Guns are bad m’kay.
Here at BYT we could write up an informed opinion piece on gun control to coincide with the buzz around the Supreme Court tackling the constitutionality of DC’s gun ban today. But instead, we just made a playlist of songs about guns. Cause that’s the kind of quality BYT reporting you’ve come to know and love.
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Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) - Nancy Sinatra
HOT.
Gun Street Girl - Tom Waits
One of my all time favorite Tom Waits tracks. Brilliant. If you don’t own Rain Dogs, stop what you’re doing right now and go buy it, listen to it on repeat every day for a week. Possibly in the top 10 greatest albums of all time.
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
Check out the ridiculously detailed wikipedia article on this song: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Joe
Big Man With A Gun - Nine Inch Nails
Back in high school I did some sort of report on this album, I don’t really remember what it was about, but I do remember part of it involved me playing March Of The Pigs on a stereo for the class. Also I used to crank this song up as the background music while I played Quake. I was a loser. But this album is not. At all.
With A Gun - Steely Dan
Check out my Steely Dan love here:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/music/i-love-steely-dan
Guns of Brixton - Nouvelle Vague
One of the few Nouvelle Vague covers I really like.
Get Your Guns - Nine Black Alps
These guys are awesome, this is from the album Everything Is. Thanx Grace!
Gunpowder & Lead - Miranda Lambert
I had this left over from the domestic violence playlist: My indie cred doesn’t quite allow me to enjoy this tune, but if you’re only going to listen to one top 40 country track this year, this should probably be it.
Don’t Take Your Guns To Town - Johnny Cash
Folsom Prison Blues was too easy
Babies With Guns - Aesop Rock
Although this song is not the best Aesop has to offer, the Bazooka Tooth album as a whole is pretty fantastic.
Kids With Guns - Gorillaz
I bet you haven’t listened to this album in a while, whip it out again, it’s so god damn good.
Happiness Is A Warm Gun - The Beatles
Sometime I have to stop listening to the Beatles for a while cause it makes everything else seem so weak.
Son Of A Gun - Vaselines
One of the handful of Vaselines songs that Nirvana covered. If you don’t already have it, go over to Amazon and pick up the DRM-free mp3 album “The Way Of The Vaselines: A Complete History” for $8.99.
Barrel Of A Gun - Depeche Mode
Honestly, I don’t even like Depeche Mode that much. I mean, have you actually stopped and listened to their lyrics? It is embarrassing. “Just like a rainbow you know you set me free” Good lord!
But yeah, I still like a handful of songs and own like 20 DM albums.
As always, add your suggestion below, or weigh in on the current event spectacular!
For actual coverage, see:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031801354.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR
great playlist!!
crazy that you blasted NIN as background music to Quake since Michael T. Reznor did infact make the real background music for Quake
March 18, 2008 at 3:50 pmthat Nancy Sinatra song is the coolest thing since….something else really cool. And hot.
Also-playlist making is the new live blogging.
March 18, 2008 at 3:50 pmRight, I actually meant Quake II!
wow you played Quake, I was a UT kid.
March 18, 2008 at 4:16 pmI ran my own Quake II server out of the dorm room in college that would adjust the amount of bots depending on how many real players were on. Yet somehow I still got laid.
I dug UT as well. Capture the flag was great. But I was a fan of the grittiness of the id software titles. I haven’t really played anything in the past 6 years or so except I picked up Doom III when it came out, ohmygod, scariest game ever. Output to my 60″ TV and surround sound, turned off all the lights, could only play for like 20 min at a time.
Oh, and those Half-Life games were good too.
March 18, 2008 at 4:27 pmUh, guns are banned in DC?
Shit. Hold on a minute…
March 18, 2008 at 4:28 pmOh yeah - best. game. ever.
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/geek-it-out/
i liked watching guys play computer games, like Wolfenstein, Dr. Spatso, and Commander Keen - which i triumphantly managed to beat on my own in middle school
Ninja Gaiden and Kid Icarus were Nintendo favorites
i’m old skool that way
I was thinking ‘Big Exit’ by PJ Harvey. Or that Audio Bully’s song that samples Nancy Sinatra.
March 18, 2008 at 4:59 pmGood call, Big Exit rocks. Dunno the other one.
Gestapo!
March 18, 2008 at 5:07 pmI personally find few songs as therapeutic as Mission of Burma’s “That’s When I Reach for My Revolver.”
March 18, 2008 at 6:06 pmDammit, when I was brainstorming this I thought of that but then forgot to upload. Duh. Classic.
March 18, 2008 at 6:12 pmi do like the guns of brixton cover, so chill.. but i’ll still take the original.
i will probably have someone saying that i’m totally gay for this, but i have to mention the connells ‘get a gun’. thank you. commence ridicule.
March 18, 2008 at 7:17 pmIn no way whatsoever was I suggesting the cover was better than the original
March 18, 2008 at 7:19 pmin no way whatsoever was i suggesting that you suggested that. get a gun.
March 18, 2008 at 7:37 pmIn no way whatsoever was I suggesting that you suggested that I suggested the cover was better than the original
March 18, 2008 at 11:48 pmlawyers, guns and money - warren zevon
don’t take your guns to town - johnny cash
loaded gun in the closet - drive by truckers
Lookin’ down the barrel of a gun, son of a gun, son of a bitch, gettin paid, gettin’ rich….
March 19, 2008 at 8:26 pmkid delicious never drove a 3 on the tree. good call, though, b boy.
March 19, 2008 at 11:09 pmsurprised New Order’s 1963 wasn’t mentioned
March 20, 2008 at 12:53 amor for more 90’s alternative fun -
hey man nice shot - filter
revolver - moby (animal rights wanna metal/punk era moby)
get your gun - marilyn manson
great list
now i have Squeeze’s Annie Get Your Gun in my head
March 18, 2008 at 3:34 pm