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Senator LooGAR
 Post subject: Veteran's Day Make a Mix
PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:02 pm 
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I would start with:

The Star Spangled Banner by Hendrix
Joining The Army by Lucero
Sam Stone by John Prine
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by The Pogues
Bonzo Goes to Bitburg by The Ramones



feel free to add your suggestions.

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Marah - "Round Eye Blues"
John Lennon - "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier"
DOA - "War"
Gingersol - "A Great Day For War"
Gluecifer - "I Got A War"
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'Ballad of the Green Berets' - Sgt. Barry Sadler

Played this at my Dad's Green Beret unit reunion this past summer. There were tears.
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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.

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Rick Derris
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Hmmmm. Some good ones already mentioned.

A Solider's Things - Tom Waits
Love Vigilantes - Iron and Wine version

America - Ray Charles
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rogneeb
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lucero - the war
steve earle - ben mcculloch

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Steve Earle - "Rich Man's War"
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Son Volt~ When the Wheels don't move

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Jason Isbell - "Dress Blues"

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I've recently noticed that all the unfortunate events in the lives of blues singers all seem to rhyme... I think all these tragedies could be avoided with a good rhyming dictionary.

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Kingfish
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beachy Wrote:
Son Volt~ When the Wheels don't move


Son Volt - Jet Pilot

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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.

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Finch Platte
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Kingfish Wrote:
CCR - Fortunate Son


Good one! Also, Edwin Starr's War (What is it good for??).

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PopTodd
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Iron Maiden - "Die With Your Boots On"
Iron Maiden - "The Trooper"
Iron Maiden - "Aces High"

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Paul Caporino of M.O.T.O. Wrote:
I've recently noticed that all the unfortunate events in the lives of blues singers all seem to rhyme... I think all these tragedies could be avoided with a good rhyming dictionary.

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Senator LooGAR
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PopTodd Wrote:
Jason Isbell - "Dress Blues"


Dern. Good one.

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Throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. His depressions frequently encouraged, and were exacerbated by, his various vices. His character mixed a superficial Enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat Romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy.
harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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Bottle Rockets~ Kid Next Door
Tom Rapp~ 4th Day of July
Steve Goodman~ Ballad of Penny Evans
John Gorka~ Semper Fi
Pete Seeger~ Waist Deep In The Big Muddy
Guy Clark~ Soldier's Joy
Steppenwolf~ Monster
Steeleye Span~ Edward
J.B. Lenoir~ God's Word
Richard Thompson~ A Love You Can't Survive
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Stiff Little Fingers -- "Fly The Flag"
Ike Reilly -- "Broken Parakeet Blues"

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