Songs to be put on High Rotation during the Gulf war

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The following songs should all be put on High Rotation during the Gulf War:

John Lennon: "Imagine"
Bob Dylan: "Masters Of War"
Bob Dylan: "Blowin' In The Wind"
Dire Straits: "Brothers In Arms"
Country Joe & The Fish: "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag"
Johnny Hates Jazz: "I Don't Want To Be a Hero"
Nik Kershaw: "I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me"
Captain Sensible: "Glad It's All Over"
Outkast: "Bombs Over Bagdhad"
Prefab Sprout: "The Sound Of Crying"
Edwin Starr: "War"
Rolling Stones: "Highwire"
Barry McGuire: "Eve Of Destruction"

Any others?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

rotterdam termination source - "poing"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

low - things we lost in the fire

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Please don't let "Imagine" be one of them. And none of those 60's protest songs either. They have lost their meaning thanks to nostalgic baby boomers.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

i dunno, "masters of war" and "blowin in the wind" still did it for me last night (and i almost lost it during "a hard rains gonna fall")

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't share your problems with the baby-boomers. If Bill Clinton (a baby-boomer, very much a child of the radical 60s) had still been president, then there would have been no war.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

black sabbath: "war pigs"
jimi hendrix: "machine gun"

those should be on heavy rotation regardless of military actions.

― otto midnight, Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

If I see another reference to that Prefab Sprout song I'm killing
Jesus.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Killdozer, "Turkey Shoot"

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't share your problems with the baby-boomers. If Bill Clinton (a baby-boomer, very much a child of the radical 60s) had still been president, then there would have been no war.

He had no compunctions about bombing Iraq in 1998, so I'm not sure you're right there, Geir.

To answer the question, 'Sweet bird of truth' by The The.

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Smashing Pumpkins "Tales of Scorched Earth"
NoMeansNo "Kill Everyone Now"
Van Halen "Light Up the Sky"

― dave q, Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

dave you might want to pull back on the schtick for the time being

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

If I see another reference to that Prefab Sprout song I'm killing
Jesus.

Well who am I to tell you how to run your business
Man, you could strike me blind
What kind of noise we goota make down here
Before we destroy your peace of mind

R.I.P. Jesus. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 20 March 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Men's Recovery Project - Working for the Mossad
Men's Recovery Project - In the Eunich's Wine Cellar
Men's Recovery Project - In Khartoum
Men's Recovery Project - New Years Eve in a Sweltering Apartment
Men's Recovery Project - The Olive Salesman
Men's Recovery Project - Boums to Zanzibar
Men's Recovery Project - Wreckage in the Empty Quarter
Men's Recovery Project - Egyptian Assassin
Men's Recovery Project - Black Albino
Men's Recovery Project - Sephardic Secrets
Men's Recovery Project - Aboard a Doomed Tunisian Frigate
Men's Recovery Project - Joy of the Drunk Turk
Men's Recovery Project - Rabble, Wretches, and Lepers
Men's Recovery Project - 3 AM on the Sunken Highway to Riyadh

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 20 March 2003 15:57 (twenty-three years ago)

And in the songs-in-the-form-of-a-question category...

System of a Down "War?"
Les McCann "Compared to What?"
Marvin Gaye "What's Going On?"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If I see another reference to that Prefab Sprout song I'm killing
Jesus.

Skunk Anansie?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My God, that Jesus guy was a tough fight. Had to poke him in the eyes a few times. Messy.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"Wardance" by Killing Joke, "Here Comes the War", "51st State" and "I Love the World" by New Model Army, "Surprise Surprise" by Cop Shoot Cop....

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

If they start playing that "Whats Going On" by todays artists, Im throwing out my tv. Play the real shit.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

My God, that Jesus guy was a tough fight. Had to poke him in the eyes a few times. Messy.
What, you killed his son, now you're bragging to him about it?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Wanna Fuck You In The Ass" - The Outhere Brothers

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Faith No More's "Surprise You're Dead" and "Small Victory" = appropriate.

And thank you Dan, I somehow forgot all about Skunk Anansie, once one of my very favorite bands...now to go dig their CD out.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

"This World Over" and "Living Through Another Cuba" by XTC, "Armageddon Days Are Here Again" and "Sweet Bird of Truth" by The The

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Drink Before the War -- Sinead O'Conner

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops I Did It Again

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

"Oochie Wally"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta - Geto Boys

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

"Drop Da Bomb" - Party Posse. Yvan Eht Nioj!

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

With such an abundance of frustrated masculinity, I'd really like to get under their nose a bit and opt for such gems (and personal faves of mine) as

*The Drowners/ Animal Nirtrate - Suede
*Nancy Boy - Placebo
*This Charming Man - The Smiths
*Joyriders - Pulp
*Cherry Lips - Garbage

Just a though (or 5).

― Calum, Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

War war is stupid
And people are stupid
And love means nothing
In some strange quarters

War war is stupid
And people are stupid
And I heard them banging
On hearts and fingers

People fill the world
With narrow confidence
Like a child at birth
A man with no defence
What's mine's my own
I won't give it to you
No matter what you say
No matter what you do

Now we're fighting
In our hearts
Fighting in the street
Won't somebody help me?
(repeat chorus)

Man is far behind
In the search for something new
Like as Philistine
We're burning witches too
This world of fate
Must be designed for you
It matters what you say
It matters what you do

Now we're fighting
In our hearts
Fighting in the street
Won't somebody help me?

(chorus)

After the bird has flown
He walked ten thousand
Miles back home

You can't do that to me,no
You can't do that to me

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 20 March 2003 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? and B.O.B. have been making the rounds in my house. also, The High Party by Ted Leo ("if there's a war, another shitty war") has been stuck in my head all week.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 20 March 2003 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

fear-Lets have a war! YAY!

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Thursday, 20 March 2003 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Bleeding hearts the lot of you. Dont you like to blow stuff up?

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Thursday, 20 March 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

"It was a turkey shoot/ That's how we won the war"

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 March 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

j williams has had a genius idea, take baghdad by playing mens recovery project to saddam's troops,they surrender to da hardcore, zero citizen fatality

― schnell schnell, Thursday, 20 March 2003 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Wolf Eyes would be better music for making Iraqis surrender.

In MY new Iraq, all the ice cream trucks will play MRP!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 20 March 2003 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Glad to see no bonehead has cited "Killing an Arab" as yet.

Why is "Bombs Over Baghdad" called that? The rest of the lyrics don't seem to have anything to do with the chorus (from what I can tell).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 March 2003 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

"If White America Told the Truth for One Day It's World Would Explode" or whatever that stupid song is called.

― Evan (Evan), Thursday, 20 March 2003 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

"Bombs Over Baghdad" is kinda about following through with shit, doing stuff all the way or not doing it at all. At least, the chorus and Andre's verse are about that. Big Boi's, well...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 20 March 2003 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

jesus lizard - the art of self-defense
minutemen - the big stick
born against - shroud
crass - yes sir i will

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 20 March 2003 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart.

Forgot about XTC's "Here Comes President Kill Again" btw...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 20 March 2003 23:13 (twenty-three years ago)