OT: Memorial Day Music Thread

[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 -

 

[TCC Kid]

Thanks Rocky--for my friends still at the Frozen Chozen! America remains in AWE of what the did.

 

[TCC Kid]

Julia Ward Howe's immortal anthem -

Thanks

 

[Aluminny69]

I may have missed it, but how is Danny Boy excluded? A message from a parent to a son going off to war.

Judy Garland had an early version of the song. 1940 Judy Garland Little Nellie Kelly soundtrack. Garland also sang it live at her concerts in Ireland and Scotland and most famously at her New York Palace Theatre debut in 1951.

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Aluminny69]

I must include this Judith Durham version, which includes a short introduction, and the second verse, which I believe is a soldier's response. (open to interpretation.)

I love this YT comment

I am 66 years old, and never in my life have I ever heard such a beautiful version of 'Danny Boy'. It gives me goosebumps, a lump in my throat, and tears in my eyes. Thank you Judith! And thank God for giving you to the world!

 

[Cedar]

War — Why Can’t We Be Friends?

 

[64Zcode]

Anti-war piece from Big Country - Where The Rose Is Sown-

We're at war All the papers say
We will win I read today
We are strong It wasn't us
We are right Who started this?

 

[64Zcode]

Very surprised that this hasn't been linked yet.
Dogs Of War - Pink Floyd-. From The Delicate Sound of Thunder tour

 

[UpstateNY]

I am a Vietnam Vet and there are a couple of songs that really resonate:
:
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
The Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (1965) HD/widescreen ♫♥

 

[Kaizen]

 

[SalinasV]

Another great version of Danny Boy

 

[Sifaka]

 

[Bigboote]

I am a Vietnam Vet and there are a couple of songs that really resonate:
:
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
The Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (1965) HD/widescreen ♫♥

My late brother-in-law also served, and he concurred with you, said "We gotta get out of this place" was their anthem.

 

[Replicant]