Songs that tell a story

[PomBstard]

As the title says, what ones do you like? Here's a few to kick off...

Suzanne Vega - The Queen and the Soldier - this is a live version, first 5 mins or so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt0sXRBLfJM


Dire Straits - Telegraph Road - in this case, from Alchemy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Wp2ASqyxI


The Kinks - Lola...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFwP2huyNzg

[kowalski655]

Harry Chapin's"Taxi",& it's sequel..."Sequel"!
IIRC there was to be a third song but he died tragically young

[Kinky]

Dylan's Hurricane

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Cash and a boy named sue, also john Martyn’s spencer the rover.

[rowley birkin]

Camouflage.

[NDA]

Kinky said:

Dylan's Hurricane

Beat me to it. Probably the best example.

[Getragdogleg]

Mark knopfler 5:15am.

Two tales in one, a poor mining town meets East end gangster.

Utterly brilliant.

[crofty1984]

Nic Jones Humpback Whale
Nic Jones Canadee-i-o

[Pothole]

Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water. As Ian Gillan explains on Made In Japan "This is uh a song that´s also from the last album. It tells the story of how we recorded it and what went wrong when we did it. It happened in Switzerland, the song´s a thing called Smoke On The Water..."

[vixen1700]

My favourite:

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

The Gift - The Velvet Underground

[Dan_1981]

NDA said:

Kinky said:

Dylan's Hurricane

Beat me to it. Probably the best example.

Yep this. I still remember the first time I heard it.

I was on a sailing boat around the whitsun islands, the sun was setting, i'd had a fish bbq & a few beers.

Listening takes me back perfectly every single time.

[bunchofkeys]

As already mentioned, Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner (Live Acappella)
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
Most of the Neil Diamond songs

Edited by bunchofkeys on Monday 28th September 09:18

[rev-erend]

Rush - Hemispheres

Cygnus - Book1 and 2.

This filled my teenage imagination.

[johnpsanderson]

Johnny Cash - I hung my head. (I was surprised to see the original was by Sting, Cash does it better...)

[Pothole]

bunchofkeys said:

Kenny Rogers - The Gambler

Edited by bunchofkeys on Monday 28th September 09:18

And Coward of the County

[NDA]

Dan_1981 said:

NDA said:

Kinky said:

Dylan's Hurricane

Beat me to it. Probably the best example.

Yep this. I still remember the first time I heard it.

I was on a sailing boat around the whitsun islands, the sun was setting, i'd had a fish bbq & a few beers.

Listening takes me back perfectly every single time.

Such a great album - most of the tracks are stories as it happens.

[fat80b]

Elvis - In the Ghetto - I played this for my kids (5 & 7) the other week and you could see them reacting to it. Music is powerful stuff.

[MrCheese]

Joe Ely - The road goes on forever. Not written by him but a great version.

[Lotobear]

Big River - Jimmy Nail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_519h95XFs

No a Jimmy fan but this song always bring a tear to the eye, in no small part as I recall the Tyne and the era he refers to vividly. But it's also a very well crafted song and when Knopfler, the other Geordie, drops by it's pretty much perfect. Less so when Sting joins in.

Edited by Lotobear on Monday 28th September 10:32

[Lotobear]

Oh, and 'Sailing to Philadelphia' of course!

Knopler cropping up a lot here.

...and then there's 'Beryl', and 'Border Reiver'