What is a story in a song that would make a good movie?

Pinball wizard

Bob Dylan - Hurricane (which actually became a movie starring Denzel Washington in 1999).

That song is amazing!

American Pie - Don McLean

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

That damned albatross!
different genre but related is "the mariner's revenge song"

Coheed and Cambria has entered the chat

I just don't know, man.
I think their songs would make for interesting comics, though!

I always imagine All Along the Watchtower as a 1980's fantasy movie along the lines of Red Sonya or The Beastmaster.

Nice try, Hollywood

Drat! You got me!

Several rush songs. 2112, Hemispheres, cygnus x-1

Tom Petty, running down a dream.

Alice's Restaurant Massacree

Watsky, et al - Exquisite Corpse

For best results this should be cheesy B-movie as hell, the song really leans into it I think

Each verse could be a chapter in a anthology movie, written and directed by different people
- That's essentially how they wrote the song, so yeah! I can see it. I'd watch this.
Dude I don't think I've ever seen Watsky mentioned outside of his own comment sections. You a real one for that.
Love my guy, George.
- Love my guy George. Listening to Cardboard Castles got me through a really rough time in my life and I don't expect to ever be able to repay it. Least I can do is to spread the word.
Mmm... Cheesey...

Dream Theater - Metropolis.
Alternatively, Metropolis pt II - Scenes from a Memory, if you find an ambitious producer.

Honestly Scenes from a Memory would make a great movie, and now I have to go listen to it again

Yours Truly, 2095 - Electric Light Orchestra
Underneath the Radar - Underworld
Silent Running - Mike and the Mechanics

I'd love to see a movie based on Silent Running. But I'm afraid it's shaping out to be a documentary...
(The existing movie of the same name has nothing in common with the song, but it's worth watching anyway.)
- Yes, Wikipedia says:
  Rutherford named the song after the film Silent Running "because I remembered that film so well, and our song had a spacey feel to it."

Space Oddity Wellerman

Tool-Lost keys/Rosetta stoned. Maybe the stoner really did see something out in the desert.

Alrighty then... picture this if you will

Tarkus. Giant monsters battling is always fun.

The Mariner's Revenge by The Decemberists

38 years old - The Tragically Hip
Tweeter and the Monkey Man (Travelling Wilburys original or The Headstones cover of it)

Rhapsody, the band all of their songs progressively tell an epic story that I would love to see in movie form.

Alternatively Nightfall in Middle-Earth from Blind Guardian, love the Silmarillion would love to see a movie about it.

Seether - Love Her
Slipknot - Killpop

Dispatch - the general

Ooh that would be super interesting

Fastball's The Way!

They're old...

Whiskey Lullaby maybe

Phish - Gamehenge

Eat. Sleep. Rave. Repeat. https://youtu.be/wBoRkg5-Ieg.

Peter Jones - Kilkelly (Ireland), it also has an interesting backstory

It's very sad, but indicative of the time.

I wouldn't mind seeing what they could do with "East River Revolution" by District 7

Tweeter and the Monkeyman

100%. I always thought I was alone in thinking it.

King for a 1000 years, Helloween

Die Fantastischen Vier - Krieger could make an interesting piece or art piece.

It's German, here's the first lyrics translation weblink I found

Dead Flag Blues. By Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Everything I Wanted - Billie Eilish

I feel like you could do a really dark Scrooge themed story from it.

Jacob’s dream: based on a true story of two kids who went missing.

The night the lights went out in Georgia: about a guy who gets lynched.

18 and life: kid finishes school and starts doing crime

Def leopard billys got a gun

Filthy children!

Learn your history!!

https://youtu.be/JN_xXTI5Txo

Cologne by incubus would make a pretty wild b-movie

Badger Badger

Harry Chapin's "What Made America Famous?" got an unsuccessful musical, but never a film. In a modern update, the song's "hippies" are instead gutter punks squatting an abandoned building, and the fat plumber is the one non-MAGA in the town's volunteer fire department.

"Heart of a dancer" by the happy fits could make a fun tenacious d sort of movie

"Hell's comin' with me" by poor man's poison would be a classic revenge western

"Big town banky blaine's rockabilly barbeque" by bear ghost could be an interesting look at class war if you could pull it off

Oh and "A tale they won't believe" by captain tractor for man turning to cannibalism to survive

Oh and “A tale they won’t believe” by captain tractor for man turning to cannibalism to survive
Holy shit. Never expected to find another person who has heard of Captain Tractor on Lemmy of all places. They have a long history with me and my college years (late nineties, early 2000s)
- I prefer the captain tractor version of the last saskatchewan pirate that's how I found the band but the other song came up on it's own through spotify recommendations