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meimjustalawnmower
12-17-2012, 10:46 PM
This one tops my list...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd4v4qrD6eg

sonic
12-18-2012, 11:49 AM
You mean songs about rebellion? What's rebellious about being one of the boys?
I'd go with this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mCKLt7A6sA

sonic
12-18-2012, 11:55 AM
Also:
Jefferson Airplane - We Can Be Together
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The U.K.
X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours!
Kinks - I'm Not Like Everybody Else

rapidfirerob
12-18-2012, 01:44 PM
Also:
Jefferson Airplane - We Can Be Together
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The U.K.
X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours!
Kinks - I'm Not Like Everybody Else
I would think JA- Volunteers is more rebellious.

sonic
12-18-2012, 01:47 PM
I would think JA- Volunteers is more rebellious.
You are right.

Progmatic
12-18-2012, 01:56 PM
John Lennon -Give Peace a Chance
Muse - Uprising
Cat Stevens - Peace Train
David Bowie - Rebel

maybe kidding...define rebellious rock

meimjustalawnmower
12-18-2012, 06:35 PM
John Lennon -Give Peace a Chance
Muse - Uprising
Cat Stevens - Peace Train
David Bowie - Rebel

maybe kidding...define rebellious rock

A general disregard for the status quo.

Don't worry. There's no right or wrong answer, and you won't be graded. ;)

80s were ok
12-18-2012, 07:52 PM
Kiss - detroit rock city

tom unbound
12-18-2012, 07:55 PM
?? 7 posts and nobody mentioned the MC 5 ?? KOTJ,MF !!

sonic
12-18-2012, 09:36 PM
?? 7 posts and nobody mentioned the MC 5 ?? KOTJ,MF !!
I looked at the lyrics and they aren't rebellious. The song is just about having a good time, not about rebelling:

Well i feel pretty good
And i guess that i could get crazy now baby
Cause we all got in tune
And when the dressing room got hazy now baby

I know how you want it child
Hot, quick and tight
The girls can't stand it
When you're doin'it right
Let me up on the stand
And let me kick out the jam
Yes, kick out the jams
I want to kick'em out !

PeterG
12-19-2012, 06:18 AM
JESUS!!! 70s Punk passed you lot by did it???

sonic
12-19-2012, 09:58 AM
Here's one for you Peter. Loved this as a teen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rmg7Ms_R-M
and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nu6z6NGtOs

Sturgeon's Lawyer
12-19-2012, 10:28 AM
Some obvious ones:

The Who -- My Generation; Won't Get Fooled Again
The Beatles -- Revolution
Sam Cooke -- A Change is Gonna Come
Barry McGuire -- Eve of Destruction
Clash -- Rock the Casbah

tom unbound
12-19-2012, 11:13 AM
I looked at the lyrics and they aren't rebellious. The song is just about having a good time, not about rebelling:

"Crystallizing the counterculture movement at its most volatile and threatening", according to Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, the MC5's far left political ties and anti-establishment lyrics and music positioned them as emerging innovators of the punk movement in the United States.

I believe that means 'rebellious'.

davis
12-19-2012, 11:58 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2HCVghCq5s

davis
12-19-2012, 12:06 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psB0cidB5bg

Homburg
12-19-2012, 12:16 PM
You mean songs about rebellion? What's rebellious about being one of the boys?


Well said. And I don't think that being an aggressive teenager is really rebellious either: it's what teenagers are supposed to be like.

Within rock orthodoxies, I want to be straight by Ian Dury was quite rebellious, I think. And I'm straight by Jonathan Richman. For that matter, his I'm a little dinosaur was more rebellious than The Sex Pistols.

Perhaps Living in the past?

davis
12-19-2012, 12:19 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxJxbKJYz8A

zombywoof
12-19-2012, 12:30 PM
In a genre where 3 chord tunes, 'baby' lyrics, and 2 minute songs are the norm, prog rock is as rebellious as it gets...

davis
12-19-2012, 12:43 PM
Jonathan Richman.. his I'm a little dinosaur was more rebellious than The Sex Pistols.

I'm dying to know why you think that :lol

meimjustalawnmower
12-19-2012, 01:59 PM
Well said. And I don't think that being an aggressive teenager is really rebellious either: it's what teenagers are supposed to be like.

Well, I first identified with that song as a teenager who was very influenced by glitter rock (Mott, NY Dolls, T.Rex) while living in the deep south when the simple act of growing one's hair shoulder-length was still considered to be rebellious and anti-social, even amongst your peers. I had previously lived in So. California where even in the mid-sixties such behaviors were better tolerated. So it all depends on the situation. By the time we got to the era of the Sex Pistols, I had already gotten all that teenage angst out of my system, anyway. In fact, I thought that most of the english punk scene was a joke, and in many ways I still do.

davis
12-19-2012, 02:13 PM
^ you should've lived in my house. I was allowed to wear my hair long once I got into 10th grade (1972) as long as I kept it clean and combed. "Rebellion" was a bad word & frowned upon. I love my mom, but she was controlling & domineering with me to the point of near suffocation. Interestingly, my folks were pretty flexible with the music I listened to.

m.k
12-19-2012, 02:15 PM
Jonathan Richman […] his I'm a little dinosaur was more rebellious than The Sex Pistols.
I got a chuckle out of that as it recalled a fanzine Richman gig review a friend once wrote where she referred to me, her concert going companion, as "a hard-core punk fan with a soft spot for songs about little dinosuars"... :)

meimjustalawnmower
12-19-2012, 02:35 PM
My parents weren't a problem. They, themselves were considered young at the time, being around the same age as any of the famous rocks stars of the day. My dad was still not quite 20 when I was born in 1958. They were moderate conservatives, but probably more tolerant of the changes in popular and social culture during that time. They certainly overlooked small stuff like the art and fashion choices of their children, unless the choices themselves became a distraction from the more important things.

zombywoof
12-19-2012, 02:47 PM
Well, I first identified with that song as a teenager who was very influenced by glitter rock (Mott, NY Dolls, T.Rex) while living in the deep south when the simple act of growing one's hair shoulder-length was still considered to be rebellious and anti-social, even amongst your peers. I had previously lived in So. California where even in the mid-sixties such behaviors were better tolerated. So it all depends on the situation. By the time we got to the era of the Sex Pistols, I had already gotten all that teenage angst out of my system, anyway. In fact, I thought that most of the english punk scene was a joke, and in many ways I still do.

It really is a joke. So much more pretension than I've found in ANY prog band. I never saw angst as something I looked for in music. I seemed to skip that phase entirely as a teenager ... I was always the calm, thinking type. I still am. Adrenaline rush has never been in my vocabulary.

Homburg
12-19-2012, 08:25 PM
Jonathan Richman. For that matter, his I'm a little dinosaur was more rebellious than The Sex Pistols.


I'm dying to know why you think that :lol

Imagine being a teenager and hearing about a band that swears on television and is rude about the queen and is rude about everyone else. And imagine then hearing a man singing a song about being a little dinosaur. Which would you decide to declare you like if you wanted to conform with your peers, and which would you only admit to liking if you had a 'fuck what my peers think' attitude?

davis
12-20-2012, 12:05 PM
^ Okay, understood. I never told any of my peers (in elementary school) that I watched & liked Mister Rogers. I was already something of a misfit; didn't want to make it worse. Anyway...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC0jTrAoXN4

spellbound
12-20-2012, 12:08 PM
Rebel Music - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Zeuhlmate
12-20-2012, 05:01 PM
It depends of the decade and the country.
Some songs are more generic than others The Who, Stones and The Kinks made a few.

m.k
12-20-2012, 06:07 PM
Probably tops my list if I had one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDNzQ3CXspU

spacefreak
01-04-2013, 05:50 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMOilP9sz5U

Scrotum Scissor
01-04-2013, 10:21 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2i8D03A5uc