List of political punk songs
This is a list of notable punk rock songs that express ideological views.
On authoritarianism
- "Portrait of Authority", Recipe for Hate, Bad Religion
- "No", The Day the Country Died, Subhumans
- "[...] Authority", Land of the Free?, Pennywise
- "Get Off the Phone", Free Souls in a Trapped Environment, Citizen Fish
- "Commies and Nazis", Unite and Win, Oi Polloi
- "Bleed for Me", Plastic Surgery Disasters, Dead Kennedys
- "Police [...]", The Massacre, The Exploited
- "I Am the Owl", Plastic Surgery Disasters, Dead Kennedys
- "Re-Gaining Unconsciousness", The War on Errorism, NOFX
- "Social Control", Spare Change?
On conformity
- "Against the Grain", Against the Grain, Bad Religion
- "Individual", Stranger Than Fiction, Bad Religion
- "Inner Logic", Stranger Than Fiction, Bad Religion
- "Chickenshit Conformist", Bedtime for Democracy, Dead Kennedys
- "Terminal Preppie", Plastic Surgery Disasters, Dead Kennedys
- "Come Join Us", The Gray Race, Bad Religion
- "Conformity", What the [...] Will Change, A Global Threat
- "Blenderhead", Against the Grain, Bad Religion
- "Henchman", No Control, Bad Religion
- "Ugly Desires", 24 Hour Roadside Resistance, Against All Authority
- "Banned From the Roxy", The Feeding of the 5000, Crass
- "Rejected", Rancid, Rancid
- "Longview", "Minority","Fashion Victim" ,Green Day
On consumerism
- "...And Now, Back to Our Programming", ...And Now, Back to Our Programming, Aus-Rotten
- "Panic In the Supermarket", Millennia Madness, Citizen Fish
- "Adversity", The Subhumans, Subhumans
- "Steal This Record", Steal this Record, [...] Machines
- "Sell You Beautiful", The Resignation, RX Bandits
On [...] legalization
- "Herojuana", Pump Up the Valuum, NOFX
- "My Congressman", Lucky, Fifteen
- "[...]", El Vals del Obrero, Ska-p
On environmentalism and animal rights
- "This is the ALF", The Ungovernable Force, Conflict
- "Tough [...] Mickey", Increase the Pressure. Conflict
- "Pathetic Humanity", And Now Back To Our Program, Aus Rotten
- "Pigman", Worlds Apart, Subhumans
- "Nailing Descartes To the Wall", Less Talk, More Rock, Propagandhi
- "Meat Means [...]", It's Time To See Who's Who, Conflict
- "Flesh and Blood", Free Souls in a Trapped Environment, Citizen Fish
- "Purina Hall of Fame", Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes, Propagandhi
- "Flesh of Another", Antischism, Antischism
- "Blinded By Science", Not So Brave, Flux of Pink Indians
- "Anarcho - Pie", In Defence of Our Earth, Oi Polloi
- "Whale Song", In Defence of Our Earth, Oi Polloi
- "DDT", Battle Hymns, [...] Machines
- "Nuclear Generators", War Profiteering is [...] Us All, [...] Machines
- "Chicken Squawk", Millions of Dead Children, MDC
- "Don't kill the animals", Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich
- "Ready to Fall", (Not in song meaning but in Video)The Sufferer and the Witness, Rise Against
- "Evolution", "EP-LP", Subhumans
On government
- "California Über Alles", Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, Dead Kennedys
- "Government Flu", Plastic Surgery Disasters, Dead Kennedys
- "[...] the Government", [...] the Kids 7"/So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes, NOFX
- "Stars and Stripes of Corruption", Frankenchrist, Dead Kennedys
- "Heads of State", Worlds Apart, Subhumans
- "Perfect Government", Punk in Drublic, NOFX
- "Resisting Tyrannical Government", Less Talk, More Rock, Propagandhi
- "[...] Politicians", Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes, Propagandhi
- "God Save the USA" "From The Ashes", Pennywise
- "Democracy", "The Adolescents", The Adolescents
- "Holiday", "American Idiot", "Green Day"
On militarism
- "Part III", How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, Bad Religion
- "Atomic Garden", Generator, Bad Religion
- "Let them Eat War", The Empire Strikes First, Bad Religion
- "Rambozo the Clown", Bedtime for Democracy, Dead Kennedys
- "All Good Soldiers", Recipe for Hate, Bad Religion
- "Jarhead Fertilizer", The Aftermath, Dystopia (band)
- "Firecracker", Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues, Strung Out
- "Charity", Free Souls in a Trapped Environment, Citizen Fish
- "March of the Crabs", Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes, Propagandhi
- "State of the Union", Siren Song of the Counter Culture, Rise Against
On prejudice and discrimination
- "[...] [...] Sympathy", [...] [...] Sympathy, Aus-Rotten
- "Absent Minded", The Rotten Agenda, Aus-Rotten
- "Don't Call Me White", Punk in Drublic, NOFX
- "[...] Punks [...] Off", In God We Trust, Inc., Dead Kennedys
- "The Only Good Fascist Is A Very Dead Fascist", Less Talk, More Rock, Propagandhi
- "Gay Rude Boys Unite", Mediocre Generica, Leftöver Crack
- "Hating Hate", Battle Hymns, [...] Machines
- "Black and White World", Battle Hymns, [...] Machines
- "The Competition Song", "The Fuse", Pennywise
- "Avenues And Alleyways", ...And Out Come The Wolves, Rancid
- "Guilty of Being White", in which lyricist Ian MacKaye claims to be blamed by black Americans for slavery in America, something he dismisses as having happened "a hundred years before [he] was born" "In My Eyes EP", Minor Threat
On straight edge
- "Straight Edge", Complete Discography, Minor Threat
- "Out Of Step", Complete Discography, Minor Threat
On the flaws of the punk subculture and wider youth culture
- "Anarchy For Sale", Dead Kennedys
- "Punk is dead", The Feeding of the 5000'', Crass
- "Tribal Rival Rebel Revel", Crass
- "White punks on hope", Crass
- "Separation of Church and Skate", NOFX
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