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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about The General (page 1/ 4) ------ performed by Dispatch all-time great | Reviewer: jon | 12/24/08 this song truely is amazing. i'm happy to see that new people are still getting into dispatch since they are so great. ps - that last comment - State Radio is Chad from Dispatch with a different bassist and drummer. they don't do as much acoustic stuff but they are still awesome. if you like this song check out Mr. Larkin by State Radio. amazing!! | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/21/08 i LOVE this song!! i have just recently started to listen to dispatch & they are really amazing. i could not describe them any other way.. if you are obsessed with them just like me, then you should deff look up STATE RADIO. they are very similar and i love both of them!! Re-interpreted for child soldiers | Reviewer: Lo | 3/28/08 I have always loved this song, I remember listening to it a lot right before the US went into Iraq. Dispatch broke up before that even started, but they reunited recently to perform a benefit concert for Zimbabwe. Seeing them sing this song with a choir of African children had me crying like a little girl. I never interpreted it to be about child soldiers, but I've had friends who made that connection right away ("he grew a beard as soon as he could" implies that he's very young). I have long considered the use of children in warfare to be the greatest evil in the modern world. The acts of the LRA in Uganda had me lying awake at night for months, meanwhile nobody in the media even covered what was happening there. There has only been a tiny bit of attention to this issue lately, and it's only focused on Sierra Leonne. To re-examine this song in this context has been very powerful for me. The lead singer of Dispatch went to Zimbabwe after high school, which explains a lot about who he is as a musician and a person. I've decided to go to Uganda next year to assist in the construction of a rehabilitation/family center for the many orphans (many of whom were forced to kill their own families!) in Uganda. There is no support offered them, and they just keep getting hit with floods and disasters disrupting the food supply, etc. I'm getting off topic, but to cut it short, it makes me so glad when someone else cares about these things and manages to get their message out there. A song like this really resonates with people, but is upbeat and beautiful enough that you can listen to it over and over (like I'm doing right now, :) I've seen the benefit concert on TV (in HD, on the hi-def music channel) and it's available on DVD. It's called Dispatch: Zimbabwe, and Netflix has it. I highly recommend checking it out and dare you not to cry watching it! <3 | Reviewer: Laura | 12/12/07 i first heard this song when i was at my fall rally during our vespers and i liked it but i was to deep into my thoughts to ask anyone the name then a couple of weeks ago i was at a friends party and she put it on and my mouth droped...THATS THE SONG!! no i cant stop lisening to it Wow. | Reviewer: Aria | 11/28/07 I heard this song while on Pandora.com and I can't belive the feelings it makes me have. It's truly incredible. The first time I heard it, I thought the beat was cool but wasn't really listening to the words, untill I heard it again and had to make sure, I have now listened to it over a dozed times in the past.... 30 mins? =D I really would like to hear more like this, because the feelings and emotions that come with it and really amazing. If you have any that you know of, would you please e-mail me the name of the song. weshallhavedomination@yahoo.com That would be really nice. Beautiful | Reviewer: Dr_Afrothunder | 10/12/07 This song is amazing. I stumbled on it while surfing myspace, and it has since been favorite. It is sooo...beautiful, yet bittersweet. It reaches me deeply, because as a pacifist, I often get caught between doing my duty and what I feel. Just...amazing. ^_^ Bajawesome!!!!!!!!! | Reviewer: Denis | 10/8/07 This song is so great I even had to make up a word for it its so good.....My word for it is bajawesome i love to listen to ever since my brother died in iraq. it always calms me down im just glad DIspatch made the song ... | Reviewer: slykid444@yahoo.com | 8/21/07 This song is really good..kinda hard to listen to and not tear..half my family is/was in the war so yeah..but love this song has amazing meaning to it WW1 | Reviewer: David | 8/16/07 A friend of mine related this song to a story about a christmas day on WW1. To summarize the story, the English and Germans traded presents and played soccer on christmas day. Afterwards, they refused to fight. Gunshots weren't heard for two weeks, and then the men were re-deployed all up and down the lines. But at the end of those two weeks, the 3 Generals there were told that someone would have to fight, so they did. So everyone except for the 3 Generals were re-deployed, and the 3 Generals stood and fought. You can see that this might be what the song is about by the line "the general said he would do his own duty but would extend it no further the men could go as they pleased" YES! | Reviewer: jared | 8/14/07 this song rocks, i have known a few great bands coming from flint michigan, this one disbanded but they played it in highschool and rocked this song. another great band coming up right now from here is called fearblind. check them out!!! theyre coming mainly from the machine shop here in flint michigan, but theyll be big soon so help them out they rock! Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4