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Veteran's Day Playlist
Nov. 11th, 2012 05:37 pmI was loading songs on my iPod to listen to at the gym, when it occurred to me that it was Veteran's Day. I was listening to "My Son John," a heartbreaking and unusually subtle anti-war song, when it occurred to me to make a Veteran's Day playlist.
But the 44 songs I came up with run the gamut from that lovely, lugubrious song about Willie McBride to "The Battle of New Orleans." I made no effort to prune or arrange them, leading to odd juxtapositions of boisterous Scottish war songs with plaintive anti-war tunes. Now I guess I'll go off to the gym and see if the ratio of marching songs to tearful protests is sufficiently rousing to get me through a workout.
( Full list behind the cut )
But the 44 songs I came up with run the gamut from that lovely, lugubrious song about Willie McBride to "The Battle of New Orleans." I made no effort to prune or arrange them, leading to odd juxtapositions of boisterous Scottish war songs with plaintive anti-war tunes. Now I guess I'll go off to the gym and see if the ratio of marching songs to tearful protests is sufficiently rousing to get me through a workout.
( Full list behind the cut )
