Observational songs (with brief description of what was observed)
Lady Writer - Dire Straits (a televised interview with historian Marina Warner)
Trouble Every Day - The Mothers of Invention (written by Zappa while he was watching TV coverage of the Watts riots in 1965)
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones (Lucifer gives a history lesson, with him involved.)
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)
Observational songs (with brief description of what was observed)
Lady Writer - Dire Straits (a televised interview with historian Marina Warner)
Trouble Every Day - The Mothers of Invention (written by Zappa while he was watching TV coverage of the Watts riots in 1965)
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones (Lucifer gives a history lesson, with him involved.)
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)
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’)
Observational songs (with brief description of what was observed)
Lady Writer - Dire Straits (a televised interview with historian Marina Warner)
Trouble Every Day - The Mothers of Invention (written by Zappa while he was watching TV coverage of the Watts riots in 1965)
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones (Lucifer gives a history lesson, with him involved.)
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)
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’)
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.)
Observational songs (with brief description of what was observed)
Lady Writer - Dire Straits (a televised interview with historian Marina Warner)
Trouble Every Day - The Mothers of Invention (written by Zappa while he was watching TV coverage of the Watts riots in 1965)
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones (Lucifer gives a history lesson, with him involved.)
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)
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’)
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.)
Tom’s Diner - Suzanne Vega (The patrons of Tom’s Restaurant in Manhattan over several different days in 1981-82)
Observational songs (with brief description of what was observed)
Lady Writer - Dire Straits (a televised interview with historian Marina Warner)
Trouble Every Day - The Mothers of Invention (written by Zappa while he was watching TV coverage of the Watts riots in 1965)
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones (Lucifer gives a history lesson, with him involved.)
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)
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’)
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.)
Star Hotel - Cold Chisel
In Sep-79 the Star Hotel, a severely dilapidated hotel and live music venue in Newcastle NSW north of Sydney was closed at short notice. Roughly 4,000 locals took the news badly, and authorities were heavy handed. Romanticised in the song as capturing working-class frustration, youth rebellion and alienation, it was a ugly, prolonged drunken brawl/riot and exactly none of the apocalyptic visions of social decay came to pass in the aftermath. It’s gentrified as a 22-shop shopping centre known as the Star Complex now.
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Observational songs (with brief description of what was observed)
Lady Writer - Dire Straits (a televised interview with historian Marina Warner)
Trouble Every Day - The Mothers of Invention (written by Zappa while he was watching TV coverage of the Watts riots in 1965)
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones (Lucifer gives a history lesson, with him involved.)
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)
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’)
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.)
Star Hotel - Cold Chisel
In Sep-79 the Star Hotel, a severely dilapidated hotel and live music venue in Newcastle NSW north of Sydney was closed at short notice. Roughly 4,000 locals took the news badly, and authorities were heavy handed. Romanticised in the song as capturing working-class frustration, youth rebellion and alienation, it was a ugly, prolonged drunken brawl/riot and exactly none of the apocalyptic visions of social decay came to pass in the aftermath. It’s gentrified as a 22-shop shopping centre known as the Star Complex now.
For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield
Stephen Stills wrote the song after seeing the Sunset Strip curfew riots in Los Angeles in November 1966. The curfews were set after businesses complained to police about counter-culture protests against the Vietnam War that were taking place almost nightly along the Strip.
Observational songs (with brief description of what was observed)
Lady Writer - Dire Straits (a televised interview with historian Marina Warner)
Trouble Every Day - The Mothers of Invention (written by Zappa while he was watching TV coverage of the Watts riots in 1965)
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones (Lucifer gives a history lesson, with him involved.)
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)
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’)
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.)
Star Hotel - Cold Chisel
In Sep-79 the Star Hotel, a severely dilapidated hotel and live music venue in Newcastle NSW north of Sydney was closed at short notice. Roughly 4,000 locals took the news badly, and authorities were heavy handed. Romanticised in the song as capturing working-class frustration, youth rebellion and alienation, it was a ugly, prolonged drunken brawl/riot and exactly none of the apocalyptic visions of social decay came to pass in the aftermath. It’s gentrified as a 22-shop shopping centre known as the Star Complex now.
For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield
Stephen Stills wrote the song after seeing the Sunset Strip curfew riots in Los Angeles in November 1966. The curfews were set after businesses complained to police about counter-culture protests against the Vietnam War that were taking place almost nightly along the Strip.
Harper Valley PTA - Jeannie C. Riley (Written by Tom T. Hall, based on a schoolmate’s mother who had attracted the ire and gossip of the local school board. She bravely addressed a board meeting and basically noted that the pot was calling the kettle black by pointing out the hypocrisies of the board members and general small town life.)
Housekeeping: Observational songs (with brief description of what was observed)
Lady Writer - Dire Straits (a televised interview with historian Marina Warner)
Trouble Every Day - The Mothers of Invention (written by Zappa while he was watching TV coverage of the Watts riots in 1965)
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones (Lucifer gives a history lesson, with him involved.)
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)
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’)
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.)
Tom’s Diner - Suzanne Vega (The patrons of Tom’s Restaurant in Manhattan over several different days in 1981-82)
Star Hotel - Cold Chisel
In Sep-79 the Star Hotel, a severely dilapidated hotel and live music venue in Newcastle NSW north of Sydney was closed at short notice. Roughly 4,000 locals took the news badly, and authorities were heavy handed. Romanticised in the song as capturing working-class frustration, youth rebellion and alienation, it was a ugly, prolonged drunken brawl/riot and exactly none of the apocalyptic visions of social decay came to pass in the aftermath. It’s gentrified as a 22-shop shopping centre known as the Star Complex now.
For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield
Stephen Stills wrote the song after seeing the Sunset Strip curfew riots in Los Angeles in November 1966. The curfews were set after businesses complained to police about counter-culture protests against the Vietnam War that were taking place almost nightly along the Strip.
Harper Valley PTA - Jeannie C. Riley (Written by Tom T. Hall, based on a schoolmate’s mother who had attracted the ire and gossip of the local school board. She bravely addressed a board meeting and basically noted that the pot was calling the kettle black by pointing out the hypocrisies of the board members and general small town life.)
@Bayaker, since yours was actually #10, you could start a new topic.
I’m curious about the word summon. Is adding the @ symbol to my moniker supposed to notify me somehow? Email, private message? If so it didn’t. When I left the thread I was confident that I had posted #9, and just didn’t come back for a while. Sorry
Anyhoo -
The band/artist is named for a geographical location (city, state, country, lake, river, etc.)
“More Than a Feeling” - Boston
“Woke Up This Morning” - Alabama 3
“Saturday in the Park” - Chicago
“God Blessed Texas” - Little Texas
The band is NOT named for the Lone Star State, but for Little Texas Lane in Thompson’s Station, Tennessee, where they used to practice.
For users who’ve accepted the board’s default settings, the “@UserName” device notifies you via the image of your avatar at the upper right of the screen (phone, tablet, or computer) when you’re reading the SDMB. You’ll see a number in a small circle overlapping the upper right corner of your avatar – that’s the number of notifications you have unread at the moment.
Most notifications are simply replies to threads that you, yourself, have also posted in. You’ll also get notifications if one of your posts is quoted, and if someone “ats” you with “@UserName”.
However – I believe all of these notifications can be disabled, some at the individual-thread level and perhaps some globally. If you’ve chosen to have a quiet, no-notifications experience here on the SDMB and adjusted your account settings that way, you may well not receive notifications like these.
The band/artist is named for a geographical location (city, state, country, lake, river, etc.)
“More Than a Feeling” - Boston
“Woke Up This Morning” - Alabama 3
“Saturday in the Park” - Chicago
“God Blessed Texas” - Little Texas
“Still the One” - Orleans
“Lady” – The Little River Band
According to the story – while driving on the Princes Highway from Melbourne to Geelong in Australia, the band members passed a road sign for a small town called Little River. The lead singer shouted out the name from the back of the truck, and the rest, as they say, is history,
The band/artist is named for a geographical location (city, state, country, lake, river, etc.)
“More Than a Feeling” - Boston
“Woke Up This Morning” - Alabama 3
“Saturday in the Park” - Chicago
“God Blessed Texas” - Little Texas
“Still the One” - Orleans
“Lady” – The Little River Band
“Jet Boy” - New York Dolls
“Keep Your Hands to Yourself” - Georgia Satellites
“Saturday Night” - Bay City Rollers
Named after a city in Michigan. The Scottish band, originally known as the Saxons, wanted to change to an “American-sounding” name; the second dart which a band member threw at a map of the U.S. hit Bay City.