Making an anti-war / anti-Bush CD - what should be on it?

[KurtNYC]

So far I have:

Not My pResident, Not My War (by the Compassionate Conservatives)
Keep on Rocking in the Free World - Neil Young
Don't Stop (by Fleetwood Mac - Clinton's anthem)

[bkcc]

1. "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding"

by Elvis Costello

"Life During Wartime" by the Talking Heads

[quispquake]

2. "Idiot Son of an Asshole"

by NOFX

A video is here:

www.punkvoter.com/anim/anim-idiot.html

[Mojambo]

3. "Let Them Eat War"

By Bad Religion

And you definitely need some Phil Ochs on that sucker. I'd suggest "Cops of the World" or "I Ain't Marchin' Anymore"

[Snow]

4. "Big Muddy" Pete Seeger

the original Smothers Brothers' performance that was initially censored during the Johnson era.

[SlingBlade]

5. What else but Fortunate Son

By CCR
:dem:

[AlCzervik]

6. I'd love to change the world

by Ten Years After.

[tigerbeat]

7. www.protest-records.com

thurston moore from sonic youth started this website. lots of free MP3s that are anti-war/anti-bush. many are of questionable quality but there are some good ones:

"Companheiro Bush" - Tom Ze
"World Gone Mad" - The Beastie Boys
"Bomb the World" - Michael Franti and Spearhead
"The Price of Oil" - Billy Bragg
"My Hero Mr. President" - Paula Cole
"Seventy Virgins" - Polaris 7
"Super Patriot American Freak" - Misinformed Manzerek

and no anti-war collection is complete without the greatest anti-war anthem of all time: "Masters of War" - Bob Dylan.

[SlingBlade]

8. OHIO, But let’s hope it’s not a repeat.

Humm, A little Neil to smoke em out, Why not.
Tin soldiers and BUSH is coming, Four dead in Ohio !


:dem:

[AlCzervik]

9. Interesting Drug by Morrissey

[NightTrain]

10. I've been thinking of doing that myself!

Here are some of the tunes I came up with:

BORN IN THE U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
IF I HAD A ROCKET LAUNCHER - Bruce Cockburn
LIAR - Three Dog Night
LIAR, LIAR - The Castaways
LIES - The Knickerbockers
WAR - Edwin Starr

[livetohike]

11. The Patriot's Dream - Gordon Lightfoot

The Patriot's Dream (Don Quixote) 6:05


The songs of the wars are as old as the hills
They cling like the rust on the cold steel that kills
They tell of the boys who went down to the tracks
In a patriotic manner with the cold steel on their backs

The patriot's dream is as old as the sky
It lives in the lust of a cold callous lie
Let's drink to the men who got caught by the chill
Of the patriotic fever and the cold steel that kills

The train pulled away on that glorious night
The drummer got drunk and the bugler got tight
While the boys in the back sang a song of good cheer
While riding off to glory in the spring of their years

The patriot's dream still lives on today
It makes mothers weep and it makes lovers pray
Let's drink to the men who got caught by the chill
Of the patriotic fever and the cold steel that kills

Well there was a sad, sad lady
Weeping all night long
She received a sad, sad message
From a voice on the telephone
Her children were all sleeping
As she waited out the dawn
How could she tell those children
That their father was shot down
So she took them to her side that day
And she told them one by one
Your father was a good man ten thousand miles from home
He tried to do his duty and it took him straight to hell
He might be in some prison, I hope he's treated well

Well there was a young girl watching in the early afternoon
When she heard the name of someone who said he'd be home soon
And she wondered how they got him, but the papers did not tell
There would be no sweet reunion, there would be no wedding bells
So she took herself into her room and she turned the bed sheets down
And she cried into the silken folds of her new wedding gown
He tried to do his duty and it took him straight to hell
He might be in some prison, I hope he's treated well

Well there was an old man sitting in his mansion on the hill
And he thought of his good fortune and the time he'd yet o kill
Well he called to his wife one day, "Come sit with me awhile"
Then turning toward the sunset, he smiled a wicked smile
"Well I'd like to say I'm sorry for the sinful deeds I've done
But let me first remind you, I'm a patriotic son"
They tried to do their duty and it took 'em straight to hell
They might be in some prison, I hope they're treated well

The songs of the wars are as old as the hills
They cling like the rust on the cold steel that kills
They tell of the boys who went down to the tracks
In a patriotic manner with the cold steel on their backs

The train pulled away on that glorious night
The drummer got drunk and the bugler got tight
While the boys in the back sang a song of good cheer
While riding off to glory in the spring of their years

The patriot's dream still lives on today
It makes mothers weep and it makes lovers pray
Let's drink to the men who got caught by the chill
Of the patriotic fever and the cold steel that kills

[ET Awful]

12. Lives in the Balance - Richie Havens (written by Jackson Browne)

I just like Richie's version better :)

I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've heard it before
How a government lies to a people
And a country is driven to war

And there's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the T.V.
You hear one thing again and again
How the U.S.A. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or is it the ones who can't take any more
And they pick up a brick or a gun or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
We can't even remember their names

They sell us the President the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same way they sell us our wars

I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

[proud patriot]

13. "The Idiots have taken over "NOFX

Also By NOFX
"Franco Un American"
"Idiot son of an asshole"

Black Eyed Peas
"Where is the Love" plus the
"if bush is pinnocio" song after
where is the love it is not listed on the CD
but it is there .

Paris
"What would you do ?"
"sheep to the Slaughter"

Black Sabbath
"war pigs"

Metallica
"disposable heroes"

Megadeth
Peace Sells

Queensryche
"Speading the Disease"
"Revolution Calling"
"Take Hold of the Flame"

on edit

CSNY
"carry on"

[NightTrain]

14. Fun Boy Three, "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)."

Written about Thatcher and Reagan, but very much applicable today (alas)!