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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Grant on 03 Jul 2006, 18:38
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In honor of the holiday I am working on an anti-war/anti-bush mix CD to listen to as I drive through Branson MO tommorow...
So far we have...
Draft Dodger Rag by Phil Ochs
I ain't marching anymore by Phil Ochs
Self Evident by Ani Difranco
Army Dreamer- Kate Bush
Dear Mr. President by Alix Olson
Memorial Day by The Perceptionists
Not my president, not my war by the Compassionate Conservatives
I need more...suggestions from all types of music welcome...except folk...I think I have enough and finding an anti-war folk song is like finding an emo kid with an emotional problems...not really tough.
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"Let's Impeach The President" by Neil Young.
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No W-Ministry
Die for your government-Antiflag
Murder The Government-NOFX
Drink The Kool Aid-Ramallah
Death of a President DIY-Atari Teenage Riot
Realities of War-Discharge
That's all for now.
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Bob Dylan - Masters of War
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
Obvious, but essential.
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Yeah there's really no excuse not to use that Dylan song.
"No W" from that shitty Ministry CD is pretty RIP THE SYSTEM too. Random KMFDM and Rage Against The Machine tracks may be inserted at will.
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Subtly anti-war, but awesome: Ted Leo - Counting Down the Hours.
If you've never heard it, the (extraordinary) lyrics:
Innocence, it don't come easy - in a sense it never will
Accidents mean no one's guilty, ignorance means someone's killed
So I asked our Mr. Mellor how one gets to where one's going
And he points to his survival, and he points me down the road
As I go on
Wondering if I've got a soul and
Counting down the hours 'til it goes
On a dark wet night in April, on a street in Jersey where
I went looking for some writing that I knew would not be there
And a punter from the Pelhams and the police, in the rain,
Were concerned more with a car than with the fact the light had changed
But after listening all morning, as I drove down 95
To a story of detainees who were barely kept alive
I could deal with trying to process pigeons acting like they're doves
But not with interference from the power lines above
As I go on
Wondering if I've got a soul and
Counting down the hours 'til it goes
And oh, precautions, yes precautions
But if you're playing with a gun, you could kill someone
And in the dark it's hard to know a friend
But I'm not angry, I won't be forever angry
As I'm walking toward tomorrow with a rifle in my hand
And I'm thinking about New England, and I'm missing old Japan
And a mountain in California where a spring runs hot and cold
And if I told you I felt ageless, would you tell me I'm not old?
As I go on
Wondering if I've got a soul and
Counting down the hours 'till it goes
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Peaches - 'Fuck or Kill'
Includes the line: "Impeach my bush"
Geddit?
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Honestly, I usually don't care for political music. But the Decemberists' 16 Military Wives is pretty awesome.
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"Mass Destruction" - Faithless
"War Pigs" - Black Sabbath
"16 Military Wives" - The Decemberists
"Succexy" - Metric
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The Flaming Lips - The W.A.N.D.
Time after time those fanatical minds try to rule all the world
Telling us all it's them who's in charge of it all
I've got a trick, a magic stick, that will make them all fall
We've got the power now, motherfuckers; that's where it belongs
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almost anything released by against me! before 2002, namely:
"impact"
"does it make a difference"
"yall dont wanna step to dis"
"in the name of what"
"the politics of starving"
"chad's favorite song" - defiance, ohio
aside from that, and being the xiu xiu fan that i am, i feel obliged to also suggest "support our troops in iraq" by xiu xiu, although that song tends to not settle well with most people i meet.
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Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace a Chance
Bright Eyes - When The President Speaks to God
Out Hud - Dear Mr. Bush, There Are Over 100 Words for Shit and Only 1 for Music. Fuck You, Out Hud
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The Wipers-Youth of America
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Say what you want about Barenaked Ladies, but "Shopping" is such a bitter stab at Bush saying we should get over 9-11 by shopping.
Between that and "Sell Sell Sell," they've been pretty anti-Bush from the beginning.
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Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight
The madmen play on words
and make us all dance to their song
to the tune of starving millions
TO BUILD A BETTER KIND OF GUN!
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Anathema - Sleepless
And I often sigh
I often wonder why
I'm still here and I still cry
And I often cry
I often spill a tear
Over those not here
But still they are so near
Please ease my burden
And I still remember
A memory and I weep
In my broken sleep
The scars they cut so deep
Please ease my burden
Please ease my pain
Surely without war there would be no loss
Hence no mourning, no grief, no pain, no misery
No sleepless nights missing the dead... Oh, no more
No more war
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From protest-records.com (http://www.protest-records.com/mp3/):
Chumbawamba - Jacob's Ladder
Saul Williams - Pledge To Resist (DJ Spooky remix)
Steven Taylor - Go Down, Congress
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I recommend the collaboration between Slayer & Ice-T: Disorder
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system of a down - b.y.o.b.
m.i.a. - bucky done gone
carter the unstoppable sex machine - bloodsport for all
barry mcguire - eve of destruction
and more: http://www.lacarte.org/songs/anti-war/by_title/d-e/index.html
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Dude, just listen to any RATM album
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Protest Records reminded me of:
Youth Against Fascism - Sonic Youth
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Yeah there's really no excuse not to use that Dylan song.
Even that his voice is whiney and irritating?
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The Fiery Furnaces, "We Got Back The Plague"
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Even that his voice is whiney and irritating?
Even that his voice is whiney and irritating. It's just... the archetypal anti-war song, whether or not one agrees that it should be or likes the guy. :)
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Awesome songs! Thanks guys!
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Yeah there's really no excuse not to use that Dylan song.
Even that his voice is whiney and irritating?
You mean full of more righteous anger than every single Dead Kennedys release times by ten, right?
Seriously, when Dylans all
"FOR THREATNIN' MA BABY
UNBOOOORN AND UNNAMED
YOU AIN'T WORTH THE BLOOD
THAT RUNS IN YA VEINS"
It's all like 'Shit guys he really means this. Like, he would totally throttle these guys with his E String if they were within reach of him'
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Lyrically, Dylan is great, there is no argument there. Emotionally, he goes all the way, again, no argument there. My problem is, he can't sing for shit, which is more than mildly annoying considering he's a country singer.
I'd make a point about him changing fuck all politically, but everyone knows that already.
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Dylan, a country singer??????
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ack i dunno if these contributions are any good...
i fought in a war - belle and sebastian (sort of anti-war?)
megalomaniac - incubus (kind of obvious though)
our brown friends - lola ray (this is just sort of anti-american-imperialism)
dry drunk emperor - tv on the radio (this is a very good one)
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Rocket Falls on Rocket Falls
But it's instrumental and very long.
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Dylan's folk, and who cares if he didn't change anything, he said it. And who's to say he didn't change anything? He's imparted his beliefs and thoughts to an untold number of people, and provided the soundtrack that energised a generation of dissent.
If Dylan could 'sing' (strange saying he can't, because he does) in the sense you mean, he would be completely shit. Dylan is affecting because its a simple, honest, personal statement. If he could sing, he would just have been another Simon and Garfunkel, and whatever you think of those guys (I think they were pretty good) they don't hold a fucking candle to Dylan.
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Besides, his singing did gewt better (in a conventional sense), in Hurricane it's more tuneful, but still extremely powerful.
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Pearl Jam - Worldwide Suicide
Dead Kennedys - When Ya Get Drafted
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On? (Ignore that remake that featured Fred Durst in it)
There's a few Metallica songs you could include too like "One", "Disposable Heroes", e.t.c.
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Skinny Puppy-Pro-test
Funker Vogt-Cold War
Killing Joke-Loose Cannon
KMFDM-A Drug Against War
KMFDM-New American Century
MDFMK-Witch Hunt
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Dylan's folk, and who cares if he didn't change anything, he said it. And who's to say he didn't change anything? He's imparted his beliefs and thoughts to an untold number of people, and provided the soundtrack that energised a generation of dissent.
If Dylan could 'sing' (strange saying he can't, because he does) in the sense you mean, he would be completely shit. Dylan is affecting because its a simple, honest, personal statement. If he could sing, he would just have been another Simon and Garfunkel, and whatever you think of those guys (I think they were pretty good) they don't hold a fucking candle to Dylan.
Agreed. I find Dylan's songs much more affecting with his odd (NOT BAD) singing voice. It's my defense for Isaac Brock, too, but I have more trouble with him. Not that I'm trying to put Bob fucking Dylan and Modest Mouse on the same level there, but I like to compare singing styles since they do seem very simmilar to me, and both convey that honesty. I find some sentiments fake when sung in the standard "pretty" voice. Dylan has more fire and more power with his voice the way it is than if he had taken singing lessons.
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Why didn't I suggest Desperacidos' "Popn' Off At The F"?
I WANNA FIGHT IN THE WAR
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Ministry - Rio Grande Blood?
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buffalo springfield , for what it's worth
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The Slackers- "International War Criminal"
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Digital Mystikz - Anti-War Dub
See if you can turn Banson into one massive rave. This tune should do it.
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You can't have this without some State Radio! They have the most articulate protest music in existance. And since I bet you dont have any, http://stateradio.com/, they got a couple free downloads. The one studio thats up for download happens to be anti-war. Any of these songs would rock on a anti-war/anti-bush cd.
Democracy In Kind
Mountain
CIA
Fight No More
Camilo
Guantanamo
Gunship Politico
Revolutionaries
Held Up By The Wires
just to name some.
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Wow, again thank you guys.
I think I might have to do a dual disk mix cd.
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I second "Murder the Government" by NOFX. What a grand song.
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Oh shit!
My favourite fucking band is a protest band, and I don't think of them? The best would probably be:
Skyclad - Still Spinning Shrapnel
"Pictures of the crippled, wounded on the frontline
Someone else's problem: you're sitting on a landmine.
When will we see reason? Sometimes I think we'll never
Learn that children have the right to laugh, and dying is forever
All I hear are peace talks and battle cries.
No time for laughter, we're too busy dying,
In this Devil's Playground bullets are flying.
There's another star in heaven, and footprints on the moon
So ignore the reign of terror: the bloody red monsoon.
Neighbour fighting neighbour, oh see how quick they run
To tear down the white flag and pick up the gun.
Peace talks and battle cries, apathy can kill!
Put a price on human life, pay 'the butcher's bill'.
Everybody's losing, nobody's winning,
Run for your lives when the shrapnel's spinning!
Hear my prayer from the Valley of the Shadow,
For a child in an unmarked grave.
Take my hand in the hour of darkness,
While there's someone left to save."
Amazing song. Other tracks of theirs that might work:
A Good Day To Bury Bad News (specifically about 9/11 amongst other things, but from their cruddy last album without Martin)
The Antibody Politic
On With Their Heads! (A general anti-authority piece. The best line from this perspective: "If there's a world left for the meek to inherit/These bastards would bomb it the moment they get it!")
Salt on the Earth (Another Man's Poison)
Terminus
There's also 'Tunnel Visionaries' which would make a great intro piece. It's a spoken word narration in the same tone and style as the intro to War of the Worlds:
"Nobody could have conceived in the final decade of the 20th century
That our humble affairs were being manipulated by computer interface.
Not a soul could have summised that the lives of billions were of
Less consequence than a decimal point in the stock exchanges of the world.
Rare few even questioned the relentless exploitation of our rapidly
Dwindling natural resources. And yet across the polished boardroom tables,
Beings immensely more devious than ourselves surveyed this defiled planet
With jaundiced eyes, and swiftly and ruthlessly, they hatched foul plots
Against us."
You could also try 'Media' by Sol Invictus, although that isn't so much anti-bush or anti-war as anti-capitalism in it's entirety:
Here we go again
The same old lies again
The empty words again
The pigs can fly again
From Wall Street to your heart
Neon Hollywood lights the dark
Hear the bleating of the sheep
As the jokes of the media creak
And there's nothing I can say
No there's nothing I can say
And there's nothing I can say
No there's nothing nothing nothing
See a world of tanks
Ruled by a world of banks
Turn off your TV set!
Forget the chains of debt!
See it all go down the drain
Switch channels, do you think it will change?
Lapping prolefood in the sun
Hail the masses, ugly and dumb
And there's nothing I can say
No there's nothing I can say
And there's nothing I can say
No there's nothing nothing nothing
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GWAR - "War Party" and "You Can't Kill Terror"
Country Joe McDonald - "Support The Troops"
Pink Floyd - "Goodbye, Blue Sky"
Elliott Smith - "A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free"
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Although the tracks vary in quality more than a bag or reject orios.
http://www.protest-records.com/
has easily enough .mp3s to make two complete playlists.