Streets of Minneapolis by Springsteen–and 9 more protest songs

The lesson here might be: don’t do something so heinous and evil that Bruce Springsteen spends his Saturday writing a song about it, his Sunday recording that song, and his free time giving free concerts explaining how badly you screwed up.

There’s a long history of protests songs, and an art to them.

They can’t be too on-the-nose, hitting the audience on the head with the message. But they can’t be so poetic and obscure that people don’t know what you’re really singing about. A tough balance.

Here are the other nine, and I’m not counting down to the best one. They’re all good.

Number 9

Number 8

Number 7

Number 6

Number 5

Number 4

Number 3

Number 2

Number 1

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