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Spender
 Post subject: Snuff records
PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:33 am 
No, not powdered tobacco as favoured by miners, songs where people die. When I was in one band we were going to try and do a full set of 'death' covers and came up with these amongst others I've forgotten:

Terry - Twinkle
Tell Laura I Love Her - Ricky Valence
Honey - Bobby Goldsborough
Leader Of The Pack - Shangri-La's
Country Death Song - Violent Femmes
New York Mining Disaster - Bee Gees
Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
Where The Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue

So off you go, bear in mind that they have to have troubled the charts 'cos half the folk songs in existence have the hero 'doi-ing' on the 'wild windswept moors......' I know the Femmes didn't but they're one of my favourite bands and it's my thread!!
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Bill Is Dead..The Fall
Ernie..Benny Hill
I Want My Baby Back..Jimmy Cross (the ONLY necrophilia song?)



You forgot your favourite: "Mama, just killed a man. Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger now he's dead'
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Visions in blue - Ultravox

I had an odd experience with this one, purely coincidental, I don't believe that because Midge Ure writes a song and someone dies. A mate of mine played this song incessently for a week or so then was killed on an exercise on Salisbury Plain.
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Kill the Poor - The Dead Kennedys!
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Camouflage - Stan Ridgeway :roll: :roll:


A great great song!
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Don't forget the song that set all the standards for this kind of thing!

From the village
Hidden deep in the valley
One rainy morning
Dark and gray
A soul winged its way to heaven...
Jimmy Brown had passed away

(bom bom bom bom)

Just a lonely bell was ringing
In the little valley town......

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richard head wrote:
Don't forget the song that set all the standards for this kind of thing!

From the village
Hidden deep in the valley
One rainy morning
Dark and gray
A soul winged its way to heaven...
Jimmy Brown had passed away

(bom bom bom bom)

Just a lonely bell was ringing
In the little valley town......


I must be too young confised don't know what it is :grin:
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well your dad must be older than mine then clappp
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Walsallmom wrote:
well your dad must be older than mine then clappp


Oh I dunno, the 1st North Staffs Regiment was raised in 1795.......... :roll: :razz: :laugh:
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Walsallmom wrote:
well your dad must be older than mine then clappp


Oh I dunno, the 1st North Staffs Regiment was raised in 1795.......... :roll: :razz: :laugh:


mine were 2nd Batallion South Staffs :grin:
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Psycho - written by Leon Payne, covered brilliantly by Elvis Costello.

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Girlfriend in a coma - The Smiths (not quite dead though!)

Or, "Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head" for a suitable lyric?
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Karl Marx wrote:
Girlfriend in a coma - The Smiths (not quite dead though!)


Near enough for purpose!! :wink:
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Salty
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:25 pm 
Pooliekev wrote:
New York Mining Disaster - Bee Gees


I love Martin Carthy's version of this, one of my all-time favourites!
a large percentage of folk songs feature death...

erm Nick Cave's murder ballads?!
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i would say anything by the smiths
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Staggerlee by Lloyd Price

If we sack the chart rule then this can be by many different artists and in many different forms too.
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Okay, sack the chart rule, BUT!!!!!

The victim has to die DURING the song OK?? No songs about stiffs, warm or cold. The jury is still out on comas. :wink:
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Johnny Cash - Delias Gone
Sting - I Hung My Head
Seven Curses - Bob Dylan
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Delilah!! Obviously fits the bill, but Alex Harvey's version :wink:
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Salty
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stagger lee kills loads then!! :laugh:
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Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton produced by Joe Meek
Suicide - Stray
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Pooliekev wrote:
Delilah!! Obviously fits the bill, but Alex Harvey's version :wink:


Simply Superb!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_hKrLfB_O4

And to think I had two tickets to go and see them last year, admittedly without SAH, and I didn't bother banghead

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Salty
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delia's gone

my fave, lowlands [trad]
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Putting on a 'dog record' prompted this 'dead' one.....

Lady D'Arbanville - Cat Stevens

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Many moons ago we supported the SAHB. It was usual for the main band to lend the support their PA however we used our own PA and the SAHB borrowed both of my 120 watt stacks. They gave them back at the end of the gig. Great stage act and nice bunch of blokes.
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Elvis Costellos Glasses wrote:
BillinghamPoolie wrote:
Pooliekev wrote:
Delilah!! Obviously fits the bill, but Alex Harvey's version :wink:


Simply Superb!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_hKrLfB_O4

And to think I had two tickets to go and see them last year, admittedly without SAH, and I didn't bother banghead


STILL worth going to see..Zal Cleminson, my Guitar Hero!


That's the problem getting something for free, you don't appreciate what you have got!

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