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It has become an iconic song of its type and was immensely popular with United States Armed Forces G.I.s during the Vietnam War. [2] In 2004 it was ranked number 233 on Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list; it is also in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.
The protest music that came out of the Vietnam War era was stimulated by the unfairness of the draft, the loss of American lives in Vietnam, and the unsupported expansion of war. The Vietnam War era (1955–1975) was a time of great controversy for the American public.
Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others patronize war.Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole.
Bruno Blum changed the lyrics from the Vietnam-oriented original to an Iran-oriented parody and recorded it as "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag (Revisited)" released on his 2017 Rock n roll de luxe album. The song has been featured in the films Woodstock (1970), More American Graffiti (1979), Purple Haze (1982), My Science Project (1985), and ...
He couldn't finish the song and had to leave the stage. [21] On August 28, 1969 Ochs sang the song at Chicago's Grant Park Bandshell on the first anniversary of the Democratic Convention's "The whole world is watching" police riot. The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, [22] and a final "War Is Over" rally was held in New York's Central Park ...
In 2002, rock group Sleater-Kinney released the song "Combat Rock" from their album One Beat. In it, the group satirizes Bush's call to support the economy and live life as normal (a statement seen as a push to shop.) This is evident in lyrics such as "..Go out and spend some cash / Red white blue hot pants, doing it for Uncle Sam."
Viet Rock is a rock musical by Megan Terry that served as inspiration to the musical Hair.A violent denunciation of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, the play was described by its author as a "folk war movie" comprising scenes of disillusionment and protest to the American military presence in Southeast Asia. [1]