It’s been a while, but I thought this was worth sharing with you. I have a new clothing line inspired by my song Send In the Tanks!
Find this shirt plus ladies shirts and several other designs at my CafePress.com store!
Keep watching this space, since I will have some exciting things coming up soon!
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 |
During the Christmas season, we are bombarded with Christmas music constantly. But haven’t you ever sat down and pondered how you could apply Mises to “Merry Christmas”?
Is Santa a libertarian? It depends on the song. Check out my latest Spotify playlist to find out. Lots of Christmas tunes plus the all season Libertarian-fermented rock.
| O Holy Night | Truly He taught us to love one another; His law is love and His gospel is peace. Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother; And in His name all oppression shall cease. | |
| Hark the Herald Angels Sing | Peace on earth and mercy mild | |
| You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch | There are many Grinches going around this year imposing lockdowns and hobbling the Christmases of many | |
| The Kinks | Father Christmas | A story of a man participating in peaceful commerce, when someone comes and demands his money by force. Hmmm, we’ve seen this movie before. |
| O Come, O Come Emmanuel | Ransom captive Israel, that mourns in lonely exile here | |
| Santa Claus is Coming to Town | “He sees when you are sleeping, He knows when you’re awake, He knows if you been good or bad, So be good for goodness sake” – Is this not a description of the nanny surveillance state? Santa is apparently some NSA program Snowden has yet to uncover. Super-creepy. | |
| Elvis Presley | Blue Christmas | “You’ll be doing alright in your Christmas of white, but I’ll have a blue Christmas.” It is obviously unjust that one should have a white Christmas while someone else has a blue Christmas. Therefore, the state needs to step in and give everyone a blue Christmas. |
| The Ramones | Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight) | Christmas is a great time to adopt the non-aggression principle. |
| The Beach Boys | Little Saint Nick | Up at the north pole, there are no government roads or speed limits. Santa is able to go “haulin’ through the snow at a frightening speed.” He accepts the risks and reaps the benefits. Santa basically lives in a state of libertarian anarchy. |
| Weird Al | Christmas at Ground Zero | We need a more peaceful foreign policy so this doesn’t happen. |
| John Lennon | Happy Xmas (War Is Over) | War is over over if you want it |
| Spinal Tap | Christmas With the Devil | “The angels are in chains” – don’t let the evils of statism take over your holiday. |
The Christmas Truce
In the spirit of giving, place accept this free download of my song, The Christmas Truce. If you don’t know the story, it’s an amazing true tale that happened during World War 1, involving enemy armies celebrating together.
I wish you and yours a healthy and happy Christmas season, or whatever other holiday you’d like to celebrate!
At long last, my new song Shirley, You Must Be Joking is here! Don’t be conservative on the listens.
Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve had a new song. I’m up to about one per year. But my new song “Shirley, You Must Be Joking” is almost here! Pre-save the song on Spotify and you can get a free bonus! In fact, I will let you choose which bonus you want! Which do you like more: Frozen 2 or libertarianism? A tough choice, I know.
What is the mood for this latest playlist? I suppose there are a good amount of songs addressing the recent peaceful and non-peaceful protests, like songs from MxPx, Alice Cooper, Machine Head, Muse, Owen-Glass, Rodriguez, Jordan Page, and yours truly. If you’re still in a COVID-19 lockdown mood, there is a pertinent song from Incubus.
| Artist | Song | Comments |
| Dominic Frisby | National Anthem of Libertaria | |
| Backwordz | The Great Equalizer | |
| Black Label Society | Empty Promises | “You gave me empty promises with nothing in return.” Does this sound like any government retirement and disability programs we know? |
| Crazy Eighty-Eight | My Friends, You Bow To No One | |
| Dillinger Escape Plan | Hero of the Soviet Union | “Conscience came right up to you, And then you threw it back, You are the scum of the earth” According to Wikipedia “The title Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.” |
| Havok | Merchants of Death | |
| KMFDM | A Drug Against War | |
| Leah | Palace of Dreams | |
| Machine Head | Stop the Bleeding | |
| 3rd World Leader | Parasite | |
| Alice Cooper | Rats | |
| Beatles | Back in the USSR | |
| Johnny Cash | After Taxes | |
| Kinks | 20th Century Man | |
| Rodriguez | Establishment Blues | |
| Leonard Cohen | Everybody Knows | Everybody knows the dice are loaded |
| Anti-Flag | 911 for Peace | |
| Bad Religion | You Are (The Government) | |
| MxPx | Fist vs. Tact | |
| Oingo Boingo | Capitalism | |
| Pennywise | Time Marches On | What is our fate? To make the same mistakes that we made yesterday? |
| The Interrupters | Media Sensation | |
| Bumblefoot | Planetary Lockdown | |
| Evanescence | What You Want | I’m everything you can’t control |
| Eve 6 | Leech | Suckin’ on my brain |
| Foo Fighters | Holiday in Cambodia | featuring Serj Tankian on vocals! |
| Freak Kitchen | Propaganda Pie | |
| Jordan Page | Hour of Change | |
| Matt Bankert | Send In the Tanks | Everything in this song is a true story. |
| Muse | Uprising | |
| Mutiny at Midnight | The Beast | |
| Owen Glass | Hammer and Sickle | |
| Prophets of Rage | Who Owns Who | |
| The Last Internationale | Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down |
The latest Libertarian Rock Spotify playlist is here! Featuring AC/DC, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Owen-Glass, Derek Webb, The Stooges, Against Me, Anti-Flag, Green Day, Muse and these:
| Artist | Song | Details |
| Pennywise | WTO | “Freedom will prevail” – Some libertarians see the World Trade Organization (WTO) as an unnecessary governmental body and a potential threat to national sovereignty. |
| Alter Bridge | Native Son | Native son in a foreign land |
| Killing Joke | War on Freedom | No more peaceful demonstrations, militarise the police force |
| Matt Bankert | Send In the Tanks | Everything in this song is a true story. |
Perhaps most importantly for the metalheads, we have Havok‘s blistering new album “V” in it’s entirety on the playlist. Do you like the year 1986? Like thrash? You will be in heaven listening to “V”. They don’t win any awards for originality (see Slayer or Testament), but that’s ok – they shred faces to bits and do it as well as anyone ever has. Maybe better, because they are also shredding minds with their truth-telling, anti-establishment lyrics.
Are you Sick of It All? Stay healthy, and stay free!
Some timely songs like “National Health”, “I Am the Virus”, “Government Flu”, and “No Time to Think”. #Coronavirus
I had the great pleasure to go on the Peace Freqs podcast recently! I had a freewheeling, fun conversation with husband and wife team Nick and Lizzy. They have a great thing going there, and I’m very grateful for their digital hospitality. Please check them out on your favorite pod-catcher and subscribe!
Be advised, a few stray words here and there may not be kid-friendly.
