h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Where have all the Flowers Gone - Jaon Baez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzAduXFyISU

The Deserter - Fairport Convention
http://grooveshark.com/#/s/The+Deserter/2SD0be?src=5

The End - The Doors (fragment from 'Apocalypse Now')
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4WJlLNIsyY

The End - The Doors (The entire 11:43 mins)
http://grooveshark.com/#/search?q=the+end+-+doors

We'll meet again - Vera Lynn (from Dr Strangelove)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrWz9XVvls

Oh yes that's excellent. i posted that in a different context recently.

Is it just me...or are a lot of anti-war songs godawful drippy? 'Ooh! War's like, not nice! Please stop it!'

There also seems to be a pervasive myth that Joan Baez and Buffy Sainte-Marie et al stopped the Vietnam War. Actually...I think it had more to do with the Viet Cong.

well, ntm, i know what you mean...
but heres the thing...
we are getting in this thread what i wanted
...a nice cross section of very many different kinds of anti-war songs

and i was there when those 60's ones were new
they were necessary ...all of them
they gave us permission to cry and to get angry
they taught us how to fight against war without being violent
they appealed to our emotions our intellects and our souls

i am finding it very interesting to hear these newer ones

and you know... i think it was the funny ones that gave us courage

If not necessarily as much courage as it took the Viet Cong to hide in wee holes in the ground.

"i posted that in a different context recently."

Great minds think alike - more alike than you might imagine, Effers.


"Is it just me...or are a lot of anti-war songs godawful drippy?"

Is this one more to your fancy, Ed?

Battle Hymn of the Republic - Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
http://grooveshark.com/#/search?q=Battle+Hymn+of+the+Republic

Or, perhaps this?

Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix
http://grooveshark.com/#/s/Machine+Gun+live+/1l582W?src=5

Oh, there's tons of *pro*-war songs. A short while ago I downloaded some Thomas Mapfumo for a Zimbabwean neighbour. He was very grateful for some music from back home, even though half of them were praise-hymns to ZANU-PF. (He has good reasons not to be a fan).


Dunno...I'd like some anti-war songs with a bit more oomph. A bit more bile. I'll give it some thought...

A reasonable amount of bile for a four-line song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiDe6Hm5dtA&feature=related

Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert, by Pink Floyd.

How about 'Sweet bird of truth' The The . It had an excellent video and if I had access to youtube I would put up a link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhyiqGIJQus

Give Peace a Chance - John Lennon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A-FVFjtfYE&NR=1

Come Away Melinda. This is the Uriah Heep version, although I prefer Tim Rose's.

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@lil:


Noooooooo!!!!! I told you *not to mention that godawful John Lennon fecal-with-an-e.

*giggles*

So sowwweeeee!

Lennon was best when he was being the cynical b-----d he really was, not when he was pretending to be all nice and luvee and peacey.

"Come Away Melinda. This is the Uriah Heep version, although I prefer Tim Rose's."

Tim Rose's version is also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKWqEXoD--8

A link to 'sweet bird of truth' The The.
Should I cry like a baby or die like a man?
While all the planets little wars start joining hands.

All written some time before the 1st gulf war and quite prophetic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y64S4hzcejk

God! I'd forgotten 'The The'

Roddy Frame was with him/them for a while. My wife used to hear him rehearsing in her youth club.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NpaT5LDFgM

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