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I just finished a pod about Wind of Change by The Scorpions which touches on the Moscow Music Festival in relation to the end of the Cold War, the CIA and taking down the wall.

Music has a history of driving revolution. What are some other songs that have a cool history and drove some geopolitical change?
 
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AgronAlum said:
I just finished a pod about Wind of Change by The Scorpions which touches on the Moscow Music Festival in relation to the end of the Cold War, the CIA and taking down the wall.

Music has a history of driving revolution. What are some other songs that have a cool history and drove some geopolitical change?
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When I saw the thread title, Winds of Change was the first thing I thought of. Watching that unfold and hearing that song certainly felt like a highly momentus occasion at that time.
 
Stephen Stills........"love the one you're with"

And with that the std horse was let out of the barn.
 
Elvis Costello’s Oliver’s Army was political but it was just about The Troubles in Northern Ireland and I don’t think it really moved the needle politically. Interestingly, he quit playing it because of the the lyric “One more widow, one less white ni**er”, which was of course an English slur on the Irish…
 
Zombie by the Cranberries. Not sure if it actually brought about change but it highlighted the killing of children during “The Troubles”” in Northern Ireland. After 30 years of fighting the conflict ended within 4 years of the release of Zombie so maybe it had an impact.

 
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c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s said:
Zombie by the Cranberries. Not sure if it actually brought about change but it highlighted the killing of children during “The Troubles”” in Northern Ireland. After 30 years of fighting the conflict ended within 4 years of the release of Zombie so maybe it had an impact.

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Such a hauntingly good song.
 
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20eyes said:
Elvis Costello’s Oliver’s Army was political but it was just about The Troubles in Northern Ireland and I don’t think it really moved the needle politically. Interestingly, he quit playing it because of the the lyric “One more widow, one less white ni**er”, which was of course an English slur on the Irish…
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speaking of the troubles in Northern Ireland. Here is a good one

 
Are we talking about songs that are written to hopefully effect changes? Or songs about events that have already happened?
 
I don't know if it "changed the World" but Paul Simon going to apartheid South Africa to record Graceland with a bunch of traditional African musicians was pretty groundbreaking and he created an all-time great album.
 
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U2’s first few albums are the best example I can think of. Most of the songs were about conflict and most of them from their home Ireland. There had been countless megastars from the UK but an international hit band from Ireland wasn't very common. The situation there did change and improve dramatically shortly after.
 
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