Songs that influenced our history

[Goldensoldier]

Im doing a project for history day about how music influenced society and what not. I am running out of songs... I got Buffalo Soldier by Bob Marley, and Megadeth the system has failed, Sublime-April 26, 1992.... I need more songs, help me out please!!!

[Sethomas]

What about "I'm in the Money" and the songs of The Wizard of Oz helping people cope with the Depression? Or what about Greensleeves solidifying the movement towards the Church of England? Or what about the chansons de geste that unified the medieval vernacular languages?

[Rez]

iron man. every ten year old in the world loves it, thats gotta have a world impact somehow.

seriously, play that song to anyone in grade school, they'll love it. completely baffling, but strangely satisfying.

[Bobo Adobo]

CSNY - Ohio song about the Kent State Riots...

Micheal Jackson - Black or White :lol

[FS]

the ketchup song.

[Schimid]

"American Pie" by Don McLean is about the death of the American spirit, or something like that. That wouldn't be so bad, I think. Can't think of any others. :(

[Sethomas]

Buddy Holly is the American spirit? :/

[FartinMowler]

Janies got a gun by Aerosmith :lol

[tenno]

isnt that megadeth song like a few months old? i'm probably wrong

[GADZOOKS]

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe


Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King and I and The Catcher in the Rye


Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye


We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it


Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc


Roy hn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around the Clock


Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland


Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it


Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai


Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide


Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go


U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo


CHORUS


Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion


Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson


Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say


We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it


Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodsto, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan


Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore


We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

WHOOPS , that's a song influenced BY history :(

[Luchatein]

You could write about a few songs by the Beatles and other 60s bands and tell how they popularized hippie culture, and in turn caused anti-war protest. The Kent State incident would be nice to mention also.

[Perndog]

Yankee Doodle Dandy.

And how in the hell do you figure a Megadeth song influenced any society outside of the colony of fleas in some teenage metalhead's hair?

[Ninjavenom]

Agreed. Megadeth aren't influential to history itself.

Also, wtf was the song elvis did on what's his face's show?

[Bobo Adobo]

Wasn't it "heartbreak hotel"?

..."Louie, Louie" by the Kingsmen would be a good one too.

[Anonymous]

YOUR FUCKING HISTORY LICKS CAT SHIT FUCKTARDS! :lol

[Goldensoldier]

I think im changing my topic to just to RATM. And then were going to Waynesburg and interviewing a freedom fighter that killed a cop. His name was Mumia-Abu-Jamal.

[glowbelly]

oh for chrissakes :lol

again, i sincerely apologize on my state's behalf for this one.

[adept_ninja]

Agreed. Megadeth aren't influential to history itself.

Also, wtf was the song elvis did on what's his face's show?

"hound dog" on the Ed sulivan show?

[Helm]

There's no song that has influenced the history of the world. Rock and roll is a joke, when it comes to actually changing people's lives and making a difference. Acts as diffusion tactics instead of anything else.

[sadie]

lanimilbus s'ti .gniksamkcab

[WhiteRat]

Don't forget Election Day by Arcadia. That song truly did wonders during the '96 general election.