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Post by PeterC on Jul 18, 2021 17:32:43 GMT
I’m thinking of rock songs that are a sort of musical horror story. A good example (I’d say) is Last of the International Playboys by The Smiths (1989). Another one is Angie Baby by Helen Reddy (1974).
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jul 18, 2021 18:27:57 GMT
I’m thinking of rock songs that are a sort of musical horror story. A good example (I’d say) is Last of the International Playboys by The Smiths (1989). Another one is Angie Baby by Helen Reddy (1974). This is an interesting thread idea. Unfortunately I can't think of any. |
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Post by PeterC on Jul 18, 2021 19:49:11 GMT
Thank-you, your royal highness, for casting a beautiful and disdainful eye on my pathetic attempt at a thread. I shall leave in the morn on a knightly quest, the better to absolve my shame.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jul 18, 2021 20:16:15 GMT
Thank-you, your royal highness, for casting a beautiful and disdainful eye on my pathetic attempt at a thread. I shall leave in the morn on a knightly quest, the better to absolve my shame. I actually did mean it! Only I'm rubbish at anything to do with this site, so I can't help. I don't know if Marillion might have done something, as their songs tell stories. Swampirella might know, as they did her favourite song: Grendel. But saying that I don't mind you going on a quest on behalf. Take this tear stained hankie in remembrance of me. I've dozens of them anyway, for just this sort of situation. I'll wave you away, as you fade into the distance, from my high tower! Farewell brave night! |
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Post by The Thing in the Vacuum Valve on Jul 18, 2021 20:27:37 GMT
D.O.A. - Bloodrock (1971)
The Gift - Velvet Underground (1968)
Bloody Hammer - Roky Erickson and the Aliens (1980)
Harvester of Eyes - Blue Öyster Cult (1974)
Just to add a few... and of course, at least half the catalogs of both Roky and BÖC could qualify, not to mention most 70's Black Sabbath tracks, as well as great cyclopean towers of doom metal, black metal, etc...
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 18, 2021 20:59:38 GMT
This always messes with my head. Is it meant to be taken literally or metaphorically?
The Tragically Hip - Locked In The Trunk Of A Car (1992)
They don't know how old I am
They found armor in my belly
From the sixteenth century
Conquistador, I think
They don't know how old I am
They found armor in my belly
Passion out of machine revving tension
Lashing out at machine revving tension
Rushing by the machine revving tension
Morning broke out the backside of a truck-stop
The end of a line, a real rainbow-likening luck stop
Where you could say I became chronologically fucked up
Put ten bucks in just to get the tank topped off
Then I found a place, it's dark and it's rotted
It's a cool, sweet kinda place
Where the coppers won't spot it
And I destroyed the map, I even thought I forgot it
However, everyday I'm dumping the body
It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for me if you don't understand
And I found a place, it's dark and it's rotted
It's a cool, sweet kinda place
Where the coppers won't spot it
And I destroyed the map that I'd carefully dotted
However, everyday I'm dumping the body
It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for me if you don't understand
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
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Post by The Thing in the Vacuum Valve on Jul 19, 2021 4:48:42 GMT
I thought up a smattering of others to add to this.
Going down the 60's garage-punk alleyway you can find many good examples... Night of the Phantom (originally 'Night of the Sadist') by Larry and the Blue Notes in 1965 is one. Said to be inspired by several urban legends, supplied by yr dutiful Wiki as such:
"...including 'the escaped mental patient with a hook on his right hand who used to terrorize parkers in Lover's Lane; a guy dressed in a gorilla suit who used to tap on car windows of couples parking late at night at my old school, Northside High; and tales of a Goat Man who was scaring the crap out of parkers at Lake Worth.'"
Wo-ooh-oooohh - yeah!...
The later garage psych/punk revival produced lots of suitable entries as well. Take the redoubtable Plan 9 (from Providence, Rhode Island no less) with their weirdly ominous The Beast was an Old Tale (1985)
... And, possibly the very creepiest song that ever hit my ears, Charlotte's Remains (1989, orig.) by the Fuzztones. This song was covered by The Strawberry Alarm Clock, on their 2015 album of new material, "Wake up Where You Are."
~~shiver~~
Why all of my suggestions so far came out of either Texas or New York/New England, I cannot answer!
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jul 20, 2021 11:31:13 GMT
The Tragically Hip - Locked In The Trunk Of A Car (1992) My only frame of reference for The Tragically Hip is their (excellent) theme song for the CBC television series Anne with an E (I do occasionally branch out from horror and goth rock/metal). |
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Post by Swampirella on Jul 20, 2021 12:44:46 GMT
The Tragically Hip - Locked In The Trunk Of A Car (1992) My only frame of reference for The Tragically Hip is their (excellent) theme song for the CBC television series Anne with an E (I do occasionally branch out from horror and goth rock/metal). Although I've never had any interest in Anne of Green Gables in any form myself, on behalf of Canada, thank you for watching CBC!  |
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 20, 2021 12:48:38 GMT
The Tragically Hip - Locked In The Trunk Of A Car (1992) My only frame of reference for The Tragically Hip is their (excellent) theme song for the CBC television series Anne with an E (I do occasionally branch out from horror and goth rock/metal). I was a big Hip fan back in the 90s, but unfortunately never got to see them live. Favourite albums are Road Apples (1991) and Fully, Completely (1992) but all are worth a listen. Gord Downie was a genius lyricist, and his songs are full of literary allusions and historical references that are easily missed on the first listen, but then sink in afterwards. Musically, I never quite knew where to place them - too melodic to fit with the grunge scene, but a lot punchier than the likes of REM. This is one of my favourite Hip songs - And I am not embarrassed to say that this one has been known to make me cry - |
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 22, 2021 20:49:43 GMT
My only frame of reference for The Tragically Hip is their (excellent) theme song for the CBC television series Anne with an E (I do occasionally branch out from horror and goth rock/metal). Here's a fantastic live version from 1997 (I was going to post a link to the video of them doing it at their final show, but it is just too, too sad) - |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jul 22, 2021 22:34:52 GMT
My only frame of reference for The Tragically Hip is their (excellent) theme song for the CBC television series Anne with an E (I do occasionally branch out from horror and goth rock/metal). Here's a fantastic live version from 1997 (I was going to post a link to the video of them doing it at their final show, but it is just too, too sad). The song fit the series so well that I thought the former was written specifically for the latter. But I was clearly wrong about that. |
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Post by drauch on Jul 29, 2021 15:15:47 GMT
I'd wager the entirety of Murder Ballads by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds fits the bill.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 29, 2021 17:00:05 GMT
I'd wager the entirety of Murder Ballads by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds fits the bill. ... and from much earlier in his career, the crazed Swampland. God, they were great. |
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Post by drauch on Jul 29, 2021 17:11:52 GMT
Ah yes, fantastic album! And Deep in the Woods as well, one of my favorites from BP.
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