in reply to Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦

@osma @Herndonite @mattdm Toss-up between Nebraska and the more obvious Tom Joad.

~Nebraska~
Johnny 99

"they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah last last month"
""I got debts no honest man could pay"
"the bank... they taking my house away"

#TheBoss

in reply to Jeff Atwood

Tobacco Road (any artist, really) is a classic about growing up poor.

If worker's solidarity is more important than income inequality, Big Boss Man is good too.

If you don't mind going to a really dark place (such as coaxing your daughter to become a high class prostitute to escape poverty), Bobbie Gentry's Fancy is very good.

in reply to simonf 🦘

Maybe not exactly the theme you are after, but maybe gambling related tracks? It all leads to wealth imbalance.

eg pretty much any off The Alan Parsons Project’s “The Turn of a Friendly Card” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turn_of_a_Friendly_Card or maybe Billy Joel’s “Easy Money”?

in reply to Jeff Atwood

Bob Dylan - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, Hurricane

Oscar Brown, Jr - A Dime Away From a Hot Dog

Albert Collins - When the Welfare Turns Its Back on You

Robert Cray - 1040 Blues

Jack DeJohnette - Inflation Blues

Anybody but Clapton
/Derek and the Dominos - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery

Gil Scott-Heron - Winter in America

in reply to Jeff Atwood
Swing Out Sisters – Am I The Same Girl
Swing Out Sisters – Somewhere Deep In The Night
Swing Out Sisters – Out There
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Nick Drake – Pink Moon
Esperanza Spalding – I Know You Know
Pink Floyd – The Great Gig In The Sky
King Crimson – Book Of Saturday
Van der Graaf Generator – A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
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in reply to Jeff Atwood

Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

youtu.be/qeMFqkcPYcg

in reply to Jeff Atwood
Eurythmics - The King and Queen of America youtu.be/-9nZhdEdBKw
in reply to Jeff Atwood

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Money:
sharonjonesandthedapkings.bandcamp.com/track/money

The Meters - Give It What You Can:
youtube.com/watch?v=MVcdcGdK7AE

Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming:
charlesbradley.bandcamp.com/track/no-time-for-dreaming

Darondo - Let My People Go:
darondoubiq.bandcamp.com/track/let-my-people-go

Dyke & The Blazers - My Sisters' And My Brothers' Day Is Comin': youtube.com/watch?v=HBFgFrL9ub8

James Brown - Down And Out In New York City:
youtube.com/watch?v=YkKxiREGDx4

Lee Fields & The Expressions - Money Is King:
youtube.com/watch?v=CegSEVF9xcg

in reply to Jeff Atwood

You will kick yourself for omitting this if you know the lyrics, especially the slightly more challenging ones he sang live ...

"Praying For Time" by George Michael

As Matthew Hocter from Albumism wrote, it "examines the many social injustices faced by so many, questions the listener into the conditioning that society has created and why it can be so hard to be kind to one another ... Timeless and still so relevant in this day and age."

#music #playlist #inequality

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in reply to John Kristoff
@jtk Good choice!
I only recently found out about this song, because I was looking up the phrase “that don’t befront me, as long as I get my money next Friday” which I use all the time, having picked it up from George George Thorogood’s “One bourbon, One scotch, One beer” which starts with an expanded version Hookers’ song.
in reply to Jeff Atwood
🔘 Randy Newman - Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man) • youtu.be/JIlad66IcHw
in reply to Jeff Atwood

Henrietta, Indiana — Josh Ritter

Harlem River Blues — Justin Townes Earle

Blue Sky Mine — Midnight Oil

Invisible Sun — Sting

Fast Car — Tracy Chapman

On the Turning Away — Pink Floyd

Talkin’ Bout a Revolution — Tracy Chapman

Dance Called America — Runrig

Clampdown — The Clash

In the Ghetto — Elvis Presley

The Way It Is — Bruce Hornsby

Held Up Without a Gun — Bruce Springsteen

Get Up, Stand Up — The Wailers

Fortunate Son — CCR

Everything Counts — Depeche Mode

in reply to Jeff Atwood

More than a few opera arias, though never the big ones, I think. Eg, the servant woman singing about how extremely unfair it all is right before the Heroine saves herself from the Duke by… setting up her lifetime servant to be assaulted instead.

I remember sitting up thinking “This is in Mozart?!?” before the plot swerved back to normativity.

@codinghorror

in reply to Jeff Atwood

I'm not sure if some of these are appropriate for whatever events but they're songs I love about money and wealth inequality.

The Coup: Fat Cats, Bigga Fish

The Coup: Pimps (Free Stylin at the Fortune 500 Club)

Immortal Technique: Rich Man's World (1%)

Pink Floyd: Money

Abba: Money Money Money

Spinal Tap: Give Me Some Money

Steve Miller Band: Take the Money and Run

Chief Keef: Laughin to the Bank

Everlast: Ends

Dire Straits: Money for Nothing

MIA: Paper Planes

P.O.S: Fuck Your Stuff

Donna Summer: She Works Hard for the Money

Bambu: Rent Money

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