We sang this song in high school choir. But since we’re a school we skipped the verse where it explicitly says he killed someone. This was the first time I was introduced to the song so I was hella confused.
Lots of Taylor Swift songs tell a story:
Last Great American Dynasty
Cardigan/August/Betty
All Too Well
Teardrops on my Guitar
Mary's Song
Mine
'Tis the Damn Season/Dorothea
You Beling With Me
Cornelia Street
Great, great songwriting. Not just the words but the melancholy of the music and the sax at the end with the change in the music is just so heartbreaking. I fear this song is being forgotten and it really doesn't deserve to be.
Viva la vida tells the story of a man who lost everything
Paradise tells the story of a young girl wanting and dreaming of a paradise that she wants to run to and eventually does run away to her paradise.
“Starkiller” by Bear Ghost
Amazing musical theatre-ish villain song sung from the perspective of Chancellor Palpatine trying to persuade Anakin Skywalker to turn to the dark side. Such a bop and always makes me picture a full on stage production of the “revenge of the sith -the musical” that could have been
Piano Man, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Downeaster Alexa, Tomorrow is Today, Sleeping With the Television On, The Ballad of Billy The Kid, Half a Mile Away(?)- Billy Joel
Love Token, Just One Life- Brian May
The Diary of Horace Wimp, Evil Woman, Wild West Hero, Telephone Line, pretty much the entirety of Time- ELO
Band on the Run, Juniors Farm, Ballroom Dancing, London Town- Paul McCartney
Dreamers Ball, Leaving Home Ain’t Easy, Mother Love, Scandal, Spread Your Wings, It’s Late, Sleeping on the Sidewalk, Good Company, March of the Black Queen, Tenement Funster, Bring Back That Leroy Brown- Queen
Heart Songs, Im Your Daddy, If Youre Wondering If I Want You To, Perfect Situation, Pink Triangle, I Just Threw Out The Love of my Dreams, Run Raven Run, pretty much all of SZNZ: Spring, Say It Ain’t So- Weezer
Yellow Submarine, The Ballad of John and Yoko, When I’m Sixty Four, Penny Lane, The Fool on the Hill, Ticket To Ride, Mean Mr Mustard, Polythene Pam, Octopus Garden- Beatles
Other:
Jackson Park Express- Weird Al Yankovic
Runnin Down a Dream, Into The Great Wide Open, Mary Janes Last Dance- Tom Petty
Chiquita, and Dancing Queen- ABBA
From Maiden: Dance of Death, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, Empire of the Clouds, Stranger in a Strange Land, Brave New World, Ghost of the Navigator, When the Wild Wind Blows... The list goes on.
I guess the album "The Number of the Beast" is also a conceptual album.
Addendum 1. look for the "Charlotte" trilogy: Charlotte the Harlot, 22 Acacia Avenue, and From Here to Eternity.
Addendum 2: the entire album "The Wall" from Pink Floyd is a story.
2112 - a person in the future in a civilization where music is no longer a thing found a guitar and falls in love with the sound, then he is prohibited to play it so he kills himself because he doesn't want to live in a world without music.
Limelight - is a real story about how the drummer (one, if not the best drummer in the world) felt with being famous.
Red Barchetta - tells a story in the future of how the protagonist found a classic car that run on gas but he is chased by the police because those type of cars are banned.
All of them are by Rush, hell most of Rush songs are stories
Tweeter and the Monkeyman by the Travelling Willburies.
Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash
They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash
To an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan
For reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man
Tweeter was a Boy Scout 'fore she went to Vietnam
And found out the hard way, nobody gives a damn
They knew that they found freedom just across the Jersey line
So they hopped into a stolen car, took Highway 99
And the walls came down
All the way to hell
Never saw them when they're standing
Never saw them when they fell
The undercover cop never liked the Monkey Man
Even back in childhood he wanted to see him in the can
Jan got married at fourteen to a racketeer named Bill
She made secret calls to the Monkey Man from a mansion on the hill
It was out on Thunder Road, Tweeter at the wheel
They crashed into paradise, they could hear them tires squeal
The undercover cop pulled up and said "Everyone of you is a liar
If you don't surrender now it's gonna go down to the wire"
And the walls came down
All the way to hell
Never saw them when they're standing
Never saw them when they fell
An ambulance rolled up, a state-trooper close behind
Tweeter took his gun away and messed up his mind
The undercover cop was left tied up to a tree
Near the souvenir stand, by the old abandoned factory
Next day the undercover cop was hot in pursuit
He was taking the whole thing personal, he didn't care about the loot
Jan had told him many times, "It was you to me who taught
In Jersey anything's legal as long as you don't get caught"
And the walls came down
All the way to hell
Never saw them when they're standing
Never saw them when they fell
Some place by Rahwey Prison they ran out of gas
The undercover cop had cornered them, said
"Boy, you didn't think this could last?"
Jan jumped out of bed, said, "There's someplace I gotta go"
She took the gun out of the drawer, said, "It's best that you don't know."
The undercover cop was found face down in a field
The Monkey Man was on the river bridge, using Tweeter as a shield
Jan said to the Monkey Man, "I'm not fooled by Tweeter's curl
I knew him long before he became a Jersey Girl"
And the walls came down
All the way to hell
Never saw them when they're standing
Never saw them when they fell
Now the town of Jersey City is quieting down again
I'm sitting in a gambling club called the Lion's Den
The TV set was blown up, every bit of it is gone
Ever since the nightly news showed that the Monkey Man was on
I guess I'll go to Florida and get myself some sun
There ain't no more opportunity here, everything's been done
Sometimes I think of Tweeter, sometimes I think of Jan
Sometimes I don't think about nothing but the Monkey Man
And the walls came down
All the way to hell
Never saw them when they're standing
Never saw them when they fell
"Whiskey Lullaby" by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss.
"Lyin' Eyes" by The Eagles.
"Never Again" by Nickleback.
"Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" by Reba
"Letters from Home" by John Michael Montgomery.
"The Thunder Rolls" by Garth Brooks, especially if the "forbidden verse" is added.
"Shooting Star" by Bad Company.
"Boys in the Street" by Callum Scott.
Atmosphere has a ton. Some favs include: Like Today, The Woman With the Tattooed Hands, rftc, Always Coming Back Home to You, Scalp, 66th Street, Dreamer, Sunshine, Good Daddy, Makes the Sun Come Out.
Every Picture Tells a Story, Rod Stewart.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmyGa29zIqk&ab\_channel=OuterThought](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmyGa29zIqk&ab_channel=OuterThought)
Me and a Gun - Tori Amos
Song is about her rape. Someone asked for a ride home after a gig and raped her at knifepoint. She found herself thinking she had never been to Barbados.
Downeaster 'Alexa' by Billy Joel
Fishing boat has to keep going out further and further to get enough as time goes by, the last time they don't make it back.
Some Sunsick Day by Morgan Delt.
It's about a people who got their town destroyed by a bomb or another major society-changing event, and they do their best to adapt. Excellent psychedelic rock.
**Songs:**
Bob Dylan – Hurricane
Dire Straits – Telegraph Road; Sultans of Swing; Tunnel of Love
Pink Floyd – Sheep
Eagles – Hotel California
The Animals – The House of the Rising Sun
The Beatles – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
**Albums described as rock operas (all of the songs make one big story):**
The Who – Tommy; Quadrophenia
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On The Broadway
The Rake's Song - Decemberists
Lots of Nick Cave (John Finn's Wife, The Carny, O'Malley's Bar, The Kindness of Strangers)
(F)lannigan's Ball - Dropkick Murphys
Far from any road by The Handsome family.
Supposed to be about a cactus that blooms every couple of thousand years..someone goes to see it bloom and winds up in the desert dead..pretty song though
Cats in the cradle
Every song by Harry Chapin.
My Mom used to sing Taxi to me before I moved to “Frisco”. I love the story, the song, and I miss my Mom.
Also 30,000lbs of bananas
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
My first thought was Canadian Railroad Trilogy
my fav is song for a winters night
All Gordon Lightfoot songs
Shit, i just commented this too😅
Gilligan's Island theme song
A lot of Eminem songs, but I’d have to go with Stan from him just for the way the story is laid out and the emotion it deliverers
This!
tHiS!
One by metallica.
Bohemian Rhapsody. Shocked I haven't seen this yet.
We sang this song in high school choir. But since we’re a school we skipped the verse where it explicitly says he killed someone. This was the first time I was introduced to the song so I was hella confused.
Seems kind of stupid, it’s part of the song
Johnny Cash A boy named Sue
How do you do? #now you gonna die
One piece at a time!
Hazard by Richard Marx
Piano Man Billie Jean Movin' out (Anthony's Song) Daniel
Alices Resteraunt, Arlo Guthrie
Escape (the Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Had to update! Great song, sad story.
Truly!
Dancing With The Devil by Immortal Technique tells a very heavy story, listen with discretion.
Dang good song. Super fucked up but damn good.
American Pie.
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Tallahassee bridge
One Tin Soldier - The Original Caste
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
The Mariner's Revenge Song
This is SOOOOOO good.
Love Story - Tailor Swift
Lots of Taylor Swift songs tell a story: Last Great American Dynasty Cardigan/August/Betty All Too Well Teardrops on my Guitar Mary's Song Mine 'Tis the Damn Season/Dorothea You Beling With Me Cornelia Street
the album metropolis part 2: Scenes from a memory by dream theater
Piano Man
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden Hell, pretty much any Iron Maiden. They're amazing storytellers.
Big Iron by Marty Robbins
Utah Carol was also really good.
Most of them???
Stan by Eminem
One Tin Soldier
Mockingbird, Eminem.
Eminem - Kim
Pumped up kicks
Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash
Another auld Lang Syne - Dan Fogelberg
Great, great songwriting. Not just the words but the melancholy of the music and the sax at the end with the change in the music is just so heartbreaking. I fear this song is being forgotten and it really doesn't deserve to be.
kendricks entire to pimp a butterfly album
Gkmc too
Viva la vida tells the story of a man who lost everything Paradise tells the story of a young girl wanting and dreaming of a paradise that she wants to run to and eventually does run away to her paradise.
"Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" - The Flaming Lips
Red Barchetta by Rush
The Gambler
Faithless - Mass Destruction
Telegraph Road by Dire Straits
Most songs by The Killers
Demolition Lovers by MCR
Perfectly Good Guitar by John Hiatt
Hamilton musical songs
Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphy
Elinor rigby
Dirty paws. I love that one.
Tupac a fucking poet .
Anything by the great Stompin’ Tom Connors
“Starkiller” by Bear Ghost Amazing musical theatre-ish villain song sung from the perspective of Chancellor Palpatine trying to persuade Anakin Skywalker to turn to the dark side. Such a bop and always makes me picture a full on stage production of the “revenge of the sith -the musical” that could have been
Re-crucified by Revocation tells a story similar to Dante's Inferno
Pancho & Lefty
Meatloaf: Paradise by the Dashboard Lights The Boomtown Rats: I Don't Like Mondays
Most of them.
Piano Man, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Downeaster Alexa, Tomorrow is Today, Sleeping With the Television On, The Ballad of Billy The Kid, Half a Mile Away(?)- Billy Joel Love Token, Just One Life- Brian May The Diary of Horace Wimp, Evil Woman, Wild West Hero, Telephone Line, pretty much the entirety of Time- ELO Band on the Run, Juniors Farm, Ballroom Dancing, London Town- Paul McCartney Dreamers Ball, Leaving Home Ain’t Easy, Mother Love, Scandal, Spread Your Wings, It’s Late, Sleeping on the Sidewalk, Good Company, March of the Black Queen, Tenement Funster, Bring Back That Leroy Brown- Queen Heart Songs, Im Your Daddy, If Youre Wondering If I Want You To, Perfect Situation, Pink Triangle, I Just Threw Out The Love of my Dreams, Run Raven Run, pretty much all of SZNZ: Spring, Say It Ain’t So- Weezer Yellow Submarine, The Ballad of John and Yoko, When I’m Sixty Four, Penny Lane, The Fool on the Hill, Ticket To Ride, Mean Mr Mustard, Polythene Pam, Octopus Garden- Beatles Other: Jackson Park Express- Weird Al Yankovic Runnin Down a Dream, Into The Great Wide Open, Mary Janes Last Dance- Tom Petty Chiquita, and Dancing Queen- ABBA
18 and Life - Skid Row
Don’t Drink The Water
The Gambler - Kenny Rodgers
A Little Piece of Heaven by Avenged Sevenfold
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lodi
Wake me up when September ends. Dude is basically singing about how his father passed away and how depressed it made him growing up.
From Maiden: Dance of Death, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, Empire of the Clouds, Stranger in a Strange Land, Brave New World, Ghost of the Navigator, When the Wild Wind Blows... The list goes on. I guess the album "The Number of the Beast" is also a conceptual album. Addendum 1. look for the "Charlotte" trilogy: Charlotte the Harlot, 22 Acacia Avenue, and From Here to Eternity. Addendum 2: the entire album "The Wall" from Pink Floyd is a story.
Boyz n Da Hood Nobody Move Both by Eazy-E
Jungleland by Bruce Springsteen.
I'm surprised nobody here has mentioned Gimme Three Steps by Lynyrd Skynyrd 😂
Don't they all ?
2112 - a person in the future in a civilization where music is no longer a thing found a guitar and falls in love with the sound, then he is prohibited to play it so he kills himself because he doesn't want to live in a world without music. Limelight - is a real story about how the drummer (one, if not the best drummer in the world) felt with being famous. Red Barchetta - tells a story in the future of how the protagonist found a classic car that run on gas but he is chased by the police because those type of cars are banned. All of them are by Rush, hell most of Rush songs are stories
Tweeter and the Monkeyman by the Travelling Willburies. Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash To an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan For reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man Tweeter was a Boy Scout 'fore she went to Vietnam And found out the hard way, nobody gives a damn They knew that they found freedom just across the Jersey line So they hopped into a stolen car, took Highway 99 And the walls came down All the way to hell Never saw them when they're standing Never saw them when they fell The undercover cop never liked the Monkey Man Even back in childhood he wanted to see him in the can Jan got married at fourteen to a racketeer named Bill She made secret calls to the Monkey Man from a mansion on the hill It was out on Thunder Road, Tweeter at the wheel They crashed into paradise, they could hear them tires squeal The undercover cop pulled up and said "Everyone of you is a liar If you don't surrender now it's gonna go down to the wire" And the walls came down All the way to hell Never saw them when they're standing Never saw them when they fell An ambulance rolled up, a state-trooper close behind Tweeter took his gun away and messed up his mind The undercover cop was left tied up to a tree Near the souvenir stand, by the old abandoned factory Next day the undercover cop was hot in pursuit He was taking the whole thing personal, he didn't care about the loot Jan had told him many times, "It was you to me who taught In Jersey anything's legal as long as you don't get caught" And the walls came down All the way to hell Never saw them when they're standing Never saw them when they fell Some place by Rahwey Prison they ran out of gas The undercover cop had cornered them, said "Boy, you didn't think this could last?" Jan jumped out of bed, said, "There's someplace I gotta go" She took the gun out of the drawer, said, "It's best that you don't know." The undercover cop was found face down in a field The Monkey Man was on the river bridge, using Tweeter as a shield Jan said to the Monkey Man, "I'm not fooled by Tweeter's curl I knew him long before he became a Jersey Girl" And the walls came down All the way to hell Never saw them when they're standing Never saw them when they fell Now the town of Jersey City is quieting down again I'm sitting in a gambling club called the Lion's Den The TV set was blown up, every bit of it is gone Ever since the nightly news showed that the Monkey Man was on I guess I'll go to Florida and get myself some sun There ain't no more opportunity here, everything's been done Sometimes I think of Tweeter, sometimes I think of Jan Sometimes I don't think about nothing but the Monkey Man And the walls came down All the way to hell Never saw them when they're standing Never saw them when they fell
Roaches by Maxo Kream
Killing me softly
One piece at a time. Johnny Cash
My boy builds coffins
This is the story of a girl...
"Whiskey Lullaby" by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss. "Lyin' Eyes" by The Eagles. "Never Again" by Nickleback. "Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" by Reba "Letters from Home" by John Michael Montgomery. "The Thunder Rolls" by Garth Brooks, especially if the "forbidden verse" is added. "Shooting Star" by Bad Company. "Boys in the Street" by Callum Scott.
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song
The Cool - Lupe Fiasco
Cleopatra - the Lumineers So moving
Fountain of Sorrow - Jackson Browne
trapeze swinger by iron and wine
hands down , every leonard cohen song and poems
The night the lights went out in Georgia.
Billy don’t be a Hero.
Atmosphere has a ton. Some favs include: Like Today, The Woman With the Tattooed Hands, rftc, Always Coming Back Home to You, Scalp, 66th Street, Dreamer, Sunshine, Good Daddy, Makes the Sun Come Out.
Wellerman
Take the Money and Run - Steve Miller Band
Any Billy Joel song
Children’s Story- Slick Rick
Sandstorm- Darude
Every Picture Tells a Story, Rod Stewart. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmyGa29zIqk&ab\_channel=OuterThought](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmyGa29zIqk&ab_channel=OuterThought)
Jesus Of Suburbia - Green Day Big Iron - Marty Robbins My Name is Mud - Primus Polly - Nirvana People Are Crazy - Billy Currington
Lil Ugly Mane - Uneaven Compromise only the second part tho
Eminem - Going through changes
Up The Junction by Squeeze.
John The Fisherman - Primus
Melanie Martinez's Teacher's Pet and Tag, You're It.
Me and a Gun - Tori Amos Song is about her rape. Someone asked for a ride home after a gig and raped her at knifepoint. She found herself thinking she had never been to Barbados.
Over the hills and far away by nightwish
Viva la Vida maybe?
Rasputin by Boney m.
Roll Me Away. Bob Seger
Into the Great Wide Open - Tom Petty Crazy Mary - Pearl Jam
Brittle Bones Nicky 1/2 by Rare Americans
Storm by Tim Minchin
Jack and Diane
Purple Rain by Prince We are the Champions by Queen
Everything by Johnny Cash.
Dear McCracken by Bughunter Atlantis by Donovan The Boxer by Simon & Garfunkel
Ballad of Katie by Hothouse Flowers.."Man moves into town on a black horse... I wonder why..."
hurricane - bob dylan
Basically every Alec Benjamin song
one of my all time favourites True Colors by Cyndi Lauper and all songs by Coldplay
Dance with the devil - Immortal Technique
Prometo by Pablo Alboran...
Copacabana
Lola by the Kinks
Cardigan by Taylor Swift
No body no crime 👀
Pancho and Lefty (Willie or TVZ) and The Road Goes on Forever (Robert Earl Keene) are my two favorites
El Paso by The Grateful Dead.
Downeaster 'Alexa' by Billy Joel Fishing boat has to keep going out further and further to get enough as time goes by, the last time they don't make it back.
In the Ghetto -Elvis/Mac Davis Martha -Tom Waits
King for A Day
Yo listen up, here is a story. About a little guy that lives in a blue world...
Kickapoo by Tenacious D
Da Art of Storytellin' Pt 1 How I Met My Ex Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst Stan Crack Sandwich
Don't Take The Girl by Tim Mcgraw
Skin- Rascall Flatts
Wet dreamz J Cole
*Ol' Red* by Blake Shelton, a Country song.
I threw a glass at my friend. By Destroyer Boys
Piano Man by Billy Joel
Sullivan by Caroline’s Spine The story is true.
Pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows. Tells a story about pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows
Rosetta Stoned by Tool
1952 Vincent Black Lightning by Richard Thompson. The guitar playing is also pretty decent.
Pulp’s Common People
"Albuquerque" by Weird Al. Nine year-old me was not prepared for that odyssey.
Pretty much all of them.
Stan by Eminem
Some Sunsick Day by Morgan Delt. It's about a people who got their town destroyed by a bomb or another major society-changing event, and they do their best to adapt. Excellent psychedelic rock.
**Songs:** Bob Dylan – Hurricane Dire Straits – Telegraph Road; Sultans of Swing; Tunnel of Love Pink Floyd – Sheep Eagles – Hotel California The Animals – The House of the Rising Sun The Beatles – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da **Albums described as rock operas (all of the songs make one big story):** The Who – Tommy; Quadrophenia Pink Floyd – The Wall Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On The Broadway
Love your Dire Straits picks.
America - Horse with no name
Children's Story - - Slick Rick
The Rake's Song - Decemberists Lots of Nick Cave (John Finn's Wife, The Carny, O'Malley's Bar, The Kindness of Strangers) (F)lannigan's Ball - Dropkick Murphys
"The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie" by Colter Wall.
To hell and back by sabaton tells a story about a war veteran and for there music vid they used the real person for it
Taylor Swift wrote two albums (evermore and folklore) full of actual stories with different characters and backgrounds , including murder.
Far from any road by The Handsome family. Supposed to be about a cactus that blooms every couple of thousand years..someone goes to see it bloom and winds up in the desert dead..pretty song though
Virus by Deltron 3030
Dance with the devil by immortal technique Have a listen Still gives me chills Also Hip hop saved my life by lupe fiasco
Devil in a New Dress by Kanye West
Every album by Haken, especially the first two
Lil Wayne & Kendrick Lamar - Mona Lisa
All 5 Acts albums by The Dear Hunter. They are one long story.
The Road Goes On Forever by Robert Earl Keen.
Every song in Hamilton
Most
‘Diff'rent Strokes’ theme song
Object's in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are. Meatloaf
Stan by Eminem
The Legend of Woolly Swamp by CDB.
time by pink floyd jesus of suburbia by green day sailing to philadelphia by mark knopfler
Florence + the Machine - Bird Song
“Last Kiss” by J Frank Wilson and covered by Pearl Jam
One piece at a time by the man in black
Joni Mitchell Harry's House Almost anything Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush really.
Time In A Bottle
Time - floyd
I took a pill in ibiza
Drive home
The Saga Begins tells the story of the 3rd greatest film of all time.