Listeners may be interested in the music played on Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ fm 102.1 Fridays at Noon).
Here is a list of music played on PShift from Nov 2012 till June 2015 in chronological order. Thanks is due to others for this great selection of music – guests and people who have hosted the show over the years … with especial thanks to Andy whose knowledge of protest songs and music in general is encyclopaedic and who has taken most of the load of data entry of the playlists in recent times. Of course whenever I get a chance I play Jumping Fences who are my inspiration for political music and their consistency in standing up for progressive music by hosting Foco Nuevo on the first Friday of every month at Kurilpa Hall in West End.
It is not a bad list of political and protest music, aye.
The songs played on Paradigm Shift exceeds 4ZZZ standards for New, Local, Indigenous and gender balanced content.
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Australian | Local | Female lead | Indigenous | New |
346 | 199 | 216 | 104 | 165 |
70.04% | 40.28% | 43.72% | 21.05% | 33.4% |
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Artist Name | Track Name | Artist Name | Track Name |
The Parameters | Pig City | The Sufferjets | Whitehaven Sux |
Billy Bragg | Rule Nor Reason | Small Fantasy | DSS |
Depeche Mode | Master And Servant | Insurge | Welfare State |
Ball Park Music | Cry With One Eye | Peter Joseph Head | Bad Budget Blues (Keep It In The Family) |
Blank Realm | Working On Love | Jeffrey Lewis | Do They Owe Us A Living? |
Pear And The Awkward Orchestra | Hold On, Bold One | Hedley Johnson | Rock On Down To Musgrave Park |
The Fight To Save Kimberley | Nowhere Else But Here | Seize The Day | United States |
The Painted Ladies | Stranger In My Country | Yothu Yindi | Mabo |
Paul Kelly / Kev Carmody | This Land Is Mine | Phil Monsour | Ghosts Of Deir Yassin |
John Butler | Kimberley | Phil Monosur | Who Killed Reza Berati? |
George Mann | I’m At The End Of My Rope | Adam Ryan | Can’t See The Forest For The Coal |
Kev Carmody | This Land Is Mine | Mel Who | Newtown Jail |
Beatles | Nowhere Man | Kevin Devine | Private First Class |
Susana Baca | Misterio Do Planeta | PJ Harvey | Shaker Aamer |
Susana Baca | El Mayoral | Marie Mason | Take It Down |
Beatles | Nowhere Man | Ezekiel Ox | Policeman |
Rudd Widens The Gap | Nowhere Man | Local Remedy | Three Meals |
The Herd | Salary Cap | George Telek | West Papua |
The Drones | Sixteen Straws | Billy Bragg | March Of The Covert Battalions |
Tom Waites | Waltzing Matilda | Run Pig Run | Scream |
Ian Curr | Last Train To Mirabad | Tom Gabel | Anna Is A Stool Pigeon |
Tony Mockeridge | Article 14 | Andy Paine | With My Hammer |
Ian Curr | Last Train To Mirabad | The Lurkers | Post-Post Feminist Revolution |
James Bonner | Traditional Owner – James Bonner – Supports Tent Embassy In Musgrave Park | Myrtle Place | All The Enemy |
Sinead O’Connor | Don’t Cry For Me Argentina | United Struggle Project | From Where? |
Ani Difranco | When I’m Gone | The (International) Noise Conpiracy | Smash It Up |
Natalie Merchant | Carnival | QELD | ACAB |
Sam Cook | A Change Is Gonna Come | Paul Spencer | He’s Gotta Go (Tony Abbott For Ex PM) |
Joni Mitchell | Big Yellow Taxi | Craig Stewart | Come On Tony, Come On Mate |
Bob Dylan | The Times They Are A Changin | Things Of Stone And Wood | Share This Wine |
Phil Monsour and Rafeef Ziadah | Ghosts Of Deir Yassin | Combat Wombat | Alternative Energy |
Sinead O’connor | Black Boys On Mopeds | Test Their Logik | Bling Is Dead |
Billy Bragg | Thatcherites | Kev Carmody | Dirty Dollar |
Elvis Costello | Tramp The Dirt Down | Government Yard | Mining Daughter |
Lorna Munro | 3 Colours | Glitter Rats | Weevils In The Flour |
Phil Monsour | Song For Gaza | Copy Scams | Copy And Destroy |
Joan Baez | Tears of Rage | Moonsign | 8 |
Kev Carmody | Pillars of Society | Alekka | Hooray for Everything |
KRK | Free West Papua | Bikini Kill | Rebel Girl |
Deskem | Work Don My Fren | Heaps Tuff | Don’t Ask Me What I’m Doing After The Revolution |
Formidable Vegetable Souns System | Oil | Flangipanis | Global Warming Makes My Beer Warm |
Limbus Feat. Loreli | SILENTJAY | Albion Gold | Hail! Hail! The Dead Can Dance! |
Elvis Costello | Dear Sweet Filthy World | Things Of Stone And Wood | Share This Wine |
Big Village | Murda | Seize The Day | United States |
RIP | Odio a Mi Patria | Bad Day Down | Haditha: Democracy Assassinated The Family Here |
Eskbortuo | Mucha Policia Polca Diversion | Le Tigre | New Kicks |
Leon Chavez Texerio | De Nuevo Otra Vez | Run Pig Run | Scream |
Aerolines Federales | Soy Una Punk | Jumping Fences | View From A Wooden Chair |
Seasta Chani | Women Of The World | Rivermouth | Propaganda |
Lou Reed | The Original Wrapper | Phil Monsour | Who Killed Reza Berati? |
The Pixies | Bone Machine | Andy Paine | The Blood Of Empires |
Sinead O’Connor | Don’t Cry For Me Agentina | Shane Howard | Rise Up |
Mercedes Sosa | Gracias A La Vida | Jumping Fences | Candile De Nieve |
Victor Jara | Te Recuerdo Amanda | Robert Burns | Scots Wha Hae |
Rusty Datsuns | Billy Bob | Andy Paine | The Blood Of Empires |
Artist Name | Track Name | Artist Name | Track Name |
Gurrumul | Crocodile Man | The Painted Ladies | Get Back Into The Shadows |
We All Want To | Streets Of Your Town | The Lurkers | Get Foxy News |
Crooked Fiddle Band | The Vanishing Shapes Of A Better World | Steve Towson | We Will Rise |
Mark Lanegan | I’m Not The Loving Kind | The Disables | ASIO |
Frontera | Pegale Le Duro Al Fiero (Strike The Beast Hard) | Bad Day Down | ‘Australian’ Is A State Of Mind |
Jumping Fences | Sueno Con Serpientes | Bridge And Tunnel | Wartime Souvenirs |
Phil Monsour | Blackfella, Whitefella | These Dirty Bones | Songs Of Our Own |
Phil Monsour | No More Lies, No More Silence | Myrtle Place | All The Enemy |
Frontera | Pegale Le Duro Al Fiero | Ducks In The Mud | Machine Hearts |
Jumping Fences | Strike The Beast Hard | Shane Howard | Rise Up |
PShift | Roadmap To Apartheid | Intentions | Human Resource |
Joan Baez | It Ain’t Me Babe | XTC | Generals And Majors |
Joni Mitchell | River | These Dirty Bones | Lay Me Down |
PShift | Rain Of Fire | Insurge | Political Prisoners |
Police State | The Great Shame | Paddy Mchugh And The Goldminers | Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre |
Combat Wombat | Police Brutality | Warumpi Band | Jailanguru Pakai Yu (Out From Jail) |
Paul Spencer | September 12 (When The Cops Came Out To Play) | The Painted Ladies | Get Back Into The Shadows |
Shane Howard | Rise Up | Test Their Logik | Turtle Island |
CC The Cat | Free | Tiddas | Anthem |
Combat Wombat | Human Shields | Ancestress | One By One |
Seize The Day | United States | MC Triks | Fist Like This |
The Lovebombs | Flowers In The Guns | Kev Carmody | Black Deaths In Custody |
George Telek | West Papua | George Telek Featuring Ngairre | West Papua |
Arnold Ap | Sup Mowiya | The Lani Singers | Peperra |
Black Paradise | Aye Nanawe | Blue King Brown | All Nations |
Blue King Brown | Rize Up | Archie Roach | Beautiful Child |
Tom Gabel | Anna Is A Stool Pigeon | These Dirty Bones | Bones In My Marshmallows |
The Lurkers | Couldn’t Be Better | Bad Day Down | If This Is Humane, Then Fuck Humanity |
Utah Phillips | A Trooper’s Lament | Frenzal Rhomb | Greyhound |
Punxie And The Poison Pens | Campbell Newman Song | Paddy Mchugh And The Goldminers | Gamblin’ Man |
Mel Who | Newtown Jail | Phil Monsour | Let Them Eat Money |
Artist Name | Track Name | Artist Name | Track Name |
Bob Dylan | The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll | Test Their Logik | Crash The Meeting |
Mudhoney | In And Out Of Grace | Punxie And The Poison Pens | The Campbell Newman Song |
The Lurkers | Who’s Got A Padlock And Chain? | The (International) Noise Conspiracy | Up For Sale |
Bob Campbell | Killer Black Coal Mines | The Housemartins | Freedom |
Saw Wheel | Paradise | Kev Carmody | Attack Attack |
These Dirty Bones | Bones In My Marshmallows | Clare Towler | Water |
Virginia Sook | Bear Caught In A Net | Phil Monsour | Let Them Eat Money – Song For The G20 |
The Forty Thieves | On My Grave | Jonathon Sri | World Leaders, Welcome To Brisbane |
Nathan Kearney | Mary Sweeney | Test Their Logik | Crash The Meeting |
George Telek | West Papua | Brisbane G20 Complaints Choir | G20 Complaints |
Ducks In The Mud | Song For Darfur | Mekosuchus | Highly Visible Sham |
Christine Johnston | The Dream Before | Andy Paine | G20 Security |
Kev Carmody | I’ve Been Moved | Hedley Johnson | Rock On Down To Musgrave Park |
Last Kinection | Are We There Yet? | Everything I Own Is Broken | Police |
Teila Watson | Proposing Answers | Top Hat Killahz | Cops On Fire |
The Special AKA | Nelson Mandela | Combat Wombat | Police Brutality |
Yung Warriors | Standing Strong | Kev Carmody | The Young Dancer Is Dead |
Local Knowledge | Blackfellas | QELD | ACAB |
Impossible Odds | Identity | Laura Mardon | Hail! Hail! The Dead Can Dance |
Dukebox | Bounce | Virginia Sook | Petrie Dish |
The Waifs | Lies | Rivermouth | Dig It Up |
The Lurkers | Get Foxy News | Stringo | Try |
Teila | Bring Buildings Down | Carrie And The Cut Snakes | Scrubby Mountain |
Triks | Acapella | Ancestress | Bringin’ Buildings Down |
Laura Mardon | Hail! Hail! The Dead Can Dance! | Phil Monsour | Ghosts Of Deir Yassin |
Glenn Skuthorpe | No More Whispering | Last Kinnection | Are We There Yet? |
Dawn Daylight | Strengthened Pride | Phil Monsour | Masters Of War |
Leonard Cohen | Everybody Knows | Canorous | Terrorist Is The CIA |
Tony Mockeridge | Article 14 | Ducks In The Mud | Fences |
Bob Campbell | Killer Black Coal Mines | Steve Towson | Christmas Island |
Christine Johnson | The Dream Before | Di Angelo And The Vanguard | Black Messiah |
The Wild | A Better Life In New Bedford | Barge With An Antenna On It | New Land Old Sun |
Luke Vasella | The Mighty Dollar | Lampshades On Fire | Lampshades On Fire |
Paul Spencer | When Coal Seam Gas Was New | Emma And The Hungry Truth | The Hungry Truth Will Feast On You |
PJ Harvey | Shaker Aameer | Alice Eather | Your Story Is My Story |
Esperanza Spalding | We Are America | Midnight Oil | Blue Sky Mining |
David Rovics | Song For Bradley Manning | Georgia Maq | Musings Of A 16 Year Old Georgia Mcdonald |
Andy Paine | With My Hammer | Strange Tenants | I Don’t Want To Fight Your War |
Duman | Eyvallah | Crow Eater | Spit On Your Floor |
Pussy Riot | In A Red Prison | Suicidal Tendencies | We Are Family |
Sweet Teens | Kelly The Ned | Tibet2Timbuktu | Heart Sutra |
Darah | Australian History 101 | Bob Marley And The Wailers | Oppressed Song |
Ah Fuck That | Quirky Can Do | MC Triks And Babe Sun | We Still Right Here |
Mel Who | Newtown Jail | Luke Vassella | How Long? |
Spoonboy | My Generation | Adam Ryan | Can’t See The Forest |
Paddy Mchugh And The Goldminers | The Snowmen | The Lurkers | Post-Post-Feminist Revolution |
Little G | Invasion Day | Against Me! | True Trans Soul Rebel |
Kev Carmody | Thou Shalt Not Steal | Peter Joseph Head | Bad Budget Blues (Not In My Name) |
No Fixed Address | We Have Survived | Hatsune Miku And Mineoku Tashiharu | Umbrella Revolution |
Tiddas | Anthem | The Game | Don’t Shoot |
Pete Seeger | What Did You Learn In School Today | Rivermouth | Propaganda |
MC Triks Ft. Black Shield | Fist Like This | Provocalz | One Land |
Artist Name | Track Name | Artist Name | Track Name |
PRE Ft. Babe SUN And C.P.G. | Why Is My History Such A Mystery | Lorna Munro | Colours |
Guerilla Tactics | Dedication | No Fixed Address | We Have Survived |
La’ Teila | Propose The Question | Frank Yamma | She Cried |
Lorna Munro | Peace Lines | Chumbawamba | The Candidates Find Common Ground |
MC Triks And Babe SUN | We Still Right Here | Ramshackle Glory | Ballots And Barricades |
Jean Ritchie | Black Waters | Redgum | The Federal Two-Ring Circus |
Adam Ryan | Can’t See The Forest For The Coal | Dan Kelly And The Alpha-Males | Drunk On Election Night |
MC Triks and bAbE Sun | We still right here | Paul Spencer | Even That Takes A Revolution |
Luke Vassella | How long? | The Lucksmiths | To Absent Votes |
Adam Ryan | Can’t see the forest | Mouldy Lovers | A Town Called Apathy |
The Lurkers | Post-post-feminist revolution | Seahorse Divorce | Hessian Transgression |
Against Me! | True trans soul rebel | Billy Bragg And Wilco | Christ For President |
Peter Joseph Head – | Bad budget blues (not in my name) | Yothu Yindi | Treaty |
Hatsune Miku and Mineoku Tashiharu – | Umbrella revolution | Traditional | Toia Mai Te Waka Nei |
The Game – | Don’t shoot | Coloured Stone | Black Boy |
Golden Orb | Ghost Gums | ||
Rivermouth – | Propaganda | Alphamama | If Ya Gon Lie |
The Lurkers | Who’s Got A Padlock And Chain? | Andy Paine | With This Hammer |
Warumpi Band | From The Bush | Mouldy Lovers | 6 Ft Fences |
Mikaila Hanman Siegersma | It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World | Lost Animal | Don’t Litter |
Kev Carmody | River Of Tears | Tom Waits | Big In Japan |
Bryte | World On Strike | St Vincent | Bad Believer |
Jimblah | Blind | Justin Townes Earle | They Killed John Henry |
Jumping Fences | Candombe Mulato | Shakey Graves | Dearly Departed |
Against Me! | True Trans Soul Rebel | Nite Fields | Prescription |
Rage Against The Machine | Killing In The Name | Shifting Sands | Boyfriend |
Rage Against The Machine | Guerilla Radio | Ben Salter | West End Girls |
Bruce Springsteen | The Ghost Of Tom Joad | The Clash | Know Your Rights |
Tangle | Look Closer | St Vincent | Bad Believer |
Polly Christie | Tony Abbott Housework Song | Mouldy Lovers | The Incubator |
Laura Mardon | Falling, Fallen | The Kramers | Wild Man |
Teila Watson | Propose The Question | Palace Music | The Brute Choir |
Mikaila Hanman Siegersma | It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World | Nana Vigilante | Impermanence |
Gunk | Doll | Thigh Master | Age Of Concern |
Chumbawamba | This Girl | Employment | Words I Wish I’d Never Put To Paper, Now Spill Past My Teeth |
Phil Monsour | Girt By Sea Big Country Small Heart | Virginia Sook | Soil, Seeds, Bellies |
Ani Difranco | When I’m Gone | Fiona Apple | Werewolf |
Natalhia Britos | Yo Vengo A Ofrecer Mi Corazãƒâ³N | Speedy Ortiz | Tiger Tank |
Cisco Houston | Deportee | Sleater-Kinney | A New Wave |
Phil Monsour | Who Killed Reza Berati? | Terrible Truths | Heat Then Fire |
Mikaila Hermann Sickesmeyer | Its A Mans Mans World | Alex Turner | Stuck On A Puzzle |
Midnight Oil | Dreamworld | Heirophants | Free From Myself |
The Living End | All Torn Down | Coloured Stone | Island Of Greed |
Spanish Anarchist Song | 1936 | Stress Of Liesure | Girl On A Lilo |
Neil Young | Cinnamon Girl | Jen Cloher | Needle In The Hay |
Neil Young | Down By The River | Bonnie “Prince” Billy | No More Workhorse Blues |
Archie Roach | Took The Children Away | Wilco | Poor Places |
PShift | Aunty Hazel Talks About How DOCS Took Her Daughter’s Babies | The Go-Betweens | I Need Two Heads |
PShift | Grandmother Has Grandchild Taken By DOCS | Kitchen’s Floor | Downed It (Live At Radiothon 2012) |
Andy Payne | Wollar | The Breeders | Doe (Live In Stockholm) |
Sue Wareham | Iraq War US Alliance And Nuclear Weapons | Screamin’ Jay Hawkins | I Put A Spell On You (Live In Paris, 1998) |
Dennis Stephens | Downsizing Anzac | Will Butler | Anna |
Neil Young | Ohio | The Drones | The Minotaur (Live At The Hi Fi, 2011) |
Neil Young | Four Strong Winds | Neil Young And Crazy Horse | Winterlong (Live At The Fillmore East) |
Crosby, Stills Nash | The Cost Of Freedom | Janie Conway-Herron | Eddie Murray Song |
Judith Wright | The Trains | Phil Ochs | What’s This I Hear? |
Richard Tipping | Mangoes | Midnight Oil | The Dead Heart |
The Lurkers | No Gods No Masters | LEWKA & TRILLION | Fool Time Job |
Dolly Parton | 9 To 5 | Phil Monsour | Who Killed Reza Barati? |
Pete Seeger | Which Side Are You On? | Rivermouth | White Paint |
A Commoners Revolt | God Save The Boss | Blue King Brown | Educate The Masses |
The Glitter Rats | All You Fascists Are Bound To Lose | World Of Guiness | The Southern Cross Tattoo |
Noel Gardener | Refugee | Gonzovillain | Mouthbreather |
Yung Warriors Ft. Dizzy Doolan | Standing Strong | Courtney Barnett | Depreston |
MC Triks And Babe SUN | We Still Right Here | Combat Wombat | Star Wars |
Bob Randall | Brown Skin Baby | Palmar Grasp | Black Flag Tattoo |
Scrumfeeder | No KFC | Georgia Maq | What Do You Mean (The Bank’s Out Of Money) |
Rivermouth | Propaganda | Bad Day Down | Australian Is A State Of Mind |
Andy Paine | Me And Mr Jones | Stockades | Just Following Orders |
Ah Fuck That | Quirky Can-Do | Mary Rattenbury | Peace Speaks To Our Sad Old World |
Karla Hart | Had To Be | Andrew Kennedy | Murder Or Suicide |
Kayemtee | Forever | Redgum | I Was Only 19 |
Indigeous Intrudaz | Take All On | The Pogues | The Band Played Waltzing Matilda |
Adam Ryan | Can’t See The Forest For The Coal | Utah Phillips | The Trooper’s Lament |
Phil Monsour | Who Killed Reza Berati? | Edna St Vincent Millay | Conscientious Objector |
Glitter Rats | A Las Barricadas | Warumpi Band | Secret War |
Spoonboy | My Generation | Glitter Rats | Which Side Are You On |
The (International) Noise Conspiracy | A New Language | These Dirty Bones | Songs Of Our Own |
Chris Maver And Chris Anderson | Walls Came Down | The Loveless Union | Lovelocked |
Propagandhi | Nation States | Billy Bragg | There Is Power In A Union |
Ollie MC | Callout | Jumping Fences | La Guitarra |
Izzy Brown | Creativity | Jimblah | Keep The Kimberley |
Ezekiel Ox | Policeman | MC Triks Feat Black Shield | Fist Like This |
Artist Name | Track Name | Artist Name | Track Name |
Vic Simms | Get Back Into The Shadows | Provocalz / TASK / Lady Lash / Djarmbie Supreme / Gekkz / Mad Madam / Mr. Krow | Stand Proud |
United Struggle Project | United We Struggle | Ancestress | Propose The Question |
The Sufferjets | Whitehaven Sux | Bryte | World On Strike |
Bob Campbell | Killer Black Coal | Kev Carmody | Thou Shalt Not Steal |
Fat Picnic | Taking You On | Phil Monsour | Ghosts Of Deir Yassin |
Construcao Coletiva | Rap Da Rua (Nao Vai Ter Copa) | George Telek | WEST PAPUA |
Mantist | Where I’m From | Blue King Brown | Born Free |
The Fall | Das Valture Ans Ein Nutter Wain | The Lurkers | Rotten To The Core |
Kylie Sambo | Muckaty | The Honey Stompers | Hole In The Ground |
Us Mob | Genocide | Adam Ryan | Can’t See The Forest For The Coal |
Kalmadyne Goombridge And Matt Williamson | I Now Know | Master Wolf | Never Question The Dopeness |
Kev Carmody | Dirty Dollar | Steve Towson | Christmas Island |
The Lurkers | Post-Post-Feminist Revolution | Tu Pham | The March Is Long |
The Snatchettes | Old Man Magnet | Hannaka | Esau |
Albion Gold | Bored And Braindead | Against Me! | Baby, I’m An Anarchist |
Heaps Tuff | Don’t Ask Me What I’m Doing After The Revolution | Bob Dylan | The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll |
Polly Christie | Tony Abbott Housework Song | Glen Skuthorpe | Sacred Land |
Brainbeau | 50c Casio Rave | Ancestress | One By One |
MC Triks And Babe Sun | We Still Right Here | Warumpi Band | From The Bush |
Archie Roach | Took The Children Away | Punxie And The Poison Pens | Gina Rinehart |
Ancestress | One By One | Escape The Fate | Miles Wide |
No Fixed Address | We Have Survived | Tichawona Mashawa And Velvet Pesu | Kedush |
Karla Hart | Had To Be | Woody Guthrie And Cisco Houston | Deportee |
Paul Spencer | The Machines Are Closing In | ||
John Williamson | Rip Rip Woodchip | ||
Great Shame | Old Growth |
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