This classic union song was written by Florence Reece in 1931 while mine owners were terrorizing coal workers in bloody Harlan County. Natlie Merchant covered it on The House Carpenter's Daughter in 2003.
Talking Heads were an arty party new wave band, right? Yeah, but they did an incredible song about civil insurrection in the U.S. long before Bush and Cheney legitimized the idea. "Life During Wartime" was orginally a song from the 1979 release Fear of Music but 4 years later it came out as a live single from Stop Making Sense.