Songs About Crime

[Pomai]

Re: Songs About Crime

Is it a Crime - Sade

By 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* - Kenny Rogers

• Prodigal Son* - Iron Maiden (<---- IMO, one of I.M.'s best-written songs)

• Cocaine* - Eric Clapton

• Snowblind* - Black Sabbath

• Snowblind* - Styx

• Sweet Leaf* - Black Sabbath

*YouTube video.

[cezanne]

Re: Songs About Crime

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]

Re: Songs About Crime

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

Adding to that:

Smoke Two Joints - The Toys or Sublime

[Pomai]

Re: Songs About Crime

Locked Up - Akon

Roxanne - The Police (prostitution)

I Can't Drive 55 - Sammy Hagar

[liberty]

Re: Songs About Crime

- "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]

Re: Songs About Crime

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]

Re: Songs About Crime

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]

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TOM DOOLEY - Kingston Trio

[TATTRAT]

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

One more from top-of-mind...

• The Prisoner* - Iron Maiden

*YouTube video

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Frankie's Market]

Re: Songs About Crime

"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]

Re: Songs About Crime

Timothy - The Buoys (murder by cannibalism)