I don't hear much rap in which I can hear the societal concerns so present in 60s protest (folk-style) music. But true I find modern rap much harder to listen to musically than I did the first steps into rap, in which, even with an outsider's ear, I could hear the rythms.

But I was going to say that I do find that one of the few things that is nice about the present UK government (and I would have guessed much the same about the US) is that so many of the songs I learned when I was first revolting ("the students are revolting") are now again very relevant.

Let's see - just a few -

Eve of destruction (change refrain to "Tony believes they had the means of destruction")

Masters of War.

We shall overcome.

(True traditional folk) Rigs of the times.

Shoop Shoop (the vote song).

Times they are a-changing.

All my trials.

Streets of London.



The venality of central government has not changed. The greed of mainstream society has not changed. Do we need new protest songs, or wil the old ones do?