# Let's kill people, music-like!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-kill-people-music-like/303169>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 10, 2005, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-kill-people-music-like/303169 "2005-05-10T03:04:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-kill-people-music-like/303169/61 "2005-05-11T20:22:21Z")

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I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned the Rolling Stones’ “Midnight Rambler” \*… I’m gonna smash through your plate glass windows … put a fist through your steel plated door … stick my knife right down your throat … \*

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**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-kill-people-music-like/303169/62 "2005-05-11T20:32:04Z")

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“Silver Spoon” by Grace Slick & Paul Kantner (from their quasi-solo “Sunfighter” album) is about a housewife who keeps her bored husband titillated by committing cannibalism! (recorded in 1971, towards the end of their really heavy drug-using phase).

And then there’s:

“Down by the river/  
I shot my baby/”

- Neil Young.

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**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-kill-people-music-like/303169/63 "2005-05-12T08:11:53Z")

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:smack: Oh, I can’t believe a) that I forgot this cool classic of classics and b) no one else has mentioned it yet, either:

**Mack the Knife**. Man, I always loved that tune (at least until McSatan started doing that deplorable “Mac Tonight” commercial with the stupid moon-headed dude)

critter42

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**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-kill-people-music-like/303169/64 "2005-05-12T11:21:15Z")

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The Stone Roses - Made of Stone:

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I’m standing warm against the cold,  
Now that the flames have taken hold,  
At least you left your life in style,  
And for as far as I can see,  
Tin twisted grills grin back at me,  
Bad money dies, I love the scene.  
\*

The Bluetones - Emily’s Pine

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