OT: Memorial Day Music Thread

[nwhoopfan]

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[nwhoopfan]

Julie Miller and Emmylou Harris. That's a whole lot of beautiful, haunting vocals.

 

[Aluminny69]

Opening bagpipes and Scottish accents in “We Were Soldiers”. This song was sung by Joseph Klina McKenzie to honor his Grandfather who died in the World War I.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Maybe not exactly the band you would expect a war protest song from, but there you go. Also, pretty much the birth of what would become known as heavy metal.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[64Zcode]

BJ Thomas - Billy and Sue

 

[64Zcode]

Not the Air Force Hymn (Wild Blue Yonder) but the Air Force March used for recruiting in 1957

 

[Aluminny69]

You must hear this!

 

[meyers7]

I know it might be sacrilege, but I like this version.

Cake doing Black Sabbath's "War Pigs"

 

[Spaceman213J]

I'd second Bruce's "Born in the U.S.A.. I know Memorial Day is more about the people we lost in war. But the chorus, for the casual listener sounds like something to be proud of, but he rest is cautionary about treating the soldiers right and be thankful, if you don't agree with the war. They're still the ones who defend us and the way the Vietnam vets were treated when they returned was just wrong.

 

[RoadMaster]

 

[Sifaka]

 

[meyers7]

Another with War in the title. (not necessarily about war - but at cool song)

A War On Everything - The Glorious Sons

 

[meyers7]

One of the more aerobic performances. From Jonathon Demme's fantastic film Stop Making Sense.

Life During Wartime - Talking Heads

 

[meyers7]

Another War titled song from a band out of N. Florida.

War - JJ Grey and Mofro

 

[meyers7]

A little Celtic music about an old soldier.

Rolli - Enter the Haggis

 

[JavaMan]

 

[meyers7]

Another from Enter the Haggis. This one about the battle/campaign/front of Salonika during WWI. More Celtish than the other one.

Salonika

 

[bantamlaker]

 

[Bigboote]

Bantam beat me to Phil Ochs.

Memorial Day was originally to remember the fallen of the Civil War. Here's one about one of the British Civil Wars, the Jacobite Uprising, sung by Northern Irish band Deanta. It has one of the most poignant couplets I've heard:

It's musket and cannon against honor and courage
The invading men stood while our clansmen did fall

 

[Bigboote]

Here's one of my favorite tearjerkers from Tom Waits, about a soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan waiting to come home. It has too many poignant lines to quote.

 

[LesMis89]

Julia Ward Howe's immortal anthem -