a song about how endless war really is endless

(2021)
Primo singolo estratto dall'album di prossima pubblicazione "The War to End All Wars", un concept sulla Prima guerra mondiale.

Nel Natale del 1914 ci furono varie tregue non autorizzate , i soldati dei due fonti fraternizzarono , cantarono , parteciparono a funzioni religiose comuni , giocarono a calcio.

[1994]
Scritta da Beastie Boys, Mario Caldato Jr. e Mark Ramos-Nishita
Nell'album "Ill Communication"
Testo trovato su www.beastieboysannotated.com

(2018)
Album: Virtue

Un pezzo definito glam metal in cui Julian Casablanca sfoggia una voce alla Ozzy Osbourne. Le piramidi di ossa sono quelle su cui si fondano gli Stati Uniti, con lo sterminio dei nativi americani e lo sfruttamento degli schiavi neri. Bellissimo il video.

(1991)
naturalmente da Nevermind, lo storico secondo album dei Nirvana



La canzone si apre con una citazione di Let's Get Together, famosa canzone hippie pacifista, in un'interpretazione improvvisata e alquanto alticcia di Krist Novoselic.

[1978]
Nell'EP di debutto "An Ideal For Living", quando forse il gruppo si chiamava ancora Warsaw
Testo trovato su Genius

[1978]
Nell'EP di debutto "An Ideal For Living", quando forse il gruppo si chiamava ancora Warsaw
Testo trovato su [[|Genius]]

[1971]
Kay Reynolds

2021
Not in my name

(2021)
Title Track del nuovo album della cantante di "r'n'b psichedelico" Greentea Peng, una delle migliori protagoniste della scena londinese contemporanea

[1970]
Scritta da Chuck Brucato
Title track dell'album del 1970, su Rare Earth, sotto-etichetta della Motown Records
Si trattava di una delle non frequenti "blue-eyed soul" bands scritturate dall'etichetta di Berry Gordy.
Testo trovato su Genius

La traccia che dà il titolo ad un EP del 2007
Testo trovato sul sito ufficiale dell'autore

[2016]
Scritta da Ben Gibbard dei Death Cab for Cutie per "1.000 Days, 1.000 Songs (o "30 Days, 30 Songs", o "30 Days, 50 Songs"), progetto musicale anti-trumpiano ideato dalla scrittore Dave Eggers.
Testo trovato su Genius

2018
King Charles

The opening track from YUNGBLUD’s self-titled EP gets its name from King Charles I of England, a monarch over England, Scotland and Ireland from 1625 until he was executed in 1649.

King Charles is often viewed as a tyrant due to his belief that he could govern according to his own conscience and no other sources. Many of his subjects disagreed with his policies, particularly his levying of taxes without consent from parliament.

2018
21st Century Liability

Filled with frustrations, “Machine Gun (F*** the NRA)” is an upbeat track that relates to public shoot out which has been highly increasing in the USA. In the song, YUNGBLUD also points how the government quickly blamed mental health for the increasing shoot outs.

2018
The Great War

2014 was the centenary of the “war to end all wars” and I had the idea to compose some music around the subject. Rather than just release one song or EP in 2014, I decided it would be an interesting concept to release one song a year, from 2014 to 2018 that, combined, would form one (longer) piece of music.

In 2018 Bad Elephant approached me with the idea of releasing the project as a full album and this opportunity has allowed me to re-record and reinterpret the songs I had written since 2014 and also include some additional ones, the end result being The Great War album.

2018
The Great War

2014 was the centenary of the “war to end all wars” and I had the idea to compose some music around the subject. Rather than just release one song or EP in 2014, I decided it would be an interesting concept to release one song a year, from 2014 to 2018 that, combined, would form one (longer) piece of music.

In 2018 Bad Elephant approached me with the idea of releasing the project as a full album and this opportunity has allowed me to re-record and reinterpret the songs I had written since 2014 and also include some additional ones, the end result being The Great War album.

2018
The Great War

2014 was the centenary of the “war to end all wars” and I had the idea to compose some music around the subject. Rather than just release one song or EP in 2014, I decided it would be an interesting concept to release one song a year, from 2014 to 2018 that, combined, would form one (longer) piece of music.

In 2018 Bad Elephant approached me with the idea of releasing the project as a full album and this opportunity has allowed me to re-record and reinterpret the songs I had written since 2014 and also include some additional ones, the end result being The Great War album.

2018
The Great War

2014 was the centenary of the “war to end all wars” and I had the idea to compose some music around the subject. Rather than just release one song or EP in 2014, I decided it would be an interesting concept to release one song a year, from 2014 to 2018 that, combined, would form one (longer) piece of music.

In 2018 Bad Elephant approached me with the idea of releasing the project as a full album and this opportunity has allowed me to re-record and reinterpret the songs I had written since 2014 and also include some additional ones, the end result being The Great War album.

2016
1916

1916 was written about the Battle of the Somme which was fought between 1st July and 18th November 1916 and was the largest battle of the Great War fought on the Western Front. More than one million men were killed or wounded during the battle, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history…

2015
1915

1915 has been released on the centenary of the first use by British forces of gas as a weapon of war at the Battle of Loos. The horrific effects of gas warfare was immortalised in Wilfred Owen's poem Dulce et Decorum est, which is referenced in this song.

2011
Lost Causes

2012

[2009]
Nell'album "Troubadour"
Testo trovato su Genius

In realtà Soomaaliya, che Somalia è italianizzazione coloniale...

1974
Album: Late For The Sky

La fine dell'utopia hippie? Il mondo sull'orlo dell'apocalisse nucleare o ecologica? Una metafora della perdita dell'idealismo nel diventare vecchi? In ogni caso una bellissima canzone.

(1968)
Single
The Jamaicans With Tommy McCook – Peace And Love

The song "Peace and Love" (Treasure Isle Records # TI-7037) is a collaboration between The Jamaicans (a rocksteady group formed in 1966 in Jamaica) and Tommy McCook (reggae artist, born 3 March 1927, La Habana, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba, died 5 May 1998, Atlanta, Georgia, USA).

It took a strong anti-war position, saying that the leaders were focused on war, but that the "people of the world" want "love peace and love". It pleaded with the government: "don't send my brothers to Vietnam", and looked at the impact on families: "don't let...mothers mourn, don't let my father know the pain". Released in Kingston, Jamaica.

Vietnam War Song Project

The song "I'm an Australian – 20 Years Old" also featured in The Vietnam Songbook, although no recording from the time has been found yet. The song took a comedic approach to a 21 year old caught-up in major court case for resisting the draft. It started out with the man going down to the barracks, lighting a cigarette, and his "call-up papers accidently caught on fire". Misinterpreted as a deliberate act, the "C.N.D. embraced me" - a reference to the protest group the Committee for Nuclear Disarmament, while the other side "called me a traitor".

Vietnam War Song Project

(1966)

Clem Parkinson, contemporary folk artist, born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He wrote the song "Kevin Conway", about the first Australian casualty in the Vietnam War.

Conway, born 11 December 1928, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, was a Warrant Officer Class 2, with the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam. He was killed in action (K.I.A.), in the Battle of Nam Dong, South Vietnam on 6 July 1964, aged 35 years, buried at Kranji War Cemetery in Singapore. His remains were repatriated to Australia 2nd June 2016.

Vietnam War Song Project

from Broadside Magazine #103 (Dec. 1969)

Sul massacro di My Lay vedi Everybody's Got A Right To Live

Album: Side Trips
1967
Written By – C. Darrow

Tex Morton, a country artist born Robert William Lane on 30 August 1916 in Nelson, New Zealand. He died 23 July 1983 in Sydney, NSW, Australia. He released several records under the nickname The Yodelling Boundary Rider.

The song "21st Birthday" dealt with the Vietnam War, looking at the home front perspective, of the parents of a soldier killed in action (K.I.A.). The song was released in 1967 on single: 21st Birthday (Columbia (EMI) # DO-4785).

The song told of the soldier's friends arriving at his parents house to celebrate his 21st birthday, unaware of what had happened. A closer look at the shelf with letters and "you'll see a draft card... the nice letter and the medal they sent". The father concluded that: "our boy full of love has died now of hate" - which perhaps leans towards the anti-war side of the debate.

Vietnam War Song Project

1966
Single: Vietnam Cries U.S.A

(1966)
Testo trovato su Vietnam War Song Project

Un blues un po' straniante ma estremamente chiaro. Non voglio andare nel Vietnam del sud, non voglio ammazzare i vietnamiti, datemi un lavoro qua a casa mia.

(1966)

Band di garage rock formata da cinque soldati americani spediti in una qualche base militare in Germania Ovest. Dal loro unico LP, Black Monk Time, proviene questa Complication che al ritmo di una marcia militare accusa il governo di madare la gente a morire in guerra. Fedeli al nome del gruppo, i cinque si presentavano in scena vestiti da monaci.

1966

The country song "What the..." (Is a Going on in Washington)" (Nugget Records # NR 247), by Bob Withers, is narrated from the position of a soldier in the war zone, who feared for his life: "here I sit in Vietnam...sent half around this world to die". Is this song criticising US politicians over the Vietnam War, or is it an attack on the protest movement? It included the line: "All these people were our friends not long ago, they fought Hitler, Mussolini, and Tōjō" - this could be a reference to the Vietnamese - a former World War Two ally, who had helped the US against Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), and Tōjō (Japan)? Or perhaps it is an attack on the draft card burners and protester in Washington (as it included the line: "some guys have burnt their draft cards up at home, don't send them here") - who may have backed or agreed with the cause of the Second World War,... (Continues)

1995
Dirty Rotten Shame


What happened when Shane MacGowan met Ronnie Drew back in the ’90s? Well, a few things happened, but here’s one thing ye might not know about. Let’s take a trip back through time, but not one that will bore you.

Back in the day, Ronnie Drew was makin’ a solo record called Dirty Rotten Shame. He was short of a few songs, so he contacted the ol’ legend himself, Shane MacGowan. Shane sent him a song he’d written, called The Dunes.

Like most of MacGowan’s work, it’s a beautiful piece of music, and it shines a light on the ugly side of life. On one of Ireland’s toughest times. The Famine of 1845-52.

The Great Hunger
I walked today on the cold grey shore
Where I watched when I was much younger
Where they built the dunes upon the sand
For the dead from The Great Hunger.

Those are the first lines Ronnie sings in the song. It sets the scene of the terrible famine... (Continues)

Mansell composed the song "The S.S. Vancouver", although no recording has been identified at the moment. The lyrics of this song featured in The Vietnam Songbook published in 1969, and compiled by Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber (founders of Paredon Records) - containing 100+ Vietnam War protest songs, 9 of which came from Australia & New Zealand.



According to the notes in the book:

"this song was written in 1965 on the arrival of the U.S.S. Vancouver in Australia".

The title dropped the "U", leaving just the "S.S.", a reference to the infamous Nazi paramilitary group. The U.S.S. Vancouver (LPD-2) was an amphibious transport dock, commissioned on 11 May 1963, and deployed at various point in the Vietnam War. In April, 1965, it departed Huế, South Vietnam, having off-loaded marines there. It arrived in Sydney on 1 May 1965, taking part in the The Battle of the Coral Sea commemoration,... (Continues)

(1964)
Incisa da Gary Shearston e da Trevor Lucas

1966
Album: Gary Shearston - Sings His Songs



lyrics from Vietnam War Song Project (#19)

(1965)
Album: Australian Broadside
Lyrics by Mona Brand
Music by Gary Shearston

According to the album notes, written by Edgar Walter (1965), the first song "Twenty Summers" was composed by Mona Brand: "Twenty Summers: Mona Brand's words were written as a comment on the recent decision to conscript young Australians for military service overseas. But they are a protest not so much against that decision in itself, as against all warfare.
The melody is by Gary Shearston".

Mona Brand was a theatre playwright, who taught English in Hanoi with her husband Len Fox in the 1950s.

It told the story of a young man, 20 years old, drafted to war: "Johnny is called for a soldier today". His father died in a previous war: "rain in the jungle when Johnny was born, the day that his father lay dying at dawn".

Vietnam War Song Project - #17

[1984]
Bruce Calderwood / Lawrence Falconi / Russell Wilkinson / Stephen Depace
Album / Albumi: Blow'n Chunks


Il "Canale dell'Amore"
Copiaincolla attivo da it.wikipedia
Here in English
Ici en français

Love Canal è un quartiere della città di Niagara Falls sorto su di un canale artificiale (il Love Canal, costruito nel 1890 dall'imprenditore William T. Love) adibito dal 1920 a discarica di rifiuti urbani ed industriali, definitivamente interrato nel 1953. Nel 1954 iniziò la lottizzazione con la costruzione delle scuole e del quartiere; solo alla fine degli anni settanta venne resa pubblica la contaminazione a cui erano esposti i residenti e dal 1978 iniziò l'evacuazione dell'area, che fu definitivamente chiusa nel 2004 in seguito ad un'opera di confinamento e bonifica.

Il canale artificiale Love Canal

Il Love Canal deve il suo nome a William T. Love che nel 1890 avviò un'impresa... (Continues)

(1993)
dal secondo album della band di Seattle, Vs.

W.M.A. sta per White American Male (maschio bianco americano), una categoria evidentemente privilegiata negli Stati Uniti. Secondo il censimento del 2013 il reddito medio dei neri è solo il 56% di quello dei bianchi. Inoltre i neri hanno una probabilità sei volte più alta di finire in carcere e un afroamericano maschio su sei è stato in prigione almeno una volta.

Queste differenze si riflettono anche sul trattamento diverso che la polizia riserva agli afroamericani. Vedder racconta l'episodio che ha ispirato il testo: uscendo dallo studio di registrazione vestito male e sporco, si ritrova con un amico nero, che invece era vestito in maniera impeccabile, ma i poliziotti che passano per un controllo ignorano completamente Vedder in quanto bianco, mentre infastidiscono l'amico trattandolo come un criminale.

Nel libretto dell'album,... (Continues)

(2019)
album: Grey Area
feat. Little Dragon

2021
la traccia che apre l'ultimo album della rapper londinese, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
feat. Cleo Sol (Sault)

«Introvert è un saggio viscerale dedicato alle persone nel mirino della società – dice la nota stampa – con le vite alimentate da paura, esaurimento nervoso, frustrazione e da una specie di infuocato risveglio politico». Il brano testimonia l’obbietto di Simz di osservare «il caos e disordine del mondo con gli occhi pieni di risorse» e denota una grande ambizione; basti ascoltare l’arrangiamento sfarzoso con tanto di fanfara, cavalcate d’archi e coro messianico a contrappuntare un bridge a contrasto dall’eleganza soul.

Diretto da Salomon Ligthelm, il bellissimo videoclip di Introvert alterna bianco e nero, colori, video di repertorio, sequenze di ballo in varie location (storiche e contemporanee) e scorci su quadri neoclassici. La potenza del testo di Little Simz si riversa... (Continues)

[1968]
Scritta da George Harrison
Con Eric Clapton alla chitarra solista

The Eastern concept is that whatever happens is all meant to be ... every little item that's going down has a purpose. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was a simple study based on that theory ... I picked up a book at random, opened it, saw "gently weeps", then laid the book down again and started the song.

– George Harrison

Harrison registrò il demo originale con chitarra acustica solista e organo; questa versione contiene una strofa in più di quella ufficiale, e può essere ascoltata nell'album Anthology 3. Una versione riarrangiata, con archi scritti da George Martin, è nella raccolta Love. Eric Clapton, buon amico di George Harrison, suonò l'assolo di chitarra nella versione ufficiale con una Gibson Les Paul, mentre al Concert for Bangladesh eseguì l'assolo su una Gibson Byrdland.

La presenza di Eric Clapton... (Continues)

(2021)
dalla serie televisiva "We The People"

"We The People" è una serie televisiva sui diritti dei cittadini raccontati attraverso canzoni e video di animazioni. La canzone di Brandi Carlile è dedicata al Primo emendamento della Costituzione degli Stati Uniti che sancisce la libertà di parola e la separazione tra Stato e Religione.

"c'è solo un muro costruito con saggezza / è il muro tra la Chiesa e lo Stato°