Songs that tell a story
Discussion
Fort Minor - Kenji
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUBKcOZjX6g
The song is based on interviews with Mike Shinoda's father and aunt who were interned in Manzanar during World War II. Shinoda raps about how the family was given two days to pack everything into two bags, the depression, racial profiling, living under lockdown and growing crops for the guards. The voices of his father and aunt can be heard in sound bites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUBKcOZjX6g
The song is based on interviews with Mike Shinoda's father and aunt who were interned in Manzanar during World War II. Shinoda raps about how the family was given two days to pack everything into two bags, the depression, racial profiling, living under lockdown and growing crops for the guards. The voices of his father and aunt can be heard in sound bites.
nonsequitur said:
DickyC said:
nonsequitur said:
Happiness Jack -- The Small Faces
Shum mishtake surelyHappy Jack - The Who
(Moon's contribution described as "lead drumming")
I understood every word of that! As a nipper I remember my mum talking in Unwinisms occasionally.... ''ooh our Michael's been pukey milo of the sicky poo, on the kitchy florio, deep jolly oh yes'', etc, etc.
just thought of another - Cream's 'Mother's Lament', the kind of song that no modern rock band would ever do these days.
just thought of another - Cream's 'Mother's Lament', the kind of song that no modern rock band would ever do these days.
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
Crossroad Blues - Robert Johnson, depending on your point of view its either about loneliness or the whole selling his soul to the devil thing.
The Gaslight Anthem - Here's looking at you kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKN0HHyM3Hk
Hopes, ambitions and dreams, lost loves along the way and then, eventually the dream come true but it turns out not to be what he hoped, but it works out in the end.
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1lq40tR72Q
Fallon likes working in references to literature (hence "Marley's chains"). The song is actually about a friend he lost in a car crash.
A lot of springsteen references in his work too. The whole Get Hurt album is about the break up with his first wife, who also happened to be the sister of a band member. Much of it is pretty raw. Seems that pretty much finished off the band.
Books from boxes - Maximo Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HshGsILGlqw
Girlfriend takes a job/placement in Paris, he doesn't want her to go. The song is followed up by Parisian Skies which is the inevitable break up.
Thoughts of a dying atheist - Muse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQcjpJHr5BI
Bellamy is an atheist, this is meant to be about dying without believeing in an after life / heaven / hell etc.
Crossroad Blues - Robert Johnson, depending on your point of view its either about loneliness or the whole selling his soul to the devil thing.
The Gaslight Anthem - Here's looking at you kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKN0HHyM3Hk
Hopes, ambitions and dreams, lost loves along the way and then, eventually the dream come true but it turns out not to be what he hoped, but it works out in the end.
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1lq40tR72Q
Fallon likes working in references to literature (hence "Marley's chains"). The song is actually about a friend he lost in a car crash.
A lot of springsteen references in his work too. The whole Get Hurt album is about the break up with his first wife, who also happened to be the sister of a band member. Much of it is pretty raw. Seems that pretty much finished off the band.
Books from boxes - Maximo Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HshGsILGlqw
Girlfriend takes a job/placement in Paris, he doesn't want her to go. The song is followed up by Parisian Skies which is the inevitable break up.
Thoughts of a dying atheist - Muse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQcjpJHr5BI
Bellamy is an atheist, this is meant to be about dying without believeing in an after life / heaven / hell etc.
conkerman said:
Genesis - Driving the last spike.
And about a million other songs.
Great track.And about a million other songs.
I'll add the albums
Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
Brave - Marillion
The Crimson Idol - W.A.S.P.
Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche
But as the thread is about songs
Over the Hill and Far Away - Gary Moore
Edited by worsy on Tuesday 29th September 20:34
P5BNij said:
I understood every word of that! As a nipper I remember my mum talking in Unwinisms occasionally.... ''ooh our Michael's been pukey milo of the sicky poo, on the kitchy florio, deep jolly oh yes'', etc, etc.
just thought of another - Cream's 'Mother's Lament', the kind of song that no modern rock band would ever do these days.
'Your baby has gawn darn the plughole'.just thought of another - Cream's 'Mother's Lament', the kind of song that no modern rock band would ever do these days.
Mrs Hemmingway - Mary Chapin Carpenter. The story of Ernest Hemmingway's first wife Hadley Richardson
Beth Nielsen Chapman - Seven Shades of Blue, followed by Sand and Water. The story of her husband's battle with cancer, and her subsequent loss: https://themoth.org/stories/seven-shades-of-blue
Stones in the Road - Mary Chapin Carpenter. Growing up, and how our view of the world changes as we get older
Allison Moorer - A Soft Place to Fall
Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust - all about her romance with Bob Dylan
Joan Baez - Love Song to a Stranger - about a quick casual fling, but not quite a one-night stand
Beth Nielsen Chapman - Seven Shades of Blue, followed by Sand and Water. The story of her husband's battle with cancer, and her subsequent loss: https://themoth.org/stories/seven-shades-of-blue
Stones in the Road - Mary Chapin Carpenter. Growing up, and how our view of the world changes as we get older
Allison Moorer - A Soft Place to Fall
Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust - all about her romance with Bob Dylan
Joan Baez - Love Song to a Stranger - about a quick casual fling, but not quite a one-night stand
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