Halloween Playlist - Murder ballads?

We're sharing Murder Ballads in the office and working on adding to our playlist.

Any suggestions? A few on the list so far (and eclectic is cool)

Long Black Veil - Johnny Cash
Secret - The Pierces
Breakfast in Hell - Slaid Cleaves
Down by the River - Neil Young

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Curse of Millhaven

edit... There *may* be a naughty word or two somewhere in there, can't quite recall.

Knoxville Girl is one that has been around a long time, recorded by a variety of folks.
It's fairly... descriptive.

The Bonny Swans - Loreena McKennitt

I have never heard the Neil Young version of Down by the Water, only the PJ Harvey, which is super creepy.

A few more that have come in:
The Decemberists - The Rake's Song
Richard Thompson - Sidney Wells
The Beatles' "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
Mack the Knife
Marie Laveau - I found the version by Dr. John

Decemberists have a few:

Shankill Bucthers
Mariner's Revenge Song
The Culling Of The Fold

There are a few good versions of "In the Pines" I think Nirvana has a live one that is great.

The Raconteurs - Carolina Drama
Violent Femmes - Country Death Song
Tom Waits - Murder in the Red Barn

A couple that I am not sure if they make the cut as they are not really ballads

Ludo - Horror of our Love
might fit, but its a bit blunt

New Blood Revival - He's No Good For You
Again pretty blunt like the previous song but still good

Within Temptation - Angels
The music video makes it more of a murder ballad then the lyrics do by themselves

Not quite (at all) a ballad, but D.B. Rielly's I Got A Girlfriend will fill any zydeco-murder-song-shaped hole in your lineup.

I always imagined that "I Put a Spell on You" by Screaming Jay Hawkins was a prelude to some good ol' fashioned murder. Then Marylin Manson covered it and confirmed my suspicion.

Understated, dark and bloody? I'm with imbiginjapan. Sounds like a job for Nick Cave.

Dock Boggs has the best murder ballads. They're all mostly traditional songs that other people have been singing for a hundred years but his particular style of banjo playing just scares the sh*t out of me.

Isn't the name of the Nick Cave album on which Curse of Milhaven is found called "Murder Ballads?" It's a great album!

A murder of crows , perhaps. Or not. You decide.

I hung my head - Cash

not sure if anyone listens to this kind of music, but sleeping with sirens has recently released a new single dedicated to Halloween.

And how can we forget Tom Lehrer?

I always thought it was funny that so many people liked Kenny Rogers 'Laura' and he's talking about murder.

It's time for Halloween. Do you know where your haunted house is? At home, with these do-it-yourself suggestions! You can pay for your Halloween fun with a personal finance.

Seems fitting that something should come back from the dead on Halloween and I enjoyed everyone's suggestions last year. Any new songs to add to the list?

Toadies seem to like doing songs about murder, though they aren't ballads. I did find this acoustic performance by the lead singer that is pretty good. The first verse of Jigsaw Girl is great.

I just realized that my post from last year mixed up two songs. This is the PJ Harvey song I was going to recommend:

How about some death jazz?

edit: just realized murder ballads aren't just songs with a dark theme. My bad, but keep these songs as a token.

Arise Halloween thread.

I enjoyed this a few years ago. Anyone have new suggestions?