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Songs from a killer's point of view

Oct 23, 2005 at 2:22 AM Post #17 of 74
One of the best moments on the often brilliant Contino Sessions by Death In Vegas is "Aisha" featuring Iggy Pop, a vicous, dark and heady riff-driven track about a serial-killer. Great song and a great album.

Bob Marley's "I Shot The Sheriff" is another great one, although maybe too well known?

A few others come to mind but they get a bit obscure. I'll edit a couple more in if I think of something more popular.

If it doesn't have to be from the killer's eyes, and some of the ones mentioned above aren't, I just mentioned a cool and morbid one recently by The Beautiful South called "Something That You Said" ...

The perfect love song it has no words it only has death threats
And you can tell a classic ballad by how threatening it gets
So if you walk into your house and she's cutting up your mother
She's only trying to tell you that she loves you like no other
No other, she loves you like no other.

The perfect kiss is dry as sand and doesn't take your breath
The perfect kiss is with the boy that you've just stabbed to death

And the Damien Jurado Where Shall You Take Me opens with a murderer confessing in the song "Amateur Hour" ...

First came the screams and blood on the floor
The alcohol and magazines
In my flashlight you're a star
Razor blade that cuts you clean

Smile for the camera
Take off that dress
Twenty dollars for a kiss

It's me who made you
It's me who will take you

I am not an evil man
I just have a habit I can't kick
It starts with an urge and ends with this
Hang up the phone, I ain't finished yet

Pretty harrowing stuff
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Oct 23, 2005 at 6:21 AM Post #20 of 74
I can't believe I missed adding "Hey Joe", "Jeremy" and "I Shot the Sheriff" to this list, especially since they are songs I own.

Thanks for all the fantastic suggestions, please keep them coming! I'm off to hunt down these songs and from the looks of it, this may end up being a 2 CD set!
 
Oct 23, 2005 at 6:42 AM Post #21 of 74
trains are bad, it doesn't necessarily have to be a song about murdering/killing someone. In Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash admits to killing a man to watch him die, but the song is about his time in prison and how he's missing out on life.
 
Oct 23, 2005 at 7:05 AM Post #22 of 74
I can't believe I forgot my favorite murder POV song:

"Women Lose Weight" by Moorcheba (ft. Slick Rick):

"The name of this entertainement is
Women lose weight
Our first years of mariage everything was just great
But after two kids
And a weight gain factor
The fact is
Now she’s completely unattractive
Look fat chicks
I don’t mean to sound rude
I tell her nice hit the gym
And don’t eat so much food
But no

Your shallow
You need to run the course of unconditionnal love and so forth

But how if desire’s is not there
That’s just delayment
Divorce is, child support, alimony payments
My happiness I doubt discouraged
So hurry for an easier way out of this marriage
Meanwhile my secretary june well groomed
When you gonna leave your wife
I tell her soon mommy soon I assume
Or my destiny is blue
Interestingly
The only thing left for me to do is to kill her...."

How a song about such a horrifying topic can consistently crack me up I'll never know. I think it is really Slick Rick's delivery which makes it so clear that he is being sarcastic, yet it so perfectly portrays the POV of an angry, emasculated, middle-aged suburban man in middle-management.
 
Oct 23, 2005 at 10:30 AM Post #24 of 74
Porcupine Tree's In Absentia is a concept album that follows the life of a child that grows into a serial killer.. take a look there.

in particular, 'Strip the Soul' would probably fit your need in the most direct and apparent manner.

This is my home, this is my own, we don't like no strangers
Raise the kids good, beat the kids good and tie them up
Spread it wide, my wife, my life, push the camera deeper
I can use, I abuse, my muse, I made them all

This machine
Is there to please
Strip the soul
Fill the hole
A fire to feed
A belt to bleed
Strip the soul
Kill them all

They are not gone, they are not gone, they are only sleeping
In graves, in ways, in clay, underneath the floor
Building walls, overalls, getting bored, I got faulty wiring
Brick it up now, brick it up now, but keep the bones

(Do you want a western home in the rubble?)
 
Oct 23, 2005 at 10:48 AM Post #25 of 74
Lyle Lovett - "L.A. County"

I left Houston for California
- with an old friend at my side.
Well, I did not say much
- but it was a beauty
- of a cold black .45.

And I also think The Grateful Dead - "Jack Straw"
 
Oct 23, 2005 at 1:04 PM Post #27 of 74
You can find plenty of those in the death metal department. Look up Cannibal Corpse, Kreator, Morbid Angel and the likes.
 
Oct 23, 2005 at 1:31 PM Post #28 of 74
"Bigmouth Strikes Again" by The Smiths
Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
When I said I'd like to smash every tooth
In your head

Oh ... sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking
When I said by rights you should be
Bludgeoned in your bed



"1963" by New Order
Johnny, don't point that gun at me
There's so many ways our lives have changed
But please, I beg, don't do this to me



"Doubt" by The Cure
Again and again
Your body falls
The movement is sharp and clear and pure
And gone
I stop and kneel beside you
Knowing I'll murder you again tonight


"Seconds" by The Human League (actually about JFK's assasination)
Your knuckles white as your fingers curl
The shot that was heard around the world
For a second
It took seconds of your time to take his life
It took seconds


"Rapture" by Blondie (ok... this one may be a stretch)
And it comes right down and it lands on the ground.
And out comes the man from Mars.
And you try to run but he's got a gun.
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head.
 
Oct 23, 2005 at 4:05 PM Post #29 of 74
Locked in the trunk of a car - The Tragically Hip
 
Oct 23, 2005 at 4:18 PM Post #30 of 74
Artist: Guns N' Roses
Song: I Used To Love Her


i used to love her
but i had to kill her
i used to love her
but i had to kill her
i had to put her
six feet under
and i can still hear her complain

i used to love her
but i had to kill her
i used to love her
but i had to kill her
i knew i'd miss her
so i had to keep her
she's buried right in my backyard

i used to love her
but i had to kill her
i used to love her
but i had to kill her
she bitched so much
she drove me nuts
and now i'm happier this way

i used to love her
but i had to kill her
i used to love her
but i had to kill her
i had to put her
six feet under
and i can still hear her complain
 
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