For this Libertarian Rock Spotify playlist, I have two words: Knight. Rider.
(For sensitive listeners, this playlist does have some naughty words and titles.)
| Artist | Song | Comments |
| David Hasselhoff | Open Your Eyes | When the guy from Knight Rider is telling you to open your eyes, you LISTEN. |
| Backwordz | You, Are You | |
| Crazy Eighty-Eight | Killing in the name | |
| Diamond Head | No Remorse | Another day, another death |
| Dillinger Escape Plan | Highway Robbery | “I suppose you thought you had our hands behind our back, the wool over our eyes” |
| Dream Theater | Lord Nafaryus | |
| Havok | Unnatural Selection | |
| Iron Maiden | The Trooper | |
| Killswitch Engage | The Crownless King | Bow to no one |
| Leah | Ruins of Illusion | |
| Megadeth | Peace Sells | |
| Alice Cooper | Shut Up and Rock | There is something to be said about not contaminating your music with dumb polical views. Just get back to playing rebellious, anti-establishment rock riffs. Paradoxically, this is political. Oh well. |
| Bob Dylan | Masters of War | |
| Doors | Unknown Soldier | |
| Kinks | Give The People What They Want | Isn’t this the M.O. of all elected politicians? Votes in exchange for power. |
| Louis Armstrong | The Real Ambassador | Louis Armstrong was hired by the US Government to tour eastern Europe to promote American ideals against communism at a time when Jim Crow laws were still in force. |
| Randy Newman | Sail Away | For the record, slavery is bad. Pretty vicious satire. |
| Dominic Frisby | Fuck the Government | |
| The Wailers | Get Up, Stand Up | |
| EconStories | Fear the Boom and Bust | Make sure you look up the video on YouTube |
| Rag’N’Bone Man | Human | Governments tend to put blame on people that are not guilty. See my blog post about this song |
| Anti-Flag | Power to the Peaceful | |
| Anti-Nowhere League | Let’s Break the Law | To paraphrase MLK, “Immoral laws should be disobeyed.” |
| Bad Religion | Let Them Eat War | |
| Dead Kennedys | Government Flu | |
| Delta 5 | Mind Your Own Business | |
| Goldfinger | Open Your Eyes | |
| Green Day | Back in the USA | |
| MxPx | Your Problem, My Emergency | Governments find lots of problems (some real) and turn them into emergencies |
| NOFX | Fuck Euphemism | |
| Pennywise | Land of the Free? | Free to control your life |
| Alter Bridge | The Writing on the Wall | |
| Black Sabbath | Children of the Grave | |
| Blues Traveler | Support Your Local Emperor | |
| Corporate Avenger | Voting Doesn’t Work | |
| Extreme | Politicalamity | Ask not what your country can do to a one world governmental zoo |
| Freak Kitchen | Morons | |
| Incubus | Megalomaniac | |
| Jordan Page | Victory Song | |
| Killing Joke | Autonomous Zone | Cacophony, lovely ear-splitting noise With wild abandon, give freedom a voice Living outside of the grid is the goal Misery lies at the heart of control |
| Matt Bankert | Send In the Tanks | Everything in this song is a true story. |
| The Menzingers | America (You’re Freakin’ Me Out) | |
| Muse | Ruled By Secrecy? | |
| Owen Glass | The Rope | |
| Paul McCartney | Freedom | |
| Rush | Something For Nothing | |
| Skillet | It’s Not Me It’s You | |
| Soundgarden | Pretty Noose | |
| The Last Internationale | Freedom | |
| They Might Be Giants | Your Racist Friend | |
| Thrice | Wake up | |
| Zama Rripa | Stone of Freedom | |
| Tatiana Moroz | Playin the Cards |