Songs About Crime

[Pomai]

OK, so far we've covered songs about planets (http://www.hawaiithreads.com/showthread.php?t=13706), songs that roll, float or fly (http://www.hawaiithreads.com/showthread.php?t=13571), and songs about food (http://www.hawaiithreads.com/showthread.php?t=12321).

Now let's bring in the HT Police and submit songs about crime... :eek: ....

• Thief of Hearts* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuAPp3LqwoQ) - Madonna

• Smooth Criminal* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WjOn5TNjBM) - Michael Jackson

• Bad Boys* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LN_oeLlCQU) - Inner Circle

• Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQAdfFFp-3c) - AC/DC

• Jailhouse Rock* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc5sDt4ppnE) - Elvis "The King" Presley

*YouTube video

[Miulang]

I Shot the Sheriff-Bob Marley
Killing Me Softly With His Song-Roberta Flack
Excitable Boy-Warren Zevon
You're Gonna Kill that Girl-The Ramones
Ruby (Don't Take Your Love to Town)-Kenny Rogers
I Fought the Law-The Clash
Saturday Night Special-Lynrd Skynrd
Same Old Song and Dance-Aerosmith

Almost any country western ballad!:D

Miulang

[DannyWilliams]

Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?
A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
Michael Sembello - Maniac

[Frankie's Market]

Breaking The Law - Judas Priest
Murder By Numbers - Police
I Fought The Law - Bobby Fuller Four
Steal Away - Robbie DuPree
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde - Georgie Fame
Happiness is a Warm Gun - Beatles
Run For Your Life - Beatles
Maxwell's Silver Hammer - Beatles
Rape Me - Nirvana
With A Gun - Steely Dan
Don't Take Me Alive - Steely Dan
Kid Charlemagne - Steely Dan
Folsom Prison Blues- Johnny Cash
Cop Killer - Body Count
Renegade - Styx
Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi
Bad - Michael Jackson
Gallows Pole - Led Zeppelin
Hurricane - Bob Dylan
Midnight Special - Leadbelly
Tom Dooley - Kingston Trio
Tweeter & the Monkey Man - Traveling Wilburys
Bad. Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce

[LovinLK]

Freedom Road - Lee Kernaghan
Three Chain Road - Lee Kernaghan
Murder on Music Row - George Strait & Alan Jackson
Knoxville Girl
Highway Patrol - Junior Brown
Branded Man - Merle Haggard
Sing Me Back Home - Merle Haggard
Darwin Jailhouse Window - Lee Kernaghan
In the Jailhouse Now - Jimmy Rodgers
Birmingham Jail - many artists
Whisky Lullabye - Brad Paisley & Alison Krause

[mel]

Give Up Your Guns - The Buoys
El Paso - Marty Robbins
The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun - Julie Brown
Bang Bang My Baby Shot Him Down - Cher
The Thunder Rolls - Garth Brooks
Lawyers Guns & Money - Warren Zevon
Have Mercy on the Criminal - Elton John
Criminal - Fiona Apple
Rape Me - Nirvana
Date Rape - Sublime
Beg Borrow or Steal - Ohio Express
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Gene Pitney
I Shot the Sheriff - Eric Clapton
Magneto & Titanium Man - Paul McCartney & Wings
Murder in My Heart for the Judge - Three Dog Night
Murder or a Heart Attack - Old 97s
Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson
Back on the Chain Gang - The Pretenders
Run Run Run - Jo Jo Gunne
Run Joey Run - David Geddes
Theme From SWAT - Rhythm Heritage
Take the Money & Run - Steve Miller Band
Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer - Elmo & Patsy

TV theme songs used on crime shows

Hawaii Five-0 - Mort Stevens / The Ventures
Miami Vice - Jan Hammer
Runaway - Del Shannon (on "Crime Story")
Who Are You, Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who (CSI series)

many others.

[Pomai]

Wow, you folks really went through the file cabinet on this one. Awesome!

One more from top-of-mind...

• The Prisoner* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tb8Jo11uGo) - Iron Maiden

*YouTube video

[mel]

Not really a song, but by the J. Geils Band - "No Anchovies Please".

[Mike_Lowery]

Ice Cube
"AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted"
"Jackin' for Beats"
"Steady Mobbin"
"Look Who's Burnin"
"I Wanna Kill Sam"
"When Will They Shoot?"
"Now I Gotta Wet 'Cha"
"Penitentiary"
"Smoke Some Weed"
"Stop Snitchin"

Notorious B.I.G.
"Gimme the Loot"
"Machine Gun Funk" (song with same title also by The Commodores)
"Ten Crack Commandments"
"You're Nobody ('til Somebody Kills You)"
"Who Shot Ya"

2pac
"16 on Death Row"

DMX
"Crime Story"
"Dope Money"
"Weed, Hoes, Dough"
"Rob All Night"

[mel]

The hip-hop world is full of crime ridden songs... so thanks for helping us old timers fill that void. I'm sure on this topic hip hop music wins out by thousands of songs over any and all other genres.

[Mike_Lowery]

The hip-hop world is full of crime ridden songs... so thanks for helping us old timers fill that void. I'm sure on this topic hip hop music wins out by thousands of songs over any and all other genres.
Some of the titles seem violent, but when you listen to the lyrics you discover that it's a metaphor. Conversely, some innocent-sounding titles have violent hidden meanings (i.e. 2pac's "Me and My Girlfriend").

[craigwatanabe]

Smoking in the Boy's Room
Me and Julio (Down by the Schoolyard)
Your Momma Don't Dance (And your Daddy don't rock and roll)
Who is the Lolo that stole my Pakalolo:D

[modpirate]

Is it a Crime - Sade
Janie's Got a Gun - Aerosmith
Midnight Rider - Allman Brothers
Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
Bad Company - Bad Company
18 and Life -Skid Row
Ride Like the Wind - Cristopher Cross
Green Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones
Jojo - Boz Scaggs

[lavagal]

Boomtown Rats: "I Don't Like Mondays."

[mel]

A few more....

Convoy - C.W. McCall
Uneasy Rider - Charlie Daniels
Before He Cheats (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG6KRG8AN_w)- Carrie Underwood
In the Jailhouse Now - Johnny Cash; Soggy Bottom Boys; others
One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
I'm a Lonesome Fujitive - Merle Haggard
Lily Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts - Bob Dylan
Smackwater Jack - Carole King
Ticking - Elton John
Stealin' - Uriah Heap
Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves - Cher
Outlaw Man - The Eagles
Desperado - The Eagles; Linda Ronstadt
Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen

Anyone want to compile a list of crimes all of these songs are associated with?

[Pomai]

Is it a Crime - SadeBy far one of Sade's best songs. Talk about intense!

Wow, you folks continue to bring up stuff I surely would've never thought of!

A few more not mentioned yet...

• The Gambler* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmzAkAubzTs) - Kenny Rogers

• Prodigal Son* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUsibOlkt-o) - Iron Maiden (<---- IMO, one of I.M.'s best-written songs)

• Cocaine* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnn1dDVmZyQ) - Eric Clapton

• Snowblind* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkbMd3Bygzs) - Black Sabbath

• Snowblind* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0CrSAInxLo) - Styx

• Sweet Leaf* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6UmTxTVZ5E) - Black Sabbath

*YouTube video.

[cezanne]

Canefire -- Peter Moon Band

Who sings the one that goes like, "No no no no I don't smoke it no more, I'm tired of getting up off the floor" ? circa 70s

[mel]

That would be the "No No Song" by Ringo Starr. Good one!

Adding to that:

Smoke Two Joints - The Toys or Sublime

[Pomai]

Locked Up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzYERFmGURg) - Akon

Roxanne (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-xsXlwYBus) - The Police (prostitution)

I Can't Drive 55 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiVfaTJUZXU) - Sammy Hagar

[liberty]

- "9 Crimes," Damien Rice
- "Alright Alright (Here's My Fist, Where's the Fight)," Sahara Hotnights
- "Bang Bang," Nancy Sinatra
- "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta," Geto Boys (from Office Space)
- "The Hives Are Law, You Are Crime," The Hives
- "Murder," The Crystal Method
- "Victim of the Crime," Phoenix
- "We Both Reached for the Gun," Chicago soundtrack
- "Rhymin' and Stealin'," "Car Thief," "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun," (old school) Beastie Boys

[Pomai]

Bands with crime-related names...

The Police
.38 Special (guns)
Bad Company
Snow (of Informer fame)
Cheap Trick (suggestive of prostitution)
Guns N' Roses
Warrant
Arrested Development

[mel]

One more crime song:

I Just Shot John Lennon - The Cranberries


Bands /artists with Crime-related names... hmmmm:

The Vandals
Boy Kill Boy
The Killers

[oceanpacific]

TOM DOOLEY - Kingston Trio

[TATTRAT]

Wow, you folks really went through the file cabinet on this one. Awesome!

One more from top-of-mind...

• The Prisoner* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tb8Jo11uGo) - Iron Maiden

*YouTube video


AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!http://home.arcor.de/cirith-ungol/sonstiges/icon_headbang.gif

[Frankie's Market]

"Rhymin' and Stealin'," "Car Thief," "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun," (old school) Beastie Boys

If we're gonna talk Beastie Boys, let's not forget their all-time classic, SABOTAGE!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sbqIyeed4g

[mel]

Timothy - The Buoys (murder by cannibalism)