What's Your Top 3?: Songs where somebody dies

Music
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The Antlers - Shiva
The Cranberries - Zombie
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday

Would been easier if about songs obsessed with death - though that could whole entire bands

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Leonard Cohen - The Partisan
The Decemberists - The Mariners Revenge Song
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - John Finn’s Wife

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Radiohead - Exit Music (for a film)
David Bowie - Lazarus
Nick Cave et al - Stagger Lee

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25

Yeah - this is the correct answer, isn’t it?

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The Decemberists - The Mariners Revenge Song
The Decemberists - The Island
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)

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27

Might have had First of the Gang to Die at one point, but fuck that guy, right?

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:roll_eyes: anyone using the term ‘correct answer’ in these threads is legally allowed to be trebucheted into the sea I’m afraid.

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29

Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
Swim Until You Can’t See Land - Frightened Rabbit (Ok this one is ambiguous as to whether the protagonist dies or not)
Ballard of Cable Hogue - Calexico

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I like the sea. Fish are cool and there are fewer humans around to bother me.

Plus it was just a way of expressing enthusiasm.

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32

Oh I’ve already written individual songs for the event of all your deaths.

33

Warren G and Nate Dogg - Regulate
EPMD - I’m Housin’
Cypress Hill - Hand on the Glock

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34

yeah good shout, loads of deaths in this one.

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36

Oh shit doesn’t he kill a bunch of people in People Everyday?

37

Cursed- The Void
Songs: Ohia: Blue Factory Flame
Neil Young and Crazy Horse- Cortez the Killer

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38

Hurricane - Bob Dylan
Stagger Lee - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Black Canyon - Pedro the Lion

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Neil Young - Powderfinger
Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

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40

Jim O’Rourke - Get A Room (incredible fade-out)
Slint - Good Morning, Captain
Grandaddy - Jed the Humanoid

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Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face

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42

Nina Nastasia - On Teasing
Scott Walker - The Seventh Seal
Tom Waits - Burma Shave

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43

The Decemberists - Mariner’s Revenge Song
Violent Femmes - Country Death Song
Bauhaus - Terror Couple Kill Colonel