Rock Against Howard is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n compilation CD featuring anti-Coalition

Coalition (Australia)

The Coalition in Australian politics refers to a group of centre-right parties that has existed in the form of a coalition agreement since 1922...

 musicians, released in 2004. The project hoped to inspire young voters to turn out in federal elections that year to vote against then-Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Australia

The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and Head of Her Majesty's Australian Government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia. The office of Prime Minister is, in practice, the most powerful...

 John Howard

John Howard

John Winston Howard AC, SSI, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies....

, but Howard's party prevailed all the same.

Rock Against Howard was organised by Frenzal Rhomb

Frenzal Rhomb

Frenzal Rhomb are an Australian punk rock band which formed in 1992 with mainstay Jason Whalley on lead vocals and rhythm guitar. In 1996, Lindsay McDougall joined the line-up on lead guitar and backing vocals. Two of the group's albums have peaked into the top 20 on the ARIA Albums Chart, A...

 guitarist Lindsay McDougall

Lindsay McDougall

Lindsay "The Doctor" McDougall is an Australian radio presenter for national youth network Triple J and guitarist in Australian punk rock band Frenzal Rhomb.- Frenzal Rhomb :...

, when he realised every musician he knew felt the same way about Howard. It was inspired by the American

United States

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 Rock Against Bush

Rock Against Bush

Rock Against Bush was a project mobilizing punk and alternative musicians against the 2004 U.S. Presidential re-election campaign of George W. Bush...

compilations, and takes on a similar format. All profits from album sales go to refugee charities through the Refugee Action Coalition, an ironic tribute to Howard's stance on asylum seekers.

The music on the release is politically oriented, with the first disk featuring previously released songs, and a disk of live and otherwise previously unreleased work on the second. The style of music varies widely, with punk rock

Punk rock

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, hip-hop

Hip hop music

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, and even show tunes.

Disc 1

Musicians Against the Liberal Government

1. H-Block 101 - "Reason Why" - 2:40
2. Bodyjar
   Bodyjar
   Bodyjar were an Australian punk rock/pop punk band based in Melbourne. They began performing under the name Bodyjar in 1994; their previous names included Damnation and Helium.-History:...
   
    - "Is It A Lie?" - 2:33
3. Something for Kate
   Something for Kate
   Something for Kate are a rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Members include songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Paul Dempsey, drummer Clint Hyndman and bassist Stephanie Ashworth...
   
    - "Best Weapon" - 4:50
4. The Givegoods - "Collar to Colour" - 4:23
5. David Bridie
   David Bridie
   David Bridie is a musician from Melbourne, Australia. Bridie first rose to prominence as a member of Not Drowning, Waving, which he started in the early 1980s with guitarist John Phillips. They released four albums on Australian independent labels to some level of critical acclaim and very limited...
   
    - "Nation (of the Heartless Kind)" - 4:33
6. The City Lights - "A Big Star" - 2:55
7. Peabody
   Peabody (band)
   Peabody are an Australian four-piece rock band. Forming in Sydney in the mid-90s, the then three-piece Peabody ingrained themselves in the live music scene of Inner-city Sydney...
   
    - "A Resurrected Man" - 3:5
8. 78 Saab - "Sound of Lies" - 4:26
9. Even
   Even (band)
   Even are an Australian indie rock three-piece fronted by singer/songwriter/guitarist Ashley Naylor, with Matthew Cotter on drums and Wally Kempton on bass and backing vocals...
   
    - "Sunshine Comes" - 3:2
10. Sulo - "Wash" - 2:54
11. The Anyones
    The Anyones
    The Anyones , are an alternative rock band from Melbourne Australia.-History:The Anyones began in 1995 when brothers Stephen and Malcolm Pinkerton joined with high school friend Nick Murphy and started writing and rehearsing in Melbourne using the name "They Live" The band sought to utilize Mal's...
    
     - "Gun Him Down" - 4:41
12. Razel - "The Arse Song" - 3:35
13. The Resin Dogs
    Resin Dogs
    Resin Dogs are a Brisbane, Australia-based hip hop band, originally formed in 1996. Resin Dogs are a loose collective, a cut and paste sample band who use live drums, live bass, and elements of hip hop via turntables and samplers to create all forms of ritual dance sounds...
    
     - "Rebel" - 3:40
14. Youth Group
    Youth Group
    Youth Group are a rock band based in Newtown, Sydney, Australia signed to Ivy League Records.- Biography :Youth Group formed in Sydney in the late 1990s. They have released four albums in Australia, with the three most recent albums also gaining releases worldwide...
    
     - "Drown" - 4:16
15. Frenzal Rhomb
    Frenzal Rhomb
    Frenzal Rhomb are an Australian punk rock band which formed in 1992 with mainstay Jason Whalley on lead vocals and rhythm guitar. In 1996, Lindsay McDougall joined the line-up on lead guitar and backing vocals. Two of the group's albums have peaked into the top 20 on the ARIA Albums Chart, A...
    
     - "White World" - 1:32
16. TISM
    TISM
    TISM was a seven piece anonymous alternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia. The group was formed in 1982 and enjoyed a large underground/independent following. Their third album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons reached the Australian national top 10 in 1995...
    
     - "The Phillip Ruddock Blues" - 7:9

Disc 2

Unreleased and Unreal

1. Front End Loader
   Front End Loader
   Front End Loader is an Australian rock band consisting of Davis Claymore , Bowden Campbell , Richard Corey , and Peter Kostic . Peter also drums for Regurgitator and The Hard-Ons.-History:...
   
    - "4 Start Heritage Arsehole [live]" - 2:40
2. The Herd - "Honest J" - 2:57
3. The Drugs
   The Drugs
   The Drugs are an Australian alternative rock band from Sydney. Formed by Ian Baddley in 1992, they released their first single, "Pop Song", in 2000. Their debut album, Music's in Trouble, was released in 2002. Their second album, The Very Next Of, was released in 2004.They disbanded in 2004, but...
   
    - "I Was a Teenage Voter" - 2:28
4. Godnose
   Godnose
   Godnose are an Australian metalcore band from Brisbane, Queensland in Australia. They formed in 1995. The name was an early name for ascorbic acid/vitamin c used by its discoverer Albert Szent-Gyorgyi not long after he isolated the substance for the first time.-Associated acts:*from the USA:...
   
    - "At the End of the Day" - 2:59
5. Unpaid Debt - "Call it a Day" - 3:27
6. Little Johnny (aka Pauline Pantsdown)
   Pauline Pantsdown
   Simon Hunt, sometimes known as Pauline Pantsdown, is an Australian satirist and Australian Senate candidate who parodied Pauline Hanson, a controversial former member of federal parliament, in 1997. His birth name was Simon Hunt, but he changed his name by deed poll so that he would appear on the...
   
    - "I'm Sorry!" - 3:32
7. Toekeo - "John Howard Is a Filthy Slut" - 3:41
8. Mindsnare
   Mindsnare
   Mindsnare are an Australian hardcore band from Melbourne, Victoria. Formed in 1993 under the name Mad Circle, their music is a blend of traditional "old school" hardcore punk and crossover metal, and as such has seen them play alongside metal bands like Kreator and Ringworm, as well as more...
   
    - "To the Boil" - 2:32
9. Bemon Other - "Keep on Raping in the Free World" - 1:12
10. The Persian Rugs - "Half-wit" - 2:17
11. Steve Townson and the Conscripts - "Tonight We Storm the Bastille" - 3:15
12. Major - "Liar" - 4:5
13. The Fauves
    The Fauves
    The Fauves are an Australian rock band. Their album Future Spa was nominated for Best Alternative Album in the 1997 ARIA awards but lost to Spiderbait's Ivy and the Big Apples....
    
     - "Get Fucked" - 3:10
14. The Reservations - "Calling Out I'm Through" - 2:55
15. George's Bush - "Evil Little Man" - 4:17
16. Eddie Perfect
    Eddie Perfect
    Eddie Perfect is an Australian actor, comedian and musician who currently plays Mick Holland in Channel Ten's Offspring series. He won the 2009 Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work, the Victorian Premier's Literacy Award and the Green Room Award for his musical, Shane Warne The...
    
     - "John Howard's Bitches" - 3:56
17. The Thighblasters - "How'd You All Get to Be So Dumb?" - 1:44
18. Too Green for Summer (featuring Senator Andrew Bartlett
    Andrew Bartlett
    Andrew John Julian Bartlett is an Australian politician. He was formerly an Australian Democrats member of the Australian Senate from 1997 to 2008, representing the state of Queensland. He was the leader of the Democrats from 2002 to 2004, and deputy leader from 2004 to 2008.-Early life and...
    
    ) - "I Don't Believe it" - 2:32