List of songs about war
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This article consists of songs that are about war, its effects, and its people. Some songs listed encourage warfare, while some songs listed are protest songs against war. If it is about a real life war, the war it is based on is listed in parentheses.
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[edit] #
- "2 Minutes to Midnight" - Iron Maiden (Cold War)
- "19" - Paul Hardcastle (Vietnam War)
- "1916" - Motörhead (World War I)
- "1990" - Jean Leloup (Gulf War)
- "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" - Pere Ubu (World War II)
- "99 Luftballons" - Nena (nuclear war)
- "8th of November" - Big & Rich
- "39" - Queen
[edit] A
- "Aces High" - Iron Maiden (Battle of Britain)
- "All Together Now" - The Farm (World War I)
- "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" - Eric Bogle (Battle of Gallipoli)
- "Angels Punishment"" - Lacuna Coil
- "Ammunition Hill" - Yoram Taharlev (Six Day War)
- "Amen" - Sepultura
- "Architecture of Aggression" - Megadeth
- "Army Dreamers" - Kate Bush
- "At Least We Had The War" - Blueline Medic
- "Attack" - System of a Down
[edit] B
- "Back to Iraq" - GWAR (Gulf War)
- "Between The Wars" - Billy Bragg
- "The Big Parade" - 10,000 Maniacs
- "Bin Laden - Immortal Technique
- "Bitter Peace" - Slayer
- "Black Gold" - Soul Asylum
- "Blinded by Rainbows" - the Rolling Stones
- "Blues Drive Monster"- the pillows
- "Bombs" - Faithless
- "Bombs Over Baghdad" - Outkast
- "Boom!" - System of a Down
- "Born in the U.S.A" - Bruce Springsteen
- "Bring Back the Bomb" - GWAR (Nuclear War)
- "Brother in Arms" - Dire Straits
- "Brothers Under the Bridge" - Bruce Springsteen
- "Breathing" - Kate Bush (Nuclear war)
- "Broken Heroes" - Saxon
- "Bunker Soldiers" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- "Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914) by The Zombies
- "B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Bombs)" - System of a Down (Iraq War)
[edit] C
- "Cant Stop It" - Yuval Banai (Mashina) (1982 Lebanon War)
- "Casualties of War" - Eric B and Rakim
- "Child In Time" - Deep Purple
- "Civil War" - Guns N' Roses
[edit] D
- "Day After Tomorrow" - Tom Waits
- "Die klügsten Männer der Welt" - Die Ärzte
- "Disposable Heroes" - Metallica
- "Do You Want To Start A War?" - Frenzal Rhomb
[edit] E
- "Empire" - Dar Williams
- "English Civil War" - The Clash
- "Enola Gay", Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (Bombing of Hiroshima)
- "Eve of Destruction" - Barry McGuire
[edit] F
- "Fernando" - ABBA
- "Fight Fire with Fire" - Metallica
- "Fight War, Not Wars" - Crass
- "The Flowers of Guatemala" - R.E.M. (Guatemalan Civil War and U.S. coup against government)
- "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
- "For Whom the Bell Tolls" - Metallica
[edit] G
- "Ghost if Freedom" - Iced Earth
- "Ghost Of You" - My Chemical Romance
- "Gimme Shelter" - The Rolling Stones
- "Goodbye Blue Sky" - Pink Floyd
- "Goodnight Saigon" - Billy Joel (Vietnam War)
- "Grey Victory" - 10,000 Maniacs
[edit] H
- "Hammer to Fall" - Queen
- "Holiday - Green Day (anti-war song)
- "Holy War" - Thin Lizzy
- "Holy Wars" - Megadeth
[edit] I
- "I Can't Write Left-Handed" - Bill Withers (Vietnam War)
- "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" - Country Joe and the Fish (Vietnam War)
- "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" - Manic Street Preachers (Spanish Civil War)
- "Is It Any Wonder?" - Keane (Iraq War)
- "Immortal Enemies" - Hatebreed, The line "...when the conflict never changes, and the enemies are immortal. Only their names and faces change..." seems to refer to the War on Terror
- "I Was Only 19" - Red Gum (Vietnam War)
- "I Was Only 19" - The Herd (Vietnam War)
[edit] J
- "Jerusalem" - Antje Duvekot
- "Jihad" - Slayer
[edit] L
- "Left Right" - The Chemical Brothers
- "Let's Have a War" - FEAR
- "Life During Wartime" - Billie Joe Armstrong (originally by Pinhead Gunpowder)
- "Living With War" - Neil Young (Invasion of Iraq)
- "Lili Marleen" - Marlene Dietrich
[edit] M
- "Man at C&A" - The Specials (Nuclear War)
- "Mandatory Suicide" - Slayer
- "Marching to the Killing Rhythm" by Darkest Hour
- "Masters of War" - Bob Dylan
- "Missing The War" - Ben Folds Five
[edit] N
- "The Nang, the Front, the Bush and the Shit" - El-P (Vietnam War)
- "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" - The Band (American Civil War)
[edit] O
- "Oh Lord, Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me" - Charles Mingus
- "Oliver's Army" - Elvis Costello
- "Once a City" - [[10,000 Maniacs]
- "On D-Day" - Nate Borofsky
- "One" - Metallica
- "One Day I Slowly Floated Away" - Eisley
- "Orange Crush" - R.E.M. (Vietnam War)
[edit] P
- "The Partisan" - Leonard Cohen (World War II)
[edit] R
- "Rags of Flowers" - John & Mary
- "Refuse/Resist" - Sepultura
- "Religious Wars" - Subhumans
- "Revolucion" - Brujeria, (EZLN)
- "Revoltion Regained" - The Living End (East Timor Conflict)
- "The Rich Man" - Roadrunner United
- "Roads to Moscow" - Al Stewart (Operation Barbarossa during World War II)
- "Rooster" - Alice In Chains (Vietnam War)
[edit] S
- "Sacrificed Sons" - Dream Theater
- "Saddam-A-Go-Go" - GWAR (Gulf War)
- "Save The Day" - The Living End
- "Shipbuilding" - Elvis Costello (Falklands War)
- "Soldier Side" - System of a Down
- "Soldier's Poem" - Muse
- "Soldiers" - Girlyman
- "Southern Takeover" - Chamillionaire
- "Spanish Bombs" - The Clash (Spanish Civil War)
- "Still in Saigon" - Charlie Daniels Band (Vietnam War)
- "Sunday Bloody Sunday" - U2 (Irish Civil War)
- "Symphony of Destruction" - Megadeth
- "Slow Decay" -Dashboard Confessional
[edit] T
- "Take No Prisoners" - Megadeth
- "Territory" - Sepultura This song is loosely based around the Middle East Conflicts.
- "The Happy Soldier" - Keane
- "This Is Me" - Girlyman
- "This Means War" - AC/DC
- "To A Husband At War" - I Hate Myself
- "Tommy Gun" - The Clash
- "Travelin' Soldier" - Dixie Chicks
- "The Trooper" - Iron Maiden
- "The Longest Day" - Iron Maiden- "World War II"
[edit] U
- "Uncommon Valor: A Vietnam Story" - Jedi Mind Tricks (Vietnam War)
- "A Bad Dream" - [[Keane]}*"Universal Soldier" - Donovan
- "Us and Them" - Pink Floyd
[edit] W
- "War" - Edwin Starr
- "War" - OutKast
- "War" - Sepultura
- "War" - Wumpscut
- "War?" - System of a Down
- "War All The Time" - Thursday
- "War Ensemble" - Slayer
- "War Games" - The Monkees
- "War Is All We Know" - GWAR
- "War Party" - GWAR
- "War Pigs" - Black Sabbath
- "War Story" - Choking Victim
- "West End Riot" - The Living End
- "Waterloo" - Iced Earth
- "We Will All Go Together When We Go" - Tom Lehrer
- "What's So Fun About Peace, Love, and Understanding" - A Perfect Circle
- "When The Bomb Drops" - The Subhumans
- "Who Do You Think You are Kidding, Mr. Hitler?" (theme to Dad's Army), written by Jimmy Perry, recorded by Bud Flanagan
- "World War III" - Bad Religion
- "World War III" - TSOL
[edit] Y
- "You Can't Kill Terror" - GWAR (War on Terror)
- "You Don't Want War" - Bumpy Knuckles
- "Youngstown" - Bruce Springsteen
[edit] Z
- "Zor and Zam" - The Monkees
- "Zombie" - The Cranberries