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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete
Corb Lund did a really good album 2007 about war, mostly from a cavalry idea because horses. He started the album off with a really upbeat song about the naive and idealistic vision of war from a young mind, then ends it with a reprise of the same song with some very strong imagery.
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I wonder if that`s the album on which his Student Visas song appears? ( The song takes the form of jaded reminicences from a US operative in Central America).
For an album dedicated exclusively to the topic, there is Country Joe McDonald`s album, War,War,War, in which he put the poems of Robert W. Service to music. Deadly serious, occasionally cynical, very spare, it`s an unusual listening experience. What I particularly like about it is that we are hearing the thoughts of a guy who was actually there in the trenches during the First World War, so we hear the genuine, contemporaneous mixture of patriotism and horror in lines like this: "Everywhere thrill the air the maniac bells of war."
Dip into another time, another world, another mindset here:-