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Music is a powerful tool and is sometimes one that can be used to convey a message or lesson some to inspire others to inform, I have a few that do but what are some of your favorites?

 

The first one is from the Hunchback of Notre Dame and is about the treatment of the poor.

 

 

The second one is about the police brutality and violence in a lot of the anti Vietnam War protests at the time.

 

 

 

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The Down & Out song from Bugsy Malone, telling you that even if you hit the bottom, there's still a chance to climb up.

 

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It's like two or three albums for me (but they're all from the same band.)

 

Bloc Party's : Silent Alarm, A Weekend In The City maybe even Intimacy,

 

Silent Alarm (and a few songs before that album): I still really haven't quite pinned down what exactly Silent Alarm's theme was - it seemed like one that ranged a bit, because this album of theirs worked more on the abstracted. Going from global politics (conflict in the middle east), the modern love, breakups, intimacy, relationships, mediocrity, medical illness, boredom, social peaking order, fatelism, individualism, problem of getting stuck and complacent in routine (and more, because that album was a lot more abstract than the others.)

 

A Weekend in the City: was a lot more blunt, and perhaps a bit more depressing. It was more straight-forward with the problems of modernity and dealing with city life in general, or dealing with living in England and the urban culture landscape. It ranges too a bit, and some of the b-sides also partially run back into abstraction, dealing with happiness and sadness.

 

Intimacy: well this one is all about relationships – and every facet of them, from the passionate, to the emotional, to the taunting, to the commitment (and so on, there's more to it).

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Heart-Shaped Box by Nirvana has an important message to it. The song shows that the fatal attraction of love, shows how love can change people and what they do to keep the affection alive.

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I saw Clerks II again the other night and there is a particular song that plays at the end, the lyrics sound depressing at face value but the context of the song as it is played tend when everything works out actually makes the song in its own odd way actually a happy one.

 

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This is the Queen song "The Prophet's Song" by Brian May, based upon a vivid dream he ha; I think the message/s are fairly clear so without further ado 

 

 

 

Bob Dylan's "Times They Are A Changing".
Given my sig I have to give you a major brohoof. But lets not forget Bobby's ultimate protest song, ultimate because it's not really a protest song but one that asks a series of timeless and powerfull questions; which made it so influential and used so often back during the civil rights movement, as well as during anti-war demonstrations :
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This is the Queen song "The Prophet's Song" by Brian May, based upon a vivid dream he ha; I think the message/s are fairly clear so without further ado 

 

 

 

Given my sig I have to give you a major brohoof. But lets not forget Bobby's ultimate protest song, ultimate because it's not really a protest song but one that asks a series of timeless and powerfull questions; which made it so influential and used so often back during the civil rights movement, as well as during anti-war demonstrations :

 

For some reason Bob Dylan's songs bring back memories of summer, I think it's because I used to sit and listen to folk LPs in my back garden in summer 2010/11.

 

Also another great folk song that tells a story. Nick Drake's "Day is Done" which also reminds me of summer, I guess it's saying when each day ends "what have you actually achieved?" or it could also mean "at the end of each day, don't take things for granted."

 

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The Grand Illusion, by Styx, is a song I need to listen to from time to time. The message is right in the lyrics.



Another song I like is You Can't Always Get What You Want
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Songs with a message? Well, when I commute between work and home, about 50 minutes, I listen to a selection of music from the first 3 seasons, about 40 or so MP3 records. Each bit of music or vocal brings pleasant memories and they never get old. So, how important is music to the show? Without it there would be no show. Really, it is that true. Make a list of the top 50 longest running Broadway plays, count how many were musicals?

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One Tin Soldier is one of my favourites. It truly is ironic, one side waging war against another to gain a "treasure" the other side has, which ends up being a peace message. It's your standard anti-war song, but I heard it often on the radio when I was a lot younger and I sort of grew attached to it. Plus I think it's still relevant.

 

(No, I wasn't around in the 60's. My parents used to like listenening to a local radio station that played older music)

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King by Lauren Aquilana, because as far as I understand, it's about a person who's really at the bottom and having some really deep problems (Depression? Not sure). But my favorite parts are '' Rid of the monsters inside of your head, put all your faults to bed '' and '' You've got it all, you lost your mind in the sound, there's so much more, you can reclaim your crown '', because it helped me cope at times where I was feeling very low , and it kind of helped me to realize, that I could stand up again and move on again and again, no matter how many times I fell. It was just up to myself. n_n

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Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin

 

Life is Beautiful by Sixxam

 

Not Afraid by Eminem

 

Dream On by Aerosmith

 

Welcome to the Machine by Pink Floyd

 

just to name a few.

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I'm not typically one to care for the lyrics of a song. Part of it is that I have a hard time hearing them properly. It's not that I'm hard of hearing, just for whatever reason I don't understand words in songs very clearly. Perhaps because of all the other noise going on in a song (which I pay far more attention to)

 

That said, here's a couple:

 

 

In a world where we are not permitted our innocence we stand strong and make something of our lives. We hold fast to ourselves and our dreams.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYFGTf3M3Sc

 

While the meaning of this song may not be exactly how I take it I always felt a sense of empowerment from it. There's so much in life to achieve and I should never stop trying to live my own dreams, the way I want to live them not how others tell me. I will shove aside any who attempt to hold me back.

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