Songs about real life incidents?

liveon2legs

im loving the feedback! - but people are gonna have to start telling me what these songs are about!!!

reeferchief

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.

catefrances

reeferchief wrote:

ok

Rooster is about vietnam.

more specifically its about jerry cantrell's father.

reeferchief

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

mookie blaylock 10

bonavista2005 wrote:

let's roll by neil young

great tune! not enough people know this one or have heard it. good pick.

mookie blaylock 10

shell bell wrote:

The Wreck of the Edmund fitzgerald-Gordon Lightfoot

brilliant & classic!

mookie blaylock 10

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!

bonavista2005

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

bonavista2005

empty sky by springsteen about 911

*given*to*fly*

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

mariposa

*given*to*fly* wrote:

for what its worth? whats that about ?
iv heard the song but i guess iv never really really listened

While it's regarded as one of the protest songs in the 60's and in particular the Vietnam War. It is however believed that Stills wrote it in reaction to the 1966 closing of Pandora's Box (a small rock club in L.A.'s Sunset Strip) and the escalating unrest between club-goer's and the police. The club was the site of protests after law enforcement imposed a 10 p.m. curfew for those under 18. The real reason behind it was control of the growing crowds in the small club, they said it was spilling into Sunset Strip traffic.

The Los Angeles officials ended up bulldozing the club and built a right turn traffic light in the same place.

Pearlrushstones

Another classic Lightoot number, actuall 2 of them:
Canadian Railroad Trilogy and "Black Day IN July" great songs timeless classics

uninnocent

Thumbing My Way wrote:

50 Mission Cap - The Tragically Hip

go leafs go

*given*to*fly*

mariposa wrote:

While it's regarded as one of the protest songs in the 60's and in particular the Vietnam War. It is however believed that Stills wrote it in reaction to the 1966 closing of Pandora's Box (a small rock club in L.A.'s Sunset Strip) and the escalating unrest between club-goer's and the police. The club was the site of protests after law enforcement imposed a 10 p.m. curfew for those under 18. The real reason behind it was control of the growing crowds in the small club, they said it was spilling into Sunset Strip traffic.

The Los Angeles officials ended up bulldozing the club and built a right turn traffic in the same place.

wow you must know everything lol that was very detailed
thanx

mariposa

*given*to*fly* wrote:

wow you must know everything lol that was very detailed
thanx

I did an assignment about that song back in highschool for Music and Lyrics class. I'm quite pleased I still remember it.

mariposa

All My Love ~ Led Zeppelin
(Robert Plant wrote this song when his oldest son Karac, died of a stomach infection.)

Rock the Casbah ~ The Clash
(Iran's banning of rock music)

El_Kabong

UpHereInMyTree500 wrote:

Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2

i like john lennon's version better

http://www.lyricsondemand.com/j/johnlennonlyrics/sundaybloodysundaylyrics.html

liveon2legs

Wow guys so stoked with the replies to this thread! IM off to buy a neil young and bob dylan CD tomorrow but i need some suggestions!!! are these guys considered the "storytellers" if so does anyone else get this kind of acolade?

dan_vedder

man u should listen to powderfinger by lou reed.
also get new york - lou reed

excellentbadger

what about Rival by pearl jam?

i thought this was about the columbine shootings or something...