Songs that tell great stories...

[Pupp]

Here's Richard Thompson's '1952 Vincent Black Lightning' to get you going

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lCH5JgWCZY

[V100]

Burning Sky - The Jam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS_qw33mR00

[69 coupe]

Fields-of-Athenry, which is about the Irish Famine.
Seems like a really old Irish song, yet was written in the 1970's.
Sung by just about every Irishman sports_watcher & plastic_paddies alike. Alcohol helps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZRWNdGCUc
http://www.irishlinks.co.uk/fields-of-athenry-word...

Edited by 69 coupe on Monday 31st October 23:31

[NathanJones]

Up the Junction - Squeeze

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7DRq7_5sQs

[GAjon]

NathanJones said:

Up the Junction - Squeeze

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7DRq7_5sQs

Good call, I'd nominate Jethro Tull- Too old to rock and roll.

"just on the A1 by Scotch corner"

[The Lukas]

NathanJones said:

Up the Junction - Squeeze

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7DRq7_5sQs

Just the song I was going to suggest

[HOGEPH]

Billy Joel-Scenes from an Italian restaurant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUz48xw_OiM

[garrykiller]

not everyones cup of tea but

immortal technique - You never know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pqiqrnZE44

[JohnW]

Hurricane - Bob Dylan.

[KrazyIvan]

A boy named Sue - Jonny Cash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHPuY88Ry4&ob=...

OK, is more funny then great, but still a story

[anonymous-user]

pretty much anything by Tomas Kalnoky is worthy of inclusion (cant link to youtube at the mo but)
"and the footsteps die forever" by catch 22, "a better place, a better time" and "the big sleep" by streetlight manifesto are as good as anything else in the mainstream.

[vixen1700]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI-YiaWDgB4

IMHO The best story ever told in a song, The Gift by The Velvet Underground.

Never ceases to raise a smile, and the music is pretty cool too.

[Finlandia]

All/most songs by Bruce Springsteen.

[The Lukas]

KrazyIvan said:

A boy named Sue - Jonny Cash

Another winner

[chris watton]

That Pinna Calada (sp?) song?

Well Fancy That? Funboy 3..

[kamilb1998]

Steve Earle - Copperhead Road?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk&ob=...

[Dan_1981]

JohnW said:

Hurricane - Bob Dylan.

Agree on this one.

Brilliant song - i'd never even heard it til I was about 24, on a sail boat off the coast of Australia one evening, and someone put it on.

Pitch black, gorgeous stars and this playing in the background.

Takes me back everytime I hear it.

[BigDaveTheMighty]

Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie

Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Warren Zevon

[swiftpete]

Summer the first time by bobby goldsboro. Awesome. There are a few opportunities to change the lyrics for dirtier versions while you're singing it too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYHEBa6Xx48

[5705]

Two Little Boys - Rolf Harris!

(and still on the subject of war)

Camouflage - Stan Ridgway