Results for “militarism and indoctrination”

Songs

Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing

Minutemen

A dense, aphoristic protest fragment from the Minutemen's live-and-studio patchwork album, this piece takes its title's irony…

militarism and indoctrination the inadequacy of language against violence pop culture versus political urgency

Peacekeeper

Fleetwood Mac

Lindsey Buckingham turns a post-9/11 anxiety into a taut, addressed warning, speaking directly to an unnamed 'peacekeeper'…

war and militarism self-destruction complicity

In a Beautiful Place Out In the Country

Boards of Canada

An instrumental track built almost entirely from a looped, warped vocal sample inviting the listener to join a religious…

pastoral idealism turned sinister indoctrination and persuasion nostalgia for institutional innocence

Mindful Solutionism

Aesop Rock

Aesop Rock delivers a rapid-fire history of human technology, tracing tools from prehistoric stone implements through…

technological progress human ingenuity moral ambivalence of innovation

Wind-Up

Jethro Tull

Wind-Up closes Aqualung's second-side critique of institutional religion with a direct autobiographical account of a schoolboy…

institutional religion vs personal faith education as indoctrination inherited belief

Call to Arms

Sturgill Simpson

A blistering protest song wrapped in a lullaby's intent, addressed from a father to a son, that names the machinery of endless…

militarism and foreign policy loss of individual identity in institutions media saturation and distraction

Earth Intruders

Björk

A relentless, drum-heavy chant that casts a collective 'we' as an invading army of natural forces, half-tribal ritual and…

collective identity vs. individual doubt militarism and ritual violence nature reclaiming or overwhelming order

I Love a Man In a Uniform

Gang of Four

A first-person portrait of a man who joins the military not out of conviction but as a solution to unemployment, lost…

militarism as consumer choice economic desperation masculinity and self-worth

Generals and Majors

XTC

XTC dresses up an anti-militarist satire as a jaunty, whistleable pop song, mocking career soldiers who crave conflict for its…

militarism and glory-seeking satire of authority boredom as a driver of violence

Soldier of the Heart

Judee Sill

Judee Sill builds an extended military allegory around a mysterious, idealized rescuer figure who is part lover, part guardian…

spiritual rescue romantic devotion as surrender suffering and redemption

The W.A.N.D.

The Flaming Lips

A funky, riff-driven anthem that dresses up a political fantasy of taking down authoritarian power in the language of magic…

power vs. greed collective resistance fantasy as political metaphor

We're Not Gonna Take It

The Who

This is the climactic sequence of the Tommy narrative, where the deaf, dumb and blind protagonist becomes a messianic cult…

false messiahs and cult leadership sensory deprivation as control mob rebellion