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Difficulty: No rap/hip-hop and no Google-list-paste. It should be a song that you know and like. Please describe a little about the song and how successful you feel it is in what it attempts to relay.
It's a bit of a bizarre request, but I have faith in you.
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Nick Cave - Where the Wild Roses Grow feat. Kylie Minogue
Though at first it looks your romantic ballad, soon it turns into something much darker. An excellent example that not everything sounds like what it wants to mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s8Yii4d-II
Probably a bit obvious but nonetheless a great track.
Rod Stewart - The Killing Of Georgie - Parts 1 & 2
Tells the story of his gay friend George, and his murder. Probably an unlikely candidate to make such a popular and catchy tune, sung to and whistled to by many when played on the radio etc.
Lyrics:
http://www.risa.co.uk/sla/song.php?songid=15962
YouTube: (Audio comes in at approx 30 Secs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uixc025fZRE
Trivium - Down From The Sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EApnhO2OIrw
I believe this song is talking about the Hiroshima bombings that occurred during the final stages of WW2, or maybe just war in general.
Jim Carroll - People Who Died
A hard-driving punk masterpiece from his 1980 album "Catholic Boy." The title is self-explanatory; supposedly it is about all of Carroll's friends who died for a variety of reasons (suicides, overdoses, accidents, murders...). Quite a catchy tune given the subject matter is a list of fatalities. Features a simple yet satisfying singalong chorus that was a crowd pleaser at many house parties where this tune ended up on the turntable. Last year, at age 60, Carroll himself became a person who died.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBbuPnfG0Vo
the nick cave murder ballads album has 10 songs all about killing someone
Bad Thing by Wednesday 13
Nazareth: The Ballad of Hollis Brown
From the 1973 album “Loud n’ Proud.” A massively heavy version of the Bob Dylan ballad about a desperate farmer who kills his family and commits suicide. Nine minutes of a droning fuzztone guitar, hypnotic beat and wailing vocals that build menacingly to the inevitable conclusion. For full effect, listen to this song when you’re home alone at night with the lights out, preferably during a thunderstorm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7anUy97C_QM
Some great songs here. :)
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Hey Joe- Jimi Hendrix.
She done him wrong...so he shot her.
Fabulous backing vocals.
Peg and Pete and Me- Stan Ridgway.
Musical noir, think The Postman Always Rings Twice.
Cell Block Tango- from Chicago.
A great, high-energy song from my favorite musical.