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Please share the full final list when you can because these are great.

Elvis Presley - In the Ghetto

Might be too obvious.

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SRLevine@neuromatch.social

Nice project! Wow, 124 replies and counting. Hope mine don't just duplicate many.

Additional wealth inequality songs:

The Beach Boys—Fun, Fun, Fun (Til Her Daddy Takes the T-bird Away)

Rod MacDonald—American Jerusalem (Somebody must’ve got double ‘cause I got none)

Desmond Dekker—Israelites

Brett Dennen—Ain't No Reason

Paul Simon—American Tune

Leonard Cohen—Everybody Knows

Warren Zevon—Lawyers, Guns and Money

#Politics #Music #Inequality #Money

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Runrig - Dance Called America
Billy Joel - Allentown
James Keelaghan - Hillcrest Mine
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer - Hey Ho
Alison Krauss & Union Station - Granite Mills
Simon and Garfunkel - The Boxer
Si Kahn - Aragon Mill
Richard Shindell - Money for Floods
Richard Thompson - Pharaoh
Woody Guthrie - Old Man Trump
Bruce Springsteen - Youngstown

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This is in fact my jam, especially resistance folk songs, and seeing as the only proper folk song on your list is by Pete Seeger, one of my least favorite folk artists, I had to recommend a few i like better. The first is by Pete's half sister, the second by the woman who wrote "Little Boxes," which Pete made famous. The other two are modern treasures.

Peggy Seeger, "I'm Gonna Be an Engineer"
Malvina Reynolds, "The Money Crop"
Carsie Blanton, "Rich People"
Jesse Welles, "United Health"

I could do a whole list just on folk and folk punk, but I'll restrain myself lol

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Hard-Fi - Cash Machine
https://youtu.be/-f8AgWOpNt8

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🔘 Emmylou Harris - Hard Times Come Again No More • https://youtu.be/VMnA0qGGm7s

@codinghorror Queen + Bowie "Under Pressure"

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God Bless the Child. Billy Holliday recorded it several times. Also Blood Sweat and Tears.

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Jimmy Buffett, Spending Money

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Ordinary Man -- Christie Moore
Sell your labor not your soul -- Brian McNeill
Any Utah Phillips

@codinghorror Dropkick Murphys - Workers Song
https://youtu.be/Clj8htWcFho

@codinghorror Spearhead - Hole in the bucket 

@codinghorror Sixteen Tons?

Lots of covers to choose from, original is a bit too twee country maybe.

@codinghorror Marianne Faithfull: Working Class Hero (Lennon)

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Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything's Alright)

@codinghorror Camper Van Beethoven - When I Win the Lottery
Little Feat - On Your Way Down

@codinghorror Lots of good suggestions already. How about, Ren, Crucify Your Culture?
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=j3fLE5n_Oe4&si=hHxylbVK_yp_SgVG

Also by Ren, Money Game, parts 1-3

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I think The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down is going to be your sweet spot.

Others:
Run DMC - Hard Times
Talib Kweli - Eat to Live

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The Levellers - Hope Street
Fine Young Cannibals - Blue

@codinghorror Yard Act - Rich https://youtu.be/NMBS8dfvjog?si=a6llGnCN2t4gK-fF

@codinghorror Styx - “Blue Collar Man” (Long Nights)

@codinghorror Nick Cave - Easy Money
https://youtu.be/QuUqT863xBo

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In decending order of requirements fit:

Theo Katzman - I don't wanna be a billionaire
William Devaughn - Be thankful for what you got (massive attack cover is also good)
Modest Mouse - trailer trash
Run the Jewels - JU$T

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🔘 Thelonious Monk - Easy Street • https://youtu.be/YSMfwD6muMM

@codinghorror Surprised nobody had mentioned John Mellencamp yet. The lyrics to Scarecrow might be too in-your-face for what you want, but the sarcasm of Little Pink Houses slips by casual listeners.

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Manu Chao - Clandestino

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Primus - American Life

@codinghorror Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nFZP8zQ5kzk

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Streets of London - Ralph McTell

Might not be subtle enough.

@codinghorror the Beatles cover of Money (That‘s What I Want) is pretty good, although not nearly as off the wall as The Flying Lizards. And maybe there should be some love for Barrett Strong‘s original as well?

@codinghorror NOFX - The Irrationality Of Rationality

NOFX - Perfect Government

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Chumbawamba - The Big Issue

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The Longest Johns - The Workers’ Song
The Longest Johns - Hard Times Come Again No More (Cover?)
Anne Feeney - War on the Workers
Jon Fromer - We Do the Work

@codinghorror Robben Ford Lateral Climb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgxNpbq8neY

@codinghorror Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog

More than a few opera arias, though never the big ones, I think. Eg, the servant woman singing about how extremely unfair it all is right before the Heroine saves herself from the Duke by… setting up her lifetime servant to be assaulted instead.

I remember sitting up thinking “This is in Mozart?!?” before the plot swerved back to normativity.

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Golden Retriever, by Super Furry Animals

@codinghorror "The Authority Song: by John Cougar Mellencamp.

@codinghorror Pearl Jam’s Soon Forget is a nice anti-rich asshole song…

@codinghorror Queen - Keep Yourself Alive
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing (beware, contains word 'faggot')
Aerosmith - Eat the Rich

I guess Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Paper Blood may be a little on the nose? 😅

@codinghorror Bruce Springsteen, "The River" "...I got a job working construction
For the Johnstown Company
But lately, there ain't been much work
On account of the economy
"

Try anything by Jesse Welles