War Songs (1 Viewer)

[DougWright]

"My Youngest Son Came Home Today" - Billy Bragg
"And The Band Played Walting Matilda" - The Pogues

These are 2 of my favourites, not sure who recorded them first.

 

[Dave Bronsveld]

Gee, back in the day there were so many:
Cruel War - Peter, Paul, and Mary
Universal Soldier - Donovan
Fixin'-to-die Rag - Country Joe and the Fish

and how about?
Bring Them Back Alive (Bring the Boys Home) - Freda Payne

 

[Pamela]

Who'll Stop the Rain - CCR
Kite - Patty Griffin

 

[Kevin M]

Master Of Puppets - Metallica

Run Through The Jungle - CCR

Rooster - Alice In Chains

Architecture of Aggression - Megadeth (a damn good song)

Fortunate Son - CCR

The Unknown Soldier - The Doors

For Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica

Ambush - Harry Nilsson (a very good underplayed Vietnam song)

And one of my...favorites?...I guess you would call it...

Electric Funeral - Black Sabbath

 

[Don Scott]

Fortunes Of War - Iron Maiden
The Aftermath - Iron Maiden
Blood On The Worlds Hands - Iron Maiden

 

[Matt Fisher]

Ben Hharper and the Innocent Criminals 'War'

 

[Sue_New]

The entire albums of Funker Vogt's Machine Zeit and Execution are about war.

"Fernando" - ABBA
"My Lover's Gone" - Dido
"Dernier Combat" - Manau ("Last Combat" - french song)
"Honour" - VNV Nation

 

[BrianB]

Now, I can see the "inaction" line being misinterpreted as "we got to go to war to do something about the problems", but it's really saying we got to protest the war & companies like Halliburton to stop the war.

 

[Rob Gardiner]

Revolution - The Beatles

 

[ChuckSolo]

I'm amazed that nobody mentioned "Ballad of the Green Berets" by Sgt. Barry Sadler.

How aboout "I Don't Want to Wait" (not sure about the title) by Paula Cole.....theme song to "Dawson's Creek."

 

[Julian Reville]

"We'll Meet Again"- Vera Lynn
"I'll Be Home For Christmas"- Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis, or about 500 others
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"- The Andrews Sisters
"I'll Be Seeing You"- Jo Stafford

 

[StephenA]

Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix
Lost In A Lost World - The Moody Blues

 

[Dan Stone]

There is also a version of this song performed by D.O.A. which appeared on their War On 45 EP

Here's a couple nobody has mentioned so far, which were popular with soldiers during the Gulf war:

War Ensemble - Slayer
Mandatory Suicide - Slayer

 

[MatthewKolden]

I love it!

 

[Sue_New]

"Zombie" - The Cranberries

 

[Chu Gai]

Galveston - Glen Campbell

Ride 'em Jewboy - Kinky Friedman & the Texas Jewboys

 

[Will_B]

"World Destruction (Time Zone)" Public Image Limited (or was it Johnny Rotten and someone else?) is a classic.

"It's a Mistake" Men at Work (Colin Hay)

I'd say "North Country Girl" by Pete Townshend might qualify (the character in the song is wondering if a girl he knew was spared from nuclear fallout)

"Dust" by Robyn Hitchcock from the album You & Oblivion (another song about radioactive fallout)

"Fall Dog Bombs the Moon" David Bowie (and the whole of David Bowie's album "Heathen")

The Eurythmics album "Peace" has a few (and two great music videos of an orchestra being bombed and attacked by soldiers)