HIGH QUALITY ANTIWAR MUSIC! MP3s, streaming or submit your own

[Jeffersons Ghost]

This may be the most powerful media you've ever heard

The Peace Jukebox plays hours of anti-war music for free. Songs written during the Bush Presidency can be heard as high-quality MP3s, with lyrics, on this ad-free independent website. The Peace Jukebox features anti-war songs by Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Jurassic 5, Public Enemy, Jane's Addiction, The Cure, Ani DiFranco, Black Eyed Peas, Green Day, Faithless, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Lenny Kravitz, Paris, System of a Down, Propagandhi, Banco de Gaia, Zach de la Rocha, Noam Chomsky... hiphop, rock, punk, acoustic, classical and spoken word.

This is fast becoming the most prolific period of protest song-writing in history, as home-studio technology makes it possible for the world to hear hot new radical songs Clear-Channel will not play. The Peace Not War Music Project recently received over 500 anti-war songs from several different kinds of musicians, and they claim "ALL" of them will go online. This media is high-quality stereo if you have high-speed. From what I see at the site, we can help in this effort, even if it's only by spreading the word.

http://www.peace-not-war.org/Jukebox/index.html

Here.s lyrics to one of the songs:

VOICES OF A FUTURE

political rhetoric: I know it is all lies
doublespeak duplicity
you can read it in the eyes
see the silver plated
squirming of the tongue
some sycophant, a corporate slave
announces we will bomb
you feed the world with little wars
by selling tyrants arms
as long as they are subservient
how could there be qualms?
customers must not fight back
what happens when they do?
spin a tale of right and wrong
and gloss over the truth
visions and voices of a better world
war no more
voices of a future speak

twisted lies from puppet lips
TV, papers, spread the fear
it's all sewn up, but listen in
voices of a future are near
as long as no-one knows
or doesn't dare to ask
a silver tongue says what it likes
but voices crack the mask
should these voices speak to you
do you think that you might hear
and if these words might make a thread
then know that hope is near
for a facade does not last for long
tyrants fall that's all
voices of a future speak
and to our souls they call
visions and voices of a better world
war no more
voices of a future speak



written and produced by Pok Spacegoat
(previously unreleased)

[Mokito]

1. Sweet

Can the CD be shipped internationally (Europe)? Then I'm definetly buying!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

2. lots of it sounds like it's British and Australian

there's tons of free high-quality music at that site. It's MP3 downloadable!

[Mokito]

3. You are correct

The payment is in Brittish Pounds (9.99). I bought the CD's just to support this project, and by the way...good music! ^^

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. these are good cuts:

US FORCES

US forces give the nod
it's a setback for your country
bombs and trenches all in rows
bombs and threats still ask for more

divided world the CIA
who controls the issue
you leave us with no time to talk
you can write your own assessment

sing me songs of no denying
seems to me too many trying
waiting for the next big thing

will you know it when you see it?
high risk children dogs of war
now market movements call the shots
business deals in parking lots
waiting for the meat of tomorrow

everyone is too stoned to start emission
people too scared to go to prison
we're unable to make decisions
political party line don't cross that floor
L. Ron Hubbard can't save your life
superboy takes a plutonium wife
in the shadows of ban the bomb we live




written and performed by Midnight Oil
produced by Midnght Oil and Nick Launay
from the album "10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1"
copyright 1983 CBS Records Inc

here's an interesting tune;

JACOB'S LADDER (NOT IN MY NAME)

like a sermon on the mountain
says the dumber got dumb
hellfire and brimstone
swapped for oil and guns
when we're pushing up daisies
we all look the same
in the name of the father maybe
but not in my name

on this Jacob's ladder
the only way up is down
one step from disaster
two to make the higher ground
Jacob's ladder

a million lifetimes
left dying in the sun
in the streets down in Whitehall
dogs picking at the bones
nine eleven got branded
nine eleven got sold
there will be no one left to water
all the seeds you've sown

on this Jacob's ladder
the only way up is down
one step from disaster
two to make the higher ground
Jacob's ladder

and they sent him to the wars
to be slain to be slain
and they sent him to the wars
to be slain



written, performed and produced
by Chumbawamba and Davy Graham
from the single "Jacob's Ladder"
copyright 2002 Mutt Records Ltd

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW is also good

YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW

i hear that bombs were going down
in London town
and i'm sorry to you all who lost something
sad how the people never seem to win
and now finally the deed's been done
and we know now what's to come
retina scan, protest ban
but 9/11 and now 07/07 goes to show
you reap what you sow

now it's all: danger danger - be a stranger
there's now fear in the atmosphere
leads to alienation, accusations
what's to become of our nation?
it'll be like: yes T96423
we ain't gonna leave you be
- see we got wind that you wanna be free
oh no... you reap what you sow

here's Reggae music

WAR NO MORE

Light is in the air right now
Two thousand and two rebel music
The saga continues
Listen, children
What's the problem in Manhattan
Every ten men they look like Bin Laden
So I have problems when I go to the airport
First thing they do they wanna ask me for my passport
The said Wyclef we love the Fugees the score
But did anybody give you any strange package to bring on board
I was like ?no'
Here comes your national guards
This look like a scene from the movie Star Wars
One foot in, one foot out standing in the airplane
I'm on tour
I'm on my way to Japan
First class, dark shades
Let the fuschia out bed
I want to sleep but keep my eyes on the cock pit
Why just think they stay target- the pilot
We gonna take over the plane
Like the Los Angeles riot
Riot
Riot
The Middle East
The Middle East
The street pack more heat than the Middle East
The Middle East
The Middle East
When will the violence sleep in the Middle East
The Middle East
The street pack more heat than the Middle East
The Middle East
The Middle East
When will the violence
Say peace
Say peace
We don't want no war no more
Let me hear the streets
Peace, oh peace
We don't want no war no more
Let me hear the Middle East now
Peace, now peace, oh peace, oh peace
We don't want no war no more
Let me hear the USA say peace
Say peace
Lord, peace
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
Ay, peace
Oh peace
We don't want no war no more
No, no let me hear you say
Peace, peace,
Say peace, say peace
We don't want no war no more
No, no, no, no
Say peace, oh peace
We don't want no war no more
No more riots
Riots
riots
Riots
Riots
Riots
Riot


WYCLEF JEAN
WAR NO MORE




written

[populistdriven]

6. k&r there will be NO revolution without music

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. it sure powers the revolution up! thanks for the votes

I'm telling you folks, the World is on the verge of another Renaissance and it scares the crap out of the aristocracy.

read this:
LIFE DURING WARTIME
Music and Lyrics by Green Day

yeah we say making changes starts
in the little things you do
revolution begins at home
but for most of us it ends there too

we're doing something
we're making changes
like changing the brand of crap we buy
we say it makes a difference
but that's just another lie

it used to be us and them
and you and me
and now we can't reach our potential
without a common enemy

a real war to fight against
instead of our petty disagreements
how can i rationalize
my life during wartime lie

a call to action
and a reaction
taking our lives in our own hands
instead of sitting around and talking bout
the same old shitty bands

the war's going on right now
and i'm not doing anything about it
without a crowd I'm not so loud
i can't do anything by myself
but that's just another lie

[populistdriven]

7. after listening for 15 minutes the sound quality is GREAT! and Groovy!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. anyone who checks this out will enjoy it and vote it up... thanks 4 votes

your votes and kicks at DU can make a difference

here's a good song at the site
ANTI-FLAG
"Power To The Peaceful"

sons and daughters of a dream
the urge to struggle for an ideal
to stay and fight, oppose war fever, refuse to kill or be killed
there's voices calling in the wind: power to the peaceful! let's go!
with a readiness for war, they come down hard on dissent of all forms
blood and militarism has swept the country by storm
there's voices calling in the wind: power to the peaceful!
this is not a war of the urging people
this is not a war of economic independence
it's a war for conquest, it's a war for military power
it's a war for money, the road to universal slaughter
shout to the peaceful
there's repression and intolerance on any deviation from the norm
in all factions of your life, at this time of entry into war
say hey-hey do you know what to sing?
say hey-hey yeah you know what to sing: power to the peaceful!


ANTI-FLAG
"Power To The Peaceful"

[populistdriven]

10. KICK!!! Let the music play everybody!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

12. turn it up... it's fast, streaming and clean

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. Kicked up to Greatest Page

thanks for the alert post-just got here, and wouldn't have seen this otherwise.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

15. thanks ayeshahaqqiqa

[Fridays Child]

13. k/r

[phusion]

14. kick for those...

who say there is no antiwar voice in music today!!

[sarahlee]

16. Peace in a Gas Pump or Bringing Pharaoh's Armed Madhouse Home

Since we are talking music. . . . Reprinted in full with permission:

By David Swanson

May 28 -- This evening here in Virginia, Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band jammed for hours at an outdoor pavilion, leading tens of thousands of us in protest songs, including a powerful rendition of "Bring Them Home." The concert was held at the Nissan Pavilion, a characterless monument to automobiles surrounded by an ocean of the things, cars and trucks and SUVs which spent hours creeping in and out before and after the show. Many of us devoted 8 or 9 hours to hearing 2.5 hours of music and paid $90 for the privilege.

Imagine if Springsteen were to announce a free concert on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. The traffic jam alone would spare us a week's worth of work by Congress. The voices raised in song for peace and justice would have articles of impeachment introduced by the end of the evening, and if the Capitol Police locked us all up we could spend several hours getting out of jail much more enjoyably than getting out of a parking lot.

That we congregate for entertainment rather than political change is not entirely true. Seventy activists were arrested in Nevada today protesting a proposed bomb test. But there should have been seventy thousand arrests, not 70. Public opinion is overwhelmingly against our current government, or - rather - for restoring the rule of law and the system of democracy laid out in our Constitution.

A lot of people at tonight's concert complimented me on my "Impeach Bush and Cheney" shirt. One guy with a Tennessee accent told me that he worked in a factory in east Tennessee, and that the die-hard Republicans he worked with were turning against Bush because the Weapons of Mass Destruction weren't there and because gas prices were so high.

That's an interesting pair of complaints against Bush. I wonder whether publicizing the intimate relationship between the two would lead to further enlightenment in Tennessee and across the country.

If the war was not fought for WMDs or because of ties to 9-11, if Bush lied about all of that, then why DID he launch this war? Increasingly people seem to be acknowledging that it had something to do with oil. But if it was about getting our hands on the oil, it seems to have been bungled quite badly, because Iraq's oil has not paid for the reconstruction of the country as promised, and our gas prices keep climbing. How incompetent, we're told. Bush is so incompetent! Or so we're told.

Unless he launched this war in order to control Iraq's oil and clamp down on production in order to boost the profits of oil companies. Can you imagine the political ramifications if Republicans upset about both war lies and gas prices understood that the war was, in fact, launched in order to raise the gas prices? Such an understanding could lead to a healthy skepticism toward war, or even, if we're really lucky, a widespread demand for a shift to renewable energy. It could also produce such landslide elections that the results could not be rigged.

Greg Palast's new book documents the control the oil companies have had over Bush's war policies, and the desire they had to remove Saddam Hussein, because he was jerking the price of crude up and down. One week he'd cut off shipments, and the price would jump. The next he'd pump all he could, and prices would plummet. As a Council on Foreign Relations report put it, Saddam was a "destabilizing influence...to the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East."

Let's face it, a crowd of middle-class white folks just sang a bunch of songs with Bruce about the hard times poor people face, largely oblivious to the fact that a few very wealthy people from Houston sent our poor men and women to die so that they could become even wealthier. It wasn't enough for them to take that wild-card Saddam out of the picture and seize illegal cartel-like control over the price of oil - they also had to immediately raise it. The oil companies are now in the position Wal-Mart is in the day after the last Mom and Pop store in town closes. They can't resist gouging us, the people who gave the money and blood to put them where they are.

Now, of course, it's also true that the maniacs over at the Project for a New American Century wanted to control Iraq's oil and are now installing in Iraq massive bases and air strips to be used in conquering Iran and Syria. The urgency of ending the war and "Bringing Them Home" is heightened by the fact that our men and women are in Iraq to facilitate more illegal wars.

But back here in the states, perhaps the most effective thing any one of us can do to exploit this teachable moment would be to hang out at a gas station with a poster reading "The War Was for Oil Profits: Bush and Cheney's Friends Are Happy: Are You?"

There should be some long lines of cars getting gas as Memorial Day weekend winds to a close. It's May 29th now, as I finish writing this, Memorial Day. This would also have been a birthday for Cindy Sheehan's son had he not been killed by a criminal president. But Cindy's nephew is two months old today. And Tennessee is one of 48 states in which a majority disapproves of Bush. Hope is very much alive.

Honor our dead. Demand the truth. Bring them home.

[Vyan]

17. And for even more Free Protest Music

You can check out Truth 2 Power Radio - which features songs by Living Colour, Bodycount, Megadeth, Crossfade, Fishbone, Alice in Chains, Stevie Wonder, Anthrax, Audioslave, Creed, Disturbed, Evanescense, Guns N Roses, Incubus, System of a Down, King's X, Lacuna Coil, Bob Marley, Funkadelic, Kanye West, Green Day, Bad Religion, Marvin Gaye, Jay-Z, Ministry, Neil Young, Nine Inch Nails, Pantera, Rage Against the Machine, Sevendust and U2.

Vyan