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To Make a Song Story Short

To Make a Song Story Short

by Adam on November 12, 2015 at 12:00 am
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  1. Rhea
    Rhea
    November 12, 2015, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    It helps if you only listen to songs like “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” That one’s pretty straightforward.

    • Ian Osmond
      Ian Osmond
      November 12, 2015, 6:27 am | # | Reply

      Forty years ago, as of this past Tuesday.

      One of my friends was the reporter on the scene. She was working for a tiny local newspaper — the kind of weekly that mainly focuses on how the high school basketball team is doing and what’s coming up at the church bake sale, and they became the reporters for the major, major story.

  2. SirKuroi
    SirKuroi
    November 12, 2015, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Midnight Musings Upon Completing the Works of Byzantine Philosopher Johannes Philoponus, Act II, Scene III. Also very straightforward.

  3. potsyyy
    potsyyy
    November 12, 2015, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    “Jamtrocities” a missed opportunity

  4. bd
    bd
    November 12, 2015, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    “Guitar Trio”, especially the recording by Band of Susans. Although the Nietzschean implications might be doomworthy.

  5. Hexagonal Crank
    Hexagonal Crank
    November 12, 2015, 1:46 am | # | Reply

    Sounds like someone just heard the terrible truth about Ace of Base.

    • Bob in Nashville
      Bob in Nashville
      November 12, 2015, 11:51 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, I always found it ironic that a band that sounded like them would have one of the meanest looking dudes in all of ’90s pop music. Didn’t the guy with the crew cut look like he should be on a beach somewhere kicking sand in a skinny guy’s face?

  6. tymime
    tymime
    November 12, 2015, 2:00 am | # | Reply

    This is why I hate people who say icky things about The Darkness’ “Growing on Me”.

  7. Thorbjørn
    Thorbjørn
    November 12, 2015, 3:15 am | # | Reply

    The Big Bird song about the ABC is actually about what to do in case of emergencies in the range of atomic-, biological- and nuclear disasters.

    /Wake up sheeple!
    //Big Bird is a warhawk

  8. error52
    error52
    November 12, 2015, 5:08 am | # | Reply

    I am not ashamed to say I looked up “Walking on Sunshine” after reading.

  9. Dave Dell
    Dave Dell
    November 12, 2015, 5:59 am | # | Reply

    Hard to know all the truth about the Armenian Genocide. I’ve read that the Kurds were induced to do it for the benefit of the Turks.

    On a less somber note, when I’m depressed about the current lack of protest songs I just google “Free Nelson Mandela”.

    • Devin Gates
      Devin Gates
      December 20, 2015, 11:47 am | # | Reply

      *while supplies last

  10. Ian Osmond
    Ian Osmond
    November 12, 2015, 6:30 am | # | Reply

    “We’re gonna go down to / Electric Avenue” to participate in the 1981 Brixton riots which left over 300 people injured.

    The “Zoot Suit Riots” were actually real race riots in WWII San Francisco, where Navy personnel on leave would look for Hispanic “zoot suiters” to beat up.

  11. Ian Osmond
    Ian Osmond
    November 12, 2015, 6:31 am | # | Reply

    My wife’s comment about this — “Don’t worry — be happy!”

  12. Karine76
    Karine76
    November 12, 2015, 6:54 am | # | Reply

    There is that classic date rape Xmas song “Baby it’s Cold Outside”…

    • Jimmy
      Jimmy
      November 12, 2015, 7:41 am | # | Reply

      I’m glad I’m not the only person who thinks that song is creepy.

  13. Pink Floyd
    Pink Floyd
    November 12, 2015, 7:08 am | # | Reply

    Thanks for the comments everyone. Now I’m depressed.
    Please, no one tell me the “happy truth” behind I’m Blue by Eiffle 65. A song I absolutely cannot NOT dance to…
    Proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py-bVh31G0k

    • Michelle
      Michelle
      August 6, 2017, 12:04 am | # | Reply

      I know I’m really late to the party, but that video made me laugh when I really needed it, so thanks!

  14. N0083rP00F
    N0083rP00F
    November 12, 2015, 8:03 am | # | Reply

    But there are so many fun songs by QUEEN.
    Bicycle – a song about riding bikes… in the nude [oh my],
    Ogre Battle – These guys played DnD in Eddies campaign world of Rhye,
    Great King Rat – a big bad from Rhye,
    You’re my best friend – Written by John to his soon to be wife.

    • Ian Osmond
      Ian Osmond
      November 12, 2015, 1:34 pm | # | Reply

      Yes! And Keep Passing The Open Window is about trying to deal with the daily struggle against suicide! As is “Don’t Try Suicide”. And “Too Much Love Will Kill You” is about Brian May’s wife leaving him because of his affair with another woman! And “I’m In Love With My Car” is about how much Roger Taylor loves his car!

  15. Mahnarch
    Mahnarch
    November 12, 2015, 8:18 am | # | Reply

    On a happy note; ‘Rainbow Connection’ is more than just about rainbows.
    It’s a song that teaches kids that they’re capable of being more than mundane and yearn for something great.

    And, just cause we all love the song;
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSFLZ-MzIhM

    • Hopalong Ginsberg
      Hopalong Ginsberg
      November 12, 2015, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

      You’re going to hate me for this.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H671rxWaxHg

      • Mahnarch
        Mahnarch
        November 12, 2015, 9:52 pm | # | Reply

        A real ‘Weird Al’, here. 😀

        • Hopalong Ginsberg
          Hopalong Ginsberg
          November 13, 2015, 4:21 am | # | Reply

          You flatter me, sir. 😉

  16. Marquar
    Marquar
    November 12, 2015, 8:43 am | # | Reply

    I guess I shouldn’t point out that “Happy Birthday” celebrates another milestone in the unending march to our own impeding demise.

    • JustToReply
      JustToReply
      February 18, 2017, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

      As my Geometry teacher says:
      “Happy birthday, happy birthday
      sounds of crying fill the air,
      people dying everywhere”.

  17. Matthew
    Matthew
    November 12, 2015, 9:28 am | # | Reply

    I had a dream last night where I won the lottery and donated a million dollars to your patreon account. You went insane from trying to figure out why I did it.

  18. C Kempner
    C Kempner
    November 12, 2015, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

    Did you lose weight recently Adam? I recently began a reread of the entire archives, and noticed that the bugs are noticeably svelter than they were after you finally hit your stride and the comic had become what it is now.

  19. Steve
    Steve
    October 23, 2017, 5:16 am | # | Reply

    99% of “this song sounds like [good thing] but it’s really about [bad thing]” are lies. Most of the time, it’s exactly what it sounds like. Pretentious idiots say otherwise to make themselves feel clever/important for “figuring it out”.

  20. Mark
    Mark
    September 23, 2018, 4:36 am | # | Reply

    Well, thank goodness “Walking on Sunshine” is just an upbeat love song. At leas,t that’s what I figured from reading the lyrics.

    • Mark
      Mark
      October 10, 2020, 3:35 am | # | Reply

      Oh! I feel I should add something else:

      Sometimes, it’s exactly what it sounds like. MOST of the time, it’s about either love, sex, or both. And about 10% of the time, the lyrics mean absolutely nothing.

  21. VeryPeeved
    VeryPeeved
    December 30, 2021, 11:16 am | # | Reply

    on a lighter note, Mr Blue Sky not only isn’t secretly awful, but isn’t even a metaphor at all. the full Concerto For A Rainy Day it’s part of was written during a literal rainy day that was sapping the writer’s energy, and Mr Blue Sky is literally just about the rain going away and the sun coming out.

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