

My Boyfriends Back – The Spazzys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3FQwovIJw0

Wedding Cake Island – Midnight Oil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkGXUn0Kuuw

Tomorrow never knows – 801

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuhWXamkfw8

The Paris Match – The Style Council

 

 

20 years on a little further still

22 Sunday May 2016

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20 years on

Playlist by Algernon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I83nc2IlSKg

Concrete and Clay – Martin Plaza

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

Stimulation – Wa Wa Nee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ir9HC9vYg

The sun always shines on TV – a-ha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrnvPCSP6Q8

Welcome to the Pleasuredome – Frankie goes to Hollywood

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

Live it up – Mental as Anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TSDjivoy-0

Crazy – Icehouse

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

Funkytown – Pseudo Echo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpkGvk1rQBI

Beds are Burning – Midnight Oil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugA5bLqivkY

What’s my Scene – Hoodoo Gurus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qRpIA3RKYc

Walk like an Egyptian – The Bangles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A

Don’t you forget about me – Simple Minds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJZF-skCY-M

You keep me hanging on – Kim Wilde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58

Living in America – James Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn9E5i7l-Eg

What have I done to deserve this – Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=129kuDCQtHs

Dancing in the dark – Bruce Springsteen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-jdhorGtQI

Neutron Dance – The Pointer Sisters

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surfs Up

22 Sunday Nov 2015

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surfs up

Playlist by Algernon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3h9p_c5-M

Miserlou – Dick Dale and the Dell-Tones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoN6AKPGkBo

Apache – The Shadows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p13yZAjhU0M

Wipe Out – The Surfaris

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

Hawaii Five O – The Ventures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omG-hZfN6zk

Pipeline – The Chantays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5D-G0IW08U

Bombora – The Atlantics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3FQwovIJw0

Wedding Cake Island – Midnight Oil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs76somm2k4

Torquay – The Fireballs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYamklT9N0

Bustin’ Surfboards – The Tornados

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT5rBEKnFEc

Surfside – The Denvermen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWTjjm-Gg3c

Ghost riders in the sky – The Ramrods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXyeb8ND89M

Out of Limits – The Marketts

 

Music for Pubs Revisited

16 Friday Oct 2015

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Playlist by Algernon

Sit back and enjoy this. I first presented most of this list in 2013.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0OwLIY9moA

Bury me deep in Love – The Triffids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDTmcW-juq0

Alone with you – Sunnyboys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKiZ9VSD6U

Aloha Steve and Danno – Radio Birdman

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

Suburban boy – Dave Warner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9M3b9lh-7s

Know your product – The Saints

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

Man Overboard – Do Re Mi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mkidP2OUCk

Great Southern Land – Icehouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOBpER0M44I

State of the Heart – Mondo Rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlnz95SZwBk

Stares and Whispers – Renee Geyer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugA5bLqivkY

What’s my scene – Hoodoo Gurus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlIXT0yhq5M

Run to Paradise – The Choirboys

He’s gonna step on you again – The Party Boys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e69wQsfrbSU

Throw your arms around me – Hunters and collectors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS6MU0R-2c0

Live it Up _ Mental as Anything

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

Quasimodo’s Dream – The Reels

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pKPNnk-JhE

Power and the Passion – Midnight Oil