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- April 22, 2021 at 11:46 pm #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
- April 22, 2021 at 11:56 pm #482568
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
- April 23, 2021 at 5:34 am #482640
😂😘 Also Penny Lane!
- April 23, 2021 at 12:30 am #482573Anonymous
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
- April 23, 2021 at 5:18 am #482632Anonymous
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
- April 23, 2021 at 5:22 am #482635
Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
What more can I say …
Dawn x
- April 23, 2021 at 5:26 am #482636
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 !
- April 23, 2021 at 5:32 am #482639
Hi Paula! Don’t forget “W.O.L.D.” by Harry Chapin- what a story teller.
- April 23, 2021 at 7:36 am #482657
Fun, Fun, Fun. Beach Boys
Jumpin’ Jack Flash. Rolling Stones - April 23, 2021 at 7:50 am #482661Anonymous
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
- April 23, 2021 at 4:18 pm #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
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- April 23, 2021 at 5:16 pm #483140Anonymous
Black parade my chemical romance
- April 25, 2021 at 8:45 pm #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
- April 25, 2021 at 8:51 pm #484062
Loreena has sooo many songs like that. Dickens Dublin is a very beautiful story song, as is The Lady Of Shallot.
PaulaF
- April 25, 2021 at 9:01 pm #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
- April 25, 2021 at 9:39 pm #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
- April 25, 2021 at 11:52 pm #484097Anonymous
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – Gordon Lightfoot.
Ship – storm – wreck – memorial, nothing more to say…
Diana
- April 26, 2021 at 1:33 am #484108
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…
- April 26, 2021 at 1:43 am #484109Anonymous
I keep thinking of songs that I love and tell a story.
Lou Rawls “Lady Love”
- April 26, 2021 at 2:03 am #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?
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- April 26, 2021 at 2:40 am #484116Anonymous
“So am I” by Ava Max is a song that I can relate to as a CD
- April 26, 2021 at 2:59 am #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
- April 29, 2021 at 7:11 am #485362
Last kiss is a great song. It is from the 60s. It was redone by Pearl Jam I think. That was also good.
- April 29, 2021 at 7:17 am #485364Anonymous
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
- April 29, 2021 at 7:38 am #485381Anonymous
The only springsteen i like is darkness on the edge of town album really, love patti smith as she is my heroine xx
- April 30, 2021 at 8:11 am #485841
Bus Stop by The Hollies
Just Like Romeo and Juliet by The Reflections - May 2, 2021 at 12:14 am #486592Anonymous
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
- May 2, 2021 at 1:52 am #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
- May 8, 2021 at 6:06 am #489582Anonymous
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald….Gordon Lightfoot
- May 8, 2021 at 6:30 am #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 faceI must admit I felt a little uneasy
When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe
Tangled up in blue” - May 8, 2021 at 6:33 am #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
- May 8, 2021 at 7:04 am #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. - May 8, 2021 at 7:48 am #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 - April 25, 2021 at 8:58 pm #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 - May 2, 2021 at 5:19 am #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:
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
- April 28, 2021 at 1:52 pm #485127
What about Carole King then? You make me feel like a natural woman …
- April 29, 2021 at 7:31 am #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/- This reply was modified 2 years ago by Erika Iwakura.
- April 29, 2021 at 7:36 am #485380Anonymous
I love Iron maiden, love murders in the rou morgue album and many others mainly just love maiden, motorhead and that kinda sound ❤
- April 29, 2021 at 9:13 am #485425Anonymous
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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