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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.
Living With War is the 29th studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released on May 2, 2006.The album's lyrics, titles, and conceptual style are highly critical of the policies of the George W. Bush administration; the CTV website described it as "a musical critique of U.S. President George W. Bush and his conduct of the war in Iraq". [4]
The song "Waltzing Matilda", by Australian poet Banjo Paterson, is the almost national anthem [3] [4] to which the young Australian volunteers of Bogle's song march to war and return from war and which is played when the war is remembered. At the conclusion of Bogle's song, its melody and a few of its lyrics, with modifications, are incorporated.
The "Chant des Partisans" ([ʃɑ̃ de paʁ.ti.zɑ̃]; "Song of the Partisans") was the most popular song of the Free French and French Resistance during World War II. [1] [2] The piece was written and put to melody in London in 1943 after Anna Marly heard a Russian song, namely Po dolinam i po vzgoriam, that provided her with inspiration.
This is a list of songs about war. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. S. Songs by war (16 C) Pages in category "Songs about war"
"Lovers in a Dangerous Time" By Bruce Cockburn (1984) "M.A.D." by Hadouken!; lyrics and title refer to nuclear war; the whole album's and lyrics refer to atomic war "Man at C&A" By The Specials (1980) "Manhattan Project" By Rush (1985) "Maralinga" By Urban Guerrillas (1983) "Massive Retaliation" By Sigue Sigue Sputnik (1986) "Mediate" By INXS ...
A remastered and well-presented five LP box set of War’s best-selling album “The World Is a Ghetto” recaptures that slice of time when multicultural rock reached its first peak.
A protest song on the futility of war, written in response to the Vietnam War. Later also covered by Edwin Starr and Bruce Springsteen. "We Didn't Start the Fire" Billy Joel (1989) – a cleverly structured list of historical events of the Cold War period from the 1950s–1980s, making special mention of the "communist bloc". "Weeping Wall ...