I actually put together a mix tape back in the early 90's of U2 songs I thought made a nice story. I no longer have it and I'm left with little recollection of what it was going to be about, but I do recall one storyline about a female drug addict. Her friend was to sing Running to Stand Still about her, and my favorite U2 song (Bad) was involved in this storyline as well.
Title character of Janie, who loses her virginity to her Uncle Salty. She learns to overcome the trauma and sings of having "young lust" but feels undesirable, like she has been used....
oh, the genius it would be. I love Aerosmith
EDIT: MEATLOAF. BAT OUT OF HELL I would die ♥
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She really needs a couple of more albums out before she can really be concidered, but all of Amy Winehouse's music (so far) has a very strong foundation for storytelling. I've been going over in my head how I could make a smaller musical using her songs work in my head.
I'm going with mateo on the Mama's and the Papa's. Actually, maybe they could musicalize Beautiful Thing with their tunes. I also was thinking of a musical of the song Delta Dawn using Bette Midler tunes (that would be tough, of course, since they're all written by different songwriters, mostly) Also a Carole King musical.
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