The One and Only War Protest song list...

[DVDealer]

I've been accumulating a list of war protest songs and ones that are currently starting to come out with the new war going on (not sure if this topic is more relavent to the War Forum or here). I've also included some links here to sites that have MP3 downloads of some of these songs too for those wanting to sample them.

www.peace-not-war.org
www.protest-records.com
www.anti-flag.com/MU40.php
http://www.copsrus.com/17.7.html
http://www.drownedinsound.com/audio.php
http://www.folkmusic.com/t_mp3.htm
http://www.fbirecords.com/stokingthefires.htm#songs

I'll try to update with any additions or corrections that people see fit to recommend. I certainly haven't listened to *all* of these, and therefore could revise some of these selections if some feel otherwise who know the songs.

Artist:	Song:
The Abstractions	War After War
The Adventures	Broken Land
Afrikaa Bambata & Johnny Lydon	World Destruction
After the Fire	Der Kommisar
Alabama 3	Woody Guthrie
Tariq Ali	Not in Our Name
Dave Allen and the Electric Purejoy	Talk Radio
Alliance of Alternative Artists	SALT In the Wound
Scott Amendola Band	Masters of War
Anti-Flag	911 for Peace
Anti-Flag and the DONOTS	Protest Song
Audioslave	(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
Bad Religion	Part III
Bad Religion	Slaves
Joan Baez	Blowin' In the Wind
Joan Baez	We Shall Overcome
Banana Fish Zero	Maiden America
Beastie Boys	In a World Gone Mad
Beatles	Revolution
Laszlo Beckett	What to Do
Hugh Birdsall	Bombs Away Lock and Load
Bitter, Bitter Weeks	Revenge
Bindi Blacher	Down
Black Sabbath	Children of the Grave
Black Sabbath	War Pigs
Luka Bloom	I Am Not at War With Anyone
Jason Boissonneault	Hollow Words Before Me
Sonny Bono	Laugh At Me
Bonzo Goes to Washington	Five Minutes
Billy Bragg	The Internationale
Billy Bragg	The Price of Oil
Jonatha Brooke	WAR
Buffalo Springfield	For What Its Worth
Buffy Ste. Marie	Moratorium (Bring Our Brothers Home)
Buffy Ste. Marie	Universal Soldier
Buffy Ste. Marie	Buffalo
Eric Burdan and the Animals	Sky Pilot
Eric Burdan and the Animals	We've Got to Get Out of This Place
George W. Bush & Matt Rogalsky	Two Minutes Fifty Seconds Silence for the USA
Kate Bush	Army Dreamers
The Byrds	Draft Morning
The Byrds	Turn! Turn! Turn!
Clarity Produced@ C*Supreme	Evolution
Clarity Produced@ C*Supreme	Buddy, Buddy
The Call	The Walls Come Down
Maybelle Carter	I Told Them What You're Fighting For
Carter & the Unstoppable Machine	Bloodsport For All
Johnny Cash	Drive On
Rosanne Cash	License to Kill
Cat Power	Maybe Not
Cat Power	Rockets
Eugene Chadbourne	New New New War War War
Change	We Want A Ceasefire
Sharon Cheslow	The Body Is A System
Chicago	It Better End Soon
Chumbawamba	Jacob's Ladder (Not In My Name)
The Circle Jerks	Coup D'etat
The Clash	The Call Up
The Clash	Clampdown
The Clash	The Guns of Brixton
The Clash	London Calling
The Clash	Police and Thieves
The Clash	Rock the Casbah
Jimmy Cliff	Vietnam
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher
Leonard Cohen	The Future
Leonard Cohen	The Story of Isaac
Coldcut	Atomic Moog
Paula Cole	My Hero, Mr. President
Phil Collins	Just the Way It Is
The Compassionate Conservatives	In the Garden of Eden
Country Joe and the Fish	Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag (Woodstock)
Elvis Costello	(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
Elvis Costello	Oliver's Army
Elvis Costello	Shipbuilding
The Coven	One Tin Soldier
Cranberries	War Child
Cranberries	Zombie
Crass	Nagasaki Nightmare
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Bad Moon Rising
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Fortunate Son
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Run Through the Jungle
Sandra Cretu	Hiroshima/Jonny Wanna Live
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young	Wooden Ships
Cry of Love	Peace Pipe
The Cucumbers	Illegal
Culture Club	The War Song
The Cure	Killing an Arab
Damon & Naomi	In the Morning
Charlie Daniels Band	Still in Saigon
Kimya Dawson	Anthrax
Dead Kennedys	Holiday in Cambodia
Dead Kennedys	Stars and Stripes of Corruption
Dead Kennedys	We've Got a Bigger Problem Now
Def Leppard	Gods of War
Iris Dement	There's a Wall in Washington
Ani DiFranco	Self Evident
Digital Cutup Lounge	Drop Bush Not Bombs
Dion	Abraham, Martin and John
DJ DisOrientalist	Occident & Emergency
DJ Mix	...on Polk/Grove
DJ Shadow & Zach de la Rocha	March of Death
Donovan	Universal Soldier
The Doors	Five to One
The Doors	Peace Frogs
The Doors	The End
The Doors	The Unknown Soldier
Drowning Pool	Bodies
Dave Dudley	Viet Nam Blues
Duran Duran	Planet Earth
Jesse Dyen	Freedom Isn't Free Tonight
Bob Dylan	Blowin' In the Wind
Boy Dylan	License to Kill
Bob Dylan	Subterranean Homesick Blues
Bob Dylan	Masters of War
Bob Dylan	Only a Pawn in Their Game
Bob Dylan	The Times They are a-Changin'
Bob Dylan	Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
Bob Dylan	With God On Our Side
Steven Earle	John Walker's Blues
Earth Opera	The Great American Eagle Tragedy
The Evens	On The Face Of It
Falco	Der Kommisar
Fine Arts Militia	A Twisted Sense of God
The Five Man Electrical Band	Signs
Alan Fletcher	Perfectly Comfortable
Flying Burrito Brothers	My Uncle
John Fogerty	Violence is Golden
Frankie Goes To Hollywood	Two Tribes
Michael Franti and Spearhead	Bomb Da World
Gavin Friday	You, Me and World War Three
Fugazi	KYEO
Fun<da>mental	Rape (Tactic of War)
Funkadelic	Maggot Brain
Funkadelic	Wars of Armageddon
Peter Gabriel	Games Without Frontiers
Marvin Gaye	What's Goin' On
Ginger Tom	Hey Hey USA
GM Babyz	Pain of Life
Steve Goodman	Ballad of Penny Evans
Grand Funk Railroad	People, Let's Stop the War
Grand Funk Railroad	Don't Let 'Em Take Your Gun
Grand Funk Railroad	Freedom is for Children
Grand Funk RailroadGimme Shelter
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5	The Message
Green Day	Life During Wartime
Green Day	Time in a Wartime (coming soon)
Nanci Griffith	Big Blue Ball of War
Guess Who	American Woman
Guns 'n Roses	Civil War
Gurlfiend	Spark of Life
Arlo Guthrie	Alice's Restaurant
Merle Haggard	Okie from Muskogee
Happy Mondays	Step On
Paul Hardcastle	19
Harmonious Combustion	A Song Of Peace
Haunted House	Thomas Paine
Richie Havens	Freedom
Richie Havens	Handsome Johnny
Richie Havens	The Times They are a-Changin'
Fran Healy	A Beautiful Occupation
Hedgehoppers Anonymous	It's Good News Week
Jimi Hendrix	All Along the Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix	Star Spangled Banner (Woodstock)
Jimi Hendrix	Purple Haze (Woodstock)
Jimi Hendrix	Machine Gun
Don Henley	All She Wants to Do is Dance
Holy Modal Rounders	The Pledge
The Human League	The Lebanon
The Human League	Life On Your Own
Pat Humphries and Sandy Opatow	CodePINK for Peace
Janis Ian	Society's Child
Ice Cube	I Wanna Kill Sam
INXS	Guns in the Sky
Iron Maiden	2 Minutes To Midnight
Jefferson Airplane	Volunteers
Jefferson Airplane	Uncle Sam Blues
Jefferson Airplane	We Can Be Together
Jefferson Airplane	Wooden Ships
Billy Joel	Goodnight Saigon
Johnny Hates Jazz	I Don't Wanna Be a Hero
Junoon	No More
Jynkz	Chain of Violence
Jynkz	We Don't Want Your War
Kingston Trio	Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Lenny Kravitz and Kazem Al Sahir	We Want Peace
Nancy Lancy	Peace in the World
Tom Lehrer	Send the Marines
Tom Lehrer	MLF Lullaby
John Lennon	Give Peace a Chance
John Lennon	Happy XMas (War Is Over)
John Lennon	I Don't Want to be a Soldier
John Lennon	Imagine
John Lester	Out of the Clear Blue Sky
Jona Lewie	Stop the Cavalry
Live	10,000 years (Peace is Now)
Gary Lucas	Whip Named Lash
Lynyrd Skynyrd	Four Walls of Raiford
Madonna	American Life
Manfred Mann	With God On Our Side
The Mark of Cain	Lone Pine
Scott Marshall	Prehysteric Man
Dave Matthews	When the World Ends
MC Frontalot	Special Delivery
John McCutcheon	Duct Tape
John McCutcheon	We Know War
Barry McGuire	Eve of Destruction
John Mellencamp	To Washington
Men at Work	It's a Mistake
Mental As Anything	Apocalypso
Metal Church	Method To Your Madness
Metallica	Disposable Heroes
Metallica	For Whom the Bell Tolls
Metallica	Phantom Lord
Metallica	Seek and Destroy
Metallica	One
Metallica	Killing Time
Mexico's Molotov	Ferocious
George Michael	The Grave
George Michael	Shoot the Dog
Midnight Oil	Minutes to Midnight
Midnight Oil	Red Sails in the Sunset
Midnight Oil	US Forces
Misinformed Manzerick	Super Patriot
Joni Mitchell	The Fiddle and the Drum
Molly Hatchet	Fall of the Peacemakers
Thurston Moore and Mike Watt	Fourth Day of July
Moxy Fruvous	Gulf War Song
Mr. Lif	Home of the Brave
Ms Dynamite	Watch Over Them
Mud Family	Peace Not War
Mudhoney	Hardon For War
Napalm Death	Armageddon X 7
Nas	My Country
Nas	Rule
Graham Nash	Oh! Camil (The Winter Soldier)
Graham Nash	Millitary Madness
Nena	99 Luft Ballons
New Order	Love Vigilantes
Nitin Sawhney	Cold and Intimate
Abraham Normal	Protest-1
Leslie Nuchow	An Eye for an Eye (Will Leave the Whole World Blind)
Ocean Colour Scene	(No) Profit In Peace
Phil Ochs	Cops of the World
Phil Ochs	Draft Dodger Rag
Phil Ochs	Here's to the State of Mississippi
Phil Ochs	I Ain't Marching Anymore
Phil Ochs	War is Over
Phil Ochs	Is There Anybody Here
Phil Ochs	There But for Fortune
Phil Ochs	Power & Glory
1,000 Paper Cranes	Baghdad Cafe
Operation Ivy	Plea for Peace
Jim O'Rourke	Pictures of Adolf
Jose-Luis Orozco	Paz y Libertad
Ozzy Osbourne	The Ultimate Sin
Outkast	Bombs over Baghdad
Outkast	The Whole World
Papercop	Finger in the Night
Paradise Island	We're All Dying
Paris	Bush Killa
Tom Paxton	Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation
Tom Paxton	Talking Vietnam Pot Luck Blues
Freda Payne	Bring the Boys Home
Pearl Jam	Bushleaguer
Peasants	Take 'Em Out
Persian Carpets	Allah Save Queens
Peter, Paul, and Mary	Blowin' In the Wind
Peter, Paul, and Mary	If I Had A Hammer
Peter and Bethany Yarrow	The Cruel War
Pilot Beacon	Revolution
Pinhead Gunpowder	Life During Wartime
Pink Floyd	Dogs of War
The Platform	"Contrainformacion Sonora" The sound of Tha Police (House Remix)
The Platform	"Contrainformacion Sonora" Bush, The New Hitler
The Platform	"Contrainformacion Sonora" Bingos de Mierda
Platoon Soundtrack	Adagio for Strings
Pok & the Spacegoats	Voices of a Future
Polarity/1	Seventy Virgins
President: New Earth Embassy	Music is the New Politic
Pride and Glory	Harvester Of Pain
Pride and Glory	Horse Called War
Pride and Glory	Machine Gun Man
Primus	Too Many Puppies
John Prine	But Your Flag Decal Won't Get you Into Heaven Anymore
John Prine	Sam Stone
Thors Provoni	Backroom Boy
Mason Proffit	Two Hangmen
Public Enemy	Fight the Power
Public Enemy	No Boom Boom
Public Enemy	Son of a Bush
Rage Against the Machine	Bulls on Parade
Rainy Day Woman	Everybody Must Get Bombed (based on Dylan's "Everybody Must Get Stoned")
The Rascals	People Got To Be Free
R.E.M.	It's the End of the World As We Know It
R.E.M.	Orange Crush
R.E.M.	The Final Straw
R.E.M.	World Leader Pretend
Red Gum	I was ony 19
Rolling Stones	Gimme Shelter
Roots Manuva	Juggle Tings Proper
Run D.M.C.	It's Like That
Sade	Why Can't We Live Together
Saturna	I've Got A Gun & I'm Gonna Use It On My Friends
Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler	Ballad of the Green Berets
Pete Seeger	Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
Pete Seeger	Ballad of the Fort Hood Three
Pete Seeger	Bring 'Em Home
Seize the Day	United States
Sigue Sigue Sputnik	Love Missile F1-11
Simon and Garfunkel	7 O'Clock News/Silent Night
Simon and Garfunkel	Sounds of Silence
Simon and Garfunkel	Scarborough Fair
Slayer	Behind the Crooked Cross
Slayer	Mandatory Suicide
Sleater-Kinney	Combat Rock
Slovo	21 Today
Stephan Smith	Business
Stephan Smith, Pete Seeger	I Will Not Fight Your War
Sonic Youth	Youth Against Fascism
Soylent Gringo	Let's Start a War
Bruce Springsteen	Born in the USA
Bruce Springsteen	The Rising
Edwin Starr	War
Edwin Starr	Stop the War Now
Cat Stevens	Lady D'Arbanville
Cat Stevens	Peace Train
Cat Stevens	Peace Train (newer version coming out)
Sting	Russians
The Strokes	New York Cops
Sun Ra	Nuclear War
System of a Down	A.D.D. (American Dream Denial)
System of a Down	Boom!
Talking Heads	Life During Wartime
Steven Taylor	Go Down, Congress
The Temptations	Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)
10,000 Maniacs	Big Parade
The The	Infected
The The	Sweet Bird of Truth
Timbuk 3	The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades
Tone Def	BushWhack
Torben & Jo	Money is Your Blood
Total War	This is Total War
John Trudell	Bombs Over Baghdad
U2	Bullet the Sky
U2	Sunday Bloody Sunday
Ultravox	Dancing With Tears in my Eyes
Underworld	Underneath the Radar
The Unpeople	The Unpeople
Michael Veitch	Pledging Allegiance
Voices and Minna Bromberg	Wake Up
Anne Waldman	Rogue State
Johnny Warman	Screaming Jets
The What	Revolution
The Who	Won't Get Fooled Again
Wildman	Like a Wave
Williams	Happy Easter (War is Coming)
Saul Williams	Not In My Name (DJ Spooky Remix)
Saul Williams and DJ Spooky	The Pledge to Resist
Stevie Wonder	Front Line
World Party	Ship of Fools
XTC	Living Through Another Cuba
Yo La Tengo	Nuclear War
Neil Young	Ohio
Neil Young	Cortez the Killer
Youngbloods	Get Together
Frank Zappa	I Don't Wanna Get Drafted
Tom Ze	Companheiro Bush

[JDog1892]

You forgot "Regulate" by Warren G.

[Tsar Chasm]

War Child - Cranberries
War Song - Culture Club

[Scorpio]

Your Audioslave song was originally done by Elvis Costello.

[DVDealer]

I have here both the covers and the originals (Elvis Costello is listed). Songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" are listed for three different artists. Many of these songs it is worth noting those who perform them as well as who wrote them.

Added War Child and War Song. Thanks.

Help me out with "Regulate". I'm looking at the lyrics and am not seeing the connection to war protest themes. There are many here that referring to war very allegorically or peripherally so, don't want to exclude it if it is relevant.

[Scorpio]

Guns N' Roses - Civil War
Metallica - Back to the Front, One and Killing Time.

[DVDealer]

Scorpio... Added them, thanks. I think "Back to the Front" was actually "Disposable Heroes", correct?

[Cornholio]

these are not war songs but there peace songs

operation ivy - plea for peace

anti flag - 911 for peace

[JDog1892]

just a joke dude. Regulate is not an anti-war song. It is kick-ass rap song though.

[db27]

Originally posted by Scorpio

Metallica - Back to the Front, One and Killing Time.

Metallica - Back to the Front; this song is actually called "Disposable Heroes" and "Killing Time" is a cover, a band called Sweet Savage wrote it originally.


And for what it's worth, many of Metallica's songs are based on and around war, some more directly than others.

...And Justice For All
One
Disposable Heroes
Phantom Lord
Seek and Destroy
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Creeping Death - historical Egyptian content
Don't Tread on Me

just to name a few

lots of their songs also include many references to oppression and what-not which also ties in to the themes of this war.

[Rogue588]

Lenny Kravitz with Kazem Al Sahir -- "We Want Peace" http://rockthevote.org/

DJ Shadow & Zach de la Rocha -- "March Of Death" http://www.marchofdeath.com/

These might be on your list already..[It's barely readable without some sort of magnifying device..]

BTW...where's the Audioslave version of [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding..?

[tor_greg]

Life During Wartime isn't a Green Day song, it's Pinhead Gunpowder. Same lead singer.

[DVDealer]

Originally posted by tor_greg
Life During Wartime isn't a Green Day song, it's Pinhead Gunpowder. Same lead singer.

According to this link, Aaron Elliot and Pinhead Gunpowder did the lyrics but Green Day just posted this song to various web sites. I'll put a link for both in here. Also noted that Talking Heads had another title by the same name...

http://www.nme.com/news/104609.htm

[fallow]

I was under the impression that "Life During Wartime" is a Talking Heads song....

[Josh-da-man]

On the heavy metal tip, I can think of these:

Slayer, "Mandatory Suicide", from the album "South of Heaven"
Slayer, "Behind the Crooked Cross," from the album "South of Heaven"
Metal Church, "Method to Your Madness," from the album "The Dark"
Iron Maiden, "2 Minutes to Midnight," from the album "Powerslave"

[tor_greg]

Wow, an acoustic version of Life During Wartime. It really is a Pinhead Gunpowder tune, though. It's on the album Goodbye, Elston Ave. Thanks for pointing me towards this new version, though.

[Mistoffeleez]

john lennon
i dont want to be a soldier

the doors
peace frogs

eric burden
war, spill the wine (?)

grand funk railroad
gimme shelter
paranoid
people, lets stop the war
freedom is for children
don't let them take your gun

pride & glory
harvester of pain
horse called war
machine gun man

lynyrd skynyrd
four walls of raiford (about a vietnam vet)

cry of love
peace pipe

the byrds
draft morning

[fallow]

Umm, I'm not very familiar with his work, but it wouldn't surprise me if Cat Stephens has a fair amount of protest songs.

[DVDealer]

Originally posted by fallow
Umm, I'm not very familiar with his work, but it wouldn't surprise me if Cat Stephens has a fair amount of protest songs.

Cat Stevens is already mentioned here a few times. I've not looked through his work extensively, but his most popular song ("Peace Train") is mentioned here, and it is noted that he is in the process of writing a newer revision of that for today's events.

Cat Stevens does have what some might consider a black eye in his history for his echoing of the Ayatollah's call to take out Salman Rushdie for bad-mouthing Islam in The Satanic Verses, since Cat Stevens had converted to Islam earlier.

Someone let me know if there are some more of his tunes that fit this category.

[slop101]

Ocean Colour Scene: "(No) Profit In Peace"