Your favourite song with a proper story...

[PuppyMonkey]

Heart "All I wanna do is make love to you" - where she shags a stranger just to get pregnant.

Or the incomparable Hazzard. Always had my suspicions about what he did with her down by that river.

Anyone else like songs like this???

Johnny Cash 'A boy named Sue'
Quite an obscure one but 'Tough shit Wilson' by Splodgenessabounds is bloody epic. It parodies all those country and western songs that tell a sad story.
love it

I loved Touch me in the Morning by Diana Ross when I was 7 or 8. Thought it was so pretty. Still have a soft spot now, even though my leanings are much heavier now.

Love the Arctic Monkeys too - take your pick with their stuff. Love that it sounds so lifelike. Only band I know that could rhyme 'two bouncers, one of em's a scary un, it's his way or no way, totalitarian'. Love that line :)

The taxi ride one is good too, but my head's too full of shopping lists to remember what it's called. It just conjours up images from my youth (even though that was a long, long time ago).

ooh, yes, I love Christmas Wrapping too!

The Day Before You Came is crap, imo.

Two little boys
Coward of the county
Caledonia

(sob, sniffle)

I love Christmas wrapping. Best Christmas song ever!

TMMJ 'So you sign all the papers in the family name
You're sad and your sorry but you're not ashamed
Little Green, have a happy ending'

There's a quite gorgeous love song from the 80s called 'Uptown Uptempo Woman' by Randy Eidelman which fits the story song genre quite well.

Hurricane by Bob Dylan

There must be many more but I can't think of them atm.

Oh just remembered Bruce Springsteen The River.

This is such a nice way to expand my musical tastes...

GMajor - that is such a great one!

It's lovely isn't it!

Glad to have found some more Xmas Wrapping fans - I always get blank looks when I mention it to friends/family as my favourite Christmas song! .

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen - Highway Patrolman
Kenny Rogers/The Killers - Ruby Don't take your Love to Town

No MrsKitty, you are not on your own - Christmas Rapping/Wrapping is my favourite Christmas song too! "O damn, guess what I forgot"
That one by The Eagles - is it Lying Eyes?

I I was coming on to mention "Queen and the Soldier" by Suzanne Vega, but ChaosTR and aBrightStarWithFestiveWays (are you normally darkstar? cos we definitely have same taste in music if so I seem to recall) got there before me!

I love that album so much... all the songs on it are fantastic.

huffy and mrskitty - DH LOVES the christmas wrapping songs- we have it on lots at this time of year (it is so very catchy, I find myself humming it all the time)... but yes- no-one seems to know it at all.

Loads of the Killers songs would fall into this category- the whole of 'Hot Fuss" album is a long story arc...

Argh- x-posts MrsColumbo!

Captain, That album is absolutely one of the best albums ever made - but I haven't listened to it for ages.

On a similar(ish) note does anyone like Martha's Harbour?

CaptainNancy yep, that's me

Mrs Columbo I love Lying Eyes too.

Little White Bull

Oh- I love All About Eve!

A lot of Johnny Cash songs. I like 'Hung My Head', which is about a boy who borrows his brother's gun and accidentally kills a man.

I'd forgoten Martha's Harbour - loved that one! Wasn't that the song that the miming on TOTP went badly wrong?

I love All About Eve too, yes it was MrsColumbo I remember it well

I'm afraid to say it and it's the ultimate in complete cheese but my favourite story song is "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" by MeatLoaf, I bloody love it especially the duet bit at the end with the woman in the white satin