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"Disarm" by Smashing Pumpkins - I still get that tingling 'angry, frustrated, misunderstood' feeling/rush that used to be a mainstay of my teenage youth!

Whenever I know a potential confrontation is en route, these songs get me all pumped up!

"My Generation" by The Who.

"I Fought The Law" by The Bobby Fuller Four, though the Clash's version will do as well.

Definately the Clash's version is on my list. Actually, all of the Clash's "London Calling" is on my list, although I didn't really get into the Clash until my late teens/early college years, when I was cool with my anti-establishment anger and was able to harness it to get lots of girls!

My favorite must still be "Signs" by The Five Man Electrical Band (1971).

When I was a teenager, my rebellion song was, strangely enough, Gordon Lightfoot's "Alberta Bound." My teenage angst and anger manifested itself in wanting to runaway and start a new life. This song was all about escaping for me. (Note: Alberta is one of the last places on earth that I would ever go to now. God-forsaken place filled with self-righteous red-necks.)

Anything by the Subhumans. Listening to them also makes me feel like a sellout now though, besides remembering my anti-establishment youth. I still don't like the establisment, but find myself shopping at Wal-Mart, working for the man etc.

I spent some time in Alberta and didn't really find that. But i was in the mountains working a resort.
how's about "as the glorious weep" by Kataklysm?

Canadians well know that Alberta is our version of Texas. The presence of large herds of cattle coupled with the discovery of oil tends to attract the self-righteous to these places.

To our American friends...
We propose that Alberta be annexed to the United States in exchange for Massachucetts. I think it's a win-win deal. Canada gets MIT to build us technology of the future and the US gets a few more years of gasoline for your secret service's Chevy Suburbans.

I'll have to go with a classic and say that I always start with "The Times they are a Changin'" by Bob Dylan.

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land,
And don't criticize what you can't understand.
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command....

Hmm...does that mean I should be "I Fought The Law" by Green Day?

I don't know, but I can get pretty worked up to Green Day's American Idiot or When I Come Around. Ooooh, what about Radiohead's Hail to the Thief? Some pretty blistering stuff on that one--2+2=5. Back in my teen years it would have been Jane's Addiction--Standing in the Shower Thinking, Mountain Song (a frickin' Coors Light commerical now), Been Caught Stealing. Historically, just about any Rolling Stones between 1965 and 1972, but especially Midnight Rambler, Stray Cat Blues, Sister Morphine, Rocks Off. Dylan? Masters of War is the bitterest song ever written, and still horrifyingly relevant today.

X-Ray Spex: "Oh Bondage Up Yours!"

Bikini Kill: "Sugar"

but nothing beats:
Sex Pistols: "Anarchy in the UK"

Well, one that I have always liked falls under the oldie but goodie label and that would be Fortunate Son by Credence Clearwater Revival (or was that a JC Fogarty solo) anyway really good song.

Sadly, a few years ago, it was used in a commercial to sell jeans. I wonder if the marketing people even listened to the whole song.

Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if Bikini Kill's "Sugar" was actually used to sell sugar (and the lyrics go something like:
you're so F'ing big and hard
You're such a big man
you've got such a huge c**k!
push it in harder!
oh DEEPER HARDER
i'm almost [radio edit: arriving]
i'm almost [radio edit: arriving])

Btw, that reminds me -- the song "Push it", i.e. "push it real good" is being used for (I think) Staples(?) or somesuch ...

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"Beautiful People" - Marilyn Manson

"Won't Get Fooled Again" - The Who

"Wake Up" - Rage Against The Machine

Muscrat Love - The Captian & Tenille
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This maybe just urban legend, but I have heard that the US Navy considered using the Village People's "In the Navy" in their ads.

Never got into teenage angst and rage. Never saw the point of it.

Umm, "I'm a little teapot..."? I know it would urinate me off, lol.

Tamper Lad- "Times they are a changin'" is my favorite Bob Dylan song. Dylan is also by far my favorite song-writer. This song is more my ‘college age self that is concerned and dismayed by the state of the world’.

- Arms, I’m a HUGE Green Day fan and I agree with those. Actually both Dookie and American Idiot are albums I can listen to to bring out my angry teenage self.

- Numf, I’m with you on Marilyn Manson’s “Beautiful People”, as well as their cover of “Sweet Dreams”. Those came out just when I was ending my head-banger phase in early years of high-school, and I was coming off of a huge Metallica/Megadeth kick, and wanted something even more violent.

- Drake, “Anarchy in the UK” is probably *the* anti-establishment song of all time.

"It's So Easy" by Guns N Roses is a pretty good song to let your anger out, I've found.

I mean, I don't know if I was ever an angry, anti-establishment teenager--most of that's come to me as an adult!

Oh boy, it's a good thing 14 year old never found this thread!

"We're Not Gonna Take It" -- Twisted Sister

"Timebomb"--Chumbawamba

Even though I was an angry anti-establishment teenager, my listening tendencies at the time tended toward escapist pop.

Now that I've thought about it some more, I'd have to go with a GnR song, but not the same one as Lardy. "Welcome to the Jungle" may be an obvious choice, but it's not so much for the lyrics as for the look and the attitude that Axl Rose had in the video. For a repressed, insecure 14-year-old Catholic girl trying to come to terms with her sexuality, the sight and sound of this not-quite-man-not-quite-woman with the piercingly high voice and sensuous snake-hips dance spoke volumes of what I secretly aspired to become.

Then, a couple years later, Axl grew a beard and he lost me. My new role model became Sinead O'Connor, but I didn't like any of her overtly angry songs, I preferred the more melodic ones like "Nothing Compares 2U" and "Mandinka" and "The Emperor's New Clothes." I did shave my head to emulate her, though not until I was 18 and going to community college. And I immediately discovered it looked a lot better on her than on me.

Ahhhh, memories...