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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Two events got me thinking about this - "Pipes Of Peace" on Popular, and Radiohead's rush-releasing their charity new song about recently-dead WWI veteran Harry Patch.

Have there been any good modern day pop songs about World War One?

The criteria being:

- must be specifically about World War One (not just war in general) (but being about it in the video counts, cf PoP)
- must have been recorded and written after World War TWO

There's no particular reason there SHOULD be good modern WWI songs of course, any more than there should be good modern Napoleonic War ones. But are there?

The field as I understand it:

- Radiohead's thing
- "Pipes Of Peace"
- "Stop The Cavalry" (unless it's too general)
- "All Together Now" by The Farm.

Good grief.

Comments

[koganbot]

In regard to that ILM thread: I second the nomination of the Zombies' "Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)": is about WWI and is very good, an odd little art-pop number with church organ and lyrics that are anticlerical and effectively grisly: masses of flies come down to feed off of and memorialize the dead along the towns of the western front, the point being made well and made quickly without weighing down the song heavily with its art.

Butcher's Tale

[koganbot]

Here it is on YouTube.