Posted on 02/26/2008 11:00:56 AM PST by kristinn
Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Pearl Jam have contributed tunes to the anti-war soundtrack for a documentary about a U.S. soldier paralyzed in Iraq.
The 30-song, two-disc album "Body of War: Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran" will be released March 18 via Warner Music's Sire Records label. All proceeds from the sale of the album will benefit Iraq Veterans Against the War.
"Body of War" focuses on Tomas Young, an Army soldier paralyzed upon arriving in Iraq. It will open on March 13 in Austin, Texas, and expand nationally in subsequent months. Talk show veteran Phil Donahue directed the film with Ellen Spiro.
The album, put together by Young, features the single "No More," which Pearl frontman Jam Eddie Vedder composed specifically for the film. Pearl Jam's live version of Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" also graces the soundtrack.
Springsteen contributed "Devils & Dust," and Neil Young "The Restless Consumer." Other tracks include "Yo George" from Tori Amos, "Son of a Bush" from Public Enemy, and "Bushonomics" from Talib Kweli & Cornel West.
Now, see, I’ve never liked Springsteen’s so-called music. So I’ve always seen him as a talentless hack.
I join you in your support of your daughter and cousin. Now, there are two real heroes.
I couldn't have said it better.
F***ing traitors. And to think that I actually paid money once in my life to see Neil Young and Pearl Jam ... I can't even hear them on the radio anymore without wanting to barf.
Makes me want to go home and listen to “Ballad of the Green Berets” by Sgt. Barry Sadler.
Yepper, thats the one.
Worst concert that I ever went to was Springsteen a few years back...not even close...THE WORST
Thanks, I pray for them daily. I have more family( here and there in the miliary) but right now both are somewhere in harms way....prayers for you and yours also soldierDad.
My primary concern in all this anti-American, anti democracy, anti-Bush baloney is people doing the loud yelling, petition signing and such probably don't know what it takes to be free, don't understand why so many people want to sneak IN to this country....and just what Hanoi Jane and her ilk did to our country in the 60's/70's .....I can only hope and pray the new( whoever is running the propaganda machine these days) jerkwads stop to think before walking too far down the road of fascism/whatever else they're gunning for before they actually get it and sink the rest of us to some submissive level from another country they don't KNOW they don't LIKE...Neil Young and Springsteen have never starved, have never fought for their lives, never will they understand not questioning why....but to do, or die
Thanks, I appreciate the agreement. I’ve yet to hear anything from him that would qualify as “good music”, and his “Born in the USA tirade is just horrific.
You said a mouthful with just this sentence. I agree with all the rest as well. Your family will be in my prayers also.
Ha yeah, some say I have a big mouth...to make light of things...a little. Tkae care , many blessings.
I love rock ‘n roll. His croaking just doesn’t cut it. “Born in the USA” is a good example of that. Coming from NJ, I am not convinced of anything remarkable here but a super-sized ego or similarly, as Mick Jagger once described Madonna, “a drop of talent in an ocean of ambition.”
LOL. That so fits.
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