Shouldn’t that be how not to dispose of trash on Thanksgiving Day, because that led to the 27 8X10 color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one to be used as evidence against them. Plus they had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage.
It’s really a song that teaches you about unintended consequences.
Conjunction Junction from Schoolhouse Rock. It always bothered me that the railroad cars in the cartoon were moving around on thier own without a locomotive to pull or push them.
Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire is quick overview of the events of circa 1950 - 1990.
It’s first and foremost a blatant rip-off of “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”, which is the much better song anyway.
“Time”, by Pink Floyd
The passage of time, wasted potential, and the urgency to live meaningfully before life passes by.
That’s a good one! And Roger Waters was still in his twenties when he wrote it, much wiser than he is in his old age.
Think about direction…
I’ve been coping with The Prevailing Political Poopfest by listening to a John Finnemore playlist, so I’ve heard this a couple dozen times. I think I’m ready to recite the capitals to win on Jeopardy (ok, maybe just a bar bet… as long as I can sing it).
In the snow!
Not necessarily a good lesson…
Utopia taught listeners about The Seven Rays:
Take one beam of light
Prism acquire
Break the white light down
Seven rays appear, seven rays appear
Take the seven rays
Pure as fire
Focus anywhere
White light will appear, white light will appear
Here’s a less-obscure one.
(it has a great twist.)
There is a KLF Grim Up North with it basically just a geography lesson on which English towns are in the north…
https://youtu.be/20XLWEjN9eI?si=80sroHx78ohdQmwX
Similarly and a bit more melodically, there’s James Brown Night Train which is just a geography lesson on US cities …
“Memphis Soul Stew” is a recipe for making it.
