War Pigs
War Is For Pigs War in general is a term that’s generally looked down upon in society. People see that in the end it’s the death of many, just to get the an end result that can be achieved with various other methods. This can be related to our current War on Terror, to World War I and II, and even the Vietnam War, where anti-war feelings were really well known. A big way that these anti-feelings were expressed were through the sound of music, from notable artists and bands such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Pete Steeger. The Vietnam War era of the mid and late 1960’s to the early to mid 1970’s is filled with songs that speak of just how much people wanted the troops to come back home and how much they were against it. One song that really caught my eye was War Pigs by Black Sabbath. It is a hard metal song that is widely considered one of the greatest heavy metal songs of all time and features one of the greatest guitar solos of all time. It’s not a genre of music of which I linked to anti-war, or one that I really enjoyed before, but it was a nice change of pace where I found very meaningful lyrics to go along with some skillful guitar, and the fact that Ozzy Osbourne was singing was the icing on the cake. Going back to the music at the time period; people loved and agreed with all the anti-war media that was going on, after finally being able to see and hear the truth of the war right in their own living rooms watching the news, as reporters were actually being shipped off into the war and getting their video and news feed straight from the source, the people back home could no longer be lied to by the government of how they were winning when in reality they really weren’t. The can most notably be seen by the gathering at Woodstock in 1969. Woodstock was a music festival that took place over the three day period of August 15 to August 18, and it was built around the idea of peace and music, where many anti-war artists and bands played their songs that