One for the Diggers: ANZAC Tunes

ANZAC Day is our national day of rememberance, so I got to thinking, what if I got drafted and had to go to some God awful place and either kill or be killed - I would need a few select albums to get me through the awfulness.

Slayer. REIN IN BLOOD.

This would be the album you would crank as you descended into some hell hole in a chopper knowing that you were minutes away from being shot to pieces. This is the ultimate psych-up album and by far Slayer's best.


Jose Gonzales. VENEER.

After you have blasted your way out of a village of innocents and been set upon by lunatics with AK's you might want to chill out and pretend its all not happening. This would be the pick, just to drift away and slip into another place for a while.

Metallica. RIDE THE LIGHTNING.

This album would fire you up but might just make you think long enough to realise that your doomed and should probably shoot yourself in the leg and get the hell out of there, after all this album was a pretty strong comment on the futility of war, incarceration and the death penalty. Its true, Metallica always had a lot to say about politics, just check out their 1988 release
And Justice For All for a musical version of Animal Farm.