Playlist: Dangerous Strangers

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#1

Here’s a bit of an offbeat request.

I’m putting together a playlist of songs about mysterious, dangerous strangers.

Examples I already have include:

  • Dangerous Stranger by Be Bop Deluxe (of course!):
- *Red Right Hand* by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
- *The Loner* by Neil Young
Help adding to the list is much appreciated!
#2

Strangers In The Night? :slight_smile:

#3

I’m not sure I understand it well enough to know whether it fits, but maybe Bob Dylan’s Man in the Long Black Coat?

#4

Riders on the Storm by The Doors.
The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash.

#5

Ronnie James Dio - Don’t Talk To Strangers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOF0i4I8EcA

BLACK SABBATH - No Stranger To Love -
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers - YouTube

#6

The first thing that springs to mind for me is Leonard Cohen’s “The Stranger”.

For a really dangerous stranger there’s another Nick Cave song called “The Kindness of Strangers” off his Murder Ballads album.

#7

Oooh, some great examples here! Thanks, and keep 'em coming!

Thudlow Boink, “Man in the Long Black Coat” is exactly the sort of thing I’m looking for. :cool:

#8

AC/DC - “Night Prowler”

#9

You can’t get much more dangerous than the first verse ofVehicle, by the Ides of March.

#10

Tom Waits, “Black Wings” (maybe not exact, but it came to mind)

#11

Shooting Star, “Last Chance”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFWFIya2xGU
“And the stranger said to them / I have been upon the mountain / I have witnessed forces like cannons that can ram you to the ground”

Ayreon, “The Stranger from Within”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsTSCE6AzfE
“He’s a stranger / I don’t know where he’s coming from / Is he a danger to me or just another man?”

#12

Dead Kennedys - The Prey.

#13

Cowboy Junkies - Floorboard Blues
Look under his floorboards, Mama / I don’t trust his silly grin / He’s got a beat-up Rambler, Nebraska plates / And I ain’t getting in

#14

Rolling Stones: “Midnight Rambler”

#15

Moon over Bourbon Street, by Sting.

#16

The first thing I thought of was Eurythimics’ ‘Love is a Stranger’. Maybe that isn’t exactly what you’re looking for–

–but ‘Missionary Man’ might be.

‘The Disillusionist’ from The Church’s song of the same name may or may not be a stranger, but he’s plenty strange.

#17

Or like half the songs off that album. “Song of Joy,” “Where the Wild Roses Grow,” etc.

Marty Robbins - Big Iron (best known of late from Fallout: New Vegas)

Toadies - Possum Kingdom. I don’t think anyone knows what it’s about, but the narrator is menacing.

Kompressor - Never Talk to Strangers (maybe not :))

#18

Blackjack David - Dave Alvin cover of a traditional song.