Various Artists - Good Morning Vietnam / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

From Saigon The sounds of sonar, tank caterpillars and machine-gun fire overshadow a schoolchildren's math lesson and a prayer for peace prayed by a monk; we observe American soldiers blunting their confusion with booze, as they make arrangements with prostitutes... One man wonders, "I don't even know what I'll do when I get back to the world, but I hope I'll do something good." Good Morning, Vietnam is a sound collage compiled by Claude Johner, a photographer who was touched by the ravages of war, "the reality of which is beyond those who direct it." Album Tracks 1. Radio Informs ND Enterains You 2. Western in Saigon 3. The Arithmetic Lesson 4. Prayers for Peace 5. Everyday Life in the Country 6. The War Machine in Operation 7. The Abstract-Universe of War 8. The Bars, Money of the Forgetting of War 9. The Cost of War 10. Fire!