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Love, Peace and War songs, 1960's/1970's

catch22catch22
edited January 12 in Off-Topic
When I was still young, I had finished 4 years in the USAF in 1971. I had new work in 1971; affording both very good pay and some extra time. I had a lot of audio equipment and access to a large collection of records; besides my own collection. Among other other music, I put together 2 reel to reel tapes, named; Love, Peace and War. The mix of songs fits the title.
Many here will have mixed emotions from similar songs of the period that remain fixed in the brain.

We are at war again.....

I offer one of those songs below to start the list. Sixty years later, many of the songs reflect the same broad meanings.

For What It's Worth, Buffalo Springfield, 1966/1967, with lyrics
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  • DrVenture
    edited January 12
    Alway appreciate FWIW.

    I'll see you, and raise you one Fortunate Son. Of course, a cover.


  • DrVenture
    edited January 12
    Colonel Kurtz certainly is reminiscent of a certain someone. So, as heard in Apocalypse Now, arguably an anti-war story:

    Let us hope that The End is near for someone.
  • DrVenture
    edited January 12
    OHIO

    Live. This one hits hard right now.
  • CrashCrash
    Ohio. Indeed!
    How about the... "Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag." Country Joe & The Fish.

  • DrVenture
    War Pigs

  • DrVenture
    edited January 13
    This hits all the buttons - Love, Peace and War

    Nothing has changed.

  • DrVenture
    edited January 13
    Well we're dropping our bombs
    In the southern hemisphere
    And people are starving
    That live right here
    And they're tearing down walls
    In the name of peace
    And they're killing each other
    In the middle east
    But love and happiness
    Have forgotten our names
    And there's no value left
    In love and happiness
    They raise the price of oil
    And they censor our mouths
    If you are a young couple today
    Forget buying a house
    And we wage our wars
    In the neighborhoods
    We kill the young to feed the old
    And men that ain't no good
    Yeah, but love and happiness
    Have forgotten our names
    And there's no value left
    In love and happiness
    So if you sell arms
    Or if you run dope
    You got respect
    And you got hope
    But the rest of us die
    On your battle fields
    With wounds that fester and bleed
    But never heal
    Yeah love and happiness
    Have forgotten our names
    And there's no value left
    In love and happiness
    And love and happiness
    Yeah love and happiness
    Have forgotten our names
    And there's no value left
    In love and happiness
  • CrashCrash
    Whoa. ON TARGET.

    ...I've also learned to like "War Pigs," too. Here's the iteration from Gov't Mule:
  • Observant1
    Crash said:

    Whoa. ON TARGET.

    ...I've also learned to like "War Pigs," too. Here's the iteration from Gov't Mule:

    I haven't previously heard this version of "War Pigs."
    I like it. Thanks!
  • DrVenture
    edited January 13
    A friend of mine turned me on to this recently, while on the subject
    The Main Squeeze is essentially the ultimate cover band.

  • catch22catch22
    edited January 13
    War Pigs, the original version was on the reel to reel tapes. This song in particular, left nothing to be discovered; regarding the military and those in command during the 'war' of the period. I recall playing this song to friends who hadn't heard the song; and noting to really listen to the words. Most of them were 'damn'. The song changed some to appreciate another view point.
  • CrashCrash
    edited January 13
    +1.

    A.I.: "War Pigs" is an anti-war protest song by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, serving as the opening track on their second studio album, Paranoid, released in 1970.
    The song was inspired by the Vietnam War, which was ongoing at the time, and reflects the band's opposition to war, particularly the involvement of political leaders who initiate conflicts while avoiding the dangers themselves.
  • CrashCrash
    Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock." Performed by CSN&Y. (1971. Was it on the Deja Vu album?)

    Woodstock was in '69, of course.


  • CrashCrash
    Joni Mitchell: "Woodstock."
    Remember? Arlo took the mike and informed everyone: "The NY State Thruway is CLOSED, man!"
  • DrVenture
    edited January 13
    Closest that I ever came to anything that big was the Super Bowl of Rock at Soldier's Field in Chicago July 1977. I was 17 years old. 70,000 people to see 38 Special, Lynyrd Skynyrd, REO Speedwagon, Ted Nugent & Journey. We got in line at 3:00am and entered at 8:00am. There was plenty of LSD though, so not too unlike Woodstock. We were sitting in the center of the field for the music. Skynyrd crashed that year in October.

    SBR2
  • CrashCrash
    I was 15 in '69. But I did get to the Watkins Glen thing. The Band, Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers. 28 July, '73. Nineteenth birthday. Took the parents' station wagon.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Jam_at_Watkins_Glen
  • CrashCrash
    edited January 13
    We just lost Bob Weir. "Uncle John's Band."
  • catch22catch22
    Another from the reel to reel tracks. One of my all time favorite progressive, rock bands, with overwhelming talent. A large gift, they gave to this/their music period.

    Chicago, Where Do We Go From Here, 1970, w/lyrics
  • CrashCrash
    Written by Peter Cetera. I remember him! Lots of stuff in the '80s. Duets with the ladies: Cher, Amy Grant. (So gorgeous, A.G. I wanted to have her children. I first was introduced to her through her contemporary religious music.)
  • catch22catch22
    Recalling sitting at a picnic table in the summer of 1965 (graduation year) and enjoying this new song from The Rolling Stone, named 'I Can't Get No Satisfaction'. A great beat, a common and simple theme; and great on the radio driving music. Much of America was still a "Pleasant Valley Sunday', the Monkees; not yet having a true understanding of the war of my time, Vietnam. Four years later, The Stones have moved from 'Satisfaction' to 'War'. My world, as with so many others had changed in ways we could not have guessed about in the summer of 1965.

    Gimme Shelter, The Stones, 1969, w/lyrics
  • CrashCrash
    Yessir!
  • DrVenture
    edited January 14
    Not a big Monkeys fan, but always liked the ironic surrealism of Pleasant Valley Sunday. Carole King and her songwriting partner wrote that.

    Neil Diamond wrote 4 songs for The Monkeys, including "I'm a Believer".
  • CrashCrash
    DrVenture said:

    Not a big Monkeys fan, but always liked the ironic surrealism of Pleasant Valley Sunday. Carole King and her songwriting partner wrote that.

    Neil Diamond wrote 4 songs for The Monkeys, including "I'm a Believer".

    And Jon Stewart's "Daydream Believer" was a big hit for them, as well as Nova Scotian Anne Murray. TALL drink 'o' water.
  • CrashCrash
    edited January 14
    "Eve Of Destruction:" Barry McGuire. (Sorry if this is a repeat.)
  • AnnaAnna
    Timeless and always will be.
    Lyrics
    The Eastern world, it is explodin'
    Violence flarin', bullets loadin'
    You're old enough to kill but not for votin'
    You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'?
    And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin'
    But you tell me
    Over and over and over again, my friend
    How you don't believe
    We're on the eve of destruction
    Don't you understand what I'm trying to say
    Can't you feel the fears I'm feeling today?
    If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away
    There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave
    Take a look around you boy, it's bound to scare you, boy
    And you tell me
    Over and over and over again, my friend
    How you don't believe
    We're on the eve of destruction
    Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin'
    I'm sittin' here just contemplatin'
    I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation
    Handful of senators don't pass legislation
    And marches alone can't bring integration
    When human respect is disintegratin'
    This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'
    And you tell me
    Over and over and over again, my friend
    How you don't believe
    We're on the eve of destruction
    And think of all the hate there is in Red China
    Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama
    Ah, you may leave here for four days in space
    But when you return, it's the same old place
    The poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace
    You can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace
    Hate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace
    And you tell me
    Over and over and over and over again, my friend
    You don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
    No no, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
  • DrVenture
    edited January 15
    Yep, truly a great one from Barry Maguire! @Anna

    Exceptional lyrics.
  • DrVenture
    Crash said:

    DrVenture said:

    Not a big Monkeys fan, but always liked the ironic surrealism of Pleasant Valley Sunday. Carole King and her songwriting partner wrote that.

    Neil Diamond wrote 4 songs for The Monkeys, including "I'm a Believer".

    And Jon Stewart's "Daydream Believer" was a big hit for them, as well as Nova Scotian Anne Murray. TALL drink 'o' water.

    Being from Nova Scotia, brings subtle meaning to her song "Snowbird".
  • DrVenture
    edited January 15
    I suppose some might not realize that this is an anti-war song.

  • DrVenture
    One of my favorite songs of this genre.

    Lady In Black

    She came to me one morning, one lonely Sunday morning
    Her long hair flowing in the mid-winter wind
    I know not how she found me, for in darkness I was walking
    And destruction lay around me, from a fight I could not win

    [Chorus]
    Ahh-ah-ahh-ah-ah-ahh-ah-ah-ahh
    Ahh-ah-ah ahh-ah-ah ahh

    [Verse 2]
    She asked me name my foes then, I said the need within some men
    To fight and kill their brothers, without thought of love or god
    And I begged her give me horses, to trample down my enemies
    So eager was my passion to devour this waste of life

    [Chorus]
    Ahh-ah-ahh-ah-ah-ahh-ah-ah-ahh
    Ahh-ah-ah ahh-ah-ah ahh

    [Verse 3]
    But she would not think of battle, that, reduces men to animals
    So easy to begin and yet impossible to end
    For she the mother of all men had counselled me so wisely then
    I feared to walk alone again and asked if she would stay

    [Chorus]
    Ahh-ah-ahh-ah-ah-ahh-ah-ah-ahh
    Ahh-ah-ah ahh-ah-ah ahh

    [Verse 4]
    "Oh lady lend your hand," I cried, "oh let me rest here at your side"
    "Have faith and trust in me," she said, and filled my heart with life
    "There is no strength in numbers, have no such misconception
    But when you need me, be assured I won't be far away"

    [Chorus]
    Ahh-ah-ahh-ah-ah-ahh-ah-ah-ahh
    Ahh-ah-ah ahh-ah-ah ahh

    [Verse 5]
    Thus having spoke she turned away, and though I found no words to say
    I stood and watched until I saw her black cloak disappear
    My labour is no easier, but now I know I'm not alone
    I'll find new heart each time I think upon that windy day
    And if one day she comes to you, drink deeply from her words so wise
    Take courage from her as your prize, and say hello for me
  • DrVenture
    edited January 15
    In a different era, this would have been an epic poem. Sublime guitar, horn and string work.

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