songs for song analysis

[youngbowyer33]

For school I have to do a song analysis, and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for songs? The only two I can think of right now: Human by the Killers and Time by Pink Floyd. I want to do Time because I think the message is clear and I like the idea and i want to do Human because I think it would be kind of fun to try and describe what i think is the message. So if you have any ideas i would really appreciate it, I basically like most forms of music, even the old stuff 

[sailordad]

well i would recomend any thing by Bob Dylan from the sixties
that would be a a whole bunch of great tunes that would be worthy for analysis
them songs had real meaning

[M-P]

If you like 60's folk music, look into The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkle.   Ron

[recurve shooter]

i think "this cowboy's hat" by chris ledoux has a cool message, pluss its just a good song.

[Pappy]

Lot of good songs from the 60's with some kind of message,problem is you really need to be smoking something to get it.  Good luck on your project.
   Pappy

[cracker]

Dude I know this is off topic of what your doing but I think Fat Bottom Girls is a song that speaks volumes.

[Bone pile]

Paradise or Spanish pipe dream by John Prine

[Postman]

"Dust in the Wind" by Kansas. Floyd's "2 suns in the sunset" is awesome, too.

[Diligence]

I have to echo the John Prine samples....good stuff all around (with a great deal of not so hidden social commentary).  Might look at "Great Compromise" by Prine - I've always liked that one, and the lyrics are catchy:  "But I'd druther have names thrown at me, than to fight for a thing that ain't right"

Also, for something a bit more modern, how about Johnny Cash's remake of "Hurt" by Trent Reznor.....Johnny really put his soul into that version and I think it speaks volumes about his life.

J

[Parnell]

Some great suggestions, but personally, I think Fat Bottom Girls may be the greatest choice...

Course, there's always Pink by Aersomith.

[John K]

Hurricane by Bob Dylan

[KenH]

Find this on YouTube and play it a couple times, then do your analysis

March of Cambreadth
 by Heather Alexander

Axes flash, broadsword swing,
Shining armour's piercing ring
Horses run with polished shield,
Fight Those Bastards till They Yield
Midnight mare and blood red roan,
Fight to Keep this Land Your Own
Sound the horn and call the cry,
How Many of Them Can We Make Die!

Follow orders as you're told,
Make Their Yellow Blood Run Cold
Fight until you die or drop,
A Force Like Ours is Hard to Stop
Close your mind to stress and pain,
Fight till You're No Longer Sane
Let not one damn cur pass by,
How Many of Them Can We Make Die!

Guard your women and children well,
Send These Bastards Back to Hell
We'll teach them the ways of war,
They Won't Come Here Any More
Use your shield and use your head,
Fight till Every One is Dead
Raise the flag up to the sky,
How Many of Them Can We Make Die!

Dawn has broke, the time has come,
Move Your Feet to a Marching Drum
We'll win the war and pay the toll,
We'll Fight as One in Heart and Soul
Midnight mare and blood red roan,
Fight to Keep this Land Your Own
Sound the horn and call the cry,
How Many of Them Can We Make Die!

[Hillbilly]

Analyze Bohemian Rhapsody.

[mullet]

  John Prine:   " Please Don't Bury Me ", in that cold, cold, ground...  It's in my will and prearranged burial service.

[stickbender]

     Pink Floyd.  The wall. " All in all, you're just another brick in the wall " Melanie, " Brand new pair of roller skates"  "I got a brand new pair of roller skates, you got a brand new key.....I think we should get together, and see"....."  Sixties song.  When skates, were metal, and were adjustable to fit your shoes, and you used a big key to tighten, or loosen them.  Yep we used type writers too, with a ribbon, and used correction tape, and white out!  Can't use that anymore, messes up the computer screen. speaking of the sixties......There is Jim Stafford's "Wild Wood Weed"   Simple message......

                                                                                 Wayne