Artist	Song
the clash	london calling
the sex pistols	holiday in the sun
the dead kennedys	holiday in cambodia
the minutemen	this ain't no picnic
husker du	turn on the news
fugazi	merchandise
bikini kill	blood one
the international noise conspiracy	abolish work
sleater-kinney	combat rock
the quails	atmosphere
the sissies	gentrification
julie ruin	i wanna know what love is
heavens to betsy	white girl
liz phair	6'1"
sonic youth	youth against facism
desaparecidos	happiest places on earth
le tigre	fyr
gang of four	at home he is a tourist
yo la tengo	nuclear war

Comment:

this my sorry attempt at a noncliched political mix....and by noncliched, i mean no protest songs about the vietnam war because there are definitely a bunch of other cliched political songs on here. i tried to make it at least a little different from your garden variety sing-a-long with joan baez. the first thing that leaps out at you about this mix is all the kathleen hannah, a whopping three songs that include the queen mother of the riot grrrl movement. i know that seems like a lot and i'm kind of breaking the cardinal rule of mix tape making by having more than one song by the same artist but i justify it by saying that bikini kill, julie ruin, and le tigre are all very different bands with very different styles. that counts, right? i also want to state for the record that i did not mean for both the sex pistols song and the dead kennedys song to be next to each other because they both have 'holiday' in the title. that was a freak accident. i used the yo la tengo version of "nuclear war" instead of the sun ra version because i tend to like it more. the chorus of kids that sing back up is genius because a) listening to children sing about inevitable destruction that the possession of nuclear arms will bring reminds you that nuclear war won't just affect adults, it affects everyone and b) it is funny to hear a bunch of kids say "motherfucker."

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