Two musical questions

[rachelmanija]

1. What are the instruments playing in this song before the vocals come in? An organ? And... a piano? Chimes? Glockenspiel?

2. Please name a few songs with unusual subjects. Ideally, not pure novelty songs like "Mommy Got Run Over By A Reindeer."

Comments

[kore]

Oh gosh, I like a lot of the older ones -- the Child ballads, Twa Sisters, altho I guess technically the very first one I ever heard was Jimi Hendrix doing "Hey Joe," heh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpkDdLZGg30

That Nick Cave "Henry Lee" is great, I used to have a great a cappella recording of Natalie Merchant doing "Long Black Veil," "Knoxville Girl," Fair Ellen (right name?), Matty Groves, Neko Case doing Poor Ellen Smith (STUNNING), Stagger Lee.....I had this tape in college of all these different versions of that one I dubbed from ancient LPs. Maybe my very favourite is Little Sadie, Mark Lanegan does a version I could listen to over and over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uTiw5lAo-A

I believe oracne did a huge mix of murder ballads a while back, too....