songs that make you think of vietnam

Songs that every time you here them you think of the Vietnam War.

Fortunate Son - CCR

Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane

Soul Kitchen - The Doors

The End - The Doors

Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane

Blowin' In the Wind - Bob Dylan

The "Fish" Cheer/Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-To-Die-Rag - Country Joe


Most of those make me think of it because they were either about it or used in a movie about it.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qANYd1w9BkA"]YouTube- Still in Saigon

PAX

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4-w2FYIJbw&feature=related"]YouTube- Pete Seeger - Bring 'em Home

pax

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECQeLQURNuw"]YouTube- Platoon Music Video - Adagio for Strings
Adagio for Stings always does thanks to Platoon.

 

ruby don't take your love to town , the ballad of the green beret , galveston , what's goin' on , ohio , sky pilot...to me and probably alot of other people alot of the songs of that era and the war became intertwined.maybe you'd hear a song and think about the war or were in it and you'd associate the two.

 

Fixin to die rag, Country Joe McDonald
WAR,Edwin Star
we gotta get out of this place,The Animals

 

Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix

 

WAR! hooh! .. what is it good for? absolutely-nothing!

 

On R&R in Hong Kong I got a copy of the Byrds album with Turn! Turn! Turn! Going back to my unit I spent the night in the rear at battalion headquarters. I had that album, along with a quart of gin and big bottle of champagne. My two buddies and I got drunk listening to "a time to be born, a time to die; a time to kill, a time to heal; a time to laugh, a time to weep; a time for peace, I swear it's not too late." Do you think that wasn't blowing our minds?

 

All Along the Watchtower by Hendrix, ever since I saw Forrest Gump I always connect the song with 'nam.

 

I connect every song on that movie to Vietnam.

it has, like, five Doors songs it. Or maybe six. I don't remember.

 

For what it's worth - Buffalo Springfield

Really makes me think of that whole time period actually

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9PiEgYYUU"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9PiEgYYUU

 

of all the above i think ccr's fortunate son is for me the most defineing song on nam..fogerty spent just enough time in the military to get an idea of what was going down at that time.fogerty pretty much tells it like it is...a great song by a great band/...the music is so good on it too.

 

For as long as i can remember, this song makes me think of the vietnam vets comeing home. I must have thought it was about them when i first heard it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ham6vFy8v2I"]YouTube- The Boys are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy (1976)

 

Pisses me off that this dude isn't better known.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mo7p7ictF8"]YouTube- John Prine, Sam Stone

Such a beautiful song.

 

I agree.

 

Anything by RATM.

 

i think sam stone was on one of prine's first albums. i played that album alot...illegal smile is on that album and a whole bunch of other good ones....i saw him on pbs a while back..pretty good for sure.

 

Heck just about any song from 1967-1972. Top of the list is Paint it Black by the Stones. It was used as the theme song for the TV series Tour of Duty.

 

Hey Keith,
This from my journal looking back on my time in VN (For a few months I was in a unit where we would go on Marine operations and): "hump big, powerful loudspeakers to wherever, haul them up in trees and play tapes that were supposed to affect the enemy psychologically. We had some Buddhist funeral music, nostalgic love songs, and verbal harangues – in Vietnamese & all designed to get the other guys to surrender – and if they did, they were supposed to be met with “chieu hoi” (i.e., open arms). We also had some live Rolling Stones tapes. It was fun to play the funeral music and propaganda and then Paint it Black, Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing in the Shadows, and so on. The troops dug it and the officers always got agitated."

Good post, Ratty.