Disastrous Songs

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In honor of this year's presidential election, the Loudini Rock & Roll Circus counts down Ten songs about natural and unnatural disasters.

 

 

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Riding the Storm Out... Richrath's love of booze, on a songwriting an boozing trip to the rockies

 

Rock you Like  A Hurricane... sexual metaphor... also an actual hurricane theme song if you live on the gulf coast, rip off of "no one like you"

 

Gimme Shelter... caused Merry Clayton to have a miscarriage. Brian Jones was present butt didn't play. metaphor for his drug addiction

some of the "stormy " events that inpsired the song from that era: These are the previous years events in 1968 that led to this song.

 

The assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy

 

The Black Power salute by African American athletes at the Olympics

 

Student protests start the Polish political crisis

 

The Prague Spring. Election of a communist leader

 

Vietnam. The My Lai massacre and the start there of the Tet Offensive

 

Demonstration against the Vietnam war in London Grosvenor Square 91 injured

 

Student protest at Howard university Washington DC

 

French students occupy the admin building of Nanterre University almost bringing another French Revolution

 

Paris student riots

 

Black Panthers shootout with police in Oakland

 

Martin Luther king shot dead

 

German students blockade the Springer Press HQ

 

Columbia University students shut down the university

 

Andy Warhol shot by a feminist

 

African American militants engage in a shootout in Ohio

 

Biggest military invasion since WW2 into Czechoslovakia due to the Warsaw Pact

 

Anti war protesters clash with police in Chicago

 

Power to a military junta in Greece

 

Student demos in Mexico City end in a huge bloodbath

 

Military coup d’etat In Panama

 

Human rights demo in Derry Ireland

 

Highjack of Pam Am flight from JFK to Cuba

 

Israeli forces attack Beirut Airport

It's the end of the world as we know it... actually about debating

 

Riders on the Storm... influenced by the Ida Lupino film Hitch-hiker

 

When the Levee Breaks...

 

Nobody's Fault... Aerosmith... earth quake

 

Aenima... Tool.. about natural disaster

 

Bad Moon Rising... CCR

 

Never Go Back... Evanescence