Killing is not easy, whatever you might have heard. Maybe that's why we are making songs about it. Here are 10 murderous killers.
1. The kill : Joy Division
It's even recorded twice, first by Warsaw and then by its successor Joy Division but that's a completely different song. "I had an impulse to clear it all away; oh I used the tactics; make everybody pay; just somethingn that I knew I had to do" is Ian Curtis singing. Then he sadly killed himself; he was found hanged in his living room.
2. Killing is my business: La Muerte
This Belgian band's business was killing classic songs such as "Wild thing" and "Lucifer Sam". It's from their "Death race 2000" album.
3. I kill children: Dead Kennedys
A firm statement by Jello Biafra. "Fresh fruit from rotten vegetables", their first album is full of it. Another killer tune on this album is "Kill the poor". It should have been "Kill the Gore". Nevertheless such a name for a song was even in 1980 very risky.
4. You're gonna kill that girl: Ramones
Which girl? Maybe she's already killed by Biafra. A tragic tale though: "I saw her walking down the street; he jumped down, he knocked her off her feet and then I knew it was the end of her..." From their second album "Leave home" from 1977.
5. Help murder police: Thursday's Children
Sounds like the main phrase of an average episode of an average police series. This Texas band recorded it in 1967 for International Artists.
6. California Hippy Murders: Red River Dave
This song could be about the Sharon Tate murder. It's amazing how many songs there were referring to Charles Manson. A well known London punk in 1976 declared: "Never trust a hippy" and I can't blame him. "With their free sex and drugs combination they may have unleashed HIV" I once read in a tabloid. Let's stick to Dave's story about the first "bad vibes" coming from the hippy.
7. Shot down: The Sonics
A gun is for protection? Bull shit! It's been designed to kill and so it will. Even in 1965 when The Sonics recorded this song, it was obvious that many innocent people would be shot down.
8. Murder in the graveyard: Screaming Lord Sutch
Bravo David; this song is a mini horror movie � la Hammer Studios. A few years ago he was found hanged: he, the leader of a political party in the UK, created his own death scenario; not in a graveyard but at home.
9. Homicide: Myron Lee & The Caddies
One of the coolest songs of the late 50s. Don't bother trying to find the original 45; it's easier to find it on "Sin alley vol 1". Suicide: bad. Homicide: worse. But the worst is yet to come...
10. Genocide: Link Wray & the Raymen
...and that is genocide. This Wray instrumental from 1969 was recorded in the middle of the Vietnam disaster. Nobody noticed the song, but if you listen to the whining guitar you'll recognize the pain and the agony Link must have felt. And it never ends, it seems...