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[sup][size="1"]Johnny Cash's One Piece at a time[/sup]
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[sup][size="1"]Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant[/sup][/sup]

Songs by Springsteen usually contain some kind of story.

Wow, 10 replies already.
Thanks to everyone and their replies!
I'll have to wait until I'm on the 'better' computer (it's not really better since it's Vista, but I prefer it) to start listening.
I'll give rep to whoever helps!

A cross-section of my iPod that fits this incredibly broad description:

Stan by Eminem. sublime song, the best work he has done.

You Don't Mess Around with Jim by Jim Croce

Ballad of Booth (from Assassins by Stephen Sondheim)


Seriously dude..."Songs that tell stories"..."preferably about people or things" It would be harder to name the reverse.

I suppose I wasn't very clear with why I need the songs - sorry. Maybe knowing will help you some?

I'm a fantasy writer/game designer and I'm trying to find songs to base 'bosses' off of. I can base the bosses off of creatures or humans, so that's why I included "about things".
The bosses drop an item that you can have identified by an NPC, and then you can read that character's story in a new window when you use the item. Maybe, if they're based off of a song, I could make a little 'Magnifying Glass' that you can use on the item (when you're reading the story off of said item) and if you look in the bottom right corner or something, small letters of the song that was used could be found...
But, that might cause copyright issues - and would anyone even think to do something like that?

Anyway, that's why I wanted songs like that.

this is epic. This should be the back drop to your boss fight.
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=5fakNlghOJY

Try "Man in Black" by Johnny Cash

Tweeter And The Monkey Man - The Travelling Wilburys

I mistakenly thought that this song was originally by the Headstones. Thanks for the info!

P.S. I vote for Tribute by Tenacious D.

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Tweeter And The Monkey Man - The Travelling Wilburys

I mistakenly thought that this song was originally by the Headstones. Thanks for the info!
[/quote]It was written by Bob Dylan while in the TWs as a parody of Bruce Springsteen after coming back from one of his concerts.

Just google ballads.

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A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many ballads were written and sold as single sheet broadsides. The form was often used by poets and composers from the 18th century onwards to produce lyrical ballads. In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad.
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the ballad of billy the kid; billy joel

This might be what you're looking for. - Tells a story.