Give me song some ideas, please

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I'm looking for song ideas. I find it easier to finish songs when writing to a succinct (1 or 2 lines)
theme. Help me out, and if I use your idea I'll thank you in the album credits when (if) my album comes
out. Here's what I have so far:

A man complains about a "shop of wonders" claw machine that refuses to pay up.

A wheelchair bound woman dreams of zooming down highways in the sky.

A jilted boyfriend misses his ex's CD collection.

A jazz fanatic wakes from a coma to discover, to his horror, that his favorite
LP's sound ugly and strange.

A serial killer reminisces.

Obituary: Each verse describes a different, real person.

An old man complains bitterly about political correctness.

A baby greets the world.

A martial artist is contacted by the spirit of Bruce Lee - and kicks it's butt.

I'm a budding singer/guitarist/songwriter. Here's a URL with my songs:
http://www.soundclick.com/righteousoxidemusic.htm
I actually sound way better than these recordings, which were made last summer.
They are all flawed and embarassing for one reason or another. Song 1 has messy overdubs,
song 2 has out of tune vocals in the middle 8, and songs 3-4 sound like crap (I've since
rewritten song 3 and eschewed song 4 as a throwaway.
Anyway, my next batch of demos will be way better.

Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 1 January 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The URL is ****ed but the subject still stands.

Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 1 January 2004 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I do like the jazz singer idea. What a creepy, strange concept.

Here's my suggestions:

A fireman and a surgeon swap stories in a bar, and discover they both harbour frightening messiah fantasies.

A single mother drams about mutilating herself and joining a travelling freak circus.

A singer imagines that she is a tree spirit who torments her ex-lover as a stranger in a veil who whispers strange prophesies, promises and professions of love and hatred.

A taxi driver finds a bag in his cab containing an orange, a card with a phone number, and a severed finger in his cab. Instead of reporting the bag and its contents to the police, he is compelled to lock it in a cabinet, where it begins to play on his mind as a series of elaborate stories which he begins to write down.

Sorry, they're all a bit bizarre but you know, I thought they had potential.

the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 1 January 2004 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

A man who spends his life worrying that he is going to fall down a manhole or just holes in general, then one day he almost falls into an uncovered manhole, but manages to avoid it, only for a piano to fall on top of him. It could be called "The Tragedy of Not Falling". You see the hole is a metaphor for what is missing from his life, as he never finds love coz he's worrying all the time.

jel -- (jel), Thursday, 1 January 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Carrot Top: A man sees only an enormous carrot when he looks at his reflection in the mirror. Nevertheless, women continue to find him irresistible.

Snow Motion: A falling snowflake, unique like all snowflakes, mourns at length and with suprising eloquence the loss the world will suffer when it hits the ground and melts.

Collective Leopards: A vicious pack of leopards, falling on hard times, take the decision to hunt collectively rather than alone.

Momus (Momus), Thursday, 1 January 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I Feel Violated - Mournful indignation from a copy of Depeche Mode's Violator that has been filed under the wrong band in HMV. It's been put in with Steely Dan and it feels "a thousand miles from home".

Intimate Broom - A mummy in the National History Museum falls in love with one of the cleaners, but being a mummy cannot act upon his passion.

Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 1 January 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

a man falls into a coma and when he awakes and sees his loved ones in the hospital room he's so suprised/happy that he has a heart attack and dies

hfdsj, Thursday, 1 January 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

A small child who dislikes making number 2 on the potty holds it in until his bowels explode. He grows up to be a man with no bowel and can consume only fluids, yet somehow still lives, albeit in a hollow existence devoid of the pleasures of taste.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 January 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Good, good, but more! I like the existential/anthropomorphic
ones best. And make them funnier, dammit!!!

the link works btw, if your curious but don't expect too
much.

Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Saturday, 3 January 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

An anthropomorphised rabbit complains to the cartoonist who created him that his feet are aching.

the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 3 January 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

A guy reads a thread on a website, and comes up with a really funny response. It makes him feel good.

Jole, Saturday, 3 January 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

a penguin, wracked with giult over having eaten the last fish on the ice floe, gets an audience with the Pope.

Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 4 January 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

haha best one yet.

Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 4 January 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

a black, a jew, and a puerto rican walk into a bar.

Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 4 January 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

a penguin, a manatee, and Dr. Gene Scott walk into a bar..

Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 4 January 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...
a man marries his pen. but soon falls in love with a pencil. because the relationship can always be refreshed like the first time they fell in love and when bad things in life happens or even death occurs it can be earased

, Friday, 16 April 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)


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