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
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.
Well I never knew that and quite dark for essentially a ' fluffy ' band and pop music.Spandau Ballet was the name given to the jerky death throes of the prisoners that were hung at Spandau Jail.
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.
Which is the correct pronunciation according to Arlo Guthrie in the song Alice's Restaurant Massacree.I hope you also leant to pronounce massacre correctly? From memory they pronounced it mass-a-cree so it rhymed with baby.
Very good call.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.
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.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.
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.
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.Wonder if they're thinking of Cloudbursting?