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

[marlowe]

Good thread this, I'm listening to Bob Dylan's Desire album.....a great long player.

Great album. I think Blood on the Tracks just edges it for me though.

 

[marlowe]

10cc.

I was thinking about them earlier. I can't remember for certain but I may have learnt about the Attica Prison riots from the song Rubber Bullets which is what inspired the song.

 

[sully]

I’d not heard of Lowry before the Brian and Michael song.

Also learnt that the average age of a combat soldier in Vietnam was 19. I was 23 when it was released.

 

[AIT76]

Blimey, that was a bleak listen.

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

From Dexys Midnight Runners (and Top of the Pops) I learnt that Jackie Wilson was not only a great soul singer, but through a mean dart as well

 

[Swimboy64]

I wasn't aware of the name of the aeroplane which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima until I heard this song by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark...

The pilot named her after his mother

 

[marlowe]

I learnt about 50s/60s singer Vince Taylor through the song Ziggy Stardust. I'd never heard of him before, nor have many people. Taylor was the inspiration for the song's title character...

 

[TugWilson]

The wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Great album. I think Blood on the Tracks just edges it for me though.

It’s difficult to make a case against this.

 

[studio150]

The cocaine in Notting Hill is fairtrade

 

[chip]

It’s difficult to make a case against this.

I'll trump you with a Highway 61 revisited

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I'll trump you with a Highway 61 revisited

...which ends with my favourite Dylan song.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

10cc.

….and Lovin Spoonful

 

[chip]

...which ends with my favourite Dylan song.

An outstanding choice Sir. It depends on each day for me, to many good ones

 

[Doonhamer7]

For me if you tolerate this then your children may be next - Manic street preachers on Spanish civil war

 

[pasty]

From Dexys Midnight Runners (and Top of the Pops) I learnt that Jackie Wilson was not only a great soul singer, but through a mean dart as well

I wasn't aware that their song Geno was about Geno Washington. During our Gillingham exile, a mate and I were returning by train from a match and he said Geno Washington was playing Croydon Town Hall, did I fancy going. I'd never heard of him, but went anyway. Great gig.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

More questions than answers though, I still haven't a clue just who IS the five o'clock hero?

I did learn that Prince Phillip DID actually say something along the lines of “us having to work harder”

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

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

The song that inspired Kate Bush to write about incest

Take a look at the traditional folk song that inspired Kate Bush to write a song about incest, and see why she chose to write about such a taboo

faroutmagazine.co.uk

Although not quite as dark, Sparks’ Fa La Lee from 1971 has the same subject matter but again, as a primary school child I was blissfully unaware

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I learned about Sharman's boxers from this amazing track.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I found out about quite a lot from this. Still makes me angry today.