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liveon2legsliveon2legs Posts: 10
edited February 2006 in Other Music
Hey i was listening to "i dont like mondays" & "Drive" and was wondering if anybody knew any other brilliant thought provoking songs about real life happenings?

Thanx
the defection of the soul, nauseously quick
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    UpHereInMyTree500UpHereInMyTree500 Posts: 1,772
    Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
    Wave came crashing...
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    liveon2legsliveon2legs Posts: 10
    Cool thanx - i'm not a huge U2 fan - but listening to these lyrics is enlightening
    the defection of the soul, nauseously quick
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    UpHereInMyTree500UpHereInMyTree500 Posts: 1,772
    If you like songs that tell stories have a listen to 'Tangled Up In Blue' by Bob Dylan. Amazing stuff.
    Wave came crashing...
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    catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    ohio - neil young.

    for what it's worth - buffalo springfield.

    jeremy - pearl jam.

    say hello 2 heaven - temple of the dog.

    hurricane - bob dylan.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
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    liveon2legsliveon2legs Posts: 10
    thanx guys - love it!
    Keep it up
    the defection of the soul, nauseously quick
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    intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    john wayne gacy- sufjan stevens

    that one comes to mind because i listened to the album this morning.
    Charlotte 00
    Charlotte 03
    Asheville 04
    Atlanta 12
    Greenville 16, Columbia 16
    Seattle 18 
    Nashville 22
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    bonavista2005bonavista2005 Posts: 78
    let's roll by neil young



    edit...this phrase/song comes from flight 93 that went down over PA on 911
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    yosi1yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
    Alive - Pearl Jam
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
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    catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    yosi wrote:
    Alive - Pearl Jam

    i can't tell you how many times i've wanted to slap that mother.
    it gets to me every time.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
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    barcoachbarcoach Posts: 413
    Safe European Home by The Clash, about the trip Joe and Mick did to Jamaica around 1977... and many others by the Clash...

    41 shots by Bruce Springsteen...
    Stone: Thanks for the pick and the night of complicity, you rock!
    -The crazy guy with the Ramones t-shirt.
    Mexico C. 12/10/05.

    "There is a rose that I want to live for
    although, God knows, I may not have met her"
    -J. Strummer

    "And you'll never know just how dark this screen could be"
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    barcoachbarcoach Posts: 413
    UpHereInMyTree500 wrote:
    If you like songs that tell stories have a listen to 'Tangled Up In Blue' by Bob Dylan. Amazing stuff.

    the whole Blood on the Tracks album...
    Stone: Thanks for the pick and the night of complicity, you rock!
    -The crazy guy with the Ramones t-shirt.
    Mexico C. 12/10/05.

    "There is a rose that I want to live for
    although, God knows, I may not have met her"
    -J. Strummer

    "And you'll never know just how dark this screen could be"
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    upina2001upina2001 Indiana Posts: 764
    THE BOSS-GHOST OF TOM JOAD
    most of the cd is true stories

    Toledo, Ohio (September 22, 1996), East Troy, Wisconsin (June 26, 1998), Noblesville, Indiana (August 17, 1998), Noblesville, Indiana (August 18, 2000), Cincinnati, Ohio (August 20, 2000), Columbus, Ohio (August 21, 2000), Nashville, Tennessee (April 18, 2003), Champaign, Illinois (April 23, 2003), Noblesville, Indiana (June 22, 2003), Chicago, Illinois (May 16, 2006), Chicago, Illinois (August 05, 2007), West Palm Beach, Florida (June 11, 2008), Tampa, Florida (June 12, 2008), Columbus, OH (May 06, 2010), Noblesville, Indiana (May 07, 2010), Wrigley Field (July 19, 2013), US Bank Arena (October 01, 2014), Lexington (April 26, 2016), Chicago Night 2 (August 20, 2018), Boston Night 1 (September 02, 2018), Nashville (September 16, 2022), St. Louis (September 18, 2022)

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    surferdudesurferdude Posts: 2,057
    The most famous of all....Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple

    Ohio - Neil Young
    Pretty Tied Up - GnR
    Paper Sun - Def Leppard
    “One good thing about music,
    when it hits you, you feel to pain.
    So brutalize me with music.”
    ~ Bob Marley
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    bonavista2005bonavista2005 Posts: 78
    truckin...a series of events that led up to a bust in a hotel room in new orleans. about the dead's life on the road

    tha last dj...about jim ladd...the last dj that played what he wanted to play...waaay before clear channel got involved in forcing us what heard on the radio


    cool thread btw


    edit to include the story behind the song :)
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    merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    intodeep wrote:
    john wayne gacy- sufjan stevens

    that one comes to mind because i listened to the album this morning.

    That song gives me the creeps every time I listen to it.

    Great album.

    Lets see,

    Breathing - Kate Bush
    Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol - Dylan (although he took license with the story)
    The Spiderbite Song - Flaming Lips

    The most famous example that isn't true would be In the Air Tonight- Phil Collins
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

    http://www.last.fm/user/merkinball/
    spotify:user:merkinball
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    reeferchiefreeferchief Posts: 3,569
    Not For You, Rearview Mirror, Lukin - Pearl Jam
    Welcome to the Jungle - Guns n Roses
    Something in the Way - Nirvana
    Rooster - Alice in Chains
    Can not be arsed with life no more.
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    shell bellshell bell Posts: 337
    The Wreck of the Edmund fitzgerald-Gordon Lightfoot
    when you get confused just listen to the music play........

    "You damn well can't lick the system,but you can sure give it a good fondeling."-sleazy estate man(Hugh Laurie on A bit of Fry and Laurie)

    "Judas Priest on a two stroke moped!"(Stephen Fry)
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    Thumbing My WayThumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    50 Mission Cap - The Tragically Hip
    "I Miss You Already!!!!!"

    "Sorry is the fool who trades his love for high-rise rent, Seems the more you make equals the loneliness you get"

    .NJD.
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    bonavista2005bonavista2005 Posts: 78
    milgrams37 by gabriel

    i've only ever heard it once on a live bootleg....blew my mind wide open


    edit....this one is about some experiments done with stanley milgram and the power of persuasion, a person who in authority, can ultimately have over another "not in power" person...63% of people offered pain/hurt to the test subject when pressured by an person in authority...the tests results say a lot about human beings...ie nazi germany...
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    Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    UpHereInMyTree500 wrote:
    If you like songs that tell stories have a listen to 'Tangled Up In Blue' by Bob Dylan. Amazing stuff.
    words cannot expresshow much I love that song!!!
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
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    liveon2legsliveon2legs Posts: 10
    im loving the feedback! - but people are gonna have to start telling me what these songs are about!!!
    the defection of the soul, nauseously quick
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    reeferchiefreeferchief Posts: 3,569
    liveon2legs wrote:
    im loving the feedback! - but people are gonna have to start telling me what these songs are about!!!

    ok
    reeferchief wrote:
    Not For You, Rearview Mirror, Lukin - Pearl Jam
    Welcome to the Jungle - Guns n Roses
    Something in the Way - Nirvana
    Rooster - Alice in Chains

    Not For You and Rearview Mirror both hold reference and are in part about Eddies relationship with his stepdad.
    Lukin about been hounded by the press and recieving death threats, and subsequently going to hang out at Matt Lukins(Mudhoney) house where it was much safer.
    Welcome to the Jungle, living and surviving life in L.A pretty much most of Appetite for Destruction really.
    Something in the Way was about Kurt sleeping rough and living homeless.
    Rooster is about vietnam.
    Can not be arsed with life no more.
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    catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    reeferchief wrote:
    ok

    Rooster is about vietnam.

    more specifically its about jerry cantrell's father.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
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    reeferchiefreeferchief Posts: 3,569
    catefrances wrote:
    more specifically its about jerry cantrell's father.

    hit the nail on the head my friend, a beautiful but sad and moving song
    Can not be arsed with life no more.
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    mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    bonavista2005 wrote:
    let's roll by neil young

    great tune! not enough people know this one or have heard it. good pick.
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    mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    shell bell wrote:
    The Wreck of the Edmund fitzgerald-Gordon Lightfoot

    brilliant & classic!
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    mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    november in ontario - the skydiggers (based on a boating tragedy in the fall on an ontario lake...four men died i think)

    when this is over - hayden (a song about susan smith's two boys that she let drown while buckled in the back seat of the car...song is sung from the perspective of the two boys...the older one comforting the younger one...very moving, very sad)

    old man - neil young (a song about a gardener at his california ranch)

    cortez the killer - neil young (banned in spain, about spanish explorer hernando cortez)

    adia - sarah mcLachlan (an apology and explanation of her feelings to her estranged best friend...sarah fell in love with and married her best friend's ex)

    wheat kings - the tragically hip (about the 23 year wrongful imprisonment of david milgaard, and his ultimate realease from prison)

    the ballad of ira hayes - johnny cash (about the mistreatment of veterans...particularly native veterans like prima ira hayes and his death due to acute alcoholism)

    westray - weeping tile (about a mining disaster in nova scotia and the alledged cover up and scandal that followed the deaths of 26 miners in the small community)

    the town i loved so well - the dubliners (i like their version the best...about the troubles in northern ireland, particulary in derry, the fall of a once beautiful town, and the hope for a brighter future)


    ...so many more neil young songs...the king of the storytellers...the needle and the damage done, tonight's the night, southern man, piece of crap, motion pictures...and on and on...keep writing them neil! :)
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    bonavista2005bonavista2005 Posts: 78
    biko by gabriel

    about Stephen Bantu Biko and south africa's apartheid:

    On September 6, 1977 he was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967. He suffered a major head injury around September 6th while in police custody and was chained to a window grill for a full day. On September 11, police loaded him into the back of a car and began the 740-mile drive to another prison. He died en route. Police claimed his death was the result of an extended hunger strike
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    bonavista2005bonavista2005 Posts: 78
    empty sky by springsteen about 911
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    *given*to*fly**given*to*fly* Posts: 325
    catefrances wrote:
    ohio - neil young.

    for what it's worth - buffalo springfield.

    jeremy - pearl jam.

    say hello 2 heaven - temple of the dog.

    hurricane - bob dylan.



    for what its worth? whats that about ?
    iv heard the song but i guess iv never really really listened
    dream like your living forever
    live like your dying today
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