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Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others satirize war. Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole.
Songwriters use the avenue of music to make their stand on war or to inspire people to stop seeking a war. Today, we have compiled 35 powerful songs about war and anti-war to encourage those going off to war or protest against it. Read on to find out more.
- We Gotta Get Out of This Place by The Animals
- Saigon Bride by Joan Baez
- Empty Walls by Serj Tankian
- The Unknown Soldier by The Doors
- Zombie by The Cranberries
- What’s Going on by Marvin Gaye
- I Don’T Want to Go to Vietnam by John Lee Hooker
- Put Down That Weapon by Midnight Oil
- Masters of War by Bob Dylan
- Hands Held High by Linkin Park
Immensely popular with the US military during the Vietnam War, it perfectly described American sentiment during the 20-year conflict that ended in 1973. While the song had strong resonance among the US soldiers and their need to “Get out of this place,” the song was actually about pursuing a better life for the working class, but it shows you one e...
Written in protest of the Vietnam War, you wouldn’t listen to this one as a love song. The song started as a poem that Nina Druschek wrote, and Baez put it to music. The song looks at the harsh realities that soldiers faced during the war. It talks about men dying and children killed to meet the impossible missions set before them during the war. I...
One of the songs from a more modern era, Serj Tankian wrote “Empty Walls” to lambast the meaningless waste of time and effort from troops in Iraq. It talks about the pointless suffering and loss of life. Soldiers burned and hung in the town square of Baghdad to prove a point. This song has multiple meanings for the anti-war theme. Serj Tankian, the...
Despite the song’s release in 1968, The Doors didn’t write this song specifically about the Vietnam War. Especially during that time, many radio stations banned this song because of its violent anti-war message. The song examines the death of a faceless soldier and how life continues back home without a change. The song has violent themes but was p...
The Cranberries wrote this song in response to the two bombing deaths of two children in March 1993. Two devices hidden in litter bins detonated to kill three-year-old Jonathan Ball and 12-year-old Tim Perry. This song speaks to the ongoing ethnopolitical conflict in Ireland.
This song speaks about the experience that Vietnam soldiers had when they returned to the United States. Beneath the feelings of celebration, they experienced a deep uneasiness and hatred. This song especially found popularity in the African American community.
The name of the song should speak for itself, and it’s a song about how many of the US soldiers in Vietnam had deep feelings against the war. Many of them were drafted into the war and had no choice but to fight. The song talks about the issues that many of them faced right at home without the need to go to war and multiply their problems.
This song speaks about the threat that all of us face from nuclear weapons. The song talks about the Americans laying down their nuclear weapons, and it’s an Australian rock band that is telling Australia not to accept the ships full of nuclear weapons from the United States.
Another song that protested the buildup of nuclear weapons, this song happened three years before the United States made the decision to enter Vietnam. It references the protests against the Cuban Missile Crisisand the Cold War. The song talks about the harsh realities of war, and it says how the elite who initiate these wars often stay back and sa...
Linkin Park is one of the most popular rock bands of all time, and while this wasn’t their greatest hit, it is certainly one of the most powerful anti-war songs of all time. The song tells the story of the divide between the rich and the poor when it comes to war. They do a great job explaining the harsh reality of war and following orders by peopl...
12 de ene. de 2015 · On this day in which we honor America’s greatest advocate for nonviolent protest—and in honor of the recent withdrawal of troops from Iraq—I present 14 Anti-War Songs for the 21st Century for your listening enjoyment/outrage.
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