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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: youngbowyer33 on May 26, 2010, 12:24:23 am
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For school I have to do a song analysis, and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for songs? The only two I can think of right now: Human by the Killers and Time by Pink Floyd. I want to do Time because I think the message is clear and I like the idea and i want to do Human because I think it would be kind of fun to try and describe what i think is the message. So if you have any ideas i would really appreciate it, I basically like most forms of music, even the old stuff ;D
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well i would recomend any thing by Bob Dylan from the sixties
that would be a a whole bunch of great tunes that would be worthy for analysis
them songs had real meaning
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If you like 60's folk music, look into The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkle. Ron
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i think "this cowboy's hat" by chris ledoux has a cool message, pluss its just a good song.
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Lot of good songs from the 60's with some kind of message,problem is you really need to be smoking something to get it. ;) ;D ;D ;D Good luck on your project. :)
Pappy
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Dude I know this is off topic of what your doing but I think Fat Bottom Girls is a song that speaks volumes.
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Paradise or Spanish pipe dream by John Prine
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"Dust in the Wind" by Kansas. Floyd's "2 suns in the sunset" is awesome, too.
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I have to echo the John Prine samples....good stuff all around (with a great deal of not so hidden social commentary). Might look at "Great Compromise" by Prine - I've always liked that one, and the lyrics are catchy: "But I'd druther have names thrown at me, than to fight for a thing that ain't right"
Also, for something a bit more modern, how about Johnny Cash's remake of "Hurt" by Trent Reznor.....Johnny really put his soul into that version and I think it speaks volumes about his life.
J
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Some great suggestions, but personally, I think Fat Bottom Girls may be the greatest choice...
Course, there's always Pink by Aersomith. >:D ;D
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Hurricane by Bob Dylan
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Find this on YouTube and play it a couple times, then do your analysis
March of Cambreadth
by Heather Alexander
Axes flash, broadsword swing,
Shining armour's piercing ring
Horses run with polished shield,
Fight Those Bastards till They Yield
Midnight mare and blood red roan,
Fight to Keep this Land Your Own
Sound the horn and call the cry,
How Many of Them Can We Make Die!
Follow orders as you're told,
Make Their Yellow Blood Run Cold
Fight until you die or drop,
A Force Like Ours is Hard to Stop
Close your mind to stress and pain,
Fight till You're No Longer Sane
Let not one damn cur pass by,
How Many of Them Can We Make Die!
Guard your women and children well,
Send These Bastards Back to Hell
We'll teach them the ways of war,
They Won't Come Here Any More
Use your shield and use your head,
Fight till Every One is Dead
Raise the flag up to the sky,
How Many of Them Can We Make Die!
Dawn has broke, the time has come,
Move Your Feet to a Marching Drum
We'll win the war and pay the toll,
We'll Fight as One in Heart and Soul
Midnight mare and blood red roan,
Fight to Keep this Land Your Own
Sound the horn and call the cry,
How Many of Them Can We Make Die!
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Analyze Bohemian Rhapsody. ;D
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John Prine: " Please Don't Bury Me ", in that cold, cold, ground... It's in my will and prearranged burial service. ;D
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Pink Floyd. The wall. " All in all, you're just another brick in the wall " Melanie, " Brand new pair of roller skates" "I got a brand new pair of roller skates, you got a brand new key.....I think we should get together, and see"....." Sixties song. When skates, were metal, and were adjustable to fit your shoes, and you used a big key to tighten, or loosen them. Yep we used type writers too, with a ribbon, and used correction tape, and white out! Can't use that anymore, messes up the computer screen. ;D speaking of the sixties......There is Jim Stafford's "Wild Wood Weed" ::) Simple message...... 8)
Wayne
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Everyone's overlooking the only logical choice: "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane.
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Ah yes, "Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall"...... 8)
Wayne
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Hochie Cochie Man by Willie Dixon, I'm Just Your Fool by Little Walter, Sweet Little Angel, Little Red Rooster , Ball and Chain and You Ain't Nothin But A Hound Dog by Willa May Thorton I'm Goin Down To the Crossroads by Robert Johnson, Gimmie Back My Wig by Elmore James, The Killin Floor by Howlin Wolf I suppose that's enough. I guess you can see, I like the Blues.
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T, anything Grace Slick did is nullified by her participation in We Built This City on Rock and Roll. What a wretched song.
Fat Bottom Girls - excellent choice. They make the rock and roll world go round, after all. Tie Your Mother Down, Killer Queen, Lover Boy, Stone Cold Crazy, all great Murcury songs.
Maybe Mellencamp, for the angst of a deadend life.
Some Simon and Garfunkle songs scream out for analysis. Bleeker Street, Sounds of Silence, Richard Cory, The Boxer, others.
Think about folk music, too. Lots of murder ballads and songs of work, slavery, spirituality, war, hate, love, redemption. Some spirituals have tons of poetry and meaning to look at.
Dane
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If you want to have fun with the teacher you should do something like Dead Skin Mask by Slayer.
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youngbowyer started this thread and then went silent. I think we scared him off! What a bunch of songs though. I'll have to look up some of those I haven't heard yet. Ron
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This is worth analyzing :) a million lights by tree63. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fiop3ZKzK4&feature=related
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Pink Floyd. The wall. " All in all, you're just another brick in the wall " Melanie, " Brand new pair of roller skates" "I got a brand new pair of roller skates, you got a brand new key.....I think we should get together, and see"....." Sixties song. When skates, were metal, and were adjustable to fit your shoes, and you used a big key to tighten, or loosen them. Yep we used type writers too, with a ribbon, and used correction tape, and white out! Can't use that anymore, messes up the computer screen. ;D speaking of the sixties......There is Jim Stafford's "Wild Wood Weed" ::) Simple message...... 8)
Wayne
I have to agree.. And you know most of us are really telling our age...Dang I'm getting old.
And if you're really brave, try... As Hillbilly said "Analyze Bohemian Rhapsody" ;D ;D
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the only problem with trying to analyze a song by Queen would be that if you dont understand Shakespeare you probably wont truly
understand the meaning of their songs,kinda like Led Zepplin, you gotta undestand Norse mythology to understand alot of their songs to
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Gents I gotta say there are some fine songs mentiioned here. And my favorite good time song will always be Fat Bottom Girls however when I'm in a quiet contemplative mood nothing beats Turning The Page.Ron
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I did this back in high school. Song I chose was Don McLean's "American Pie". Lots to analyze and cool song to listen to!
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thanks for all the suggestions! I learned a lot of new songs that i like now! I ended up doing it on time at the last minute ::) Hillbilly, my friend did that song, he wouldn't want me to steal it ;) I really liked the boxer and dust in the wing, also the cowboy's hat one, along with March of Cambreadth. Thanks for all the ideas, although it probably just made it harder for me ;)
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Doing assignments at the last minute is standard, isn't it? Or, have things changed since I was in school? Ron
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Y'all went and made me whip this one out:
99 Luftballons by Nena. >:D
HAHAHAHA!!! Now that song will be on endless loop in your heads.
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Y'all went and made me whip this one out:
99 Luftballons by Nena. >:D
HAHAHAHA!!! Now that song will be on endless loop in your heads.
thats a good song
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Cool thread YBowyer - got me to pull the old Guitair out ;D Bangin' my way thru some oldies.thanks.
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For me- it doesn't get much better than chillin by the campfire to Jim Croce :)
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Highwayman, by The Highwaymen (Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristoferson, and Waylon Jennings)