VA - MORE Acoustic Rock Favorites (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2

 MORE ACOUSTIC ROCK

VA - MORE Acoustic Rock Favorites (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2

A while back I posted the first volume of Acoustic Rock Favorites and said this..

The foundation of rock music, debatably, is acoustic music. When many singer-songwriters sit down to work on a song or an idea to demo, they generally use an acoustic guitar. Sometimes these songs and bands turn them into electric music, but sometimes a song is so good that a band or artist will leave them as is and thus, becomes acoustic rock. Sometimes, musicians sound better making acoustic rock. Bands outside the Unplugged realm generally don't lean towards acoustic rock, but those who do have found success across multiple formats. Also, the best acoustic rock bands sometimes do go electric, but that doesn't change that they are also considered acoustic music.

Unplugging isn’t easy. Take someone who usually plays an electric guitar, pull the plug and thrust an acoustic in their hands, and they’ll feel naked.
Where’s all the lovely mistake-hiding distortion? All the squalling feedback and lovely, comforting effects pedals? Playing an acoustic is an exercise in precision, clarity, and more often than not, great song writing. Playing acoustic arrangements can breathe new life into familiar songs or give a unique twist to a cover, and show off a piece of song writing perfection.

These tracks are by no means the only great acoustic rock tracks available and I am sure you can recommend many others that excite you. This is the second volume of acoustic rock songs I have put together for sharing. There are others in the work for another time. But as you know my music tastes are diverse and there are other music flavours that will be posting first. Please enjoy these additional 50 tracks.

***EVEN MORE Acoustic Rock tracks will be posted soon ***

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 Track list 1

01 Fools Garden - Lemon Tree 03:06 1995
02 Seal - Crazy 04:05 1995
03 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Deanna 02:52 1988
04 Matthew Sweet - Divine Intervention (Recorded at Home 8 Set 92) 03:06 1992
05 Jack White - Love is the Truth 01:39 2016
06 Dion - Doctor Rock'n'roll 02:27 1970
07 Arborea - Daughters of Man 04:51 2013
08 Elliott Smith - Son of Sam 03:04 2000
09 Eagle-Eye Cherry - Falling in Love Again 03:32 1997
10 Sheryl Crow - Wildflower 03:56 2005
11 First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar 05:07 2011
12 Ian Skelly - I See You 04:40 2013
13 Klaus Weiland - Monkey River Magic 03:58 1999
14 Peter Frampton - Show Me the Way 04:06 2016
15 Bruce Cockburn - Islands in a Black Sky 07:43 1973
16 Turin Brakes - Underdog (Save Me) 03:31 2001
17 Gabrielle - Rise 03:53 1999
18 Alanis Morissette    Hand in My Pocket 04:30 1995
19 She & Him - God Only Knows 02:43 2014
20 Coral - 1000 Years 02:50 2010
21 Tom Petty - Free Fallin' 04:16 1989
22 Big Star - Thirteen 02:37 1972
23 Love - Alone Again Or 03:15 1967
24 Crazy Horse - I Don't Wann Talk About It 05:19 1971
25 Marc Bolan - Get it On 05:06 1971

Track list 2

26 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - From the Beginning 04:09 1972
27 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 04:07 1997
28 Fiona Apple - Across the Universe 05:09 1999
29 Elton John - Candle in the Wind (Acoustic Mix) 03:53 1973
30 Colin Hay - Who Can it Be Now 03:25 2003
31 Richie Havens - Just Like a Woman 05:18 1966
32 Feeder - Dry 03:46 1999
33 Richard Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight 02:54 1974
34 Both - Milwaukee 03:47 2014
35 Extreme - More Than Words 05:39 1990
36 Mazzy Star - Fade Into You 04:54 1993
37 Simple Minds - Glittering Prize 04:07 1982
38 Rickie Lee Jones - Chuck E's in Love 03:30 1979
39 R.E.M.     - Pop Song '89 02:59 1988
40 Ayreon - Dreamtime 04:17 1995
41 Neil Young - Old Man 03:20 1972
42 Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer 05:06 1970
43 Supertramp - Give a Little Bit 04:09 1977
44 Crowded House - Weather With You (Bbc Session) 03:00 1991
45 Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome (Acoustic Remix) 03:56 1995
46 Travis    Why Does it Always Rain on Me 04:27 1999
47 Glenn Frey - Hotel California 06:23 1976
48 Bob Marley - Redemption Song 03:48 1980
49 U2 - Staring at the Sun 04:37 1994
50 Lenny Kravitz - Sister 07:30 1993

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Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Stones (A Butterboy Compilation) CD12+CD2+CD3

   
ROLLING STONES

Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Stones (A Butterboy Compilation) CD12+CD2+CD3

Once called the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band the world, The Rolling Stones, have a wealth of well know tunes that are exciting and memorable. They also have a treasure trove of phenomenal, underexposed material. There are so many forgotten gems in the Rolling Stones catalogue. There are plenty more masterpieces to be found if you dig deeper, including a few tracks that are criminally underrated or never making it onto the usual best of lists. You have to have some sympathy for The Rolling Stones lesser-known tracks...

Here are 70 tracks that should offer a wider appreciation for Rolling Stones material.  The first two discs are presented by year from oldest to newest. The 3rd disc are tracks I didn't want to leave out. Enjoy!

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Track list 1

01 Off The Hook 02:34 1964
02 Blue Turns to Grey 02:29 1965
03 I Am Waiting 03:12 1966
04 Who's Driving Your Plane 03:17 1966
05 Yesterday's Papers 02:06 1967
06 Dandelion 03:32 2007
07 2000 Man 03:08 1967
08 Child of the Moon (Single, B-Side) 03:03 1967
09 She Smiled Sweetly 02:46 1967
10 Backstreet Girl 03:27 1967
11 The Lantern 04:24 1967
12 All Sold Out 02:19 1967
13 Connection 02:10 1967
14 Miss Amanda Jones 02:48 1967
15 Something Happened to Me Yesterday 04:55 1967
16 Factory Girl 02:10 1968
17 Jigsaw Puzzle 06:06 1968
18 Prodigal Son 02:52 1968
19 You Got the Silver 02:51 1969
20 Monkey Man 04:12 1969
21 Moonlight Mile 05:58 1971
22 Can't You Hear Me Knocking 07:16 1971
23 Title 5 01:47 1972
24 100 Years Ago 03:58 1973
25 Coming Down Again 05:54 1973

Track list 2

26 Winter 05:29 1973
27 (Walkin' Thru The) Sleepy City 02:52 1973
28 If You Really Want to Be My Friend 06:16 1974
29 Time Waits for No One 06:39 1974
30 Fingerprint File 06:34 1974
31 Downtown Suzie 03:53 1975
32 Family 04:06 1975
33 I Don't Know Why 03:03 1975
34 Melody 05:50 1976
35 Fool to Cry 05:08 1976
36 Hand of Fate 04:31 1976
37 Faraway Eyes 04:37 2008
38 Emotional Rescue 05:39 1980
39 Summer Romance 03:16 1980
40 Heaven 04:14 1981
41 Slave 06:33 1981
42 If I was A Dancer (Dance PT. 2) 05:51 1981
43 Harlem Shuffle 03:26 1986
44 Almost Hear You Sigh 04:38 1989
45 Blood Red Wine 05:03 1989
46 Brand New Car 04:16 1994
47 Jump on Top of Me 04:24 1994
48 New Faces 02:52 1994
49 Saint of Me (Radio Edit) 04:12 1997
50 Out of Tears (Don Was Edit) 04:23 2011

Track list 3

01Rocks Off 04:33 1972
02 Blinded By Love 04:38 1989
03 H One Hit (To The Body) 04:45 1986
05 Send it to Me 03:44 1980
06 Thru And Thru 06:15 1994
07 Hand Of Fate 04:31 1976
08 She Was Hot 04:45 1983
09 Undercover of the Night 04:34 1983
10 Wanna Hold You 03:52 1983
11 Live With Me 03:33 1969
12 All the Way Down 03:15 1983
13 Let It Loose 05:20 1972
14 Loving Cup 04:26 1972
15 Ride On, Baby 02:54 1967
16 Rough Justice 03:12 2005
17 Salt of the Earth 04:48 1968
18 Driving Too Fast 03:57 2005
19 Before They Make Me Run (Live) 03:57 1978
20 Memo From Turner (Alternate) 03:51 1969

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VA - COVERS While My Guitar Gently Weeps (A Butterboy Compilation)

VA - COVERS While My Guitar Gently Weeps (A Butterboy Compilation)

"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"). It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist. The song serves as a comment on the disharmony within the Beatles following their return from studying Transcendental Meditation in India in early 1968. This lack of camaraderie was reflected in the band's initial apathy towards the composition, which Harrison countered by inviting his friend and occasional collaborator, Eric Clapton, to contribute to the recording. Clapton overdubbed a lead guitar part, although he was not formally credited for his contribution.

Harrison wrote "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as an exercise in randomness inspired by the Chinese I Ching. The song conveys his dismay at the world's unrealised potential for universal love, which he refers to as "the love there that's sleeping". Harrison first recorded it with a sparse backing of acoustic guitar and harmonium – a version that appeared on the 1996 Anthology 3 outtakes compilation and, with the addition of a string arrangement by George Martin, on the Love soundtrack album in 2006. The full group recording was made in September 1968, at which point the song's folk-based musical arrangement was replaced by a production in the heavy rock style. The recording was one of several collaborations between Harrison and Clapton during the late 1960s and was followed by the pair co-writing the song "Badge" for Clapton's group Cream.

On release, the song received praise from several music critics, and it has since been recognised as an example of Harrison's continued maturity as a songwriter beside his Beatles bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Rolling Stone ranked "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" 136th on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", seventh on the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time", and at number 10 on its list of "The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs". Clapton's performance was ranked 42nd in Guitar World's 2008 list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos". In 2011 it was voted the sixth best collaboration of all time in a Rolling Stone readers' poll. Harrison and Clapton often performed the song together live, during which they shared the lead guitar role over the closing section. Live versions featuring the pair were included on the Concert for Bangladesh album in 1971 and Live in Japan in 1992. Backed by a band that included McCartney and Ringo Starr, Clapton performed the song at the Concert for George in November 2002, a year after Harrison's death. (Wikipedia)

Here is a 34 track Swarm of the track While My Guitar Gently Weeps by Geoge Harrison

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01 Beatles 04:45
02 Black Bird Band 07:24
03 Bob Culbertson 03:29
04 Carmen Cuesta & Chuck Loeb 04:40
05 Chris Cheney 06:35
06 Claire Delic 05:14
07 Evrencan Gündüz 04:17
08 Gary Clark Jr 05:06
09 Hank Marvin 04:47
10 In-Betweens 03:44
11 Jake Shimabukuro 06:08
12 Jeff Healey Band 05:16
13 Jimmy Ponder 03:42
14 John Basile 04:50   
15 Karen Mok 04:13
16 Kenny Rankin 04:43
17 Martin Luther McCoy & Jim Sturgess 04:04
18 Mona Lisa Twins 04:35
19 Montreal Guitar Trio & California Guitar Trio 07:36
20 Naturally 7 05:00
21 Paul Gilbert (Yellow Matter Custard) 07:46
22 Pedro Aznar 05:13
23 Peter Frampton 09:54
24 Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne & Others 06:16
25 Regina Spektor 05:24
26 Santana 06:03
27 Santana & Indie Arie 04:32
28 Tanya Dorise 04:24
29 Hell Yeahs 04:37
30 Tommy Emmanuel & Jake Shimabukuro 02:52
31 Toto 05:45
32 Unknown (1) 04:06
33 Unknown (Played on Vintage Oil Can)     05:32
34 Virgin Passages 05:43

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VA - Songs Inspired By Newspapers and Magazines (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2

INSPIRED BY NEWSPAPERS and MAGAZINES

VA - Songs Inspired By Newspapers and Magazines (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2 

There have been many songs developed after reading a newspaper and /or magazine article. Some famous some not so famous, but all are interesting and enjoyable

The first thing we see when we look at a newsstand are the headlines. And a memorable headline is like a catchy chorus.  Did You See His Name is a song Ray Davies based on a story in the Hornsey Journal, the tragic tale of a man who killed himself after his shoplifting conviction was publicized in the local paper. Perfect Kinks territory, and "real kitchen sink stuff".

It must be said that in general musicians, perhaps because of their experience in the public eye, aren't big fans of the press.

The Daily Mail takes a surprisingly Lennonesque pounding in a protest song characteristic of Radiohead. Where their lyrics are straightforward ("Where's the truth? What's the use?") they sound exasperated; where they're more elliptical ("The fish in the sea have lost command"), the meanings unclear. Some songs advising listeners to "read between the lines" to find the truth.

Loudon Wainwright III isn't much of a news junkie either. In Sunday Times, the master of the comic song goes through the pleasures of a good weekend read, section by section, and the news depresses him: "gives you the over-informed blues". Section Two (entertainment, leisure and arts) fares better: "Next time that things get this great is Sports, way up in Section Eight." You get the picture.

Here are 50 tracks which are inspired by newspaper or magazine articles. Enjoy!

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01 Beatles - She's Leaving Home
This was based on a newspaper story Paul McCartney read about a runaway girl. On February 27th, 1967, the London Daily Mail's headline read: "A-Level Girl Dumps Car and Vanishes." That girl was 17-year-old Melanie Coe, who had run away from home leaving everything behind. Her father was quoted as saying, "I cannot imagine why she should run away; she has everything here."

02 Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
David Bowie recalled to Mojo magazine in 2002: "I literally wrote that within an hour or so of reading an article in one of the music rags that their breakup was imminent. I thought they were a fair little band, and I almost thought, 'This will be an interesting thing to do, let's see if I can write this song and keep them together.' It sounds terribly modest now, but you go through that when you're young." Bowie said 'All the Young Dudes' is a song about this news. It's not a hymn to the youth, as people thought. It is completely the opposite."

03 Harry Chapin - Mr. Tanner
He got the idea for this song after reading about Martin Tubridy, who was a cleaner from Ohio who loved to sing. Tubridy got the chance to perform in New York City but was panned in a review that appeared in The New York Times.

04 Mary Chapin Carpenter - 4 June 1989
"It was [inspired by] an article in the New York Times during the 20th anniversary week of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

05 Arlo Guthrie - Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
His father Woody composed this after reading, early in 1948, that a plane deporting migrant farm workers back to Mexico had crashed.

06 Jack White - Temporary Ground
White wrote this heartbroken Dixieland-like tune after reading in National Geographic about these giant Queen Victoria lily pads that could hold up to a hundred pounds, so a person could actually float on a lily pad, which seems like an Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass kind of idea. So coincidentally, two ideas about freedom, and the word 'lily' together."

07 Kings of Convenience - Boat Behind
Eirik Glambek Bøe of the duo said that the lyric was inspired by their German viola player, Toby. He explained: "He and (K of C partner) Erlend were reading an article about someone crossing the Atlantic on a surfboard, when Toby said – in English – they're must have been a boat behind. It was a great image.

08 Lucinda Williams - Little Rock Star
Williams told Rolling Stone magazine that this was inspired by an article on Pete Doherty in one of their previous issues. She explained: "It's an empathetic look at self-indulgent, little-brat rock stars. He's great, and you want to say, 'Snap out of it!'"

09 James Taylor the Frozen Man
This was inspired by an article that appeared in National Geographic magazine. The body of this unfortunate man was found a hundred years after he was lost on an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific across the North Canadian coast.

10 John Fogerty - Headlines
A ferocious world-gone-wrong jeremiad from Fogerty’s unjustly maligned “Eye of the Zombie.” The song opens with a savage parody of international conflict: “I read it in the paper today / Two cars howling ’til the break of day.”

11 Brandi Carlile - Fulton County Jane Doe
This was written by Brandi Carlile's brother Phil Hanseroth. "He had just had a little baby girl, and he was reading a story in the newspaper about a woman who was found in a field. She was unidentifiable, and thirty-six years later, no one has ever claimed her. So, she died, and is left without a name. As a new dad, that bothered him fundamentally, so he wrote her a song."

12 Loudon Wainwright III - Sunday Times
Unreleased until the “BBC Sessions” album, this is a tour through America’s most famous paper. Favorite couplet: “You need a job? That’s Section 9. You’re not jobless? Hey, that’s fine / Section 10 is Real Estate. You’re not homeless? Hey, that’s great.” There’s no video available of “Sunday Times,” so here’s a worthy replacement: “T.S.M.N.W.A.,” (also known as “They Spelled My Name Wrong Again”), which appears to be more about newspaper ads than journalism proper, but still exhibits an interest in accuracy.

13 Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine
Lyricist Shelley Pinz wrote the words to this song after reading a newspaper article about an elder UK street musician who used a tambourine to collect money as he performed in front of a bank.

14 Janis Ian - At Seventeen
I was reading a New York Times article about a debutante, and the opening line was 'I learned the truth at 18.' I was playing that little samba figure, and that line struck me for some reason. The whole article was about how she learned being a debutante didn't mean that much. I changed it to 17 because 18 didn't scan."

15 Harry Chapin - 30,000 Pounds of Bananas
Originally it was a poem that Harry wrote, it was just words on a page. It was based on a true story he had read about an accident in Scranton, Pennsylvania where a driver lost control of a truck full of bananas he was delivering. He was killed in the crash, and bananas were strewn all over the place.

16 Beatles - Mean Mr. Mustard
Lennon got the idea for this song from a newspaper article he read about a miser who hid his cash everywhere so nobody could find it.

17 Bruce Hornsby - The Black Rats of London
Lyrically, it was inspired by a National Geographic article on Jamestown where it talks about how - were it not for these crazy bacterial strains and rodents infecting the locals - American history would have been very different.

18 Tony Orlando & Dawn - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree
This song was written by Irwin Levine and Larry Brown (credited as L. Russell Brown), who wrote the previous #1 hit for the group, "Knock Three Times." The song is based on a story called "Going Home" that Levine read in the January 1972 edition of the magazine Reader's Digest. The story was originally published in the New York Post on October 14, 1971, appearing in a column called "The Eight Million" written by Pete Hamill.

19 Johnny Cash - Big River
Johnny Cash was on a touring break when he picked up an article titled "Johnny Cash Has the Big River Blues in His Voice."

20 Kinks - Did You See His Name?
Sort of a cross between “A Day in the Life” and “Crime and Punishment,” this song was written by Ray Davies for the television show “At the Eleventh Hour” before it was recorded by the Kinks—it tells the story of a man who stole “a tin of beans” from a discount grocery and was driven to suicide by the resulting publicity.

21 Dickey Lee - Laurie (Strange Things Happen)
This was written by psychologist Dr. Milton "Mitt" Addington and recorded as a single (TCF Hall 102) by Dickey Lee. The song was inspired by a story that ran in a Memphis newspaper in 1964, written by a 15-year-old girl named Cathie Harmon. Dr. Addington credited her and shared his royalties from the song with her.

22 Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me
This was written by songwriting team of Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin. Reid got the idea from a newspaper article about a guy who got drunk and shot up his girlfriend's car. When the judge sentenced him and asked him what he had learned, the guy said, "You can't make a woman love you if she don't."

23 Thin Lizzy - Mama Nature Said
According to Mark Putterford's biography of Phil Lynott, this song was inspired by an article Lynott's stepfather Dennis Keeley read in a newspaper. It had "an environmentalist message which pre-empted by several years the trend towards 'green' politics in music".

24 Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel
The lyrics were written by a steel guitar player from Nashville named Tommy Durden, who was once a dishwasher repairman. Durden, who died in 1999, said he was inspired by a newspaper story about a man who killed himself and left behind a note saying only, "I walk a lonely street."  The book Untold Gold: The Story Behind Elvis' Number One Hits claims the song was inspired by a 1955 Miami Herald story about a man who leapt from a hotel window after burning all evidence of his identity. His suicide letter had a single line: "I walk a lonely road."


25 John Prine - Dear Abby
I wanted a newspaper and all they had was the International Herald Tribune which is all the tragic news in the world crammed into six pages with no sports results and no comics. And yet here’s 'Dear Abby.' She was the only relief in the whole paper. and that’s where I wrote most of the song - in Rome, Italy that is."

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26 Beatles - A Day in The Life
The beginning of this song was based on two stories John Lennon read in the Daily Mail newspaper: Guinness heir Tara Browne dying when he smashed his lotus into a parked van, and an article in the UK Daily Express in early 1967 which told of how the Blackburn Roads Surveyor had counted 4000 holes in the roads of Blackburn and commented that the volume of material needed to fill them in was enough to fill the Albert Hall.

27 Willie Nelson - Still Not Dead
Here, Willie Nelson pokes fun at the constant rumors about his impending death. "I got up two or three times in the last couple of years and read the paper where I'd passed away," Nelson said of the inspiration for the song. "So, I just wanted to let 'em know that's a lot of horses--t."

28 Shins - No Way Down
I was reading this article about the American trade deficit and the lyrics just came out of me - which was cool as that song was causing a lot of trouble."

29 Fastball - The Way
This song is based on the true story of Lela and Raymond Howard, an elderly couple from Salado, Texas who drove to the annual Pioneer Day festival 10 miles away in Temple and didn't return. She had Alzheimer's disease, and he was recovering from brain surgery.

30 Stooges - Search and Destroy
"Search and Destroy" was written by Stooges' front man Iggy Pop and lead guitarist James Williamson. The name of the song comes from a Time magazine article Iggy Pop saw about the Vietnam War. The lyrics are rife with references to the war, including napalm, nuclear bombs, fire fights, and radiation. The title refers to a military tactic used by the US military in the Vietnam War: to seek out the enemy, destroy them, and withdraw.

31 Pat Benatar - Hell Is for Children
"That song was inspired by an article that I read in the New York Times about child abuse.

32 John Prine - Paradise
Prine wrote this track after his father sent him a newspaper clipping about a quaint town in Kentucky called Paradise, where the singer had spent summers with his grandparents as a teen, that was bought by a coal mining company.

33 Simple Minds - All the Things She Said
Simple Minds lead singer Jim Kerr wrote this song after reading a story about Polish political prisoners who had been in Russia since the end of WWII. "There was an interview with wives of guys that had been away for a long time, taken away, and some of the beautiful quotations that the women had used became sort of the background for that song,"

34 Beatles - Happiness Is a Warm Gun
The title came from an article in a gun magazine John Lennon saw. "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" was the slogan of the National Rifle Association. It struck Lennon as "fantastic, insane… a warm gun means you've just shot something." Said Lennon, "I thought it was so crazy that I made a song out of it."

35 Johnny Marr - The Crack Up
This song was inspired by a news story that Johnny Marr read about the apparent suicide of Russian model Ruslana Korshunova, who died after falling from the ninth-floor balcony of her Manhattan apartment.

36 AC/DC - Jailbreak
It's about a crim named "Chopper." He was sent to jail for murdering a gang leader. Chopper and crime partner Jimmy Loughnan planned an escape, but because of Jimmy's fear of tight spaces, they were caught and given solitary. Bon Scott read about this in a newspaper and started writing lyrics for a song. Everyone in AC/DC loved the idea of a criminal-themed song, and they finished it in about a week.

37 Billy Joel - Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
On October 29, 1975, President Gerald Ford gave a speech where he made it clear that the US government would not bail out New York City to keep it from bankruptcy. The next day, the headline in the Daily News read: "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD" (Ford never said these words, and the sensationalist headline hurt him in the next election, which he lost to Jimmy Carter). Joel wrote this from the point of view of an old man who moved to Florida in the year 2017 after New York was destroyed in an apocalypse.

38 Tom Waits - Don't Go into the Barn
The song was inspired by a 2003 New York Times story about an old barn used as a rural slave jail.

39 Switchfoot - Happy Is a Yuppie Word
This song was inspired by Bob Dylan's answer to a 1991 Rolling Stone question about whether he was happy. "These are yuppie words; 'happiness' and 'unhappiness," he replied. "It's not happiness or unhappiness; it's either blessed or unblessed."

40 Harry Chapin - Sniper
Harry Chapin wrote this nearly 10-minute song after reading a newspaper article about Charles Whitman, who went on a shooting rampage at the University of Texas, killing 14 people and wounding 32 before he was killed by police.

41 Frank Turner - 1933
The song was inspired by articles Frank Turner saw that suggested the alt-right was punk rock.

42 Sinéad O'Connor - How About I Be Me
Sinead O'Connor wrote three articles for an Irish newspaper where she expressed her desire to find a new man and listed her requirements. This song was inspired by these public solicitations for sex and the media's frenzied response.

43 John Grant - Metamorphosis
The opening listing of trivia and terror was inspired by the English free newspaper The Metro, which Grant picked up on the London tube. His attention was grabbed by the headline "14-year-old rapes 80-year-old man."

44 Cure - Birdmad Girl
Written about a young girl in a mental institution Robert Smith read about in a British newspaper.

45 Alicia Keys - Girl on Fire
The song and album title were inspired by an Essence article Keys read about herself in which senior writer Jeannine Amber used "girl on fire" to describe the songstress.

46 Maximum Balloon - Apartment Wrestling
The song is f--king twisted. There's actually an old porno magazine from the '70s called Apartment Wrestling - it featured scantily clad girls grappling and having pillow fights with each other. Pretty far out."

47 Human League - Don't You Want Me
It was inspired by an article in a woman's magazine. Lead singer Phil Oakey claims this is not a love song but about power politics between two people.

48 Duran Duran - Blame the Machines
Based on a story in the Herald Tribune about a German driver who was killed when his GPS sent him the wrong way up a freeway off-ramp. Blame the machines indeed."

49 Joe Jackson - Sunday Papers
It’s a portrait of an elderly mother who is confined to her home, and about the way that the newspaper keeps her connected to the world or more specifically, to the worthless gossip in the world. “Well, I got nothing against the press / They wouldn’t print it if it wasn’t true.”

50 Paul McCartney - Despite Repeated Warnings
He was prompted to write this song about global warming denials when he was in Japan and picked up a newspaper.

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VA - Great Folk Rock Songs (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2

FOLK ROCK

VA - Great Folk Rock Songs (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960's. In the U.S., folk rock emerged from the folk music revival and the influence that the Beatles and other British Invasion bands had on members of that movement. Performers such as Bob Dylan and the Byrds, several of whose members had earlier played in folk ensembles, attempted to blend the sounds of rock with their preexisting folk repertoire, adopting the use of electric instrumentation and drums in a way previously discouraged in the U.S. folk community. The term "folk rock" was initially used in the U.S. music press in June 1965 to describe the Byrds' music.

The commercial success of the Byrds' cover version of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and their debut album of the same name, along with Dylan's own recordings with rock instrumentation, on the albums Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Highway 61 Revisited (1965), and Blonde on Blonde (1966), encouraged other folk acts, such as Simon & Garfunkel, to use electric backing on their records and new groups, such as Buffalo Springfield, to form. Dylan's controversial appearance at the Newport Folk Festival on 25 July 1965, where he was backed by an electric band, was also a pivotal moment in the development of the genre.

During the late 1960s in Britain and Europe, a distinct, eclectic British folk-rock style was created by Pentangle, Fairport Convention and Alan Stivell. Inspired by British psychedelic folk and the North American style of folk rock, British folk-rock bands began to incorporate elements of traditional British folk music into their repertoire, leading to other variants, including the overtly English folk rock of the Albion Band and Celtic rock. (Wikipedia)

Folk Rock as a genre has very blurred and overlapping edges into pure folk, rock, and 'singer-songwriter' styles. Whilst folk rock enjoyed its heyday back in the late 60's and early 70s' recent success of bands like Mumford and Sons and the Lumineers folk rock is making its way back ....

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Tracks CD1

01 Jefferson Airplane - Come Up Years 02:33 1966
02 Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue 05:41 1975
03 Gene Clark - Echoes 03:13 1967
04 Grass Roots - Let's Live for Today 02:49 1967
05 Neil Young - Heart of Gold 03:02 1972
06 Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die 06:26 1970
07 Lindisfarne - Lady Eleanor 04:12 1970
08 Vejtables - I Still Love You (Mono) 02:27 1965
09 Youngbloods - Get Together 04:40 1967
10 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Suite- Judy Blue Eyes 07:22 1969
11 Sweetwater - Motherless Child 05:05 1968
12 Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird 04:19 1967
13 Spanky & Our Gang - Yesterday's Rain 03:26 1969
14 Beatles - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away 02:09 1965
15 Lovin' Spoonful - You Didn't Have to Be So Nice 02:28 1966
16 Beau Brummels - Just a Little 02:29 1965
17 Crispian St. Peters - The Pied Piper 02:34 1966
18 Lumineers - Ho Hey 02:43 2012
19 Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 04:02 1989
20 Pogues - Dirty Old Town 03:46 1985
21 Richard & Linda Thompson - When I Get To The Border 03:27 1974
22 Nick Drake - River Man 04:23 1969
23 Bert Jansch - Angi 03:09 1965
24 Association - Along Comes Mary 02:47 1966
25 Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone 06:13 1965


Tracks CD2

26 Byrds - Mr. Tamborine Man 02:32 2005
27 Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 02:32 2014
28 Beatles - Norwegian Wood 01:59 1965
29 Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life 03:09 2005
30 Turtles - You Showed Me 03:06 1969
31 Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait 04:37 2012
32 Strawbs - Lay Down 04:45 1973
33 Matthews' Southern Comfort - Woodstock 04:31 1970
34 Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward Bound 02:24 1966
35 Bon Iver - Skinny Love 03:52 2008
36 Rod Stewart - Maggie May 05:50 1971
37 Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne 05:42 1967
38 Laura Marling - I Was an Eagle 04:22 2013
39 Crosby & Nash - Southbound Train 05:02 1972
40 Fairport Convention - Matty Groves 08:10 1976
41 Fotheringay - Banks of the Nile 08:06 1970
42 Mama's & the Papa's - Twelve Thirty 03:26 1968
43 John Martyn - Over the Hill 02:51 1973
44 Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Home 05:06 2009
45 Donovan - Sunshine Superman 03:15 1966
46 Squires - Go Ahead 02:16 1966
47 Leaves - Hey Joe 02:47 1966
48 We Five - You Were on My Mind 02:37 1965
49 Love - A Message To A Pretty 03:15 1995
50 Byrds - I Trust 03:14 1971

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