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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five released the first sociopolitical rap song in 1982, ... murder, corporate and political greed, wealth inequality, poverty ...
"Higher" is a song by American rock band Creed. It was released on August 24, 1999, as the lead single from their second studio album, Human Clay. The song became the band's breakthrough hit as it was their first song to reach the top ten on the US Billboard Hot 100 where it peaked at number 7 in July 2000. It spent a total of 57 weeks upon the ...
Pitchfork placed the song at number 82 on their list for the best songs of the 80s expressing that "underneath the synth-pop sheen, its vague message" and its lesson in how power-driven society could be, the song was able to reach "Reagan and Margaret-era youth fed up with political greed". [26]
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The band's final album, 2000's Renegades, features cover versions of songs originally recorded by (from top to bottom) Eric B. & Rakim, MC5, Afrika Bambaataa, Devo, EPMD, Minor Threat, Cypress Hill, The Stooges, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, as well as Volume 10 (not pictured).
The song "Darkness of Greed" hails back to vocalist de la Rocha's previous band Inside Out, which broke up mid-1991. It is called "Genocide" on some bootleg RATM Demo albums. [7] Inside Out performed the song on many occasions, and several RoIOs exist of those performances. (RATM later re-recorded the song as simply "Darkness" for The Crow ...
The formula was becoming clear: Two radio ballads (the title track and "Road to Zion" fitting the bill this time), one Volz-penned praise tune ("Praise Ye the Lord" on Never Say Die, "Let Everything That Hath Breath" for More Power to Ya), and six or seven straight-ahead progressive rock songs written by Hartman, touching on topics aimed mostly ...
"Money, Money, Money" is a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA, written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus with Anni-Frid Lyngstad singing lead vocals. It was released on 1 November 1976, as the second single from the group's fourth studio album, Arrival (1976).