The power that music has………..

[kettering_baggie]

…….to portray the horror and futility of war.

If you have the time, the following two songs by Eric Bogle are extremely moving. (Lovely acoustic guitar playing, too)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxkhBvO8_kM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFzCmAyOp8

[mickd1961]

This one always does it for me Kets.

Green Day....."Wake Me Up When September Ends".

[Yarmbaggie]

…….to portray the horror and futility of war.

If you have the time, the following two songs by Eric Bogle are extremely moving. (Lovely acoustic guitar playing, too)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxkhBvO8_kM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFzCmAyOp8

Have to agree Kets, have played both songs for years. In fact they are both on ‘My life in music’ playlist I started a few years ago. They had such an such an effect upon me and how I view the world. The playlist does have some happier songs as well by the way.

Not taking anything away from the brilliant original Eric Bogle performance, and not everyone will agree with me, but I personally prefer The Pogues version of The band played Waltzing Matilda. Shane MacGowan was born to sing that song and it is in my opinion even more haunting than the original which takes some doing.

[westcountryvillain]

Having Irish parents these two songs featured in my formative years, love them both and they're so poignant - have a listen to Liam Clancy singing the Waltzing Matilda and The Fureys singing Green Fields of France which has the line "To man's blind indifference, to his fellow man"

Never a truer word

[Omegstrat6]

Always found Swamp Dogg's version of John Prine's "Sam Stone" quite moving in terms of an anti-war song. Otherwise I think for emotional punch Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac's "Man of the world", Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit", Jeff Buckley's version of "Hallelujah" , Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing compares to you" and Johnny Cash's "Hurt" are all hard to beat.

[Dubbag]

Universal soldier by Donovan......

[WBA1955]

I could listen to Dark Side of the Moon all day. I used to have it on a loop in the car.
Some of the film scores by John Barry and Ennio Morricone I could listen to all day too.

[Omegstrat6]

I could listen to Dark Side of the Moon all day. I used to have it on a loop in the car.
Some of the film scores by John Barry and Ennio Morricone I could listen to all day too.

Totally agree with you! Back in the day Dark Side was one of those albums you might chill out to whilst enjoying a certain Morrocan or Lebanese smoke😙

As for John Barry, I love his stuff which was a very 60s mix of pop and orchestral . Often think that the decline in popularity of classical orchestral music was replaced by the opportunity provided by film scores and I have a couple of CDs I often listen to of these. Morricone, Bernstein, Williams etc