Look out! Look out! Look out!
I checked here and didn’t find “Traveling Soldier” or “The Green Fields Of France”. Would they count?
OK, so today what I said comes across to me as mean instead of funny as it did when I posted it, so I apologize for that.
Generally, I am unmoved by songs like that. The closest and only exception was when I first heard the song “Changes” by Black Sabbath while going through my divorce.
For me its things like, (this week) buying a bridal set and men’s wedding band as a gift for my son.
“Billie and Sue”-teen soldier dies, betrayed by his firts love. Maximum tearjerker.
Moving to Cafe Society.
Tell Laura I love her! :o
Does anyone remember Run, Joey Run? And, of course, the infamous Seasons in the Sun.
Run, Joey, Run came out when I was about five or so, and I remember it mostly because we took a long car trip that summer and it seemed to come on the radio about once every five minutes.
Daddy please don’t! It wasn’t his fault! He means so much to me!
Daddy please don’t! We’re gonna get married, just you wait and see.
(from memory)
Oh wait-- She ran calling WILDFIRE!!!
“Pizza Man”–Alice Playten “He saw a pair of headlights/He thought he’d try his luck/He tried to cut between them/He never knew it was a truck…”
“The Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun” by Julie Brown. It was a bit funnier before it started happening.
“The Traveling Soldier” by The Dixie Chicks
“D.O.A.” is pretty bad.
I try to move my arm and there’s no feeling
And when I look, I see there’s nothing there.
The face beside me stopped its holy bleeding
The girl I knew has such a distant stare.
When Pearl Jam covered “last kiss,” I thought the song was a satire resulting from being forced to listen to too many MADD presentations in middle school the 80s. Then I became aware of the Romantic Teen Death™ genre of 50s music shortly thereafter. Apparently, its not supposed to be funny, oh no, its Extremely Deep ™ and Tragic ™. Who knew?
Down by the river
I shot my baby
(they never list this one, either)
There’s nothing “teenage” about that.
Thinking of the Pearl Jam cover of “Last Kiss”, Eddie Vedder has deadpanned that songs about dead teenagers have been very good for his band. Their best-known original song is probably “Jeremy”, about a teen suicide.
That one came to mind first when I saw the thread title.
Though it’s not specifically a “teen” song, I don’t think many adults were listening to Detroit Rock City by KISS. And now that I’ve looked it up, it is actually based on a true story of a fan dying in a car accident. I did not know that.
Almost forgot…Pat Boons" “Moody River”…“Moody River, your muddy waters took my baby’s life”…was it suicide or just an accident?
Patches always made me mad. It never occurred to the guy that he could, oh, DEFY HIS PARENTS?! And the girl KILLED herself over this wimp?