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Postby The Slider » 05 Nov 2024, 19:03

Tramp the Dirt Down - Elvis C
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I Don't like Mondays
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Ohio - CSNY
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Postby The Slider » 05 Nov 2024, 19:19

There are a few Pogues ones:
Worms
Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go
A Pair of Brown Eyes
Jessie James
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
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Death Disco - PIL


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Re: Songs about death

Postby Rorschach » 05 Nov 2024, 20:52

The Slider wrote:I just shot John Lennon by the Cranberries

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Re: Songs about death

Postby Rorschach » 05 Nov 2024, 20:55

The Slider wrote:Death Disco - PIL


Sorry. I'll stop now.


No need to apologise.

Although I'm not keen on death disco and among your many excellent suggestions are a few murders, which I'll save for the relevant playlist.
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Postby copehead » 06 Nov 2024, 11:55

Death Letter - Son House
Black Girl - Leadbelly
TB Sheets - Van Morrison

actually just about 90% of all early blues songs

In My Time of Dying - Led Zep
There is a Light that Never Goes Out - The Smiths

And 90% of Smiths songs too:

What She Said - The Smiths

Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus

I am Stretched on your Grave - Sinead O'Connor

Dead Souls - Joy Division; and 90% of Joy Division Songs
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Re: Songs about death

Postby The Fish » 06 Nov 2024, 12:44

The Slider wrote:Richard Corey


Go for the version by Them. The way Van spits out the lyrics make it a different song. Nothing against S&G original but........
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Re: Songs about death

Postby Walk In My Shadow » 06 Nov 2024, 13:26

Death in the morning - Phil Alvin
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Re: Songs about death

Postby Darkness_Fish » 06 Nov 2024, 13:53

Mount Eerie's "Real Death" is lyrically the single most upsetting song I've ever heard. His wife died a couple of weeks before he started recording the album, the section about the gift she ordered for their daughter ... I just can't cope with that:





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Re: Songs about death

Postby Fonz » 06 Nov 2024, 17:25

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Re: Songs about death

Postby Rorschach » 06 Nov 2024, 21:30

The Fish wrote:
The Slider wrote:Richard Corey


Go for the version by Them. The way Van spits out the lyrics make it a different song. Nothing against S&G original but........


Totally agree.
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Re: Songs about death

Postby Rorschach » 06 Nov 2024, 21:35

C wrote:Bad Moon Rising - Creedence.


Is that really about death? It's a great record and it's about about apocalypse, which tends to involve a lot of death, but is it really about death?

Ah fuck it. I love it so I'll put it in.
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Re: Songs about death

Postby Neige » 07 Nov 2024, 06:59

Has this been mentioned yet?



I'm also very fond of David Bromberg's full-band version

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Re: Songs about death

Postby Neige » 07 Nov 2024, 07:00

Rorschach wrote:
The Fish wrote:
The Slider wrote:Richard Corey


Go for the version by Them. The way Van spits out the lyrics make it a different song. Nothing against S&G original but........


Totally agree.


So do I
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Re: Songs about death

Postby frimley_greener » 07 Nov 2024, 08:19

https://youtu.be/ukIEi8ZgqK8?si=pNz1HITlqRNPpwZe
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Re: Songs about death

Postby mudshark » 08 Nov 2024, 15:40

Might have been mentioned but I'm not going to check:
Wayfaring Stranger by the man in black.
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Re: Songs about death

Postby Nick Danger » 08 Nov 2024, 16:30

A Rose For Emily - The Zombies
El Paso - Marty Robbins
Patches - Dickey Lee (double suicide)
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