Can you identify the song, artist and what they're protesting about from the following lyrics?

Limit 4 for now.

1. Buddha's watching, Buddha's waiting
karen - Being Boiled - Human League

2. Flagellation, Regulation
Gaylon - Give Peace A Chance - John Lennon

3. We're stabbing our brothers and sisters in the back
Indy Gent - Sun City - Artists United Against Apartheid

4. Teenager at a live party says "give me one for the road"
Mordor - Don't Drive Drunk - Stevie Wonder

5. Rejoice they sing
Clue: British 70s prog rockers object to commercial destruction of some of the largest animals ever to exist on this planet

6. And still we try to justify the waste for a taste of Man's greatest adventure
mandamoo - Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer

7. They just keep on puffin' how they multiply
Clue: Uncharacteristic hit song from a 70s group of 5 brothers and what appeared to be 488 teeth...
Ceramics Fanatic / Bobo - Crazy Horses - The Osmonds

8. Uncle Sam needs your help again
Gaylon - I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag - Country Joe & The Fish

9. But it won't be over 'til they clear his name
FBVP - Hurricane - Bob Dylan

10. We'll walk hand in hand someday
cornwallis - We Shall Overcome - Various Artistis

11. His body abused but his mind is still free
Paul - Nelson Mandela - Special AKA

12. It was business as usual in police room 619
Bobby - Biko - Peter Gabriel / Sinead O'Connor

13. Induction then destruction
Ceramics Fanatic - War! - Edwin Starr

14. There's a man with a gun over there
FBVP - For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield

15. Don't you understand, what I'm trying to say?
FBVP -Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire

16. Late last night, I heard the screen door slam
Gaylon - Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell

17. He's five feet two and he's six feet four
Mordor - Universal Soldier - Donovan

18. Too many people have died
Paul - Blowin' In The Wind - Bob Dylan

19. Fifty thou a year will buy a lotta beer
Gwen - Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3

20. Government leaving the youth on the shelf
Paul - Ghost Town - The Specials

21. I walked into a door again
cornwallis - Luka - Suzanne Vega

22. She dreams of 1969, before the soldiers came
TheRealJimA - The Lebanon - Human League

23. The longer you stay, the more you pay
Paul - White Lines (Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel

24. The western desert lives and breathes in forty five degrees
FBVP - Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil

25. And drink their martinis dry
Bobby - Little Boxes - Malvina Reynolds

Excellent !

9.  Hurricane - Bob Dylan (Injustice, Racism and all round stupidity)

14.  For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield  (Suppression of free speech and the oversupply of power to those in power)

15.  Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire  (Arms Race and the possibility of armageddon)

24.  Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil  (Decline of indigenous living standards)  I will restrict my comments to that I think  ;)

Good quiz maddog  :)

Excellent !

9.  Hurricane - Bob Dylan (Injustice, Racism and all round stupidity)

14.  For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield  (Suppression of free speech and the oversupply of power to those in power)

15.  Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire  (Arms Race and the possibility of armageddon)

24.  Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil  (Decline of indigenous living standards)  I will restrict my comments to that I think  ;)

Good quiz maddog  :)

Thanks Fuss!

Your answers are correct in all aspects.

The particular injustice in #9 was the conviction of the black boxer Ruben "Hurricane" Carter for murder in 1966. 
Carter protested his innocence and claimed that his conviction was the result of a racist conspiracy.

2. Give Peace a Chance - John and yoko - war in general
8. I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die-Rag - Country Joe and the Fish - Vietnam
16. Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell - ?the environment
18. Cathedral - CSN - Christianity

21.  Suzanne Vega  "Luka" -- child abuse

---cornwallis

8. Fixin' To Die Rag - County Joe & The Fish - Vietnam war
19. Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3 - Nuclear War/Weapons

2. Give Peace a Chance - John and yoko - war in general
8. I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die-Rag - Country Joe and the Fish - Vietnam
16. Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell - ?the environment
18. Cathedral - CSN - Christianity

Hi Gaylon!

#2, #8 and #16 are correct. I believe that "Big Yellow Taxi" is a protest song about destruction of the Earth's ecological environment.

#18 is not the song I had in mind. I don't know this song by CSN, although it may well contain this lyric.

21.  Suzanne Vega  "Luka" -- child abuse

---cornwallis

Good spot cornwallis!
I've a feeling that many people who've heard this song don't immediately pick up on this message.

8. Fixin' To Die Rag - County Joe & The Fish - Vietnam war
19. Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3 - Nuclear War/Weapons

Both correct Gwen, unfortunately Gaylon just beat you to #8  :(.

There's some debate about the message of #19. If you search on any search engine for this song you'll see what I mean.
The argument in favour of it being a protest song rests on the case that "I Gotta Wear Shades" is a reference to a (futile) attempt
to prevent eye damage from a nuclear blast.

Well number 1 is our old friend Being Boiled by Human League about the way silk is made

Hi Maddog!  :)

#13 is "War" by Edwin Starr.  He was protesting war in general, I believe, and was talking about how it was "friend only to the undertaker".

4.Don't drive drunk-Stevie Wonder Drunk driving
18.Universal Soldier-Donovan-War in general

Well number 1 is our old friend Being Boiled by Human League about the way silk is made

;D  ;)

Hi Maddog!  :)

#13 is "War" by Edwin Starr.  He was protesting war in general, I believe, and was talking about how it was "friend only to the undertaker".

Exactement, CF!

4.Don't drive drunk-Stevie Wonder Drunk driving
18.Universal Soldier-Donovan-War in general

Both correct Mordor, well done  :)

...except I think you meant #17 not #18  :-[

(thanks Paul!)

Hi maddog...a nice cheery ol' subject if ever there was one...!

#11. 'Nelson Mandela' - Special AKA
Basically a plea at the time (1984) to release the ANC leader from incarceration where he'd been since 1964...even then, he had to wait another six years...

#18. 'Blowin' In The Wind' - Bob Dylan/Peter, Paul & Mary
Injustice and that naughty thing called 'war' again...

#20. 'Ghost Town' - The Specials
Barring several members, the same group as #11 but from a few years earlier, providing a chillingly accurate snapshot of Thatcher's Britain circa 1981, (high unemployment, police harrassment, etc., which culminated in some terrible rioting in our major cities - I probably need not remind you...)

#23. 'White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)' - Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel/The Furious Five
A fervent anti-drugs 'rap' (the 'white lines' being cocaine...) - ironically, I think one of the 'Furious Five' (although not credited as such on the record) did actually succumb to a drug overdose...

Awp! Just noticed that #18. is not the song you're after...even tho' those lyrics are in it, and it's another protest song!!













(This space to let...!!)

Hi maddog...a nice cheery ol' subject if ever there was one...!

Hiya Paul!
I don't necessarily agree that all these songs are not cheerful - serious in many cases but not always miserable, I'd say.


#11. 'Nelson Mandela' - Special AKA

#18. 'Blowin' In The Wind' - Bob Dylan/Peter, Paul & Mary

#20. 'Ghost Town' - The Specials

#23. 'White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)' - Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel/The Furious Five


All correct in all respects Paul, comprehensive and illuminatiing as always :)


Awp! Just noticed that #18. is not the song you're after...even tho' those lyrics are in it, and it's another protest song!!

It IS the correct song Paul. Gaylon had guessed a different song for this earlier though.

10.  "We Shall Overcome"  -- civil rights

---cornwallis

10.  "We Shall Overcome"  -- civil rights

It's the right song cornwallis....I was going to be a stickler and pester you for the artist but a quick bit of google research has revealed that I was wrong in my assumption that Joan Baez wrote and originally sang it. She apparently adapted it from an old gospel song.

Hiya Paul!
I don't necessarily agree that all these songs are not cheerful - serious in many cases but not always miserable, I'd say.

Oh dear...bad turn of phrase again by me - should really have read 'subject matter' or something like that - the songs, of course, speak for themselves...
(N.B. And this wouldn't be the first time I've put my size 11's in it, either...!!)

And going back to #18...
It IS the correct song Paul. Gaylon had guessed a different song for this earlier though.


I was looking at the credit you gave Mordor at the foot of page 1...

No problems at all Paul, you know I'm not one to take umbrgage easily ;) (although some accuse me of pedantry now and again).

Oh, and thanks for pointing out my mistake - I've updated the reply to Mordor!

3. Sun City-Artists United Against Apartheid/Simple Minds

Apartheid, more accurately, the mistreatment of blacks in South Africa by the ruling class whites. Sun City was a gambling resort in Johannesburg.

3. Sun City-Artists United Against Apartheid/Simple Minds

Apartheid, more accurately, the mistreatment of blacks in South Africa by the ruling class whites. Sun City was a gambling resort in Johannesburg.

Correct Indy, very good.

This is my favourite protest song on the list....it's just a great song. I didn't care for the Simple Minds version though.

It's difficult for me to reconcile Steve van Zandt, Bruce Springsteen's guitarist in the E Street Band and the composer and organiser of Artists United Against Apartheid, with the character he plays in "The Sopranos".

Hi maddog ! :)

Thought I may have been too late....

#6  Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer.....the space race.

Hi maddog ! :)

Thought I may have been too late....

#6  Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer.....the space race.

That's correct mandamoo!

I think the song is protesting about the lack of current investment in manned space exploration, basically because we got to the Moon to soon.

Or something.

That's correct mandamoo!

I think the song is protesting about the lack of current investment in manned space exploration, basically because we got to the Moon to soon.

Or something.


That sounds right. You'll have to excuse my lack of thought into it maddog, it's been a loooong day. :-[

22. She dreams of 1969, before the soldiers came

Human League - The Lebannon  :-\\

Hello Maddog.

25. 'Little Boxes' - Malvina Reynolds - protest on conformity/borgeois society?

12. 'Biko' - Sinead O' Connor - the death of Stephen Bantu Biko who was founder of Black Consciousness in South Africa

22. She dreams of 1969, before the soldiers came

Human League - The Lebannon  :-\\

That's correct JimA :).
Apologies for my delay in replying, I've just returned from 2 weeks holiday.

Hello Maddog.

25. 'Little Boxes' - Malvina Reynolds - protest on conformity/borgeois society?

12. 'Biko' - Sinead O' Connor - the death of Stephen Bantu Biko who was founder of Black Consciousness in South Africa


Hi Bobby - both correct :)!
The writer and original artist for "Biko" was Peter Gabriel but you're right, Sinead O'Connor did a cover version (inferior, IMHO).

Hi Maddog!  Hope your vacation was a good one!  :)


#7 looks like it's gotta be something by The Osmonds, but I have no clue as to what song.... :-\\ 

Would it be Crazy Horses?

Hi Maddog!  Hope your vacation was a good one!  :)

#7 looks like it's gotta be something by The Osmonds, but I have no clue as to what song.... :-\\ 

Great vacation thanks CF, camping with my family in Spain for 2 weeks.
And yes, it's The Osmonds....

Would it be Crazy Horses?

...with, as Bobo rightly points out, their protest at the uncontrolled expansion in the use of the internal combustion engine and the resultant environmental damage. I thought this was by far the best thing The Osmonds ever did.

5. um... Jim Capaldi - Whale Meat Again....?  ;D ::)