[Music] Favourite WAR songs

[GT49er]

Better still this (first heard under a polythene sheet in a thunderstorm on a hillside at the 1970 Bath (forerunner to Glasto.) festival. Has remained etched in my mind ever since).

 

[raymondo]

 

[Dinner with Gotsmanov]

Technically inept and can’t work out how to post vids but ….

XTC Generals and majors
The Clash - the call up
Country Joe and the fish - feel like I’m fixing’ to die
UK Decay - for my country

 

[A1X]

 

[Surf's Up]

 

[AK74]

 

[BrianB]

Still remember where and when I first heard this ....
Stunned silence as the record played ...

 

[Sussexscots]

 

[raymondo]

This is 'Find the cost of freedom' by Crosby, Nash (and Gilmour) - written by Steven Stills I think?

 

[pearl]

Holiday in Cambodia

 

[pearl]

 

[pearl]

Sam Stone

 

[zefarelly]

Technically inept and can’t work out how to post vids but ….

XTC Generals and majors
The Clash - the call up
Country Joe and the fish - feel like I’m fixing’ to die
UK Decay - for my country

I thought I knew something about this video via a retired manager friend, that I've forgotten, related to a large garden party thrown by record company(ies) . . .anyway . . . it was the aulden days when record companies had money to spend etc . . .

anyway, great song.

 

[Nitram]

Civil unrest, shirley.

That type of attitude is how wars start

 

[jakarta]

One of the most chilling scenes in Modern Cinema, no violence or bloodshed, just a promise of it coming shortly...

 

[Superphil]

Here’s something I find quite astonishing and brilliant. The words are outstanding, brought a tear to my eye when we played it as we drove up to the Thiepval Memorial in Somme in northern France some years ago.

 

[Zeberdi]

What a great song. It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday, doesn't it? You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think "Sunday, bloody Sunday!".

Funny.

I think it encapsulated the horrors of sectarian conflict in Ireland and NI more than most other songs ever written (apart from Alternative Ulster SLT) but then as an ex-producer of an Irish music radio programme, what do I know

It’s a very good (anti) war song either way and good addition to the thread.

The Green Fields of France is another favourite of mine but not the Attila version posted above, the Fureys version - I posted this on another thread recently;




The Green Fields Of France inspired by this brilliant ballad - sung here by Johnny Cash

 

[North of Robertsbridge]

Boris Vian, le déserteur



Paul Hardcastle, N-N-N-N-Neunzehn

 

[GT49er]

That type of attitude is how wars start

More rioting, anti-social behaviour and looting really, plus a few nasty murders. Horses and children not safe either. Collections (not always friendly requested) 'for the bhoys' in Boston and other American cities kept the flames burning.

 

[GT49er]

Funny.

I think it encapsulated the horrors of sectarian conflict in Ireland and NI more than most other songs ever written (apart from Alternative Ulster SLT) but then as an ex-producer of an Irish music radio programme, what do I know

It’s a very good (anti) war song either way and good addition to the thread.

The Green Fields of France is another favourite of mine but not the Attila version posted above, the Fureys version - I posted this on another thread recently;




The Green Fields Of France inspired by this brilliant ballad - sung here by Johnny Cash

Which of course is nothing to do with the Irish, no matter how much some of them might want to claim it. Writen by a Scotsmen living in Australia, it is about the ANZAC troops killed in the Gallipoli campaign - a companion song to the excellent 'The Band Played Waltzing Matilda'.
It's a good anti-3war song, but not one that is not available to be hijacked by the Irish, much as the Fureys (and others) would like it to be.