What Gun-Related Songs Do You NOT Like?

[BerettaNut92]

I Hung My Head. I think it's written by Stang, on Johnny Cash's American IV album. Character dryfire practices on a LIVE target. Breaks rules #1, #3 and #4. Self-pity song about an ND that takes a life.

Don't Take Your Guns to Town. Written by Cash. I have a Jerry Douglas and Steve Earle version of it on Jerry Douglas' EXCELLENT Restless on the Farm album. Guy mixes alcohol with guns (bad) and doesn't follow the commitment to avoidance, deescalation and deterrence that most of us do. I like the song, but come on.

Most of the stuff on the pop and rock stations. Talk about irresponsible

OK now that I vented, time to pop in my Johnny Cash and Jerry Douglas CDs

 

[Jake]

" Mister Saturday Night Special"

Can't remember right now how sings it, but I have really come to hate that song.

 

[BerettaNut92]

Lynyrd Skynyrd. I can't believe that song is on their greatest hits album

IMO I Know A Little is one of their best.

 

[spacemanspiff]

i know you said what songs we DONT like, but i like this intro:

Gripping the wheel, his knuckles went white with desire!
The wheels of his Mustang exploding on the highway like a slug from a .45.
True death: 400 horsepower of maximum performance piercing the night...
This is black sunshine.

 

[hansolo]

Gun songs that szuck

"Bang bang.....he shot me down..." .......Cher

Actually, I hate MOST songs by Cher


OffTopic: Best Line in a Gun Song:

"I shot a man in Reno, just to see him die." Johnny Cash

 

[Carbonator]

Cop Killer, by Ice T

or similar...

 

[nemesis]

Oh, he might have went on livin' but he made one fatal slip.
When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip.

 

[Edward429451]

Saturday Night Special, Lynyrd Skynyrd. I used to like them until I listened to that song's lyrics. It's a very disarming song in more ways than one. One day my gunnut self was groovin to it and it punched me in the face that it was an anti song.

Detested it ever since.

I think I have Jimi Hendrix's 'Belly Button Window' song figured out to be his anti-abortion song...I think that was about the time period of Roe vs Wade, wasn't it?

 

[Ebbtide]

Off hand, I'd say "Hey Joe" by Jimmy.

Great Rock/Blues but Joe gets away with murder when he flees to Mexico. I've seen my share of wife beaters, and most of them listen to Hendrix...but thats just me...off hand at that.

 

[Okiecruffler]

"Janies got a gun"

Not that it's an anti song, I just think new Aerosmith sounds kinda neutered.

FWIW, I listen to alot of Hendrix, and I couldn't even beat the wife at checkers.

 

[Ala Dan]

I don't know the name of the song, but it has
come lyrics that go like so:

"kill the m----------f---------- police".

we need to hang the writer, producer, and the artist.

Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member

 

[SnWnMe]

Skynyrd's Saturday Night Special.

Alot of good that plane crash did.

 

[Okiecruffler]

Ala Dan

I believe you are another person annoyed by "Cop Killer" by the band Body Count which featured a young mister Ice T. It is a rather unfortunate song, penned in frustration of the black community over the LA police problem. Before everyone fires up the flamethrowers to BBQ old Okie, let me just say that I am sure that 99.9% of LA LEO's are fine upstanding individuals, just like LEO's acrossed the country. But you must admit, they do have a rather dark record. Me personally, I don't care for the song, I'm not into anything that glorifies violence against police or anyone else for that matter. I think that Body Count probably should have kept that little diddy to themselves. But I do understand the enviroment from which it sprang.

 

[Cortland]

"I Hung My Head" (originally on his Mercury Falling album) reminds me very much of Camus' The Stranger. Observant listeners will note that many of the songs Sting has written for himself and some of the later Police songs (and not just his, Stewart's too) are very much pseudo-intellectual wanking sessions into literature which they may or may not fully comprehend. Sting also wrote another song which touches on guns. From his Police tune "Truth Hits Everybody" -- "take a look at my new toy, it'll blow your head in two oh boy!"

There's "Armalite Rifle" by Gang of Four which, includes such lyrical gems as "breaks down easy ... a child could carry it" and "Armalite rifle, rifle does you harm ... it shoots for miles, if a bullet hits you in the arm -- it destroys your insides," and "it'll blow your legs off, it'll blow your guts out, I disapprove of it, so does Dave, it'll do you damage..." A truly inspired piece of musical commentary.

Of course the absolute worst gun song ever is Cypress Hill and "Hand on the Pump." Here's a sample: "I'm comin' to blast you with my sawed off shotgun; hand on the pump, left hand on a forty, puffin' on a blunt." (For clarification the forty is of the malt liquor--not S&W--variety)

My favorite gun-tune is still "My Little Armalite" (glorification of republican violence and all!)

 

[Dan from MI]

Saturday Night Special.

I love Skynyrd, but I hate that song.

 

[Dorian]

"Bang bang.....he shot me down..."

Yeah the opening song to kill bill part one... I don't like that sone one bit.

 

[Okiecruffler]

Here's an added question to tag along

What do you think is worse, an anti-song, like Saturday Night Special, or some armchair commando fantasy like Cop Killer?

 

[BluesBear]

I agree with Skunkabilly, "I Know A Little" is the BEST Skynyrd song. But the version by Sammy Kershaw on "Skynyrd's Frynds" is even better.

"Saturday Night Special" is just to damn whiney for me. Almost as bad as "Free Bird"

 

[Sisco]

Another vote for "Saturday Nite Special" and "Hey Joe".
Saw Skynyrd in concert (with Ted Nugent) a year or so ago, went out for a beer when they played Sat. Nite. Great guitar licks in the song though.
I never really thought of "Jamie's Got a Gun" as anti, considered it more self-defense. Maybe that's because I have no sympathy for pedophiles.

 

[tiberius]

Big Lynyrd Skynyrd fan here - grew up in Jax after all - but agree on Saturday Night Special

They have some goodies though. Remember Gimme Three Steps:
" Ima tellin ya son that it ain't no fun starin straight downa .44 ....."

Gimme Back My Bullets:
"Gimme back my bullets Put 'em back where they belong "

Ain't The Onet
"I never touched ya sweetheart, never pulled my gun"

 

[greyhound]

Skynyrd also has a song called "Gimmee Back My Bullets".

Go figure....

 

[Ala Dan]

Greeting's Okie-

Many thanks for the research and info. Personally,
I don't care for any of that "JUNK MUSIC'
thats out there today. You see, I'm an old
time 60's rhythm and blues (Motown, Memphis,
Philly sound) man; who just marveled at the
works of one Mr. Phil Spector, with his "Wall
Of Sound".

So, they could take all the RAP, HIP-HOP, and
the rest of that mess and shove it where the
light don't shine; as far as I concerned. Also,
I never cared for "anti" or protest type material
either; as I served our country during the trying
times of Viet-Nam.

*FootNote- One group that was really big on
the protest of that war was Buffalo Springfield,
with their big hit entitled "For What Its Worth".

Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member

 

[Sisco]

"Gimme Back My Bullets" isn't about guns at all, it's about rankings in Billboard magazine charts.
If you're song is on the charts with a "bullet" it means that it is rising in popularity, heading towards #1. If the bullet is taken away the song has stalled, possibly heading down

"I never touched ya sweetheart, never pulled my gun"

Think he's really talking about a firearm there, or getting Freudian?

 

[TallPine]

"Saturday Night Special" by Conway Twitty

Not sure if this is the same song as by Lynyrd Skynyrd ....?

It's about a guy buying a gun to kill himself and a woman hocking a wedding ring.

So bad, it almost makes me not want to listen to anything else that Conway Twitty has ever done.

People are responsible for their own actions. TANSTAAFL

 

[hd1.]

"The Devil's Right Hand", ( The Highwaymen)

(Mama said a pistol is the devil's right hand.)