American patriotic music 1917, when he saw headlines announcing the U.S. had entered World War I. Cohan also is famous for penning "Yankee Doodle Dandy," an over-the-top parody of patriotic music. A 1918 Irving Berlin composition, "God Bless America", is sometimes considered an unofficial national anthem of the United States and is often performed at sporting events alongside (or, in some rare cases, such as Ronan Tynan, in place of) "The Star-Spangled Banner." In 1940, Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land Is Your Land" in response to his dislike of "God Bless America", calling it unrealistic and complacent. The World War II era produced
God Bless Miss Black America produced by Julia Kidd and Daisy Metz. Five tracks from the album were released as single, they were; All five were included in two of John Peel's Festive Fiftys. ""Don't Speak My Mind"" and ""Human Punk"" were included in the 2001 list, placed at number 42 and number 14 respectively, while ""Infinite Chinese Box"", ""Miss Black America"" and ""Talk Hard"" were placed at 45, 11 and 3 respectively in the 2002 list. The album has been described as a ""fast 'n' hard sonic pummelling"", and that ""much of God Bless sounds like the more mature Manic Street Preachers playing U2's