What's your favorite anti-war song?!
By thboardop
You pick the music on the show! All next week we will be playing anti-war songs on the Thom Hartmann Program and we want to hear from you! What is your favorite anti-war song of all time? Can't pick just one? Post all of your favorite anti-war and peace songs here on this blog and listen all next week for your song! Thank you so much and remember, get out there and get active! Tag You're It!
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#2
John Lennon's Working Class Hero isn't specifically anti-war but I think it fits well. And how about the Internationale? It was played during the closing credits of Michael Moore's Capitalism. And I wonder if you could find the old Ladies Garment Workers Union jingle about "Look for the union label". That was a great piece of music.
So many good songs listed here already. And thanks for covering the Wisconsin protests.
#3
Phil Ochs -- "I Ain't a Marchin' Anymore"
I still love Phil Ochs; I was just a little kid when he was playing music but I was so affected by it, I remember all of it
#4
Alice's Restaurant Massacree by Arlo Guthrie
#5
Bob Dylan's Masters of War
Rage Against the Machine: Wake Up
#6
My new favorite is "Weight of the World" by Amy Speace. Check it out on this video:
#7
Well, there are several, probably already been chosen here, but here goes:
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Fish Cheer - Country Joe and the Fish
Universal Soldier - Donovan
#8
Hoist That Rag Tom Waits
Real Gone CD
The sun is up the world is flat
Damn good address for a rat
The smell of blood
The drone of flies
You know what to do if
The baby cries
Hoist that rag
Hoist that rag.....
#9
No more War by Eddie Vedder
#10
Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now
#11
Best anti-war song:
The Band Played Walzing Matilda by Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy
#12
Please play a few of Phil Och's songs: "I Ain't a Marching Anymore," "Is There Anybody Here?" and "What Are You Fighting For?" You could also play: "Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, I'm a Liberal." Thank you.
#13
Oh and of course "Cops of the World" by Phil Ochs! and "Knock on the Door"!! Actually all Phil's anti-war songs!
#14
The Prize by Admas (a local D.C. band from Ethiopia): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to46WhBylPk
After the secession of Eritrea from Ethiopia in the mid 90's, a bloody border war ensued, pitting brother against brother. This is a song by Ethio-fusion band Admas, and it's about how war can hit even closer to home than losing a loved one - when being responsible for that loss becomes a reality. Many of us Abyssinians know that if we were in our homeland at the time we may very well have been forced to be on opposite sides of the battle lines, fighting our own kin... and it's hard to make sense of that kind of an absurdity. We're additionally saddened to be aware that this scenario is not peculiar to just one part of the planet. Here's to peace.. the ultimate prize.
Lyrics:
Our eyes, they don't see each other
There's no way to know
If you're my brother
The mist will hide you..
Your uniform disguise you
And if I call your name, I'll draw fire
Eleven days ago
That's when I came to know
Somehow a bullet will find it's way
Over hurdles of kinship
Breaching walls of faith
Somehow a missile ends the day
Somehow we must end this madness
There's an empty hole.. there's sadness
I've held on for so long
How can everything go wrong?
I'll throw down my gun
Though they'll shoot me if I run
I heard the call.. the battle cry
As bodies fall and resolutions die
It seems to me when faced with walls and we respond
It's violent
The prize
Peace is the prize
The places I've been
And Oh the hell I've seen
Lost to the wind my senses fly
With my hands reaching for the sky
They'll have my blood
Back to the earth my bones return
The prize
Peace is the prize
#15
Love's In Need of Love Today-Stevie Wonder
Hand of Doom-Black Sabbath
A House is Not a Motel-Love
The Windows of the World-Dionne Warwick
Grave New World-The Strawbs
#16
"Ohio" - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
#17
Christian Soldier by Kris Krstofferson
Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore by John Prine
Universal Soldier By Donovan
#18
Freedom Isn't Free Tonight - Jesse Dyen
#19
Hello PLEASE check out My Anti War songs "CON TRAIL" Last verse "MAN O WAR DARK AGES" And "TRICKLE DOWN" www.myspace.com/ajohnsmith
#20
VOLLUNTEERS - Jefferson Airplane!
#21
I know 2 labor songs, I think both have been done byCash.
16 Tons
Big John, or Big Bad John? not sure if this is the actual title
#22
"Holiday" by Green Day.
#23
"Buy War Toys for Christmas" (or whatever it's title is) by the Foremen from their album Live at Luna Park. It has lines such as "...have a very merry military day." and "oh by golly, let's be jolly, deck the hall-ocaust" topped off with "singing happy happy birthday to the Prince of Peace." It's very sarcastic.
#24
PLAY MY ANTI WAR SONG "CON TRAIL"
THESE ARE DARK AGES
WE’RE WALKIN THRU THE STAGES
THERE ARE WORDS YOU SHOULDN’T SAY AND THERE ARE GAMES YOU SHOULD’NT PLAY
THERE ARE THINGS YOU SHOULD THINK THRU
OR THIS OLD WORLD WILL SWALLOW YOU
THESE ARE DARK AGES
HISTORYS BURNIN PAGES
I SAW YOU COUNTING GRAINS OF SAND
A PERFECT WORLD OF BEST LAID PLANS
I SAW YOU PRAYING TO YOUR HANDS FROM PYRAIMIDS TO MODERN MAN
THESE ARE DARK AGES
WE’RE BURNIN THRU THE STAGES
DEMONIZE THE PLANETS HIDE WE’RE ALL JUST ON IT FOR THE RIDE
EVERY DAYS A CHANCE TO SCORE TO SAVE A LIFE TO START A WAR
THESE ARE DARK AGES MAN O WAR DARK AGES DARK AGES.
#25
"Uneasy Rider" - The Charlie Daniels band
It's not a war song but does mention a peace sign, hippie-types, and espionage.
#26
For next week...
"I Can Help" - Billy Swan
#27
I cant believe nobody has said
U.S. BLUES
by the Grateful Dead!?!?
#28
Heck! ANYTHING from
Working Man's Dead!
#29
...UNION MAN! Neil Young
#30
How about:
Lay Down (Candles in the Rain), Melanie
Sky Pilot, The Animals
#31
Two songs by John Trudell:
Rich Man's War
Bombs over Baghdad
#32
That was the Guess Who, by the way. :)
#33
Brothers in Arms. Dire Straits.
#34
I Had No Right by Dar Williams ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxWaV_QZAzA Great protest song written about the Berrigan Brothers.
#35
"The Grave" by Don MacLean...
#36
Of course the original by Black Sabbath is classic... but the remakes of "War Pigs" by Faith No More and Cake are excellent too!
#37
Battlefield from the Album "Tarkus" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Clear the battlefield and let me see
All the profit from our victory.
You talk of freedom, starving children fall.
Are you deaf when you hear the season's call?
Were you there to watch the earth be scorched?
Did you stand beside the spectral torch?
Know the leaves of sorrow turned their face,
Scattered on the ashes of disgrace.
Every blade is sharp; the arrows fly
We're the victims of your armies lie,
Where the blades of grass and arrows rain
Then there will be no sorrow,
Be no pain.
#38
Rest In Peace-Extreme
Let's talk of peace, sounds so cliche
A novelty, catch phrase of the day
Middle, index
Sign of the time
Just as complex as water to
Someone said give peace a chance
And that's all that we're saying
While we're sitting on the fence
Pretending
Our hearts are in the right place
But your face shows a trace of
Hypocrisy, don't tread on me
Now you can see
Make love not war, sounds so absurd to me
We can't afford to say these words lightly
Or else our world will truly rest in peace
Let's not pretend to justify
Rather amend where treasures lie
Straight through the heart
Peace can be found
That's where you start, not all around
Someone said give peace a chance
And that's all that we're saying
While we're sitting on the fence
Pretending
Our hearts are in the right place
But your face shows a trace of
Hypocrisy, don't tread on me, boy
Now you can see
Make love not war, sounds so absurd to me
We can't afford to say these words lightly
Or else our world will truly rest in peace
#39
DJ Z-Trip recorded a powerful anti-war mix (Live @ Rootdown 02-27-03), right before the Iraq war started. The whole set is about an hour long, but there are definitely some good clips in there that could be used as bumper music. It's posted up at http://vlad.crohoster.com/, but here's the direct link:
http://ztrip.jeffool.com/Z-Trip-TheAnti-WarMix-Live@Rootdown-02-27-03.mp3
Enjoy!
#40
CALL IT DEMOCRACY by Bruce Cockburn (from World of Wonders CD)
I would have said IF I HAD A ROCKET LAUNCHER by Bruce Cockburn (from Stealing Fire CD)...this song will get you fired up!...but probably not in the spirit Thom is looking for.
#41
Universal Soldier by Buffy Ste Marie
#42
"Within you" by Ray Lamontagne
#43
100 Years of War by Tom Gabel from the album Heart Burns.
#44
Some Cold War era classics, IMO, are XTC's "This World Over" (devastating lyrics) and Joe Jackson's "Forty Years". And two more: Elvis Costello's "Shipbuilding" (which he recorded, although I much prefer the Robert Wyatt version) and, of course, Costello's anthemic version of Nick Lowe's "What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding".
#45
Two Hangmen and Eugene Pratt by Mason Proffit
#46
I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die
Country Joe and the Fish.
#47
"Find the Cost of Freedom" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
(my child is one of those soldiers who is buried in the ground....)
#48
Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore - John Prine
#49
Excerpt: Yes Gates of Delirium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates_of_Delirium - A long song, there's 2 parts that would be very significant - either when the guitar grind (approx. 15mins in) or when the peaceful section occurs toward the end (approx 18 mins in)
As for Worker's/Union song... Lee Dorsey: Working in the Coal Mine
#50
WARDANCE by Killing Joke
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