Stressors/Pressures of Everyday Life

[BeatleloverKT]

As I’m coming to two years of the worst times of my life, both personally and professionally, I’ve noticed there are a lot of rock songs out there that deal with the Stressors/Pressures of everyday life. I thought it would be a great topic to explore. Songs with pressure in the title are obvious, but I’m hoping this will bring out other, more subtle songs that address these issues. I will start with one of my all time favorites in this area-

”We gotta get out of this place” by The Animals

[BeatleloverKT]

Growing Pains by Alessia Cara. She sings about the complex emotions that come from managing day to day adult stress. I am pretty sure she wrote it about me because it hits the nail on the head about my life 

[MaVolta]

Everybody's Broken - Bon Jovi

[BeatleloverKT]

@MaVolta  OMG another song written for me! Love the message! While we're on the Bonjovi track, I give you One Step Closer by them also

[1968Hoya46]

Uptown: Roy Orbison

Uptown: The Crystals

(Two different songs, but each conveys the pressures and stress faced by the "little guy" in the big city. Roy's little guy is a bellhop who fantasizes about getting rich and hooking up with the woman in the penthouse. The Crystal's little guy becomes a big guy after he returns to his uptown home after a soul-crushing workday downtown). Interesting how the word "uptown" has a different meaning in each song. 

[MaVolta]

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@1968Hoya46 wrote:

Uptown: Roy Orbison

Uptown: The Crystals

(Two different songs, but each conveys the pressures and stress faced by the "little guy" in the big city. Roy's little guy is a bellhop who fantasizes about getting rich and hooking up with the woman in the penthouse. The Crystal's little guy becomes a big guy after he returns to his uptown home after a soul-crushing workday downtown). Interesting how the word "uptown" has a different meaning in each song. 

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And this one . . . She'll soon be tired of her uptown guy and he will be successful and win her over . . .

Uptown Girl - Billy Joel

[MaVolta]

19th Nervous Breakdown - Rolling Stones

[Butterfly565]

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@MaVolta wrote:

19th Nervous Breakdown - Rolling Stones

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Ahh...with the above...I think it's a doorway to:

Eric Clapton ~ "Breaking Point"

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[BeatleloverKT]

Walk a thin line by the Mac

[MaVolta]

Someday Never Comes - CCR

And in a similar vein . . . 

Teach Your Children - CSN&Y

[BeatleloverKT]

Heavy by Collective Soul

[BeatleloverKT]

Everybody Hurts by REM

[MaVolta]

We Can Work It Out - The Beatles

[BeatleloverKT]

Land of Confusion by Genesis

[cm9889168]

"Against The Wind" 

          by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBJRD1VkxmI

[BeatleloverKT]

Someone saved my life tonight by Sir Elton

[Butterfly565]

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@BeatleloverKT wrote:

Someone saved my life tonight by Sir Elton

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Kudos to you @BeatleloverKT  with your introduction I'll add:

"Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word" by Sir Elton John! 

[MaVolta]

Turn! Turn! Turn! - Pete Seeger

Best known version by The Byrds, recorded in various styles by many artists. 

[BeatleloverKT]

Let it be by the Fab 4️⃣ No one describes heartache and trouble (among other things) like the Beatles

[1968Hoya46]

Idiot Wind: Dylan (the story [to put it mildly] of a bumpy relationship).

[BeatleloverKT]

Never going back again by the Mac

[1968Hoya46]

Movin' On: Billy Joel (he critiques what he sees as the destructive obsession with "getting ahead" [working multiple jobs, not having a real life, not enjoying what you have] just to buy that metaphorical Cadillac and have just enough energy and health left to polish its fenders, but not enough to drive it).

[BeatleloverKT]

It don’t come easy by Ringo Starr

[1968Hoya46]

I Won't Back Down: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

[BeatleloverKT]

Stressed Out by Twenty One Pilots

[MaVolta]

To Daddy - Emmylou Harris

This is a touching song about a father left to raise his children when his wife leaves suddenly, but his wife never gave him a clue that she was so unhappy - a failure to communicate. 

[BeatleloverKT]

All those years ago by George Harrison. His ode to John Lennon but he sings about much more then that

[1968Hoya46]

Richard Cory: S&G (life's stresses and pressures fall both on the rich and the non-rich.

[BeatleloverKT]

Angry young man by Billy Joel

[MaVolta]

As Tears Go By - Rolling Stones

[BeatleloverKT]

Unwell by Matchbox Twenty