Frankie Goes To Hollywood - War Lyrics

Oh... what is that impulse? We need to talk at it, sing into it, dissolve, find it and dissolve it, take it back to nature, that little-boy I'm cheated hurt - find it and sing at it.

Watching in 2020 ! 🇺🇸 Vs 🇮🇷 yikes.

Wars are actually good. Killing off the population of humans, killing political tyrants, economy, science/innovation. Changing hands of territories and of course, hope in the survivors. Also, you tell me when has there been a time in which a peasant able to rise to the ranks of King or Emperor.

wereld song,band,sound whatever, asses

105 people think war is good lol

not anywhere near as edwin star

War! What is it good for? Its good for the banks, they make a lot of money from war .

Rush Hour brought me here.

fantastic this i still have the 12 inch that has paul rutherford my fave frankie man on the cover holding the child so ahead of their time this band

It lacks the power the song needs. Try punk or heavy metal to cover this

Very well done my friend.

People who say war is not good, should realise, there have been more advances in science and invention due to war, than any other cause. If it was not for war, a lot of the things we take for granted these days ( including the internet ) would either never been invented or taken a great deal longer. Radar was an invention of war, the jet engine, rockets, instant glue.............................

RDS 1980S BETTER THAN THE ALBUM

Sorry, but the Springsteen and Black Stone Cherry covers, as well as, of course, the original, are better.

Feb 21, 2019

Hollly Jonson is a prophet. Bless his life for the music he has created!

Prophet !? Relax (sex), Two tribes (war) !Welcome to the pleasuredome : luxure .... money ??? Désolé, mon anglais est un peu faible. Mais FGTH est MON groupe préféré. Tant pis pour ceux qui n'aime pas, Je ne leurs en veux pas. Chacun pense/fais ce qu'il il veux.

This is originally from the temptations, not from fgth!

@Veit Gruhn the original is from Edwin Starr...

THAT bass !!

FUCK GEORGE BUSH AND MAY HE BURN IN HELL

Absolutely nothing....

I had forgotten how good this version is.

My school did this along time ago. And I still remember the lyrics ;)

sounds dark now this version is anti war

Leider keine HD oder HQ Aufnahme von diesem Lied vorhanden Great Frankie Great Track - No more War Peace !!!

Brilliant, thankyou!

Awesome!

LISTEN TO ME ... WAR FOR DOLLAR ... https://youtu.be/0sf8wr0eD7k

Best version of WAR ever

+++ Nothing +++  Keep war out of America +++

war is so beautiful surtout avec ces enculés de djihaidistes

I was introduced to FGtoH some 32 years ago by my elder brother, got all of their albums when hit 1+... years, and still listen to them with pleasure! You're always 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome", at the Kublai Khan Decree...

nog even weten wat oorlog is

Assad, Trump and Putin listen to this song

Wow...... That's what you call a remake...
Even this is a remake.... It's rhythm , as every 80's song have , will make you dance ..... Every 80's music had a Beat , had a Rhythm that was badass....
Not like ones in 2017

lille prins med den størrste stemme brok mobb maffi

welcome trump

Mal für alle "WAR ROOM" Betreiber ... einfach mal anhören

Donald trump COMES TO MIND

and how many wars did he start?

From what I know, currently none, infact he seems to be preventing some wars. Better than Mr. Bomb every Syrian Obama.

Very apocalyptic. This version I love for being serious.

whats the notes in the beginning? can anyone give source?

WAR ...... Whats it good for !!!!??????? ......... : { ....... PEACE XxX

Wasn't this originally performed by Edwin Starr

Jan Lee - Starr's version was a huge hit and the best known, however it was originally recorded by The Temptations.

I don't recall the Temptations version. I'll have to Google that.😀

I don't think I can  un-hear this version  which is staggering in it's power!!    ENJOY!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2pNCZiNk

No. First by The Temptations (album: Psychedelic Shark), then Edwin Starr as single.

If all the battles of the men gave only on the football field, how beautiful would be the wars.

very true

The alternative title for Leo Tolstoys novel "War and Peace" was "War, what is good for?"

WAR: BETTINA AHRENS

In war, truth is the first casuality!!! ( Aeschyles)

Iraq, what was it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.... Nothin....

All wars are evil and terrible - Wars in ancient and medieval times, Napoleonic wars, US Civil War, WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Falkland Island, Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, India Pak wars, Arab Israeli war, Present war on terror, Syrian civil war and counting.....! Future wars may be with Iran, North Korea.

Oil it’s good for oil

Without WW2, you wouldn't have the freedom to say that WW2 was evil, it was meant to be fought.

@Proud Canadian if?
Freedom , is?
War...
What is, if?

Was good for Dick Cheney and Haliburton

die aussage stimmt zu 100%!!!!

Favorite song, always been

Love this so much!!! ❤️

still true even today

+Inkswitch the Unicorn VERY TRUE

All wars are evil and terrible - Wars in ancient and medieval times, Napoleonic wars, US Civil War, WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Falkland Island, Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, India Pak wars, Arab Israeli war, Present war on terror, Syrian civil war and counting.....! Future wars may be with Iran, North Korea.

@Sam Nigam Yes we should have just let the Nazi's walk in and continue to murder masses even to this day.

I am 44 now, I must have been 15 when I sang along with this song..I never saw the clip,, first time...!

se podria haver currao la cancion

Edwin Starr

Von wann ist das?

80ziger denke so um 1986.

I would be one of the first people who love world peace!  I am a realist though we live in a very dangerous world, for it is man's nature to have war!!

LETS DO THIS COME ON LETS HAVE IT CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY MIND GOT DO THIS BEEN 2 QUIET BOOM BACK ON THE SCENE OF THE DESPOTISM AND DOGMA COMING AT YEAH YOU MACHIAVELLIS

Where can you get this version? This is different than the one on "Welcome to the Pleasuredome."

Larry Wilson , it's on the greatest hits album (bang!...)

Excellente reprise du Boss

c'est pas une reprise du boss mais de Edwin Starr… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_(Edwin_Starr_song)

Merci pour cette info je ne connaissais que la reprise de Bruce Springteen donc je vais me coucher moins bête que je me suis levée Bon dimanche

J'aime ta réponse toute en douceur, Monika.Merci pour ce rayon de soleil. Au cas où tu n'as pas encore entendu la chanson originale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2pNCZiNk ;)

Great vid. Sharing...

Miksi oi Miksi.

Guerra?Para quê? para os poderosos e tiranos.Para aqueles que mandam os outros morrerem e eles enriquecerem...

war??? is good only for the power, the tirans and bad people

this is a really big up beat song thats why I love it

Mr Badintentionss....There were 5 in the band and only 2 were gay, so that doesn't make the group gay. But who cares Holy is a great signer/performer as was Paul Rutherford. Why does society make such an issue of someone being Gay. Get over it....

I couldn't care less if 2 or all were gay. the only person making an issue of this is you

Great to hear this version again.
Excellent song, strong and powerful!

War is never a necessity, just the choice of those too stubborn or egotistical to explore alternatives, almost always someone/someones who won't actually have to participate in said war.

instrumental in my upbringing during the heyday

You all keep putting the fuckers there in the first place. When you all going to learn?

"The logic of war is such that if belligerents can fight, they will fight. Leaders will not surrender until surrender is academic. How do national leaders explain the loss of so much for nothing..." --Ronald Reagan sound-alike opening narration, "War", performed by Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Reagan the architect of rich tax breaks and the start of the down fall of the middle class.

FGTH wasn't too enamored of Reagan, hence they used a soundalike in a lot of their spoken word stuff in Welcome to the Pleasuredome album.

Mary Anne Fontana The sound-alike of Reagan is Chris Barrie, most famous for playing the hologram Rimmer in Red Dwarf. He also provided many of the voices on the satirical tv programme Spitting Image.

Ah happy memories of Spitting Image and their mini-series about Reagan "The president's brain is missing." Satire at it's best. Of course Reagan was later found to be suffering from Alzheimer's which explains a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FaH7ATXkWg

Ah yes, Spitting Image and their Reagan mini-series "The President's brain is Missing!" Of course he was late found to be suffering from Alzheimers. Here's a link to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FaH7ATXkWg

ego will always exist in the hands of the powermongers. expect world wars to keep happening 2 times a century or so....

Huh??!! Ever read a history book? It seems the Germans wanted their shot at world domination, invaded several countries, and established the Axis nations alliance to achieve their ends. No conspiracies here just the usual power and land grabs. A conspiracy would be somebody yakking about world wars on a FGTH section in YouTube in a nefarious attempt to tie in the military/industrial complex to a rock song which clearly was composed by George Bush and some mistreated leprechauns.

World Wars 1 and 2 should never have been allowed to happen.
So many (aprox. 60 million) good Russians, Germans, Americans, French, Poles, British and other Europeans set at each others' throats and murdered for no good reason.
There needs to be a thorough reckoning of who profited and benefited by these wars and how they were instigated. Wartime propaganda can be misleading.

Sounded like Ronald Reagan.

Andy Rose it is ronald Reagan

half right, it's actually an impressionist from spitting image called Christopher Barry.

Ian Turner oh of course chris Barry the guy who played Arnold trimmer in red dwarf

Ian Turner I mean rimmer

It's Chris Barrie, he voiced Reagan in the British satire show Spitting Image.

Dedicating this to you MR President

Amen to that! USA, let's stay the hell out of Syria!

Эта война очистила мир от фашизма. фашизм хотел очистить мир от свободы и демократии и получил по заслугам

Not for the economy.

Unless you're German in which case we beat you twice XD (sorry, sorry...just couldn't resist it!)

personally wouldnt have used so much stock footage of WWII, Vietnam is the old faithful for this song

to jest dobre

"War is good for absolutly nothing!"
Good for the War-Industry! But i say: War-Industry Fuck you!

Not from the side of the Industry..

But what did atheism have to do with what communist dictators did to it's own people? Atheism = lack of faith in a god. That's all it is. You cannot ascribe anything else to atheism. It wasn't atheism that made the russians slaughter so many people, it was the corrupt communist party leaders.

War-huh… It's an enemy of all mankind
No point of war 'cos you're a man
Give it to me one time-now
Give it to me one time-now
War has shattered
Many young men's dreams
We've got no place for it today
They say we must fight to keep our freedom but Lord, there's just got to be a better way and it ain't nothing but a heartbreaker
War… Friend only to the undertaker
War War War-Good God, now
Now… Give it to me one time now
Now now… What is it good for?

war is only necessary in the name of peace or protection. i.e. militia, militant and guerilla warfare is the only necessary warfare. not modern conflicts the US involve themselves in like the war on terror which seems to be just a war for oil

So you think what they did they did under some banner of atheist dogma?????? Or perhaps it was the communist ideology that were behind their actions and not their lack of faith in a god? Seriously, I wish people spent a couple of minutes thinking things through.

Yes. They were aggressively atheist.

nonsense, that's simply coming from cognitive dissonance. Atheism is lack of faith in a god. Anything beyond that is something else, an ideology or political movement. Atheism in itself is neutral. Perhaps you're talking about militant secularists?

communist rule, okay, but atheist? so if communist leaders enjoyed peacock for dinner you'd say the worst atrocities were under communist peacock-eating rule?

Under Josef Stalin rule, you mean.

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Relax ...

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the worst attrocities were under communist atheist rule

including atheism, modern atheists are like the crazy old fundamentalist christians. placard waving hatemongers

My Dad was in WW2 and never spoke a word of what went down on the front line where he was posted....he took that experience to the grave this past year. He was only 18 years old when he went overseas.....I'm thankful he came back to become my Dad, I cannot imagine what he went through....love ya Dad. xoxo
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@xAriBenjaminx share your link or inbox it to me, mate, I would love to hear it :) You sound like a very open-minded, down-to-earth person too.

I know they're not, but it does sound to me as though Dead Or Alive are featured on this.

Hi! I'm a young, but big fan of Frankie Goes to Hollywood! I covered this song, and played it live at my school! I would be really happy if all of you Frankie fans could check it out, and maybe tell me what you think about it:) It's to be found here: /watch?v=PyDFXfT9nbM&feature=youtu.be

@mrwells111 yes you're right. but when it comes to religion or nationality, some people put up walls to anything which might 'threaten' their beliefs. but true belief can't be threatened by the words or beliefs of others - that's how you tell one from the other.