Music

Protest Songs Tier List

Music that was actually trying to say something, ranked by lasting impact.

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The crowd's ranking

S: Ohio (song), Fortunate Son

A: Alright (Kendrick Lamar song), Fight the Power, Blowin' in the Wind, This Land Is Your Land, What's Going On (song)

B: Zombie (The Cranberries song)

C: American Idiot, Imagine (John Lennon song)

throwaway68057: "Imagine no possessions," sung from a giant white mansion.

AlexEats: American Idiot is more of a mood than a protest song.

humble_possum_84: Four dead in Ohio. They wrote and released it within weeks of Kent State.

frozen_wizard: Fortunate Son plays every time a helicopter shows up in a Vietnam movie.

SilentPigeon8940: The fact that most people don't know This Land Is Your Land is a protest song makes it even better.

LazyBiscuit27: Where's War Pigs?