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    • #482567

      Okay.   We’ve had tear eyes songs and life songs, so how about some that tell us a story, no matter how long or short.  It doesn’t even have to prove a point or have a moral, just an interesting story, and you can list more than one.

      Puff the Magic Dragon has already been mentioned in one of the other threads, and was one of my favorites from a long time ago (not trying to make any one feel old).  So, here is some of mine:

      Mr. Tanner, Dreams Go By, 30,000 Pounds Of Bananas, Taxi & Sequel… Harry Chapin on “Greatest Stories Live” (youtube has them)

      Lady In Black, Wizard… Uriah Heep

      Barricades Of Heaven … Jackson Brown

      The Old City Bar … Trans Siberian Orchestra

      Ghost Riders In The Sky… The Outlaws

      Wreck On The Highway… Bruce Springsteen

      Okay, that’s just a few, your turn.

      PaulaF

       

    • #482568
      Prudence
      Ambassador

      Eleanor Rigby! By that one group, oh what’s their name? I havnt heard Lady in Black in quite sometime. So I am going to listen to it right after this.    Oh and an obscure one. Modane Train by Symphonic Slam.  Hugs  Pru

      • #482640

        😂😘 Also Penny Lane!

        • #485147

          I don’t know all the songs. The ones I do know are all very nice. A song that would be my personal crossdressing song. Meat Loaf. Bat out of Hell.

    • #482573
      Anonymous

      Hi Paula…❤️

      Sarah McLachlan… virtually every song she writes tells a story.

      Angel.

      I love you.

      Possession.

      Forgiveness.

      Good enough….etc etc etc…….

      plus Freddie and the Mighty Queen –  Bohemian Rhapsody.

      Grace xx

       

       

    • #482632
      Anonymous

      A couple of my favorites:

      Alone Again Naturally by Gilbert O’Sullivan

      You Can’t Go Home by Bon Jovi and Jennifer Nettles

      Garden Party by Rick Nelson

      Killing Me Softly by Roberta Flack

       

    • #482635
      Dawn Wyvern
      Managing Ambassador

      Escape (The Piña Colada Song)

       

      What more can I say …

      Dawn x

    • #482636
      Dawn Wyvern
      Managing Ambassador

      Another one that is topical to the site is ‘Bitty Boppy Betty’ by Pink Martini – from the album ‘Splendour in the Grass’

      I’m not going to divulge the story but you will have to listen to it and enjoy !

    • #482639

      Hi Paula! Don’t forget “W.O.L.D.” by Harry Chapin- what a story teller.

    • #482657

      Fun, Fun, Fun. Beach Boys
      Jumpin’ Jack Flash. Rolling Stones

    • #482661
      Anonymous

      Girls just want to have fun cyndi Lauper

      material girl maddonna

      don’t stop believing journey

      an oldie can’t remember the artest last kiss

      it my party I will cry if I want to

    • #483116

      Tom MacDonald – Church

      Having worked in a hospital for 32 yrs and with the stress of the past 15 months I crawled into the bottle. I had to retire for my own health. This song is about Tom’s struggle with sobriety. It’s like he’s talking to me directly. Yikes. Never has a song hit me so hard.

      Be safe. Love and Peace.

      Amber

       

    • #483140
      Anonymous

      Black parade my chemical romance

    • #484059

      I haven’t seen this one mentioned yet: “The Highwayman” by Loreena McKennitt.

      This has long been one of my favorite “teary-eyed” songs. It’s an old English romantic ballad set to music by McKennitt. Always has me reaching for the tissue box by the end of the song.

      Here’s a link to it on youtube:

      The dialect is a bit hard to follow for this Southern Belle, so here’s the lyrics if you care to follow along:

      https://www.songfacts.com/lyrics/loreena-mckennitt/the-highwayman

      • #484062

        Loreena has sooo many songs like that.  Dickens Dublin is a very beautiful story song, as is The Lady Of Shallot.

        PaulaF

        • #484070

          Yep, Lady of Shallot, another good one. I have three of Loreena’s CDs, this one and “The Visit” and “The Mask and the Mirror”. But this song, “The Highwayman” has long been my fav.

          — Camryn

          • #484077

            I’d recommend her live album, A Night At The Alhambra, if you can find a copy.   It has most of her regular music, but it is performed live.

            PaulaF

    • #484097
      Anonymous

      Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – Gordon Lightfoot.

      Ship – storm – wreck – memorial, nothing more to say…

      Diana

       

    • #484108
      Peta Mari
      Lady

      Put another log on the fire… it kinda tells my story of switching between male and female.

      At times I want to purge. Or have no inclination to dress. (Why have you left me I cry. )

      Other times I’m doing it all. Washing, cooking, cleaning, looking after myself while the drab slob disappears…

       

    • #484109
      Anonymous

      I keep thinking of songs that I love and tell a story.

      Lou Rawls “Lady Love”

       

    • #484111

      Comfortably numb from pink Floyd is like my female self talking to my male self

      Hello is there anybody in there?

      Just nod if you can hear me

      Is there anyone home

      Come on now

      I hear your feeling down

      Well I can ease your pain

      Get you on your feet again

      Relax

      I need some Information first

      just the basic facts .

      Can you show me where it hurts?

    • #484116
      Anonymous

      “So am I” by Ava Max is a song that I can relate to as a CD

    • #484117

       

      Un bel di vedremo  from madam butterfly Maria Callas

      Mio Bambino Caro Maria Callas

      Vesti la gubba mario lanza

      Una furtiva lagrima  Enrico Caruso

      These songs made me feel again after 20 years of anger shame and pain. From beginning to end goosebumps

    • #485362

      Last kiss is a great song. It is from the 60s. It was redone by  Pearl Jam I think. That was also good.

    • #485364
      Anonymous

      Scenes from an Italian restaurant Billy Joel

      Someone saved my life tonight Elton John

      Rocket 🚀 man Elton John today in honor of astronaut Michael Collins

    • #485381
      Anonymous

      The only springsteen i like is darkness on the edge of town album really, love patti smith as she is my heroine xx

    • #485841

      Bus Stop by The Hollies
      Just Like Romeo and Juliet by The Reflections

    • #486592
      Anonymous

      Hi Paula,

      A few of my favourites
      :
      The singer Sandy Denny joined, then encouraged a band called Fairport Convention to reimagine old english ballads, and trailblaze (uk) folk rock.

      “Liege and Lief” has a few good examples e.g. “Matty Groves” and “Tam Lin”

      And from Bob Dylan, “Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts”

      Marti xxx

    • #486606

      Wow, so, so many good tunes to know and listen to.  A bunch of them I have in my library, but so many others that need to be there too.

      Let’s not forget the first hard rock n roll story I memorized in my youth… Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple.

      PaulaF

    • #489582
      Anonymous

      The Wreck of the Edmund  Fitzgerald….Gordon Lightfoot

       

       

    • #489590

      Tangled Up in Blue- Bob Dylan

      She was working in a topless place when I stopped in for a beer.

      I just kept lookin’ at the side of her face in the spotlight so clear.

      And later on when the crowd thinned out
      I’s just about to do the same
      She was standing there at the back of my chair
      Sayin’ “Tell me, don’t I know your name?”
      I muttered something underneath my breath
      She studied the lines on my face
      I must admit I felt a little uneasy
      When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe
      Tangled up in blue”
    • #489591

      Did I miss it? Or did no one mention Lou Reed, Walk On the Wild Side.

      Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.
      Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
      Plucked her eyebrows on the way
      Shaved her legs and then he was a she
      She says, “Hey, babe
      Take a walk on the wild side”
      Said, “Hey, honey
      Take a walk on the wild side”

      Clara on the wild side

    • #489605

      Kinky, oops Kinks.

      Well I am not dumb but I can’t understand why She walked like a Woman and talked like a Man
      Oh My Lola, la la la la Lola.
      That’s got to be on the list.
      Mikala xxxx.

    • #489618

      Each one a story, but makes an epic story of a failed relationship when you listen to these REO Speedwagon songs in this order:
      Can’t Fight This Feeling Anymore
      Keep On Loving You
      Take it on the Run
      Time For Me To Fly

    • #484069

      I appreciate this list, I share similar interest in some of the musical acts mentioned here.
      Love Iron Maiden, they’ve taken on quite a few literature reference as the basis of their song. Rime of the Ancient Mariner is quite an epic

    • #486664

      Good to see Cradle of Filth get a mention – I have been a fan for a long time – ever since I first heard “Her Ghost in the Fog”, maybe 20 years ago?

      My favourite of theirs is “Enshrined in Crematoria”, which carries many parallels to the way I feel when I’m unable to dress for a while. It’s one of their most accessible songs, and really grows with repeated hearings:

       

      https://youtu.be/BSMWrqZmZK8

      I saw pretty much all the big metal bands in their prime, back in the early 1980s – Maiden doing “Number of the Beast” for the first time was quite something, Motorhead releasing “Ace of Spades” on the back of “Back in Black” from AC/DC… we were spoilt back then, and didn’t know it! Hearing Master of Puppets on the day of release, and seeing them perform it with Cliff was precious…

      Good times!

      Am definitely keeping the rock chick vibe under the sensible middle aged lady veneer – so glad biker jackets are en vogue!

      Love Laura

    • #485127

      What about Carole King then? You make me feel like a natural woman …

    • #485377

      Ooo lesse… if we’re still talking about storytelling and Maiden, I like their longer epic like Alexander The Great and Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son. Of course I like the classic like The Trooper, Number of the Beast,  and Hallowed Be Thy Name too! Favourite album would be between Powerslave and Piece of Mind, a lot of great songs on those.
      Used to listen to Blur, but haven’t really done so in a long time haha. I like Song 2. Whoo hoo!
      I don’t really think of storytelling when I listen to the more extreme part of heavy metal like death metal lol, since I first see them as br00tal, before going to their lyrics. I just listened to Cannibal Corpse’s latest album (I haven’t checked their earlier work because I thought they were shallow bands that want to shock people), and I like what I hear! Will have to listen to their other albums later.
      Right now I’m looking forward to new release by Gojira this Friday. Now that’s a death metal with some thoughtful themes… can’t wait!
      I don’t wanna bore you with the other heavy metal bands that I like since they might be more in the not-so-mainstream ones lol. But I do love me some heavy metal \m/

    • #485380
      Anonymous

      I love Iron maiden, love murders in the rou morgue album and many others mainly just love maiden, motorhead and that kinda sound ❤

    • #485425
      Anonymous

      Always wanted to be a rock chick as went to see girlschool and motorhead and fell in love with girlschools style xxx

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