He has a thousand songs, from memory such as :
- An hommage to Fidel Castro : https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/commandante-fidel-alejandro-castro-ruz ;
- « What makes a person go from Occupy Wall Street, To marching through the desert with blisters on their feet » https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/rojava ;
- « And they can talk as they may » https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/st-patrick-battalion-2 ;
- A brief history of the democratic party https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/democrats-make-me-wanna-vomit-2 ;
- Another world is possible : https://yewtu.be/watch?v=pxvKvjPik7c ;
- Everything could have already changed https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/everything-can-change ;
- And they all sang the internationale https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/they-all-sang-the-internationale ;
- Of course https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/why-dont-they-play-you-on-the-radio ;
- And so much more, i.d.k.
YT Music banned him in November, without explanations nor possibility to appeal as usual, he thinks it may have been linked to this song, but how can he knows.
Of course he’s no millionaire, so if you’re ever interested in his agitprop consider donating and gain access to all this, or not, i’m just saying
A lot of his songs are about the history of past struggles of the american worker’s movement, or historic figures, as well as many songs against Israel(, being of jewish origins himself), or on landlords/‘rent control’. https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-sing
I.d.k. if it’s linked, but a few months ago, after so many decades, he turned to a.i. music(, which he justified by many posts, e.g.), where he’s producing almost one song per day(, he’s already at the tenth album in ~four months, but even before that he produced more than 45 albums in 30 years) ! https://youtube.com/channel/UCeaMkZIylEBdx8ue4cfkeEg
Each album has its own guided tour
Did you strike a blow ? https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/strike-a-blow-against-the-empire
Make some noise
man, “and they all sang the internationale” slaps. death to youtube, death to amerikkka
if you absolutely must use youtube, do it with a client app like newpipe or freetube so that they can’t show you any ads.
Thanks, i should have edited the post sooner. Each person has its own favorite themes so i didn’t know what kind of best-of to make.
What’s freedom of speech if we’re only allowed to say things authorities agree with ?And if you/someone is interested in militant songs, there are other artists here : https://open.substack.com/pub/protestmusic
FireFox (or a similar Mozilla variant without the AI bullshit) with uBlock Origin works in a pinch, too!
They all sang the Internationale always gets me tearing up.
He posted recently on insta that YouTube slapped him with a strike for So Many Ways to Kill a CEO, so imagine it’s been a long time coming.
I’m quite partial to his Saint Patrick’s Battalion performance, which they took down.
Thanks, i didn’t necessarily expected some people here to have known him before, even if out of his thousand songs in 30 years, some of them had hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube.
There were live performances, i suggested on substack to make a copy of his account on, e.g., Peertube, but obviously it won’t be the same, that’s a huge hit.Somebody post Saint Patrick’s Battalion on here for Saint Patrick’s Day a couple years ago and I’ve been digging him ever since. Yeah, hopefully pops up over on peertube, it’d be a good get for whatever instance he joins.
Less success on reddit obviously, i suppose that i painted him as more of an extremist than he is https://www.reddit.com/r/fantanoforever/s/GLDuidzb6F (https://redlib.nohost.network/r/fantanoforever/comments/1qid5vw/comment/o0rdw8f/)
Even worse on lemmy.world : https://lemmy.world/post/41914630
Some more selections :
- His most violent song, directed at his landlord when he increased the rent for the 9th year in a row https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/letter-to-my-landlord ;
- « Who gave you the right to be a landlord, to live a life of ease while others toil ? » https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/landlord-2 ;
- « The average annual income of the richest 1% is about $700.000. The average annual income of the poorest 1% is a couple Food Stamps and a pile of sand. Smack-dab in the middle, $350.000, but that’s actually the top 4% » https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/welcome-to-the-working-class ;
- When i’m elected president : https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/when-im-elected-president ;
- The battle of Blair Mountain https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/battle-of-blair-mountain ;
- Gather round https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/gather-round ;
-The commons https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/the-commons ;
- « Here’s to love and solidarity » https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/behind-the-barricades-2 ;
- I’m a better anarchist than you : « https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/im-a-better-anarchist-than-you-2 » ;
- Pirates! https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/black-flag-flying-3 ;
- On Joe Hill : https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/joe-hill-2 ;
- On John Brown : https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/john-brown-2 ;
- On many more people : https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/say-their-names ;
- (Not what would Jesus do, but )Who would Jesus bomb ? https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/who-would-jesus-bomb ;
- « If I wrote a love letter to each corpse as it is carried, I’d never still my pen » https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/song-for-basra ;
- After the revolution : https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/after-the-revolution ;
- We could make the planet earth great again : https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/make-the-planet-earth-great-again ;
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Lol. Yea, I wouldn’t expect much from either of those places.
If this were a war seems rather relevant lately.
Tbh it’s kind of nice to know this guy is still plugging away after all these years. Haven’t really been aware of him since twenty years ago when there was that whole drama between him and riotfolk scene because he wasn’t radical enough for them or something
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