Listen Up! things get solemn. 10 years ago the invasion of Iraq began. Smart bombings, bloodshed, body bags and on and on. The music and words will express the sorrow and outrage that goes with living with war.
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Playlist (Artist -Title – Album – Year Of Song Release)
Opening Theme
Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – 1996
Background Music
Samuel Barber’s Adagio For Strings Op 11
The West Coast Pop Experimental Band – Suppose They Give A War And No One Comes – Vol. 2 (Breaking Through) – 1967
The Minutemen – Political Nightmare – 3-Way Tie (For Last) -1985
The Fugs – Kill For Peace – The Fugs Second Album -1966
Bob Dylan – Masters of War – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan – 1963
Eugene Chadbourne – New New New War War War – New War – 2001
John Cale – Fear Is A Man’s Best Friend – Fear -1974
David Bowie – Weeping Wall – Low -1977
The Flaming Lips – The W.A.N.D. – At War With The Mystics – 2006
Black Sabbath – War Pigs – Paranoid -1970
Super Furry Animals – The Man Don’t Give A Fuck – Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1 – 1996
Red Crayola – War Sucks – Parable of Arable Land -1967
Pink Floyd – Corporal Clegg – A Saucerful of Secrets – 1968
Charlie Haden – War Orphans – Liberation Music Orchestra -1969
The Zombies – Butcher’s Tale (Western Front 1914) – Odessey and Oracle -1968
The Kinks – Some Mother’s Son – Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) – 1969
Billy Bragg – My Youngest Son Came Home Today – The Internationale -1990
Bloc Party – Price of Gas – Silent Alarm -2005
Gang Of Four – Guns Before Butter – Entertainment -1979
Hugh Masekela – If There’s Anybody Out There – Masekela -1969
King Crimson – Epitaph – In The Court Of The Crimson King – 1969
Cat Power – Maybe Not – You Are Free – 2003
LISTEN UP! with TOM CASETTA 