Friday night is songs with death in them night

[threebikesmcginty]

Here's a modern classic, nobody does death like a C&W artist -

Nice one, Dwight is such a great live act - wish he'd play here more.

 

[Ash28]

Billy Austin by Steve Earle

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Didn't mean to hurt nobody
Never thought I'd cross that line
I held up a filling station
Like I'd done a hundred times
The kid done like I told him
He lay face down on the floor
guess I'll never know what made me
Turn and walk back through that door
The shot rang out like thunder
My ears rang like a bell
No one came runnin'
So I called the cops myself

 

[slowmotion]

"Pilgrim". Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAmBkQDAUh4&feature=related

 

[threebikesmcginty]

If Townes Van Zandt's 'Flyin' Shoes' don't choke the livin' shoot out of you, you're already dead...

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[Smokin Joe]

Benny Hill's "Ernie" ends in the sad death of the hero.

And here's the Stones with one about an imminent death -


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBm-cD9WopQ

 

[sheddy]

Ah Delilah, heres an excellent camped up version by the Alex Harvey Band -
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnG_-7mgCBE&feature=related

 

[P.H]

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Papa Won't Leave You Henry.

Nick cave has a whole collection of murder ballads, a whole album full;


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_Ballads

And then there's his interpretation of Mack the Knife;


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3_2zbZwDlM


Which reminded me of the oddest collaboration I've ever seen, Cave, Pogues and Kylie sing Death is not the end;


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am1kJM823Vk

 

[spesh]

"1916" shows that there's more to Motorhead than playing the blues very fast.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqFoqtpUFY8


Just about everyone dies in this one.

 

[Foghat]

Lost on Highway 46

Countless people think Sham 69 was all about Hurry Up Harry-type songs. Of course, in reality they knocked several albums of high calibre music.

From the off, the very first drum beat tells you it's going to be a cracking bit of of pile-driving Brit-punk: and Jimmy Pursey's outstanding voice is in full shouting magnificence (shame he abandoned his more usual English accent, though....).

Further proof, not that it's needed, of Sham's brilliance:

Lord of the Flies
Borstal Breakout
Cold Blue in the Night
The Game
That's Life
In and Out
Fly Dark Angel

 

[slowmotion]

And here's the Stones with one about an imminent death -

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=CBm-cD9WopQ

That was good. I always assumed it was Mick Taylor on guitar, but apparantly it was Ry Cooder. Well I never.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Nick cave has a whole collection of murder ballads, a whole album full;


http://en.wikipedia..../Murder_Ballads

And then there's his interpretation of Mack the Knife;

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=-3_2zbZwDlM

Which reminded me of the oddest collaboration I've ever seen, Cave, Pogues and Kylie sing Death is not the end;

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Am1kJM823Vk

Interesting version of mac the knife, I like this version by Ella Fitzgerald
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vXAtVbZbkI&feature=related

 

[craigwend]

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[Foghat]

Superb Bonzos track:

Bad Blood

Musically, it gets very nice at 1'09" and then again at 4'54". Utter class!

 

[mr_cellophane]

Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays

Twinkle - Terry There are some odd facts on Wikipedia about that - Jimmy Page was a session musician and Twinkle went to school with Camilia (Duchess of Cornwall)

 

[User169]

Mutton Birds - A Thing Well Made

Oblique reference to the Aramoana massacre in New Zealand.