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"Son of Sam" Chain Gang

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:05 (twenty years ago) link

Ahhhhh I fucking love that song...

Sid Did It - Nazis Against Fascism

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

From Mojo Nixon's Sock Ray Blue album:

I Don't Want No Cybersex
The Ballad Of Country Dick
Drunk Divorced Floozie (The Ballad Of Diana Spencer)
U.P.S. My Heart To You
Machines Ain't Music/I Got My Mojo Working
Disney Is The Enemy
Rock n' Roll Hall Of Lame
I Got A Crazy Wife
You Can't Buy Cool
Tankman Blues
Orenthal James (Was A Mighty Bad Man)
Redneck Rampage
When Did I Become My Dad

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

(so they're not ALL news-related but I thought for the sake of whatever listing the entire album was worthwhile)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

"Son of Sam" by the Dead Boys

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:57 (twenty years ago) link

"Gary Gilmour's Eyes" by the Adverts

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

"Three Mile Smile" Aerosmith

― David Gates of Delirium, Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:03 (twenty years ago) link

"Ted, Just Admit It" by Jane's Addiction (the Ted in question being serial killer Ted Bundy)

"Bombs Over Baghdad" by OutKast?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:05 (twenty years ago) link

"Fake Headlines" New Pornographers

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:07 (twenty years ago) link

"where were you when the world stopped turning" - alan jackson
"let's roll" - neil young
"john walker's blues" - steve earle
etc...

but not:

"The Night Chicago Died," Paper Lace

what news event was that referring to? the great gangwar on the, ahem, "east side of chicago"?

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:10 (twenty years ago) link

"Sid Vicious Was Innocent" by the Exploited

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:11 (twenty years ago) link

"Holiday in Cambodia" by the Dead Kennedys

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:12 (twenty years ago) link

"Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" by the Ramones

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:12 (twenty years ago) link

"Riot in Tompkins Square" by the Undead

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:13 (twenty years ago) link

"Aren't You Hungry?", MOD

― dave q, Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:14 (twenty years ago) link

tons and tons of ancient blues

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

"tora tora tora" by depeche mode
it was actually martin's first song released with lyrics.

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

All from the amazing When the Sun Goes Down series from RCA Bluebird/BMG:

Pearl Harbor Blues - Doctor Clayton
The Ninety-Nine Year Blues - Julius Daniels
Panama Limited - Bukka Washington White
Frankie And Johnny - Frank Crumit
Telephoning the Blues - Victoria Spivey
Judge Harsh Blues - Furry Lewis
Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell
Cocaine Habit Blues - Memphis Jug Band
Sales Tax - The Mississippi Sheiks
Devil's Island Gin Blues - Roosevelt Sykes

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

"The Oh How I Wish That George Bush Would Die In A Pit Of Flames Cuz He's Ruined The Country And Don't Ever Forget That He Is A Deserter From The U.S. Army And I Want Cheney's Head On A Stick As Well Blues".
I haven't actually recorded it yet, but its gonna be big.

― scott seward, Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:37 (twenty years ago) link

"the ballad of john and yoko" - the beatles

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:40 (twenty years ago) link

Kenneth, What's The Frequency?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

Rocked by Rape - ECC

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

alex, i think you mean "bombs over baghdad" by dr. ring-ding.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:54 (twenty years ago) link

"sink the bismarck" - johnny horton
"the battle of new orleans" - johnny horton
"the star-spangled banner" - francis scott key
"ballads of sacco & vanzetti" (the entire album) - woody guthrie

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 2 October 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

"You Can Have Watergate But Gimme Some Bucks And I'll Be Straight"--Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s
"Rockin' Funky Watergate"--Fred & the New J.B.'s

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 2 October 2003 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

that gut-wrenching(in a bad way) jon benet ramsey song by eyes adrift

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 2 October 2003 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

"Biko" -- Peter Gabriel
"Hurricane" -- Bob Dylan
"Waltzing Matilda" -- Pogues
"Presidential Rag" (re: Nixon) -- Arlo Guthrie

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 2 October 2003 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

Not about a Major News event, but Woody Guthrie's "Deportee" was written after he read a newspaper article about a plane crash where they just refered the victims as "deportees" instead of by their names.

― BrianB, Thursday, 2 October 2003 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

"blind river boy"-amy correia (about jeff buckley's death)
almost every track on protestrecords.com
"son of a bush"-public enemy

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 2 October 2003 19:05 (twenty years ago) link

Human League: Seconds

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 October 2003 21:26 (twenty years ago) link

There was the Chronics "Calling All Cardinals" from 1978(which curiously coulda been a song from last year as well).

From the liner notes of Homework #8 "The Chronics set out to perform instant 'chronicles' of contemporary news stories: --which is how we end up here with the unlikely theme of the election of John Paul II. Other tunes included 'Jonestown Survivor' and 'Cardinals' flipside, 'Test Tube Baby.'"

― scott m (mcd), Thursday, 2 October 2003 21:44 (twenty years ago) link

The Police - "Walking on the Moon"
Pop Will Eat Itself - "Not Now James, We're Busy" (A major news event if you're a fan of the Godfather of Soul)
The Pogues - "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six"

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 2 October 2003 22:17 (twenty years ago) link

"California Dreamin": Beach Boys

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 2 October 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

"Touched by the Hand of Ciccolina" by Pop Will Eat Itself

(member of Italian Parliament/porn star)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 October 2003 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

Honeydrippers - Impeach the President
Angelic Upstarts - Murder of Liddle Towers [?]
Jesus Jones - Right Here Right Now

― Bill E (bill_e), Friday, 3 October 2003 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

Boomtown Rats, "I Don't Like Mondays"
It's a contender for Worst Song In The World, but: The Cranberries, "I Just Shot John Lennon"

― abree b (abreebb), Friday, 3 October 2003 05:43 (twenty years ago) link

Tim Finn, "Parihaka"
Gillian Welch, "April the 14th Part 1" and "Ruination Day Part 2"

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Friday, 3 October 2003 06:05 (twenty years ago) link

"New York Mining Disaster 1941"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 3 October 2003 09:05 (twenty years ago) link

"Space Oddity"?

― dave q, Friday, 3 October 2003 09:08 (twenty years ago) link

(("Elvis is Dead

oops, last one should be by Forgotten Rebels ("the big fat lazy fuck is dead!") ))

Erm, isn't it by Peter & The Test Tube Babies?

L7 - Boys in Black --> actually most of the Free the West Memphis Three compilation

― Sasha (sgh), Saturday, 4 October 2003 06:35 (twenty years ago) link

Give Ireland Back to the Irish Paul McCartney / Wings
SYMM The Manics (South Yorkshire Mass Murder, about Hillsborough)

btw. quite a lot of the titles upthread don't refer to the news events even if the lyrics do. So does Do They Know It's Christmas count?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 4 October 2003 08:25 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

Zack de la Rocha and too many other rappers - Mumia 911

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner either on death row or dead. I'm pretty positive that I would've heard if he was alive, though.

― AJ Wooton, Monday, 28 February 2005 01:08 (nineteen years ago) link

uh, "I Don't Like Mondays"

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Kentucky Rain

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Cripes, AJ, it's called google, use it sometime.

http://www.mumia.org/freedom.now/

Still alive.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Nina Simone, "The King of Love Is Dead"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 28 February 2005 03:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Guns Of Brixton - The Clash

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 February 2005 05:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Abraham, Martin & John - Dion

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 28 February 2005 06:04 (nineteen years ago) link

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