There's been a murder...

Say what.... Dead Men Tell No Tales ~ Motorhead

Hurricane - Bob Dylan

A bit long maybe, but wow, another of the very best by the maestro!

Tells of a murder in New Jersey, but whodunnit? Rubin Carter was the man who Dylan reckoned was falsely accused, unfortunately Carter spent another decade in prison, before the lawmen came to the same conclusion.

"...to live in a land where justice is a game....."

Paul from Ayr

Funny enough one of my most recent mix cd's was "Murder", so brings together a recent theme as well:

License To Kill - Bob Dylan
If Looks Could Kill - Camera Obscura
You Have Killed Me - Morrissey
Murder In The Darl - Boo Hewerdine
Dead Man's Suit - Cherry Gohst
Death Or Glory - The CLash

I wish I had suggeseted

Girls - Death In Vegas

for instrumental night.

Pulp Down By The River or
Pulp Death Goes To The Disco
long shots.
if they're too "eh?", similarish songs:
Richard Marx Hazard
Sophie Ellis Bextor Murder on the Dance Floor

U2 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Cutting Crew I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight
Manic Street Preachers singing the MASH theme Suicide Is Painless
The Smiths Hang The DJ

Ever the optimist, seeing as I can't remember hearing SOAD being played on the show before - this one is really worth a listen. Put aside any preconceived notion of what you think this might be if you've heard their stuff before and don't like it. In common with many other "heavy" bands, they can actually craft meaningful and melodic tunes with equally powerful lyrics. The "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" of ethno-metal.
System Of A Down Soldier Side

Turn around and you can die of fright In The Shadows ~ T. Stranglers

'Word Up' .... Korn

How to spectacularly murder a wonderful original ...

Little Sir Hugh - Steeleye Span - Keep your ball out of my garden.

The henri hannah campaign for lesser played Beatles tracks:

Bungalow Bill - the Beatles

or

Run For Your Life -the Beatles

but Bungalow Bill would be best....I think Undercover of the Night by the Rolling Stones is about a murder?

regardez vous

henri

THE SHAKIN' PYRAMIDS ~ PHARAOH'S CHANT... see BBC4 @ 21.00 tonight for some Hammer!

Henri- what about another Beatles classic
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
My primary school headmaster (he must have been a bit radical) taught this as a "how to learn guitar" tune.

Yep crazy murderous Beatles:

Beatles - Happiness Is A Warm Gun

#3 'Aisha' - Death In Vegas ("I'm a serial killer").

'Lost Art of Murder' ... Babyshambles

'Murder Polis' ... The Mode

Fine Scottish fare ...

norrie - great one!
Their songs have a more notorious connection with murder, though
Helter Skelter apparently got Charles Manson fuelled up in his warped mindset and eventual killing spree. I don't even like the song to defend it, but it shows how people can completely get the wrong end of the stick if they want to.

...And another call to hear Willie DeVille's superb version of 'Hey Joe' please.

I believe one of them was murdered.

Last one - don't want to hog the blog.
Studied a bit of Kurt Weill whilst I was a student. Lotte Lenya - his wife - sang a fair few of his compositions. Wish I'd suggested her for tonight!! She wasn't a singer or looker by today's (anytime's??) standards, but she had something really hard-edged, vicious and menacing about her that probably reflected how she felt about the times they were living in rather than how she was.
Lotte Lenya Mack The Knife

A wee postscript - she is possibly more famous for playing Rosa Klebb in the James Bond film "To Russia With Love". Which is a real pity. There was more to her than that.

If anyone suggests Bohemian Rhapsody I'm gonna have a big Henri style rant and go away again....

Mazzy*

Don't go again...I was ever so lonely while you were away!

don't worry, no one suggest Bohemian Rhapsody.

yep, I thought of Happiness Is A Warm Gun but always understood it was about drug culture and sexual congress, but who's to say - it's five bits of songs compiled into one, an old Beatles trick. It would be great to hear, with the rare appearance of a sax.

Helter Skelter does have that unhappy connection and is now associated with a real and brutal murder.Bryan probably won't play it on murder night on the grounds of good taste, the same way he wouldn't play Arnold Layne on hobbies night.

If my memory is correct,McCartney wrote it after hearing Pinball Wizard (all to do with fairgrounds/arcades etc) and wanted it to sound like the biggest noise in the world. He succeeded up to a point. I think it's a great track.There was a club near the Garage in Sauchiehall Street that ran a night called 'Helter Skelter' in the mid 90's - turned up loud, it's surprisingly dancable.

I will confess to having no great fondness for Maxwell's Silver Hammer,though I remember it being quite popular when Abbey Road was released, it still gets quite a lot of air play now and everybody knows it - apart from maybe Graham Stewart - so it'll be the one Bryan picks, no doubt.

It has already been stated that you can play the Beatles two nights in row.The captain can confirm.

regardez youse

henri

that was: don't worry, no one will suggest Bohemian Rhapsody.

as Glen rightly points out, presumably, we can request anything by John Lennon.

I suggest You Can't Catch Me - John Lennon a Chuck Berry song from the Rock n Roll album.

Lennon used the song as the basis for Come Together and recorded the original to buy off a court action from Berry's publishers. It's appropriate for another reason: it's a number they played in Hamburg.

Apparently, John long believed he would meet a violent death as karma for the brutal mugging of a sailor who had befriended the group in Hamburg. John was convinced he'd killed he bloke.

regardez youse

albert goldman

Jesus H Christ! Anyhow, moving along...

The Crusher ~ T. Novas 'GIO 3rd time of asking'

Love Me ~ The Phantom

Good suggestion at #2 "Hurricane", and can I also mention "Lily, Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts" - probably longer, but a mini-film script!

On the same artist would "Knockin on Heaven's Door" not qualify?

And finally, nobody's mentioned "I shot the sheriff"... Bob Marley or Eric Clapton would be fine.

Shot in the Back of the Head - Moby

Eve of Destruction - Hot Tuna (thanks for reminding me, Glen)

Jack the Ripper - the Revillos

Smoking Gun - Robert Cray

#25, Thanks Norma, and is that a theme suggestion? "Songs that play like a video in your mind"? I'll get my Dylan suggestions ready.....

#27

Travelling Wilburys Tweeter & The Monkey Man

I think the undercover cop ends up dead.

#28

hmm just had to google that one, what an impressive line up of writers, and yet chunks of it sound like they were written by Brooss!

Oh yeh, the cop lost out!

Dylan was having a playful dig.....

#22

Brian Jones (also murdered, allegedly) played sax on You Know My Name (Look Up The Number).

The murder rate in the Stones and Beatles averages 22%.

#19

I think there should be more big Henri style rants.

And, since I've long hated Olga's favourite, 'Torn Between Two Lovers' this is the ideal opportunity to hear:

Delilah - Tom Jones

regardez youse

henri

and Smiffy says she wants to hear:

Ruby (Don't Take Your Love To Town) - Kenny Rogers

It's a song she used to listen to when she was a gal, she thought it sexy and exciting. Don't know which aspect she found sexy and exciting,(age 9) but it was long ago and far away...

regardez youse

henri

Mercy mercy me / Marvin Gaye
Only musician to be murdered by his namesake

Armed and extremely dangerous / First Choice
Don't kill it Carol / Manfred Manns earthband
A murder of One / Counting Crows (ha clever eh?)
Death Wish / Herbie Hancock
Back Stabbers / O'Jays
Bang bang you're dead / Dirty Pretty things
Shot by both sides / Magazine

So, murder, then:
Miss Otis Regrets - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, from the
Red Hot And Blue AIDS benefit album
John Hardy - George Thorogood
Delilah - Tom Jones, or Alex Harvey, or...

And I guess you get to finish with "Bohemian Rhapsody"? There are lots of covers---Hayseed Dixie, the Flaming Lips, Bad News. There's no particular reason to play the original.

Of course there are more ways to get bumped off than by murderous baddies:

* The Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
* Johnny Cash - 25 minutes to go (Folsom Prison version please).

But for classic mrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrdrrrrrrr there's no beating:
* Tom Lehrer - The Irish Ballad

And just what was Billy Jo MacAllister dumping off the Tallahatchie Bridge?

#35

You could also go for Alex Harvey's "There's No Lights On The Christmas Tree Mother, They're Burning Big Louie Tonight" as a segue from my Cash suggestion.

TUESDAY

Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones

Rape! Murder!
It's just a shot away

32-20 Blues - Eric Clapton

(more Billy Preston on piano than EC on guitar, but well worth a listen)

Tom Joad - Woody Guthrie

Tom Joad got out of the old McAlester Pen
There he got his parole
After four long years on a man killing charge

To my mind, Johnny Cash's best song about murder has to be Cocaine Blues...a rollickin' ride through a drugs n booze fuelled cautionary tale. Would be great to hear it.

'The Ghost Who Walks' - Karen Elson (Mrs Jack White)

Murder – Bryan Ferry’s covers of Bob Dylan

just listened again to last nights show having missed it initially. Really good and a bit different.

BTW in a new twist on the whodunnit theme the various getiton blurbs have listed killing me softly with his smile in the headers for tonights theme. And here was me thinking it was the song who did it. :-)

If killing me softly is played it would be good to hear the Luther Van Dross version. Only one that could give Ms Flack a run for her money IMO.

Hang Me Good: The Porch Song Anthology
The Devils Right Hand: Steve Earle
The Foggy Dew: The Dubliners
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll: Christy Moore
Two Island Swans: Christy Moore
Burning Times: Christy Moore
Smoking Gun: Robert Cray
Hey Joe: Jimi Hendrix
Blaze Of Glory: Jonb Bon Jovi
Hurrican: Bob Dylan
Pride: U2

'Abraham, Martin and John' - the original version by Dion.

#34 Paolo, what about the original
DON’T KILL IT CAROL from DIAMOND OF DREAMS by MIKE HERON

YOU CAN’T KILL ME from CAMEMBERT ELECTRIQUE by GONG

MATTY GROVES from LIEGE AND LIEF by FAIRPORT CONVENTION

STRANGE FRUIT from THE CHURCH WITH ONE BELL by JOHN MARTYN

MURDER ON THE DANCE FLOOR from READ MY LIPS by SOPHIE ELLIS BEXTOR (I know none of the others will, but If this gets played, it’s GONG, if not, it’s FredTheFish, or both……eh.., or GONG, FredTheFish and SOPHIE, Whatever, I ain’t giving up just yet Bryan)

The Valentines - 'Guns Fever (Blam Blam fever) about gun crime in Jamaica...great ska track.

Sawney Beane Clan - The Real McKenzies

Fred's not Gong
And Fred's not bowed
Get Sophie's song on
And play it loud!

#46 Never heard it Fred. Maybe tonight.......

#45 Ah now why didn't I think of that song when I suggested Marvin Gaye earlier. The murdered singing about three murderers.

"Murder (Or A Heart Attack)" by the Old 97's -- the only song I know in which the singer is willing to risk being murdered to get his runaway cat back.

"Poor Man's Son" - Bruce Robison (or his brother Charlie Robison's better-known but not-as-good cover)

Kirsty MacColl's "El Paso" or "Miss Otis Regrets" (with the Pogues), both of which have multiple people getting killed....

Rich in North Carolina

Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) - Nancy Sinatra




Plus a great opportunity for

Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace

Surely to goodness?

#37

It's all in the execution.

#41

The sound of a clown who cried in the alley?

MR. ALBERT FISH (WAS CHILDREN YOUR FAVORITE DISH?) from GRIM REALITY (or indeed, almost anything) by MACABRE

I don't know what's worse - the cannibalism or the grammar.

The Wedding List - Kate Bush

Mad mental & magnificent!

:o)

re #27 paul's suggestion about "songs that play like a video in your mind", -
The Beatles "She's leaving home" springs to mind, and also Keith West's "Excerpt from a teenage opera" (!!!)

- maybe not such a good idea after all!

#41

I disagree FF. I think Ferry does a great job with Dylan's stuff.
I think the person who most murders Dylan is Dylan himself.

#57

Pretty much any song with a narrative works.

The Braggster is a master at this, thinking of
* The Saturday Boy
* Levi Stubbs' Tears
* Walk Away Renee
* 14th of February
and indeed, St Swithin's Day was David Nicholls' acknowledged inspiration for the novel (and upcoming movie): One Day.

And of course so is Dylan, and Fish, and Lennon, and The Streets...

Ooh ooh, there's a suggestion for tonight:

* Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears
One dark night he came home from the sea
And put a hole in her body where no hole should be

She does survive though, so can we include attempted murder? It's certainly a dark, dark song.

"I Just Shot John Lennon" T. CRANBERRIES...

#61
Bela Lugozi's Dead?

Béla Lugosi even!

#62 Good one Capn.

Bring Me The Dead Of Bela Lugosi

Queen - there's a band you don't hear too often.

with the possible exception of Dignity, Bohemian Rhapsody is the worst record I've ever heard......

........okay Maria - it's time for the big Henri style rant.

OK, time for a rant, well if Henri can..

#41,#58, Adam, Fred, I disagree with you BOTH!!! As a Dylan fan I have to admit to liking Ferry's version of Hard Rain better than Bob's and there are many songs where he's bettered by some very good singers.....however, IMO that's because he's written such a huge number of songs in different genre's, not all best suited to himself.
That still leaves hundreds where he excels, where his passion for the subject really shows, such as the one that DIDN'T get played tonight!!!

not that i'm bitter, there's always tomorrow....