Comments on: Top 20 songs for crime fiction lovers https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/ The site for die hard crime & thriller fans Fri, 06 Sep 2019 23:39:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tom Byrne https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/#comment-1693453 Fri, 06 Sep 2019 23:39:19 +0000 http://www.crimefictionlover.com/?p=14735#comment-1693453 Small change would have been my first!

]]> By: sherlockian https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/#comment-1693291 Sun, 20 Jan 2019 01:12:21 +0000 http://www.crimefictionlover.com/?p=14735#comment-1693291 murder by numbers – the police

]]> By: Chris Narozny https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/#comment-1651797 Sat, 23 Apr 2016 03:17:07 +0000 http://www.crimefictionlover.com/?p=14735#comment-1651797 Tom Waits!?!?! “Small Change” (“Small change got rained on with his own .38.”) Or “Gun Street Girl” (“He’s staying out of circulation till the dogs get tired.”

]]> By: Keron Ramrattan https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/#comment-1646512 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:26:23 +0000 http://www.crimefictionlover.com/?p=14735#comment-1646512 that was some very great songs

]]> By: Kevin Bourke https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/#comment-1582826 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:40:54 +0000 http://www.crimefictionlover.com/?p=14735#comment-1582826 ‘The Haunting of John Rebus’ by Jackie Leven? Springsteen’s ‘Meeting Across The River’, ‘Johnny 99’ or many more, including the bulk of his Nebraska album…

]]> By: Adam https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/#comment-57496 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:10:23 +0000 http://www.crimefictionlover.com/?p=14735#comment-57496 Cell Block Tango from the Chicago soundtrack!

]]> By: crimefictionlover https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/#comment-33486 Sat, 04 May 2013 18:40:09 +0000 http://www.crimefictionlover.com/?p=14735#comment-33486 Thanks Jesse

]]> By: jesse sublett https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/#comment-33483 Sat, 04 May 2013 15:29:30 +0000 http://www.crimefictionlover.com/?p=14735#comment-33483 Since I am a singer of murder ballads and surrealistic blues, and because I’ve been writing music-infused crime novels since the 1980s and before that, my band, the Skunks, played a lot of dark songs, I am a bit prejudiced about my choices. “Threepenny Opera” has several of the greatest crime songs ever, not just “Mack the Knife” and “The Cannon Song,” but also “Pirate Jenny.” One must always include “Stagger Lee,” the Lloyd Price version being really hard to beat, and “Death Letter” by Son House, “Crow Jane” by Skip James and how in hell could anyone NOT list “Devil Got My Woman”?? “32-20” by Robert Johnson is a must. I’ve written probably 50 or so murder ballads & crime songs, starting with my tribute to the murderess of the Scarsdale Diet Doc, “Ballad of Jean Harris,” and you can find on YouTube a good many clips of me performing such songs, and also the Skunks playing “Sister Ray,” which I must say, separates the men from the boys, as well as the drag queens from everybody else. I could go on, but my stuff is out there already… My new novel, GRAVE DIGGER BLUES, is also full of murder ballads.

]]> By: crimefictionlover https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/#comment-33341 Thu, 02 May 2013 09:30:26 +0000 http://www.crimefictionlover.com/?p=14735#comment-33341 That’s a great one!

]]> By: michael gregorio https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/#comment-33337 Thu, 02 May 2013 06:37:28 +0000 http://www.crimefictionlover.com/?p=14735#comment-33337 The greatest crime story rock song has gotta be TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN – STEVE MILLER BAND. It’s my favourite, anyhow.

]]> By: Paul D. Brazill https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/#comment-33254 Wed, 01 May 2013 09:32:28 +0000 http://www.crimefictionlover.com/?p=14735#comment-33254 That’s a fine list but I’ve got to add my choice, I Germany Before The War. http://pauldbrazill.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/in-germany-before-the-war-by-randy-newman-2/

]]> By: Calum Macleod https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/#comment-33253 Wed, 01 May 2013 09:26:11 +0000 http://www.crimefictionlover.com/?p=14735#comment-33253 Copperhead Road by Steve Earle.
Bootleg whiskey, drugs, murder, DEA choppers and sung by a former felon who appeared in The Wire. How could you miss it?

]]> By: crimefictionlover https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/#comment-33179 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:51:21 +0000 http://www.crimefictionlover.com/?p=14735#comment-33179 Ahh, Styx, yes. Haven’t thought about them for a long time. ‘I’m sailing away…’

]]> By: Casey L. Clark https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/#comment-33159 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:54:37 +0000 http://www.crimefictionlover.com/?p=14735#comment-33159 Renegade by Styx is a must. 🙂

]]> By: crimefictionlover https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/#comment-33149 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:07:36 +0000 http://www.crimefictionlover.com/?p=14735#comment-33149 Thanks Kristopher. There are plenty of crime-related songs and we did have one or two Bob Dylan suggestions in our mix early on.
Unrelated to the 60s, one I thought of later on is Stars of CCTV – what a great name and theme for a records in these days of surveillance culture.

]]> By: Kristopher https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/04/top-20-songs-for-crime-fiction-lovers/#comment-33146 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:35:51 +0000 http://www.crimefictionlover.com/?p=14735#comment-33146 How can we leave off Hurricane by Bob Dylan.

But this is a great list of songs!

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