Songs about random topics (lyrics, band, dance, album)
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So most songs are about romance of some sort, or just kind of nonsense lyrics sometimes...but what are some songs about completely random, non-romantic topics?
I listen to the radio for 8 hours straight at my job every night, so that got me thinking about this subject...here's are two I've heard recently:
Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry": about the tabloid news media
Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing": about a working-class guy commenting on rock stars' lifestyles
what do you think of songs about kids trying to believe in stuff or about politics of homeless or poor people or social issues? I'm too busy in real life but most of my friends are interested in stuff like this.
The most bankable seem to be love songs. The next category are dance songs, or somehow about dancing, or even about music itself. How about "Eye of the Tiger?"
"Wildfire" a song from 1975 by Michael Martin Murphy:
"She comes down from Yellow Mountain
On a dark, flat land she rides
On a pony she named Wildfire
With a whirlwind by her side
On a cold Nebraska night
"Oh, they say she died one winter
When there came a killing frost
And the pony she named Wildfire
Busted down it's stall
In a blizzard he was lost
"She ran calling Wildfire ..."
Murphy said he was inspired to write the song after a dream. He believes the song was inspired by the story about a Native American ghost horse that his grandfather told him when Murphy was a child.
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"Battle of New Orleans" song written by Jimmy Driftwood and sung by Johnny Horton. It reached No. 1 in 1959. It chronicled the story of Andrew Jackson's American troops routing British soldiers in a battle fought in late 1814 and early 1815.
"Well, in eighteen and fourteen we took a little trip
along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans,
And we caught the bloody British near the town of New Orleans.
"We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. ..."
Another couple from the same album are "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Mr. Brownstone" by Guns N' Roses on their 1987 album "Appetite for Destruction."
"Welcome to the Jungle" describes tough life in the big city, which can turn into a predator-prey situation.
"Welcome to the jungle
We've got fun 'n' games
We got everything you want
Honey, we know the names
We are the people that can find
Whatever you may need
If you got the money, honey
We got your disease
"In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your
knees, knees
I wanna watch you bleed ..."
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"Mr. Brownstone" is about the woes of heroin addiction, and how the band members regret ever starting the drug habit.
"We been dancin' with
Mr. Brownstone
He's been knockin'
He won't' leave me alone
"I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said a little better than before
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said a little better than before ..."
"Ventura Highway" a 1972 song about a carefree life traveling California's Highway 1. This song was supposedly inspired a few years earlier when the writer watched his dad change a tire on the side of the road and saw cloud formations resembling alligators.
"Chewing on a piece of grass
Walking down the road
Tell me, how long you gonna stay here Joe?
Some people say this town don't look
Good in snow
You don't care, I know
"Ventura Highway in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger
Than moonshine
You're gonna go I know
" 'Cause the free wind is blowin' through
Your hair
And the days surround your daylight
There
Seasons crying no despair
Alligator lizards in the air ..."
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"A Horse With No Name," another 1972 song, chronicles a rider in the desert. I wonder if the group was inspired by any of the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns?
The lyrics are very quirky, but I remember listening to this song in the early 1970s while riding with my mom and dad, and we all enjoyed it.
"On the first part of the journey
I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound
"I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain ..."
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