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The song was included as a track on the March 1970 Psychedelic Shack album, which featured the title track as its only single. The track's direct message, summarized by its chorus ("War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin'!"), struck a chord with the American public and resonated with growing public opposition to the war in Vietnam.
"Tiến Quân Ca" (lit. "The Song of the Marching Troops") is the national anthem of Vietnam.The march was written and composed by Văn Cao in 1944, and was adopted as the national anthem of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1946 (as per the 1946 constitution) and subsequently the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 following the reunification of Vietnam.
The song reflects on those who served in the Vietnam War and whose names are forever etched in stone at the Vietnam War Memorial. As of this writing, the wall currently has 58,000 names and counting.
The German version is a song against the war. Freddy Quinn sings the song from the point of view of a reluctant but forced soldier, [citation needed] Heidi Brühl from the point of view of the crying girlfriend of the soldier. [citation needed] Freddy Quinn's version was later recorded by Welle: Erdball and also by Cryptic Wintermoon.
Sam Stone (song) Search and Destroy (The Stooges song) Sky Pilot (song) Something to Believe In (Poison song) Songs and poetry of Soviet servicemen deployed to Vietnam; Still in Saigon; Straight to Hell (The Clash song) Sweet Cherry Wine
"Machine Gun" is a song written by American musician Jimi Hendrix, and originally recorded for the 1970 Band of Gypsys album, with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles. It is a lengthy, loosely defined (jam-based) protest of the Vietnam War. [3] At a performance in Berkeley, California, Hendrix introduced the song:
A brilliant and dramatic middle section is actually a studio-recreated firing squad, complete with shots. The second verse is a slightly harder-rocking version of the first. The song then erupts into a climatic, extended coda, which is the audio re-creation of the celebration of either victory or the END of war. [5]