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Steve April
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1/3/2016 8:40:09 PM
Enlargin' Pop and Rock'n roll
A few story songs, by the Beatles. Lucy In The Sky (With Diamonds), Mean Mr. Mustard, Rocky Raccoon, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Fool On The Hill, Nowhere Man.
A few story songs by Dylan. John Wesley Harding, I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine, Visions Of Joanna, Dear Landlord, I Pity the Poor Immigrant, The Drifter.
A few story songs by Bruce Springsteen. Born In the USA (told in the 1st person, but clearly not Bruce, because the narrator is back from Vietnam, and cannot find a job) , Blinded By The Light (a bunch of vignettes), prob'ly additional.
Noah wrote a thought-provoking post on being "naked" in songwriting, and Jill offered an alternative thought-provoking reply, that got me thinking lol...
In folk music telling stories, and creating narrative comes with the territory, however in rock and pop music, not so much. Until the Beatles.
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Hop On Pop
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1/4/2016 7:56:35 AM
True.
Although, sometimes, in order to inspire a song, when I cannot think of something to write about, I will write a story song about a character. It's a fun exercise and actually quite liberating to do so.
I just get sick of singing about myself all the damn time.
Of course, the danger in that, being a married man, is that my wife could misconstrue one of these stories as fact and get angry at me for a fiction. Such are the perils of being an artist in such a personal medium, and stretching out from those confines.
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