Arlington trace atkins
 
"The Great Nations of Europe" by Randy Newman

What a Piece of Work is Man from "Hair" for Ren
       A Mighty Fortress is Our God" for Ref
        "Le Marseillaise" Fr Revol
        Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Napoleon
Tennessee Ernie Ford "16 Tons" for Industrial Rev
        from Les Mis, "Red and Black" ...is that title? for wars of 1830 and 48
        Italian Nationalism "Va, pensiero..." from Nabucco and "La Donna e Mobile"   
            from Rigoletto
       "Over There " WWI. 

Stalin wasn't Stallin'
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition"
       Billy Joel "We Didn't Start the Fire" for post WWII

http://home.uchicago.edu/~yli5/Flash/Fire.html

11th Earl of Mar by Genesis which I beleive is 
about
the Spanish Armanda.
Sail away - Randy Newman (slave trade)
Will ye no come back again – traditional (Bonnie Prince Charlie and the 
45)
Working class hero - John Lennon (social class)
The Attack of the Terrible Tudors (the whole Tudor family history - 
from 
Histeria TV cartoon)
The Invasion song (who attacked whom - also from Histeria)
Rule Britannia (my students traditionally sing it just before they 
start the exam)
 
Tom Lehrer wrote  
The Vatican rag (Vatican II)
Who’s Next (nuclear proliferation)
So long Mom (World War III)
Send the marines (US military interventions)
We will all go together when we go (MAD)
 
And a couple for the Middle Ages
Kings – Steely Dan (Richard the Lionhearted and John)
Phony king of England - Disney’s Robin Hood cartoon (same topic)
Monty Python's Decomposing Composers
Henry VIII by Herman's Hermits
 
Pink Floyd - Get your filthy Hands Off my Desert..
 
And no body ever mentions the great british post-punk bands "New Model
Army" or the "Levellers" both are as political and English in focus as
their namesakes and sing about every political issue in near recent
British History you can think up.
 
 
A good late 19th century to post WWII album is the Kinks "Arthur." 
Particularly "Victoria" about queen Victoria, "Some Mother's Son" about 
A WWI vet, and "Mr. Churchill Said."
 
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin (Weimar Republic)
 
Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols
God Save the Queen - Sex Pistols
Money - Pink Floyd (Intro to Adam Smith)
Lincoln Bridage - Woodie Guthrie (Spanish Civil War)
I Feel Pretty - West Side Story (Aestheticism)
Sister Suffragette - Mary Poppins (Women's Suffrage, mentions 
Pankhurst)
 
Did anyone mention "The Trooper" - Iron Maiden on the Crimean War?
Louis XVI by Alan Sherman

Pink Floyd:  The Final Cut

Theme of the album:  Post WWII

"Whatever happened to the post war dream?"

Driving the Last Spike by Genesis on the construction of the English 
railway system. 
Sunday Bloody Sunday- U2 (the lyrics can be made to sound sort of like
a plea from Tom Collins against the Brits)
 
A Vietnam medley... The End (The Doors)

Emmylou Harris

1918  

> Alltogether Now - The Farm (WWI Christmas Truce)
>
> Right Here Right Now - Jesus Jones (fall of the Berlin Wall?)
>
> Childrens Crusade - Sting (WWI

The Oliver Cromwell Song - Monty Python
The (Bruce's) Philosophers Song - Monty Python (very funny, and 
mentions a load of thinkers!)
Sympathy For The Devil by The Rolling  Stones hits quite a bit of 20th century European (and US) history.
"Ra Ra Rasputin" by Boney M - the best song you'll ever find. My kids know it by heart now:)

"Spanish Bombs" by the Clash (Spanish Civil War) Bare Naked Ladies - It's All Been Done
>Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
>Steve Martin - King Tut
>Monty Python - Knights of the Roundtable
>They Might Be Giants - Instanbul (not Constantinople)
>Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
>U2 - In the Name of Love (MLK assassination)
>U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (1972)
>Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
>Nena - 99 Luft Ballons (Cold War)
>Billy Joel - Allentown
>Billy Joel - Leningrad
>Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire
>Bowling for Soup - 1985Mozambique - Bruce Cockburn

If I had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn

Biko - Peter Gabrial

Biko - Christy Moore

John Wilkes Boothe - Tony Rice Written by Mary Chapin Carpenter

Political Science - Randy Newman

Talking Vietnam Pot Luck Blues - Tom Paxton

Anything almost by Phil Ochs - White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land

Ballad of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen

Liverpool Lullaby - Judy Collins

Marat - Judy Collins

bad religion - heaven is falling (gulf war), big bang (history of the
universe-actually the most useful of the bad religion tunes, even if it
is a little pessimistic), stranger than fiction (lots of literary
references)
 
bob dylan - hurricane (made a movie out of it), with god on our side
(every war, ever), plenty of others
 
jimmy cliff - vietnam (self explanatory)
 
creedence clearwater revival - fortunate son (vietnam)
 
abba - waterloo (just silly, but relevant)
 
iron maiden - aces high (battle of britain)
 
bob marley - buffalo soldier (american civil war)
 
bruce springsteen - born in the u.s.a. (anti-war), american skin
(murder by police of that guy in new york. amadou dialo?)
 
elvis costello and the attractions - peace in our time (world war 2,
chamberlain and hitler)
 
csn+y - ohio (kent state)
 
marvin gaye - what's going on (environmental destruction)
 
and just for fun, propaghandi - and we thought nation states were a
good idea (critique of corporate capitalism)
Check out the R.E.M. video for "Losing My Religion" the artwork is 
awesome.
There was a professor at FIU who taught an entire class just analyzing 
this
video. It is pretty deep once you really pay attention to it. 
They Might Be Giants--Istanbul
 
Other quality history songs:
 
Blitzkrieg bop- Ramones(guess the topic!)
Gods of War- Def Leppard(with Reagan and Thatcher clips)
Der Kommisar- After the Fire(East Germany)
It's a Mistake-Men at Work(start of war)