Gun Songs
Posted by Springer Bell on 12 September 2008 - 11:31am.
Listened to Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic and forgot how good this is.
Then I thought of Kenny Rogers
and wondered how many great Gun Songs can we get?
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Do you feel lucky punk?
Your Nirvanna is disabled
But there is another one out there in You Tube Gun Land.
Jimi Hendrix
Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
(I seem obsessed with PE - everytime someone asks this sort of question I seem to find a track from Nation Of Millions....)
Just when I was wondering how to fill THIS lunch-hour...
Steve Earle - The Devil's Right Hand
Cosmic Rough Riders - The Gun Isn't Loaded
Prefab Sprout - Machine Gun Ibiza
Prefab Sprout - The Gunman
Robert Cray - Smoking Gun
Squeeze - Annie Get Your Gun
Steely Dan - With A Gun
Suzy Bogguss - Under The Gun
The Boy Least Likely To - Sleeping With a Gun Under My Pillow
The Clash - The Guns of Brixton
The Commodores - Machine Gun
Dave Edmunds - Jo Jo Gunne
Warren Zevon - Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns And Money
Wham! - Young Guns (Go For It)
The Alarm - 68 Guns
James Taylor - Machine Gun Kelly
Rodney Atkins - Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)
Sleepy La Beef - Gunslinger
Jenny Lewis - The Big Guns
The Beatles - Happiness Is A Warm Gun
All pretty-good-to-great, I think.
Cash
More guns
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Saturday Night Special
Neil Young - Powderfinger
Tom Waits - 15 Shells From a 30-Ought-Six
Gangsta ska
Guns of Navarone - the Skatalites
Uzi (Pinky Ring) - Wu Tang Clan
Richard Thompson corner
Guns are the Tongues.
There's also my favourite gun song. I give you, The Beat Farmers!
Has The Wire Made us forget this ? Plus ROY C
Jr Walker and the All Stars
"Man With A Smoking Gun" by Gretschen Hofner:
Long forgotten London lounge rockabillies:
Buy their underrated album here, featuring the brilliant "Betty Page Is Back":
http://tinyurl.com/5w7s2n
Just remembered
this one :