Steely Dan
"Don't Take me Alive"
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For a small crime, I like John Hiatt's "Trudy and Dave."
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Spider John, by Willis Alan Ramsey
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“Trudy and Dave” and “Tennessee Plates” both by John Hiatt on the spectacular Sliw Turning album
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Riders on the storm - The Doors
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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.
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Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
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Grateful Dead - Dupree's Diamond Blues; Stagger Lee; El Paso; Mexicali Blues
Bob Dylan - Pretty Boy Floyd
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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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I can’t believe it hasn’t been added yet so:
Renegade - Styx
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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
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White Wedding - Billy Idol
Casey Jones - Grateful Dead
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"Ride Like the Wind" - Christopher Cross
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For a little levity…
The Great Filling Station Holdup - Jimmy Buffett
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Janes Addiction “Been Caught Stealing”
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Genesis' Battle of Epping Forest. Based on true story of a London mob fight.
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Traveling Wilburys: Tweeter and the Monkey Man
FZ: The Illinois Enema Bandit
Beatles: She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
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Not exactly rock, but The City Sleeps by MC 900 Ft Jesus romanticizes arson.
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@reubent - absolutely - one of BOC's best songs.
Separately,
Lawers, guns, and money by Warren Zevon
Breaking the Law by Judas Priest
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Wednesday Morning 3am by Simon and Garfunkel, a sad crime song...
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Cocaine Blues, Johnny Cash or George Thorogood, but there were a lot of others.
Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday.
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me and my uncle [from the grateful dead's "what a long strange trip its been" album]
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The Refreshments - "Banditos"
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@yoyoyaya @leadcrew
Then Came the Last Days of May - Blue Oyster Cult
Love that song, especially the Live version on "On Your Feet, or On Your Knees"
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Concrete Blonde - Scene of a Perfect Crime
Prefab Sprout - The Best Jewel Thief in the World
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And, actually, Bank Robber by the Clash as well.
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The Kinks: Holloway Jail
The Police: Murder by Numbers
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U.K. - Danger Money (about the life of a hitman)
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne (about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and Owsley's illegal LSD manufacturing in the Oakland hills getting raided)
Golden Earring -Twilight Zone
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Money Money - Grateful Dead, From the Mars Hotel
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Police and Thieves, Clash, Bob Marley, …..
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Since nobody has mentioned it yet:
"The Nights The Lights Went Out in Georgia." Original by Vicki Lawrence, or the Reba cover.
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Then Came the Last Days of May - Blue Oyster Cult
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“Joliet Bound”- Rory Block. Great Artist! Check her out.
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Tin Pan Alley
Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Well if "raping the universe" is a crime then i vote for
Supertramp-Crime Of The Century
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See link below
Possible songs for a Tarantino heist movie
Eileen Rodgers - Treasure of Your Love
Lee Hazelwood - Some Velvet Morning
Boogie Joe the Grinder - Quincy Jones
The Fly - David Axelrod
Money Runner - Quincy Jones
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“And all we gotta do is hold up our end
Here, stuff this in your pocket
It'll look like you're carrying a friend”
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Meeting Across The River-Springsteen
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Betty & DuPree: by Peter, Paul and Mary
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Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
Midnight - Ice T
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"Lincoln Park Pirates" by Steve Goodman. Funny drinking song
"Long Black Veil" by the Chieftains with Mick Jagger. You can feel the chill.
"Pancho and Lefty" by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. Check out the YouTube video with a cameo of Townes Van Zandt.
"Down Into Mexico" by Delbert McClinton with a special nod for the set-up/follow-up song "One of the Fortunate Few". Ah hell, pretty much his entire catalog is outlaw or pretty close to it.
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Ian Hunters " The Outsider" from his Never alone with a schizophrenic lp.
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