Heist/ crime songs

Not exactly rock, but The City Sleeps by MC 900 Ft Jesus romanticizes arson.

Traveling Wilburys: Tweeter and the Monkey Man

FZ: The Illinois Enema Bandit

Beatles: She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

Genesis' Battle of Epping Forest.  Based on true story of a London mob fight.

Janes Addiction “Been Caught Stealing”

For a little levity…

The Great Filling Station Holdup - Jimmy Buffett

"Ride Like the Wind" - Christopher Cross 

AC/DC - Jailbreak 

White Wedding - Billy Idol

Casey Jones - Grateful Dead

The Escape of Old John Webb - Kingston Trio - better than Tom Dooley

Street Fighting Man - Stones

Ring Cycle by Wagner - theft, fraud, slaving, rape, theft, murder, incest, murder, fraud - and that’s before the last opera opens

I can’t believe it hasn’t been added yet so:

Renegade - Styx

Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak

Jimmy Hendrix - Hey Joe

The Clash - Bank Robber, Tommy Gun

Ween - Buenas Tardes Amigo

The Smiths - Suffer little children

Sonic Youth - Death Valley 69

Judas Priest - Breaking the Law

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Grateful Dead - Dupree's Diamond Blues; Stagger Lee; El Paso; Mexicali Blues

Bob Dylan - Pretty Boy Floyd

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

Great memories everyone!  In 1968 Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames recorded "The Ballad Of Bonnie and Clyde" and it was a Top 10 hit.

Riders on the storm -  The Doors

“Trudy and Dave” and “Tennessee Plates” both by John Hiatt on the spectacular Sliw Turning album 

Spider John, by Willis Alan Ramsey

For a small crime, I like John Hiatt's "Trudy and Dave."

Hurricane - Bob Dylan

Jailbreak, Thin Lizzy

Steely Dan

"Don't Take me Alive"