Murder Ballads

[VladimirIlyich]

[Mendoza]

[Evelyn Tentions]

Joan Baez singing the old Scottish ballad, Mary Hamilton

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqaD9DAO0yQ

 

I was thinking of "Gallows Pole" by Leadbelly/Led Zep/name your favorite version but I don't think anyone was killed (except by the hangman in some versions)

[Evelyn Tentions]

Is there an idiots guide to posting youtube links properly?

[VladimirIlyich]

Is there an idiots guide to posting youtube links properly?

Just copy and paste the youtube link into your post.

Thats all I do.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Joan Baez singing the old Scottish ballad, Mary Hamilton

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqaD9DAO0yQ

 

 

I was thinking of "Gallows Pole" by Leadbelly/Led Zep/name your favorite version but I don't think anyone was killed (except by the hangman in some versions)

Highlight the link in your post, then click on the "Special BBCodes icon" (the little square box to the left of the Font drop-down list) and select YouTube.  Bob's yer aunty.

 

Oh, and there's a two-clips per post limit, for some reason.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Shakey - Down By The River

 

[neko]

Narco Corridos from Mexico...bizarre stuff and very popular.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBYZpmf6MK0

[NoelM]

For Christmas - Murder by Mistletoe - The Felice Brothers "He turned that lovely blue-eyed Jane, to a homicide on Campbell Lane"

[ben48]

I don't know how to do you tube links or that, just give a listen to Rope stretching blues by blind Blake, fuckin cracker!.

[razor]

"Ode to Billy Joe" - Sinead O'Connor

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSE_Akb_CWs

 

The chilling clue is on 3.15

[AngryOfTuebrook]

"Ode to Billy Joe" - Sinead O'Connor

 

 

 

The chilling clue is on 3.15

Is there a murder in it?

 

Bobby Gentry has always been tight-lipped.

[stringvest]

Is there a murder in it?

 

Bobby Gentry has always been tight-lipped.

 

 

there is murder in this thread.  Not posting the original version of this song is unforgivable.  

[SammyAftershave]

If this isn't the most ominous song to go home and quite reasonably murder your wife to, then I honestly don't know what is.

 

[stringvest]

[razor]

Is there a murder in it?

 

Bobby Gentry has always been tight-lipped.

 

there is murder in this thread.  Not posting the original version of this song is unforgivable.  

 

I grew up with the Bobby Gentry version, and have always loved it, including the mystery.

 

Sinead O Connor's version adds a chilling little twist that isn't in the original.  I remember the first time I heard it I was blown away.  You could say it's artistic licence, others will argue it's sacrilege, but it's as chilling as it is subtle.  Listen hard.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

I must be missing something, what's the difference to the Gentry version?

 

Give us a clue.

[razor]

Sorry, mate, it was on my previous post.

 

Listen to it carefully, then at 3.15 there is a subtle hint which sends my blood cold every time I hear it.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Ah, finally heard it.

 

Yeah, it's artistic licence, but it's one of the main theories that've done the rounds so she's not messing with the song for the sake of it.

[stringvest]

Ah, finally heard it.

 

Yeah, it's artistic licence, but it's one of the main theories that've done the rounds so she's not messing with the song for the sake of it.

 

yep, this - and lots of other hypotheses - was put to Gentry when the song came out, and she essentially asked people to draw their own conclusions about the song.  

[Teflon Don]

Not just one, but two murders in this (three if you count the crimes against fashion as well):

 

Tony Christie - I Did What I Did For Maria

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Good read this, about how a routine drunken argument in 1895 spilled over into violence and created a legend.

 

http://isj.org.uk/the-story-of-the-story-of-stagger-lee/

 

And here's the soundtrack.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_UueFvUxko

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_dw8Un7Z4

 

 

[stringvest]

This is the version - can't be doing with Cave's art rock nonsense.