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[Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names.



AK74

Bright-eyed. Bushy-tailed. GSOH.
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Jan 19, 2010
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Someone in Newport Pagnell once found a bag belonging to Morrissey.
 






maltaseagull

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Feb 25, 2009
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Zabbar- Malta
I learnt quite a lot about events concerning the American Civil Rights Movement through the songs of Bob Dylan. One was the abduction and lynching of 14 year old Emmett Till after he allegedly flirted with a white woman in a store...

"The Death of Emmett Till" : Bob Dylan


Freewheeling was the first Album (LP in those days) that I bought.
 










Is it PotG?

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Feb 20, 2017
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Sussex by the Sea
More questions than answers though, I still haven't a clue just who IS the five o'clock hero?
 


tomfitzz

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Sep 26, 2022
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Mine has to be the significance of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the average american. First properly noticed it in the Fleet Foxes song which goes by the name 'blue ridge mountains' but now it crops up seemingly everywhere.

Now firmly on my bucket list of places to go as it's got to have something special to be mentioned so often.
 




Is it PotG?

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Feb 20, 2017
25,292
Sussex by the Sea
Mine has to be the significance of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the average american. First properly noticed it in the Fleet Foxes song which goes by the name 'blue ridge mountains' but now it crops up seemingly everywhere.

Now firmly on my bucket list of places to go as it's got to have something special to be mentioned so often.
 




Is it PotG?

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Sussex by the Sea
Steely Dan

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The Clamp

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West is BEST


One of many ' educational ' songs from my favourites Iron Maiden. Many people will know the line 'Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink' . However, few including myself would have known its origin is Coleridge's poem. If you want to teach kids about a classic poem in a more interesting less dry manner here's a great example.

The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner is anything but “dry” but yes, Maiden gave it a certain kick.

One of my favourite pieces of writing though. It’s tremendous.
 






Herr Tubthumper

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Jul 11, 2003
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The Fatherland
First heard of Nicholas Van Hoogstraten via Carter USM’s Sheriff Fatman song


“Moving up on second base behind Nicholas Van What’s-his-face”..

It intrigued me enough to ask my stepdad who he meant. No internet in those days.
Very good call.
 


The Clamp

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West is BEST
Hear about the West Memphis 3 through Eddie Vedder changing the lyrics to one of Pearl Jam’s songs, Do The Evolution, when playing live to

“free the West Memphis Three”



 
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METALMICKY

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Jan 30, 2004
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The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner is anything but “dry” but yes, Maiden gave it a certain kick.

One of my favourite pieces of writing though. It’s tremendous.
I was just suggesting the average school child might find it so. I think it's great. Thanks to Bruce Dickinson I now have an appreciation of William Blake.
 






marlowe

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Dec 13, 2015
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You sure you got the right song?

I don’t think Korn ever covered Running to that Hill, and its lyrics aren’t about anything particularly sinister.

So what do you make of the lyrics? I always assumed it was about a man and a woman trying to understand each other.

Wonder if they're thinking of Cloudbursting?
Or "The Kick Inside" which is about a consensual incestual relationshjp between a brother and a sister and the sister becomes pregnant as a result.

That's quite dark subject matter.

The song was inspired by a traditional folk song called Lucy Wan




 


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