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Day 27: A song about war/military/peace


10,000 Maniacs - My Mother The War
Natalie in full dervish mode for this, live for british tv. I wanted The Latin One (also on brit TV) but the broadcast ended before the song finished.
I saw 10,000 Manics do this (sometime in the 80's) and Natalie stood stock still with a flag over her head and spat the words with such venom that i can still see the image in my mind.
 
: A song about war/military/peace
I was very tempted to go with 'Billy don't be a hero' by Paper Lace but thought it a tad too nauseating 🙃 so then it was a toss up between two of the greatest anti war songs ever written, Green Fields of France and Waltzing Matilda both by Eric Bogle, this one won it. Shane sings it beautifully
 
Day 27: A song about war

I have a thing for concept albums. It's one thing to put together a great album where every song shares a genre, but to create a coherent theme for every song takes some serious dedication.

Maiden's Somewhere In Time is some of their best work, only trumped (in my opinion) by Dance of Death.

A song about one of humankind's most famous warlords;
Iron Maiden - Alexander the Great

 
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