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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."
2. Please name a few songs with unusual subjects. Ideally, not pure novelty songs like "Mommy Got Run Over By A Reindeer."
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Eliza Carthy's Train Song - I suppose in one way it's just another messed-up relationship(?) song, but in another, it's the only song I can think of about two people attracted to each other due to mutual voyeurism. No idea what trains have to do with most of it.
Sarah Slean's Angel is about someone who literally buys up an angel because someone was selling pieces of heaven. She ties it to the eavestrough or something like that.
Boiled in Lead's Silver Carp is about invasive species being invasive, which I'm pretty sure is still not a usual topic.
Jon Boden's Songs from the Floodplain has a few oddities on it, since it's set in a quietly post-apocalyptic world -- April Queen is a love story about the trash we left behind, and Beating the Bounds is about the power of mockery.
Luka Bloom's The Acoustic Motorbike: An entire song about bicycles, the only one I can think of not by Queen. Borderline on novelty song, though.
Les Barker has several based on his exceedingly weird poems - but some are little more than comedic novelty songs ("Have you got any news of the Iceberg?") and some depend on knowing traditional Ballads.
S.J. Tucker's Alligator in the House (The best version is recorded by her band Tricky Pixie but she has it on one of her solo albums, too.) I love this song.
Heather Dale's Elephant is apparently based on an actual person somewhere under the metaphors, but on the surface it's a song about an animal determined to learn everything. Literally.