9. Edwin Starr: 'War' � One of the most popular protest songs ever committed to plastic, the 1970 Motown smash hit is buoyed by the chorus �"War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin'!� and attacks the Vietnam War with general distaste and venom. Praised by that other great anti-war song writer John Lennon, the track shot straight to number one in the Billboard charts upon release and was duly adopted by the anti-Vietnam War movement in the early 1970s.
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