War Songs

[BassMasterMike88]

Good afternoon MXers,

I have a project due on thrusday and I need to find 4 songs about war, and the meaning behind them. So please be a pal and give me a hand here so I don't have to work, thanks.

Also, don't bother with One by Metallica, everybody else is already doing it.

[Nazi Bastard]

Not sure about the meaning, but you need CCR - Run Through the Jungle

[bamboomonkey]

Check out some Nile songs. Not only are a few of them about war, but Professor Sanders kindly types out a short essay about the meaning of every song.


Most of them are about Pharoahs who kick blasphemous amounts of heiny, apparantly....

[BassMasterMike88]

I'm actually looking for songs that protain to the post WWII era.

[Bron-Yr-Aur]

Metallica- "Disposable Heroes".

[GenuineImitation]

System of a Down -War, Boom, BYOB
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Iron Maiden - Aces High, The Trooper

[bamboomonkey]

OK, you got:

'Holy Wars...The Punishment Due' by Megadeth which is about the first Gulf War

'Scud Attack' by Painkiller. Also about the first Gulf War.

'Angel Of Death' by Slayer. That's about Dr. Mengele, however....

well, that's pretty much all I can think of, for now.

[Steerpike]

Well, Sabaton has more than a few songs about WWII. Primo Victoria and Panzer Battallion for example.

[Nazi Bastard]

Maybe Neil Young - Ohio? It's a Vietnam related song about a shooting at a protest.

[Scuba_Steve]

American Idiot- it's about the iraq war! lolz.


Joking, but seriously try some real punk bands, cause their more likely to have seriously thought provoking lyrics

[SCREAM!]

War-Edwin Starr

[Zesty Mordant]

Bob Dylan- "Masters of War"
Drive-by Truckers- "Sands of Iwo Jima"

Both excellent songs

[BringHomeTheBacon]

Why am I the only one who never gets any fun bring in a song assignments? :(

Well anyways-
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young- "Ohio"
Alice in Chains- "Rooster"

[temporary]

You can find a million vietnam protest songs, like Your Flag Decail Won't Get You Into Heaven Any More (John Prine) Who'll Stop the Rain and Fortunate Son (CCR) or Child in Time (Deep Purple.) Plus tons of Maiden, the Trooper and Aces High have been mentioned, but theres also Die With Your Boots On and Paschendale are great choices too. I know Paschendale is about a WWI battle of the same name.

[Txus]

You need some Turisas in your life son.

[Lunch]

Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun
Country Joe and the Fish - I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die-Rag
CCR - Fortunate Son

[ekajsk8er]

Baba O' Riley by The Who is about Nam.

[monkey_dancer]

To those who said CSN&Y: Ohio, I wouldn't really class that as a song about war. It's a song about the shooting of four kids in Ohio (surprisingly) where there was not a war at the time, it isn't really ABOUT war.
Johnny Cash: Vietnam Talking Blues. A true story about him and the war in Vietnam.

[heavy metal kid]

War Ensemble by Slayer, it could cause some controversy:
Sport the war, war support
The sport is total war

[Bazarov]

Slayer's War Ensemble is great, because it talks about war as being a sport.
Also Slayer's Expendable Youth and Chemical Warfare.

Megadeth - Holy Wars...The Punishment Due
Megadeth - Take No Prisoners
GWAR - Bring Back the Bomb

[sjada]

War Pigs by Black Sabbath
Civil War by Guns N Roses

[rockinbass17]

Bob Dylan- God On Our Side, Masters of War, It's Alright Ma
Ritchie Havens- Handsome Johnny
The Doors- Unkown Soldier
Donovon- Universal Soldier
Barry McGuire- Eve of Destruction

I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag has already been mentioned, but it is an essential.

[Danger Bird]

Operation Ivy-Unity

[Duuuude]

try unknown soldier by the casulties and sunday bloody sunday by U2.

[ChrisAdlerisGod]

Almost anything by Rage Against the Machine.

[PepsiMetal]

Blind Guardian - Battlefield
Iron Maiden - Run to the hills
Manowar - Hail and Kill

[Stoo]

Almost anything by Rage Against the Machine.
Not WW2 songs as such though...

[ChrisAdlerisGod]

He was asking for WW2 related songs?? In that case.........Nevermind about RATM

[Apocalyptic Raids]

Sodom - Remember The Fallen
Sodom - Agent Orange
Sodom - Magic Dragon
Sodom - Ausgebombt

[Bfhurricane]

The best song about war in general in my opinion is "One" by Metallica.

Iron Maiden has a ton, and theyre all good songs with historic meanings (The Trooper, Monstegur, Paschendale, Run to the Hills...)

but yeah id recommend "One." Epic song.

[Bazarov]

He said forget about One, because everyone in his class is doing that song.

Bathory - War

[Bfhurricane]

Oh, my bad. Id recommend any Iron Maiden found within the last two pages then

[Silenius]

Burzum - War


duh

[rockin_ryan]

Faith no more/ Black Sabbith, War Pigs, love the faith no more version

[steph b]

Goodnight Saigon-Billy Joel, i'm sorry........

[Loyal Metalhead]

Personally i think paschendale by Iron Maiden would be an excellent choice. There are a tonne of good war songs but i would go with paschendale as a number one choice

[Stoic]

Well, Sabaton has more than a few songs about WWII. Primo Victoria and Panzer Battallion for example.

Yup. Primo Victoria in particular seems to be ideal for that school project.
lyrics (http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/sabaton/primovictoria.html#1)

[anonym]

immolation - harnessing ruin..

[Tillius]

Soad-byob
A7x-m.i.a.

[BassMasterMike88]

Well I just finished my presentation, the songs I picked were:

Black Sabbeth- War Pigs
Bad Religion-News From the Front
Jimi Hendrix- Machine Gun
Iron Maiden- The Trooper

Thanks for the imput MX, wish me luck on presenting it tomarrow:thumb:

[Slapping Penguin]

I did Arghoslent when I had to do a similar thing.

[Stoic]

and how did it go?

[=-fukifiknow-=]

Megadeth-holy wars
Megadeth- peace sells
Metallica- One, disposable heroes
Bob Dylan- Masters of War
Black Sabbath-War Pigs/lukes wall
Jimi Hendrix- Machine Gun
/brain fart

[icaught fire444]

Rise Against-State of the Union

[Electric City]

Straylight Run- Hands In The Sky (Big Shot)
Bob Dylan- With God On Our Side

[Defender0FmetaL]

Dire Staits - Brothers In Arms..
and all Bolt Thrower songs

[Bazarov]

Megadeth-holy wars
Megadeth- peace sells
Metallica- One, disposable heroes
Bob Dylan- Masters of War
Black Sabbath-War Pigs/lukes wall
Jimi Hendrix- Machine Gun
/brain fart
What?

[tytothebenj]

NORMA JEAN- Creating Something Out of Nothing Only to Destroy It
THURSDAY- War All the Time
THE CHARIOT- Goodnight My Lady and A Forever Farwell

Yeah, those.

[ghettoeddo]

What?

well...peace sells but who's buying? kinda implicates war?
ehh...iffy. holy wars is better

if anyone hasn't said it yet...i was thinking one by metallica?

[Steerpike]

if anyone hasn't said it yet...i was thinking one by metallica?

I was going to comment on how people don't read past the first post anymore, but it appears they're not even reading past the first sentence which is even sadder.

The threadstarter has already said he finished the project. People need to stop listing songs.

Besides that, he already said not to suggest One - Metallica because everybody else in his class was doing that one.

And, for a bit of editorializing, Metallica suck anyway. Sabaton ftw.

[Moses]

How about somthing by Lil' Jon?

[monkey_dancer]

How about somthing by Lil' Jon?
:thumb:
hahaha! Good idea, we all know how deep and meaningful his songs are

[victim of changes]

A slayer song that hasnt been mentioned, Mandatory Suicide.

[victim of changes]

Blue Oyster Cult, Veteran of Psychic Wars.

[dest. Chaos]

Burzum - War
Gorgoroth - Krieg
Bathory - War ( again ;O )
Darkthrone - Gather For Attack On The Pearly Gates
Dark Funeral - Thy Legions Come
Immortal - Battlefields
Lord Belial - War Of Hate
Mayhem - A Grand Declaration Of War
Satyricon - A New Enemy
Summoning - Northward

[Shattered_Future]

I realized that Primo Victoria by Sabaton would be the ULTIMATE war song.

[tom79]

The Call Up-The Clash

Others:

Wardogs-GBH
Spanish Bombs-The Clash
When Ya Get Drafted-Dead Kennedys
Warfare-Minutemen
Tehran-The Offspring

yeah the projects done, ah well. Man, some people can't spell Sabbath right.

[scpttrerulz]

Iron Maiden --- Aces High .... Paschendale....

[Quiksilver26]

lol let's all still post songs

metallica - one