''War'' Songs you enjoy - Obligatory ''Fortunate Son'' and such

[AN/ALR56]

 

[ShittyRecolor]

Great thread idea!

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

How about historical war music?

The Civil War:

World War I:

The two really great periods for war songs in American history.

 

[NIGGO KILLA]

 

[Chiang Kai-shek]

 

[Positron]

 

[InLivingTuna]

very much a guilty pleasure

 

[Golly]

 

[Positron]

June Tabor did an absolutely devastating version of "The Writing of Tipperary"/"It's a Long Road to Tipperary"

A tragicomic song written by the late Davy Steele: a young man enlists expecting an easy ride ("Don't show fear, don't volunteer"), not realizing WWI is in the offing:

 

[Ntwadumela]

I'm neutral on Israel and Palestine but this song is pretty well done tbh

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

 

[Ted_Breakfast]

I know this is pinko bullshit, but damn if I don't love the trippy instrumentation of this classic.

 

[ICametoLurk]

I'm neutral on Israel and Palestine but this song is pretty well done tbh

Hamas makes great catchy songs

This is Malaysian (iirc) version

Some more neat Hamas

(The song above begins at 1:00)

Hezbollah is also good

The singer of above also made this

 

[TwinkleSnort]

 

[Doc Cassidy]

The Battle of New Orleans is kind of a family song. I've sung it for as long as I can remember. It's probably the only song written about the War of 1812 other than The Star-Spangled Banner lol.

Johnny Horton has a lot of great war songs. Sink the Bismarck being another really good one.

 

[Mysterious Capitalist]

EDIT: memes aside, does this count?

 

[Hui]

 

[cumrobbery]

WW2 paratroopers would sing this (a song about parachutes malfunctioning and dying a horrible death because of that) before and during actual paratrooper missions

 

[TwinkleSnort]

 

[Aristophanes]

Irish Republican music is brilliant, and is much better than its dreary loyalist counterpart.

It has songs about SAMs blowing up the RAF.

And songs about shooting British commandoes.

And of course who could forget these classics