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Even in Soviet Estonia a underground punk band called Velikie Luki made an anti Reagan song "To Mr. Reagan" in early 80s. In translation "Nasty Ronald Reagan, gleerin`faced dude, you like the bomb noise, you are fuckin` ...". Reagan was somekind hero for ordinally Estonians, but main songwriter of VL Villu Tamme (now more famous as leader of JMKE -- look at allmusic.com) was a real fan of Dead Kennedys and their leftish attitude.
Do you know other anti-Reagan songs?

― Margus Kiis, estonian rock critic (Margus Kiis, estonian rock cri), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

'money's too tight...' by simply red.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"we don't need no re-ron yer know-ah" by Mark E. Heron

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"Nancy Reagan" by the Sun City Girls. It's not about Ronnie, but it's anti-Reagan.

― woly boly (woly boly), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Homeless" by Old Skull
"Rappin Ronnie" aka "Ronnie's Rap" by Ron and the DC Crew (circa '87)

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

http://sonicoverload.moocowrecords.com/

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Ramones - "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg"
Dead Kennedys - "Dear Abby", "Kinky Sex Makes The World Go Round" and several others.
Every other track recorded by every other US punk/hardcore band in the eighties.

― Ben Dot (1977), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

O shit I made some mistakes translating. "fleering face dude, ... you are fucking Turkish !!!". In Estonia Turkish sounds a bit similar to tyra -- it`s means dick, cunt or smth.

― Margus Kiis, estonian rock critic (Margus Kiis, estonian rock cri), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

DKs - "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now"
Reagan Youth - "Reagan Youth"
DRI - "Reaganomics"

Does being against his economic policies count?

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

violent femmes-"Old Mother Reagan"

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"If Reagan Played Disco" by the Minutemen has the best lyrics.

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Fun Boy Three: "The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum".

The title refers to Reagan and Thatcher.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Perhaps:

The Jazz Butcher - "President Reagan's Birthday Present"

― Jen (nstop), Thursday, 10 June 2004 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Born in the USA perhaps?

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Thursday, 10 June 2004 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

PRO - reagan songs?

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 10 June 2004 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

B- Movie – Gil Scott-Heron
I Cant Stand This Pressure, Ron – Billy Bragg

― wtin, Thursday, 10 June 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Not particularly Anti-Reagan, but Black Grape's "Get Higher" has an amusing spoken word part where a R.R. impersonator goes off about Nancy being hooked on heroin and weed.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 10 June 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

government issue - hey ronnie
mdc - bye bye ronnie
PROJECT FUTURE - ray gun-omics (ELECTRO 1/ Street Sounds)

― eleki-san (eleki-san), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bap-fan.de/images/cover-sonnestattreagan.JPG

In 1982 German artist Joseph Beuys released a song called 'Sonne Statt Reagan' ('Sun Instead of Rain / Reagan') as a protest against Reagan's deployment of Cruise missiles in Germany. Babelfish renders the lyrics thusly:

From the country destroyed and us
"way the OF life" itself
Dictated there Reagan comes
And brings weapons and death
Hears peace and sees red.

He says nuclear war as a president of the USA?
Ask there and there whether Poland intermediary
The east Nicaragua
He wants the final victory that is nevertheless clear

But we want: Sun instead of Reagan
To live without armaments!
Whether west whether east
Rockets must rust!

He does not want to provoke the bags in the east also with atoms to suffuse
But your war around brain-burned goals that does not run

Reagan - we are many!
Knock it off with your nuclear strategists
Your Russian hate, your jet rain

Human knitterfaces should stay in films
Rockets go home!

Because we want: Sun instead of Reagan...

This Reagan comes as a man of the armaments industry
But the peoples of the States don't want it - never!
True peace will only come if man lives without weapons

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

There's that song on the Woodstock 2 album, something like "he's a drug store truck drivin man, he's the head of the ku klux klan.." and the guy who announced the song said it was either dedicated to or written about Reagan.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ronald Racist Rambo Baby-Killer Reagan."

Horrible rap that Irwin Chusid used to play on WFMU as an example of "atrocious music."

― mike a, Friday, 11 June 2004 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Suicidal Tendencies "I Shot Reagan"

― hhhhhh, Friday, 11 June 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

billstevejim, that song is on the Gram Parsons best-of on Rhino, not sure if he wrote it (can't find it) but i remember the liner notes said it was written for some redneck radio deejay.

in any case

Heaven 17 "Fascist Groove Thing"

― Kevin Erickson, Saturday, 12 June 2004 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

that Suicidal Tendencies song is actually called "I Shot the Devil" but 'I Shot Reagan' is the first line in the lyrics.

― hhhhhh, Saturday, 12 June 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Reaganation by Bongwater (can't remember the lyrics though)
Ronnie Talk To Russia by Prince (kind of)

― Charles Dexter (Holey), Saturday, 12 June 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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