Songs about real life incidents?

liveon2legs
liveon2legs 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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  • UpHereInMyTree500
    UpHereInMyTree500 Posts: 1,772
    Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
    Wave came crashing...
  • liveon2legs
    liveon2legs 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
  • UpHereInMyTree500
    UpHereInMyTree500 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...
  • catefrances
    catefrances 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
  • liveon2legs
    liveon2legs Posts: 10
    thanx guys - love it!
    Keep it up
    the defection of the soul, nauseously quick
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    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 | Ohana Festival 24 x2 | Atlanta 25 x2
  • bonavista2005
    bonavista2005 Posts: 78
    let's roll by neil young



    edit...this phrase/song comes from flight 93 that went down over PA on 911
  • yosi1
    yosi1 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.
  • catefrances
    catefrances 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
  • barcoach
    barcoach 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"
  • barcoach
    barcoach 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"
  • upina2001
    upina2001 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)

  • surferdude
    surferdude 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
  • bonavista2005
    bonavista2005 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 :)
  • merkinball
    merkinball 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
  • reeferchief
    reeferchief 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.
  • shell bell
    shell 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)
  • Thumbing My Way
    Thumbing 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.
  • bonavista2005
    bonavista2005 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...
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 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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