OT Storytelling Songs

My top three:

1) Piano Man - Billy Joel (I play the piano, so have a natural affinity to this song

2) Cat's In The Cradle - Harry Chapin (Sadly, a truism song if I've ever heard one)

3) Uneasy Rider - Charlie Daniels Band (I mean, this song just flowwwwws)

 

I much prefer Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, probably Joel’s best narrative song.

 

I'll like Piano Man
Alice's restaurant
Ode to Billie Joe
Lola
Probably forgetting some because I need to start dinner

 

I Want to F**k You (Like I'm Never Going to See You Again) - Kid Rock
(I'm assuming I don't need to use green font........?)

 

I’d also want to add:
America by Simon and Garfunkel
Army by Ben Folds Five

 

Of course America!
Gallery by Joni Mitchell
Day in the Life

 

My favorite story-telling song is All You Fascists Bound to Lose by Woody Guthrie.

 

Tear the Fascists Down was also a banger by Woody. You should memorize it @ABM

 

How could I forget Eleanor Rigby.

 

Whiter Shade of Pale

 

So many are sad stories.

Society's Child. The singer tells her boyfriend, several times, "they say I can't see you any more, baby" and then finally, "I say I can't see you any more" because she is only "society's child". The song was banned in multiple locations and probably would be today because it might make some white people uncomfortable. Someone once said Janis Ian, while in the closet, wrote sad song after sad song. At Seventeen is devastating and so true for so many young women. Then she came out and wrote happy songs.

Donovan's To Try for the Sun. A story of innocence and loss but mostly of the deep love between two outcast boys. Boys, not men, ("our years put together counted thirty"). Reminds me of a gay boy I knew when we were both in our teens, a long time ago, for whom I cared deeply. He was handsome, talented, kind, funny and put through hell. Thrown out of his house, he ran off to San Francisco and did what a street kid needs to do to survive. After several arrests was declared an "incorrigible minor" and locked up in juvenile detention. Released on his 18th birthday, he had by then been brainwashed by Teen Challenge, a pray away the gay hate organization, and had to of course stop being friends with me. I wasn't out, didn't even know the name for who I was, but still radical Jewish hippie. He prayed for years and was still gay. Then just exploded out of the closet, headed back to San Francisco, had a few happy years before dying in the epidemic. For you, my friend, whom I never will forget:

The Boxer, Simon & Garfunkel.

Always sounded like a suicide note.
Although I am personally too ornery to ever be suicidal. Even at my lowest, part of me says "fuck you asshole, I am not dying to make some shithead happy". Maybe that's why I like Joan Jett, there is a lot of "fuck you asshole" about her.

 

Those 1970s Janis Ian albums are *so sad*, but they're also really amazing looks at vulnerability.
I first heard At Seventeen when I was 14 (watching a rerun of her SNL episode from ?1975?), and I couldn't stop crying. I had to leave the room; my parents were so confused.

 

Floyd the Barber - Nirvana

 

Operator, oh, could you help me place this call?
See the number on the matchbook is old and faded
She's living in L.A.
With my best old ex-friend, Ray
Guy, she said she knew well, and sometimes hated
But isn't that the way they say it goes?
Well, let's forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So, I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine
And to show I've overcome the blow
I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real
But that's not the way it feels
Operator, oh, could you help me place this call?
'Cause I can't read the number that you just gave me
There's something in my eyes
You know it happens every time
I think about a love that I thought would save me
But isn't that the way they say it goes?
Well, let's forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine
And to show I've overcome the blow
I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real
But that's not the way it feels, no, no, no, no
That's not the way it feels
Operator, oh, let's forget about this call
There's no one there I really wanted to talk to
Thank you for your time
Ah, you've been so much more than kind
You can keep the dime

 

"The Last Resort"....Eagles.

 

piano man. Tops. Great song. One of my all time favorite musicians.

i didn't see rocky raccoon mentioned?

 

Rocky Raccoon is not IMO one of the Beatles best. Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da not a great but a fun song.