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Songs that tell a story

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    #92
    Photobox
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    Camouflage by Stan Ridgeway



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    #93
    Noo
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    Cows with Guns



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    #94
    bottlebrush
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    Bohemian rhapsody



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    #95
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    Joxer goes to Stuttgart just popped into my head. That's a song telling a story for sure.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119665390#Comment_119665390

    My close relative was possibly their biggest fan ever after he discovered them in his Trinity Days. Even officially in all the mailing lists and meet up groups back in the day he was recognised as being fanatic and being at literally every UK and Irish show - even support act appearances and other obscure appearances. A passing respect for The Fall rubbed off on me over the years and he did produce me a couple of mixed tapes of their stuff over the years. I particularly liked White Lightning and their duet with the Inspiral Carpets and that song Eat yourself fitter.

    Unfortunately I recently enough removed him from my life for being quite a toxic person over all which has tarnished my enjoyment of that music. Which is a shame because nearly every play list I have made for myself on mp3 players or spotify have Fall songs in there somewhere. I hate when good music gets tarnished by bad experiences.

    What was that they did a duet on and it sounds a bit like Park Life? Or at least vocally the duet has a kind of Park Life feel about it. I will know it the moment I hear it! I really like that one but the name escapes me right now and I do not have the old mixed tapes any more. Actually as I am writting this I am starting to doubt it was a duet or had some guest singer on it.... grrr. I can almost hear it in my mind but not quite.



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    #96
    Stephen_Maturin
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119684440#Comment_119684440

    But it’s not a happy ending though? After she asks him to Iron maiden etc and his prom night is made he wakes up on the stairs in his house - it was all a dream



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    #97
    Dav010
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    So long Marianne.



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    #98
    Sweet Talkin Romeo
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    Same Auld Lang Syne - Dan Fogelberg

    moral of the story: what might have been



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    #99
    Dav010
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    Biko.



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    #100
    thomil
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    I have to go back to Billy Joel here, I've always found Leningrad and The Downeaster Alexa to be great songs from a storytelling perspective. The former in particular always gets me as someone who lived in Germany when the Iron Curtain came down. How did we get from the hope expressed in the last verse of that song to the current cluster**k?

    Anyway, enough ranting. Paradise by Bruce Springsteen is worth a shout-out as well. It's on his 2002 "The Rising" album, so it's suitably dark but definitely worth a listen!

    Good luck trying to figure me out. I haven't managed that myself yet!



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    #101
    Count Dracula
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    Towenes van Zandt

    Poncho and lefty



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    #102
    gameoverdude
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    People are people by depeche mode.



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    #103
    NewbridgeIR
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119665390#Comment_119665390

    Athlete Cured is hilarious.

    Also

    Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul

    Garden

    Wings

    Dr Buck's Letter

    Paintwork

    Various Times

    My #1 group too



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    #104
    Still stihl waters 3
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    Parris Island by Billy Joel

    Arthur mcbride Paul Brady



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    #105
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    Into the great wide open -Tom petty , top class rhyming too



    He went to Hollywood, got a tattoo

    He met a girl out there with a tattoo too



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    #106
    NewbridgeIR
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    Al Stewart's Past, Present & Future album is tailor made for this thread. Each song tells a story about a decade of the 1900s.

    More of my favourites include

    Vicki Lawrence - The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia

    The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

    Jimmy Nail - Big River

    Violent Femmes - Country Death Song

    Randy Newman - Louisiana 1927

    Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Powderfinger

    Fairport Convention - Matty Groves

    10,000 Maniacs - Jubilee

    Bruce Springsteen - Highway Patrolman

    Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story

    Bee Gees - Odessa

    Alice Cooper - The Ballad Of Dwight Frye

    Eric Burdon & War - Spill The Wine

    Stevie Wonder - Living For The City

    Iron Maiden - Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

    Genesis - The Battle Of Epping Forest

    Half Man Half Biscuit - Tour Jacket With Detachable Sleeves



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    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eTeg1txDv8w
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eTeg1txDv8w

    No comment...(other than I think it posted twice by accident...).



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    #108
    TheDocMan
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    King Park by La Dispute

    Epic. Concluded with this:

    " Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself?

    Can I ever be forgiven cause I killed that kid

    It was an accident I swear it wasn't meant for him

    And if I turn it on me, if I even it out

    Can I still get in or will they send me to hell

    Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself?"

    Let the hotel behind, don't want to know how it ends



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    #109
    ohnonotgmail
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119693280#Comment_119693280

    The title of the song is Goodnight Saigon



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    #110
    Still stihl waters 3
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Still stihl waters 3


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119719996#Comment_119719996

    Oh yes you're right, I don't know why I thought it was parris Island, thanks



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    #111
    ohnonotgmail
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119720011#Comment_119720011

    It's one of those songs where the title isn't in the lyrics.



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