ILM: Top 100 Anti-War Songs

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1) The Pogues "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

2) Mark Arm - "Masters Of War" (Dylan cover on Sub pop 1990)

― Dan Brain, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

3) Pearls Before Swine - "Translucent Carriages"
4) Genesis - "The Knife"

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 23:58 (twenty-three years ago)

5) "Nuclear War" - Sun Ra
6) "Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima" - Penderecki

― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 00:37 (twenty-three years ago)

redgum 'i was only nineteen'

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)

7)War - Edwin Starr
8)Crazy Horses - Osmonds

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 00:40 (twenty-three years ago)

9) Staples Singers "John Brown"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 00:47 (twenty-three years ago)

10) metallica "one"

― msp, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

11. Jonah Lewie "Stop the Cavalry"

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:57 (twenty-three years ago)

12. "19" - paul hardcastle

― disco stu (disco stu), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 02:12 (twenty-three years ago)

13. "fuck a war" - geto boys

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 02:16 (twenty-three years ago)

14. Public Enemy "Black Steel"

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 02:20 (twenty-three years ago)

15. "Masters of War" -- Bob Dylan
16. "With God on Our Side" - ditto

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 02:43 (twenty-three years ago)

17. "Disarm Completely" --Family Fodder
18. "Stop the War Now" --Edwin Starr
19. "The Ballad of the Soldier's Wife" --Brecht/Weill

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 03:06 (twenty-three years ago)

20. "war sucks" red crayola

― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 03:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Phil Collins f/David Crosby "That's Just the Way It is"

― Famous Athlete, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 03:32 (twenty-three years ago)

22. CCR - Fortunate Son

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 03:38 (twenty-three years ago)

23. John Lennon Give peace a chance

― sonic, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 03:44 (twenty-three years ago)

24. Ronnie, Talk To Russia - Prince
25. Partyup - Prince
26. 1999 - Prince
27. Money Don't Matter 2 Night - Prince

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 03:45 (twenty-three years ago)

26 for the "Mommy, why does everybody have a bomb?" coda.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 03:46 (twenty-three years ago)

28. "My Free Will Just Ain't Willing" Mojo Nixon, with his typical subtle charm: "The Mesopotamians, they ain't my enemy...You can't make me kill another man...I ain't gonna be George Bush's whore"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 03:48 (twenty-three years ago)

29. "War Pigs" Black Sabbath

― wl (wl), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 04:07 (twenty-three years ago)

30. 'my youngest son came home today' - billy bragg (originally eric bogle)

― angelo (angelo), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 04:49 (twenty-three years ago)

31. The Kinks - Some Mother's Son

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 05:49 (twenty-three years ago)

32. "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier", Jo'Lennon

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 06:04 (twenty-three years ago)

33. "why do they use the violent power?" - confuse

― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 08:55 (twenty-three years ago)

34. Bloody Sunday u2

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 08:58 (twenty-three years ago)

35. Between the Wars - Billy Bragg

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:12 (twenty-three years ago)

36. "Seconds" - U2

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:13 (twenty-three years ago)

37. He Is Coming to Us Dead - Grayson and Whitter

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:28 (twenty-three years ago)

38. We Don't Want No Fuckin' War - The Dicks

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:29 (twenty-three years ago)

39. The Byrds - I Come and Stand at Every Door
40. TV Personalities - A Sense of Belonging

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:33 (twenty-three years ago)

41. Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:40 (twenty-three years ago)

42. Experiment IV - Kate Bush

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)

43. "War?" by System of a Down
44. "War" by Operation Ivy
45. "Machine Gun" by Jimi Hendrix

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Ain't Marchin' Anymore" - Phil Ochs

― hstencil, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

47. "George Bush Get Your Son Off My Jock" by Saddam & the Who-Sanes

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

48."Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore"-John Prine
49."Sam Stone"-ditto
50."The American Ruse"-MC5
51."The Human Being Lawnmower"-ditto

― Charles McCain, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

52.
I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-To-DIE - Country Joe and the Fish

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

53."Civil War"-Guns'n'Roses
54."Soldier Boy"-Shirelles
55."2+2+?"-Bob Segar System
56."The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"-The Band

― Charles McCain, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 21:35 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

57. Digital mystikz - Anti-war dub

― jimnaseum - formalist rigour! (jimnaseum), Sunday, 6 August 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

58. Pink Floyd - The Dogs Of War

(joke)

58. The The - Sweet Bird Of Truth

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Sunday, 6 August 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

59. Culture Club's (awful) "The War Song"

― winter testing (winter testing), Sunday, 6 August 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

60. Human League - the Lebanon (getting topical up in this mug).

― jimnaseum - formalist rigour! (jimnaseum), Sunday, 6 August 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

61. Kiley Dean - 'War Song'

― Headspin (Barima), Sunday, 6 August 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

62. Donovan - Universal Soldier

― clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Sunday, 6 August 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

63. The Minutemen--Vietnam

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, 6 August 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

64. Industry, "State Of The Nation". Its lyrics are perfect for those who are against the war in Iraq, right down to the "this war has nothing to do with us, but somehow we're still involved with it".

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 6 August 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

I've never heard Donovan's version of Universal Soldier. Any good? I truly love Buffy Ste. Marie for having written this song.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 6 August 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight

― Mordechai Shinefield (Mordy), Sunday, 6 August 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

Flipper - Sacrifice

― bendy (bendy), Monday, 7 August 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

"Love Vigilantes" New Order!

― richardk (Richard K), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm very partial to "Sacrifice" as well, but for truely chilling delivery how 'bout The Almanac Singers esp "Plow Under" (plow under every 4th American boy).

You gotta have guts to be singing stuff like that in the 40s.

― factcheckr (factcheckr), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

67. "Military Madness" - Graham Nash

― Ryan Osborne (ryeosborne), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

68. "Glad It's All Over" - Captain Sensible

― zeus (zeus), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

69. Disposable Heroes - Metallica

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

Here's my list.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 May 2018 02:46 (eight years ago)

70. Vietnam - Minutemen
71. Man at C&A - Specials

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 28 May 2018 18:29 (eight years ago)

sorry someone beat me to 70!

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 28 May 2018 18:30 (eight years ago)

we missed a great opportunity to leave the list unfinished at 69

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 28 May 2018 18:49 (eight years ago)

72. Galveston - Glen Campbell

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 01:54 (eight years ago)

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