Me and few other people from the old sub put together a Spotify playlist for leftist music that we’ve been regularly updating since:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5MGpprkCm9D40KyRUSWLem?si=oRNAwNApTnuB4WE1Hgul-Q
Feel free to add whatever you like
I believe they are mostly anarchists. The music is instrumental, but the art work, song titles and spoken word passages have a very obvious anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist message. Their last album had these "demands" in the liner notes:
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an end to foreign invasion
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an end to borders
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the total dismantling of the prison–industrial complex
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healthcare, housing, food and water acknowledged as an inalienable human right
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the expert fuckers who broke this world never get to speak again
There are vocals in one of the GY!BE side projects, Silver Mount Zion, where the politics are much more obvious and transparent. They're worth checking out too IMO though the vocalist (Efrim) is an acquired taste.
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Their music and samples include lots of left wing themes.
Recommend you start with the Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada EP
I can't get enough of Bad Religion's close harmonizing. Best part of their music.
Bambu is a more experimental, less homophobic immortal technique.
The Coup, Rebel Diaz and Dead Prez are all excellent revolutionary hip-hop groups that deserve a place on this list.
does this count? it starts with a parenti voice sample https://youtu.be/eDLBGTkLgow
Some leftist and leftist-ish artists off the top of my head:
Refused
Dead Kennedys
Crass
Chumbawamba (yes, that band)
Discharge
Parquet Courts
Idles
The Coup
Gang of Four
CCCP Fedeli alla Linea
Minutemen
Propagandhi
Billy Bragg
Phil Ochs
Reagan Youth
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Thee Silver Mount Zion
Rudimentary Peni
Panopticon
Choking Victim, Leftover Crack, Morning Glory, InDK are solid if you're looking for some more punk.
Jpegmafia - communist slow jams
JPEGMAFIA x Freaky - I Might Vote 4 Donald Trump
Kate Tempest - Europe Is Lost has a super cool video, a little lib in places though
Lowkey is great. Check out Iraq2Chile, his anti obama song, terrorist, but all his stuff is pretty good politically, often musically.
this is a good french song making fun of white nationalists.
Clem Snide - Ballad of David Icke
And you probably know this one, but Tracy Chapman - Talking about a Revolution
One of my favorite verses ever is Stef on "Marathon"
Respect given where it’s livin / peace to non-violents populating the prisons / Bag a dicks follow the money track / chew on that if you profit off of somebody’s back / Atlas with the standards / sickle sharp and red as fuck with my hammer / chisel tippin, chisel chippin, shaping scenery / hit the prism, catch a vision, whiff of unity / Let em dip and sweat and trip out on the tryptamines / instead of feelin it’s better livin through chemistry / or prolly extra feelin everything / Hyperrealing the fuck outta nights because days sting / and playthings save sentiments / pain brings them same things to resent and quit / So it’s chest fulla broke toys / and no noise is loud enough to drown me / Got ya boy turning every knob to the right / every button with an arrow up crushed / til my vision is bright white / Mute the dialogue, watch the lips move / change the script around, make that bullshit tight / I been a real self-starter / found myself swimmingly, real hot water / since I was young I seem to feel this harder / these guys are fucking kidding me / world made for larpers / I tend to ghost, knapsack, arrow, and stealth / fulla mean and a copy of Health is in You! / Sometimes it be like that / just gotta put the pipe down and get your feelings back / ya heard kids, spitting on teens / pulling down cloud nine, pissing on dreams / shitting on em, it’s real bodily for me right now / I’m bout to body somebody and barf / every fluid cept the good one / Giver everyday til every city is in ruins / Bash til I’m burger / Hashtag No Kings, crash y’alls server
But I also have a giant playlist I use when I hit the gym full of shit that gets me hyped up.
It's all hip hop if you fuck with it. Might need to pare it down at some point or add something new. Shits dope though
Christian Fitness (can’t find a streaming platform, found them on YouTube or buy direct from the band) and despite being a little on the nose, The Future of the Left. Both are heavey alternative rock type bands with a bit of the ‘ol Touch and Go sound for good measure.
bad religion radicalized me and helped me comfortable in my newfound athiesm
