But seriously, I could go on forever. Kris Kristofferson has so many good ones. Amon Amarth are master storytellers. King Diamond, though he generally takes an album to get the full story out.
Great call on Lightfoot. I sing "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" to my daughter as a lullaby on a regular basis. She usually requests it, because she knows it drags on the longest of all the options.
So hard to choose just one here. I love songs with a story. Going to go with three, and lament not adding about ten more.
Bathory - One Rode to Asa Bay
Cruachan - Viking Slayer
Nick Cave - Song of Joy
Screw it. One more.
Led Zeppelin - Battle of Evermore
But seriously, I could go on forever. Kris Kristofferson has so many good ones. Amon Amarth are master storytellers. King Diamond, though he generally takes an album to get the full story out.
Gotta have us some Willie Nelson.....
Yes! That's a great one NoWayOut.
The mention of Willi Nelson made me think of this great country crooner and one of his best known songs with a story:
Kenny Rogers - Coward Of The County
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qi2m6NyUP0
Bottleneckers (12/16 in 2022)
16 team, points only. G: 2-W, 4-SO.
Top 9F, 4D & 1G . Keep 15, Max 23
F: J. Robertson, J. Hughes, Tavares, Lafreniere, Cozens, Newhook, Teravainen, Domi, R. Strome, Laine, Rossi, Raymond, Holtz, Perfetti
D: Bouchard, McAvoy, Morrissey, Heiskanen
G: Vasilevskiy
There are two songs by the Hip that really stand out for me (though I love tons of their music). I never realised until now they are both story-songs. Fifty Mission Cap was already posted, so here's the other one:
Some pretty powerful imagery in those lyrics.
Both of those songs can just take me to another place sometimes, man the Hip used to rock.
12 Team Dynasty, H2H (points)
Dress 2C, 4W, 1F, 4D, 1G (Daily)
G (3), A (2), STP (1), SHOG (1), +/- (0.5), SOG (0.2), Hits (0.2), Blk (0.2), FOW (0.1); W (5), SO (2), Sv (0.2), GA (-1)
C - Draisaitl (W), Hughes, Larkin, Trochek
W - T.Thompson (C), Pastrnak, Reinhart, Nichushkin, Batherson, Sharangovich
D - Dahlin, Theodore, Bouchard, Faber, Werenski, Skjei, Forsling
G - Jarry, Gustavsson
Fm - Bordeleau, Barlow, But, G.Perreault, Morrow, Perunovich, Nikishin
This is an excellent thread - Spent all day using an angle grinder to cut my 1950s cast iron bathtub out of my house.
Time for some red wine and music ...
18 Team Full Keeper. Total points.
Start 10 F, 3 D, 1 UTIL, 1 G
3 Points: SHO, 2 Points: G, PPA, SHG, SHA, W, 1 Point: A, PPG, GWG, .25 Points: BLK, .1 Points: FOW, SOG, SV, .15 Points: HIT, -.05 Points: FOL, -.15 Points: GA
Forwards: Backstrom, Barre-Boulet, Beauvillier, Caufield, Dickinson, Donato, Donskoi, Gourde, Greenway, Horvat, Kase, Keller, Kuznetsov, MacKinnon, Marchessault, J. T. Miller, Sikura, Tarasenko, Zegras
Defense: Barrie, Brannstrom, Cholowski, Honka, Matheson, Pulock, Shattenkirk
Goal: Dubnyk, Jarry, Markstrom, Merzlikins
2014-15, 2016-17 MHL Champions!
One of the more criminally under-rated artists of all-time.
UHL - Detroit Red Wings
24 team H2H (W-:L) Dynasty - 3C/LW/RW/F, 6D, 1G.
G/A/(+/-)/PIM/SOG/PPP/SHP/GWG/HIT/BLK/FOW
W/GAA/SV/SV%/SHO
NHL Cap + 1M salary cap (AAV)
Not the original, but the best:
Thrash metal madness... Overkill have always been able to weave a tale, but this is their best:
And then there's Clutch. Don't **** with Clutch:
10th year Keeper League, Fantrax
14 teams, H2H, keep 10, daily starts
G (3), A (2), +/- (1), PIM (0.1), PPP (1), FOW (0.1), FOL (-0.1), BLK (0.5), HAT (3), W (5), SO (3), SV (0.1), GA (-0.5)
C (3) - Schmaltz (LW, RW), Mercer (RW), Norris (IR), Domi (LW), T. Johnson (RW), Nosek (LW)
LW (3) - Keller (RW), Hagel, McCann (C), Zacha (LW), Kubalik (RW), N. Foligno (IR)
RW (3) - Fiala (LW), Vilardi (C), Ehlers (LW), Kakko
D (4) - Theodore, Orlov, Grzelcyk, T. van Riemsdyk, Clifton, Skjei, Weegar
Util (1)
G (1) - Montembault, Allen, Halak
I personally like the story Nine Inch Nails are telling in closer.. Whoops..
Zorro says "vote for Dobber"
Angus is my best friend at dobberhockey..
How about Dinah-moe hum by Frank Zappa? That is a classic story.
Rylant
Carolina Drama. A great story from start to finish.
@SmittysRant
I know it isn't Friday night anymore but I wanted to share this song as it fits the whole songs with a story theme so well. I will be honest, I had never heard this song until this past weekend. I was up in New Brunswick playing my guitar and singing at a small festival and after I was done, one of the other performers came up to me and we were sitting around chatting and talking music and he asked me if I had ever heard this song before. It was a song from a guy name Ralph McTell called "Streets of London". I hadn't and he proceeded to play it for me on his acoustic guitar. I was blown away by the song, the melody and most of all, the lyrics. I came home yesterday and looked up the original and I will say, I don't know how I have never heard this song before. I will soon be adding this one to my repertoire for performances. Amazing.
10 Team, Points Only, Cash League
25 Man Roster (no position), top 20 point getters count at end of month
Keep 20/25 at seasons end, Cut 5 to FA for redrafting
Goalie points W=2pt L=-1pt SHO=2pt
Stamkos, Tavares, Eichel, Mercer, JRobertson, RThomas, Kucherov, Nugent-Hopkins, Tuch, KConnor, Necas, Point, Konecny, SJarvis, Cozenz, Morrissey, Bouchard, Josi, Novak, Tolvanen, Peterka, SBennett
G- Vasilevskiy, Sorokin, Oettinger
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