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You will not be able to stay home, brother
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag
And skip out for beer during commercials, because
The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be brought to you
By Xerox in four parts without commercial interruptions
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle
And leading a charge by John Mitchell, General Abrams, and Spiro Agnew
To eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary
The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be brought to you by the Schaefer Award Theatre
And will not star Natalie Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs
The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner, because
The revolution will not be televised, brother
There will be no pictures of you and Willie Mae
Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run
Or trying to slide that color TV into a stolen ambulance
NBC will not be able predict the winner
At 8:32 on report from twenty-nine districts
The revolution will not be televised
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young
Being run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process
There will be no slow motion or still lifes of Roy Wilkins
Strolling through Watts in a red, black, and green liberation jumpsuit
That he has been saving for just the proper occasion
Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction
Will no longer be so damn relevant
And women will not care if Dick finally got down with Jane
On Search for Tomorrow
Because black people will be in the street looking for a brighter day
The revolution will not be televised
There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock news
And no pictures of hairy armed women liberationists
And Jackie Onassis blowing her nose
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb or Francis Scott Keys
Nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash
Engelbert Humperdinck, or The Rare Earth
The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be right back
After a message about a white tornado
White lightning, or white people
You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom
The tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl
The revolution will not go better with Coke
The revolution will not fight germs that may cause bad breath
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat
The revolution will not be televised
Will not be televised
Will not be televised
Will not be televised
The revolution will be no re-run, brothers
The revolution will be live

Revolution Will Not Be Televised (1971) by Gil Scott-Heron
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Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime and Shadow Gallery's Tyranny and its sequel, Room V sound very political to me.
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Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

Yes, it's a political album.

here a review (in Italian):
 https://classikrock.blogspot.com/2008/11/procession-frontiera-1972.html

Now I try to listen to it

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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


Procession's splendid Frontiera (1972) is a concept album about immigration, and I'd think of it as quite political, but I can't really say, as I only understand a little of its Italian lyrics.

What would you say, Lorenzo?

Yes, it's a political album.

here a review (in Italian):
 https://classikrock.blogspot.com/2008/11/procession-frontiera-1972.html

Now I try to listen to it
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Kornelyans (Yug) - "Generation 1942", anti-war, Not an Ordinary Life (1974)

Swans' musically very ambitious 34 minutes epic, "Bring the Sun / Toussaint L'Ouverture", may not be quite Prog as I see it, but it surely is very nicely political. It's at least partly about Toussaint Louverture, who was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution, which began in 1791 and ended in 1804, and was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. 
From the album To Be Kind (2014) and here's an excerpt of the lyrics:
Toussaint L'ouverture Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité! Sangre de Dios! Hijo de Dios! Amor de Dios! Sangre es Vida! Vida es Sangre! Sangre es Amor! Amor es Sangre!

And very nice with a bit more US contribution here.
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Procession's splendid Frontiera (1972) is a concept album about immigration, and I'd think of it as quite political, but I can't really say, as I only understand a little of its Italian lyrics.

What would you say, Lorenzo?
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Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
To the already rich among us
How long can I pretend that music's more relevant
Than fighting for a socialist world

Someone watching us, knows I'm bad
Black plastic along blue-black wall
Small square of places
Where dead men can look through

Run along and see the prison bar
Throw a stone across an empty road
You and your friend will be found

Outside the daydream
I've woken up to watch you sleep

Gloria Gloom by Henry Cow


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One of the French most political Prog (at least partly) musicians/artists in the '70s was probably Richard Pinhas of Heldon fame with for instance one or probably two political songs on Heldon's first album, Electronique Guerilla (1974):
1. "Ballade pour Puig Antich, revolutionnaire assassine en Espagne"
2. "Quais Marchais, Mieux Qu'en 68" 

Pinhas took also the time to study and complete an PhD in philosophy in 1974, and he was associated with some philosophers and writers.
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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

Sadly, Johnny passed away a few years ago (2021)....he was very complex, and was very interested in Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi ("The Colonel" as John called him)!   

Okay, when talking about Gaddafi, it's not just about the politics of uprising.
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

Johnny was quite interested in the politics of uprisings....complex guy. 

I don't know him, but I'd say, some guts and pretty much more are needed to be interested in the politics of uprisings. Big smile


Sadly, Johnny passed away a few years ago (2021)....he was very complex, and was very interested in Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi ("The Colonel" as John called him)!   

A very complex & cool personality.....I do miss him and his sense of wit.  RIP Johnny Mandala! 
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

‘Years of Lead’
Lead like "Pb" or "leadership"?

the lead of bullets, in those years there was a politically motivated murder every week (the victims were politicians, policemen, judges on one side, students in a procession on the other, or right-wing militants and left-wing militants shooting at each other)
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Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

‘Years of Lead’
Lead like "Pb" or "leadership"?
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On Area's first album, Arbeit Macht Frei, the inside cover photo depicts the musicians with some symbols, a Palestinian keffiyeh, a gun, and a scythe with a hammer. Palestine + armed struggle + communism. The first song, whose title is "July, August, September (Black)" mentions the Arab terrorist movement called ‘Black September’, born in 1970. The lyrics of the song, in the first person, seem to be sung from the point of view of a Palestinian who says he has to make war against humanity because of his reality of suffering (The intro, said to be recorded in a Cairo mosque, was instead produced by Area)

Lyrics: (English translation) Intro (Arabs) My love With peace, with peace I have placed Loving flowers at your feet With peace, with peace I stopped the seas of blood for you Forget anger Forget pain Forget your weapons Forget your weapons and come Come and live Come and live with me my love Under a blanket of peace I want you to sing, beloved light of my eyes And your song will be for peace let the world hear, my beloved and say (to the world): Forget anger Forget pain Forget your weapons Forget your weapons and come And live in peace Second part (Italian) Playing with the world, leaving it in pieces Children that the sun has reduced to old age. It's not my fault if your reality forces me to fight your conspiracy of silence. Maybe one day we will know what it means to drown in blood with humanity. Discoloured people, almost all the same my anger reads above the news. Reads into the past all my pain sings my people that don't want to die. When you see the world without problems seek the essence of all things. It's not my fault if your reality forces me to make WAR AGAINST HUMANITY.




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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Antoni Antoni wrote:

Hawkwind would have probably easily fit in that milieu. Not only did the legendary space rockers hold countless free gigs, especially in the early 1970s, but the lyrics of their 1972 song "Urban Guerrilla" stand up overtly for street riots and bomb-making.

Okay, these lyrics are much more heavy stuff than I could imagine to find in Prog, and it can be told that the song was released in 1976 on the compilation album Roadhawks. 

Hawkwind recorded "Urban Guerilla" in late 1972, and the song was originally released as a single in the UK in July 1973 with "Brainbox Pollution" as the B-side, reaching No.39 on the UK singles chart. "Urban Guerilla" can be found on the remastered version of "Doremi Fasol Latido" as well.
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Originally posted by Antoni Antoni wrote:

Hawkwind would have probably easily fit in that milieu. Not only did the legendary space rockers hold countless free gigs, especially in the early 1970s, but the lyrics of their 1972 song "Urban Guerrilla" stand up overtly for street riots and bomb-making.

Okay, these lyrics are much more heavy stuff than I could imagine to find in Prog, and it can be told that the song was released in 1976 on the compilation album Roadhawks. 
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Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


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When Gentle Giant came to do a concert in Italy, some journalists asked if they would play for free. They were astonished, but replied (like good Englishmen) in a very polite way. 

Why did they ask that question?

Because the left-wing movement that gave concerts with singer-songwriters (Guccini, De André, Branduardi, Bennato, Dalla etc.) or prog groups demanded ‘proletarian prices’ for concerts or even free concerts.

Many authors of the Cramps edition (to which Area belonged), like Eugenio Finardi, often gave free concerts.

Some singer-songwriters who had high ticket prices were highly contested, including throwing objects on stage.
Hawkwind would have probably easily fit in that milieu. Not only did the legendary space rockers hold countless free gigs, especially in the early 1970s, but the lyrics of their 1972 song "Urban Guerrilla" stand up overtly for street riots and bomb-making.
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


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When Gentle Giant came to do a concert in Italy, some journalists asked if they would play for free. They were astonished, but replied (like good Englishmen) in a very polite way. 

Why did they ask that question?

Because the left-wing movement that gave concerts with singer-songwriters (Guccini, De André, Branduardi, Bennato, Dalla etc.) or prog groups demanded ‘proletarian prices’ for concerts or even free concerts.

Many authors of the Cramps edition (to which Area belonged), like Eugenio Finardi, often gave free concerts.

Some singer-songwriters who had high ticket prices were highly contested, including throwing objects on stage.
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While Ange is primarily known for their symphonic prog-rock sound and their poetry inspired by medieval texts, they did incorporate elements of political commentary into some of their songs. 
The lyrics of these two songs, although not overtly political, could be a commentary on social injustice and rebellion against tyranny.

Les Longues Nuits d'Isaac ("The Long Nights of Isaac")



English translation

Blood of your fathers, adultery in anger!
Tie your earth to the flesh of your fingers!
Blood of your fathers, adultery in anger!
Get your land out of the false king's greenhouse!
Oh, night! You who envelop me in your cloth on a silver night
Oh, night! You who take me away from the gaping craters
Oh, night! You who dream of me on a ruby paper strike
Oh, night! You are the one who forces me to remember the last cry.
Have you seen the man in the pointed hat who weaves with his eyes the universal weft?
Oh, night! Tell me who I am under your scarf of truth.
Oh, night! Tell me who I am before you leave.
Oh, night! Tell me, I dream about a ruby-paper strike.
Oh, night! Tell me, can I finally let go of this latest scream?
Blood of your fathers, adultery in anger!
Tie your earth to the flesh of your fingers!
Blood of your fathers, adultery in anger!
Get your land out of the false king's greenhouse!



Par les Fils de Mandrin ("By the Sons of Mandrin")


English translation

A mop of hair in the forest
On starry eyes
The law is affecting our destiny!
The switchblade breast
Under a naughty smile
We are highwaymen!
Faces in a cathedral
On bohemian feet;
Maître Larcin's fanfare
Who until the last rattle
The stomach in Lent
Load those who are hungry with crowns!
Hey ! Take care of your head.
So pretty heart smells petty...
Then your celebration would come.
I swear! By the sons of Mandrin!
To live on a hunt
To make a living from fishing
Little morning poachers!
It's never too late to strike iron.
I swear! By the sons of Mandrin!
I swear! By the sons of Mandrin!
I swear! By the sons of Mandrin!
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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

Johnny was quite interested in the politics of uprisings....complex guy. 

I don't know him, but I'd say, some guts and pretty much more are needed to be interested in the politics of uprisings. Big smile
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Niemen Aerolit (PL) - "Pielgrzym", criticizing racism in regard to nomadic people, Niemen Aerolit (1975
I don't think it's about racism. It's rather more about a certain prejudice against those who value their traditionalist ideologies over whatever the general crowd perceives as more "down to earth".

But okay, I can see something like that as a possible interpretation too, on a deeper level.
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