cc_rider wrote: 
With drones and remote controlled rockets, etc, it might sound like Gary Neuman.

But interesting question. 

Seems to me it takes a particular creative courage to make such a song when half the pop music world is full of histrionic Adele-o-centric whining about coochie, busted hearts and all that other bullshit.  (Yeah, the Beatles and Stones and others sang in the same vein, but they more than made up for it with music that mattered...)
 

 d-don wrote: 

very cool...  love this song...

I've used this song the last two years in my Lyricism class when we talked war songs. Of all the songs used, this one seemed to have the greatest impact on my classes of high schoolers.

marvelous classic... love it...
 

9 —-> 10
 
This song is one of just a few that makes me stop and listen, and tear up a little, no matter how many times I've heard it.

Awful........ 

Someone give RP a bash, the record seems to be stuck.

 Vinco wrote: 
This music should remind people that war is horrific. Always has been, always will be.

There is no political implication to that statement. We can debate whether any particular war was (or is) necessary, but on the ground it doesn't matter. People die, in myriad horrible ways. The ones who survive are forever changed. Always have been, always will be.

 Vinco wrote: 
It's a sad day when a song like this one is labeled a "political song" but that is apparently where we are.   ...Or at least where Vinco is.

NATO Airstrike in Afghanistan Kills 8 Women
September 16, 2012

A NATO airstrike has killed at least 8 women and girls and injured at least 7 females in the eastern province of Laghman while they were collecting firewood on Sunday, Afghan officials say.

Villagers from the province brought the bodies to the provincial capital of Mehterlam, the Associated Press reports.

Seven injured females were also brought to the hospital, some as young as 10, according to news agencies...

 

 

Another song I've ever heard for the first time on RP. 
And a fine, moving song it is. Provocative. We need more like it, indeed, we never have enough of songs like this. About something more than somebody's sadsack lovelorn ass.  

Ah, so it's a political song...I wondered what purpose this music could have to anyone...anywhere...at any time

 

Awesome tune. More bads should strive to use their talent to bring awareness to political situations.

 jmsmy wrote:  Yep.

The line about burying the dead at sea: my grandfather served on the USS Boise, and it's a certainty he was on one of those details at some point.

What are the songs about our current wars going to sound like? I wonder.

Very boring song. And I'd also like to note, I'm sick of Romeotuna's spring in their step comments. Enough already.

I love Carbon Leaf - haven't heard it on RP till today. Thanks!

Nice.

If this song doesn't give you goosebumps - you are already dead.

This song puts a spring in my step this spring day...

 

Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...

 

 shape5 wrote: 
hey shape5 whoever you are...I'm also here in Israel, listening to RP and editing a book on Holocaust education!
 

If nations had mandatory periods of military service (say, three years between the ages of 18 and 30), then perhaps there would be far fewer wars.  First-hand experience with weapons — in a context where one is taught how to efficiently kill other human beings — is quite sobering.

I really dont like this band.  The singer always sounds like he is trying way too hard.  It's like he is constantly trying to sing in a voice that isn't really his voice.

Perfect song on this 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. RIP, all who left us that day.

On the Anniversary of Pearl Harbour.  Good Choice and THANKS to those that have served...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain#Anti-imperialist

"Before 1899 Twain was an ardent imperialist. In the late 1860s and early 1870s he spoke out strongly in favor of American interests in the Hawaiian Islands.<63> In the mid-1890s he explained later, he was "a red-hot imperialist. I wanted the American eagle to go screaming over the Pacific."<64> He said the war with Spain in 1898 was "the worthiest" war ever fought.<65> In 1899 he reversed course, and from 1901, soon after his return from Europe, until his death in 1910, Twain was vice-president of the American Anti-Imperialist League,<66> which opposed the annexation of the Philippines by the United States and had "tens of thousands of members."<22> He wrote many political pamphlets for the organization. The Incident in the Philippines, posthumously published in 1924, was in response to the Moro Crater Massacre, in which six hundred Moros were killed. Many of his neglected and previously uncollected writings on anti-imperialism appeared for the first time in book form in 1992.<66>"

fredriley wrote: