War Pigs
Somewhere in this thread I said changes were made to my list because I felt obligated to certain songs/bands that I was leaving out. Black Sabbath was one. I have a story. Briefly as I can. My bro is 69. He went from muscle bound, crew cut wearing, record setting HS running back, all-american boy - to war protesting, long haired, bearded, radical college hippy in one year. I idolized him and the change freaked me out. My friends called my dad Santini. He was patriotic, pro war, and military to the bone, nttawwt. The only war 9 year old me cared about was the one between them. Sabbath and a long list of 60s protest music was banned from our house. The day big bro was cut off, kicked out, and told not to come back, I ran out to his brown yellow and gold van and begged him
to change back. He looked at his little bro, sighed and said, get in. He drove to the neighborhood park softly explaining Vietnam to me and why it was so important to him. Then he defended the music they were fighting about. Spoke these lyrics to me, explaining them. Played the song on 8 track through big cabiniet speakers he'd wired to the back of that van. And I heard the war in those dark guitars.
addendum: today he's a proud christian conservative and my hair is on my shoulders.