In addition to the two lists I’ve posted, I’ve had several other recommendations for libertarian songs, most of which I’ve never heard.
Agoraphilia’s Glen Whitman recommends Right Here, Right Now by Jesus Jones.
Erik Peterson recommends I Am Not Your Broom by They Might Be Giants, and points out that the video is online.
Ed Brayton points out this list of top liberty songs. It mentions Tax Man by the Beatles, which I’d forgotten. (Although Stevie Ray Vaughan’s version is infinitely better.)
Another reader recommends several Rush songs which I had not heard before locating them tonight: Anthem (“grabbing hands and bleeding hearts will always cry out for more”), 2112 (Rand’s “Anthem” set to music), Something for Nothing (“What you own is your own kingdom/what you do is your own glory”), Free Will, Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, and Mission, and also:
Minutes to Memories by John Cougar Mellencamp
Like a Rock by Bob Seger (listen to the lyrics, very Randian)
The Fletcher Memorial Home by Pink Floyd
Murder by Numbers by The Police (“murder is the sport of the elected/ and you don’t need to lift a finger of your hand”)
My only problem with Rush is that they totally suck.
Also, I thought of The Church is Burning by Simon and Garfunkel. Perhaps not a libertarian song per se, but I love the line “You can burn down my churches, but I shall be free.” It rang in my head on September 11.
