Jimmy Cliff - Vietnam

[dazedandcomfoosed]

I'd just like to say I'm a soldier who will gladly go to Afghanistan when I'm told to. I don't let that stop me from hating this amazing song (Or any other songs from the Vietnam era). So why can't everyone just put their opinions aside for once and love the music?

[thezimboman]

thanks to three people we now have a joint

[MsL0vie]

I woudn't even know about this song if it wasn't for the movie "d.c. cab"

[annyid8]

still relevant....

[Jevezy]

I am sick and tired of war, I am sick and tired of lies and excuses people use to start war. I am sick of the fact that our soldiers are being used by Big Oil Companies and dying in unnecessary wars. America's useless wars - Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. What a waste of our soldiers' lives. Great song by the great Jimmy Cliff.

[nohobado]

i'm vietnamese and i love this song so much!

[worldcoup]

Jimmy Cliff=Legend. Doesn't matter what they say.

[jahnno1991glen]

nobody never thing tht this song will be listen in 2011

[Littlewolf68]

How can one "enjoy" this song without thinking??? Just replace Vietnam with Iraq or Afghanistan. Nothing has changed about the misery of war or the sadness it leaves forever.

[DavisEvansHealy]

@Littlewolf68

Of course, but people were getting into convoluted arguments about dead-end issues and failing to see the clear message delivered by the song, hence my comment.

[ihave19voices]

@Littlewolf68 The Black Angels did exactly this. On their 2006 album, Passover, there is a track called Call to Arms, after that is a hidden track. Its on Youtube, just search Call to Arms Black Angels.

[worldcoup]

@Littlewolf68 you cant compare the two you silly twat...the numbers, the time, the stakes are very diferrent.

[rrowsea]

@worldcoup well that's not what Jimmy Cliff says....

[worldcoup]

THIS IS REGGAE. Its an all time tune.....take that bedwetting political shit to the toilet and fck off you cnuts. this is not the time and place.

[Pancakesaremybusines]

@Littlewolf68

When I saw Jimmy Cliff at the Portland Zoo on his US/Canada tour he and his entire band literally replaced "VIETNAM" with "AFGANISTAN". I think you are correct in making this sort of connection if the artist who wrote the original song makes that connection as well.

It was a great show. I actually had never heard Jimmy Cliff until me and my friend watched "The Harder They Come" like a day before the show. He's amazing live for how old and thin he looks.

[rhythmapprentice]

@Pancakesaremybusines Pancakes are my business...and business is good! hehe

[DubstructorMusic]

@Littlewolf68 Do a youtube search for "Jimmy Cliff Afghanistan".

He's doing this track live but has replaced Vietnam with Afghanistan

[chipande94]

And then there was the GULF WAR and Afghanistan.... So many Mrs Browns after that!!!

[cameron3ify]

afganistan afganistan sombody stop that war now

[LiveYOURlife2bEternl]

war shouldn´t exist

[DavisEvansHealy]

This is a Vietnam protest song, if you want to talk about Bin Laden, the ethics of war, the nwo or whatever then send eachother private messages.

Relax and enjoy the track instead, this is the language of pacifism.

[unclegusyo]

@DavisEvansHealy tell you what it is it's a motherfucking jam

[mightilamb]

@DavisEvansHealy Um... Jimmy Cliff himself rewrote the song with lyrics about Afghanistan and has sung newer versions at his concert. It is not just a Vietnam protest song... its an anti-war song.

[DavisEvansHealy]

@mightilamb

I didnt say it wasn't an anti-war song, the two descriptions are not mutually exclusive.

[More13Feen]

This was my favorite Song as i was a child, but as i understood the the text i cried...

but i still love it! 

[Taskumees]

DA BEST



[Taskumees]

DA BEST

[mrbroadsword1]

BOB DYLAN SAID THIS WAS THE BEST ANTI WAR RECORD FOR VIETNAM

[RestlessWicked]

@mrbroadsword1

some people - you must know - read the bio too, but thanks for remembering us...

^^

[walkaboutimages]

@mrbroadsword1 He actually said it was "The best protest song' he ever heard

[CoconutIsle]

@mrbroadsword1 actually he said it was the best protest-song he ever heard ;)

[mrbroadsword1]

Great song reminds me of my skinhead days

[niko21992]

so krass man der kommt auf chiemsee reggae *__*

[irvildor]

Scarce resources exists because humans are utterly dumb and cannot control their desires or/and understand their true needs.

[irvildor]

as long as countries cant control their populations reproduction EARTH need all the war she can get. Its sad but true

[UND3RTH3GUN]

@irvildor

Or...we could share the wealth.

[irvildor]

@UND3RTH3GUN

Its not about the wealth, im all for sharing, but that will not take care of the problem. Its about earth, her scarce resources and the insane reproduction ratio of the human race. Right now in western society "moralism" a human life is worth way more than the very planet that feeds us all. And most people are to dumb to either see or care about it

[UND3RTH3GUN]

@irvildor

Of course its about wealth, its always about wealth. Why do you think there are such scarce resources?

[tvoburner]

long live 69 skinhead reggae.

[Taq7]

If religion,extremism & hate

This is would be word of love

MAKE LOVE NOT WAR

VIETNAM WAR was a lovely war. But fuck war, Make Love

[viralfire]

Please stop ALL WAR..!

[adamattic]

let this be playing when i die!! so that it may echo into the ears of those who know my name!!

[AngelosInside]

@adamattic what's your name?

[adamattic]

@AngelosInside my name is dirt...and my father is the earth

[LarrySommer]

12/31/78 - Portland Oregon. Thank you for changing my life Jimmy...

[DouglasWatts]

Somebody had to have the guts to stand up and say it.

[1dobby7]

MAKE LOVE NOT WAR !!!

[Taq7]

Must say that The Vietnam was damn cool war. But sad it where so much killing there. Make love not war

the world would be better off if we kill all war and start making peace on earth

[blanchesimpson02]

@Taq7 as sad is it, the world economy would really decline without disease, and war.

[FriedChickenofDeath6]

@blanchesimpson02 Is people like you that make this song so modern and powerful, even nowadays...

[TheRide4pac]

@Taq7 What are you smoking? There's nothing 'cool' about war.