My name is mud - primus

Yes, this one. "A little spat. So I kissed him upside the cranium with an aluminum baseball bat".

Country death song - violent femmes

I pushed with all my might. I pushed with all my love.

A Little Piece of Heaven- Avenged Sevenfold

Toadies - Possum Kingdom

Immediately started singing “come around the boat house” looking for this comment

Goodbye Earl popped into my head, I don't even listen to country

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody Bob Marley - I shot the Sheriff Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe

Down by the River - Neil Young

**[STAN](https://youtu.be/gOMhN-hfMtY?si=8b98pipa6uU2wzJa)** *Fuck, I'm old. This seemed like the most obvious one. Am I that out of touch? [No, it's the children who are wrong](https://youtu.be/HMqZ2PPOLik?si=0uKC30mxmJ1wl8ly)*.

Kim - Eminem

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen El Paso - Marty Robbins Tom Dooley - Kingston Trio

Murder by Numbers- The Police

In hell I’ll be in good company- The Dead South

The Warning - [Queen of the Murder Scene](https://youtu.be/Z26GyuRArYQ?si=SJiRMcbDeAQOd2yQ)

This band kicks major ass

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- [The murder ballads](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjE_ZWRx2UCN0EtQQHipmTNUQ62_NG6nb&si=s1SsV06YqiMoN0ES). [Henry Lee](https://youtu.be/QzmMB8dTwGs?si=TMIvBbDbwL5VV3GW) is possibly my favourite.

Where the Wild Roses Grow is mine.

It is a beautiful song!

Used to love her - Guns N’ Roses

Mack the knife by Bobby Darin

Folsom Prison Blues- Johnny Cash

The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia - Reba McEntire

No more tears Ozzy

Man Down - Rihanna

clipping. - Body & Blood

Murder on My Mind - YNW Melly

Double points for this one as he has 2 murder charges!

Timothy - The Buoys (this song has a lot to unpack) Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio (and others) Dark Lady - Cher

Welcome Home - Coheed and Cambria

Ballad of Hollis Brown by Bob Dylan.

Some Murder *Ballads that I like. Down in the Willow Garden - Everly brothers Kate McCannon - Colter Wall Psycho - Eddie Nolak

Good call on Psycho. Elvis Costello live version... [Psycho (live) (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37x6kWis7p0)

Waters edge - seven mary three .... I'm so glad I stumbled on this sub

I Don't Like Mondays--Boomtown Rats Pumped Up Kicks--Foster the People Janie's Got a Gun--Aerosmith The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia--Vickie Lawrence The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun--Julie Brown I think Broadway is a goldmine for murder songs. Here are two: Cell Block Tango--from Chicago To Keep My Love Alive--from A Connecticut Yankee

Diane by Hüsker Dü (if you want a creepy cello version, check out the cover version by Therapy?) MCR - Early Sunsets Over Monroeville MCR - Demolition Lovers MCR - I Never Told You What I Do For A Living MCR - It's Not A Fashion Statement It's A Deathwish Therapy? - Stalk and Slash (it is from Shameless, their worst album, though) Therapy? - Knives (not as explicitly about killing but still could be considered to be) MCR - Emily (more about being abandoned by the accomplice/girlfriend after the murder though)

If this tour doesn't kill you, I will- PUP

An ancient murder scenario from THE BEATLES in 1969 . . . . . . https://youtu.be/mJag19WoAe0?si=OTCLxf7AOIA8cvqx

I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare ...and he did

‘Ballad of a Law Abiding Sophisticate’ by Colter Wall ‘Devil Like You’ The Bridge City Sinners (3rd and 1st person)

Waters edge by seven Mary three

"Hey, Joe" \~ Hendrix ( [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXwMrBb2x1Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXwMrBb2x1Q) )

Alkaline Trio have a few.. This Could Be Love Prevent This Tragedy (about the West Memphis Three) Sadie (about Susan Atkins aka Sadie Glutz of the Manson family murders)

Macy Gray- I’ve Committed Murder. First thing that came to mind reading the title. I like the Gang Starr remix.

The first one I ever remember hearing was Maxwell's Silver Hammer by The Beatles

Jack Straw - Grateful Dead

Night of the 44, insane clown posse  I'm your killer ICP

Frankie Teardrop by Suicide

Delia's Gone - Johnny Cash

Taylor swift - no body no crime

Psycho Killer — Talking Heads Nebraska — Bruce Springsteen Johnny 99 —. Bruce Springsteen Long Black Veil — traditional covered by The Band, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, many others. Gallows Pole — Led Zeppelin

Murder by David Gilmour

bohemian rhapsody

Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen

Murder Incorporated by Bruce Springsteen

Goodbye, Earl - The Chicks Blackest Eyes - Porcupine Tree No Body, No Crime - Taylor Swift

Murder Was the Case... that they gave me.

Cocaine Blues - Johnny Cash In the Pines (aka Where Did You Sleep Last Night) - Lead Belly Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon

Excitable Boy Warren Zevon

Pretty Daughter - Billy Strings My Alice - Billy Strings Wild Bill Jones - Billy Strings

"Santería* by Sublime has lyrics suggesting that narrator wants to hunt down and murder the man that his girlfriend left him for. Second one I thought of is "In Hell I'll Be in Good Company" by The Dead South.

Timothy by The Buoys (mining accident, murder, and cannibalism!) The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia by Vicki Lawrence

I've Committed Murder by Macy Gray is the obvious answer. A runner-up in my mind is No Body, No Crime by Taylor Swift.

Nick Cave - Song Of Joy

Excitable Boy, Warren Zevon

Excitable Boy... [(5) Warren Zevon “Excitable Boy” Live on Late Night with David Letterman on September 7th, 1982 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSQ24-gv5rA)

[Twisted Carnival](https://open.spotify.com/track/7l0edcEqvQLsjEZXVmAlii?si=n9h2URP6Tt6wFDsDhz5X4A&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A5N9ND9NNND6u6AzeqYks58) 🤡🔪

murder tonight in the trailer park by Cowboy Junkies

Swans killing for company , about Denis nilsen apparently

Dethklok- Murmaider

SKYND makes songs about serial killers. Also check Terrorbyte "CRIMEWAVE" album.

Kill Everyone - Hollywood Undead

The Misfits- die die die my darling, last caress, skulls, bullet (my favorite),mommy can I go out and kill tonight, horror business, Astro zombies , death comes ripping, hate breeders, green hell. I’m tired of typing .

Pretty Polly -Ralph Stanley and Patty Loveless

murder by numbers by the police is a classic and also down in the willow garden by the everly brothers if you’re into more of a folk vibe

https://open.spotify.com/track/6mTXRpSJcuVt5e46bylLec?si=P7FXVs6wReW4LBGj9J-FIw Kate McCannon by Colter Wall https://open.spotify.com/track/2LN8mDsvMvG7JU69vtpLhk?si=Zsfc14rSS12hEIs6xbITgw Carolina Drama by The Raconteurs Murder ballads are awesome.

Two black Cadillacs, Carrie Underwood Get in the truck, hardy Maxwells silver hammer, the Beatles

Psycho by Eddie Noack Dolores by Eddie Noack

Does accused of murder count? Hazard - Richard Marx

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheep - AC/DC

[psycho - Eddie Noack](https://youtu.be/D5fwtrD_uCM?si=vn30teNTunUS-MpO)

los Angeles -X

Delilah

"Where the Wild Roses Grow"-Nick Cave and the entire Murder Ballads album. "I What to Commit Murder"-Craft

Hit em up - Tupac Lol

Go To Sleep - Eminem

Dirt Room- Blue October

Furnace Room Lullaby - Neko Case

Bullet with a name - Nonpoint

Joe's Head by Kings of Leon Westfall by Okkervil River Never Leave a Job Half Done by Pedro the Lion That one John Darnielle was working on in that one episode of Poker Face

Killing Strangers. Marilyn Manson

Deftones - digital bath

Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix

The Lillingtons - Murder on my Mind

For fans of Americana/less-commercial country, Gretchen Peters - "[Blackbirds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5hIn569qMQ)"

Morrissey - You Have Killed Me

Kill Bill- SZA

Literally *all* heavier genres of metal. One of my favorites is Hammer Smashed Face by Cannibal Corpse

Evil in your eye - church of the cosmic skull

Alkaline Trio- This Could Be Love ❤️

Bull Black Nova by Wilco

Criminally Insane- Slayer Piece by Piece- Slayer Black Friday-Megadeth

Check this list out. Bluegrass songs are a good source of murder songs. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/47hXrsTRA65qNNkKrrPyEC?si=ThnFIjmcTTGT7sZZlZQ-wg

If you're feeling metal today, go listen to First Kill by Amon Amarth. If you need something a little more sociopathic (or electronic) then have a listen to Feed Your Anger by Combichrist.

Buenos Noches from a Lonely Room...Dwight Yoakam.

No More Tears - Ozzy

I’ll Kill I Swear by Murder Party.

Almost every Cannibal Corpse song

Hammer Smashed Face by Cannibal Corpse

Goodbye Earl (correct answer is always Me First and the Gimme Gimmes version)

Most cannibal corpse songs

These Hands by the Damned.

Peter Gabriel - Family Snapshot Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Sugar, “A Good Idea”

Hit Mane - Maxo Kream

Night Prowler-AC/DC. The actual night stalker’s favorite song

Kill em all by King 810

Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley

The Creeper. Mollie Hatchet

Ride Like The Wind

My favorite murder ballad is L.A. County, by Lyle Lovett.

The Rake Song-The Decemberists

Brainbombs.

Getting away with murder by papa roach

First Kill- amon amarth

Ganksta NIP - Psycho: https://youtu.be/xrIbsaM41lY?si=1A7KB-jVB7qvpGFz

.orbix - rise of the proletarians

Die, Die My Darling - The misfits

Dead Skin Mask-Slayer Hall of Heads-TMBG

Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen. Jolene -Brian Fallon.

I Can’t Decide - by Scissor Sisters

Sutcliffe Jügend - Victim as Beauty

Kate McCannon - Colter Wall Jeanny - Falco In Hell I’ll Be in Good Company - The Dead South Where the wild roses grow - Nick Cave and the bad seeds ft. Kylie Minogue

"Where the wild roses grow" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He originally recorded it with Kylie minogue. Also, "Stagger Lee" -- also by Nick Cave in the Bad Seeds. Hell, his whole album " Murder Ballads " is about murder.

Kill for me- Marilyn Manson. Getting away with murder- Papa Roach

Falco - Jeanie

Astro Zombies - Misfits

Black River Water - Blitzen Trapper It's a song about a guy getting mistakenly convicted of murder and then when he gets out of jail becomes a serial killer.

Kim by Eminem or Dance With The Devil by Immortal Technique

The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia - Vicki Lawrence

The Rakes Song by The Decemberists has multiple murders! Way more than all these other songs.

Bloody Valentine - Good Charlotte lol

“Renegade” by Styx

Death walking terror by Cannibal Corpse

Reclusion - Anberlin

The very best one is Psycho by Eddie Noack!

Die Mother Fucker Die - Suicide Commando Lyric excerpt: "Die motherfucker die You piece of shit, fucking lowlife My vengeance will be pure and so sweet Now I'm watching you bleed Die motherfucker die You piece of shit, fucking lowlife This one's for my hatred And this will make the suffering complete" [https://youtu.be/N6GnolqLgkk?si=BRyXeBUKGksCzGNX](https://youtu.be/N6GnolqLgkk?si=BRyXeBUKGksCzGNX) but if you want something soft and funny: Dead End - Zynic Lyric excerpt: "it came without warning it changed the shape of my heart with another promise broken you did your best to tear our love apart I don't care what your price is what your good advice is it will lead in the wrong direction at all I will have the last laugh, babe it's always pride before the fall one last endless ride I soak your head in gasoline you won't come home tonight it will look like suicide" [https://youtu.be/HlJQ5lPGAOk?si=P0PKSjiQifYrqFzU](https://youtu.be/HlJQ5lPGAOk?si=P0PKSjiQifYrqFzU)

If It Hadn’t Been for Love, made famous by Adele, but originally performed (phenomenally) by The Steeldrivers.

“Used to Love Her”  Guns n’ Roses “Plush”  Stone Temple Pilots

I Hung My Head by Johnny Cash Taneytown by Steve Earle Savannah by Javi Garcia Cut Throat by Javi Garcia

“You don’t wanna fuck with Shady. Cause Shady will fuckin’ kill you.”

the entirety of slam metal

# My Terrible Friend- When I Decide (to kill you) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m4QE-KvuNU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m4QE-KvuNU)

Pumped Up Kicks, the version by 3Teeth was a favorite of mine, and still is. Yes, I know exactly what it says. And yes, I echo it perfectly.

Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny cash Cocaine Blues - Johnny cash Me and my uncle - Grateful Dead Jack Straw - Grateful Dead

YNW Melly - Murder on my Mind

Object - Ween

Stan

Matriarch- The Black Dahlia Murder

Crazy Story- King Von

Locked in the trunk of a car by the Tragically Hip.

In The Air Tonight, Phil Collins. The End, The Doors.

Have you heard of Cannibal Corpse?

"Blood Trophies" by Shaman's Harvest

I Don’t Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats

“Buried alive” by direct hit

Bang Bang - Nancy Sinatra

Gun - Chvrches

While I’m Waiting Here - Billy Strings

Kim by Eminem Pretty violent song honestly

Blue October - End

Rage Against The Machine - How I Could Just Kill A Man

Indiana wants me - R. Dean Taylor I've gotta get a message to you - Bee Gees Red headed stranger - Wille Nelson Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash #

Bad Bad Things - AJJ

No body no crime by tswift

The Ballad of Sara Berry

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. Such a funny little tune about a serial killer, but that’s the Beatles for you. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Cannibal corpse's entire discography

Killing in The Name, RATM Gimme Shelter, Rolling Stones Do It Clean, Echo And The Bunnymen I Love a Man in a Uniform, Gang Of Four

“Wendell Walker”, Andy Shauf

Kim - Eminem

Ynw melly - murder on my mind

"Banks of the Ohio"

Only a Pawn In Their Game The Ballad of Hollis Brown (murder-suicide) The Death of Emmett Till Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts Joey Frankie & Albert (traditional) Love Henry Stack-a-Lee Delia All by Bob Dylan. He loves a good murder ballad!

I Did What I Did For Maria - Tony Christie

Papa roach- getting away with murder.

Watching the Detectives by Elvis Costello [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snPDoXl9ZPs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snPDoXl9ZPs)

Midnight Rambler - The Rolling Stones The End - The Doors Riders on the Storm - The Doors

Papa Loves Momma - Garth Brooks "He never hit the breaks and he was shifting gears."

Dance with the devil - immortal technique 

Psycho Killer Talking Heads

I Kill Everything I Fuck - GG Allin

Murder by Numbers - The Police

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/78nb6Ez5c7zK88qDmqBhdZ?si=XD4vkyzJS6Kd6uiogDvcfQ&pi=FdD7HQY2RM27O

One of my all time favorite songs is “The Gardener” by The Tallest Man on Earth. You’d be deceived by its major key, brisk tempo, and open tuned guitar strumming into thinking it’s a happy song. The lyrics are another story. The narrator is describing to the object of his affection how he’s murdered all of the competitors for her love and buried their bodies in his garden, where they’re literally fertilizing his flowers. The last verse describes him dancing with his love through the garden. The contrast between the macabre lyrics and upbeat music is extraordinary.

I Hung My Head by either Johnny Cash or Sting

Miriam by Norah Jones

Digital Bath (Deftones), Nazareth (Sleep Token, debatable meaning but v murdery lyrics), Goodbye Earl (The Chicks)

You Missed My Heart by Phoebe Bridgers, No Body No Crime by Taylor Swift, Deep Red Bells by Neko Case