Comments on: What Does WMD Rhyme With?

By: bobreeks

bobreeks — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:23:27 +0000

World mating Day can be viewed on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXqO8b6_JMk

By: bobreeks

bobreeks — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:25:09 +0000

I wrote a song called “World Mating Day” in memory of WMD.
It now has pride of place in a Musical i have staged called “Terror the musical”.
The lyrics are as follows:
World Mating Day

February the 4th
It’s a date for the calendar of-course.
World Mating Day
A chance to lie down and have your say.

Find a mate
wait and see
everyone’s talking WMD.
A world annual event
a loving moment of dissent.

No purchase necessary
to become a revolutionary.
Don’t do love do like.
Under the duvet it feels so right.

Under no pressure to work
this is the day you can shirk.
On Monday there’s no money to exchange
there’s just some bedding
we have to re-arrange.

By: Barney Rebble

Barney Rebble — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:34:28 +0000

You think you guys on the left have a problem…

Pity the poor conservative trying to find a proper rhyme for “murtha”.

By: MattSwartz

MattSwartz — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:26:57 +0000

As a songwriter, I think nothing tops the old Dylan classic “Masters of War”.

Dylan has a ton of songs that are sort of anti-war, but I second your assertion that “Masters of War” is tops.

I also like his “License to Kill” from Infidels, although that critique is so much broader than one individual war, and I can’t pin down exactly what it’s about.

By: Mad Doc MacRae

Mad Doc MacRae — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:36:56 +0000

It’s not explicitly about the Iraq or the ‘stan, but “Blessed are the Landmines” by Brave Saint Saturn is obviously anti-war (as well as an attack on the Christian church’s general support of war).

By: tony c

tony c — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:03:26 +0000

As a songwriter, I think nothing tops the old Dylan classic “Masters of War”.

Except maybe “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath.

They came out of the ‘Nam era, but lyrically they work today.

But rock music isn’t counter cultural now, it’s the mainstream. There’s less risk taking at the top of the industry. So you can’t look there for your protest song anymore.

But I’ll write one for y’all. It’s easy to rhyme “lies”. (It still won’t be as good as “Masters of War”, though.)

By: MattSwartz

MattSwartz — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:16:41 +0000

I think immediately of Jason Isbell’s Dress Blues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9KSl8qqZpA

The lack of a draft may be a factor, but the way honest, political dissent is censored out by the corporate media (who want to make sure their songs play well in retail stores, which means not offending anyone) and the general dumbing down of our youth both must have also had an effect.

By: Philip Primeau

Philip Primeau — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:49:06 +0000

“Living with War” by Neil Young.

Indeed, the whole album (which bears the same name) is something of a protest against the wars, as well as the other excesses and misadventures that made the Bush era such a remarkable misery.

By: Danby

Danby — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:23:26 +0000

How about John Mayer’s “Waiting On The World To Change”. Granted it has a clip of Obama in the middle and at the end, but it’s solidly anti-war. It’s mostly about Generation Y’s feelings of powerlessness in the face of a rigged system.

By: Kung Fu Jayhawk

Kung Fu Jayhawk — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:43:09 +0000

Neil Young wrote an entire album of protest songs (“Living with War”), and Arcade Fire’s “Intervention” was widely interpreted as an anti-Iraq war song (“hear the soldier groan ‘we’ll go at it alone’”

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:12:40 +0000

Merle Haggard had two great anti-war songs on his “Chicago Wind” album: “Where’s All The Freedom?” and “Rebuild America First.”

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By: angela

angela — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:25:44 +0000

There’s been some, (here’s another link: http://www.lacarte.org/songs/anti-war/updates.html) but none have caught the public’s fancy.

By: TGGP

TGGP — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:29:45 +0000

It could be that you’re old and out of touch. I’m young, but also out of touch and so I listen to more of your generation’s music than mine!

Steve Walt asked where all the political songs were here, though he also thought there was more pro-war music back then as well:
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/03/06/where_have_all_the_political_songs_gone_with_apologies_to_pete_seeger

By: mcsey

mcsey — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:12:47 +0000

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2003/03/antiwar_songs_1.html << is a list of a hundred or so anti-Iraq war songs.

Granted most of them are by “Neverheardem and the Unknowns”, but the Beastie Boys, Willie Nelson, Steve Earle, Green Day, Lenny Kravitz, and Outkast are all on the list.