Songs About America!

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Chemically altered, May 15, 2019.

  1. Phil12

    Phil12 Radiant Radish

    Here is a short instrumental that represents America... to me ("better angels" and all that):

     
  2. negative1

    negative1 80s retro fan

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    USA
    not really, 2 lines in the song? an allegory perhaps. but it still refers to american women throughout
    the song.

    that's how i've always intrepreted it.

    later
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  3. negative1

    negative1 80s retro fan

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    USA
    those musical styles are from other countries also, they have them.

    i was just saying that the topics of some of the songs don't refer to the country america,
    some are about american people, and other topics.

    the original post is 'songs about America', not the musical styles, or culture.

    later
    -1
     
  4. KarlFarbman

    KarlFarbman Forum Resident

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    You gotta be kidding. American "woman" is an allegory for the country. Read the frickin lyrics! It's not about a woman. It's blatantly obvious. You're embarrassing yourself with your lack of knowledge. It was written at the peak of the Vietnam War and when Americans were coming into Canada to avoid the draft.

    "Bachman expressed the view in 2014 that it was "an anti-war protest song", explaining that when they came up with it on stage, the band and the audience had a problem with the Vietnam War. Said Bachman: "We had been touring the States. This was the late '60s, one time at the US/Canada border in North Dakota they tried to draft us and send us to Vietnam. We were back in Canada, playing in the safety of Canada where the dance is full of draft dodgers who've all left the States".

    I'll take Randy Bachman's word over yours.

    The song was written that way (actually improvised) "indirectly" because the band toured the US and didn't want to completely shut themselves out from the American market. These were volatile touchy times.
     
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  5. stefane

    stefane Forum Resident

    Grant Lee Buffalo - America Snoring

    Great band from Los Angeles/California, led by singer and guitarist Grant-Lee Phillips. They released four albums between 1993 and 1998.
    "America Snoring" is a track from their debut album "Fuzzy", released on Slash Records in 1993.

    "They want ta' legislate the moon
    They want ta' legislate the womb
    They wanna legislate all the things they hate
    They want ta' legislate this tune
    And I hear America snoring snoring
    I hear you America snoring snoring"


     
  6. Rich C

    Rich C Forum Resident

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    And a great choice over Memorial Day Weekend. It helps me to appreciate Summer as it is budding because blink and it's "gone".

    I will add The Big Country by Talking Heads. The antidote to Pink Houses.
     
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  7. Bob F

    Bob F Senior Member

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  8. pokemaniacjunk

    pokemaniacjunk Forum Resident

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    does this count
     
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  9. therunner

    therunner Forum Resident

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    Not my opinions, I hasten to add, just a song that nobody's mentioned yet.
     
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  10. gogators1

    gogators1 Forum Resident

    America Is Waiting...David Byrne and Brian Eno
     
  11. stefane

    stefane Forum Resident

    The Pontiac Brothers - American Dream

    A band from Los Angeles/California founded by Ward Dotson after he had split with The Gun Club following the release of "Miami" towards the end of 1982.
    "American Dream" is a track from their album "Johnson", released on Frontier Records in 1988.

    "So this is the American dream
    What's it got to do with me"


     
  12. Gramps Tom

    Gramps Tom Forum Resident

    A few not mentioned prior from SCARECROW, Mr. Mellencamp's best IMO:

    Justice and Independence '85
    Minutes to Memories
    Small Town

    An American Dream-Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Only In America-Brooks & Dunn
     
  13. The Elephant Man

    The Elephant Man Forum Resident

    This song becomes more relevant with every passing year.
    :--)
     
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  14. Aftermath

    Aftermath Senior Member

    John Phillip Sousa - Stars and Stripes Forever
    U2 - Bullet the Blue Sky
     
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  15. stefane

    stefane Forum Resident

    Jackson Browne - For America

    From his album "Lives in the Balance", released in 1986 on Asylum Records.

    "I have prayed for America
    I was made for America
    Her shining dream plays in my mind
    By the rockets red glare
    A generation's blank stare
    We better wake her up this time"


     
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  16. negative1

    negative1 80s retro fan

    Location:
    USA
    after looking at the lyrics, its more a critical look at americans,
    and not about America.

    that's my intrepretation.

    i don't think it fits.

    later
    -1
     
  17. Ignatius

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  18. bozburn

    bozburn Forum Resident

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    Atlanta, GA, US
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  19. Steve Mc

    Steve Mc Bangles Encyclopedia

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    United States
  20. KarlFarbman

    KarlFarbman Forum Resident

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    I put on an American Pops classical album by Kunzel and the Cincinnati Orchestra--has most of the standards.
     
  21. stefane

    stefane Forum Resident

    Blue Mountain - Generic America

    Alternative country and roots rock band founded in 1991 in Oxford/Mississippi, made up of singer, songwriter and guitarist Cary Hudson and bassist Laurie Stirratt.
    "Generic America" is a track from their album "Homegrown", released in 1997 in Roadrunner Records.

    "Please forgive me if I can't learn to live in Generic America
    Where the wavy fields got paved
    The kids are out looking for a rave
    And the rest of us sat on our big fat ass
    Watching the Rose Bowl Parade"


     
  22. Orthogonian Blues

    Orthogonian Blues A man with a fork in a world full of soup.

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    London, UK
    Not sure if Weezer are being sarcastic here, but this video is quite funny:

     
  23. Orthogonian Blues

    Orthogonian Blues A man with a fork in a world full of soup.

    Location:
    London, UK
    A late career effort from the Village People, featuring Germany's 1994 football World Cup team.

    Just look at future team USA manager Jurgen Klinsmann giving it some!

     
  24. DJ LX

    DJ LX Forum Resident

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    Madison WI
    'Hospitality on Display' - Sparks

    One day we'll have one extra coastline
    We'll tire of the Atlantic
    By then we'll be rid of your lot
    A shot heard 'round the world will soon be shot, will soon be shot

    ***

     
  25. Vangro

    Vangro Forum Resident

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    London
    La Düsseldorf, "America"

     

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