Suggestions for a Vietnam Era military music playlist?
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Okay, so what I'm looking for is not be strictly speaking "military" but I'm building up a sort of list of all kindsa tracks that you'd imagine a Joe in Vietnam to hear from the camp's radio, waking up and getting some breakfast in the hot climate and what-not. I got a sweet tooth for that kinda stuff, for whatever reason. So far, I've got the following tracks
[quote]Bob Seger - Rambling Gambling Man
The Box Tops - The Letter
Count Five - Psychotic Reaction
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
Edwin Starr - War
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love
Kinks - All Day And All Night
Rare Earth - Get Ready[/quote]
I'm sure you can find those by going to Youtube and searching the name. Anyway, I'd absolutely [B]love[/B] to get more into this playlist of mine -- I got several others set in different periods of history, but this one is just as important as the others!
You seriously didn't come up with
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY[/media]
SHAME
SHAAAAME
[QUOTE=Katatonic717;48661854]You seriously didn't come up with
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY[/media]
SHAME
SHAAAAME[/QUOTE]
I'd feel shame if I wasn't so happy about getting corrected!
You could add some zeppelin in there. "Good times bad times" or "black dog" perhaps?
[video=youtube_share;gAVB25yjY5I]http://youtu.be/gAVB25yjY5I[/video]
EDIT: Oh, you want music from that period? That is what I get for scanning too much.
Well, I am not sure if this was ever played in that kinda way but.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPf_PJlJsJQ[/media]
is always a classic
Some songs from my playlist that are anachronistically accurate from 1955-1975
Donovan - Universal soldier
The Doors - The End
Deep Purple - Child in Time
Rare Earth - If I Die
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
Ten years After - I'd love to change the world
Grand Funk Railroad - People lets stop the war
Cream - White room
Buffalo Springfield - For what it's worth
Neil Young - Heart of gold
Rolling Stones - Paint it black
The Troggs - Wild thing
Sgt. Barry sadler - Ballad of the green berets
Johnny wright - Hello Vietnam
Barry McGuire - Eve of destruction
Bill Withers - Ain't no sunshine
Country Joe McDonald - Feel like i'm fixing to die
Aretha Franklin - I say a little prayer
Roger James Cooke - Today i killed a man i didn't know
Bob Dylan - Masters of war
King Crimson - 21st century schizoid man
Elvis Presely - Suspicious minds
Rolling Stones - satisfaction
The Doors - unknown soldier
Simon and Garfunkel - The sound of silence
The Mama's and the Papas - California dreamin
Marvin Gaye - What's going on?
Marvin Gaye - I heard it through the grapevine
John Lennon - Imagine
jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
jimi Hendrix - All along the watch tower
(All of CCR)
Songs that were produced after the war had ended but relate heavily to the war:
Paul Hardcastle - 19
2+2=? The Bob Seger System
Eve of Destruction - Barry Mcguire
Riders on the Storm - The Doors
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Ramble On - Led Zeppelin
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
Mr Tambourine Man - The Byrds
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
It's my Life - The Animals
Walk like a man - four seasons
waterloo sunset - kinks
I'd love to change the world - ten years after
white rabbit - jefferson airplane
[Media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K__-YQpjC8s[/Media]
I feel like this is the best version of the song
[URL]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iMrrFU8mSpfE9L9txDmuc5kSoSZfPQKfQePPZG3mhnE/edit?usp=sharing[/URL]
I'm making a playlist too, these are albums though not songs.
Check out Fun House by the Stooges, it's insane!
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[QUOTE=UncleJimmema;48664508][Media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K__-YQpjC8s[/Media]
I feel like this is the best version of the song[/QUOTE]
The Who's Live at Leeds version blows it out of the water
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Here are some "hard" songs (I didn't include many slow or folksy songs)
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JacHyPaEwDc[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbI0cMyyw_M[/media]
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJDnJ0vXUgw[/media]
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uj9sduV3k8[/media]
Why has no one mentioned the fucking Rolling Stones?
Paint it Black, House of the Rising Sun and Fortunate Son are basically the three songs that everyone relates to the Vietnam War, I think.
It's funny though, Paint it Black isn't even about the Vietnam war.
[QUOTE=The Aussie;48673046]It's funny though, Paint it Black isn't even about the Vietnam war.[/QUOTE]
It was released in 1966 when American involvement in the Vietnam War was going on strong.
Nah, in '66 the US was still ramping up their involvement in the conflict. It wasn't really something on most peoples minds at the time.
[QUOTE=The Aussie;48673358]Nah, in '66 the US was still ramping up their involvement in the conflict. It wasn't really something on most peoples minds at the time.[/QUOTE]
It was also the theme song for "Tour of Duty" a Vietnam TV show made in the late 80's.
My "Vietnam" playlist, although a bit lacking.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/JVRL92i.png[/img]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRwYQgk05DY[/media]
I bet the army guys laughed their asses off at this song
[video=youtube;LUpBSvN1a50]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUpBSvN1a50[/video]
No Idea if this song is at all associated with Vietnam, but it's from the era and it suits it really well.
[video=youtube;qhZULM69DIw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZULM69DIw[/video]
