Need suggestions for songs

[Argent Silvermage]

Hi!
Many years ago I ran a game that was based around the lyrics of the Alan Parsons Project (Yeah... I'm old.) The game was interesting because the "Bards who wrote the lyrics" gave clues to where the treasure was and how to get around some of the traps.
I had a great time going over lyrics and listening for interesting changes in the music and such. I'm thinking about doing this again some time but want to use more varied and updated music. (more like clasic rock not rap or hip hop.)
Any suggestions?

 

[Cutty Sark]

How about:

Life During Wartime, Talking Heads
Not to Touch the Earth, the Doors
I Am a Rock, Simon & Garfunkel
Immigrant Song, Led Zeppelin
Seven Seas of Rhye, Queen

Or maybe

Big Balls, AC/DC

Just kidding. You might be able to use a bunch of fantasy-themed Zeppelin songs, like Four Sticks, No Quarter, Misty Mountain Hop, The Rain Song, Kashmir, Over the Hills and Far Away or the Battle of Evermore, maybe even When the Levee Breaks. Jim Morrison is always fantasy-themed, and only sometimes overtly drug-themed. You could use some of his stuff that didn't make it into lyrics, too: The Celebration of the Lizard, from the liner notes to Waiting for the Sun comes to mind.

If you want variety, maybe you could listen to a little 80s metal. Bands like Manowar and Iron Maiden might have some pretty good lyrics for a campaign. Or Uriah Heap. Those guys must've played some D&D back in the day.

 

[Crothian]

Invisible Sun by the Police
Twilight Zone by Golden Earring

Both of those hhave interesting lyrics that I plan on using.

 

[emergent]

Check out The Greatful Dead. Sure, they have been around forever, but some of their song lyrics could easily be bardic songs. "Ripple" could easily be a riddle or clue to some treasure. Of course, if you want to have a bardic troupe that tours constantly followed by a horde of loyal fans, then that's your busniess.

It's not a song, but I was thininking about basing a campaign around TS Eliot's "The Waste Land", but it didn't work out.

 

[jester47]

The one that I found that makes great bardic lyrics is a poet named Algernon Charles Swinburn. In fact is someone is concerened about Rock and Roll in their game, obscure poetry is the best. Robert E. Howards Poems are good too.

Here are some cuts:

From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Then star nor sun shall waken,
Nor any change of light:
Nor sound of waters shaken,
Nor any sound or sight:
Nor wintry leaves nor vernal,
Nor days nor things diurnal;
Only the sleep eternal
In an eternal night.

Swinburn.

Heres a chunck of Howard:

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king.