Its for this project, and a link would be helpful if you can =] its about how the events of this 60s were reflected in the music and i need 2 analyze a few songs, so far i've got beatles-yellow submarine and lucy in the sky with diamonds and bob dylan-blowing in the wind
2007-11-08 02:14:24 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Lyrics
I think any discussion of music in the 60s isn't complete without a mention of the original rock-poet and his band. When Jim Morrison and the Doors performed "The End", I think it reflected how a lot of people felt in that era of the Vietnam War, the expanding drug culture, and the conscious decisions made by many young Americans to really start questioning the authority of their government for the first time.
2007-11-08 02:36:05 · answer #1 · answered by tecualajuggernauts 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
American Pie is a GREAT song for metaphor..but..it's actually a 70s tune.
Since your assignment seems to also be heavily linked to how 60s art (specifically music) reflected the politics/events of the time, then I'd go with:
All Along the Watchtower-Bob Dylan (and later Jimi Hendrix in the better rendition, IMHO)
2007-11-08 03:01:17 · answer #2 · answered by Greg R (2015 still jammin') 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try these:
San Francisco...Scott McKenzie (about the whole hippy culture thing)
For What Its Worth...Buffalo Springfield (Vietnam War)
Run Through The Jungle...Creedence Clearwater Revival (Vietnam War song)
Fortunate Son...Creedence Clearwater Revival(60's draft issue)
White Rabbit...Jefferson Airplane (drugs)
Purple Haze...Jimi Hendrix (LSD trip)
What The World Needs Now...Jackie DeShannon (world peace & love song)
Abraham, Martin & John...Dion (dedication song to our fallen icons, Lincoln, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Bobby Kennedy, one of the most profound songs of the 60's in my opinion. Still cant listen to it without crying to this day.
2007-11-08 05:29:04 · answer #3 · answered by BoosGrammy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Crimson (1969) has alot of good lyrics, so does Aphrodite's Child(1968), and Pink Floyd (1965). But Jethro Tull (c. 1960) as well as Family (1967) cannot be excluded.
Some Links:
Family - http://members.aol.com/songforme/lyr.htm
King Crimson - http://www.oldielyrics.com/k/king_crimson.html
Pink Floyd - http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/
Aphrodite's Child - http://www.engelen.demon.nl/666.htm
Jethro Tull - http://www.azlyrics.com/j/jethrotull.html
2007-11-08 03:03:02 · answer #4 · answered by CZAR 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Captain Beefheart? This is Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish.
Lucid tentacles test 'n sleeved
'n joined 'n jointed jade pointed
Diamond back patterns
Neon meate dream of a octafish
Artifact on rose petals
'n flesh petals 'n pots
Fack 'n feast 'n tubes tubs bulbs
In jest incest injest injust in feast incest
'n specks 'n speckled speckled
Speckled speculation
Fedlocks waddlin' feast
Archaic faces frenzy
Ceramic fists artificial deceased
'n cists rancid buds burst
Dank drum 'n dung dust
Meate rose 'n hairs
Meaty meate rose 'n hairs
Meaty dream wet meate
Limp damp rows
Peeled 'n felt fields 'n belts
Impaled on 'n daeman
Mucus mules
Twot trot tra la tra la
Tra la tra la tra la
Whale bone fields 'n belts
Whale bone farmhouse
Cavorts girdled 'n latters uh lite
Cavorts girdled 'n latters uh lite
Uh dipped amidst
Squirmin' serum 'n semen 'n syrup 'n semen
'n serum
Stirrupped in syrup
Neon meate dream of a octafish
2007-11-08 02:25:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Listen to the Moody Blues song "Nights in white satin" Some of the best poetic metaphors/lyrics ever.
Or try the song "lucky man" by Emerson Lake And Palmer, it,s about a dying soldier.
2007-11-08 02:23:55 · answer #6 · answered by Beckaru7 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
'Take a Walk on the Wild Side', by Lou Reed. It's a song about transvestites.
2007-11-08 02:43:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What about Scott fitzgerald; San Fransisco thats all about the flower power thing
i don't know how to put a link though
2007-11-08 02:17:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dylan's "Tambourine Man" is the one. So full of drug-related lyrics it's amazing it ever got played.
2007-11-08 02:17:03 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have to add the Beatles, ' Ellinor Rigby'. It is loaded with metaphors. When you analyze the metaphores, it is a harsh condemnation of the Protestant Church. Written by Jonh Lennon - We studied it in English Litterature......writing the words to a sermon that noone will hear,....noone was saved,....died in the church and was burried along with her name......It goes on & on.......You must include this!
2007-11-08 02:32:55 · answer #10 · answered by Rudy R 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋