Songs About War

[Pomai]

Hot on the heels of "Songs About Crime", there's many songs that talk about the worst aspect of mankind: War.

Metal music has this subject thoroughly covered...

• War Pigs* - Black Sabbath

A few of MANY (if not all, LOL!) by Megadeth...
• Symphony of Destruction
• Peace Sells* (But Who's Buying?)

• Gods of War* - Def Leppard (<--- one of their best "non-mainstream" songs)

• Allied Forces* - Triumph

• Fight the Good Fight - Triumph

• Aces High* - Iron Maiden

• The Trooper* - Iron Maiden (<--- cool video)

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

*YouTube video.

[cezanne]

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

[Vanguard]

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For What It's Worth -- Buffalo Springfield

[Miulang]

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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]

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

"Here Comes The Bride."

[mel]

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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]

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

"Here Comes The Bride."

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!

More war....

• N M 156 - Queensryche (nuclear missile)

• The Hellion/Electric Eye* - Judas Priest (global surveillance)

• War* - Edwin Starr

*YouTube video.

[mel]

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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 he made at Finetune.com.

[tikiyaki]

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DUH....

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

"War" by Edwin Starr

[Pomai]

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DUH....

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

"War" by Edwin Starr

Uh, Mel already mentioned that one, which I didn't see, then I mentioned it. Now you.

• Bombs Away - The Police

• Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2

• Goodbye Blue Sky - Pink Floyd

• The Dogs of War - Pink Floyd

• Life During Wartime - Talking Heads (<---David Byrne has got to be the coolest rock "dancer" on the planet!)

Although White Rabbit (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]

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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]

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

[Frankie's Market]

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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]

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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]

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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