As I drove in this morning listening to KEXP, I was thinking how it was interesting that you could interpret just about any song as war commentary. Example to follow: McClusky’s “To Hell With Good Intentions.” Then John (In The Morning) put on War on War and I realized that I wasn’t the only one hearing it that way. Heck of a playlist today, starting at 6 am. In fact, I’m half tempted to submit it to Art of the Mix and see how it gets voted.
Playlist so far:
- Billy Bragg, “Rumours of War”, Don’t Try This At Home
- Coldplay, “A Rush Of Blood To The Head”, A Rush Of Blood To The Head
- Echo & the Bunnymen, “The Killing Moon”, Songs To Learn & Sing
- Massive Attack, “What Your Soul Sings”, 100th Window
- Moby, “The Sky is Broken”, Play
- The Fading Collection, “Grief”, Interactive Family Radio
- Jakatta, “American Dream”, Indian Summer
- Stars, “Death To Death”, Heart
- Smog, “Morality”, Supper
- The Cure, “Killing an Arab”, Boys Don’t Cry
- The Postal Service, “Brand New Colony”, Give Up
- Belle & Sebastian, “I Fought in a War”, Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
- New Order, “Love Vigilantes”, (the best of new order)
- Butterglory, “The Sklls of the Star Pilot”, Crumble
- Cat Power, “He War”, You Are Free
- Longwave, “Wake Me When Its Over”, The Strangest Things
- The Godfathers, “This Is War”, Unreal World
- Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, “Dead Voices”, Hearts Of Oak
- Beatles, “Revolution 1”, The White Album
- Junior Ross & The Spear, “Rough Way Ahead”, Babylon Fall
- Jurassic Five, “Freedom”, Power in Numbers
- Marlena Shaw, “I Wish I Knew (how it would feel to be free)”, Black & Proud Vol. 2
- Public Enemy, “Louder Than a Bomb”, It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
- Gus Gus, “Gun”, Polydistortion
- The Future Sound Of London, “We Have Explosive”, Dead Cities
- Sigur Ros, “Viorar Vel Til Loftarasa (good weather for airstrikes)”, Agaetis Byrjun
- Clinic, “For the Wars”, Walking With Thee
- Wimbledon, “That’s What I Like to Call Collateral Damage”, Cumershl
- Grand Mal, “1st Round K.O.”, Bad Timing
- Mclusky, “To Hell With Good Intentions”, Mclusky Do Dallas
- Sleater-Kinney, “Combat Rock”, One Beat
- Wilco, “War On War”, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- Willie Nelson, “Darkness on the Face of the Earth”, Crazy: The Demo Sessions
- Bob Dylan, “Paths of Victory”, The Bootleg Series Vol 1
- Ben Harper, “With My Two Hands”, Diamonds On The Inside
- Johnny Clarke, “Love Your Brothers and Sisters”, Dubwise & Otherwise 2
- Gomez, “Army Dub”, In Our Gun
- The Notwist, “Consequence”, Neon Golden
- Joseph Arthur, “Ashes Everywhere”, Come To Where I’m From