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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2014 at 13:46
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

HugBig smile

can't believe that poster actually exists... does it?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2014 at 13:12
Bill Fay : Gentle Willie





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMjY6sYI96Q
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2014 at 11:58
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:


That's my #1 followed closely by:

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2014 at 03:17
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

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Yep another of my favouritesThumbs Up
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2014 at 00:02
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2014 at 23:54
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

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Now you're talkin'......
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hihihihiLOL mhwoaaahhxxxxxxx to you dr wu23Big smileHugxxxx
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2014 at 23:31
Morse Code - La Marche des Hommes
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2014 at 22:46

In the 90s I put together an antiwar-themed mix tape which concluded with Family’s Lives and Ladies.  I thought it would serve as an adequate Last Word on the Subject:

 

I love my lady and baby

And I’m sure that you love yours

We want to care for each other

That’s what we’re here for

I love my lady and baby

And I’m sure that you love yours

So don’t go quoting your scriptures

We don’t need your wars

 

Neil Young’s version of Blowing in the Wind (from the live album Weld) was recorded as the first Gulf War broke out, and his delivery really served as an effective angry statement on the situation, as if he were screaming with both voice and guitar, “How many f***ing times, already????”

 

In the who-knew department, Bobby Goldsboro, of “Honey” infamy, recorded an honest-to-goodness antiwar song, “Broomstick Cowboy,” in 1965, no less!  I’ve only heard it a couple of times, but in it a dad looks at his young son playing and ponders a future in which he could be drafted and sent off to war.

 

And a few more:

 

Procol Harum – Fires (Which Burnt Brightly)

Rare Earth – If I Die

Spirit – Soldier

Robbie Robertson – Showdown at Big Sky

Moving Hearts – Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette

Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously.

Silly human race! Yes is for everybody!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2014 at 16:07
All the Prog ones I can think of have been mentioned so:







Edited by Cactus Choir - December 06 2014 at 16:08
"And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!"

"He's up the pub"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2014 at 04:02
The whole catalogue of British contemporary prog band called FREEDOM TO GLIDE is antiwar oriented.
Great albums indeed.





Quote Sick To Death is our new 4 track concept EP tackling the subject of 'shell shock' and it's consequences during WW1. 

There's a subtle but conscious shift in musical style yet still very much the Freedom To Glide our fans have come to know. Lyrically, the songs are as poetic and image evoking as ever. It's a story that we felt had to be met head on and with the respect and sensitivity it deserves.

With 'Sick To Death' EP we continue our theme of 100 years of war and conflict and it is released ahead of our next album in 2015.

This tragic chapter in our military history came to the forefront of our minds when we spent an afternoon at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. We sat speechless looking at the memorial to those who were ‘Shot At Dawn’. A lot of those who were executed were front line seasoned soldiers that just couldn’t go on any more, they'd given everything they had. They weren't cowards, they were suffering from 'Shell Shock' or 'Post Traumatic Stress Disorder' as we now know it to be. Months of research opened our eyes to the kangaroo court proceedings of the time where there was little or no legal representation or even medical examination for the accused. Shell Shock was a poorly understood phenomenon and dealt with in the most extreme way.

So many boys and young men were ‘made an example of’.....Lest we forget.

released 05 November 2014

                                          


http://freedomtoglide.bandcamp.com/album/rain




Quote Review by tszirmaySPECIAL COLLABORATOR Crossover Team
4 stars Being a military historian and a fan of pacifism, (no it's not a contradiction), I always get a kick from any album that deals with the two cataclysmic catastrophes of our time, the grim and unjust WW1 and its evil cousin, the vile and hideous WW2. Strangely, prog war epics are not that plentiful, outside of Floyd's the Wall being utterly obvious, there was a Big Big Train recording that dealt with the Battle of Britain and the glory of the RAF, so has Vienna Circle and its impressive debut, 'White Clouds' and Xang's grim "The Lasts of Lasts" dealing with the Verdun tragedy and an outright military holocaust, because slaughter is too tame a word for what happened there! 
(...) 
Impressive story of that Great Horrible War, a history lesson that still fails to convince the world that strife is NOT the answer, foolishly repeating the same distasteful errors of the past, like some Dennis the Menace brat that refuses to listen to reason. From Luxembourg to the Channel coast, endless streams of military cemeteries remind too few 21st century humans of the millions of lives lost in the brutal siege of Verdun, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, Ypres, Cambrai and those two river battles, the Marne and the Somme. Little territorial change occurred yet millions died, senselessly.









Quote Review by apps79SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Neo Prog Team
3 stars The seeds of this British project were set in 2010, when Pete Riley asked some help with the recording of a song from his bandmate Andy Nixon.They both played in the Pink Floyd tribute band ''Dark Side of the Wall''.A collaboration on original material started between the two musicians with ideas being sent via internet and Freedom to Glide were originally born in 2012 with the release of their first EP ''Rain'' in May.Soon after Riley and Nixon started working on the concept mini-album ''The wait'', dealing with the life of a soldier of World War 1 and his inability to capture the meaining of a war.The album was released independently in November 2012. (...)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2014 at 23:27


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfEiNb91prY

FRANCE GALL ☮ - DON'T MAKE WAR CAPTAIN, MAKE LOVE 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2014 at 07:56
This is classic
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2014 at 07:28
Pink Floyd - Us and Them, Corporal Clegg, The Gunner's Dream
IQ - Common Ground
Country Joe & the Fish - I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2014 at 07:13
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

HugBig smile
 
Now you're talkin'......
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2014 at 07:12
Originally posted by ten years after ten years after wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

A lot of 'anti-war' songs over the years in the non prog arena.....but for me I'm surprised no one mentioned Crimson's Epitaph about global conditions and possible apocalyptic war. As far as prog one of my favorites about the horrors of wars in general.
 
 
 
You didn't read my post then?
Must have missed it, but I did scan the thread....sorry.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2014 at 03:08
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