Self referential songs

[Chris from Fieldtown]

John Lennon's Mother is one of the most harrowing personal songs. The whole Plastic Ono Band album is his story at the time.

Again, though, there's a distinction between the autobiographical song, which would be probably more than half of the songs ever written, and the self-referential song, which would be more typically refer to an artist's public life rather than their private life.  The best example I can think of would be band songs about the band.

Jules

Thanks Jules, I didn't really take in fully what the thread title meant. I stand corrected!

[Jules Gray]

Thanks Jules, I didn't really take in fully what the thread title meant. I stand corrected!

It's just my take on it. I didn't mean to come over all professorial, like.

Jules

[Alan2]

We - The Roches

Yes!

[PLW (Peter)]

The Ballad of John and Yoko, anyone?

Re Fairport, The Crowd. Not written by them but about the festival.

[Roger Thorpe]

Can I offer you a song that is about itself?
Signed Curtain by Rober Wyatt...

This is the first verse
This is the first verse
This is the first verse, the first, the first
And this is the first verse, verse, first verse
And this is the first verse, verse
This is the first verse

And this is the chorus
Or perhaps it's a bridge
Or just another part of the song that I'm singing

[Chris from Fieldtown]

I discovered Al Stewart's Love Chronicles at the same time as Faitrport's History album and it was unlike anything else I had heard at the time. It covered almost a whole side of an album and used the word F***ing which was a little shocking at the time. I can still listen fondly to this and remember the hours I spent trying to play along on my first acoustic guitar, one of the reasons I learned to play I guess.

[Jules Gray]

I discovered Al Stewart's Love Chronicles at the same time as Fairport's History album and it was unlike anything else I had heard at the time. It covered almost a whole side of an album and used the word F***ing which was a little shocking at the time. I can still listen fondly to this and remember the hours I spent trying to play along on my first acoustic guitar, one of the reasons I learned to play I guess.

Wasn't it the first "pop" record to drop the F bomb?

Jules

[Alan2]

I discovered Al Stewart's Love Chronicles at the same time as Fairport's History album and it was unlike anything else I had heard at the time. It covered almost a whole side of an album and used the word F***ing which was a little shocking at the time. I can still listen fondly to this and remember the hours I spent trying to play along on my first acoustic guitar, one of the reasons I learned to play I guess.

Wasn't it the first "pop" record to drop the F bomb?

Jules

Said to be,  yes.

[Bob Barrows]

I discovered Al Stewart's Love Chronicles at the same time as Fairport's History album and it was unlike anything else I had heard at the time. It covered almost a whole side of an album and used the word F***ing which was a little shocking at the time. I can still listen fondly to this and remember the hours I spent trying to play along on my first acoustic guitar, one of the reasons I learned to play I guess.

Wasn't it the first "pop" record to drop the F bomb?

Jules

So the Fish Cheer doesn't count?

[Bob Barrows]

I discovered Al Stewart's Love Chronicles at the same time as Fairport's History album and it was unlike anything else I had heard at the time. It covered almost a whole side of an album and used the word F***ing which was a little shocking at the time. I can still listen fondly to this and remember the hours I spent trying to play along on my first acoustic guitar, one of the reasons I learned to play I guess.

Wasn't it the first "pop" record to drop the F bomb?

Jules

Would The Fugs count?
“Supergirl” from 1965 with “i want a girl that can f*** (fug?) like an angel”

[StephenB]

That rather self-obsessed (IMHO) singer/talker/woffler Denise Chaila one whinging about people who can't spell her name. How would they know if they've never heard of her?