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

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, another group with lots of weird songs is Rasputina. "My Little Shirtwaist Fire" is a favorite of mine, about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, but they also have ones called "Howard Hughes", "Rose K." (about JFK's mom), "The Donner Party", "1816, The Year Without a Summer", "Herb Girls of Birkenau" (about Auschwitz), and for extra weirdness, "Rats", which is about the 16th century decision by the then Pope to declare the semi-aquatic capybara as fish for Catholics to eat during Lent.