What is the best "story song" (song that tells a story)?
What is your favorite story song? For example, one everyone probably is familiar with is "A Boy Named Sue" (written by Shel Silverstein sung by Johnny Cash)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89c3hWx3RQ
My choices:
Wish You Were Here by Mark Willis
It is about a man who sends a postcard before getting on a plane and what happens afterwards.
http://raeinar.googlepages.com/MarkWills-WishYouWereHere.mp3
Love, Me by Collin Raye
A grandfather tells his grandson about how he and his grandmother ran off to get married as they head to the hospital to visit her.
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/7/27/1300211/ENG%20Music%20File%202/LOVE%20ME%20%28COLLINE%20RAYE%29.mp3
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlHdjjHNEC8
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Paradise by the Dashboard Light...Meatloaf
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M$As I got older and heard the song, I liked it because of its message about small-town hypocrisy, which I can definitely relate to. Plus, in the song, Harper Valley is a Jr. High School, and I now teach 8th grade so it's perfect!
I totally forgot that there was a movie until I found this video for the song. I must Netflix it now. =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ivUOnnstpg
Here are the lyrics, which are entertaining in their own right:
http://www.lyricsdir.com/jeannie-c-riley-harper-valley-p-t-a-lyrics.html
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M$http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhSYbRiYwTY
And then. A NSFW song but that tells a compelling story.
Date Rape - Sublime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2sg4Eme-BQ
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And so I must answer with a song from my shameful country music past that still causes my eyes to water.
Don't Take the Girl, by Tim McGraw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP1G5i5q-hk
It's terribly contrived. It's unrepentantly sappy and sentimental. It's everything that I would hate in a song if I heard it today.
But I didn't hear it today. I heard it when I was twelve.
And I suppose that makes all the difference.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Chapin
His music sounds a little dated by today's standards, but some of the best are:WOLDMr. Tanner Flowers are Red
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l0fH0dRUow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea6cgfU8bC4&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noVC5Jt2Gu8&feature=related
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M$http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Edmund_Fitzgerald
I mean come on... It is Gordon Lightfoot!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj0cvL8KsHI
lyrics:
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dire+straits/telegraph+road_20040667.html
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I couldn't find the song, but I've got the lyrics.
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Here is a particularly touching version of it, tender, reflective, deeply felt interpretation by Antony Hegarty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em7gC0bq_aM
Candy says I've come to hate my body
and all that it requires in this world
Candy says I'd like to know completely
what others so discreetly talk about
I'm gonna watch the blue birds fly over my shoulder
I'm gonna watch them pass me by
Maybe when I'm older
What do you think I'd see
If I could walk away from me
Candy says I hate the quiet places
that cause the smallest taste of what will be
Candy says I hate those big decisions
that cause endless revisions in my mind
Lou Reed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Reed
Antony Hegarty:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Hegarty
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"Sgt. Pepper's..." as an album definitely marks the transition in the overall mood, feeling, and style from early Beatles to late Beatles. But I would argue that "Day in the Life" is a much better story song from the very same album.
That's mostly a matter of taste though. They're both good story songs.
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M$Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVdhZwK7cS8
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Good one!
But wait, I thought this song was by Jimmy Buffett... Is there any reason I would have thought that or am I wayyyyy off?
@chefhenry The "if you like pina coladas song" is the same song in this answer. It's definitely not Jimmy Buffett. He is from Mississippi, and I am pretty sure this Rupert Holmes guy is British. I think the song has just been mislabeled a lot because it's about alcohol, just as many of Buffett's songs are.
Jimmy Buffet has a song called "If you like Pina Coladas" or at least that is the way I have it listed on my iPod, my entry doesn't have an album listed. Don't know for sure, but I bet there are a couple of songs with similar titles.
@dumblonde I don't think Jimmy Buffett has ever recorded this song. Maybe you're thinking about Margaritaville?
@demanda I'm pretty sure I'm wrong. But when I googled it a lot of people seem to think it's Buffett. Maybe it's just a common misconception.
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Hmm, I could find God's Own Drunk, but here's Alice's Restaurant:
Blackmore's Night version – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83gss8sAaCc (embedding disabled) No video other than a looping ocean wave, but it has the complete lyrics.
The original version is by Renaissance; the only version of theirs I can find on YouTube is part of this live concert medley:
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"Little Girl" by John Michael Montgomery. I cried like an idiot the first time I heard it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Kqk7oSLzE
And this one too, "Letter From Home," also by John Michael Montgomery.
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I'll put "Lonely Boy" by Andrew Gold right after this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK9A85zu-mg&feature=related