Artist	Song
Bruce Springsteen	Born In the U.S.A.
from Born In the U.S.A. (1984)
Woody Guthrie	This Land Is Your Land
from The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 (1999)
Public Enemy	Public Enemy #1
from Fight the Power - Greatest Hits Live (2007)
Sam Cooke	A Change Is Gonna Come
from 30 Greatest Hits - Sam Cooke Portrait of a Legend (1951-1964) [Remastered] (2005)
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five	The Message
from The Message (2005)
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Fortunate Son
from Chronicle: 20 Greatest Hits (2006)
Green Day	American Idiot
from American Idiot (Deluxe Version) (2006)
Marvin Gaye	What's Going On
from Motown 1's (2004)
Pearl Jam	World Wide Suicide
from Pearl Jam (1992)
Dixie Chicks	Not Ready to Make Nice
from Taking the Long Way (2006)
P!nk	Dear Mr. President (feat. Indigo Girls)
from I'm Not Dead (2006)
Winger	Headed for a Heartbreak
from Winger (2009)
Le Tigre	New Kicks
from This Island (2004)
Bob Dylan	Masters of War
from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (2010 Mono Version) (2010)
Randy Newman	Song for the Dead
from Trouble In Paradise (2008)
Neil Young	Let's Impeach the President
from Living With War (2006)
Eminem	Mosh
from Encore (Deluxe Version) (2004)
Les McCann & Eddie Harris	Compared to What
from Atlantic Top 60: Jazz, Jive and Strut (2007)
John Mellencamp	To Washington
from Trouble No More (2003)
The Isley Brothers	Harvest for the World
from The Essential Isley Brothers (2004)
Steve Earle	John Walker's Blues
from Jerusalem (2002)
Nina Simone	Mississippi Goddam
from The Best of Nina Simone (1986)
Rage Against the Machine	Killing In the Name
from Rage Against the Machine (1992)
The Guess Who	American Woman
from The Best of the Guess Who (2006)
The O'Jays	Give the People What They Want
from The Essential O'Jays (2004)
Ice Cube	Amerikka's Most Wanted
from Amerikkka's Most Wanted (2003)
John Fogerty	Deja Vu (All Over Again)
from Deja Vu All Over Again (2004)
Public Enemy & Moby	Make Love Fuck War
from Make Love Fuck War - EP (2004)
Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello	Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further
from The River In Reverse (2006)
Ice-T	Freedom of Speech
from The Iceberg / Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say (2010)
Marvin Gaye	Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
from Number 1's: Marvin Gaye (2007)
Phil Ochs	I Ain't Marching Anymore
from I Ain't Marching Anymore (2006)
The Black Eyed Peas	Third Eye
from Elephunk (2004)
OutKast	B.O.B.
from Big Boi & Dre Present, Outkast (2001)
Bob Dylan	A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (2010 Mono Version) (2010)
Coldplay	Politik
from A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)
System of a Down	Boom!
from Steal This Album! (2002)
Bright Eyes	When the President Talks to God
from When the President Talks to God - Single (2005)
Prince & The Revolution	America
from Around the World In a Day (2007)
The Clash	I'm So Bored With the U.S.A.
from The Essential Clash (2003)
Spearhead	Crime to Be Broke in America
from Home (1994)
Dead Kennedys	Stars and Stripes of Corruption
from Frankenchrist (2004)
Sum 41	We're All to Blame
from All the Good Sh**. 14 - Solid Gold Hits 2000-2008 (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
Randy Newman	Political Science
from Rhino Hi-Five: Randy Newman - EP (2005)
R.E.M.	Final Straw
from Around the Sun (2004)
Aimee Mann	Real Bad News
from Lost In Space (2008)
Incubus	Megalomaniac
from A Crow Left of the Murder... (2000)
Edwin Starr	War
from Motown 1's (2004)
Steve Earle	The Revolution Starts Now
from The Revolution Starts Now (2004)
The Roots	Why (What's Goin On?)
from The Tipping Point (2004)
Beastie Boys	Right Right Now Now
from To the 5 Boroughs (2004)
Morrissey	America Is Not the World
from You Are the Quarry (2009)
Jackson Browne	For America
from Lives In the Balance (2008)
Curtis Mayfield	(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go
from Curtis (2004)
Public Enemy	Son of a Bush
from Fight the Power - Greatest Hits Live (2007)
Ashanti, Brandy, Claudette Ortiz, Eve, Fabolous, Faith Evans, Floetry, Jadakiss, Jaheim, Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliott, Monica, Musiq Soulchild & Wyclef Jean	Wake Up Everybody
from Wake Up Everybody (Bedford Remix) - Single (2004)
Sleater-Kinney	Combat Rock
from One Beat (2002)
Pete Seeger	We Shall Overcome
from Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits (1987)
A Perfect Circle	Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums
from Emotive (2004)
Lucinda Williams	American Dream
from World Without Tears (2003)
Jewel	America
from 0304 (2003)
The Impressions	This Is My Country
from This Is My Country (2006)
Saul Williams, Coldcut, DJ Spooky & DJ Goo	The Pledge of Resistance
from Not In My Name (2002)
Nine Inch Nails	The Hand That Feeds
from With Teeth (2005)
Prince	Sign 'O' the Times
from Sign 'O' the Times (2007)
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy	Satanic Reverses
from Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury (1992)
K'naan	Wavin' Flag
from Troubadour (2010)
Sarah McLachlan	World On Fire
from Afterglow (2003)
Country Joe & The Fish	I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag
from The Life and Time of Country Joe and the Fish - From Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock (1991)
k.d. lang	Acquiesce
from All You Can Eat (2008)
Thievery Corporation	The State of the Union
from The Richest Man In Babylon (2003)
Bill Withers	I Can't Write Left-Handed
from Bill Withers - Live At Carnegie Hall (1997)
Bad Religion	The Empire Strikes First
from The Empire Strikes First (2005)
Lifesavas	Resist
from Spirit In Stone (2003)
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	This Land Is Your Land
from Naturally (2006)

Comment:

Even before John Hancock put his John Hancock on the Declaration of Independence, the Colonies were already a world-class power when it comes to airing its beefs in song. And nearly a quarter-millennium later, whenever a burr gets under our national saddle, there's a tune to go along with it. Brutality, bigotry, the economy, politics, war . . . any subject on which two people can have opposing viewpoints, [i]somebody's[/i] picked up a mic and laid down a message. From Aimee Mann to Edwin Starr, from R.E.M. to Nine Inch Nails, from the Beastie Boys to the Dixie Chicks, we've got your favorite artists telling it like it is — and how they feel it [i]ought[/i] to be.

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