They shall not grow indie as we that are left grow indie

[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

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly sure you mean modern folk, not neo-folk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofolk)! Trust me :-)

On the topic of neo-folk WWI tunes (of which there are more than a few, obv), Andrew King has covered both Rudyard Kipling's "Gethsemane" and A E Housman's "Polly On The Shore".

(Good choices though.)

I'm pretty sure And Also The Trees did at least one, but I can't remember which one it was.

An Italian-speaking friend told me that she thought one of the tracks on (Italian goth band) Artica's album 'Natura' was about trench warfare, but since I know 0 Italian, I can neither confirm nor deny this.

Stretching the definition of "pop" here quite a bit, I agree. I keep thinking The Decemberists ought to have done one, but they seem to have done every *other* sort of military experience instead!