Songs About Crime

[Pomai]

OK, so far we've covered songs about planets, songs that roll, float or fly, and songs about food.

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

• Thief of Hearts* - Madonna

• Smooth Criminal* - Michael Jackson

• Bad Boys* - Inner Circle

• Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap* - AC/DC

• Jailhouse Rock* - Elvis "The King" Presley

*YouTube video

[Miulang]

Re: Songs About Crime

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!

Miulang

[DannyWilliams]

Re: Songs About Crime

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

[Frankie's Market]

Re: Songs About Crime

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]

Re: Songs About Crime

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]

Re: Songs About Crime

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]

Re: Songs About Crime

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

[mel]

Re: Songs About Crime

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

[Mike_Lowery]

Re: Songs About Crime

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]

Re: Songs About Crime

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]

Re: Songs About Crime

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]

Re: Songs About Crime

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

[modpirate]

Re: Songs About Crime

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]

Re: Songs About Crime

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

[mel]

Re: Songs About Crime

A few more....

Convoy - C.W. McCall
Uneasy Rider - Charlie Daniels
Before He Cheats - 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?