'California Love' & Cursed Songs!

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Tupac - dead! The Troutman brothers - dead! Whoever Suge Knight takes a disliking to before inevitably going back inside - probably dead! Any other notorious songs where all or most of the creators died untimely deaths soon after?

― dave q, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Of course, I won't be responsible for what happens to anyone who responds to this 'cursed' question!

― dave q, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

isn't "Hotel California" cursed too? Anton LeVey supposedly tho not really in the sleeve photo and something something.

and the beach boys "fire" session started all those fires.

and the white album's effect on the manson family could kinda be seen as a curse (and they were all hooked up with the beach boys too).

maybe California is a curse.

― fritz, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

look on the bright side, suicide

― kiwi, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

in re California being cursed, California Dreamin would be an example

Mama Cass - dead, Mackenzie Phillips - junkie, Wilson Phillips - need i say more?

― H, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

i was going to do a piece for ft's anniversary last year about how flava in ya ear was cursed for everyone in it but this was before busta came strong with that last album so its not really true now. puffy just gets worse though, i heard 112 is going to def jam now?

― ethan, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

If that were true, Fritz, something infathomably terrible would've happened to the Eagles. Possibly involving drowning in a septic tank or something.

― Nate Patrin, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

we can always hope.

― fritz, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Too soon to call it a trend, but "Whipping Post" has done in Duane Allman, Berry Oakley and Frank Zappa. Good Lord, consider it a warning.

― briania, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Or what about "Bring It On Home To Me"? It's a commonly-covered song (& a great one!), but performers have included three murder victims (Sam Cooke, King Curtis & John Lennon), two crash victims (Otis Redding & Dave Prater), and probably scores of Those Who Died Young (Clyde McPhatter, Ted Hawkins, Chas Chandler, Bill Haley). Michael Bolton, you may be next!

― briania, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wasn't there all that talk about the Stones refusing to play "Sympathy for the Devil" circa Altamont? Probably `cos it made for great press, although if you watch the Maysles documentary, most of the trouble at said hippy death-knell gala goes down during a turgid airing of "Under My Thumb."

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

A schoolfriend of mine once claimed he mysteriously blacked out while listening to the Marilyn Manson track "1996". I think he was bullshitting, though.

Not a song as such, but some of David Bowie's duet partners seem to have kicked the bucket shortly after performing with the man himself. I'm thinking mainly of Marc Bolan and Bing Crosby, not sure if there are any other examples! Sadly, Mick Jagger is still with us.

― Phil A, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Also, Freddie Merc. Fortunately, Marianne Faithfull, Lulu & Cher are still with us...

― briania, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Genesis' "Back in N.Y.C." (originally from Lamb Lies Down in Broadway) was covered independently by Kevin Gilbert and Jeff Buckley. Both are dead.

― Joe, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

What's little known is that they killed each other.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

seventeen years pass...

"Love Rollercoaster"

― billstevejim, Saturday, 17 August 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link

Prince and Tom Petty paying tribute to the late George Harrison by covering While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Prince and Petty both pass prematurely, with the same cause.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 August 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link

Weeping Guitar Syndrome

― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Saturday, 17 August 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link

Leo Payne's Psycho

― PaulTMA, Saturday, 17 August 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.