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Stressors/Pressures of Everyday Life

As Iโ€™m coming to two years of the worst times of my life, both personally and professionally, Iโ€™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 Iโ€™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-

โ€We gotta get out of this placeโ€ by The Animals

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CALM DOWN BY TAYLOR  SWIFT

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Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones

I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty

Shame on the Moon - Bob Seger

Got Me under Pressure - ZZ Top

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pressure - billy joel

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"Take This Job and Shove It"........Johnny Paycheck!

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โ€œ We Didnโ€™t Start The Fire-Billy Joel

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Sitting on the Dock of the Bay..Otis Redding

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19TH NERVOUS BREAKDOWN - THE ROLLING STONES

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"Friday on My Mind" by the Easybeats.

"5 o'Clock World" by the Vogues.

"Workin' in the Coal Mine" by Lee Dorsey.

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Rolling Stones were having a couple of stressed-out days when they sang about having a 19th Nervous Breakdown and asking to send Dead Flowers.

 

[EDITED]  Apologies to @MaVolta who already mentioned having a 19th Nervous Breakdown. (Kudos. ๐Ÿ˜‰)  I should have doublechecked before jumping in willy-nilly, but It's My Party and I'll cry if I want to (as Lesley Gore bemoaned).

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@MsStretch wrote:

Rolling Stones were having a couple of stressed-out days when they sang about having a 19th Nervous Breakdown and asking to send Dead Flowers.

 

[EDITED]  Apologies to @MaVolta who already mentioned having a 19th Nervous Breakdown. (Kudos. ๐Ÿ˜‰)  I should have doublechecked before jumping in willy-nilly, but It's My Party and I'll cry if I want to (as Lesley Gore bemoaned).


@MsStretch  - Hey, no problem. Great song by the Stones, worth an extra mention!

โ€œWhen the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.โ€ - Jimi Hendrix
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Question by the Moody Blues

 

"Why do we never get an answer

When we're knocking at the door

With a thousand million questions 

About hate and death and war?

'Cause when we stop and look around us

There is nothing that we need

In a world of persecution

That is burning in its greed"......

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I Just Wasn't Made For These Times: Beach Boys

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Walls by Tom Petty

 

"Some days are diamonds,

some days are stones".......

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Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne 

 

"Crazy, but that's how it goes

Millions of people living as foes

Maybe it's not too late

To learn how to love and forget how to hate"......

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Patches: Dickey Lee (rich boy's parents forbid him from seeing poor girl; he doesn't show up to meet her; she thinks he no longer loves her; she jumps into the dirty old river and drowns; rich boy finds out and will join her that night. Sad story of stress leading to teenage suicides).

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Empty Garden (Hey hey Johnny) by Sir Elton

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Rag Doll: Four Seasons (she probably had more than her share of stress).

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This train don't stop there anymore by Sir Elton

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Back on my Feet Again by The Babys 

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Wish you were here by Pink Floyd

"How I wish,how I wish you were here,

We're just two lost souls

Swimming in a fish bowl

Year after year".....

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"I Go To Extremes" Billy Joel 

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Gimme some truth by John Lennon

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It Can Happen by Yes 

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Working class hero by John Lennon

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Two Lovers: Mary Wells (dating a guy with [as Mary describes it] a split personality must be somewhat stressful... interesting, but stressful).

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I Who Have Nothing: Ben E. King (pressing his nose up against the window of a fancy restaurant looking at some rich guy having dinner with the girl he loves but will never get....that's stress).

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Tragedy by The Bee Gees. Totally different song then the Thomas Wayne tune mentioned earlier. 
"In a world of tears I slowly drown".......

"When you lose control and you got no soul"........

"With no one to love you, you're goin' nowhere".....

Love causes a ton of stress, in my book second only to money or the lack of it..........

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Go to sleep by Roxette. RIP Marie Fredriksson, half of the duo, who died Monday after a 17 year battle with brain cancer. Performed until 2016. An amazing person with an amazing voice.

"And life's a tough principal who won't reward the losers, your name is on the tea cup, There's nothing I can do".......

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Tragedy: Thomas Wayne

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Steppin' Stone by the Monkees. Classic song about the stress of a crappy relationship then being tossed aside after you are used

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