Long time no music. Strange for me but I have actually been off music for a few weeks... preferring the alternative ...silence!!However, I am back in the swing and felt a music post coming on this morning when I was doing the 'dog' thing.
No No NO, get your mind out of the gutter .... I meant walking my dog ... {shakes head in disbelief}
I was thinking about bands and music that really made a big impression on me at the time in my life and certainly this first one up was a real eye opener..... It had me visiting the local library to read up on the Irish Republican Army and Sinn Fe'in ... of course the album was U2 - War and the track that brought it all home to me was Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
From that excellent publication Wikipedia...
War opens with the protest song "Sunday Bloody Sunday". The song describes the horror felt by an observer of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, specifically Bloody Sunday (1972). Already a departure from the themes of innocence and spirituality displayed on the group's first two albums, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" introduces the album with a startling, military-esque drum beat by Larry Mullen, Jr., a fuming solo by the Edge that segues into staccato bursts reminiscent of machine gun fire, and pointed lyrical couplets such as: "And today the millions cry / We eat and drink while tomorrow they die." The album as a whole is more direct than the ambient October. Bono said in 1983,
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A few years earlier another 'war' tune was an indelible part of my life .... it was the theme tune to a program that ran every Saturday afternoon for people to send in messages and requests for their family and loved ones fighting on the border against 'terrorists' or 'freedom fighters' (depending on which side of the border you were of course).
Ballad of the Green Berets - Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler
Not a time I can reflect on with good memories ..... but this tune had a real place in my life in those days.
Anywaze that is enough for now .... once I go down the music rabbit hole we could have the entire you tube collection commented on
Namaste!!
