Song analysis

[Locky]

I have to analyze a song or songs for English and write about their deeper meaning ect, ect.
Does anybody have any ideas for songs that are easy to analyze?
I've been thinking CCR because they're a hippee band and their songs have many hidden messages about the Vietnam War..

Thanks for your help,
Locky.

 

[cats56]

I have to analyze a song or songs for English and write about their deeper meaning ect, ect.
Does anybody have any ideas for songs that are easy to analyze?
I've been thinking CCR because they're a hippee band and their songs have many hidden messages about the Vietnam War..

Thanks for your help,
Locky.

"Run Through The Jungle" is a good example.

 

[lioness]

My sister did an analysis of 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone' by Peter Paul and Mary once. It's a good song for that kind of thing as it tells a story in a loop, and it's a fairly powerful message.

 

[GO 161]

I could give you numerous examples but probably all too much with analysis from my own perspective.

Some artists are better than others. I'd suggest any material by Pink Floyd or Todd Rundgren.
Tracy Chapman's ' Fast Car ' also comes to mind.

 

[oxx]

Puff the Magic Dragon.
Stairway to Heaven - (Backwards)

 

[lenny&carl]

agadoo do do, push pineapple shake the tree....

 

[Brittany]

I had to do that Locky last year & Tanika had to do it this year and we both did it on Dancing On The Jetty by INXS
I think that was about the only TEE English assignment last year that I got higher than 70%

 

[embleygirl]

I had to do that in high school. I chose "Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House.

 

[TigerFan]

do Avril Lavigne's 'I'm With You' and tell me whether it's about prostitution or not

 

[blangerang]

i did Civil War by Guns N' Roses.. made a lot of crap up and still managed 60%

 

[Mr Eagle]

Turning Japanese, by The Vapors

 

[patsmith]

Turning Japanese, by The Vapors

Ha, definetely!

If you wanted something really easy, go for "Blow Up The Pokies" by The Whitlams.

 

[w00dy]

something simple? Frenzal Rhomb - Lets Drink a Beer

but if you want to get better than a D, midnight oil songs would be pretty easy to get a good mark...

if I were doing it, I'd do My Minds Sedate by Shihad... pretty easy song to understand and analyse what the lyrics are on about...

 

[TigerFan]

I have to analyze a song or songs for English and write about their deeper meaning ect, ect.
Does anybody have any ideas for songs that are easy to analyze?
I've been thinking CCR because they're a hippee band and their songs have many hidden messages about the Vietnam War..

Thanks for your help,
Locky.

actually, on a serious note, I'd recommend Hotel California by The Eagles - it's supposedly one big metaphor for love/marriage

 

[Monkster]

actually, on a serious note, I'd recommend Hotel California by The Eagles - it's supposedly one big metaphor for love/marriage

Hotel California is a metaphor for the commercialism/materialism of California in the 70s and how easy it is to get sucked into it.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

I have to analyze a song or songs for English and write about their deeper meaning ect, ect.
Does anybody have any ideas for songs that are easy to analyze?
I've been thinking CCR because they're a hippee band and their songs have many hidden messages about the Vietnam War..

Thanks for your help,
Locky.

If you want a Vietman war protest song

Four Dead In Ohio - Crosby Stills Nash Young - about four protesting Uni students murdered by the cops
Sounds Like I'm Fixing To Die Rag - Woodstock classic - almost comedy - by Country Joe McDonald and the Fish
Fortunate Son - CCR
Sky Pilot - The Animals
Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Give Peace a Chance - John Lennon
Smiley - Aussie classic by Ronnie Burns
Draft Dodger Rag - by folk gods Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seager
Masters Of War - by the king of protest songs, Bob Dylan

 

[GO 161]

actually, on a serious note, I'd recommend Hotel California by The Eagles - it's supposedly one big metaphor for love/marriage

Really??

The version I've heard from numerous sources is that it is all about cocaine use.

 

[GO 161]

Turning Japanese, by The Vapors

If theat is a little easy, refer also:

She Bop - Cyndi Lauper
Who Can It Be Now? - Men At Work

Both deal with teh same subject.

 

[oxx]

She's got the Jack - ACDC.

Brilliant street level, lyrical ambiguity delivered by the master of sarcasm,Bon Scott!

 

[Hotel 6]

Hurricane by Bob Dylan.......There is a book and a movie to help you out. It is the story of Rueben Carter

 

[Monkster]

Really??

The version I've heard from numerous sources is that it is all about cocaine use.

Just skipped over my post did you?

here I'll even give a cite that has a quote from Don Henley

"In a 1995 interview, Don Henley said the song "sort of captured the zeitgeist of the time, which was a time of great excess in this country and in the music business in particular." In another interview that same year, he referred to it as being about a "loss of innocence."

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/hotel.htm

 

[GO 161]

Just skipped over my post did you?

here I'll even give a cite that has a quote from Don Henley

"In a 1995 interview, Don Henley said the song "sort of captured the zeitgeist of the time, which was a time of great excess in this country and in the music business in particular." In another interview that same year, he referred to it as being about a "loss of innocence."

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/hotel.htm

Yep.
John Lennon made the same claim about Lucy In The Sky too,
I wasn't fooled by him, either.

 

[GO 161]

She's got the Jack - ACDC.

Brilliant street level, lyrical ambiguity delivered by the master of sarcasm,Bon Scott!

You Left Me Sore - Todd Rundgren.
Described in the sleeve notes as a ' public service ' song

 

[- PC -]

Just skipped over my post did you?

here I'll even give a cite that has a quote from Don Henley

"In a 1995 interview, Don Henley said the song "sort of captured the zeitgeist of the time, which was a time of great excess in this country and in the music business in particular." In another interview that same year, he referred to it as being about a "loss of innocence."

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/hotel.htm

I have heard it is this also

But its interpretation is open. While specifically not about drug use it does have elements of this

 

[krisholio14]

if you want something that is about drugs, just pick any song off alice in chains 'dirt', with the exception of 'rooster'.

you could also use something like donovans 'mellow yellow' but it may be considered inappropiate haha.