Topic Playlist! (Part 2)

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Songs about people dying

  1. Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
  2. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll - Bob Dylan
  3. Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport - Rolf Harris
  4. Born to Die in Berlin - The Ramones
  5. Seasons In the Sun - Terry Jacks
  6. Billy and Sue – B.J. Thomas
  7. He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones

He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they’ll carry him away
He stopped loving her today

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Songs about people dying

  1. Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
  2. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll - Bob Dylan
  3. Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport - Rolf Harris
  4. Born to Die in Berlin - The Ramones
  5. Seasons In the Sun - Terry Jacks
  6. Billy and Sue – B.J. Thomas
  7. He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
  8. Suicide Solution - Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy’s bassist Bob Daisley wrote the lyrics both to memorialize AC/DC singer Bon Scott’s death by alcohol poisoning and to warn Ozzy himself about the imminent dangers of his excesses. The “solution” doesn’t mean “something that resolves a problem” – it means in abstract “something potable”. The “suicide solution” was alcohol.

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Songs about people dying

  1. Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
  2. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll - Bob Dylan
  3. Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport - Rolf Harris
  4. Born to Die in Berlin - The Ramones
  5. Seasons In the Sun - Terry Jacks
  6. Billy and Sue – B.J. Thomas
  7. He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
  8. Suicide Solution - Ozzy Osbourne
  9. Where Have All The Soldiers Gone? - Peter, Paul & Mary
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Songs about people dying

  1. Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
  2. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll - Bob Dylan
  3. Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport - Rolf Harris
  4. Born to Die in Berlin - The Ramones
  5. Seasons In the Sun - Terry Jacks
  6. Billy and Sue – B.J. Thomas
  7. He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
  8. Suicide Solution - Ozzy Osbourne
  9. Where Have All The Soldiers Gone? - Peter, Paul & Mary
  10. Honey - Bobby Goldsboro

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8966

Songs about apathy (or just damn depressing)

  1. All Apologies - Nirvana
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Songs about apathy (or just damn depressing)

  1. All Apologies - Nirvana
  2. I Don’t Care - The Ramones
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Songs about apathy (or just damn depressing)

  1. All Apologies - Nirvana
  2. I Don’t Care - The Ramones
  3. Longview - Green Day
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Songs about apathy (or just damn depressing)

  1. All Apologies - Nirvana
  2. I Don’t Care - The Ramones
  3. Longview - Green Day
  4. Hello Helicopter - Motion City Soundtrack
8970

Songs about apathy (or just damn depressing)

  1. All Apologies - Nirvana
  2. I Don’t Care - The Ramones
  3. Longview - Green Day
  4. Hello Helicopter - Motion City Soundtrack
  5. Tired of Waiting - The Kinks
8971

Songs about apathy (or just damn depressing)

  1. All Apologies - Nirvana
  2. I Don’t Care - The Ramones
  3. Longview - Green Day
  4. Hello Helicopter - Motion City Soundtrack
  5. Tired of Waiting - The Kinks
  6. Apathy - KMFDM
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Songs about apathy (or just damn depressing)

  1. All Apologies - Nirvana
  2. I Don’t Care - The Ramones
  3. Longview - Green Day
  4. Hello Helicopter - Motion City Soundtrack
  5. Tired of Waiting - The Kinks
  6. Apathy - KMFDM
  7. You’re Blase - Ella Fitzgerald
8973

Songs about apathy (or just damn depressing)

  1. All Apologies - Nirvana
  2. I Don’t Care - The Ramones
  3. Longview - Green Day
  4. Hello Helicopter - Motion City Soundtrack
  5. Tired of Waiting - The Kinks
  6. Apathy - KMFDM
  7. You’re Blase - Ella Fitzgerald
  8. Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares) - Travis Tritt
8974

Songs about apathy (or just damn depressing)

  1. All Apologies - Nirvana
  2. I Don’t Care - The Ramones
  3. Longview - Green Day
  4. Hello Helicopter - Motion City Soundtrack
  5. Tired of Waiting - The Kinks
  6. Apathy - KMFDM
  7. You’re Blase - Ella Fitzgerald
  8. Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares) - Travis Tritt
  9. I Don’t Know - The Replacements
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Songs about apathy (or just damn depressing)

  1. All Apologies - Nirvana
  2. I Don’t Care - The Ramones
  3. Longview - Green Day
  4. Hello Helicopter - Motion City Soundtrack
  5. Tired of Waiting - The Kinks
  6. Apathy - KMFDM
  7. You’re Blase - Ella Fitzgerald
  8. Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares) - Travis Tritt
  9. I Don’t Know - The Replacements
  10. Novocaine for the Soul - Eels

New topic:

Songs about real historical events or people

  1. Kingfish - Randy Newman

Title refers to the nickname of populist Louisiana politician Huey Long

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Songs about real historical events or people

  1. Kingfish - Randy Newman
  2. Birmingham Sunday - Rhiannon Giddens

About the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four little Black girls in 1963.

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Songs about real historical events or people

  1. Kingfish - Randy Newman
  2. Birmingham Sunday - Rhiannon Giddens
  3. Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
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Songs about real historical events or people

  1. Kingfish - Randy Newman
  2. Birmingham Sunday - Rhiannon Giddens
  3. Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
  4. I Don’t Like Mondays - Tori Amos (original by The Boomtown Rats)

About an elementary school shooting.

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Songs about real historical events or people

  1. Kingfish - Randy Newman
  2. Birmingham Sunday - Rhiannon Giddens
  3. Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
  4. I Don’t Like Mondays - Tori Amos (original by The Boomtown Rats)
  5. Vimy - Tanglefoot

I used to sing with a male quartet here in Canada. We could barely make it through this one; it was that emotional.

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Songs about real historical events or people

  1. Kingfish - Randy Newman
  2. Birmingham Sunday - Rhiannon Giddens
  3. Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
  4. I Don’t Like Mondays - Tori Amos (original by The Boomtown Rats)
  5. Vimy - Tanglefoot
  6. Acadian Driftwood - The Band

About the expulsion (Le Grand Dérangement) of the Acadians (Cajuns) from Canada during and after the French and Indian War.

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Songs about real historical events or people

  1. Kingfish - Randy Newman
  2. Birmingham Sunday - Rhiannon Giddens
  3. Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
  4. I Don’t Like Mondays - Tori Amos (original by The Boomtown Rats)
  5. Vimy - Tanglefoot
  6. Acadian Driftwood - The Band
  7. Murder Most Foul - Bob Dylan

The JFK assassination