I think it’s funny that all these hippies’ gods did recognize how evil communism is. Dylan compares Selma, Alabama with red China. Now THAT’S funny. (Hey confederates: segregationism was big government!)
Add that to the Rolling Stones making the Bolsheviks the very personification of the devil; the Beatles’s preference for bashing the Tax Man instead of joining the Revolution; the Sex Pistol’s and Pink Floyd’s bashing on the Labor government;...
Right On!
As far as the 80's music scene goes, I gotta run with Dire Straits "Brothers In Arms" album .. in one fell swoop the Straits mocked the cultural degeneration within popular entertainment of the (then) fledging MTV, while laying low one *very* powerful anti-war song illustrating the horrors of war against tyranny, along with a very powerful pen-n-ink stark black-n-white video to go along with it ....
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
THIS is my quintessential 80's album --- Dire Straits "Brothers In Arms"