With God On Our Side

Artist Song
Chris Whitley  War Crime Blues 
Robot Ate Me  After the War 
Elvis Costello & The Attractions  Oliver's Army 
The Delgados  American Trilogy 
Starflyer 59  Give Up the War 
Skip Spence  War in Peace 
Anekdoten  The War is Over 
Tim Bowness & Samuel Smiles  Sorry Looking Soldier 
Chris Whitley  The Call Up 
Elvis Costello & the Attractions  (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding 
Simon Joyner  Only Love Can Bring You Peace 
Matthew Good  Blue Skies Over Bad Lands 
Bob Dylan  With God On Our Side 
Augie March  Owen's Lament 
Tom Waits  Soldier's Things 
Iron & Wine  Radio War 
Neil Halstead  Dreamed I Saw Soldiers 

Comment:

The songs should speak for themselves, but these three quotes just scream to be heard: 1. "I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job." 2. "Yet we do know that God has placed us together in this moment to kill together." 3. "I believe God decides who goes to heaven, not just George W. Bush." Enjoy.

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McDonald12
Date: 11/25/2004
echoing your sentiments 100%. This is a great one.
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French Connection
Date: 11/25/2004
Effin hell! Be afraid be very afraid,knew he was a mad bastard but Jesus Christ not that mad. As the esteemed Jock just said, "This is a great one."
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mckbrd
Date: 11/25/2004
no matter who it is, it's ironic that "love thy neighbor as thyself" only applies "sometimes" and "depending on whom"....check out Mark Twains "War Prayer". Very good, as is the sentiment of this mix!!!
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Nicholas Vegas
Date: 11/26/2004
....Mhhhh ( !!!! )

NV
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Sean Lally
Date: 11/26/2004
Beautiful. My new favorite news has been the evangelicals' widespread belief that god actually intervened in this election to pick W. There's something truly remarkable about that level of blind idiot faith. I mean sure - god has no time to help out with the Holocaust, Sudan or any other genocide, or even the filming of a Disney movie -- but somehow he has time to campaign for Bush. Which leads one to the possible conclusions that either god is a complete moron or maybe, just maybe, this whole god business is a fairy tale. Now mind you, i wouldn't want to call god a moron - so i went over to the fairy tale side many years ago. And he's not even a very good fairy tale - Grimm tells much better stories.
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Purveyor of Eternity
Date: 11/26/2004
Thanks for the comments.
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Sean Lally
Date: 11/26/2004
By the way, in my rush to show how much of an arrogant godless jerk I am (trying to beat GABlabs to the punch here), I forgot to mention how many of these songs I love -- especially Elvis, Skip, Dylan and Waits. Nice job all around.
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erik1966lutig
Date: 11/26/2004
Nice mix. Great stuff here.
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G-Sphere
Date: 11/29/2004
Yes, very nice mix and sentiments to match. Really like the Chris Whitley picks.