Feynman Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 "Me and Bobby McGee" - JJ"This is neither mint nor pristine" - PO'd
BubbaVO Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 Detroit Rock City and Pina Colada Song ...(Bubba ducks!)
Buzzy Fretts Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 +1 on harry chapin."billy jo mcalister" or whatever it was called. "thunder road"
58clipper Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Great topicDylan- Hurricane Tangled Up In Blue Ballad of Hollis BrownSteve Earle-The Devil's Right Hand Copperhead RoadEmmylou Harris-Red Dirt GirlI could keep going...
geoff_hartwell Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Check out Richard Shindell's first three albums. His Live Disc "Courier" is a great overview of those tunes, but he's a KILLER when it comes to narrative. Oh Yeah, and AMERICAN GIRL by Tom Petty gets better every time I listen to it. DAMN I wish I wrote that song...
stobro Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 '52 Vincent Black Lightning- Richard ThompsonMemphis in the Meantime,As Good as She Could Be- John Hiatt
thecajunboy Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Shame on y'all for not coming up with Warren Zevon's "Excitable Boy" yet.
doody Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 What?!?! No love for "The wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald" and a bunch of other Gordon Lightfoot songs.
Buzzy Fretts Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Uneasy Rider - Charlie Daniels Bandand of course the devil went down to georgia's Fire on the Mountain.
belikerick Posted April 2, 2008 Posted April 2, 2008 Take your pick from almost any Drive By Truckers effort."Tornados and Daddy's Cup" are among my favorites, but there are many, many more. +100 on DBT, almost EVERY song is a short story and a good one at that More great examples - Zip City, Puttin' People on the Moon, Sink Hole, Space City, 72 (This Highway's Mean), Loaded Gun in the Closet... better stop now
atquinn Posted April 2, 2008 Posted April 2, 2008 How could I have forgotten, Fast Car - Tracy Chapman-Austin
Hamer Bass Head Posted April 2, 2008 Posted April 2, 2008 Jason and the Scorchers -"Good Things Come to Those Who Wait" or "Bible and a Gun"
edgar_allan_poe Posted April 2, 2008 Posted April 2, 2008 Edited to add (and how in the hell could I have forgotten) "Picnic Table Lovin" by Arthur Price and "Some Man is Fucking My Horsie (Mama Squirt Him With the Hose)" by Darlene Ross.ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!
Matt Mattson Posted April 2, 2008 Posted April 2, 2008 Edited to add (and how in the hell could I have forgotten) "Picnic Table Lovin" by Arthur Price and "Some Man is Fucking My Horsie (Mama Squirt Him With the Hose)" by Darlene Ross. Excellent additions, both. What a scream they were! "Pontiac"
Hamertoe Posted April 2, 2008 Posted April 2, 2008 Traveling Wilbury's "Tweeter and the Monkey Man" is one of my faves. Written by Lucky Wilbury and Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr
T.A.F.K.A KULL Posted April 2, 2008 Posted April 2, 2008 Jamaica say you will - Jackson Browne (on a huge Jackson Browne kick as of late).Richard Thompson - great story type songs and a monster of a guitar player.
Willie G. Moseley Posted April 2, 2008 Posted April 2, 2008 An uneasy/tepid +1 for early Jackson Browne stuff, although anybody who ever got dissed by Tonio K. usually deserved it.I thought about some songs on Richard & Linda Thompson's SHOOT OUT THE LIGHTS, and I guess the most "narrative" example would have to be "Did She Jump or Was She Pushed", but I don't have that album anymore. That being said, Richard's guitar break on "Don't Renege On Our Love" belongs on the "perfect solos" thread, and would be prima facie evidence if he ever sued Mark Knopfler for plagiarization.
cmatthes Posted April 2, 2008 Posted April 2, 2008 I also thought about some Richard Thompson stuff. Although "Valerie" is a favorite song, he's got tons of that stuff up his sleeve.
Guest hectorp Posted April 2, 2008 Posted April 2, 2008 "She Loves You" Lennon and McCartney"She Loves You" Lennon and McCartneyNot only a short story, but told in the second person.
Pieman Posted April 3, 2008 Author Posted April 3, 2008 Okay. I will offer up another suggestion, that was prompted by the second-person angle suggested by Hectorp."Powderfinger" by Neil Young. I love the imagery. "Look out, Mama, there's a white boat comin' up the riverWith a big red beacon, and a flag, and a man on the rail ....... Big John's been drinking since the river took Emmy-Lou" - - the whole thing. But the best part is yet to come - - the narrator injects himself in the story and then he tells of his own death. Such a time shift. A real mind-blower, as we used to say.
Rocktuna Posted April 3, 2008 Posted April 3, 2008 Aqualung by Jethro Tull not only a story but one I can relate to"eyeing little girls with bad intent"Every song Steve Earl has ever done
Boogie1 Posted April 3, 2008 Posted April 3, 2008 Ziggy Stardust- David BowieQueensryche- Operation Mindcrime entire albumDown on Main St. - Bob SegerWhiskey in the Jar- Metallica
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