Friday night is songs with death in them night

[Yellow Fang]

Songs where one of the protagonists die. Traditional murder ballads are often top quality IMO, but there's a few pop songs with premature demise in them too.

Hello, This is Joannie.

 

[Kirstie]

'Fly on the Windscreen' by Depeche Mode, first line 'death is everywhere....':

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=4dBtfeoXM8I

And also Lesley Ann Levine by the Decemberists. Really happy lyrics (not).


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml0VI8VZO2U&feature=related

 

[661-Pete]

Schubert's your man here. Someone dies in nearly all his songs - no, I'll re-phrase that: I mean lots of his songs are about characters dying, not that someone in the audience dies from listening to his songs......

Most sinister, in my mind, is The Erl-King.

 

[slowmotion]

"The Leader of the Pack" by The Shangri-Las

A 1964 classic.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhKpxJea64A

 

[accountantpete]

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[slowmotion]

Alberto Y Lost Trios Pananoias, Snuff Rock


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrQi66kxd-I

 

[User169]

Here you go. Birgit Nilsson giving it some as Isolde - remember she's already been at it for close on 4 hours before she gets to this bit.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6vtug-fTHc&feature=related

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Johnny Paycheck at his loony best - top steel guitar from Lloyd Green and fine piano work, probably Hargus 'Pig' Robbins. Lovely stuff, bet 60s Nashville thought this was great...


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[badkitty]

A bit tenuous, but topical..


Hanoi Rocks - Dead by Christmas (You Tube)

 

[User169]

Nilsson again giving it some welly this time as Brunnhilde just about to ride her horse into the funeral pyre.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=146tTKSXu7s&feature=related

 

[Yellow Fang]

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I stopped that song at about 7:15.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Dale Watson 'Sweet Jesse Brown' - Austin, Texas finest. Class act as I'm sure y'all agree...

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[Yellow Fang]

How about some old timey, Appalachian death folk (Willie Moore)

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Classic cowboy song by Marty Robbins. Love the description of the Gun fight at the end, I can almost smell the gun smoke and taste the dust.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=iGmUsJvRv7U

And another by Marty Robbins

El Passo


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o1oizc4_3I

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I picked a stick up off the ground
And knocked that fair girl down;

She fell down on her bended knees
For mercy she did cry
Oh, Willie dear, don't kill me here
I'm unprepared to die
She never spoke another word
I only beat her more
Until the ground around me
Within her blood did flow.

I took her by her golden curls
And I drug her 'round and 'round
Throwing her into the river
That flows through Knoxville town

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Charming song...