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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