Criminal Activities
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Songs about or referencing actions of dubious legality.
[edit] Central theme
- AKA Driver - Drunk driving, speeding
- Christmas Cards - Robbery, "every Christmas card I write has been stolen"
- Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal - Payola / fraud
- Hodgman Promo 3 - "skipped out on $1200 in back rent / masturbating out the window"
- I'll Sink Manhattan
- I'm Your Boyfriend Now - stalking
- It Never Fails
- It's Fun To Steal
- I've Learned The Value Of Human Sacrifice
- Irving Plaza - counterfeiting?
- Lesson 16 - murder
- No One Knows My Plan
- Ondine - assault, attempted murder, "Run over my body with a pick-up truck", "don't make me kill you again, because I couldn't bear to kill you again"
- Out Of Jail - grand theft auto, "It was like a T.V. show, the way she stole that car"
- Reprehensible
- The Shadow Government
- Somebody Took My Eyeball
- Thunderbird - popular interpretation puts it about drunk driving
[edit] Briefly mentioned
- 7-11 - "Shoplifting is a crime"
- Alienation's For The Rich - Drunk driving
- Bangs (McSweeneys' Version) - murder, see Discussion)
- Bastard Wants To Hit Me - Attempted assault and battery
- Call Connected Thru The NSA - "Suspending your rights"
- Careless Santa - robbery
- Celebrities - "They steal my soul"
- Certain People I Could Name - murder
- Ballad Of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space) - He knows who's guilty before there's even a crime
- Fun Assassin - "hijack the parade"
- Haunted Floating Eye - "'Til I killed someone"
- Hillbilly Drummer Girl - if she's really a girl, she shouldn't be drinking
- If I Wasn't Shy - arson, theft
- I've Got A Match - animal cruelty, "Beat up the cat"
- My Evil Twin - vandalism, "Doing dough-nuts on the neighbor's lawn"
- Now Is Strange - "Have you seen that naughty boy / Who steals each blade of grass" - Theft
- Poison Flowers - murder, theft, destruction of public property
- Scott Bower - "Don't make me steal"
- Sketchy Galore - "Stolen by Sketchy, Mr. Sketchy Galore"
- Subway Token To Brooklyn - "Claims he killed our parents"
- Tigerella - assault
- Turn Around - murder, "a man I had recently killed"
- We Live In A Dump - vagrancy
- When It Rains It Snows - firing a gun within city limits(?)
- Whistling In The Dark - assault, hitting people with rocks
- The World's Address - "Someone in the club tonight has stolen my ideas" (Joshua Fried remix)
- Wreck It Apart - "Don't make me kill you again"
- Yeah, The Deranged Millionaire - betting/gambling
- You'll Miss Me - "Morticians wait with a shovel and a fork as detectives trace my hands with chalk"
[edit] Honorable mentions
[edit] See also