"...the band sounds like typewriters..."
| "...the band sounds like typewriters..." | |
| Created by: | KimMathers |
| Tracks: | 15 |
| Length: | 00:15:57 |
| Keywords |
1. Thoughtful 2. Focused 3. Curious |
| Created on | 2/9/08 8:47am |
| Level | 3 |
| Points | 1529 |
| Total visitors | 27 |
| Unique visitors | 18 |
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Great songs that tell stories. And please do send any other narrative-song suggestions my way!
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| 1 | Joni Mitchell : Edith and the Kingpin |
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one by one they bring his renegade stories to her his crimes and his glories to her SHOW MORE
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Track 1 from The Hissing of Summer Lawns
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one by one they bring his renegade stories to her his crimes and his glories to her SHOW LESS
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| 2 | Notorious B.I.G. : Gimme the Loot |
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and bruised up from the pistol-whipping welts on the neck from the necklace-stripping SHOW MORE
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Track 2 from Ready to Die
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and bruised up from the pistol-whipping welts on the neck from the necklace-stripping SHOW LESS
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| 3 | Eminem : Stan |
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I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose sincerely yours, Stan p.s., we should be together, too SHOW MORE
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Track 3 from The Marshall Mathers LP
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I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose sincerely yours, Stan p.s., we should be together, too SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Peter Gabriel : Family Snapshot |
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four miles down the cavalcade moves on, driving into the sun if I worked it out right, they won't see me or the gun SHOW MORE
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Track 4 from Peter Gabriel (Melt)
Year: 1980 |
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four miles down the cavalcade moves on, driving into the sun if I worked it out right, they won't see me or the gun SHOW LESS
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| 5 | The Smiths : Sweet And Tender Hooligan |
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jury, you've heard every word so before you decide would you look into those mother-me eyes SHOW MORE
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Track 5 from Louder Than Bombs
Length: 00:03:35 Year: 1987 |
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jury, you've heard every word so before you decide would you look into those mother-me eyes SHOW LESS
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| 6 | Billy Bragg : The Saturday Boy |
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in the end it took me a dictionary to find out the meaning of unrequited
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Track 6 from Back To Basics
Length: 00:03:28 Year: 1987 |
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in the end it took me a dictionary to find out the meaning of unrequited SHOW LESS
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| 7 | Prince : The Ballad of Dorothy Parker |
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but she didn't see the movie because she hadn't read the book first instead she pretended she was blind SHOW MORE
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Track 7 from Sign 'O' The Times
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but she didn't see the movie because she hadn't read the book first instead she pretended she was blind SHOW LESS
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| 8 | Dolly Parton : Down from Dover |
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and any time a tiny face will finally show itself 'cause waiting's almost over but I won't have a name to give it unless he doesn't hurry down from dover..." SHOW MORE
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Track 8 from Little Sparrow
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and any time a tiny face will finally show itself 'cause waiting's almost over but I won't have a name to give it unless he doesn't hurry down from dover..." SHOW LESS
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| 9 | The Kinks : Oklahoma U.S.A. |
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as she buys her paper at the corner shop she's walking on the surrey with the fringe on top
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Track 9 from Muswell Hillbillies
Year: 1998 |
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as she buys her paper at the corner shop she's walking on the surrey with the fringe on top SHOW LESS
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| 10 | New Lost City Ramblers : The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake |
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our darling wandered away while she was out at play lost in the woods she couldn't hear a sound SHOW MORE
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Track 10 from Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways
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our darling wandered away while she was out at play lost in the woods she couldn't hear a sound SHOW LESS
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| 11 | Emmylou Harris : Red Dirt Girl |
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but there won't be a mention in the news of the world about the life and the death of a red dirt girl SHOW MORE
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Track 11 from Red Dirt Girl
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but there won't be a mention in the news of the world about the life and the death of a red dirt girl SHOW LESS
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| 12 | The Shangri-Las : Give Us Your Blessings |
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they wouldn't have laughed at Mary if they could have seen through the door SHOW MORE
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Track 12 from Golden Legends
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they wouldn't have laughed at Mary if they could have seen through the door SHOW LESS
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| 13 | bruce springsteen : Nebraska |
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me and her went for a ride, sir and ten innocent people died SHOW MORE
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Track 13 from Nebraska
Year: 1982 |
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me and her went for a ride, sir and ten innocent people died SHOW LESS
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| 14 | The Police : Don't Stand So Close to Me |
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he starts to shake, he starts to cough just like the old man in that famous book by Nabokov
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Track 14 from Greatest Hits
Length: 00:04:01 Year: 1992 |
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he starts to shake, he starts to cough just like the old man in that famous book by Nabokov SHOW LESS
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| 15 | Michael Jackson : Billie Jean |
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she's just a girl who claims that I am the one but the kid is not my son SHOW MORE
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Track 15 from Thriller
Length: 00:04:53 Year: 1982 |
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she's just a girl who claims that I am the one but the kid is not my son SHOW LESS
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