# teen age death songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256 "2015-12-12T17:17:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/21 "2015-12-13T04:32:17Z")
Look out! Look out! Look out! ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/22 "2015-12-13T04:49:26Z")
I checked [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_tragedy_song) and didn’t find “Traveling Soldier” or “The Green Fields Of France”. Would they count? ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/23 "2015-12-13T14:50:56Z")
> [@guestchaz](#): > > ok you two, knock it off. If you are old and stupid, instead of young and stupid, then you have overcome the first challenge to success and fulfilled the requirement of surviving. Keep your heads down low and mumble your mediocrity to the world under your breath with unabashed indifference;)😃 > > there’s a twisted sister comeback album in that statement somewhere > > On a more serious note, why? What I mean is did you look in the mirror this morning and it suddenly hit you (perhaps harder or differently in some way) that you’re not the comely youth you once were? > [@Pai325](#): > > Oh, that hit me about 20 years ago! > > I just thought by the time I was my current age I’d have it more together, but I still screw up sometimes and look back at things I’ve done and thought, why did I do that? > > At 60+ I thought I’d be more June Cleaver and less Lucy Arnaz. OK, so today what I said comes across to me as mean instead of funny as it did when I posted it, so I apologize for that. Generally, I am unmoved by songs like that. The closest and only exception was when I first heard the song “Changes” by Black Sabbath while going through my divorce. For me its things like, (this week) buying a bridal set and men’s wedding band as a gift for my son. ---
**Author:** ![botsgotme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/24 "2015-12-13T15:33:43Z")
“Billie and Sue”-teen soldier dies, betrayed by his firts love. Maximum tearjerker. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/25 "2015-12-13T17:16:47Z")
Moving to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/26 "2015-12-13T17:28:35Z")
Tell Laura I love her! :o ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/27 "2015-12-13T18:11:38Z")
Does anyone remember Run, Joey Run? And, of course, the infamous Seasons in the Sun. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/28 "2015-12-13T18:18:00Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Does anyone remember Run, Joey Run? And, of course, the infamous Seasons in the Sun. Run, Joey, Run came out when I was about five or so, and I remember it mostly because we took a long car trip that summer and it seemed to come on the radio about once every five minutes. Daddy please don’t! It wasn’t his fault! He means so much to me! Daddy please don’t! We’re gonna get married, just you wait and see. (from memory) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/29 "2015-12-13T19:00:33Z")
Oh wait-- She ran calling WILDFIRE!!! ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/30 "2015-12-13T19:07:16Z")
“Pizza Man”–Alice Playten “He saw a pair of headlights/He thought he’d try his luck/He tried to cut between them/He never knew it was a truck…” “The Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun” by Julie Brown. It was a bit funnier before it started happening. “The Traveling Soldier” by The Dixie Chicks ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/31 "2015-12-13T20:20:04Z")
> [@Ispolkom](#): > > And a recent [Financial Times podcast](http://podcast.ft.com/2015/12/04/the-life-of-a-song-johnny-remember-me/)devoted to the creepiest, “Johnny Remember Me.” “D.O.A.” is pretty bad. I try to move my arm and there’s no feeling And when I look, I see there’s nothing there. The face beside me stopped its holy bleeding The girl I knew has such a distant stare. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/32 "2015-12-13T20:33:44Z")
When Pearl Jam covered “last kiss,” I thought the song was a satire resulting from being forced to listen to too many MADD presentations in middle school the 80s. Then I became aware of the Romantic Teen Death™ genre of 50s music shortly thereafter. Apparently, its not supposed to be funny, oh no, its Extremely Deep ™ and Tragic ™. Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/33 "2015-12-13T22:38:42Z")
Down by the river I shot my baby (they never list this one, either) ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/34 "2015-12-13T22:57:59Z")
> [@usedtobe](#): > > Down by the river > I shot my baby > > (they never list this one, either) There’s nothing “teenage” about that. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/35 "2015-12-14T00:02:28Z")
Thinking of the Pearl Jam cover of “Last Kiss”, Eddie Vedder has deadpanned that songs about dead teenagers have been very good for his band. Their best-known original song is probably “Jeremy”, about a teen suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/36 "2015-12-14T00:08:08Z")
> [@usedtobe](#): > > I found that if I just say “Dead Teen Songs” to boomers, the most common response is “Tell Laura I Love Her”. That one came to mind first when I saw the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/37 "2015-12-14T06:47:55Z")
[Now He’s Gone.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjCHTF2M2cE) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/38 "2015-12-14T15:02:13Z")
Though it’s not specifically a “teen” song, I don’t think many adults were listening to _Detroit Rock City_ by KISS. And now that I’ve looked it up, it is actually based on a true story of a fan dying in a car accident. I did not know that. ---
**Author:** ![botsgotme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/39 "2015-12-14T15:35:26Z")
Almost forgot…Pat Boons" “Moody River”…“Moody River, your muddy waters took my baby’s life”…was it suicide or just an accident? ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256/40 "2015-12-14T16:19:20Z")
Patches always made me mad. It never occurred to the guy that he could, oh, DEFY HIS PARENTS?! And the girl KILLED herself over this wimp? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-age-death-songs/740256.md?page=3)