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• 26 - Duane

  Aug 04, 2005 at 3:54 pm

  The entire In Absentia album by Porcupine Tree is about a kid that grows up to be a serial killer.

• 27 - Carabosse

  Aug 05, 2005 at 1:00 pm

  The Filter song is about a Pennsylvanian politician in the late 80s -- Budd Dwyer -- who killed himself with a gun at a press conference in front of cameras that kept filming as he died. The suicide video is widely available on the Internet and also appears in the music video for the Filter song. It made my mix because of the incident's notoriety and because it sounded right. :-)
  
  (The first link goes to Wikipedia, the second link goes to a page with the Dwyer footage.)

• 28 - tony

  Sep 07, 2005 at 3:44 pm

  Another good song is this is the zodiac by electric hellfire club and anything by macabre

• 29 - Crash

  Oct 02, 2005 at 2:01 am

  Dirty Frank - Pearl Jam

• 30 - Jason

  Nov 16, 2005 at 10:26 pm

  I got one for you. It is called "Wrath of the Ripper" by Grim Reaper. I know most people haven't listened to them, but they had some talent.

• 31 - Scribe

  Nov 28, 2005 at 4:25 am

  Wasn't sure which URL you'd want (got several), so this is my personal website. Before visiting, be aware that it contains erotica (no picture porn though) of a varied and graphic nature--het and slash.
  
  Don't forget 'My Sweet Angel' by The Toadies. I mean, it's a slasher movie, minus the actual special effects. The chorus is, "Do you wanna die?" I love it. Yes, I'm twisted. I also love their 'Tyler', which could very well be about an embryonic serial killer. I mean, he's an obsessed stalker, breaking into a girl's house to rape her. That could EASILY progress to murder, and with Tyler, it doesn't sound like it would (or possible isn't now) a single event.

• 32 - Lauren

  Mar 20, 2006 at 2:13 pm

  Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jr.
  Mudvayne - Nothing to Gein
  
  Both great songs. Nice playlist.

• 33 - Rodney Welch

  Mar 20, 2006 at 2:39 pm

  "I'm All Out of Love," Air Supply
  
  "The Heart of Rock and Roll," Huey Lewis and the News
  
  "Broken Wings," Mister Mister
  
  "What's Love Got to Do With It," Tina Turner
  
  "Cheeseburger in Paradise," Jimmy Buffet
  
  
  

• 34 - Chris

  Jul 11, 2006 at 5:33 pm

  "Maniac" by Michael Sembello, from the movie Flashdance. It's not obvious at all from the lyrics, but the song was written about a female serial killer.

• 35 - Allison

  Jul 15, 2006 at 12:20 pm

  "A Collection" by Marillion
  
  "I taste the air you breathe
  I taste the food you eat
  I keep your nails and hair
  And some of the clothes you wear
  
  If you can't speak you can't lie
  If you can't run, you can't hide
  And if you're dead you can't die
  So no one lives inside
  No one lives inside my collection"

• 36 - godoggo

  Jul 15, 2006 at 12:37 pm

  Sombody resuscitated this thread I see, so I'll just add an oldie but goodie that leaps to mind: "Hillside Strangler" by F-Word.

• 37 - Ignatius D'Lusional

  Jul 16, 2006 at 3:18 pm

  Scribe, the Toadies song you're talking about is actually called "Possum Kingdom". As far as anyone can tell, it may well be about vampirism, but does not really qualify as a song about serial killers, per se.
  
  However, an excellent song (along the lines of "A Collection") is a song called "Jigsaw Girl", which is about a guy who keeps parts of his ex-lover (hinted that he's murdered her), such as her hair, dress, and her hand... in a box! Creepy.

• 38 - larry

  Jul 16, 2006 at 9:12 pm

  i dont know if this qualifies. hang down your tom dooley your about to die. recorded by the kingston trio!

• 39 - Tim

  Oct 16, 2006 at 2:15 pm

  God Bless by Combichrist is a great techno song (and it also mentions us Canadians only popular killers Paul Bernardo and Karla Holmoka), and Pogo the clown by dog fashion disco, which I think is stupid, kinda swing style, but figured I would mention it

• 40 - Stephanie

  Dec 04, 2006 at 12:04 am

  What about Lunatic Fringe by Tom Cochrane and Red Rider?

• 41 - Niko

  Dec 05, 2006 at 7:34 pm

  Pogo the Clown, by Dog Fashion Disco

• 42 - DC

  Dec 28, 2006 at 4:38 pm

  son of sam - elliott smith

• 43 - New kid.

  Apr 11, 2007 at 11:04 pm

  Alright, the song was mentioned once before, but it's amazing and is a MUST for this list:
  John Wayne Gacy, Jr. -Sifjan Stevens.
  The artist is amazing as well as this song.

• 44 - Annually Sad Poet

  May 06, 2007 at 2:13 am

  Ignatius D'Lusional, Scribe is right- Possum Kingdom is about the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. The namesake of the song is derived from Possum Kingdom Lake in Texas, where Bundy is believed to have murdered women. The song is very hinting of vampirism, but I think that is just reflecting Bundy's insanity.

• 45 - Becky

  Jul 01, 2007 at 1:24 pm

  How about "Sniper" by Harry Chapin?
  

• 46 - Becky

  Jul 01, 2007 at 1:33 pm

  Here's one more: "Pavanne" by June Tabor or Richard Thompson, your choice!

• 47 - Garry Puffer

  Nov 03, 2007 at 1:23 pm

  I would suggest "Fool in the Full Moon" and "Dahmer is Dead" by the Violent Femmes. Also by the Femmes is "Country Death Song," which, although not a serial killer song is about a man who kills his daughter. It's the second most chilling song I've ever heard. The most chilling is "Victim," by the Golden Palominos with Nicole Blackman, told from the point of view of the victim of a serial killer.

• 48 - gonzo marx

  Nov 03, 2007 at 1:28 pm

  here ya go...
  
  nuff said...
  
  Excelsior?

• 49 - dEZ

  Jan 16, 2008 at 2:08 am

  Object by Ween

• 50 - EBear

  Feb 15, 2008 at 8:15 am

  Psycho by Leon Payne

• 51 - Jen

  Mar 01, 2008 at 9:32 am

  Mack the Knife! I can't believe that hasn't been mentioned, yet!

• 52 - kelsey s

  Apr 02, 2008 at 10:24 pm

  Atwa by system of a down is about charlie manson i believe.

• 53 - Chris

  May 02, 2008 at 5:22 pm

  Wait... nobodies brought up "the ted bundy song" by macabre? Or maybe "ted, just admit it..."

• 54 - Nat

  May 25, 2008 at 7:59 am

  Signs... by Blameless. a mid nineties band from Sheffield UK. Loosely about Jeff Dahmer I believe but I suppose could be related to Denis Nilson too.

• 55 - dark hair and soft skin girl

  Aug 17, 2008 at 11:35 am

  does anyone know any good metal,rock songs?

• 56 - Squeeks

  Oct 15, 2008 at 12:18 am

  Technically, Excitable isn't about a serial killer as the boy in question only kills one person-little Susie.

• 57 - PatrickKelley

  Oct 27, 2008 at 12:51 am

  I always thought the Toadies song was about a serial killer, if I am thinking about the right song. Was it out around 1996? I remember another song from right around the same time that seemed like it was about a serial killer, but I don't remember the name of it or the group. But it was a kick-ass song. It was actually very disturbing. I tend to get the two mixed up.
  
  One of them had a real gravelly voiced lead singer with a low pitch and a lot of electronic distortion in the music, as best as I can remember.
  
  One of the two seemed to have something about bodies buried by a cabin in the lake or something like that.
  
  If anybody could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it. I'm wanting to do a special Samhain/Halloween series for my blog, and I want to include a YouTube video of a song like this, maybe one of these two.
  
  Like I said, the two songs were both out at the same time, around 1996, and they both received a lot of airplay on FM stations.

• 58 - Thomas

  Oct 27, 2008 at 2:31 pm

  This is a response to the Toadies songs. Ignatius is correct; the song is called 'Possum Kingdom'. They never lyrically speak the title in the song, but in the early days of Napster the song was given half a dozen titles. One is 'My Sweet Angel'. Some other titles have been, 'So Help Me Jesus', 'Do You Wanna Die', 'Around The Boathouse', etc. The Toadies have said the song is just a story the tall tale the singer remembers from his youth at Possum Kingdom Lake Park in Texas while sitting around the camp fire.
  
  Another song by the Toadies, along the lines of 'Jigsaw Girl' (which was originally called 'Happy Voodoo'), is a song called 'Send You To Heaven'. Here is the studio version what was never released on You Tube.
  
  What I get from the lyrics is the driver picks up a hitch hiker and all she talks about is how great the Beatles and The Rolling Stones are and she will not shut up about it. Since he can't convince her that Elvis is better than the Beatles and the Stones he kills her and puts her in the truck of the car and buries her in Memphis with beetles crawling over her body under a pile of stones. Just my take.
  
  I have the strangest feeling about this.
  Like you and I could last for awhile.
  We could make it work for three or four more miles.
  Then I'll send you to heaven and you will still be mine.
  I'll send you to heaven and you will still be mine.
  
  Caught you thumbing your way to Memphis,
  I thought for some conversations for the ride.
  All you had to say was the Beatles and the Stones.
  Maybe Graceland will set you right.
  Maybe I'll send you to heaven and you will still be mine.
  
  I'll take you for a ride, not too far.
  I'll drive you to Memphis in the trunk of my car.
  I told you once so you know damn well.
  I ain't buying what you've got to sell.
  So you can cry, cry, cry till you're dry.
  
  You know I thought for a while I had me an angel.
  The way your eyes lit up when you smiled.
  Twenty miles or so of the Beatles and the Stones.
  I'll send you to heaven for some peace and quiet.
  Maybe I'll send you to heaven and you will still be mine.
  
  I'll take you for a drive, not too far.
  Drive you to Memphis in the trunk of my car.
  I told you once, so you know damn well.
  I ain't buying what you've got to sell.
  So you can cry, cry, cry till you're dry.
  Cry, cry, cry till you're dry.
  
  The Beatles and the Stones and the Stones and the Beatles
  The Beatles and the Stones and the Stones and the Beatles
  The Beatles and the Stones and the Stones and the Beatles (repeat)

• 59 - Emillea

  Dec 16, 2008 at 5:33 pm

  the preytells did a great song about Richard Trenton Chase titled "Sacramento"
  
  it's a really good song as well as being about teh Vampire of Sacramento

• 60 - bb.lestrange

  Dec 16, 2008 at 9:21 pm

  Velourium Camper III: Al the Killer by Coheed and Cambria.

• 61 - Giovani

  Dec 25, 2008 at 4:12 pm

  The album "The Reason of your Conviction" by Hangar, a brazilian power metal group. This is a really good album.

• 62 - eugene

  Jan 18, 2009 at 12:29 pm

  an oldie is "behind blues"-by the who, that was a good one
  
  kind of new is "serial killer"-by slash's snakepit it's about as good as it get's
  
  some version have edmund kemper at the beginning saying "As I'm sitting there with a severed head in my hand, talking to it, or looking at it, and I'm about to go crazy, literally I'm about to go completely... Flywheel loose and just fall apart", and at the end charles manson says believe me if I started murdering.....there would be none of you left....

• 63 - MLM

  Feb 02, 2009 at 4:15 pm

  Two amazing songs in the first person of a serial killer:
  
  A Criminal Mind by Styx
  
  The Horror of Our Love by Ludo

• 64 - Lurch

  Mar 31, 2009 at 5:19 pm

  "Prosthetics" By Slipknot
  
  "Iowa" By Slipknot

• 65 - Slammerworm

  Apr 21, 2009 at 6:21 am

  'Psycho' by the Beasts Of Bourbon (also Elvis Costello and originally recorded by Jack Kittel, but this is the best version). Has a storyline based on Charles Starkweather and boasts the line 'seems I was holding a wrench, momma/And my mind just walked away...' The final line is a classic. Also 'Hillside Strangler' by the Hollywood Squares; a truly exquisite US punk rock nugget from 1978, sung in first-person. Also too many Nick Cave songs to mention.

• 66 - Kaspr

  Jul 07, 2009 at 10:55 pm

  Nothing to Gein by Mudvayne. Excellent song about murderer Ed Gein

• 67 - Syde

  Jul 14, 2009 at 12:42 pm

  "I Never Told You What I Do For A Living" by My Chemical Romance. The entire CD is about a guy who had to kill 1000 people in order to get his dead girlfriend/wife back.

• 68 - GrimmReefer

  Jul 20, 2009 at 4:18 pm

  Mudvayne nothing to gein