Top Ten... Declares WAR!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

To be fair, I was just going by the title rather than the relevance of the lyrics!

[Zzzptm]

Megadeth : "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due"

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

For pick 3, I'm going to slightly cheat...

New Model Army - The Charge

It's a cheat because they are using the analogy of the Charge of the Light Brigade from the Crimean War to critique business practices in the 1980s (when the song was written!) but is still relevant today!

[Vyn]

No. 9

Agent Orange by Sodom

No. 8

1916 by Motorhead

[Ted Sallis]

For number 3 it's time to Thrash it up again.  This from my favourite EXODUS album...  And there's even a music video for this one.  It's called WAR Is My Shepherd!

An impeccable choice! A great song from one of the Originators of thrash metal.

Ted

[Charger]

It is indeed! One of my favourites from the album!



Okay time to move on to number 4!


I knew I was gonna do Iron Maiden here but I was bit unsure which track as there are few that I've already used up in other lists...So it pretty much then boiled down to either Fortunes Of War (which isn't really so much about war but things the soldier has to face after the war) or this one and I went with this one.
The Album version of the song is fine BUT the video version with Blaze on the vocals is SUBERB. Granted there weren't that many songs that Blaze did better than Bruce but this song most certainly is one that he completely owns!

AFRAID TO SHOOT STRANGERS this one!

[Zzzptm]

oooh, good stuff, good stuff!

And yes, avoiding picks we've done for other lists is the tricky part.

Also avoiding videos with crappy sound is another tricky part... this one has no acting or live stuff, but it's got the best sound, so...

Saxon "Hammer of the Gods"

The whole Call to Arms album is great stuff, enjoy the opening track - and mind the Vikings crashing down on your lands!

[Charger]

Well HELLO!

Another Saxon tune I had never heard before!! And goddamn! That's a killer tune! GODDAMN!

I think I need to start searching for some more Saxon albums!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Fourth Pick - and we go to WW I

Chris de Burgh - This Song For You

Yes I know it's Mr De Burgh, but in my defence his early stuff is quite good... if you pick between the sappy, twee bits! From Spanish Train and Other Stories, a soldier writes home before going over the top.

[Charger]

Well how can I do a War song list without including MOTÖRHEAD?

Well I can't. So at Number 5:

There's quite a few to choose from now isn't there. But I'm trying to go with something that hasn't been posted on other top tens yet...

And I'm in luck...as this is one of my all time favourite Motörhead tunes from one of my all time favourite Motörhead albums.

This is about the greater picture of WAR from a soldier's point of view...it's called WHEN THE EAGLE SCREAMS...

Sadly this song was never played live so it's just an album version with no moving pictures.

[Zzzptm]

Saxon rolls with Motorhead! They play rock and roll!

Saxon - "Wheels of Terror"

It's about tanks and blitzkrieg, innit

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^
Probably inspired by Sven Hassel's book of the same name?

[Charger]

Oh Hottdamn! Another killer Saxon tune I've never heard! That's one AWESOME riff!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Fifth Pick... I seem to be concnetrating on the aftermath of war...

Rush - Red Sector A

Apparently Geddy's Grandmother was a survivor of a concentration camp. Off Grace Under Pressure, quite haunting.

[Charger]

Alright I'm gonna follow in suit.


This too is about the aftermath of war. From a single soldier's point of view. About how to deal with all of the baggage war can bring.

This is BENEDICTUM blasting away with SHELL SHOCK!