Dylan? Don't even think about it. Billie Holiday? Absolutely. Photographs: AP
Thanks for last week's suggestions on the theme of celebrity. This week I'd like you to wave your placards for your favourite protest songs - incendiary sloganeering, waspish satire and state-of-the-world melancholia are all welcome. Two conditions apply, though: (1) No anti-war songs, because war is going to get its own playlist at a later date and there are, after all, plenty of other things to protest against; and (2) No Bob Dylan.
Every time protest songs are mentioned on the radio, you hear a few bars of The Times They Are A-Changin', every week this blog is swimming with Dylan recommendations, every time you pick up a newspaper some esteemed cultural commentator is incontinent with praise for the Greatest Poet Of His Generation. Yes, he's a talented chap, and yes, two of his songs have made the Readers recommend playlist so far, but just for this week let's give him, and everybody else, a break. Go on, be imaginative.
Oh, and please try to post your recommendations by Monday evening. After that, it's too late to change the playlist. Ta very much.
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