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    Posted: April 29 2024 at 13:39
Edwin Starr : War
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first anti-war song I know... (banned off most radio stations, if not all at that time, early 1968)

The Doors - The Unknown Soldier
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Any other good prog protest songs? 
The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time...
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'Nuff said.............
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

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Hi,

Thanks, was going to add this, specially since it makes so much sense these days with Ukraine being senselessly raped.

Another song in the same album also deserves a listing ... EPITATH was pretty much the same thing from a victim's point of view.
 
Although "21st Century Schizoid Man" was released during the Vietnam war in protest of that war, the main significance of that song to me is that it is called "21st Century Schizoid Man", which seems very appropriate to the current situation.
 
No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
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I see it as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk combined to take over all the radio waves and satellites and create world peace. Maybe i'm crazy.  I read once that Elon had contacted aliens and they gave him super powers/technology to stop world annihilations. 

My very fav Roger Waters song was Two Suns in the Sunset from Final Cut. 

Here is his last take from 2020 - not bad at all
I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you. Robin Williams.
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The whole underrated Roger Waters album Radio K.A.O.S. was pretty much all about anti-war and the Powers That Be. The song Four Minutes scared the hell out of me at the time.  



As a bonus find this evening, I stumbled across a partial RW and the Bleeding Hearts Band concert from 1987. The re-mastered sound on this video really gives you the experience of being there. 





Edited by tigerfeet - March 03 2022 at 19:39
I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you. Robin Williams.
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Some rather obvious choices missing:

The Doors - The Unknown Soldier
Gnidrolog - I Could Never Be A Soldier
Metallica - Disposable Heroes
Metallica - One
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Love this of course

And this feels as - or more relevant than ever



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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

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Hi,

Thanks, was going to add this, specially since it makes so much sense these days with Ukraine being senselessly raped.

Another song in the same album also deserves a listing ... EPITATH was pretty much the same thing from a victim's point of view. 

And, maybe ... ANGE's Emile Jacotey deserves a mention ... since it was done 20 years before Roger did his copy ... even if we will have a hard time putting the album in perspective. It's still a beautiful album and it did not have to be "topical" like Roger's was later!

Hard to believe no one mentioned Joan Baez! Maybe some thought she was fake ... though I'm not sure that was the case, impulsive maybe, but not fake!


Edited by moshkito - March 01 2022 at 07:23
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The whole of Pink Floyd's Final Cut album, but in particular:


Alternatively, if the above doesn't work for you...
"We're going to need a bigger swear jar."

Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2
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Never Thought I would revisit this song in my life time. 
I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you. Robin Williams.
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Twelfth Night: "Sequences"!
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Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:



Elvis Costello's "Shipbuilding" (I love the version sung by Robert Wyatt as well as other covers) was the other to immediately come to mind.


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Yep, Wyatt's reading for me is exquisitely plaintive and heart warming
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Probably not the most appropriate one for these times that I could think of, but I found this emotionally resonant.

Redgum - "I Was Only Nineteen"



Elvis Costello's "Shipbuilding" (I love the version sung by Robert Wyatt as well as other covers) was the other to immediately come to mind.

I love Redgum, though my favourite from them is "The Diamantina Drover", not anti war but a real emotional piece
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a few ideas

Barclay James Harvest  "Song for Dying", "Summer Soldier", and "Child of the Universe" 
Strawbs "New World"
Moody Blues "Question"
Levelers "Another Man's Cause"
Gordon Lightfoot "Sit Down Young Stranger"
The Men they Couldn't Hang mostly attacked British imperialism in songs like "The Colours", "Dover Lights", and "Rosettes"
Oysterband's "Fiddle or a Gun" is wonderful
The Decemberists -"This is Why we Fight", "Sixteen Military Wives", "When the War Came"




Edited by kenethlevine - February 27 2022 at 21:25
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