Best songs about World War I

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The Zombies: Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)
The Kinks: Yes Sir, No Sir
The Pogues: And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (I know that's a cover but I've only heard this)

I'm sure there are more.

zeus, Sunday, 29 March 2009 16:41 (sixteen years ago)

sex clark five 'sarajevo'

keythkeythkeyth, Sunday, 29 March 2009 17:13 (sixteen years ago)

Not my list; can't vouch for it:

http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=103995&show=25&start=0

Because it's on the album Paris 1919, "Half Past France" strikes one as a WWI song, but it's likely actually a WWII song.

M.V., Sunday, 29 March 2009 17:16 (sixteen years ago)

A Pair of Brown Eyes, kinda....

sonofstan, Sunday, 29 March 2009 17:20 (sixteen years ago)

isn't there an entire piano magic album about WWI?

keythkeythkeyth, Sunday, 29 March 2009 17:22 (sixteen years ago)

Motorhead: 1916

kornrulez6969, Sunday, 29 March 2009 17:38 (sixteen years ago)

Iron Maiden, "Paschendale"

Euler, Sunday, 29 March 2009 17:44 (sixteen years ago)

Brother Can You Spare A Dime (plenty of versions):

Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell,
Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum,
Half a million boots went slogging through Hell,
And I was the kid with the drum!

xhuxk, Sunday, 29 March 2009 17:48 (sixteen years ago)

Along the same lines, "Remember My Forgotten Man"; the version I know, on the Poor Man's Heaven compilation of Great Depression songs, is by somebody named George Hall. (I always think of the forgotten man as being the forgotten boy from the Stooges' "Search and Destroy," a few wars early.)

xhuxk, Sunday, 29 March 2009 17:56 (sixteen years ago)

"Green Fields Of France," Dropkick Murphys (and plenty of Irishmen before them, I imagine)
"Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron," the Royal Guardsmen

xhuxk, Sunday, 29 March 2009 18:27 (sixteen years ago)

"Dough Boy Joe," MX-80 Sound

xhuxk, Sunday, 29 March 2009 18:33 (sixteen years ago)

Home Lads, Home. I'm sure I must have heard a recorded version of it, but I can't remember by whom - it used to be sung a lot in pubs round my way. Along with The Pogues' version of And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda one of the few songs that can actually make me cry, oh and To NK Roachment: Yarbles by The Fall for some reason, although that's not a First World War song as far as I know.

Lyrics here -

http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiRESTHORS.html

The original words to "Home Lands Home" were written by a Hampshire
Soldier during the First World War. Sarah [Morgan] found them in a
magazine, edited them, and wrote a tune.

Abbe Black Tentacle (GamalielRatsey), Sunday, 29 March 2009 18:43 (sixteen years ago)

Oh god, there's a terrible folky version of it on YouTube. Tune is just about recognizable, but my memory of it is an old bloke called Den singing and everyone joining in the chorus. Stirring stuff.

Abbe Black Tentacle (GamalielRatsey), Sunday, 29 March 2009 18:49 (sixteen years ago)

I'd like to pretend that The Fiery Furnaces' "1917" is about WWI, but I think it's actually about baseball

Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Sunday, 29 March 2009 18:51 (sixteen years ago)

A themed album of dream pop / chamber pop about WWI:

http://lh4.ggpht.com/xiaoyemaoflm/R-Jv49xq4UI/AAAAAAAAD7g/udo6zJaHRsI/s800/R-439756-1122817708.jpg

The best track:

derelict, Sunday, 29 March 2009 21:08 (sixteen years ago)

Robert Palmer - "Somme Guys Have All the Luck"

Vanessa del Rio Ferdinand (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 March 2009 21:12 (sixteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_There

you never hmm (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 29 March 2009 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

xhuxk, Sunday, 29 March 2009 21:44 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

Poptimists discussion about the same topic:

http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/712553.html?view=14354025#t14354025

xhuxk, Thursday, 6 August 2009 15:16 (sixteen years ago)

Brecht/Weill/Eisler to thread

Aw naw, no' Annoni oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 August 2009 15:17 (sixteen years ago)


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