Where are the great anti-war songs?

[oxbow]

We have so many pro-war songs on the radio those days. Never mind that many of them are country, but still, anti-war songs just aren't getting touched by the radio stations. So what are your favortie anti-war songs, and how do we get them on the air? If they won't let songs about this war on the air, I might just start calling in older anti-war songs even. Either way, music was so important in turning the tide on Vietnam in the 60's, and it can do the same here.

We can argue with people till tuesday and still get nowhere, but music and art can touch them in a way no rational discussion can. This is an avenue we really shouldn't be ignoring.

[JanMichael]

1. If you like metal OTEP has a good one with a bitchin' video.

http://www.otep.com/warhead/

Of course that's not for everyone. One Tin Soldier and OHIO are some of my favs too.

EDIT: It's less of an "anti-war" song than anti-empire song. At least that's what they say on the site.

[oxbow]

8. Looks cool

I don't have hi-speed here so Ill watch it 2morrow. the graphics are awesome though. I've always liked bob Marley's "War" and recently U2's "Bloody Sunday" has growj on me. There are so many other good ones.

There's an eminem video that's pretty anti-war, too, but inevitably it's anti-bush too and that ends up just making it easier for people to write it off.

[JanMichael]

15. It's scream loud thrash (Maybe) metal.

Not for everybody, even me most of the time, but the video is graet and the lyrics when you can understand the lead singer are pretty good.

"He lied they died keep the peasant terrified".

Not bad for metal mongers.

Hope you like it!

[Generic Other]

2. I like these

"Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down," Kris Kristofferson
"Déjà vu (All Over Again" John Fogerty
"Rich Man’s War" Steve Earle

[ailsagirl]

3. Don't forget...

"Masters of War" - Dylan
"With God on our Side" - Dylan
"Think I'm Fixin' to Die Rag" -- Country Joe and the Fish ("Give me an F?!!")
"Unknown Soldier" -- Doors
"War (What is it good for? Absolutely NOTHING)" -- Edwin Starr
"Brothers in Arms" - Dire Straits
"Peace Train" - Cat Stevens (banned from the U.S. because the feds think he's a terrorist) :crazy:
"Land of Confusion" - Genesis
"Universal Soldier" - Donovan (Hey, it's a great song)
"REVOLUTION" - The Beatles

http://www.lacarte.org/songs/anti-war/by_title/

[lagged_variable]

6. you forgot

Sorry, but "War (etc)" is by Edwin Starr.

I've always been fond of "Ohio" by Neil Young. Though it's a little more anti-anti-anti-war than anti-war per se.

[ailsagirl]

9. Right-- thanks, corrected it

[Mad_Dem_X]

55. "For What It's Worth" - Buffalo Springfield

Maybe not really anti-war, per se, but a great song nonetheless.

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your mind it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step outta line, the man come
And take you away.

[ailsagirl]

57. For what it's worth is a great song

Stop. Hey, what's that sound?
Everyone look what's going down

[Mr_Spock]

67. Rage - Testify is a very appropriate song for this conflict...

Rage - Testify

The movie ran through me
The glamour subdue me
The tabloid untie me
I'm empty please fill me
Mister anchor assure me
That Baghdad is burning
Your voice it is so soothing
That cunning mantra of killing
I need you my witness
To dress this up so bloodless
To numb me and purge me now
Of thoughts of blaming you
Yes the car is our wheelchair
My witness your coughing
Oily silence mocks the legless
Now traveling in coffins
But on the corner
The jury's sleepless
We found your weakness
And it's right outside our door

Now testify

With precision you feed me
My witness I'm hungry
Your temple it calms me
So I can carry on
My slaving sweating the skin right off my bones
On a bed of fire I'm choking on the smoke that fills my home
The wrecking ball rushing
My witness your blushing
The pipeline is gushing
While here we lie in tombs
While on the corner
The jury's sleepless
We found your weakness
And it's right outside your door

Now testify

Mass graves for the pump and the price is set

Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now controls the past
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now?

Now testify

[Ariana Celeste]

4. A Perfect Circle-

some time recently released an album, eMOTIVe. 12 tracks~ 10 of them are covers of older anti-war songs, including "Imagine". 2 of them are originals.

I listen to it a lot~ it's a very good album. They did a wonderful job with the covers, they are all unique.

[Digit]

5. Give Peace a Chance..

John Lennon

In my area, there is a new radio station which is playing lots of anti-war songs. I love it. Brings back memories.

[babylonsister]

10. Well, your job, should you choose to accept it, is to

compile a list of great anti-war songs for all of us. Take a week, take a month, we'll still enjoy them or need them soon.

[Maestro]

7. There are a ton at....

Protest Records They are all free, legal and in MP3 format.

[Az]

11. Music needs social movements to move it along

The dynamics do not exist to create such a movement today. The media and the right have conspired to force their message through. And this silences any motion the society would naturally move to.

Without a means of bringing people together and communicate with each other there will not be a swelling of communal spirit. Our corporate minders want us competing with each other. Not singing with each other. So they sell us their definition of success and happiness and pit us against each other for it.

[babylonsister]

24. There are many other factors.

There's no swelling of spirit because we are all at work or in our apartments or homes and on computers. Not many are interacting now except via computer. The computer is a means like no other to bring people together, but no one has had the creativity or desperation needed to do it yet. But I see it in the tea leaves.
It's amazing that a country-wide protest even happened in the 60s-but people were pissed! And it was so effective, despite lack of 'fuzers!

[hobbit709]

12. What about

"Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" by John Prine
"Monster" by Steppenwolf
"Sky Pilot" Eric Burdon and The Animals
"Mau-Mau Amerikon" Paul Kantner
"For What It's Worth" Buffalo Springfield
"Kiss My Ass" Country Joe McDonald

[oxbow]

13. Those are all good ones

but I was thinking more songs specifically against this war. Seems like either no really popular ones have been made or the stations just don't wanna play em (too controversial, they would say)

[grannylib]

16. I hear you, I do wish I heard more protest songs specifically about

'mission SO not accomplished.'
Maybe I am just out of touch with a lot of the newer music but I don't seem to hear anything that resonates the way things did with some of those older ones.
But then, I don't think we have reached the level of protest now as we had then, either...but the songs sure would help along the way to a new revolution!

[ailsagirl]

56. Long Time Comin' - Crosby, Stills, & Nash

Speak out
you've got to speak out against the madness
you've got to speak your mind
if you dare

[mediaman007]

66. and this one for Negroponte..."El Salvador" by Peter, Paul and Mary

http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/peter_paul_and_mary/el_salvador.html

(snip)

Just like Poland is 'protected' by her Russian friends
The junta is 'assisted' by Americans
And if 60 million dollars seems too much to spend
in El Salvador

They say for half a billion they could do it right
Bomb all day, burn all night
Until there's not a living thing upright
in El Salvador

They'll continue training troops in the USA
And watch the nuns that got away
And teach the military bands to play South of the Border
And kill the people to set them free
Who put this price on their liberty?
Don't you think it's time to leave
El Salvador?

(/snip)

Ah yes, the NEOCON definition of democracy:

"And kill the people to set them free"

[ailsagirl]

86. Makes my skin crawl ("kill the people to set them free") n/t

[grannylib]

14. Lennon's "Power to the People" is good; "Rich Man" by Climax Blues

Band an often overlooked golden-oldie
And it's old and folky and sappy but I really really do like "If I Had a Hammer."
I know, it really dates me, but hey...

[blogbear]

17. Not Sure of title but..

'War Ain't Beautiful..It's Only For the Undertaker'..

[City Lights]

18. I like "Holiday" by Green Day.

Hear the sound of the falling rain
Coming down like an Armageddon flame (Hey!)
The shame
The ones who died without a name

Hear the dogs howling out of key
To a hymn called "Faith and Misery" (Hey!)
And bleed, the company lost the war today

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

Hear the drum pounding out of time
Another protestor has crossed the line (Hey!)
To find, the money's on the other side

Can I get another Amen? (Amen!)
There's a flag wrapped around the score of men (Hey!)
A gag, A plastic bag on a monument

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

"The representative from California has the floor"

Zieg Heil to the president gasman
Bombs away is your punishment
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who criticize your government
Bang bang goes the broken glass and
Kill all the fags that don't agree
Trials by fire, setting fire
Is not a way that's meant for me
Just cause, just cause, because we're outlaws yeah!

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

This is our lives on holiday

[Gimley13]

21. System of A Down

They released all of there songs free on the internet right after the war in Iraq started to protest it, many of them are very anti war.
Also try hte Dead Kennedies, go to AlternativeTentacles.com for lots of good, free anti war music

[Lucygirl]

22. A song...

Written before the Iraq war, and recorded as a demo, but a guaranteed giggle...

www.paulacole.com/multimedia/index.html

Scroll down and click on "My Hero, Mr. President!"

[tamtam]

48. Ditto

Holiday is my favorite song. The radio stations have recently started playing it on air. The whole green day album is great. I suggest that the OP poster check it out if he/she hasn't already.

I also suggest guns and roses civil war. This is a old song and but I think the lyrics are deep.

[City Lights]

51. I've been seeing the video in recent days.

If you haven't seen it yet, you can see it here.

I agree that the whole album is great. I saw a blurb on VH1 about there being talk of bringing it to the stage or big screen.

[tamtam]

92. thanks for the link

I will check it out.

[Lisabtrucking]

19. Thats what I was asking myself the other day. I heard Black Sabbath

War pigs on the radio the other day and thought, where are all the new war songs for this war. I wish the artists would get on the ball. by the way, I miss the Dixie chicks.

[Toronto Ron]

31. I second War Pigs

Generals gathered in their masses,
just like witches at black masses.
Evil minds that plot destruction,
sorcerers of death's construction.
In the fields the bodies burning,
as the war machine keeps turning.
Death and hatred to mankind,
poisoning their brainwashed minds.
Oh lord, yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away.
They only started the war.
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah.

Time will tell on their power minds,
making war just for fun.
Treating people just like pawns in chess,
wait till their judgement day comes, yeah.

Now in darkness world stops turning,
ashes where the bodies burning.
No more War Pigs have the power,
Hand of God has struck the hour.
Day of judgement, God is calling,
on their knees the war pigs crawling.
Begging mercies for their sins,
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings.
Oh lord, yeah!

[kineneb]

40. And don't forget "Iron Man"

Also a Golden Moldy from Ozzi and da boys. Ok, I admit it, I still have my vinyl copy. (Got to find the turntable in the storage unit...gods I hate moving.)

[proud_dem]

20. Check this out ....

Bush's Folly
©Safdie
May 2004*

We're all getting older
And we've seen it all before
The failure of our leaders
And they've taken us to war

There's the waving of ol' glory
And the spreading of the lies
The cover-ups that hide the truth
As men and women die

Chorus:
But we're all getting wiser
And we've learned from our mistakes
Its not the destination
But the choices that we make



Well they told us there was anthrax
Poison gas and dirty bombs
But when they couldn't find them
They sang a different song

We're building a great nation
And the orders are to send
More sons and daughters off to war
In a fight that has no end

Chorus:
But we're all getting wiser...


They whisper words of rapture
Guiding policy and law
They hope to help the prophets
In the rising of the Fall

There's swearing on the Bible
But it wasn't Christ who said
"Take the oil from their fields
And pour it on our heads"

Chorus:
But we're all getting wiser...



He's jumped into a flight suit
For a hero's photo-op
The tiny man with big schemes
Has risen to the top

Well the mission's not accomplished
With a war that has no peace
But they knew before the first shot
Who'd get the oil lease

Chorus:
But we're all getting wiser...



Finale: Sung Moderately and Conclusively (music may be adlibbed)

You fool me once, but not so twice
Or else the shame's on me.
If it's too hard to keep that straight
God help our liberty

Chorus :
But we're all getting wiser
And we've learned from our mistakes
It's not the destination
But the choices that we make.



Here is the d/l site for the mp3

http://home.comcast.net/~robertalfonso/bushsfolly.htm



And here is a list from A-Z of anti-war songs !

http://www.lacarte.org/songs/anti-war/by_title/a/index.html


ENJOY !!!

[Gimley13]

23. Good

The sad thing is, even though you say people are getting wiser, and learning from mistakes, we lost seats in Congress and other places last November. I dont know, theres a good chnace it was voting fraud (Liebold)

[oxbow]

25. Thank PD and everyone else

That site is AWESOME! I can't wait till I have some free time so I can listen to some of those. Im going to make myself an antiwar mix that I can listen to when I get down. Hell yea

edit: Did you write Bush's Folly? I'm impressed. Love the line "the tiny man with big schemes" btw.

[proud_dem]

28. Your welcome and no i found that song on the site .... btw ..

Not many of them are for d/l off of that site, a lot of them are links to the artist page and lyric pages (watch out for popups and spyware on those lyric pages too)

[name not needed]

26. Rise Against - State of the Union

If we're the flagship of peace and prosperity
we're taking on water and about to fucking sink
no one seems to notice, no one even blinks
the crew all left the passengers to die under the sea

countdown
to the very end
equality
an invitation that we won't extend
ready, aim
pull the trigger now
in time you
firmly secure your place in hell
state of the union address
reads war torn country still a mess
the words: power, death and distorted truth
are read between the lines of the red, white and blue
countdown
to the very end
equality
an invitation that we won't extend

ready, aim
pull the trigger now
in time you
firmly secure your place in hell
guilty is what our graves will read
no years, no family
we did nothing to stop the murder of
a people just like us

[IndianaGreen]

27. Wait until there is a draft

You will see and hear and explosion of peace songs, peace art, and peace marches!

[Biased Liberal Media]

29. "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival

a ton by System of a Down, including:

"ADD (American Dream Denial)"
"War"
"Boom!"

[Mnemosyne]

30. Don't forget the Monkee's- Zor and Zam - great one also

They gave a war and nobody came. I wish!!

[proud_dem]

32. Zombie by the Cranberries is a good one too.....eom

[mimitabby]

33. this is my favorite

well it's one, two three, what are we fighting for?
don't know and don't give a damn, next stop is viet nam
and it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates
ain't no time to wonder why, whoopee we're all gonna die!

[mcscajun]

34. There's a good article about this in Salon.com

It details a lot of what we're talking about here re: current protest songs/music, and provides links and downloads.

You don't have to be a Premium member to view it, just sign for the Day Pass and watch one ad to get to the content.

http://www.salon.com/ent/music/review/wmd/2004/09/01/25/index.html

Of course, it couldn't hurt to be a member, either. :)

[Lucygirl]

35. Lyrics for "My Hero, Mr President!"

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Well hello there blue blooded boy
Your bed is lined with dollars
I bet your cumming oil
I love the way you take control
And push the world around
United Nations HA HA HA
No one can keep you down

<Chorus>
Daddy's little helper
Silver foot in your mouth
Policemen of the world
Gonna start another way
Connecticut yankee in a cowboy hat
You're my hero Mr. President

Remember the election for the presidency
No matter that Gore won the majority
Your cousin married Fox TV
Declared you were the one
Your brother came through with his promise
He'd get Florida

<Chorus>

Now watcha gonna do about our economy
You spend three trillion dollars
In a heartbeat
Now what about us folks here living
Hand to mouth
We can't afford our lives
And we're working three jobs

<Chorus>

Now don't you want your grandchildren
To see the Colorado river
You're kissing so much corporate ass
That you're selling away our future
We can all wear geo-thermal suits
And toast to you W
Woo!

Now wiping out the terrorists
Is fine by me
But please don't erode
Our civil liberties
The America we fight for
And hold so dear
Includes a womans right to choose
Freedom of religion
Freedom of assembly
And free speech
Like the song I'm singing here

<Chorus>

Daddy's little helper
Silver foot in your mouth
Policeman of the world
Gonna kick Husseins butt
Connecticut yankee in a cowboy hat
You're my hero Mr. President
You're my hero Mr. President
You're our Nero Mr. President

Mmmm Mmm

[LWolf]

39. A favorite of mine.

I can see why this one never gets air time, which is why I bought it, and play it regularly while driving down the road.

Great song from Paula Cole. :thumbsup:

[maynard]

36. anti-war songs

Think back to the days of Woodstock. Anything by John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Fortunate Son
Run Through the Jungle

Janis Joplin
Jimie Hendrix
Jefferson Airplane

One great collection of songs was on the mini series "The 60's". It was a great collection.

[adwon]

47. Run Through the Jungle

100.1 plays that literally every day here in Lexington.

[Maestro]

37. Bright Eyes and Moby with Chuck D

have also done protest songs.

Bright Eyes did a song called "When the President Talks to God"

Moby and Chuck D did a song called "Make Love F*ck War"

[BBradley]

46. I love Bright Eyes.

He has a lot of anti-war and protest imagery on his new cds.

[Wilms]

38. Jimi Hendrix and Don McLean recorded two that are most moving to me.

Miles apart stylistically;

Machine-Gun, Hendrix - Band of Gypsy's

The Grave, Don McLean - American Pie

[OneBlueSky]

43. here's the lyrics to Don's song . . .

The Grave

The grave that they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors,
And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone.
He?s gone.

When the wars of our nation did beckon,
A man barely twenty did answer the calling.
Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation,
He?s gone,
But eternity knows him, and it knows what we?ve done.

And the rain fell like pearls on the leaves of the flowers
Leaving brown, muddy clay where the earth had been dry.
And deep in the trench he waited for hours,
As he held to his rifle and prayed not to die.

But the silence of night was shattered by fire
As guns and grenades blasted sharp through the air.
And one after another his comrades were slaughtered.
In morgue of marines, alone standing there.

He crouched ever lower, ever lower with fear.
"they can?t let me die! the can?t let me die here!
I?ll cover myself with the mud and the earth.
I?ll cover myself! I know I?m not brave!
The earth! the earth! the earth is my grave."

The grave that they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors,
And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone.
He?s gone.

[OneBlueSky]

44. Don also wrote a great song about poverty . . .

many years ago, Don was part of an outdoor concert I helped produce . . . his song "Orphans of Wealth" was brand new, and he was singing it in public for the first time . . . it had been overcast all night, with a threat of rain . . . just as he began his last chorus ("And the rain falls and blows through their window"), the thunder started, and just as he sang the last line, the skies opened up with a torrential storm . . . the show was filmed by public television for later broadcast, and it was a truly dramatic moment that they captured beautifully . . . great ending to a great song . . .

Orphans of Wealth
by Don McLean

There is no time to discuss or debate
what is right, what is wrong for our people.
Time has run out for all those who wait
with bent limbs and minds that are feeble.

And the rain falls and blows through their window
and the snow falls and blows through their door.
And the seasons revolve mid their sounds of starvation.
When the tides rise, they cover the floor.

They come from the north and they come from the south
and they come from the hills and the valleys.
And they're migrants and farmers and miners and humans,
our census neglected to tally.

And the rain falls and blows through their window
and the rain falls and it blows through their door.
And the seasons revolve mid their sounds of starvation.
When the tides rise, they cover the floor.

And they´re African, Mexican, Caucasian, Indian,
hungry and hopeless Americans.
The orphans of wealth and of adequate health,
disowned by this nation they live in.

And with weather worn hands on bread lines they stand,
yet but one more degradation.
And they're treated like tramps while we sell them food stamps
this thriving and prosperous nation.

And the rain falls and blows through their window
and the snow falls and blows through their door.
And the seasons revolve mid their sounds of starvation.
When the tides rise, they cover the floor.

And with roaches and rickets and rats in the thickets,
infested, diseased and decaying.
With rags and no shoes and skin sores that ooze,
by the poisonous pools, they are playing.

In shacks of two rooms that are rotting wood tombs
with corpses breathing inside them.
And we pity their plight as they call in the night
and we do all that we can do to hide them.

And the rain falls and blows through their window
and the snow falls in white drifts that fold
and the tides rise with floods in the nursery.
And a child is crying, he's hungry and cold,
his life has been sold, his young face looks old.
It's the face of America, dying.

[Wilms]

45. OneBlueSky, that's a great story.

Orphan's is on on my list too.

I actually went to get lyrics for "The Grave" and let it go after the site I clicked locked-up my computer. I guess it does deserve being posted.

Peace

[H2O Man]

77. The Unknown Soldier

by the Doors, was the first anti-war song by a major rock group in the 1960s. James Douglas Morrison was a curious spokesperson for the anti-war folks, considering his father's position with the military in Vietnam. The radio stations generally refused to play the song; a few in Boston and LA covered it, as did most college radio stations. Morrison added a touch of theater with the concert performances. The FBI files on Morrison started with the release of this song.

[msongs]

41. War - what is it good for? absolutely nothing.....still applies thx to

edwin starr in the 60's and more recently bruce springsteen.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/warcheneymoneytshirts.htm

[kineneb]

42. The household anti-war playlist -oldies but goodies!

Some of our favorites:

Pride of Man -Quicksilver Messenger Service
For What its Worth - Buffalo Springfield
Feel Like I'm Fixin to Die Rag -Country Joe & The Fish
Wooden Ships - Crosby, Stills & Nash /Jefferson Airplane
War - Edwin Starr
Lives in the Balance - Jackson Brown
War Pigs & Iron Man - Black Sabbath
Turn, Turn, Turn - The Byrds

[Heidi]

49. "Alice's Restaurant" . . .

I've always loved it and think of it as a protest song.

[ailsagirl]

58. That song is absolutely hilarious. I love it when he says to the sheriff

"Did ya think I was goin' to hang myself for litterin'?"
Deadpan as can be.

[applegrove]

50. Don Maclean's "Everybody Loves Me Baby".

Army Dreamers by Kate Bush
Brothers In Arms by Dire Straights

[Heidi]

53. Baptist guilt . . .

When I was an eighth-grade Baptist "good girl," I remember listening to "Everybody Loves Me, Baby," from my dad's "American Pie" LP, and just knowing I was going to hell for my fascination with the song, but playing it over and over again, anyway.

Kate Bush came much later, when my Swiss husband introduced me to "Cloudbusting." Dire Straits I've always loved.

[applegrove]

60. My sister picked up on the "Everybody Loves Me Baby" song

when she was in her late teens and had turned insecurity in for a good dose of vanity that year. She used to play it and really get into the words..I used to shake my head. I later loved the album (for obvious reasons) I noticed a few months ago how appropriate it was for the times if you really listen to the words. As to my choice in music - since I am one of those who always exercised to music..I always like dance beats.

[Heidi]

62. Dance beat . . .

Hi, applegrove!

My husband actually prefers dance music, and credits "dance beats" for his fascination with Kyle Minogue.

[applegrove]

63. I think he is pulling your leg there. She's not so danceable.

[Heidi]

64. Ya think?

;)

Re: "I think he is pulling your leg there."

[applegrove]

69. I don't know.. maybe you europeans dance to that euro-technopop?

Could happen?:shrug:

[Heidi]

70. You're the first person . . .

who has ever accused me of being European! (Husband, he of the Kylie Minogue fixation, is European. I'm Merkin.)

[applegrove]

71. I'm so sorry. Heidi fooled me into thinking you were a European too.

[Heidi]

73. No problem. By the way . . .

what's that in your avatar? A nice glass of Chianti? Merlot? Mad Dog 20/20? :toast:

[applegrove]

75. Burgundy... vin de table.

[ailsagirl]

81. Yes, I miss Dire Straits

Their Brothers in Arms CD is wonderful-- "The Man's Too Strong" is a very powerful song. Also "Ride Across the River." And, yes, the title song is exquisite. All anti-war songs.

Even the sprightly "Walk of Life" has the lines:

"And after all the violence and the double-talk..."

[LeftHander]

52. Here is one called Division (SSP alert)

View Soul Amp's EPK


Click on Audio and listen to Division....


(SSP = shameless self promotion...)

[Wilms]

54. Brewer and Shipley

Brewer and Shipley

Oh, Mommy (I ain't no commie)
Fifty States of Freedom
Tarkio Road
Shake Off the Demon

[ailsagirl]

59. "The Russians" by Sting

(that's ironic-- he should change the name to "The Americans")

[grannylib]

61. Nah, just to "The Republicans." I am sure ReThugs love their OWN

children (and claim to love everybody else's unborn children, at least until they're breathing on their own, then fuck' em)
Democrats love EVERYBODY'S children.

[ailsagirl]

78. Good point, grannylib

Let's make that "Republicans" instead of "Russians"

[DesEtoiles]

65. "What's Going On?" Marvin Gaye

[Mr_Spock]

68. I get all fired up by Rage Against the Machine - TESTIFY

This song ties together the war in Iraq for Oil and the MSM talking heads covering for the government - read it - you'll see....

Rage - Testify

The movie ran through me
The glamour subdue me
The tabloid untie me
I'm empty please fill me
Mister anchor assure me
That Baghdad is burning
Your voice it is so soothing
That cunning mantra of killing
I need you my witness
To dress this up so bloodless
To numb me and purge me now
Of thoughts of blaming you
Yes the car is our wheelchair
My witness your coughing
Oily silence mocks the legless
Now traveling in coffins
But on the corner
The jury's sleepless
We found your weakness
And it's right outside our door

Now testify

With precision you feed me
My witness I'm hungry
Your temple it calms me
So I can carry on
My slaving sweating the skin right off my bones
On a bed of fire I'm choking on the smoke that fills my home
The wrecking ball rushing
My witness your blushing
The pipeline is gushing
While here we lie in tombs
While on the corner
The jury's sleepless
We found your weakness
And it's right outside your door

Now testify

Mass graves for the pump and the price is set

Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now controls the past
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now?

Now testify

[mattclearing]

72. Chemical Brothers have a good one out right now called Left-Right.

You won't hear them on Clear Channel, that's for sure.

[Midlodemocrat]

74. My favorite is Where Have all the Flowers Gone?

[ailsagirl]

80. Yes, that's another sterling song...

I guess anti-war songs NEVER go out-of-date because the message
is always the same. Just arranged differently.

Dylan's "Times They are a-Changing" is even more meaningful to me than
when it first came out:

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line, it is drawn the curse, it is cast
The slow one now will later be fast
And the present now will later be past
The order is rapidly fading
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'

[holden007]

76. Jimi All The Way

I am going to have to go with Machine Gun by the great Jimi Hendrix!

[Wilms]

79. The Byrds - Draft Morning

Draft Morning
by D.Crosby, C.Hillman and R.McGuinn

Sun warmth on my face
I hear you down below moving slow
And it's morning

Take my time this morning
No hurry to learn to kill an take the will
From unknown faces

Today was the day for action
Leave my bed to kill instead
Why should it happen

[jdj]

82. Wargasm by L7, released during poppy's gulf war

L7
Wargasm lyrics


Wargasm, wargasm one, two, three
Tie a yellow ribbon around the amputee
Masturbate watch it on TV
Crocodile tears for the refugee
Wargasm, wargasm one, two, three
Smutty, bloody pictures, ecstasy
Blue balls waiting impatiently
From Alcatraz to Lady Liberty
Body bags and dropping bombs
The pentagon knows how to turn us on
Wargasm, wargasm one, two, three
People, people, ecstasy
Wave those flags high in the air
As long as it takes place over there
Wargasm
Wargasm
Wargasm
Wargasm
Body bags and dropping bombs
The pentagon knows how to turn us on
Turn us on
Wargasm
Turn us on


(then Yoko Ono comes on and shreiks and screams for a while)

[Strelnikov_]

83. "A Protest Song Is Defined As Something You Don't Hear On The Radio"

"And they'll say you don't hear it on the radio because the guy can't sing or the words are no good, as they play the shit that they play these days.

But it has all got to do with the process. In America they have the media syndrome where they control everybody's mind, by use of fairly mindless and mind distorting distortions of the facts which led all of us into the Vietnamese war and all of us into the Kennedy assassinations.

So what can you do. I mean, here you are, a helpless soul, a helpless piece of flesh, amid all this cruel, cruel machinery, and terrible heartless men.

So all you can do is turn away from the filth and hopefully start to build something new someday. So here's a turning away song . . ."

Opening dialog for:

"I Ain't Marching Anymore"
- Phil Ochs

Another classic:

"Jesus Christ"
- Woody Guthrie

[anarchy1999]

84. "Somethings happening here, what it is ain't exacly clear,

Stop now, what is that sound, everybody Look

What's going down."

Buffalo Sprinfield?

"Fortunate Son" is probably #2. Just for me.

[ailsagirl]

85. Yep, that's Buffalo Springfield-- 1967

Heavy song. When I hear that song, especially the lyrics you quoted, it gives me goosebumps. It sounds so sinister-- it IS sinister.

[anarchy1999]

87. This song, these lyrics are not "sinister". They were nothing but

prophectic. There was nothing sinister in the lyrics of this song.

Stop, now, what's that sound,

Everybody look what is going down.

I find no sinister.

[ailsagirl]

91. Well... then it's a matter of interpretation

"Everybody look what's going down" is entirely fitting of our
situation... like, "what the hell is happening???"

Anyway, that's my own interpretation.

[ailsagirl]

93. The word I meant originally was "ominous"

not sinister.

[leftofthedial]

88. I haven't gotten around to recording them yet

sorry

[clu]

89. .

Ten years after - I'd love to change the world sounded pretty sweet in the F 9/11 trailer.

I've heard it once on the local classic rock station in Dallas... nice solo.

[Wilms]

90. Get Together - The Youngbloods

GET TOGETHER

words and music by Chet Powers

Love is but a song we sing
And fear's the way we die.
You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry.
Though the bird is on the wing
And you may not know why.

C'mon people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Some will come and some will go
And we shall surely pass.
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last.
We are but a moment's sunlight
Fading in the grass.

C'mon people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

If you hear the song we sing
You will understand.
You hold the key to love and fear
In your trembling hand.
Just one key unlocks them both
It's there at your command

C'mon people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now