By Any Means Necessary: Soundtrack To Revolution

With BBC3's Detroit Rock 'n' Riots documentary Motor City's Burnin' setting the TV schedules aflame last weekend and the forthcoming Revolution '68 South Bank Show promising to throw yet more images of bad-ass, black leather jacket wearing, acid-muchin', rifle-totin' dudes kicking The Man's ass to a soundtrack of the greatest music ever made, it seems like TV bosses are lookin' to hook that Mojo Magazine reading, baby-boomer £50 bloke demographic By Any Means Necessary. The only thang missing is a $$$ grabbing cash-in "Music From And Inspired By The Television Series" CD. Over the page I've put together My Ultimate Top 10 late '60s / early '70s Revolution mix-CD track listing, or 'Now That's What I Call Putting Capitalist Muvvafuckers Up Against The Wall', if you will, I've have tried to avoid bein' too obvious (No 'Street Fighting Man', no 'Dancing In The Street'), and invite you to add your own suggestions...

BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY: SOUNDTRACK TO THE REVOLUTION

.1. Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow - Funkadelic: 'Cos if you gonna start a revolution, first you gotta have a revolution of the mind.

.2. Freddy's Dead - Curtis Mayfield: Vietnam comes home to the ghetto, drugs, crime and unemployment decimate whole neighbourhoods, black America loses all over again. Heavy (in every sense) funk from the Mighty Mighty Curtis Mayfield.

.3. Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers: The impatient echoing tick-tock of a clock...or is it a bomb...explodes into a thunderous fuzz guitar riff, ushering in the ex-folkie's psyche-soul masterpiece.

.4. Pushin' Too Hard - The Seeds: Bratty, young, stoned, long-haired, flower-punk White America hocks up a loogie and spits it in the face of The Pigs, their parents etc

.5. War Pigs - Black Sabbath: An indictment of warmongers more brutal and unforgiving than even Dylan's Masters Of War. And it rocks like a Panza tank.

.6. Trouble Every Day - Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention: "Wednesday I watched the riot, seen the cops out in the street...Watched 'em throwing rocks and stuff, and choking in the heat..." No irony, no jokes, just straight harmonica wailin' garage-blues reportage, pure riot-rock from the Sunset Strip.

.7. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Gil Scott Heron: OK, so it's an obvious one, but for good reason - the smartest, hippest, funniest, angriest lyrics you ever heard, rapped over the funkiest groove ever played, and they had the good sense to throw in a flute too.

.8. Revolution 9 - The Beatles: Like all his meditations on revolution, peace, war etc around this time LenOno's cut 'n' paste freak-out is pretty ambiguous; the track paints violent revolt as nothing less than terrifying, but categorically does not out-and-out condemn violent revolution as an unfortunate but necessary means to a end.

.9. 5 To 1 - The Doors: "They got the guns, but we got the numbers, Gonna win yeah, takin' over...Come on!" Jimbo brings the sex 'n' violence bit to the revolution, over a fuzz-guitar and clavinet riff Jay-Z sampled on 'The Takeover'.

.10. Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix: Monstrous, heavily wah-wah'd, terrifying psyche-funk from ex-US Paratrooper Hendrix and the Band of Gypsys, Hendrix's definitive statement, or anti-statement about he wars in 1970 abroad and at home, from a man who rarely spoke politics, but led a very political life.