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• What It's Like (Schrody)
  BIO: Everlast
  HIST: 90's Music Scene, Homelessness (esp. Los Angeles), Teen Pregnancy, Social Stigmas

• Polly (Cobain)
  MARXIST: Curt Cobain; Nirvana
  CULT: Rapists, Torture victims;
  HIST:Actual Event

• Ball and Chain (Ness)
  BIO: Mike Ness; Social Distortion
  HIST: Grunge Scene; Psychology of Self-destruction; Alcoholism

• Precious Things (Amos)
  BIO: Tori Amos, esp. childhood and young adulthood
  HIST: New Women's Movement; Sexual Roles in 90's; Socialization of Adolescents

• Cross Road Blues (Johnson)
  BIO: Robert Johnson
  HIST: Racism in South in 60's; Mysticism and Devil Images in American Culture; Theory of Redemption in Western Culture; Blues Music in America

• Big River (Cash)
  BIO: Johnny Cash
  HIST: Mississippi River Culture; Riverboat Culture; Geography of Mississippi River

• Okie from Muskogee (Haggard)
  BIO: Merle Haggard
  HIST: Conservative Response to Counter-culture; Hippie Movement; Politics in late 60's/early 70's

• Like a Rolling Stone (Dylan)
  BIO: Bob Dylan
  HIST: Protest Movement; Beat Culture; Politics in late 60's Early 70's; Folk Music of the 60's

• Sam Stone (Prine)
  BIO: John Prine
  HIST: Vietnam War; Heroin/addiction; Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome

• Livin For the City/Superstition (Wonder)
  MARX: Stevie Wonder
  HIST: 60's- 70's Inner City Culture; Female Stereotypes

• Superfly (Mayfield)
  MARX: Curtis Mayfield
  HIST: 60's - 70's Inner City Culture; 70's Drug Culture;

• Big Yellow Taxi (Mitchell)
  BIO: Joni Mitchell
  HIST: 70's Environmentalism; DDT; Urbanization of America; Car Culture in America

• Do It Again (Becker/Fagan)
  BIO: Donald Fagan; Walter Becker; Steely Dan
  HIST: East Coast Ivy League Intellectualism; Moral Relativism

• Flight of Icarus (Smith, Dickinson)
  BIO: Smith, Iron Maiden
  HIST: Mythology; Early Metal Movement

• Paranoid (Ozborne/Ward/Butler/Iommi)
  BIO: Ozzy Ozborne; Black Sabbath
  HIST: Poverty in 50's/60's England; Classism in English Educational System; Manic Depression; Alcoholism

• A Day in the Life (Lennon/McCartney)
  BIO: John Lennon; Paul McCartney
  HIST: Social Complacency; Desensitization of a Populace; Bureaucracy

• Come Together (Lennon/McCartney)
  BIO: John Lennon; Paul McCartney; The Beatles
  HIST: Social Complacency; Politics of late 60's, Drug Culture of late 60's

• Dogs (Gilmour/Waters)
  BIO: Roger Waters; Pink Floyd
  HIST: Corporate Business; Business Ethics

• Sheep (Gilmour/Waters)
  BIO: Roger Waters; Pink Floyd
  HIST: Social Complacency; Psychology of Terror; Psychology

• Throwing Stones (Barlow/Weir)
  BIO: Bob Weir; J. P. Barlow; Grateful Dead
  HIST: Environmental Movement of 80's and 90's; World Affairs during 80's and 90's; Rainforest Action Network

• Truckin (Hunter)
  BIO: Robert Hunter; Grateful Dead
  HIST: Rock and Roll Lifestyle in '70's, Psychology of Stardom; Drug/Psychedelic Movement; Merry Pranksters; Acid Tests

• White Rabbit (Slick)
  BIO: Grace Slick; Jefferson Airplane; Great Society
  HIST: Drug/Psychedelic movement; Hippies, Haight/Ashbury; Acid Tests

• Gangsta's Paradise (Coolio)
  Marxist: Coolio's Beliefs
  HIST: Gang Culture of Los Angeles; Effect of Television on Culture and Expectations; Gangsta Rap; Violence in Inner Cities

• It Was a Good Day (Ice Cube)
  Marxist: Jackson's Beliefs
  HIST: Gang Culture of Los Angeles; Gangsta Rap; Violence in Inner Cities

• Dear Mama (Tupac Shakur)
  BIO: Shakur's Life
  Marxist: Shakur's Beliefs
  HIST: Gang Culture ; Gangsta Rap; Violence in Inner Cities, Homelessness, Dug Addiction, Single Parent Families

• Song Remains the Same/Rain Song (Page/Plant)
  BIO: Robert Plant; Jimmy Page; Led Zeppelin
  HIST: Rock and Roll Lifestyle in '70's; Psychology of Stardom

• Life's Been Good (Walsh)
  BIO: Joe Walsh; The Eagles; The James Gang (band)
  HIST: Rock and Roll Lifestyle in '70's; Psychology of Stardom

• John Henry (Mitchell/traditional)
  
  HIST: Biography of John Henry; Mythology in America; Building of railroads in 1800's; Racism; Mechanization of America

• El Paso (Robbins)
  BIO: Marty Robbins' life, esp. childhood
  HIST: Cowboy and western mythology and archetypes; Stereotypes of west and Mexico;

• Streets of Laredo (traditional)
  BIO: Cowboy literature and poetry
  HIST: Cowboy and western mythology and archetypes; Stereotypes of West vs. Actual Lifestyles in West

© T. T. Eiland, January 1998
Last modified: March 30, 2000