1939–1964
1 Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit”
2 Woody Guthrie, “This Land Is Your Land”
3 Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan, and Pete Seeger, “We Shall Overcome”
4 Bob Dylan, “Masters of War”
5 Nina Simone, “Mississippi Goddam”
1965–1973
6 Country Joe and the Fish, “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag”
7 James Brown, “Say It Loud—I’m Black and I’m Proud”
8 Plastic Ono Band, “Give Peace a Chance”
9 Edwin Starr, “War”
10 Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, “Ohio”
11 Gil Scott-Heron, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
12 Stevie Wonder, “Living for the City”
1973–1977 (chile, nigeria, jamaica)
13 Victor Jara, “Manifiesto”
14 Fela Kuti and Afrika 70, “Zombie”
15 Max Romeo and the Upsetters, “War Ina Babylon”
1977–1987
16 The Clash, “White Riot”
17 Carl Bean, “I Was Born This Way”
18 Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Sonny’s Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem)”
19 The Dead Kennedys, “Holiday in Cambodia”
20 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five feat. Melle Mel and Duke Bootee, “The Message”
21 Crass, “How Does It Feel?”
22 Frankie Goes to Hollywood, “Two Tribes”
23 U2, “Pride (In the Name of Love)”
24 The Special AKA, “Nelson Mandela”
25 Billy Bragg, “Between the Wars”
26 R.E.M., “Exhuming McCarthy”
1989–2008
27 Public Enemy, “Fight the Power”
28 Huggy Bear, “Her Jazz
29 The Prodigy feat. Pop Will Eat Itself, “Their Law”
30 Manic Street Preachers, “Of Walking Abortion”
31 Rage Against the Machine, “Sleep Now in the Fire”
32 Steve Earle, “John Walker’s Blues”
33 Green Day, “American Idiot”
33 1/3 Epilogue
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