A little bit of history

Pete Zicato · 10-03-2011, 08:07 PM

I was listening to the local college NPR station in the car tonight. It's Irish night, and it got me to thinking. There used to be songs immortalizing historic events. Massacre of Glencoe and Will Ye No Come Back Again come to mind. When I was younger we had Neil Young's Ohio and Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Is anyone doing stuff like this anymore?

footfootfoot · 10-03-2011, 09:26 PM

Keep on Rockin' in the Free World? Ok that's gotta be old enough to drink now, so I don't know.

Bullitt · 10-03-2011, 10:26 PM

Rage Against the Machine and Rise Against come to mind. Rise has done songs on Katrina and gay youth suicides.

glatt · 10-04-2011, 08:33 AM

How mainstream do they have to be? How recent?

Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia
Phil Cody - Orphan Train
Elton John - Goodby England's Rose

TheMercenary · 10-04-2011, 10:28 AM

There have been a number of Katrina odes to New Orleans as well...

Rhianne · 10-04-2011, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

Is anyone doing stuff like this anymore?

Yes, definitely.

10-03-2011, 08:07 PM	#1
Pete Zicato Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Chicago suburbs Posts: 2,916	A little bit of history I was listening to the local college NPR station in the car tonight. It's Irish night, and it got me to thinking. There used to be songs immortalizing historic events. Massacre of Glencoe and Will Ye No Come Back Again come to mind. When I was younger we had Neil Young's Ohio and Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Is anyone doing stuff like this anymore? __________________ Talk nerdy to me.

10-03-2011, 09:26 PM	#2
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Keep on Rockin' in the Free World? Ok that's gotta be old enough to drink now, so I don't know. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

10-03-2011, 10:26 PM	#3
Bullitt This is a fully functional babe lair Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Akron, OH Posts: 2,324	Rage Against the Machine and Rise Against come to mind. Rise has done songs on Katrina and gay youth suicides. __________________ Kiss my white Irish ass.

10-04-2011, 10:28 AM	#5
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	There have been a number of Katrina odes to New Orleans as well... __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

10-04-2011, 08:33 AM	#4
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	How mainstream do they have to be? How recent? Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia Phil Cody - Orphan Train Elton John - Goodby England's Rose

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