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    Posted: December 02 2014 at 20:19

With the emphasis on prog, though they are many great non-prog ones that scream out as well:

 

Van Der Graaf Generator – The Emperor in His War-Room

Family – Lives and Ladies

Yes – The Gates of Delirium

ELP – Battlefield

Pink Floyd – Us and Them

VDGG – The Emperor in His War-Room

Barclay James Harvest – Summer Soldier

Pearls Before Swine – Uncle John

Colosseum – Three Score and Ten, Amen

Ultravox – All Fall Down

Donovan – The Universal Soldier

Tim Buckley – No Man Can Find the War

U2 – Seconds

Galliard – Blood

Strawbs – New World

Big Country – Where the Rose Is Sown

Midnight Oil – Put Down That Weapon

Pink Floyd – Us and Them

Eric Burdon & the Animals – Sky Pilot

Black Sabbath – War Pigs/Luke’s Wall

Billy Bragg – Everywhere

The Byrds – Draft Morning

Bob Dylan – Masters of War

Chicago – It Better End Soon
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Van Der Graaf Generator – The Emperor in His War-Room

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VDGG – The Emperor in His War-Room ... Hm?


On my list: "Lucky Man", "Tarkus", "Masters Of War", "Blowing' In The Wind". I'm not that really into anti-war songs - a theme that's been touched many, many, many, many times.


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I compiled that list over two different days, so I managed to overlook that repeat listing.  Waaa. Embarrassed

 

If you mean the theme’s been touched many times in this forum, I found only two old threads, both locked now:

 

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8075&KW=anti%2Dwar

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=34365&KW=anti%2Dwar
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Hendrix's crazed covers of "The Star Spangled Banner", especially the one from Woodstock. Listen in at "and the rocket's red glare": he manages to make his guitar sound like bombs, screams, and machine guns... and then he plays part of "Taps". Wow.
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Originally posted by AreYouHuman AreYouHuman wrote:

I compiled that list over two different days, so I managed to overlook that repeat listing.  Waaa. Embarrassed

 

If you mean the theme’s been touched many times in this forum, I found only two old threads, both locked now:

 

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8075&KW=anti%2Dwar

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=34365&KW=anti%2Dwar

No, I mean there are so many anti-war songs that deliver the same point. A lot of them are about what the war is, but do not examine in-depth what it can do.
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The Henry Cow/Slapp Happy song "War" was the first to spring to mind when I saw the topic, but it's not much of a war song.

My favourite is Redgum's "I Was Only Nineteen" (partially for sentimental reasons). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY
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There are many that I like, and Pink Floyd indeed has many of them. But I guess few can rival the awsomeness of "The Gates of Delirium", by Yes.
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My favourite anti-war song is Metallica's "Disposable Heroes". I always think about it when my current students (members of the US military) tell me about some of the things they have been through.
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Call me crazy but I've always thought of Bird is the Word as a very powerful anti-war tune. May have something to do with the way it's implemented in Full Metal Jacket, but the words truly sound like Burn is the Word....and then coupled together with the images of Nam and young US soldiers it makes perfect sense.

As for a prog tune?
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i probably can't think of my favorite of an anti-war song, but i can tell you another example of one in a prog sense: Yours Is No Disgrace by Yes. it wasn't until just recently that i found out that it was a protest song, their first one in fact! im a HUGE Yes fan for my age and i DID NOT know that until not too long ago. Some of you probably didn't know that too, i reckon.
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I've always been partial to this Hawkwind track, the use of post-apocalyptic dystopian imagery striking me as more creative and thoughtful than straight-up soapboxing. I wonder if them being from the UK also gave their anti-Cold War sentiment an extra urgency since in the eve of nuclear exchange they'd probably be toast quicker than the US.
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in no particular order:
 
Lysistrata by Utopia
 
Shipbuilding by Robert Wyatt
 
 
 
Copii Romania (Children of Romania) by Barclay James Harvest
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

...I guess few can rival the awsomeness of "The Gates of Delirium", by Yes.

Most definitely unrivaled!  Just because it has not been mentioned yet, however, I would also add "Forgotten Sons" by Marillion...
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I don't know many anti war songs, beyond those already mentioned. "Four Egos, One War" by The Tangent and "Winning a War" by PoS are two of my favourites.



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I prefer "Child of the Universe" by Barclay James Harvest to Summer Soldier
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Oh, I forgot about TSMZ with "God Bless our Dead Marines".
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