Songs About War

LoathsomePete · 09-12-2014, 01:28 PM

Corb Lund did a really good album 2007 about war, mostly from a cavalry idea because horses. He started the album off with a really upbeat song about the naive and idealistic vision of war from a young mind, then ends it with a reprise of the same song with some very strong imagery.

Trollheart · 09-12-2014, 01:54 PM

I've posted this countless times, and I know you all hate Blunty but for god's sake listen to the lyric and tell me you're not just a little choked up...
Edit: is it weird that the ad before this is a war one too?

Then there's this overlooked classic by Marillion

And if you want poignant, totally effortless and without a trace of self-satisfaction....

dwill123 · 09-12-2014, 05:35 PM

Trollheart · 09-15-2014, 01:13 PM

Best. War. Song. Ever!

dsotm · 09-15-2014, 01:49 PM

Pink Floyd-Us and Them. What a beautiful song about a horrific subject.

Lisnaholic · 09-13-2014, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

Corb Lund did a really good album 2007 about war, mostly from a cavalry idea because horses. He started the album off with a really upbeat song about the naive and idealistic vision of war from a young mind, then ends it with a reprise of the same song with some very strong imagery.

I wonder if that`s the album on which his Student Visas song appears? ( The song takes the form of jaded reminicences from a US operative in Central America).

For an album dedicated exclusively to the topic, there is Country Joe McDonald`s album, War,War,War, in which he put the poems of Robert W. Service to music. Deadly serious, occasionally cynical, very spare, it`s an unusual listening experience. What I particularly like about it is that we are hearing the thoughts of a guy who was actually there in the trenches during the First World War, so we hear the genuine, contemporaneous mixture of patriotism and horror in lines like this: "Everywhere thrill the air the maniac bells of war."
Dip into another time, another world, another mindset here:-

LoathsomePete · 09-15-2014, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

I wonder if that`s the album on which his Student Visas song appears? ( The song takes the form of jaded reminicences from a US operative in Central America).

Yep, track 6.

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