Anti-War Songs

[Insidious Von]

Maybe General George S Patton has been right all along. He was referring to Americans but he could have said everybody. Humans love to fight.

WatchMojo just released their list of the Top Ten Anti-War songs. The Dick Cheney Song (War Pigs) came in at No.2, it would take a very monumental song to keep from the top spot. I think they got it wrong.

This was their top pic.

 

[Insidious Von]

Here's mine:

 

[Insidious Von]

This wasn't on the list:

 

[Titalian]

 

[danmand]

 

[bigshot]

To me, the granddaddy of them all is Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction" says it all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntLsElbW9Xo

 

[trm]

I Ain't Marching Anymore by Phil Ochs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtGKX70Jckk

 

[Insidious Von]

We will never see another like Phil Ochs!

 

[Insidious Von]

More Phil Ochs.

 

[Bickle]

"The Band Played Waltzing Matilda". I like the version by The Pogues.

 

[Insidious Von]

Travis, I would have added a link to your post if there was a way.

 

[Insidious Von]

Johnny Get Your Gun

 

[peteeey]

 

[Yoga Face]

Interesting detail on this famous performance

Country Joe had already performed and in the chaos they asked to perform again while they found another band to play

He got on stage and did this song. It is the only song that was performed twice.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjSpO2B6G4s

 

[WoodPeckr]

Dedicated to WAR CRIMINAL & Big Fool DICK Cheney who would do it all over again!

The BIG PROBLEM with War Mongering Conservatives and Republicans is they always create more enemies than they can kill off!

 

[peteeey]

Song wasn't originally written as anti-war but rather about a protest put on younger people on LA's Sunset strip. Given the timing of its writing it was taken over by anti-war protesters and became an anthem of the '60s. An interesting bit of trivia is that Steven Stills, the writer, was the roommate of Peter Tork. Both tried out for the Monkees, Tork was hired and Stills went on to become a rock legend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjSpO2B6G4s