Sexual Assault of a Child:
“Prison Sex” - Tool
“Janie’s Got a Gun” - Aerosmith
“Jordan, Minnesota” - Big Black (great, scary song)
“Kentucky F*** Daddy”- Brutal Juice (ditto)
Robbery With a Deadly Weapon:
“I Fought the Law” - Sonny Curtis and The Crickets (popularized by the Bobby Fuller Four)
Burglary with Intent to Commit Sexual Assault:
Tyler (I Will Be With Her Tonight) - The Toadies
Seuxal Assault and/or Murder:
“Possum Kingdom” - The Toadies
Serial Murder:
“Dead Skin Mask” - Slayer (about serial killer Ed Gein)
Genocide:
“Angel of Death” - Slayer (about Auschwitz - Birkenau “doctor” Josef Mengele)
“Holiday in Cambodia” - Dead Kennedys (about Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge)
Capital Murder:
“I Shot the Sheriff” - Bob Marley and the Wailers
“Cop Killer” - Body Count featuring Ice T
“Deep Cover (187 on an Undercover Cop)” - Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dog
Rape and self-mutilation - Mr. Turnkey, by the underrated Zager & Evans (known mostly for their hit In The Year 2525.) It’s a song about a rapist who nails his wrist to the wall of a jail cell. (It’s not clear where he got the hammer, or the nail. And the walls are apparently made of wood.)
That version is an edited version for the vinyl single - the original version, on the actual 2525 album, has a Moog synthesizer part, and the lyrics are slightly different (“there’s been a rape in Wichita Falls” instead of “I forced that girl in Wichita Falls”.) I recommend hearing the actual album version here, though you’ll have to download an .ogg file. It’s much better.
Lots of quirky crims in Fred, by Zager & Evans. Among the crimes in the song:
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[li]Killing of a frog with a kitchen knife[/li][li]Mutilation of a bird’s wing with a slingshot[/li][li]Killing of a Guinea Hen by wrapping its beak in masking tape so it starves to death[/li][li]Robbery of a local Dairy Queen[/li][li]War crimes committed during military service (possibly)[/li][li]Killing of a man by a punch in the face with a cast on hand[/li][/ul]
I Fought the Law – Bobby Fuller Four
Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash (murder)
I Don’t Like Mondays – Boomtown Rats (spree killing)
Excitable Boy – Warren Zevon (murder, rape)
Uncle Ernie – The Who (molestation)
Stagger Lee/Stack O’ Lee/Stagolee – traditional (murder)
Wrong 'em Boyo – The Clash (murder – based upon “Stagger Lee”)
Much of the score for Sweeney Todd
Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
Don’t Take Me Alive – Steely Dan (murder)
Guys are Not Proud – the Anemic Boyfriends (bestiality)
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer – the Beatles (murder)
More Tom Lehrer
The Old Dope Peddler (drugs)
My Home Town (murder, arson, possible sex crimes)
