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Songs you’ve heard over the yrs that you like, that also tell about a moment in history.
5 of my favourites are :
Boomtown Rats - I don’t like Mondays
Human League - Seconds
Gordon Lightfoot - The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Paul Hardcastle - 19
The Cranberries - Zombie
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Enola Gay
Ohio - Neil Young
The Bells of Berlin - Lone Star
Shaddap you face: Joe Dolce
Ooh stick you - Daphne and Celeste
French kiss by Lil Louis. By playing it at top volume while my mother had her boring friends over for 'coffee' taught me that she could really lose her shit... :hehe:
Was playing that in the car the other evening.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Had to turn it down a notch as I turned into our street.
:hehe: it's a classic...Quote:
Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue
Ra, Ra Rasputin
The New Seekers.. I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing………and buy Coca-Cola!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtH90f1RhM
Sadly, Frankie didn't listen to his own advice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtH90f1RhM
😂😂Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Masters of war and Hurricane both Bob Dylan.
Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
If Lynyrd Skynyrd were posting on this board they’d have a reply to this post :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by bobh
Chicago - crosby stills nash and young
This is a proper tune and educational courtesy of Sesame Street.
https://youtu.be/HUL4T8WcFdA?feature=shared
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E744JMDdWPc
ivor biggun
Did you not know that JFK was assassinated?Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
Sailing to Philidelphia Marl Knopfler
New York Mining Disaster Bee Gees
Vive la Quince Brigada. (Any version - though Christie Moore better than Pete Seeger).
Whatever that song about LS Lowry by Brian and Michael was called. On the same theme, Vincent by Don McLean and I suppose American Pie was something you could learn from if you knew what the lyrics meant.
No more Heroes?
We hit them with bricks and sticks and bottles and baseball batsQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
We kick them in the bollocks and we nick their scarves and hats
We're always drunk away, and we like to cause affray
Cos we're the Cardiff city boot boys, we travel in a van/coach/train...
...to the tune of Brian and Michael's song...for the young uns on hereQuote:
Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead
I always thought he’d been knocked down by a bus outside the Lamb and Flag in Canton.Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Solstice - Cheyenne
Waterboys - Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Thin Lizzy - Emerald
Hawklords - 25 years
Robert Calvert – Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters album (especially the track Ejection)
Robert Calvert – Lucky Leif And The Longships album
The Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Saxon-Dallas 1 PM
U2 - Pride
So what did you learn from "Seconds"? The lyrics are a bit vague. There's no who, where, or when. All you can gather is that someone took seconds to take someone else's life after waiting a while. It's not even factually accurate. There were 3 shots heard around the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
How pedantic are we gonna get here ? 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Black Velvet
The night they burned ol' dixie down
18
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down…The Band
Is it not important to be pedantic when it comes to learning?Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
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Someone mentioned "the band played waltzing Matilda" earlier which is one of my very favourite songs, and a great shout
Another absolute favourite is "The town I loved so well" which is about growing up in Derry and refers to the troubles.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hybUj9...ZlZCBzbyB3ZWxs
In a similar vein, a great ode to Dublin that tells the story of a changing city that many Cardiffians may also identify with:
"In the rare old times" by the Dubliners
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTYkby...Ugb2xkIHRpbWVz
Another is "Sam Hall", about an old Highway thief.
Brilliant song, this version also by the Dubliners
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QUMEOp...U2FtIGhhbGw%3D
Finally, "where were you when the world stopped turning" by Alan Jackson who is a country singer I love. I don't actually like this song that much but it's all about 9/11
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj6rMc...BlZCB0dXJuaW5n
The Green Fields of France - The Fureys
I was going to post that too! Didn't want to overdo it on the Irish folk!Quote:
Originally Posted by lostinnewforest