Talk:List of autobiographical songs

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This article was nominated for deletion on October 1, 2005. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

— JIP | Talk 08:04, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Self-promotion?

I removed entries that appeared to be self-promotion - an unsigned (and unlistened to judging by a lack of entries on last.fm) artist's entries with a link to an external website. Since pretty much all notable artists have Wikipedia articles, any entry that is a redlink starts looking suspicious. Average Earthman 10:41, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This list is completely useless

Probably something like 75% of the songs ever written are (or could be interpreted as) autobiographical to some extent. Why not make a list of all songs that feature guitars while you're at it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.86.74.135 (talk) 22:47, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I agree re: the uselessness of this list. Perhaps it would be useful if we modified the list. For starters, we could remove from the list all of the songs that don't directly reference one's self. I noticed a lot of songs that refer to persons in other bands, or persons who aren't even involved in music. Next we could remove all songs that don't tell an actual story. Nirvana's "Serve the Servants" may be autobiographical (and indeed is), but it doesn't tell a story in the same way that Cash's "A Boy Named Sue" (which does tell a story but is not actually autobiographical) does. This would be a large taske, and I'm personally not up for it. Allixpeeke 23:15, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Songs that don't belong

I see at least one that doesn't belong: "Live Like You Were Dying", by Tim McGraw, isn't autobiographical. McGraw agreed to do the song (which was written by someone else) because it reminded him of his own father's battle with cancer, but it wasn't written about his father and his father never reportedly did any of the things mentioned in the lyrics. Sweetalker79 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.7.83.12 (talk) 18:01, 14 February 2008 (UTC)