What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

One of the best protest songs ever composed. Turn to wiki for an explanation.

The Troubles were a conflict in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s to 1998.[1][2][3] The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), an Irish republican paramilitary organisation, waged an armed campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland and unite the region with the Republic of Ireland. Republican and Unionist paramilitaries killed more than 3,500 people, many from thousands of bomb attacks.[4][5] One of the bombings happened on 20 March 1993, as two IRA improvised explosive devices hidden in litter bins were detonated in a shopping street in Warrington, England. Two children; Johnathan Ball, aged 3, and Tim Parry, aged 12, were killed in the attack. 56 people were injured.[6][7]

Ball died at the scene of the bombing as a result of hisfragmentation-inflicted injuries, and five days later, Parry lost hislife in a hospital as a result of head injuries.[8][9] O'Riordan decided to write a song that reflected upon the event and the children's deaths after visiting the town:[10]

There were a lot of bombs going off
in London and I remember this one time a child was killed when a bomb
was put in a rubbish bin – that's why there's that line in the song, 'A
child is slowly taken'. [ ... ] We were on a tour bus and I was near the
location where it happened, so it really struck me hard – I was quite
young, but I remember being devastated about the innocent children being
pulled into that kind of thing. So I suppose that's why I was saying,
'It's not me' – that even though I'm Irish it wasn't me, I didn't do it.
Because being Irish, it was quite hard, especially in the UK when there
was so much tension.
— Dolores O'Riordan in 2017, on writing "Zombie".[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_(The_Cranberries_song)

This is a bit of a saucy number:

Hi malmo. Yeah my ex grew up in Newry (on the border) during the Troubles. The Warrington bombings were shocking and should never be forgotten - ever. I think that song might have a few meanings possibly but sadly the writer is not alive any more to ask more about it. Thanks for the post :).

I also like this one:

I misseed the fycking joke too:

He would have been perfect as Elric in Michael Moorcocks Elric of Melinorne the albino prince and his runeblade Stormbringer, if made into a movie.

One from the '50s.