Topic Playlist (Part 3)

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Observational songs (with brief description of what was observed)

  1. Lady Writer - Dire Straits (a televised interview with historian Marina Warner)
  2. Trouble Every Day - The Mothers of Invention (written by Zappa while he was watching TV coverage of the Watts riots in 1965)
  3. Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones (Lucifer gives a history lesson, with him involved.)
  4. Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits (written by Mark Knopfler, inspired by watching a Dixieland jazz band play in a dumpy, nearly empty bar in South London)
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Observational songs (with brief description of what was observed)

  1. Lady Writer - Dire Straits (a televised interview with historian Marina Warner)
  2. Trouble Every Day - The Mothers of Invention (written by Zappa while he was watching TV coverage of the Watts riots in 1965)
  3. Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones (Lucifer gives a history lesson, with him involved.)
  4. Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits (written by Mark Knopfler, inspired by watching a Dixieland jazz band play in a dumpy, nearly empty bar in South London)
  5. Pleasant Valley Sunday – The Monkees (co-written by Carole King and her husband, Gerry Goffin. Goffin’s lyrics are a commentary on status symbols, the boredom and conformity of suburban life, and the constant efforts to ‘keep up with the Joneses’)

-“BB”-

7763

Observational songs (with brief description of what was observed)

  1. Lady Writer - Dire Straits (a televised interview with historian Marina Warner)
  2. Trouble Every Day - The Mothers of Invention (written by Zappa while he was watching TV coverage of the Watts riots in 1965)
  3. Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones (Lucifer gives a history lesson, with him involved.)
  4. Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits (written by Mark Knopfler, inspired by watching a Dixieland jazz band play in a dumpy, nearly empty bar in South London)
  5. Pleasant Valley Sunday – The Monkees (co-written by Carole King and her husband, Gerry Goffin. Goffin’s lyrics are a commentary on status symbols, the boredom and conformity of suburban life, and the constant efforts to ‘keep up with the Joneses’)
  6. Little Boxes - Pete Seeger
    (Songwriter Malvina Reynolds was driving through Daly City, California - a suburb of San Francisco - and was inspired to write a satiric song about conformity after seeing rows and rows of identical houses.)