favourite war songs

OLP · 06-05-2005 8:25pm #1

mine have to be

99 red balloons-goldfinger
paschendale-iron maiden

aidan_walsh · 06-05-2005 8:27pm

"All you need is love" - Beatles.

superconor · 07-05-2005 10:35pm

Is this songs about war? or songs to go into war with?
Songs about war: Eve of destruction - barry mcguire, war ensemble - slayer, war within a breath - U2, electric funerl and war pigs - Black Sabbath

Songs to into war with - Almost every Hammerfall song. They kick ass.

redkefka · 07-05-2005 10:57pm

Favourite into war- Sunshine lollipops...
Fav anti war- run to the hills- Iron Maiden
Disposable Heroes - Metalllica
Foxhole Jesus Christ- Silvertide

tony 2 tone · 08-05-2005 11:40am

Good Night Saigon - Billy Joel
Tin Soldiers - SLF

magpie · 12-05-2005 2:08pm

People, people.... "WAR! Good God! What is it good for?"

Edwin Starr, the one and only.

Ro: maaan! · 12-05-2005 4:11pm

Al Stewart - Roads To Moscow

eggshapedfred · 13-05-2005 8:16am

Masters of War by Dylan, though preferably sung by Eddie Vedder.
Fortunate Son by CCR, covered by EV and Sleater Kinney (its more about southern rich gits getting into office, but surely thats synonomous(sp?) with war these days)

eddiehitler · 13-05-2005 5:41pm

Civil War By GNR
One by Metallica
Countdown to Extinction by Megadeth (Not Really sure if it was about war but its a great tune)
Give Peace a Chance by John Lennon

just some of the ones that spring to mind

cashback · 13-05-2005 11:05pm

magpie wrote:

People, people.... "WAR! Good God! What is it good for?"

Edwin Starr, the one and only.

Ditto.

Worst war song? Status Quo - You're in the Army Now.

Crucifix · 15-05-2005 12:15pm

Samuel Barber - Adagio for strings

bus77 · 15-05-2005 1:15pm

cashback wrote:

Ditto.

Worst war song? Status Quo - You're in the Army Now.

Wash your mouth out you. Absolute legend of a song.

besty · 16-05-2005 2:36pm

magpie wrote:

People, people.... "WAR! Good God! What is it good for?"

Edwin Starr, the one and only.

it had to be

DamoRed · 16-05-2005 9:01pm

Has anyone heard of Tom Lehrer's 'So Long, Mom'? It's a hoot!

Damo

The Bollox · 16-05-2005 9:05pm

no-one has mentioned the folk ones! I really like The Green Fields Of France and The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, also the video to One is amazing, I can't find the film Johnny Got His Gun anywhere tho

migemo · 12-03-2012 4:08pm

Thought this would be a long thread. Here's one to maybe kick start it. 'Abraham martin & john' by Tom Clay.

Jimmy Iovine · 12-03-2012 4:46pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmL3m2zcoOI

Fúck just realised how old this thread is. Rolf Harris was only a young lad himself when it was made. Sorry.

Irish Guitarist · 13-03-2012 12:07am

Draft Morning by The Byrds.
Masters Of War by Bob Dylan.
War Pigs by Black Sabbath.
Machine Gun by Band Of Gypsys (Jimi Hendrix).
I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag by Country Joe And The Fish.

cloptrop · 13-03-2012 12:22am

Masters of war- bob dylan
Teenage wasteland -the who , can mean alot of different things but apllied to a war setting it fits fine.
Unknown soldier-the doors
5 to 1 - the doors
Hard Rain -Bob dylan
But if you want a good song for going into battle rather than pissing and moaning about the situation
try
O fortuna from carmina burana, if you cant use the gun after this one you may as well wave the white flag now.

dquirke1 · 13-03-2012 12:34am

The Bollox wrote: »

no-one has mentioned the folk ones! I really like The Green Fields Of France and The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, also the video to One is amazing, I can't find the film Johnny Got His Gun anywhere tho

+1 on The Green Fields of France, possibly the best anti-war song ever written.
Not such a big fan of The Band Played Waltzing Matilda. It just seems to drag on forever, although, then again, maybe thats the point?

nungesser · 13-03-2012 12:49am

Country Joe and The Fish- "Fixing To Die Rag" and it's one to three what are we fightining for, don't ask me i don't give a dam, next stop is vietnam

cloptrop · 13-03-2012 12:50am

Joan Biaz - with god on our side
Great lyrics

migemo · 13-03-2012 12:57am

Shane McGowan's version of 'The band played Waltzing Matilda' was the best version of this song ever. Really suited his voice. Ronan Collins always plays 'Silent Night 1915' by Jerry Lynch every Christmas. It's about a German soldier singing 'Silent Night' in the trenches one christmas. It's from the point of view of an Allied soldier who recognised the tune but the words were obviously in German. Def worth looking up if you haven't heard it.

migemo · 13-03-2012 1:04am

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmL3m2zcoOI

Fúck just realised how old this thread is. Rolf Harris was only a young lad himself when it was made. Sorry.

Might be old but worth resurrecting I think.

FR.Ted Crilly · 13-03-2012 2:31am

Goodnight Saigon by Billy Joel.
(To me its a reflective war song from a lucky mans point of view)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly38yzSZPIw

Bad by U2.
(I always though this was a song about The Troubles, for Northern Irish and ROI Irish to make a decision between peace and conflict, every time i here it i judge the situation briefly and come to my conclusion) i just found out its about Bono loosing a friend to heroin RIP...

The Roof is on fire by Bloodhound Gang.
(used Fahrenheit 911 by Michael Moore to describe the relentless anger in young soldiers in the wake of 911, kill the enemy)

mathepac · 13-03-2012 2:54am

The Island, Paul Brady
Goodnight Saigon, Billy Joel
When Johnny Comes Marching Home, trad

old_aussie · 13-03-2012 3:21am

Sky Pilot

Original by Eric Burdon and the Animals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPQhdyHjQ5M

Latchy · 13-03-2012 3:28pm

I love this protest song from Tom paxton

Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation

I got a letter from L. B. J.
It said this is your lucky day.
It's time to put your khaki trousers on.
Though it may seem very queer
We've got no jobs to give you here
So we are sending you to Viet Nam

[Cho:]
Lyndon Johnson told the nation,
"Have no fear of escalation.
I am trying everyone to please.
Though it isn't really war,
We're sending fifty thousand more,
To help save Viet nam from Viet Namese."

I jumped off the old troop ship,
And sank in mud up to my hips.
I cussed until the captain called me down.
Never mind how hard it's raining,
Think of all the ground we're gaining,
Just don't take one step outside of town.

[Cho:]

Every night the local gentry,
Sneak out past the sleeping sentry.
They go to join the old VC.
In their nightly little dramas,
They put on their black pajamas,
And come lobbing mortar shells at me.

[Cho:]

We go round in helicopters,
Like a bunch of big grasshoppers,
Searching for the Viet Cong in vain.
They left a note that they had gone.
They had to get down to Saigon,
Their government positions to maintain.

[Cho:]

Well here I sit in this rice paddy,
Wondering about Big Daddy,
And I know that Lyndon loves me so.
Yet how sadly I remember,
Way back yonder in November,
When he said I'd never have to go.