do you know any songs based on powerful stories ?
like this one by The Hollies with a really outstanding message
the story is :
It's based on an event at Boys Town, late one winter night, circa 1915.Father Flanagan answered the door to find a young boy toting his little brother,fast asleep, on his back. Flanagan took them in from the cold. He asked how far he had carried his brother, who looked to be heavy.The boy answered, "He ain't heavy, Father, he's my brother". A statue of the boys with that phrase inscribed now stands at the entrance of Boys Town in Omaha
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Mark: Sometimes when I talk in 3rd person i end up calling tom mark
Tom:Yea than he starts touching me and i think thats masturbation
Some people think were idiots or perverts dont argue were both.
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Re: Songs based on stories
Foo Fighters - ???
Dave sings about Jim or Jimmy. A friend of him that died.. Think it's Word Forward?
Sum 41 - Angels with dirty faces - Deryck singing about his coke problem
Sum 41 - every crappy love song - Deryck singing about his relationship with Avril
Sum 41 - Crash - came when Deryck saw a carcrash in front of his eyes
Sum 41 - Dear Father - About D his father
ETC
SO MANY SONGS WITH STORIES
Dave sings about Jim or Jimmy. A friend of him that died.. Think it's Word Forward?
Sum 41 - Angels with dirty faces - Deryck singing about his coke problem
Sum 41 - every crappy love song - Deryck singing about his relationship with Avril
Sum 41 - Crash - came when Deryck saw a carcrash in front of his eyes
Sum 41 - Dear Father - About D his father
ETC
SO MANY SONGS WITH STORIES
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there are differences between your stories and the story I posted, the one about the two boys is kind of a public story, whilst apart from the Sum 41 fans, nobody really gives a shit about Deryck's addiction or his divorce, or his father ...
Dave's story is the closest to the kind, but still, cancer, ufortunatelly, is a common disease nowadays and so not many people know about that story
but the one that inspired The Hollies' song is a story that your mother could tell you to evocate a certain kind of feelings in you, feelings of loving, peaceful family, or something like that ...
Dave's story is the closest to the kind, but still, cancer, ufortunatelly, is a common disease nowadays and so not many people know about that story
but the one that inspired The Hollies' song is a story that your mother could tell you to evocate a certain kind of feelings in you, feelings of loving, peaceful family, or something like that ...
Mark: Sometimes when I talk in 3rd person i end up calling tom mark
Tom:Yea than he starts touching me and i think thats masturbation
Some people think were idiots or perverts dont argue were both.
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Re: Songs based on stories
This song was about a massacre in some small town in Australia. Some psycho teacher or something killed a bunch of kids at a school.
Not sure why the songs feels kind of "upbeat". They obviously had a reason for it. The singer doesn't like to talk about the song for some reason.
Not sure why the songs feels kind of "upbeat". They obviously had a reason for it. The singer doesn't like to talk about the song for some reason.
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Re: Songs based on stories
Slightly off-topic but I do like to listen to a concept album now-and-again like The Emptiness by Alesana and The Story Of Kristy Killings by Snow White's Poison Bite (Not to sure if that one is a true concept album though).
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Oh..
then I go for a song of The Heideroosjes called Regular day in Bosnia.. They went to Bosnia after the Jugoslavian war and had some conversations with some people their and saw what the war has done..
then I go for a song of The Heideroosjes called Regular day in Bosnia.. They went to Bosnia after the Jugoslavian war and had some conversations with some people their and saw what the war has done..
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Re: Songs based on stories
I know alot of songs but here is a few.
Senses Fail - Angela Baker and my Obsession With Fire
Brand New- The Boy Who Blocked His own Shot.
Senses Fail - Nero
Senses fail - The Priest And The Matador
P!nk - Save My Life
Senses Fail - Angela Baker and my Obsession With Fire
Brand New- The Boy Who Blocked His own Shot.
Senses Fail - Nero
Senses fail - The Priest And The Matador
P!nk - Save My Life
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Re: Songs based on stories
eminem - stan, rock bottom, if i had, kim, 97 bonnie and clyde
nofx - my orphan year (the acoustic version's the best)
the offspring - gone away
sublime - pool shark (again, the acoustic version's better)
third eye blind - the background
nofx - my orphan year (the acoustic version's the best)
the offspring - gone away
sublime - pool shark (again, the acoustic version's better)
third eye blind - the background
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Re: Songs based on stories
Rush has a lot of narrative songs, but my favourite by far is Red Barchetta. The song has no lyrical chorus, instead in made up of verses and different types of bridges.
The song was inspired by the futuristic short story "A Nice Morning Drive", by Richard Foster and published in the November 1973 issue of Road and Track magazine. The story describes a similar future in which increasingly stringent safety regulations have forced cars to evolve into massive Modern Safety Vehicles (MSVs), capable of withstanding a 50-mile-per-hour impact without injury to the driver. Consequently, drivers of MSVs have become less safety-conscious and more aggressive, and "bouncing" (intentionally ramming) the older, smaller cars is a common sport among some.
The song was inspired by the futuristic short story "A Nice Morning Drive", by Richard Foster and published in the November 1973 issue of Road and Track magazine. The story describes a similar future in which increasingly stringent safety regulations have forced cars to evolve into massive Modern Safety Vehicles (MSVs), capable of withstanding a 50-mile-per-hour impact without injury to the driver. Consequently, drivers of MSVs have become less safety-conscious and more aggressive, and "bouncing" (intentionally ramming) the older, smaller cars is a common sport among some.
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You should check out the band Alkaline Trio, they have a ton of songs that are public story based, alot dealing with murders and death.
Donner Party- About the famous party of travelers who got lost and trapped in the snow so they resorted to cannibalism and ate each other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwqpJXtFg5E
Sadie- About Susie Atkins/Sadie Glutz and of Charlie Manson and all the killings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTu3Zk9Q_Rs
Dead End Road- About the Laci Peterson murder in San Franciso, CA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYWsoLRUSzk
Also Dropkick Murphys have a bunch of irish "storytelling" songs. My favorite one being "The Fields of Athenry"-From Songmeanings.net "the many deaths involved with the potato famine in Ireland in the late 1840's was not a direct result of the famine. the exact same famine existed in America and England, as well as many other places. but no one died from those famines, only the Irish. there was plenty of food in Ireland at the time, but the English decided to capitalize on the lack of potatoes (ireland's most common crop) and use it to starve out the Irish. so the english bought all the corn and other meal that was being grown in Ireland and imported it to England, as well as refusing to allow other meal to be sent to Ireland. Trevelyan was a British minister at the time, and it was 'his' corn that was being exported from Ireland while the Irish starved. thus what happened in Ireland in the late 1840's was not really a famine, but a starvation, since a true famine can`t really exist when there is more than enough food about."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10agPj0Vzu4
Donner Party- About the famous party of travelers who got lost and trapped in the snow so they resorted to cannibalism and ate each other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwqpJXtFg5E
Sadie- About Susie Atkins/Sadie Glutz and of Charlie Manson and all the killings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTu3Zk9Q_Rs
Dead End Road- About the Laci Peterson murder in San Franciso, CA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYWsoLRUSzk
Also Dropkick Murphys have a bunch of irish "storytelling" songs. My favorite one being "The Fields of Athenry"-From Songmeanings.net "the many deaths involved with the potato famine in Ireland in the late 1840's was not a direct result of the famine. the exact same famine existed in America and England, as well as many other places. but no one died from those famines, only the Irish. there was plenty of food in Ireland at the time, but the English decided to capitalize on the lack of potatoes (ireland's most common crop) and use it to starve out the Irish. so the english bought all the corn and other meal that was being grown in Ireland and imported it to England, as well as refusing to allow other meal to be sent to Ireland. Trevelyan was a British minister at the time, and it was 'his' corn that was being exported from Ireland while the Irish starved. thus what happened in Ireland in the late 1840's was not really a famine, but a starvation, since a true famine can`t really exist when there is more than enough food about."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10agPj0Vzu4
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Re: Songs based on stories
Boys Night Out created an entire album telling a story. A lot of bands do "story" albums. These are often called "concept" albums.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainwreck ... Trainwreck
Brand New also wrote a song, titled "Limousine" about a little girl who died in a car accident after her parents' wedding. A drunk driver smashed into the limousine she was in, and she had actually been decapitated as a result of the car accident, I believe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainwreck ... Trainwreck
Brand New also wrote a song, titled "Limousine" about a little girl who died in a car accident after her parents' wedding. A drunk driver smashed into the limousine she was in, and she had actually been decapitated as a result of the car accident, I believe.
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The Offsprings - Kristy are you doing okay.
And for Stan by Eminem, I'm pretty sure it's not a real story.
And for Stan by Eminem, I'm pretty sure it's not a real story.
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Rebecca Black - Friday
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Sum 41 - THe Hell song
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lol kristy are you doing okay is perhaps the worst song the offspring have ever recorded. and off course stan's not real, but it uses its fictional story as a perfect metaphor for how he had to handle fame at the time.Hoocher wrote:The Offsprings - Kristy are you doing okay.
And for Stan by Eminem, I'm pretty sure it's not a real story.
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Re: Songs based on stories
Pretty much every song tells a story in some way...
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some good lyrical songs were posted, thx guys, I've just recently came acrossa song by one of the older rap artists, Immortal Technique, the song is called Dance With The Devil, and the story is good and disgusting at the same time, I mean, it's good he regrets his actions so much and it follows him every second of his life, but fuck, a man who rapes a woman should be tortured and after that, shot in the head ...
I mean, if the story of the song is not fictional and the singer really was one of the fuckers who did that to the woman, then fuck, die motherfucker die ...
and according to some interviews with him, he didn't exactly say that he did it, but he didn't also say that he didn't do it, but from what he said there I'd say he raped her too with the other bastards from the gang...
I mean, if the story of the song is not fictional and the singer really was one of the fuckers who did that to the woman, then fuck, die motherfucker die ...
and according to some interviews with him, he didn't exactly say that he did it, but he didn't also say that he didn't do it, but from what he said there I'd say he raped her too with the other bastards from the gang...
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Re: Songs based on stories
Zombie - the cranberries
Spanish bombs - the clash, based on the sapnish civil war
Spanish bombs - the clash, based on the sapnish civil war