Postwar songs with WW2 references.

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  1. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Musing on the long-lingering traces of the war in 'popular culture', & been building an iPod playlist. Fair few out there.
    A handful to start off:

    YouTube - Pink Floyd Final Cut (6) - The Gunner's Dream
    YouTube - Pink Floyd: When The Tigers Broke Free
    YouTube - Pink Floyd Final Cut (10) - Southampton Dock
    YouTube - Pink Floyd - Vera & Bring the boys back home
    YouTube - Blue Oyster Cult: ME-262
    YouTube - Iron Maiden: Aces High
    YouTube - OMD - Enola Gay
    YouTube - Slayer - Angel Of Death
    YouTube - The Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop (Tenuous, only the title)
    YouTube - New Model Army - Vengeance
    YouTube - Leonard Cohen - The Partisan
    YouTube - Motörhead - Bomber

    Come on you musos, more please.
    ~A
     
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  2. Jakob Kjaersgaard

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  4. Jonathan Ball

    Jonathan Ball It's a way of life.

    More Great War than WW2?

    Still a great song...

    [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7MwXniOD44[/YOUTUBE]
     
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  5. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

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  6. geoff501

    geoff501 Achtung Feind hört mit

    Peter Frampton. Thank You Mr Churchill

     
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  7. geoff501

    geoff501 Achtung Feind hört mit

    Motorhead 1916 (from an earlier conflict) Don't have a link.
     
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  8. geoff501

    geoff501 Achtung Feind hört mit

    Mark Knopfler, Piper To The End
    (about his uncle?)

    Soldier, The Groundhogs (Excellent band!)

    The Doors, Love Me Two Times (about a guy about to go to 'Nam)

    Hendrix, Izabella (ditto)
     
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  9. von Poop

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  10. Jonathan Ball

    Jonathan Ball It's a way of life.

    U-Boat by Kasabian.

    [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmGFeyQSdsY[/YOUTUBE]
     
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  11. Jonathan Ball

    Jonathan Ball It's a way of life.

    And anything by the Stalingrad Cowgirls!!
     
    Jonathan Ball, Apr 22, 2011
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  12. WhiskeyGolf

    WhiskeyGolf Senior Member

    WhiskeyGolf, Apr 23, 2011
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  13. englandphil

    englandphil Very Senior Member

    More Great War than WW2?

    Still a great song...

    [YOUTUBE]F7MwXniOD44[/YOUTUBE]

    Great song, I had the pleasure of knowing Pete Hooton the lead singer quite well in the late 80's
     
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  15. wowtank

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  16. geoff501

    geoff501 Achtung Feind hört mit

    Unusual one (not exactly rock, but a good often underated guitar player. Much better when he's string bending on his turquoise Stratocaster)

    Richard Thompson, Al Bowlly’s in Heaven.

    The song is about a WW2 war hero returning home to nothing. Hence title reference to Al Bowlly, killed in an air raid in1941.

    I must have been there in the audience, but I don't remember it. The recording is quite bad and it would sound much better if you were there. Danny Thompson on upright bass.

    YouTube - Richard Thompson Band - Al Bowlly's In Heaven
     
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  17. geoff501

    geoff501 Achtung Feind hört mit

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  19. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Nice one, and there must be loads more Country ones.
    YouTube - Jimmy Dean: P.T. 109 (1962)
    Johnny Cash - Ira Hayes

    Geoff, I've a sort of ingrained resistance to Thompson - I quite like his stuff with the ex-missus, bright lights etc., but never warmed to much of the rest, despite many mates being major fans.
     
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  20. geoff501

    geoff501 Achtung Feind hört mit

    Geoff, I've a sort of ingrained resistance to Thompson - I quite like his stuff with the ex-missus, bright lights etc., but never warmed to much of the rest, despite many mates being major fans.
    I know exactly what you mean. Can never play his stuff now, but he is good live when his guitar is plugged in. Mirror Blue probably worked best for me.
    Probably did not help flying back from Oz, with his cassette stuck in the player. Slight brain damage. No MP3s then
     
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