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I’m amazed it’s taken so long for anyone to mention it, but you absolutely must have Holst’s “Mars”. Yeah, it’s all instrumental, but at the same time, there’s no doubt at all what it’s about.
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The roman god of war? A planet named after such?
“Snoopy vs. the Red Baron”?
This War Is Over, Melissa Etheridge
Battle Without Honor Or Humanity, Tomoyasu Hotei
Patton: Attack, Jerry Goldsmith
Fife and Gun, Randy Edelman, from the soundtrack to the movie Gettysburg. The Main Title works well, too. Come to think of it, buy the whole album.
Celtic Warrior, Steve McDonald
Learning to Crawl - The Pretenders
“2000 Miles”
“Back on the Chain Gang”
“Middle of the Road”
“My City Was Gone”
“Thin Line Between Love and Hate”
Wrong thread, obviously. Dagnabbit.
Disposable Heroes - Metallica
The Dogs of War - Pink Floyd
2 Minutes 2 Midnight, The Trooper, Aces High - Iron Maiden
Manhattan Project - Rush
Welcome To The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
The War - Angels and Airwaves
Jesus Walks - Kanye West (lyrically it’s not really about war, but it sounds like an Army cadence and it was on the soundtrack for Jarhead)
How about the entire CD “War” by U2? New Years Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Seconds, etc?
What about every song ever written by Rage Against the Machine?
If you like “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” and similar somber songs, check out “Bomber’s Moon” and “Accrington Pals” by Mike Harding, and for a view from the home front, “Mothers, Daughters, Wives” by Judy Small, recorded by The Corries (there are other recordings, The Corries is the one I have).
Irish and Scottish traditional music are loaded with war songs, from rousing (“The Haughs of Cromdale”) to somber (“The Flowers of the Forest”). “The Rising of the Moon” and “Hey Johnnie Cope” have already been mentioned. There are entire album collections of Irish rebel songs. “The Minstrel Boy”, “The Foggy Dew” and “Scots Wha Hae” are just a few of the ones worth checking out.
Plenty of punk era songs. Two that I think transcend the genre:
War - DOA (Edwin Starr cover). Best cover made of this song by far and only version that I prefer over the original.
No Fucking War - The Dicks. Played live outside the DNC in San Francisco in 1984
lessee, just some off the cuff punk songs. Pretty much every recorded punk group had an appropriate song:
let’s have a war - Fear
Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedy’s
Live fast die you - Circle Jerks
1945 -
Nagasaki Nightmare - Crass
Vietnam - Minutemen
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And let’s not forget (or maybe we should) “The War Song” - Culture Club
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I wish I could, but it’s been running through my head ever since reading the thread title!
Actually, it’s really a better song than it sounds at first listen.
A couple other suggestions off the top of my head: The Kinks’ “Some Mother’s Son”
and possibly also their “Mr. Churchill Says”
Richard X. Heyman’s “Civil War Buff”
Billy Joel’s “Goodnight Saigon”
If you are into country:
Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue by Toby Keith.
Beer for my horses by Tobe Keith.
Something to be proud of by Montgomery Gentry.
Sepultura - War
Manowar - Call to Arms
Manowar - Hail and Kill
Crash Worship - Procession
Crash Worship - You Light Up My Life
The most interesting is probably Crash Worship’s two. They are almost entirely instrumental, but sound essentially like if you were to take a war scene and then time up all the screams, gun shots, and whatnot to create a rhythm.
Well, as an Unreconstructed Yankee there’s the one I want to sing when the Confederate re-enactors go by in parades, “Marching Through Georgia” by anybody.
On the other hand, Country Joe also recorded an LP (can’t find it on CD) of Robert W Service’s poems written while he was an ambulance driver in WWI. “The Cremation of Sam McGee” they ain’t.
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How could I forget War Again by Oingo Boingo?!
Lyrics
Jimi Hendrix’ version of All Along The Watchtower
Yo La Tengo - Nuclear War
You can kiss your ass goodbye!
I tell you what, any list that includes the Gettysburg soundtrack, The Dead Kennedys, and Oingo Boingo is a good list. For some reason I forgot about Rage Against the Machine, so thanks for the reminder. Same for Toby Keith. ryobserver, some good suggestions as well. sage rat, I’m going to check out those Crash Worship songs.
I don’t care what everyone else says, Dopers are fine upstanding citizens with good musical taste.
Most of The Final Cut album by Pink Floyd and, I know it has been mentioned already but, When the Tigers Broke Free should be included in any war compilation.
Momma,Look Sharp from the musical 1776
Ballad of the Alamo by Marty Robbins
Speaking of Johnny Horton, he also did “Sink the Bismarck.”
The Horst Wessel Lied.
Dodgy lyrics but a cracking tune