Songs about true events

GattoNegro · Apr 21, 2019 at 04:30 PM

To get things started:

Kiss - Detroit Rock City

Which was about a fatal car crash of a few Kiss fans on the way To be gig.

lightly toasted · Apr 21, 2019 at 05:00 PM

Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

Mountaindewed · Apr 21, 2019 at 06:38 PM

P!nk: Dear Mr. President

was about George W Bush.

guilloche · Apr 22, 2019 at 10:06 AM

"Kilkelly" - This song makes me cry. It tells the story of an emigrant from Ireland, through letters from his family back home. All we hear is the text of the letters he receives (we never hear his response), and it's just... so sad to me. The composer based it on actual letters he found, I believe (I don't remember the full story).

"I Don't Like Mondays" - by the Boomtown Rats.

I really like the melody, it's catchy. But, I didn't realize, until someone online pointed it out, that the song was actually based on an actual event (a shooting in 1979).

It's depressing enough that I'll put the rest in trigger quotes...

Possible trigger:

A 16-year old girl lived with her abusive, alcoholic father across the street from an elementary school. One afternoon, she just... started shooting at the kids and teachers on the playground. Apparently, when the press asked, "Why'd you do it?" she replied, "Eh, I don't like Mondays."

There's SO much that's sad here. Her living situation. The fact that she was relatively young herself. Obviously, shooting at little kids on a playground. The whole thing is just such a mess, so many messed up lives. It makes me sad in multiple dimensions. And, I hate that it kind of ruins the song for me.

I need to listen to happier music!

WishfulThinker66 · Apr 22, 2019 at 10:17 AM

My first thought was the sinking of the "edmund Fitzgerals" But alas that has been mentioned already

There is in Canada the "Log Driver's Song". Oh gosh, I will now be singing it in my head all day.

lightly toasted · Apr 22, 2019 at 12:36 PM

...for he goes birling down and down the white water, the log driver's waltz pleases girls completely ..

thanks for the earworm, Wishful

Apr 22, 2019 at 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by guilloche

"Kilkelly" - This song makes me cry. It tells the story of an emigrant from Ireland, through letters from his family back home. All we hear is the text of the letters he receives (we never hear his response), and it's just... so sad to me. The composer based it on actual letters he found, I believe (I don't remember the full story).

"I Don't Like Mondays" - by the Boomtown Rats.

I really like the melody, it's catchy. But, I didn't realize, until someone online pointed it out, that the song was actually based on an actual event (a shooting in 1979).

It's depressing enough that I'll put the rest in trigger quotes...

Possible trigger:

A 16-year old girl lived with her abusive, alcoholic father across the street from an elementary school. One afternoon, she just... started shooting at the kids and teachers on the playground. Apparently, when the press asked, "Why'd you do it?" she replied, "Eh, I don't like Mondays."

There's SO much that's sad here. Her living situation. The fact that she was relatively young herself. Obviously, shooting at little kids on a playground. The whole thing is just such a mess, so many messed up lives. It makes me sad in multiple dimensions. And, I hate that it kind of ruins the song for me.

I need to listen to happier music!

I learned about this song too and the background. Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. I think it's interesting that her pathology presented in a more stereotypically male way...she became homicidal when depressed whereas girls and women are more often suicidal. If you look at the school shootings in the U.S. they are typically male perpetrators.

Apr 22, 2019 at 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by lightly toasted

Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

Try Lightfoot's Ballad of Yarmouth Castle...to me it's every bit as haunting. Another ship tragedy...chilling. Here it is on Youtube. YouTube

Unrigged64072835 · Apr 22, 2019 at 01:11 PM

Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2

Thought it was a general thing about The Troubles but there was an Aerial Ireland episode on Smithsonian Channel about the location where the massacre occurred.

Definitely need more cheerful music.

lightly toasted · Apr 22, 2019 at 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fharraige

Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2

Thought it was a general thing about The Troubles but there was an Aerial Ireland episode on Smithsonian Channel about the location where the massacre occurred.

Definitely need more cheerful music.

I agree. I loved Sunday Bloody Sunday and I don't like Monday's as a kid. As an adult, knowing more about the realities of life, and being a depressive, I'm all about Fifth Dimension's Up Up and Away, or happy meaningless pop music or a bit of jazzy swing.

Nammu · Apr 22, 2019 at 06:37 PM

We didn't start the fire

Quarter life · Apr 22, 2019 at 07:55 PM

Vincent - by Don McLean written as a tribute to Artist Vincent van Gogh.

Love of My Life -written by Freddie Mercury as a tribute to the love of his life Mary Austin.

Mountaindewed · Apr 23, 2019 at 02:00 AM

Cassie- by Flyleaf

was about a victim of the Columbine shooting.

American Pie.

Jun 12, 2019 at 10:40 AM

Ty for Kilkelly.

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GattoNegro Member Member Since Apr 2019 Location: Malta Posts: 37 5	Apr 21, 2019 at 04:30 PM #1 To get things started: Kiss - Detroit Rock City Which was about a fatal car crash of a few Kiss fans on the way To be gig.
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lightly toasted Poohbah Member Since Mar 2019 Location: Here and There Posts: 1,147 5 1,724 hugs given	Apr 21, 2019 at 05:00 PM #2 Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
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WishfulThinker66 Magnate Member Since Jun 2018 Location: Canada Posts: 2,285 5 117 hugs given	Apr 22, 2019 at 10:17 AM #5 My first thought was the sinking of the "edmund Fitzgerals" But alas that has been mentioned already There is in Canada the "Log Driver's Song". Oh gosh, I will now be singing it in my head all day.
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lightly toasted Poohbah Member Since Mar 2019 Location: Here and There Posts: 1,147 5 1,724 hugs given	Apr 22, 2019 at 12:36 PM #6 ...for he goes birling down and down the white water, the log driver's waltz pleases girls completely .. thanks for the earworm, Wishful
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Unrigged64072835 Legendary Member Since Oct 2010 Location: Under the noise floor Posts: 18,579 (SuperPoster!) 13 11.8k hugs given	Apr 22, 2019 at 01:11 PM #9 Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2 Thought it was a general thing about The Troubles but there was an Aerial Ireland episode on Smithsonian Channel about the location where the massacre occurred. Definitely need more cheerful music.
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Nammu Crone Member Since May 2010 Location: Some where between my inner mind and the solar system. Posts: 71,356 (SuperPoster!) 13 53.6k hugs given	Apr 22, 2019 at 06:37 PM #11 We didn't start the fire __________________ *Nammu* …Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. …... Desiderata Max Ehrmann
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Quarter life Elder...and a bit Older Community Liaison Member Since Nov 2013 Location: My Own Orbit Posts: 6,912 10 371 hugs given	Apr 22, 2019 at 07:55 PM #12 Vincent - by Don McLean written as a tribute to Artist Vincent van Gogh. Love of My Life -written by Freddie Mercury as a tribute to the love of his life Mary Austin. __________________ The devil whispered in my ear, "You cannot withstand the storm." I whispered back, "I am the storm."
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Mountaindewed Legendary Wise Elder Member Since Jun 2016 Location: Where the sidewalk ends Posts: 36,196 (SuperPoster!) 7 8,765 hugs given	Apr 23, 2019 at 02:00 AM #13 Cassie- by Flyleaf was about a victim of the Columbine shooting. American Pie. __________________ Ridin' with Biden
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Anonymous46365 Guest Posts: n/a	Jun 12, 2019 at 10:40 AM #14 Ty for Kilkelly.
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