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"Walking down the road with a pistol in your waist..."
Posted by Sheev on 31 July 2010 - 10:47pm.
Rapscalions and ne'er do wells, cut-purses and shiv-wielders. Cold-eyed wise-guys and heartless harlots. Stick-up jobs, bar-room brawls and tales of bloody vengeance.
Music can't help itself but eulogise and glamourise tales of madness and grievous harm and darkness descending.
What are your favourite songs of bad deeds and the bad people who do them?
Here's one of mine - The Slickers: "Johnny Too Bad"
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Poor sound, but I do love Jimmy Jazz
Stagger Lee: the greatest outlaw song of them all?
Same bloke, completely different song
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee:
While I'm in a Cavey mood, have The Curse Of Milhaven too:
Then Came The Last Days Of May.
A BÖC song about a bunch of lads who tried to become dope dealers and miscalculated, ending up dead. A true story, apparently.
Probably darker still is Mountain's Nantucket Sleighride (for Owen Coffin)
A song about a whaling ship, sunk by a whale. The crew took to one of the ship's boats and survived by eating each other. Owen Coffin being one of those consumed.
Find me a song deeper and darker than that and you win a prize.
Not sure that's a prize I'd care to win Lenny - but -
how about a tale of multiple infanticide set to a jaunty rock riff?
The Decemberists: "The Rake's Song"
Frankie Teardop by Suicide
Is a song once heard, never forgotten."We are all Frankies" Brrr.
Aisha - Death in Vegas (Iggy Pop)
The Rolling Stones - 'Midnight Rambler'
"Agents of the law, luckless pedestrians"
always thought this conjures the image of a strangely jazzy stand off with John Q Law
Dan again. "Charlie Freak"
Death, drugs and 'ding-dongs'
Velvet Underground Sister Ray
Dillinger's dead
but Bernie Taupin paid tribute to the gangster-as-hero in this song: