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- ‘Jenny Was a Friend of Mine’ – The Killers. (2004) This infectious tune got a ton of radio play in the early 2000s (we weren’t streaming quite yet) thanks to its brain-boring earwig of a bass line, but like a lot of songs from The Killers, most people only know snippets of the lyrics.
- ‘Delilah’ – Tom Jones. (1968) You know how you can hear a song a million times — so often that you come to truly hate it — yet still you have no idea what it’s about until a shocking revelation hits you while randomly reading the lyrics one day?
- ‘Having a Blast’ – Green Day. (1994) Before Green Day was releasing concept albums and playing to sold-out crowds of tweens, they were a greasy, pimpled, quasi-punk-emo band who hit the pop culture button just right with their 1994 album Dookie.
- ‘Stan’ – Eminem feat. Dido. (2000) On Eminem’s first two albums, he rapped a lot about murder. Like, a lot. Most of it had a cartoonish quality to it so you could tell it was just about blowing off steam, but when he dropped “Stan” on his third album The Marshall Mathers LP, it was a dead-serious story about a mixed-up fan that got everyone to pay attention to Slim Shady in a good way for once, sort of.
- Carolina Buddies, “The Murder of the Lawson Family” (ca. 1930) As this murder ballad became a folk standard, recorded most famously by the Stanley Brothers in 1956, the events it relates became the stuff of hazy legend.
- Louvin Brothers, “Knoxville Girl” (1956) Maybe the best-known Appalachian murder ballad is the first-person account of an apparently otherwise ordinary Tennessee fellow who inexplicably takes time out from a stroll with his sweetheart to beat her to death with a stick despite her heartbreaking protests.
- Krzystof Penderecki, “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima” (1960) Music scholars call this trailblazing piece of 20th Century classical music an exemplary use of “sonorism”– but this dark cloud for 52 strings is more simply described as controlled anarchy.
- György Ligeti, “Volumina for Organ” (1962) Hungarian composer György Ligeti worked with clusters of sound, creating a space-filling blur of chaos and movement.
Music video by Papa Roach performing Getting Away With Murder. (C) 2004 Geffen Records
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Songwriters frequent many wells, and sometimes they just happen to contain a body. Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the Top 10 So...
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- Judas Priest “The Ripper” (1975) Birmingham, England’s venerable metal gods signaled their shift away from 1970s boogie with this rock hard ode to formative serial killer Jack The Ripper.
- Venom “Countess Bathory” (1982) Bridging the gap between the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and the thrash hordes to come, Newcastle’s Venom paid tribute to bloodthirsty Hungarian noblewoman Elizabeth Báthory on their genre-naming 1982 opus, Black Metal.
- Celtic Frost “Into the Crypts of Rays” (1985) These Swiss thrashers kicked off their influential album Morbid Tales by misspelling the last name of the 15-century French pedophile and child killer Gilles de Rais.
- Slayer “Angel Of Death” (1986) It’s not every band that writes a song about Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, but these Southern California speed mavens have always goose-stepped to the beat of their own drummer.
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May 15, 2024 · Johnny Cash has recorded a lot of the best murder songs. His 2002 track, “I Hung My Head,” is a heart-breaking tale of an accidental killing. Fun Fact: this song was originally written by The Police frontman, Sting. “Long Black Veil” is another good murder song. This tune has been performed by The Band, Johnny Cash, Dave Matthews Band ...
