Popular Subjects for Lyrics Other Than Love

[neepheid]

4 minutes ago, Beedster said:

Your girlfriend sleeping with your Dad (who’s also your Uncle)….

…..although that might be Bluegrass? 

 

I get confused.

[Jackroadkill]

 

 

 

 

Heroin.  It might sound crass, but it's been the muse for lots of great records.

[asingardenof]

21 minutes ago, Jackroadkill said:

 

 

 

 

Heroin.  It might sound crass, but it's been the muse for lots of great records.

 

Not to mention... 

 

 

[Lozz196]

And the below, tho apparently it could also be about toast

 

 

 

[Crusoe]

Oven gloves.

[nilorius]

Dream of.....(whatever You want)

[tauzero]

The interval between sundown and dawn.

 

Nights in white satin, All day and all of the night, Night fever, Dance the night away, One more night, A hard day's night, You shook me all night long, Black night, The night they drove old Dixie down, Saturday night's alright, Rhythm of the night, This flight tonight, All night long, Night boat to Cairo, Boogie nights. That's not to mention Gladys Night and the Pips, or the Barron Knights.

[SteveXFR]

Stoner metal  - Weed, smoke, driving, guitars

 

Doom metal - Weed, smoke, wizards, demons

 

Pirate metal - The sea, rum, treasure 

[Marc S]

Alcohol;

 

Milk & alcohol

Red red wine

Streams of Whiskey

Tennessee whiskey

Tequila 

Happy hour

Design for life (we only want to get drunk)

Boys from the county Hell (lend me ten pounds and I'll buy you a drink)

 

Edit: hmm, do I now need a beer? 😉

Edited November 27, 2023 by Marc S

[Mykesbass]

1 hour ago, Marc S said:

Alcohol;

 

Milk & alcohol

Red red wine

Streams of Whiskey

Tennessee whiskey

Tequila 

Happy hour

Design for life (we only want to get drunk)

Boys from the county Hell (lend me ten pounds and I'll buy you a drink)

 

Edit: hmm, do I now need a beer? 😉

More Pr1cks Than Kicks - Name me a street and I'll name you a bar, and I'll walk right through hell just to buy you a jar. (Lyric from memory - sorry to any Pogues fans if I got it wrong).

[tauzero]

Streets and roads

 

Where the streets have no name, Avenues and alleyways, Copper head road, Long and winding road, Penny Lane, Goodbye yellow brick road, Take me home country roads, On the road again, Highway to hell, Road to hell, King of the road, Hit the road Jack.

[Marc S]

10 hours ago, tauzero said:

Streets and roads

 

Where the streets have no name, Avenues and alleyways, Copper head road, Long and winding road, Penny Lane, Goodbye yellow brick road, Take me home country roads, On the road again, Highway to hell, Road to hell, King of the road, Hit the road Jack.

And my own favourite on this subject - "Road to hell" by Chris Rea (yes, I too have been stuck in a jam on the M25).

[Lfalex v1.1]

13 hours ago, Marc S said:

Alcohol;

 

Milk & alcohol

Red red wine

Streams of Whiskey

Tennessee whiskey

Tequila 

Happy hour

Design for life (we only want to get drunk)

Boys from the county Hell (lend me ten pounds and I'll buy you a drink)

 

Edit: hmm, do I now need a beer? 😉

 

There's a Dead Kennedys song that could easily have been added to that list...

[nekomatic]

 

 

 

[nekomatic]

12 minutes ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

There's a Dead Kennedys song that could easily have been added to that list...

and the best version of it is 

 

[Marc S]

1 hour ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

 

There's a Dead Kennedys song that could easily have been added to that list...

 

I chose not to, as I thought someone else might wish to mention it
And what a great song that is btw

[Mykesbass]

1 hour ago, nekomatic said:

 

 

 

We used to do three rain songs - Have You Ever Seen The Rain, Who Will Stop The Rain, and I'm struggling to think what the third one was.

[tauzero]

17 hours ago, tauzero said:

Streets and roads

 

Where the streets have no name, Avenues and alleyways, Copper head road, Long and winding road, Penny Lane, Goodbye yellow brick road, Take me home country roads, On the road again, Highway to hell, Road to hell, King of the road, Hit the road Jack.

 

7 hours ago, Marc S said:

And my own favourite on this subject - "Road to hell" by Chris Rea (yes, I too have been stuck in a jam on the M25).

 

Er, already there.

[tauzero]

3 hours ago, Mykesbass said:

We used to do three rain songs - Have You Ever Seen The Rain, Who Will Stop The Rain, and I'm struggling to think what the third one was.

 

Presumably not Sunshine on a Rainy Day? Maybe Let It Rain?

[Mykesbass]

17 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Presumably not Sunshine on a Rainy Day? Maybe Let It Rain?

No, I remembered on the dog walk, it was another CCR track, Bad Moon Rising - plenty of bad weather in that one.

[Lfalex v1.1]

4 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

Presumably not Sunshine on a Rainy Day? Maybe Let It Rain?

 

It's raining again

Who can stop the rain?

...

Raining Blood..

[funkgod]

you could write about any thing,

1, your own life and views

2, commenting on others lives and views.

 

macca said he writes about the day, from when he " jumps out of bed" what you see and what you feel, its as simple as that.

you could add another insight to a  book you read, aka steely dan.

or just some good advice you might want to share

or just about searching for an idea for a song untill the light popped on while reading a post on bass chat 🙂

 

But for me clever writing is next level stuff, some songs that tell you everything in the first two lines. like..

"Seven days" was all she wrote,

a kind of ultimatum note.

 

as much as i dislike him, thats clever