Interactive poll team

How many songs should I choose?

Please choose two songs with a maximum total length of 12 minutes. You can choose them from the same artist or from two different artists.

How are these songs supposed to be?

If you can, the ideal would be to choose protest songs. With "protest songs" I mean songs with a social, political, ecological theme etc. You decide when a song can be considered a protest song. You can choose protest songs of any musical genre: folk, rock, jazz, electronic music etc. You can also choose them within Progarchives as long as they are taken from albums with less than 100 ratings.

What if I can't find the protest songs?

You can participate anyway by inserting folk songs. By folk I mean American, Canadian, English, Irish folk but also the folk or ethnic music of every nation (Japanese, Turkish, Danish, German, Italian etc). This music can be played both with traditional acoustic instruments and with electric or electronic instruments, as long as it is folk. Peter Gabriel's world music is also good, that is songs that combine ethnic music or instruments from different countries (like Scottish bagpipes in a song played with African rhythms). You can also choose folk songs within Progarchives, in these categories: Prog folk, Proto-prog, Prog-related, as long as they are taken from albums with less than 100 ratings.

Let's see if I understand:

If I participate with U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday and Stormy Six's Stalingrado, featured here in PA in the album "Un biglietto del tram" is it okay?

That's fine! They are two protest songs, and the second is allowed because it is taken from a Progarchives album with less than 100 ratings.

Wait, let me give you another example.

If I participate with Suzanne Vega's Luka and John Denver's Thank God I'm a Country Boy, okay?

That's fine! The first is a protest song, because it is about violence against children, the second is an American folk song.

Let me give you one more example.

If I participate with Have I Told You Lately That I love You, sung by Chieftans and Van Morrison, and with Monte Seris by Bitti's Tenores, featured in Peter Gabriel's World Music 

(you can listen to it here catalog, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evDP0yOjPkc ) 

is that okay?

That's fine, because they are two folk songs, the first Irish, the second Sardinian (from the Italian island of Sardinia). Well, the second (only vocals) is so hard... ardous... but it's ok!

Do I have to put the lyrics of the two songs?

Yes, very good, you have to put the lyrics of the two songs, absolutely. Even if they are not protest songs. So instrumental songs are not allowed.

Can I post other songs besides the two requests?

You can report another one, only one, specifying that it is out of the competition, for the pleasure of making it known to the participants, as long as it is a protest song with the text, and you can get it from wherever you want, even in Progarchives.

Thanks, now it's clear.

I expanded the theme of the protest songs because I would not want to reduce the choice of the songs too much, and so I thought of making protest songs with the possibility of participating even with folk songs.

We will see if there will be many or few protest songs and many or few folk songs.

But your idea of folk music is fine for me, it is a very large genre and you can do a second poll focused only on folk songs.