Guns & Music - Part Deux

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bk40

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(What? And miss the biggest media boost to firearms next to NRA mass mailings? :) Mykl)

On a lighter side, what combos of music (groups, albums & songs) can you tie to anything firearms related?

Groups:
Guns-N-Roses
The Sex Pistols
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - werewolf killer?
38 Special
The Police
The "Desert" Eagles

Album:
Revolver - The Beatles

Songs:
Happiness is a warm gun - The Beatles
Saturday Night Special - Lynard Skynard

These were just off the top of my head - feel free to add more.
Every topic does not have to be so serious - we all need to have some fun!!

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- bk40

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The classic that stirs my soul:

Lawyers, Guns and Money...Warren Zevon

and can't forget {b} Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner[/b]

:) :)
 
DC-
How could I have forgetton that Zevon classic (I don't have Alzheimers but I think I have Half-Heimers!!). I love that song!

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- bk40
 
Well, when I was young and testosterone-charged:
Ballad of the Breen Berets could always make me misty (and I wasn't even sure what a Green Beret was, then)

Then there was Please, Mr Custer ;-)
Don't Take your Guns to Town
Two Little Boys -- you wouldn't have heard this one; it was by Rolf Harris
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Sink the Bismark B-I-I-I-G guns!!!
Duelling Banjos Guns, bows -- pigs ;-)
Battle of New Orleans


How about extending the topic to include themes from great firearms-related movies and/or TV shows, even if they don't actually mention guns or shooting?

Just a thought

Bruce
 
Tweeter and The Monkeyman By The Travelling Willbureies,and Machinegun Kelly, I can't remember that artist. nice wholesome songs about criminals known for their use of a gun. And the best firearms related show on tv I have seen yet has got to be SOF(Special Ops Force, it used to be called Soldier Of Fortune inc).

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Here is a great oldie:

Come a little bit Closer....Jay and the Americans You know..."Bad man Jose" :)
 
Many Pink Floyd songs allude to weapons of verious sorts... One song starts with a distant voice yelling "Get your filthy hands off my desert!" and then you hear a guy say "What was that?" and then in FULL STEREO EFFECTS A MISSLES PASSES OVER HEAD AND EXPLODES...

Love Pink Floyd...

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Oh, boy...

How about:

The The - Sweet Bird of Truth
White Zombie - El Phantasmo and the Chicken-Run Blast-O-Rama
Schnitt Acht - all of the album Slash and Burn
Marilyn Manson - Man That You Fear, and Scabs, Guns and Peanut Butter

That's all I can think of now. I'll add more later...
 
The Ballad of Pancho and Lefty - Willie Nelson, Lonesome Dove - Garth Brooks, I Fought the Law and the Law Won- Ithink everyone's recorded this, almost anything by Marty Robbins- Big Iron, etc.
 
I think most bands have alluded to guns in at least one of their songs-- Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Marilyn Manson, The Clash, Sublime, Rush, Nick Cave, The Living End, Wire, The Chills, most hip-hop 'artists', The Alarm... :)
 
Well, there is one song that won't get much airplay anymore...Julie Brown's Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun. Recorded in the early '80s, it portrayed a vacuous Valley Girl responding to a shooting spree by the Homecoming Queen.

"Stop it Debbie! You're embarrassing me!"

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A lot of the songs from (I think)Annie get Your Gun. The musical about Annie Oakley.



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Here's a few I can think of:
'Reign of the Tec' by the Beatnuts. This is a song (gangster rap) that refers to the Tec-9. In the short clips I had seen of the music video for this song, shots from a Tec-9 punctuated the beat(as well as closeups of a hand holding and shooting a Tec-9).

L.A. Guns (heavy metal group)

House of Pain (rap group). Lyrics in numerous songs include "I'm cockin' my Glock..." and having a ".380 Mustang"

Salt-N-Peppa (rap group) In their song 'Schoop' (not sure of the spelling) their is the line "If looks could kill you would be an Uzi or a shotgun-Bang!"

Andrew Cockburn had a song in the eighties
with the line "If I had a rocket launcher..."

That's all I can retrieve from my memory
 
Janie's Got a Gun - Aerosmith
Shoot High, Aim Low - Yes
Missionary Man - Eurhythmics
Bullet The Blue Sky - U2
The Rebel, Johnny Yuma - Johnny Cash
Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash
A Country Boy Can Survive - Hank Wms Jr.
The remakes by Michael Martin Murphy:
- Big Iron - w/ Marty Robbins
- Ballad of Billy the Kid
- Sonora's Death Row
- Billy Gray - w/ Debbie Nims
- The Wild West is Gonna Get Wilder
- The Ballad of Jesse James
- Frank James Farewell - w/ Hal Ketchum
- Cole Younger
- Bell Star
- Sam Bass
Johnny Reb - Johnny Horton
The Battle of Bull Run - Johnny Horton
(The one about Maria's Canteena in El Paso)
Mr. Shorty (by ?)
St. Valentines Day Massacre (by ?)
Seven Spanish Angels (by ?)


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