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Title: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: wiggy on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 21:23:03 God, I am bored. Nothing to write about football-wise, and you lot don't want to be bored with tales of me double digging my new allotment. Anyway, the last "songs with fruit in the title" had some great stuff posted, so here is one for songs with a strong narrative. I will start with Squeeze....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST56DBwcJy0 Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: Flashheart on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 21:27:09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GVr1l7Xbko
Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: wiggy on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 21:27:12 And the best guitar player on the planet, Richard Thompson...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0kJdrfzjAg Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: wiggy on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 21:36:00 The Men They Couldn't Hang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr6OzLJrS2k Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: Flashheart on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 21:37:42 Another by 2 by Kenny Rogers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ldtuSfm9g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qi2m6NyUP0 He's a great story teller Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: Peter Gibbons on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 21:40:27 One from the King:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6am8V5KNJ4A Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: wiggy on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 21:40:46 I am trying to avoid just posting up Richard Thompson songs - Beeswing, God Loves a drunk etc.
Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: Peter Gibbons on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 21:41:27 ...and one a bit more up to date:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOMhN-hfMtY Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: Reg Smeeton on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 21:42:23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5-ZKMUpNl8
Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: Peter Gibbons on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 21:42:54 A classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3LFML_pxlY Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: wiggy on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 21:43:50 Loads of Tom Waits songs could fit the bill, but as I am having a drink tonight....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSe2k3P8wRE Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: Peter Gibbons on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 21:45:20 Loads of Tom Waits songs could fit the bill, but as I am having a drink tonight.... I've not listened to any Tom Waits for years, cheers for the reminder :) Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: Peter Gibbons on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 21:49:44 Another song which combines a strong narrative* with being awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OReJIwNVOz4 *I admit I don't really 'get' the lyrics, but she seems to be telling some story or other. Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: wiggy on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 21:49:57 I do listen to other types of music!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhYcoioForU&list=PL0C94DDBEE55E2F83 Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: wiggy on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 22:56:42 The Imagined Village
I have always had the hots for Eliza Carthy in spite of her being a big girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVq2hiphg5I Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: Red Frog on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 23:16:54 Two classic war stories for me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxqo8j4edTk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHTPUEE74LQ Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: Bukkake Regiment on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 00:57:30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Sd2gDkSV8
This tells a story, but backwards. Genius. Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: janaage on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 06:00:29 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrjmcyaBYoY
Love this song. Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: Red Frog on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 06:08:34 Great call.
Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: janaage on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 06:11:45 There's a video of someone's interpretation of the song on youtube, which is rubbish really - I don't advise watching it. Like a good book, your head's version will be better.
Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: A Gent Orange on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 06:18:27 The Decemberist's songs almost always contain a story - this just happens to be one of the longest and oddest of those songs...
http://www.youtube.com/embed/5Sw61oITuts?autoplay=1 Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: london_red on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 06:42:48 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHWmxCoTV3Y
Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: wiggy on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 07:44:21 I want to put a link up to Hurricane by Bob Dylan, but every YouTube link has had the audio removed.
Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: smalltowngypsymassacre on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 08:00:26 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS4PBhbagRc
This is by a brilliant prob rock/metal band called Pain of Salvation. Singer Daniel Gildenlowe is for fans of Jeff Buckley Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: Samdy Gray on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 08:15:11 The Decemberist's songs almost always contain a story The album The Hazards of Love is pretty much one big novel. Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: wiggy on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 08:20:09 This is prog! Grendel by Marillion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny04UI3IkPI Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: Bob's Orange on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 08:37:17 The album The Hazards of Love is pretty much one big novel. And a good album to boot! Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: guy66 on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 08:39:33 Great story, one of Weller's finest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxhN7MQ6uYw Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: guy66 on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 08:41:18 Another great one from the best band of the last 35 years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPgSQsO96g4 Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: sonicyouth on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 11:12:42 This could just be renamed the folk thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPOmNXW2Mzc Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: adje on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 11:16:30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdmHHoI9beM
Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: adje on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 11:34:17 love this thread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6xNft9MutQ Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: janaage on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 16:57:38 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFYxCIr-Byo
Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: janaage on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 17:01:43 This one's from a great country and western story teller, Red Sovine. Brings back memories of sitting in the passenger seat of my dad's HGV (H reg FL10) when I was a lad, listening to music like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCeVP9WuA6I Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: mystical_goat on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 19:22:09 This one's dark as hell, worth a listen til the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WFHZa-VPXN0 Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: leefer on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 19:24:55 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1xvyTdBZI
Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: sonicyouth on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 19:29:42 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKWGAGPy_kw
famous story, famous song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSx051Njlog Ryan Adams is criminally underrated, one of the best singer/songwriters ever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUVnap0VPx0 Billy does "love" songs better than anyone else http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NNgLqz89Z8 video doesn't obviously credit him but it's Mike Waterson, ties in nicely with the Martin & Eliza Carthy video earlier in the thread http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxOouYO5tY4 Jansch plays it better, Briggs sings it better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-wPDmQEy2Y inspired Sean Penn's directorial debut 'The Indian Runner' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvZK8Wl7RQ8 simply the greatest man to grace the earth Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: mystical_goat on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 19:30:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nCqRmx3Dnw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cvMy5tATjM Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: mystical_goat on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 19:31:37 gah, why does it show the links and not the video?
Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: sonicyouth on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 19:33:34 I think the forum only embeds a certain number of videos on a single page of a thread and I used 90% of it
Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: mystical_goat on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 19:47:06 Ah ok. It's a shame because the story of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air should be more easily heard, it's a street sermon.
Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: pauld on Friday, June 14, 2013, 11:36:51 God, I am bored. Nothing to write about football-wise, and you lot don't want to be bored with tales of me double digging my new allotment. I do. Bring on that allotment tale-fest!Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: LJ9 on Friday, June 14, 2013, 12:09:29 Kevin "Bloody" Wilson's "Mick Me Mate The Master Farter"
Genius!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=opDxX2TuXOs Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: Chubbs on Friday, June 14, 2013, 13:13:28 Metallica, One
If it hasn't been posted allready Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: kaufman on Friday, June 14, 2013, 16:34:58 3 favourites
Two from Cash the other my favourite version of Stagger Lee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWHniL8MyMM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1BJfDvSITY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1mF2PFnQQI Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: Bewster on Friday, June 14, 2013, 16:40:09 I think the original was by 9 Inch Nails but I like this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho Title: Re: Songs that tell a story.... Post by: Samdy Gray on Friday, June 14, 2013, 17:20:46 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzmMB8dTwGs
Or pretty much anything else by Nick Cave for that matter. |