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Songs of Protest | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 17370
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 70734
UPC: 081227073428
EAN: 0081227073428
ASIN: B0000032M5
Release Date: February 1, 1991
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| Tracks:
| • | Where Have All the Flowers Gone? - Seeger, Pete | | • | Eve of Destruction - Sloan, P.F. | | • | With God on Our Side - Dylan, Bob | | • | Universal Soldier - Sainte-Marie, Buffy | | • | Laugh at Me - Bono, Sonny | | • | Let Me Be - Sloan, P.F. | | • | It's Good News Week - King, Kenneth | | • | I Ain't Marching Anymore - Ochs, Phil | | • | The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag - McDonald, Country J | | • | People Got to Be Free - Brigati, Eddie | | • | Sky Pilot - Briggs, Vic | | • | Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking) - Ian, Janis | | • | Abraham, Martin and John - Holler, Dick | | • | Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) - Strong, Barrett | | • | War - Strong, Barrett | | • | Signs - Thomas, Arthur |
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 Songs of Protest July 30, 2007
A lot of good music protesting the Vietnam War. I was over there ( 4 tours) when I first heard this album. I liked it then and I still like it today.
Back to the 60's and 70's August 3, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
After going to a party and remembering some of the great songs from the Protest Era around the Vietnam war, I bought this album. I was looking for songs from County Joe and the Fish and from others....I had forwotten the great artists like Manfred Mann and Donovon.
I loved these songs....we need new singer songwriters to capture and record the current protest....which goes largely unhead.
 A complete waste of time and money February 27, 2003
4 out of 28 found this review helpful
One star is far too generous. This CD obviously was cobbled together from someone's old tapes, complete with audible hiss. The selections are all downhill after Eve of Destruction and Universal Soldier. Sonny without Cher? Who ever heard of that? Who can listen to that?
 Almost Good July 11, 2001
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
My main complaint about this disk is that Hedgehoppers Anonymous song "It's Good News Week" is an abridged version. I haven't heard the long version since the WVVX (a Chicago-area FM station) dropped its "oldies" format in the early 1980s. Surely Rhino could have tracked down the long version.Otherwise, this is a nice period piece
The Sixties Weren't Just About Peace And Love April 2, 2001
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
As a child of the Sixties, I have a very strong emotional connection to these songs and as such find this a very enjoyable collection. If, however, you were to unearth these songs from a time capsule and listen to them for the first time thirty-plus years after they were first recorded, you might wonder what the fuss is all about. Certainly some of these songs were of the moment. To use an old cliche: You had to be there. After all, at age 30, Sonny Bono was a bit long in the tooth to play the angry young man. And "It's Good News Week" sounds more comical than biting satire. But many of these songs retain their potency. Certainly, the carnival sound of "The 'Fish' Cheer/I Feel Like I'm Fixin'-To-Die Rag" is the perfect antithesis of the brutality of the Vietnam War. The Rascal's "People Got To Be Free" evokes John Lennon's sentiment that "All You Need Is Love." The Kingston Trio's version of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" is a sad reminder of the price to be paid for war. Dion's "Abraham, Martin And John" still gives me chills. The one really glaring omission from this set is Dylan's "Masters of War." Only Edwin Starr's "War" comes close to matching Dylan's outrage. If you need to remind yourself that the Sixties weren't all peace and love, this collection does a more than adequate job of showcasing the protest genre. RECOMMENDED
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