Songs About War

[Pomai]

Hot on the heels of "Songs About Crime (http://www.hawaiithreads.com/showthread.php?p=169290#post169290)", there's many songs that talk about the worst aspect of mankind: War.

Metal music has this subject thoroughly covered...

• War Pigs* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbxfe7DMxVo) - Black Sabbath

A few of MANY (if not all, LOL!) by Megadeth...
• Symphony of Destruction (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZmPD6-vNVY)
• Peace Sells* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DWoJBHibhM) (But Who's Buying?)

• Gods of War* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiyw6iVgT1A) - Def Leppard (<--- one of their best "non-mainstream" songs)

• Allied Forces* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qGdxe6aVQg) - Triumph

• Fight the Good Fight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QI_lQjf1eo) - Triumph

• Aces High* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdabej99FPw) - Iron Maiden

• The Trooper* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgqxQmAbTBc) - Iron Maiden (<--- cool video)

...there is SO MUCH more to add, but here's a start!

*YouTube video.

[cezanne]

Altogether now: All we are sayinggggg, is "Give Peace a Chance" -- John and Yoko

[Vanguard]

For What It's Worth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30W3iRL48gQ) -- Buffalo Springfield

[Miulang]

Where Have All the Flowers Gone-Pete Seeger
Turn!Turn!Turn-The Byrds
Masters of War-Joan Baez
Big Yellow Taxi-Joni Mitchell
Hawai'i '78-Bruddah Iz
Unknown Soldier-The Doors
Blowin' In the Wind-Peter, Paul & Mary
Sovereignty Song-Keali'i Reichel

Miulang

[LikaNui]

And #1 on the Top 10 list of Songs About War is played in churches and chapels everywhere:

"Here Comes The Bride."

:p

[mel]

People Let's Stop the War - Grand Funk Railroad
War - Edwin Starr or Bruce Springsteen
One Tin Soldier - Coven
Buffalo Soldier - Bob Marley

Star Wars Theme - John Williams / London Symphony Orchestra

Star Wars / Cantina Band - Meco

The Battle of Evermore - Led Zeppelin

Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
Sink the Bismark - Johnny Horton
PT 109 - Jimmy Dean
Billy Don't Be a Hero - Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods
Soldier Boy - The Shirelles
Soldier Boy of Mine - Candy & the Kisses
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B - Bette Midler / Andrew Sisters
Have You Forgotten? - Darryl Worley
The Fighting Side of Me - Merle Haggard
God Bless The U.S.A. - Lee Greenwood
When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Louis Lambert (writer)
Ballad of the Green Berets - Sgt. Barry Sadler
Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree - Tony Orlando & Dawn

The Star Spangled Banner - Francis Scott Key - many performers

Halls of Montezuma - U.S. Marine Corps
The Cassion Song - U.S. Army
Anchors Away - U.S. Navy
The Air Force Song - U.S. Air Force

[Pomai]

And #1 on the Top 10 list of Songs About War is played in churches and chapels everywhere:

"Here Comes The Bride."

:pLOL! Should we start a thread titled "Songs About Love"? Oh man, that's probably the most covered topic of all, which the list could go on for days!

More war....

• N M 156 - Queensryche (nuclear missile)

• The Hellion/Electric Eye* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TopkgGxGzQs) - Judas Priest (global surveillance)

• War* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX7V6FAoTLc) - Edwin Starr

*YouTube video.

[mel]

LOL! Should we start a thread titled "Songs About Love"? Oh man, that's probably the most covered topic of all, which the list could go on for days!


Ryan did one earlier this year for a Valentine's Day mix (http://www.finetune.com/playlist/1359066) he made at Finetune.com.

[tikiyaki]

DUH....

"WAR - Good God your.....What is it good For - NOTHIN - say it again....."

"War" by Edwin Starr

[Pomai]

DUH....

"WAR - Good God your.....What is it good For - NOTHIN - say it again....."

"War" by Edwin StarrUh, Mel already mentioned that one, which I didn't see, then I mentioned it. Now you. :p

• Bombs Away (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhUhpnX6G7w) - The Police

• Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2

• Goodbye Blue Sky - Pink Floyd

• The Dogs of War - Pink Floyd

• Life During Wartime (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzORu1dqEE0) - Talking Heads (<---David Byrne has got to be the coolest rock "dancer" on the planet!)

Although White Rabbit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xhYk9PEmXA) (Jefferson Airplane) should be in the "Songs About Crime" thread (drugs), everytime I hear it I think of the Vietnam War. Probably because of the movie Platoon.

[LikaNui]

David Bowie's "Suffragette City."
The line "Ahhhh, wham, bam, thank you ma'am" is violent and war-like.
That is what he meant, I'm pretty sure.
And as my signature line below says...

[anapuni808]

I Feel Like I'm Fixin to Die - Country Joe & The Fish
Goodbye Saigon - Billy Joel

[Frankie's Market]

Universal Soldier - Donovan
Revolution - Beatles
G.I. Blues - Elvis Presley
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Dawn of Correction - Statesmen (answer song to above)
It's A Mistake - Men At Work
99 Luftballons - Nena
Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon
Imagine - John Lennon
Give Ireland Back To The Irish - Paul McCartney
Tug Of War - Paul McCartney
Pipes Of Peace - Paul McCartney
Freedom - Paul McCartney
Love Is A Battlefield - Pat Benetar
Blowing In The Wind - Bob Dylan
Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Student Demonstration Time - Beach Boys (terrible song, tho!)
No Tears For Johnny - Chad & Jeremy
I Come & Stand At Every Door - Byrds
Long Live Our Love - Shangri-Las
Soldier Of Love - Arthur Alexander
Soldier Of Love - Donny Osmond (different song from above)
Bomb Iran - Vince Vance & the Valiants (parody, sung to tune of "Barbara Ann")
Bomb Iraq - Vince Vance & the Valiants (same as above)

[liberty]

The first song that popped in my head was Edwin Starr's "War," but I see Mel already listed it. *thumbs up*

- "Battle in the Forest," Kathleen Battle & Shigeru Umebayashi (from House of Flying Daggers)
- "Battle Without Honor or Humanity," Tomoyasu Hotei (from Kill Bill: Volume 1)
- "Battled," AFI
- "B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)," Outkast
- "Evacuating London," Harry Gregson-Williams (from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- "Guerilla Radio," Rage Against the Machine
- "The Fire Scene and the Coming of War," John Williams (from Memoirs of a Geisha
- "Red Warrior," Hans Zimmer (from The Last Samurai)
- "Soldier," Eminem
- "Soldier Jane," Beck
- "Time to Build," Beastie Boys
- "Toy Soldiers," Martika

[LovinLK]

Poster Girl (Wrong Side of the World) - Beccy Cole
Travellin Soldier - Dixie Chicks
I Was Only 19 - Lee Kernaghan (also recorded by John Schumann)
Rebel Soldier - Country Gentlemen
Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning - Alan Jackson
The Rebel - Johnny Cash
Scots of the Riverina - Lee Kernaghan (Henry Lawson Poem)
Ruby - Kenny Rogers
Letters from Home - John Michael Montgomery
Have You Forgotten - Darryl Worley
I'm A Lucky One - Sgt. Barry Sadler
Letter From Vietnam - Sgt. Barry Sadler
Badge Of Courage - Sgt. Barry Sadler
Saigon - Sgt. Barry Sadler
Salute To The Nurses - Sgt. Barry Sadler
I'm Watching The Raindrops Fall - Sgt. Barry Sadler
Garet Trooper - Sgt. Barry Sadler
The Soldier Has Come Home - Sgt. Barry Sadler
Lullaby - Sgt. Barry Sadler
Trooper's Lament - Sgt. Barry Sadler
I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag - Country Joe McDonald
Foreign Policy Blues - Country Joe McDonald
Agent Orange Song - Country Joe McDonald
The Girl Next Door (Combat Nurse) - Country Joe McDonald
Secret Agent - Country Joe McDonald
Viet Nam Veteran Still Alive - Country Joe McDonald
Viet Nam Never Again - Country Joe McDonald
Mourning Blues - Country Joe McDonald
Welcome Home - Country Joe McDonald
Born on the 4th of July - Shooter Jennings
I Just Came Back (From A War) - Darryl Worley
Not Ready To Make Nice - Dixie Chicks
Red, White And Blue - Rascal Flatts/Brian McKnight
If You're Reading This - Tim McGraw
Angry American (Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue) - Toby Keith
I Hope - Dixie Chicks
That's the News - Merle Haggard
Wasteland of the Free - Iris DeMent's
Dear Uncle Sam - Loretta Lynn
Ballad of Ira Hayes - Johnny Cash
Okie From Muskogee - Merle Haggard
Fightin' Side of Me - Merle Haggard
If I Don't Make it Back - Tracy Lawrence
Rainbow at Midnight - Hawkshaw Hawkins
Soldier's Last Letter - Ernest Tubb
Arlington - Trace Adkins
John Walker's Blues - Steve Earle
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
Filipino Baby - Cowboy Copas
Fraulein - Bobby Helms
a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere - Elton Britt
Goodnight Soldier - Patsy Montana
Dear John Letter - Jean Shepard
Missing in Action - Ernest Tubb
The Minute Men Are Turning in Their Graves - Stonewall Jackson
Vietnam Blues - Dave Dudley
Awful, Beautiful Life - Darryl Worley

[mel]

And #1 on the Top 10 list of Songs About War is played in churches and chapels everywhere:
"Here Comes The Bride." :p

And to complete that picture....

Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar
D.I.V.O.R.C.E. - Tammy Wynette :)

a few more songs.....

The War Song - Culture Club
Bullet the Blue Sky - U2
Miss Sarajevo - U2
War Child - The Cranberries
Bosnia - The Cranberries
Civil War - Guns N' Roses
War Buddies - Harvey Danger
Like a Soldier - Live
Soldier Jane - Beck

[Vanguard]

Buffalo Soldier - Bob Marley (the Indian Wars)

[Pomai]

Dave Mustaine of Megadeth is a metal genius and an overall awesome guitarist. His voice is gritty and dramatic, yet almost comical in some sense. As you may know, he did a short stint as lead guitarist of Metallica before founding Megadeth.

If you ever need a metal fix, pick up the "Rude Awakening" DVD. It's definitive of the genre.

More about war from Megadeth....

Set the World Afire
Anarchy in the UK
Rust in Peace
Sweating Bullets
Countdown to Extinction
Captive Honour
Blood of Heroes
The World Needs a Hero
Gears of War
United Abominations
Holy Wars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YczYC2yHTM)

[oceanpacific]

The rock group WAR. In earlier times, ERIC BURDON & WAR.

[Leo Lakio]

The last three tracks on Bruce Springsteen's latest album, "Magic" ---
"Last To Die"
"Long Walk Home"
"Devil's Arcade"