Putting this here because I wasn't sure it fit in Up the People. Anyway, inspirational music for La Resistance!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li...GoH_1TPEoZ&jct=2pB4XUqfIHAUu9pK4bUq6suLehOe3A Here's my playlist so far. Survival, comfort, resolution. Following that link will let anyone signed in add videos to it. Only request for this one is no discordant noises or screamo,
They have been cited They have been indicted We've been ignited to break until they bend We will deny them This will be our anthem We will defy them till the bitter end They will not force us They will stop degrading us They will not control us We will be victorious I have more! Give me a bit to organize them!
It's pretty Ireland-specific, but Come Out You Black And Tans has stuck in my head since the first time I heard it (and Irish music has piles of other rebel songs) Or if you're like me and sometimes like to wallow in melancholy, this is one of my favorites (this or Fields Of Athenry or The Wind That Shakes The Barley) And on a sillier note, I saw Trolls earlier this week and it hit me right in my happy music and visual places, and I was looping this song just for something to listen to, but it was actually pretty soothing the day after the election. I MAY have gotten distracted and let this three-minute song loop for manymany hours on my headphones at work today (this video is the movie one, there's a soundtrack version too with cleaner plain music)
The Pogues and Shane MacGowan and the Popes in general are lovely in general but this is my favorite. We put the hood, round his head Then we shot the bastard dead With a knicknack paddy whack, give a dog a bone Send the stupid bastards home I am also intensely fond of his Roddy McCorley. For a bit less gloom or violent cries to resistence with guns MacGowan wrote The Snake with Eyes of Garnet which is just...Beautiful. The man had a problem with drink and many other things but he's a poet. If you miss me on the harbor For the boat, it leaves at three Take the Snake with Eyes of Garnet My mother gave to me The Snake cannot be captured The Snake cannot be tied The Snake cannot be tortured Or hung or crucified It came down through the ages It belongs to you and me So pass it on and pass it on Until all mankind is free
More of a battle song, very "we are small but that does not mean you can afford to ignore us" Solidarity-themed, not militaristic despite the title
Pity there's no recording of the rats' chant in the book version of Coraline. It's part of the lyrics of this, but the full song isn't really fitting. "We are small but we are many / We are many, we are small / We were here before you rose / We will be here when you fall."
(the line "the monsters you have to fight beneath the bed when you're grown up" feels really fitting. that and the little reprise from naughty at the end.)
@unknownanonymous This one works too: This one is a villain song, but if you need to feel badass it's perfect:
... Okay, only slightly related, but the original French version of "Do you hear the people sing" turns out to be much less revolution-y than the English version.
