10 Songs You Won’t Believe Are Based on Real Crimes

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00:0010 songs you won't believe are based on real crimes.

00:04Number 10 Deep Red Bells

00:09Neko Case transforms Green River Killer Aftermath into ethereal noir country, honoring victims

00:14through spacious production and haunting, elegiac vocals.

00:18Number 9 The Night Chicago Died

00:23Paper Lace's 1974 hit sensationalizes violence with fictional Capone shootouts, prioritizing

00:29catchy hooks over history and trivializing real tragedy.

00:33Number 8 Claudine The Rolling Stones

00:37Recorded in 1979, the Stones satirized Claudine Lange's trial and celebrity privilege.

00:43Legal concerns delayed the song's release until 2011.

00:47Number 7 Georgia Lee Tom Waits

00:51Noir Pop arrived with the killers loosely tied to the Preppy Killer case, urgency and mainstream

00:56appeal expanding true crime themes.

00:59Number 6 Death Valley 69 Sonic Youth featuring Lydia Lunch

01:05Sonic Youth and Lydia Lunch Channel Tate LaBianca murders into dissonant chaos, confronting senseless

01:11violence through abrasive experimentation and unsettling visuals.

01:15Number 5 Polly Nirvana

01:19Kurt Cobain's minimalist arrangement recounts a 1987 abduction, humanizing the victim and advocating

01:24respect without sensationalizing horrific real-world trauma.

01:29Number 4 Jenny was a friend of mine, The Killers

01:33The Killers craft noir pop loosely inspired by the Preppy Killer case, pairing urgent basslines

01:38with accessible melodies and an ambiguous narrative.

01:42Number 3 I Don't Like Mondays

01:45The Boomtown Rats

01:46Bob Geldof channels Brenda Ann Spencer's school shooting into chilling commentary, emphasizing banal

01:52evil behind motiveless violence and everyday tragedy.

01:56Number 2 Nebraska Bruce Springsteen

01:59Bruce Springsteen strips down to 4-track intimacy, narrating Starkweather's killing spree with bleak

02:04restraint, avoiding glamorization while exposing American darkness.

02:09Number 1 Hurricane Bob Dylan

02:13Bob Dylan's 1975 epic spotlights Reuben Hurricane Carter's wrongful conviction, marrying fiery lyrics and

02:20violin to indict systemic injustice.

02:24Number 2