WAR!.....Good God Ya'll

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SO, what's your favorite anti-war songs, or artists?

Favorite Songs include:

Imagine - John Lennon
Give Peace a Chance - John Lenno
Fuck the System - System of a Down
BOOM! - System of a Down
WAR! - Edwin Starr
For What it's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
Share the Land - The Guess Who
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire


MY ALL TIME FAVORITE ANTI-WAR MAN:



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[electriclite]

Originally posted by free

For What it's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
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Definitely that one, and of course, being a U2 fan:

Sunday, Bloody Sunday and "40"

[BorderEevilIII]

hmmm lemme see...

Nena - 99 Luft Ballons
Culture Club- The War Song
Peter Schilling- Major Tom
World Destruction- Time Zone
Fixx- Red Skies

[Reigh Kaufman]

Masters Of War - Bob Dylan

"And I hope that you die"

Check out the Eddie Vedder version, as well. It's on the Dylan 30th Anniversary Tribute.

[quoth_the_raven]

1845-One minute silence

quite a chunk of system of a downs stuff is anti-war as well.

[Annie Hall]

Imagine or For What It's Worth immediately came to mind

[Morgana]

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After
Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Bullet the Blue Sky - U2
Guns in the Sky - INXS

[Psychocandy]

And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by The Pogues

[bowieee]

Originally posted by Psychocandy
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by The Pogues


Great pick psychocandy. This song conjurs so many sad images for me from peter weirs movie gallipoli.

[BorderEevilIII]

I think these can fit thought were NOT meant to be with whats goin on now....

A-Ha " Hunting High & Low"
Alphaville "Forever Young"
Anything Box "Living In Oblivion"
Tasmin Archer- "Sleeping Sattelites"
B.A.D.- "Rush", "The Globe"
Beloved - "Sweet Harmony"
Camouflage - "The Great Commandment"
Depeche Mode - "People Are People"

[Dr Martin Luther Loomis]

"Holy War" - Matthew Sweet

[BorderEevilIII]

Jane Child - "Welcome To The Real World"
Eric Clapton "Change The World"

[BadCoverVersion]

Eve of Destruction - The Byrds

[Grebdron]

I like Share the Land. Great song.

[Indiana Sev]

Hey, BadCoverVersion don't you mean Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire? I suppose the Byrds might have covered it being as they were a folk/rock band. (Great song!)

My pick is War by Edwin Starr (also covered well by Bruce Springsteen)

[BadCoverVersion]

Originally posted by Indiana Sev
Hey, BadCoverVersion don't you mean Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire? I suppose the Byrds might have covered it being as they were a folk/rock band. (Great song!)

My pick is War by Edwin Starr (also covered well by Bruce Springsteen)

Jim McGuinn, Barry McGuinn, Roger McGuinn, Barry McGuire...It all goes a bit pear-shaped when you actually start debating it.

Who SUNG it first, I couldn't tell you...but contrary to popular belief there IS a Byrds version...I've actually got the bloody thing on an old Gram Parsons mix-tape that somebody gave to me a while back.

I cannot find the Byrds version on an actual album...:confused:. I've tried, but alas...my efforts have been unsuccessful.

The first time McGuire performed live he was singing alongside The Byrds, so it does make sense in a way.

Anyway, regardless of all this malarkey...neither The Byrds or McGuire actually wrote the song (that would be Pf Sloan)...and I've heard more than a few perfectly decent versions in my time, The Turtles' take on the track isn't too shabby.

Anyway, now I'm just rambling on and I'm totally fucking inarticulate this evening...

So...anyway...;)

[Invincible]

The Prodigy - Trigger perfect song about Terrorism. It's from their upcomiing album, and its very rare...only Live version but you have to hear this! try kazaa

[bowieee]

Originally posted by BadCoverVersion
Jim McGuinn, Barry McGuinn, Roger McGuinn, Barry McGuire...It all goes a bit pear-shaped when you actually start debating it.

Who SUNG it first, I couldn't tell you...but contrary to popular belief there IS a Byrds version...I've actually got the bloody thing on an old Gram Parsons mix-tape that somebody gave to me a while back.

I cannot find the Byrds version on an actual album...:confused:. I've tried, but alas...my efforts have been unsuccessful.

The first time McGuire performed live he was singing alongside The Byrds, so it does make sense in a way.

Anyway, regardless of all this malarkey...neither The Byrds or McGuire actually wrote the song (that would be Pf Sloan)...and I've heard more than a few perfectly decent versions in my time, The Turtles' take on the track isn't too shabby.

Anyway, now I'm just rambling on and I'm totally fucking inarticulate this evening...

So...anyway...;)

The ultimate version of that song is sung by johnny thunders.

I always thought the turtles wrote that tune originally hmmm...

[rikimaru187]

I'm not anti-war, so I don't have a favorite anti-war song. However, there are plenty of songs that put me in the mind frame for war. :D

[Raymond Babbit]

Wish You Were Here, by Pink Floyd

[BorderEevilIII]

Crowded House - "Better Be Home Soon"
Dario G "Sunchyme"

[BakeTheMooCow]

Motorhead - 1916 ~ a chilling song about war.

16 years old when I went to war,
To fight for a land fit for heroes,
God on my side,and a gun in my hand,
Counting my days down to zero,
And I marched and I fought and I bled
And I died & I never did get any older,
But I knew at the time, That a year in the line,
Is a long enough life for a soldier,
We all volunteered,
And we wrote down our names,
And we added two years to our ages,
Eager for life and ahead of the game,
Ready for history's pages,
And we fought and we brawled
And we whored 'til we stood,
Ten thousand shoulder to shoulder,
A thirst for the Hun,
We were food for the gun,and that's
What you are when you're soldiers,
I heard my friend cry,
And he sank to his knees,coughing blood
As he screamed for his mother
And I tell by his, side,
And that's how we died,
Clinging like kids to each other,
And I lay in the mud
And the guts and the blood,
And I wept as his body grew colder,
And I called for my mother
And she never came,
Though it wasn't my fault
And I wasn't to blame,
The day not half over
And ten thousand slain,and now
There's nobody remembers our names
And that's how it is for a soldier.

[The Postmaster General]

FREEDOM by RICHIE HAVEN


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Originally posted by rikimaru187
I'm not anti-war, so I don't have a favorite anti-war song. However, there are plenty of songs that put me in the mind frame for war. :D


So what? You've probably never fought in a war either. So why have a favorite war song, and not a favorite anti-war song? Do you just not listen to anti-war songs, or is it a matter of principle for you to not choose? Just asking, because, well, I like many of the patriotic songs that have been coming out. I think my favorite is the Merle Haggard one.






Anyway my favorite anti-war song:

[Raymond Babbit]

I'm not sure about this, but I think War Pigs, by Black Sabbath is an anti-war song.

[quoth_the_raven]

Originally posted by Raymond Babbit
I'm not sure about this, but I think War Pigs, by Black Sabbath is an anti-war song.



i always got that vibe from it as well.


"generals gathered in their massssessss..."

[James Logan]

I'd say John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Edwin Starr and U2 pretty much sum up my knowledge of anti-war songs. Which means that to me, they're the greatest ones...

[Raymond Babbit]

World Leader Pretend, by REM, could also be considered an anti-war song

[The Great V]

The tellytubby song...when ever i hear that im ready to nuke someone. If u like footy i just wanna share what a banner at the worthington cup final read "Don't bomb Iraq, Nuke Manchester" lmao!! Liverpool fc fan

[The Postmaster General]

Originally posted by Raymond Babbit
I'm not sure about this, but I think War Pigs, by Black Sabbath is an anti-war song.

Definately

[rikimaru187]

Originally posted by BubbaStrangelove
FREEDOM by RICHIE HAVEN


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So what? You've probably never fought in a war either. So why have a favorite war song, and not a favorite anti-war song? Do you just not listen to anti-war songs, or is it a matter of principle for you to not choose? Just asking, because, well, I like many of the patriotic songs that have been coming out. I think my favorite is the Merle Haggard one.

Actually, I haven't been in a war. However, I'm not against US troops fighting for our freedom and for other people's. I hear all these liberal's and hippies talking about how we don't have the right to be in Iraq. Ok, we'll just leave and let that maniac keep murdering and torturing people until the day the dies. I'm not an advocate for war, but it's gonna happen. War is unavoidable. Personally, I don't think the U.S. goes to war hard enough. I mean we go and we fight, but all the people we've ever fought break the rules of the Geneva Convention the minute it starts. All the while, we're sitting back, following the rules. I say give us back flame throwers and maybe invent a fully automatic weapon that shoots nails. Maybe if we'd show these people we fight why we're the world's super power, they'd get the message and stop fucking with us. And as for me never being in a war, I'm pretty sure nobody who ever wrote an anti-war song was either. Especially Jon Lennon.



Anyway my favorite anti-war song: :D

[NeuGenX]

Surgical Strike - Queensryche
Lights Out - UFO
Zor and Zam - The Monkees
Broken Heroes - Saxon
Stardog Champion - Mother Love Bone
Military Man - Gary Moore
The Unknown Soldier - The Doors
Ohio - Neil Young
The Trooper - Iron Maiden
Hiroshima, Mon Amour - Alkatrazz
New Years Day - U2
Mr. Roboto - Styx
Soldier Without Faith - Yngwie Malmsteen