[1991]
Lyrics & Music by Mark McCahon
Album: Songs From A Sofa [2001]

A protest song against war.
"Another song originally written many years ago, in the early nineties. I rewrote the lyrics to suit contemporary times ".

[2002]
Album: Survivor

[2010]
Lyrics by Larry Ludwick
Music by Jon Bushaway

"This is all true. Nobody is protected, not even myself. A part of 'the dead company' project.."

"This is my response to wonderful review by Andreas of The Frankfurt Dialog Company which pretty much summarizes the story behind the song:

Thanks Andreas... I hope you don't mind, but I would always submit something like this to you because I know you will listen to and understand the lyric. Yes it is hard and especially because it is a perfectly true story. Every detail is as it happened to me and Venable.

The only thing that maybe you misinterpreted is the part about what happened to me when Venable went off to the war... because actually I enlisted... I enlisted for my own reasons and not because I had any thought of the war, it was just that my own life was in a shambles. But I did not want this song to be as much about me but more... (continuer)

[2003]
Lyrics & Music by Mark McCahon

Album: "Setting Sons" (1979)

"The Eton Rifles" as such, do not exist: the cadet corps of Eton College is the Eton College Officer Training Corps[2], Eton being a famous English public school in Berkshire that is regarded as the epitome of Britain's privileged 'elite'. The song itself recounts the difficulties faced by the unemployed and lower paid working class in protesting against a system loaded against them.

The song recounts a street battle Paul Weller had read about in the newspapers concerning elements of a Right To Work march going through Slough in 1978 breaking off to attack pupils from Eton College who had been jeering the lunchtime marchers (hence Hello, Hooray, an extremist scrape with the Eton Rifles), rashly thinking that a bunch of 'posh schoolboys' would be an easy target: only for the outnumbered but far fitter college pupils to give them a beating. As the lyric put it:... (continuer)

Lyrics by unknown (John Neuhaus?)
Music: Traditional

Since today is Sunday it's the right thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises unto Thy name !
Testo tratto da Folk Archive.
Nel repertorio di Utah Phillips

(B.B.)

[2007]
Lyrics & Music by Bob Parsons
Album: 1-2-3-4

This song is about the comic book "The Walking Dead". The verses are from the back of the comic.

[2002]
Album: Survivor

[2007]
Lyrics & Music by Robert Parsons
Album: 1-2-3-4

[2007]
Lyrics by Kai Schmidt
Music by Gerrit Thomas
Album: Aviator

Album: Black Coats & Bandages (2004)

[2005]
Album: Navigator

..and, moreover, also the risk to be killed by the so-called "Friendly Fire"..

[2003]
Lyrics & Music by Bill Robinson
Album: Research (new edition)

Anti-War-Art-Punk

[2005]
Album: Navigator

Distress.. The expected fate of all the soldiers in a war..

[1985]
Lyrics & Music by David Rudd
Album: Research

[2004]
Lyrics & Music by Tracy Jane Comer
Album: Quietly There

An anti-war song, written on Memorial Day 2004… "I was pondering both Memorial Day and Father's Day, so close together...
…and thinking of all the families that have to be apart now because of the war". -Tracy J. Comer.


"Tracy Jane Comer's song "This Losing Game" is a thoughtful, well-produced and haunting anti-war song, worthy of the great Joan Baez or Joni Mitchell. Come to think of it, Tracy Jane’s voice is just as powerful and clear as those ladies as well. This is a wonderful work and worthy of a good listen. -International Acoustic Music Awards, January 2005-

Exit Strategy ou La retraite victorieuse

Chanson française – Exit Strategy ou La retraite victorieuse – Marco Valdo M.I. – 2012

D'habitude, je le sais bien, Lucien l'âne mon ami, j'ai toujours l'air de me traîner dans le temps et d'avoir un regard sur le passé. D'abord, c'est vrai... Je scrute le passé, mais pour comprendre et le passé et le présent. Ce dernier découlant du précédent... Il y a dans tout ça, ce qu'on appelle le paradoxe temporel. Je te l'explique ou je te le rappelle. Le passé n'est plus, le futur n'est pas encore et le présent est déjà passé au moment où j'en parle ; bref, il n'est nulle part et pourtant, c'est lui qui fait les deux autres et toutes nos existences. En fait, on est dans un présent continu qui s'appelle la vie... Elle a toujours un début et toujours une fin. Je vois à ton œil noir fluorescent que tu te demandes où donc je vais pouvoir encore t'emmener...

En... (continuer)

2011
Io ricordo con rabbia

Per Giancarlo Siani, giornalista napoletano ucciso dalla camorra.

[2002]
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
Album: Disillusioning [2010]

A song about the legitimate questions rarely heard in mainstream media about all 9/11s. There was one in 1973 in Chile, one in 1988 in Haiti and more, and the song reflects on the war crimes and terror that always seem to follow these 9/11 tragedies..

"I wrote this song originally in 2002 and then revised it in 2009. The song was inspired by journalists like Greg Palast, Amy Goodman, John Pilger and Robert Fisk, as well as the documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, all of whom asked tough questions and did exhaustive investigations into not only 9/11 but the state terrorism that followed.

It is all too often we hear only about our own 9/11, however there were many 9/11s. There was 9/11/88 in Haiti, 9/11/90 in Guatemala, and 9/11/73 in Chile. In all of these the US spy agencies' allies in those countries committed atrocities,... (continuer)

[2011]
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff

MSNBC promotes imperialist wars for GE !

MSNBC, owned by GE, is promoting insanity for imperial greed, as usual.
I literally wrote this song and recorded, mixed, and uploaded it within the last 15 minutes..

"Pictures and footage, in this video, are all from my camera and they are from various anti-war demonstrations in recent months, held in Denver, Colorado in 2009. Some pictures are from an anti-war demonstration in 2005 (black & white).

The music is a little homemade improvised piece I call "Jamming with myself". To record the rhythm and lead guitar I actually placed my camera, switched to the audio feature, about a foot in front of my little practice amp. For the lead guitar wah sound I ran the signal through a Cry Baby wah pedal. Then I smoothed out the sound using the processing software on my laptop, added a little compression and reverb, then I composed the drums and bass using MIDI software instruments".

2011
Io ricordo con rabbia

‎[1989]‎
Album “9”‎

‎

"That's precisely how I see myself - fighting off, instead of the U.S. Cavalry, boredom and ‎oppression.” […] “I'm making my case quite clear that this is my land and I'm not gonna surrender ‎it easily. I'm sick of damn big businesses just burning up everything, destroying the food, ‎destroying the sea, polluting the air. You know, I've got an actual birthright to these things - I'm ‎damned if I'm gonna surrender it lightly." (John Lydon in due interviste rilasciate su BAM e MTV ‎nel 1989)‎

‎[1986]‎
Album “Album” (!)‎

‎“The nuclear holocaust is imminent [...] These bastards are going to kill us all off, and of course I ‎bloody worry about it!” (John Lydon, da un’intervista pubblicata su Melody Maker del maggio ‎‎1986)‎

‎[1986]‎
Album “Album” (!)‎

La più famosa canzone dei PiL aveva originariamente come sottotitolo “South African Song” ‎perché il testo traeva spunto dall’oppressione dellla maggioranza nera nel Sudafrica dell’apartheid ‎per trasferirsi poi alla realtà quotidiana nella “perfida Albione” dell’epoca.‎

‎“I read this manual on South African interrogation techniques, and 'Rise' is quotes from some of the ‎victims. I put them together because I thought it fitted in aptly with my own feelings about daily ‎existence.” (da un’intervista a John Lydon pubblicata su “Smash Hits” del febbraio 1986)‎

Il fatto che la famosa, delirante clip del brano con questo significato non c’entri pressochè nulla, ‎non vuol dire niente… E’ il punk (anche se post-), bellezza!‎

1989
Ivangarage

canzone contro la violenza sui minori

‎[1981]‎
Album “The Flowers of Romance”‎

Dedicata all’estrema destra britannica del National Front, poi British National Party…‎

‎[1981]‎
Album “The Flowers of Romance”‎

L’avessero scritta oggi, si sarebbero subito beccati una fatwā…‎

‎[2008]‎
Singolo poi incluso nell’album “Brother's Blood” del 2009‎
Sul lato B la cover di Love Me, I’m A Liberal di Phil Ochs.‎

[2007]
Album: [Silence] Is A Weapon

[2001]
Album: One Nation Under

(1995)

Segnalata in un forum dedicato alle canzoni contro la guerra preferite dagli utenti, una canzoncina da discoteca interpretata da una famosa ex pornostar ceca... ci mettiamo anche questa? ma sì...

From 'Deceit' (1981)