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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Dorian Lynskey

War of the words


Ready, aim, fire off your suggestion

Thanks for all your contributions to this week's long-distance communication playlist. A week on Monday it will be three years to the day since the start of Britain and America's Iraqi misadventure so the next list's theme is war.

Anti-war songs, particularly from the Vietnam era, are the obvious place to start (I can already hear a dozen people typing the words "Bob Dylan - Masters of War") but there are many more unusual treatments, such as Camouflage, Stan Ridgway's spoken-word tale of a phantom marine. Any conflict qualifies, from the Falklands to the War of Jenkins' Ear. The less obvious the better. The one significant exception is nuclear war because (a) it hasn't actually happened (yet) and (b) it merits a list of its own.

I've had to move the deadline forward a few hours so please post your suggestions by Monday 1pm.

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