Cause and Effect

Cause and Effect: True Crime Murder Ballads

Sat, Oct 14, 2023

Hi, I’m One Hit Wanda and I’m going dark for my first of two Cause and Effects for Spooky Season. The subject of today’s episode is True Crime Murder Ballads. Songs about real victims and real killers. I’d like to make a quick correction. I called the first song of the show “I Hate Mondays” instead of “I Don’t Like Mondays” by the Boomtown Rats. My apologies, “I Hate Mondays” is by Garfield the cat.

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Playlist

    Time: October 14 - 1:00:00 pm
  • The Fine Art of Surfacing

    The Boomtown Rats, “I Don't Like Mondays”

    from The Fine Art of Surfacing

    Island Records - 2005

    • Time: October 14 - 1:04:19 pm
  • To The Faithful Departed (Deluxe Edition)

    The Cranberries, “I Just Shot John Lennon”

    from To The Faithful Departed (Deluxe Edition)

    UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) - 2023

    • Time: October 14 - 1:06:49 pm
  • I Am a Man

    Ben Williams, “The Death of Emmett Till”

    from I Am a Man

    Rainbow Blonde Records - 2019

    • Time: October 14 - 1:12:37 pm

  • Bastille, “Four Walls (the Balled of Perry Smith)”

    from Wild World

    Virgin EMI Records - 2016

    • Time: October 14 - 1:16:49 pm
  • Flyleaf

    Flyleaf, “Cassie”

    from Flyleaf

    Interscope Records* - 2006

    • Time: October 14 - 1:19:48 pm
  • Struggle

    Woody Guthrie, “1913 Massacre”

    from Struggle

    Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1990

    • Time: October 14 - 1:23:23 pm
  • Blue Öyster Cult

    Blue Öyster Cult, “Then Came the Last Days of May”

    from Blue Öyster Cult

    Columbia - 1972

    • Time: October 14 - 1:26:54 pm
  • Breakdown

    Melissa Etheridge, “Scarecrow”

    from Breakdown

    Island Records - 1999

    • Time: October 14 - 1:32:15 pm
  • Sound System

    The Clash, “Wrong 'Em Boyo (Remastered)”

    from Sound System

    Sony Music UK - 2013

    • Time: October 14 - 1:35:26 pm
  • Lost & Found: The Famous Living Room Tape

    Kinky Friedman, “The Ballad of Charles Whitman”

    from Lost & Found: The Famous Living Room Tape

    Kinky Friedman & the Texas Jewboys - 2013

    • Time: October 14 - 1:38:40 pm

  • The Rolling Stones, “Claudine”

    from Claudine

    Dead Spider Records - 1986

    • Time: October 14 - 1:42:16 pm

  • Sun Kill Moon, “Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes”

    from Benji

    Calo Verde Records - 2014

    • Time: October 14 - 1:47:51 pm
  • Sinister Slaughter (Remastered)

    Macabre, “White Hen Decapitator / Michael Bethke”

    from Sinister Slaughter (Remastered)

    Nuclear Blast - 2019

    • Time: October 14 - 1:50:19 pm
  • Live At the Palace

    Blind Melon, “Skinned”

    from Live At the Palace

    Capitol Records - 2005

    • Time: October 14 - 1:53:03 pm
  • From the Desk of Mr. Lady

    Le Tigre, “Bang! Bang!”

    from From the Desk of Mr. Lady

    Le Tigre - 2001

    • Time: October 14 - 1:55:34 pm
  • Nebraska

    Bruce Springsteen, “Nebraska”

    from Nebraska

    Columbia - 1982

    • Time: October 14 - 2:00:06 pm
  • Spike

    Elvis Costello, “Let Him Dangle”

    from Spike

    Rhino/Warner Records - 1989

    • Time: October 14 - 2:04:51 pm
  • Antics

    Interpol, “Evil”

    from Antics

    Matador - 2004

    • Time: October 14 - 2:08:27 pm
  • The Smiths

    The Smiths, “Suffer Little Children”

    from The Smiths

    Rhino - 2014

    • Time: October 14 - 2:12:19 pm

  • The Killers, “Jenny Was a Friend of Mine”

    from Hot Fuss (Deluxe Edition)

    EMI - 2005

    • Time: October 14 - 2:12:20 pm
  • Mule Variations (Remastered)

    Tom Waits, “Georgia Lee”

    from Mule Variations (Remastered)

    Anti/Epitaph - 2017

    • Time: October 14 - 2:12:21 pm
  • The Crane Wife

    The Decemberists, “Shankil Butchers”

    from The Crane Wife

    Rough Trade - 2006

    • Time: October 14 - 2:12:22 pm
  • We Have Come for Your Children

    Dead Boys, “Son of Sam”

    from We Have Come for Your Children

    Rhino/Warner Records - 2004

    • Time: October 14 - 2:12:23 pm
  • Best of the Essential Years: Mississippi John Hurt

    Mississippi John Hurt, “Frankie & Albert”

    from Best of the Essential Years: Mississippi John Hurt

    Xelon Entertainment - 2012

    • Time: October 14 - 2:12:24 pm
  • Saints of Los Angeles

    Mötley Crüe, “Just Another Psycho”

    from Saints of Los Angeles

    BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2008

    • Time: October 14 - 2:12:25 pm
  • Blacklisted

    Neko Case, “Deep Red Bells”

    from Blacklisted

    Anti/Epitaph - 2002

    • Time: October 14 - 2:12:26 pm
  • Off My Rocker At the Art School Bop

    Luke Haines, “Leeds United”

    from Off My Rocker At the Art School Bop

    Fantastic Plastic - 2013