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02-09-2009, 03:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Leeds, UK | | | Aaron Barrett from Reel Big Fish claims that the song 'She's Famous Now' is about when he used to date Gwen Stefani. It has never been confirmed...
Also, many of Rage Against The Machine's songs are based on real events.
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02-09-2009, 04:00 PM
|  | Dr. Jim | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denton TX, Kailua HI, New York | | "Bells of Rhymney," covered by The Byrds, written by Pete Seeger and Idris Davis.
It is about the General Strike of 1926 in the UK, which began in the coal pits of Wales. Seems quite relevant today, as the unemployment and fall in wages of the miners (to below subsistance) set the whole country on a path toward throwing the fat cats into the fire. The fat cats had private armies and suits in the govt., so they won. Surprise! 
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02-09-2009, 04:04 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: New York, NY | | | Got another.
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02-09-2009, 04:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: wolcott ct. | | | There is a form of Italian folk song originating from Southern Italy called "il canto di malavita" which literally translate to songs about a bad life, life of crime.
These songs are written by 'Mafia" members to glorify their exploits.
Some can be extremly gory.
Andy
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02-09-2009, 04:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Napa, California | | | The Dark Liege of Chaos is Unleashed At the Ensorcelled Shrine of A'Zura Kai (The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire: Part II) by Bal Sagoth.
But really, uhm...Dead Skin Mask by Slayer is more or less inspired by real events. |
02-09-2009, 04:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Napa, California | | | Lots of death metal bands have songs about serial killers, such as Aborted. I can't name any from memory, however. |
02-09-2009, 04:32 PM
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02-09-2009, 10:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Columbus, OH | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JimK  This makes me think of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" (w/ the cool bass intro by Klaus Voorman).
I recall rumour saying the subject of the tune was James Taylor (lyrics in the song mention "Nova Scotia" & Taylor had taken a trip up there, etc).
Mick Jagger was another possibilty...that he was singing back-up vocals helped fuel that rumour. | I thought of that one, too, but the real pieces are a little sketchy. Carly Simon auctioned off the real identity of who the song was about under promise that it would never be revealed publicly. I can't remember who won, but think it was someone famous in the music business.
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02-09-2009, 10:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | Quote:
Originally Posted by AQUANOVA Boomtown Rats - I don't like Mondays | Great song!
...and cool thread. I can't think of any offhand though....
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02-09-2009, 10:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Napa, California | | | How could I forget. Tons of Iron Maiden songs are based on true events. I don't know if that has been mentioned already though. |
02-09-2009, 10:23 PM
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It's about a wh@rehouse in Texas...but you knew that.
Well, possibly Fassa didn't know. 
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02-09-2009, 10:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia | | I listen to reggae man, so most of those guys talk about things they see going on around them, just like rappers do (although most rappers don't get as political about what they choose to write about).
Linton Kwesi Johnson is a dub poet who rights about his growing up in London and his experiences. One of my favorite songs of his is More Time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozL1rmcI-eY
Live version, he talks before the song explaining, but it's not on the vid sadly. Groovy simple bass line.
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02-09-2009, 10:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Winnipeg,Siberia | | | country joe's viet nam era song fish cheer .....bee gees 1910 mining disaster......and prolly every single sappy love song ever written could be traced back to some broken hearted teen......the us national anthem....the lindy.....this is gonna be a long list i bet............ |
02-09-2009, 10:29 PM
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It's about the columbine (sp?) high sch massacre.
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02-09-2009, 10:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | Fade to Black/The God that Failed - Metallica
Judith - A Perfect Circle
Silverchair - Ana's Song (Open Fire)
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02-10-2009, 01:59 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: London UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by joeinsprings Creeping Death-Metallica | Hahaha....that's clever.
Frank Zappa - The Illinois Enemea Bandit
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02-10-2009, 04:24 AM
| | | | Zappa...how about-
"Punky's Whips"- Frank Zappa
Terry Bozzio's infatuation with a certain '80s guitarist....I guess he thought Punky was a chick?
LMAO.
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02-11-2009, 02:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toronto, ON | | | Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd
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02-11-2009, 02:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Tampere, Finland | | | Vincent - Don Mclean
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02-11-2009, 02:51 PM
| | | | Almost everything on "Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs." "I Looked Away", which starts the album, is pretty explicit. "Have You Ever Loved a Woman", a cover chosen perfectly by Clapton, has guitar playing so shockingly intense that you know it was inspired by a real event.
Buffalo Springfield's "For What it's Worth" chronicles the 1966-1967 riots on the Sunset Strip.
Hendrix's "Spanish Castle Magic" was inspired by a nightclub where he hung out as a teenager, the Spanish Castle.
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