Story Based Songs

**Wolfie** · 08/03/2007, 1:26 PM

No Limits - 2 Unlimited

This a wordy, challenging, autobiographical tour de force. Scholars have pored over this musical gold for the myriad interpretations that can be derived from this late 20th Century Meisterwork.

The writer(s) cunningly try to convey to the listener that there were "no limits" to this true life story.

They inform the listener that they would "reach for the sky". A helicopter is not mentioned in the song. Perhaps they intended taking out a Digital Televsion subscription. We may never know.

They also explain how "no river too deep" and how "no mountain too high". Some detractors have pointed out that Holland is flat and has little or no mountains - but this is a minor oversight on the Dutch Duo's part.

Scholars have oft debated if the song was about some sort of outdoor excursion they were embarking on and the terrain they intended to tackle along the way.

This tune is a wonderful gift to humanity.

**Calcio Jack** · 08/03/2007, 1:34 PM

Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge

Bob Dylan- Hurricane

Boomtown Rats- I Don't Like Mondays

Dylan, Lonsome death of Hattie Carroll
Positively 4th Street (based on Roy Keane ,Dylan didn't know that when he penned it)
Sarah
Ira Hayes (one of the US marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima WW2, although Dylan didn't write it )

and lots of others by the Zim

**Jerry The Saint** · 08/03/2007, 2:08 PM

Originally Posted by Gerrit

U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday, guess we all know upon which real story this is based

Originally Posted by Gerrit

the "when fact is fiction and TV reality" and "can't believe the news today" phrases make me assume they're referring to a rather modern issue, so I'd rather have thought it were about the killings in Maiden City in 1972. But guess only Bono will know...

Originally Posted by Speranza

I don't know if you are aware of this or it is what you were pointing out but "sunday, bloody Sunday" supposedly isn't about 1972 but the Bloody Sunday in Dublin during the war of independance (Croke Park killings e.t.c). Don't think Bono has ever said what its about but that is the widely held assumption.

Originally Posted by Macy

There's a few stories about this, one being it's based on Edge giving out about his childhood and the fact that all his catholic mates weren't allowed out to play on a Sunday....

This is all wrong. The song really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday. You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think "Sunday, bloody Sunday!"

**jebus** · 08/03/2007, 2:39 PM

Originally Posted by Jerry The Saint

This is all wrong. The song really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday. You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think "Sunday, bloody Sunday!"

someones been reading their big book of steve coogan jokes i see

**Aldini98** · 08/03/2007, 2:45 PM

Chooctown - Hamell on trial - class

**CollegeTillIDie** · 08/03/2007, 9:28 PM

Originally Posted by Wolfie

No Limits - 2 Unlimited

This a wordy, challenging, autobiographical tour de force. Scholars have pored over this musical gold for the myriad interpretations that can be derived from this late 20th Century Meisterwork.

The writer(s) cunningly try to convey to the listener that there were "no limits" to this true life story.

They inform the listener that they would "reach for the sky". A helicopter is not mentioned in the song. Perhaps they intended taking out a Digital Televsion subscription. We may never know.

They also explain how "no river too deep" and how "no mountain too high". Some detractors have pointed out that Holland is flat and has little or no mountains - but this is a minor oversight on the Dutch Duo's part.

Scholars have oft debated if the song was about some sort of outdoor excursion they were embarking on and the terrain they intended to tackle along the way.

This tune is a wonderful gift to humanity.

Yes it is used to play an acoustic guitar version of this song as a party piece

oh and regarding the Lyrics one of the writers came from Belgium and they have mountains in the South

**Risteard** · 08/03/2007, 9:47 PM

Originally Posted by Calcio Jack

and lots of others by the Zim

John Brown

**TonyD** · 08/03/2007, 10:54 PM

Billy Bragg - The Saturday Boy - A touching story of unrequited love. It also contains one of my favourite lines in any song

"But I never made the first team, I just made the first team laugh
And she never came to the phone, she was always in the bath"

Genius.

**Billsthoughts** · 09/03/2007, 9:16 AM

Originally Posted by Calcio Jack

Dylan, Lonsome death of Hattie Carroll
Positively 4th Street (based on Roy Keane ,Dylan didn't know that when he penned it)
Sarah
Ira Hayes (one of the US marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima WW2, although Dylan didn't write it )

and lots of others by the Zim

What about "Joey"
You couldnt get more of a story song than that. Plays out like a movie.

**BohsPartisan** · 09/03/2007, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by Wolfie

No Limits - 2 Unlimited

Don't know if you've heard Metallica's song Invisible Kid on St. Anger but the tune is a rip off of No Limits, I kid you not!

**Wolfie** · 09/03/2007, 1:17 PM

Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

Yes it is used to play an acoustic guitar version of this song as a party piece

oh and regarding the Lyrics one of the writers came from Belgium and they have mountains in the South

Interesting College, very interesting. Obviously, this revelation about the Southern Belgian mountains casts further interpretation on the previously mentioned excursion. Where better to venture than Southern Belgium, for fecks sake!! It was staring us all in the face.

The full song title should have been "No Limits - in the course of our Journey to Southern Belgium"

BohsPartisan adds that Metallica appear to have been heavily influenced by 2 unlimiteds classic as well. Maybe they could combine forces and form a super group!!!!

**Calcio Jack** · 09/03/2007, 1:30 PM

Originally Posted by Billsthoughts

What about "Joey"
You couldnt get more of a story song than that. Plays out like a movie.

Too true indeed almost every track on the album that contained Joey play out like a move, especially Romance in Durango ,about a Mexican bandit on the run, which starts with a killer of an opening line that straight away sets the atmospere and mood of the song ; "...hot chilli peppers in the blistering sunn, me and Magdelena on the run, I hope this time we can escape..." the other great movie song (for me ) on that album is Black Diamond Bay , after 30 years am still trying to figure out who is the "stranger" that says "my darling je vous aime beaucoup"...

Anyway my top Dylan songs that could be made into a movie

1. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts.
2. Romance in Durango.
3 Simple Twist of fate
4. Black D B
5. Brownsville Girl (co-written by Sam Sheapard)
6.Man in the long black coat .
7.Changing of the guards

**Billsthoughts** · 10/03/2007, 2:38 PM

Originally Posted by Calcio Jack

Anyway my top Dylan songs that could be made into a movie

1. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts.
2. Romance in Durango.
3 Simple Twist of fate
4. Black D B
5. Brownsville Girl (co-written by Sam Sheapard)
6.Man in the long black coat .
7.Changing of the guards

sam shepard in ireland the mo......
have always had a fondness for ramblin gamblin willie......