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Topic: Anti-war prog songs

Posted By: ThyroidGlands
Subject: Anti-war prog songs
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 19:33

Actually, this album itself is an anti-war statement.

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Bloody bloody racket and rumpus

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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 23:21

^I bought this album (in Italy) ca. 20 years ago and I've listened to it countless times since then. Dopo... was an instant classic. A song I could select to play for someone yet unfamiliar with Banco and RPI. I mean to introduce them to both the band - and the regional scene. I suppose it is somewhat a shame that until I let DeepL translate the lyrics for me just now (it's not perfect, but it I've read worse translations in published novels), I've only "felt" the words and been largely indifferent to the poetry, its meaning or "anti-war message". I primarely listen to the human voice as any other instrument, and usually prefer not genuinely understanding the lyrics. Of course I'm missing out of an (for the artist/band) essential part of a word-heavy song like this in particular. And it was interesting to find out that the writing seem to be as deep and sophisticated as the musical experience have always suggested that it was. Maybe knowing the meaning behind the previously unknown words uttered or sung by the great Francesco Di Giacomo will add to the listening experience. It probably will.

-This Pearls Before Swine song about a German ship sunk by the British FAA during WWII brings a tear to my eye just by thinking about it.

"On board were 4,200 Italian prisoners of war captured by the Germans for their refusal to join the Nazi party after the 1943 armistice"*

*Tom Rapp tells a story factually closer to the sinking of Oria in 1944 rather than Rigal in 1943 - but that's beside the point.

Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: October 30 2024 at 00:11

"Gates of Delerium."

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I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!!

Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 30 2024 at 00:31

TAAB is anti-everything, including war Tongue

BTW, War is a great band so no need to be against it. Wink

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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

Posted By: ThyroidGlands
Date Posted: October 30 2024 at 05:15

Sean Trane wrote:

BTW, War is a great band so no need to be against it. Wink

But it's also a terrible album. Sorry, but I can't stand U2.

Saperlipopette! wrote:

Maybe knowing the meaning behind the previously unknown words uttered or sung by the great Francesco Di Giacomo will add to the listening experience. It probably will.

The lyrics on that album are excellent. They add a lot to the experience.

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Bloody bloody racket and rumpus

Posted By: daisy1
Date Posted: October 30 2024 at 05:23

Dogs of War - SAHB

Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 30 2024 at 05:36

The new pretty much 100% instrumental Godspeed You! Black Emperor album is called "No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead" by the way.

Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: October 30 2024 at 05:40

Korni Grupa (aka Kornelyans) – Generation 1942