songs about (or which mention) the JFK assassination

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Lou Reed, "The Day John Kennedy Died"
Lou Reed, "The Heroine"
Destroy All Monsters, "Nov. 22, 1963"

Rolling Stones, "Sympathy for the Devil"
The Make-Up, "Born on the Floor"

― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"Abraham Martin and John"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Misfits - Bullet

― original bgm, Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Shot By Both Sides?

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

J-F-K

blown-a-way

what-else-do-I-have-to-say?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Is is mentioned in "American Pie"? What is the body count for that song?

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

stenski and mass media 'the motorcade sped on'

he said oh no

― milton, Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, quite recently I suppose,

The Postal Service "Sleeping In"

― mikef, Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Saxon - "Dallas 1pm"

― Richard (avoid80), Thursday, 17 April 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Adam & the Ants - 'Catholic Day'

― charley, Thursday, 17 April 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"Conspiracy Theory", Steve Earle.

― matt riedl (veal), Thursday, 17 April 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

'Seconds' - The Human League

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 17 April 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"Family Snapshot" by Peter Gabriel
(At least I think that's what he's referring to.)

― Steven Copley, Thursday, 17 April 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"Glad I'm Not a Kennedy" by Shona Laing

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 April 2003 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"Family Snapshot" seemed more oddly prescient to the Reagan assasination attempt than to JFK's, no? (it did pre-date the event, I believe).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 April 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"when oswald shot kennedy he was insane, and still we watch the reruns again and again, we all sit glued as the killer takes aim, LOOK MA, THERE GOES A PIECE OF THE PRESIDENT'S BRAIN!!!".-The Kinks "Give The People What They Want"

― scott seward, Thursday, 17 April 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"Five Stop Mother Superior Rain" by the Flaming Lips.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 18 April 2003 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"Family Snapshot" by Peter Gabriel

Gabriel original wrote this after reading Arthur Bremer's book "An Assassin's Diary". Bremer was going to kill Nixon initially and then ended up settling for shooting (but only paralizing) George Wallace. Full details and background here.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Friday, 18 April 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Some JFK songs...

The Byrds - "He Was A Friend Of Mine"
Was Not Was - "11 mph"

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Friday, 18 April 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Prefab Sprout - "Hey Manhattan"

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 18 April 2003 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Dream Academy, "Life in a Northern Town":

"He said in Winter 1963
It felt like the world would freeze,
With John F. Kennedy and the Beatles."

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 18 April 2003 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

In Dory Previn's song 'Doppelganger' her doppelganger

... was in the crowd at Dallas
When the president was shot
I saw him at the palace (?)
At the close of Camelot

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 18 April 2003 06:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"Long time gone" by Crosby Stills and Nash, surely?

― Rob M (Rob M), Friday, 18 April 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"Wendy" - Concrete Blond

― Brandon Gentry (Brandon Gentry), Friday, 18 April 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

XTC- Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead (metaphorically speaking)

― earlnash, Friday, 18 April 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

'Oswald Defence Laywer' by The Fall.

― rw, Friday, 18 April 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"Reverence" by the Mary Chain

"I wanna die just like JFK
I wanna die on a sunny day
I wanna die just like JFK
I wanna die in the USA"

― darren (darren), Friday, 18 April 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Search Can't Keep from Crying: Topical Blues on the Death of President Kennedy, on Testament.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre000/e036/e03603o8jyg.jpg

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 18 April 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Black Velvet Flag - "I Shot JFK" (which, ironically, is playing right as I TYPE THIS!)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 18 April 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

Guns N' Roses- Civil War.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 4 March 2010 06:20 (fifteen years ago)

Wu-Tang Clan, "I Can't Go to Sleep"

― fart and crazy swag (The Reverend), Thursday, 4 March 2010 08:18 (fifteen years ago)

New Order - 1963

― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 4 March 2010 08:27 (fifteen years ago)

"The American in Me" The Avengers

― Zachary Taylor, Thursday, 4 March 2010 08:30 (fifteen years ago)

DEVO - Come Back Jonee

― Nate Carson, Thursday, 4 March 2010 09:23 (fifteen years ago)

We're missing the all-timer: Huns - "Glad He's Dead." Austin punk band mocking their fellow Texans: "Said he'd get us to the moon, then spent his time chasing poon. I'm glad he's dead—that fucking Red. I helped Lee Oswald shoot him in the head."

― Michael Train, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:59 (fifteen years ago)

Mekons - Insignificance

― dad a, Friday, 5 March 2010 03:34 (fifteen years ago)

There's a time to fuck and a time to crave, but the Shah sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave!

-Butthole Surfers

― earlnash, Friday, 5 March 2010 04:36 (fifteen years ago)

They Might Be Giants' "Purple Toupee" has a confused narrator getting it all jumbled together:

I remember the book depository where they
crowned the king of Cuba

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 5 March 2010 04:54 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

Norton Records marks the occasion

http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2013-11-22/tragic-songs-from-the-grassy-knoll-john-f-kennedy-50th-anniversary-collection/

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 November 2013 20:29 (twelve years ago)

Unmentioned (and the lyrics are a bit opaque):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLfSDokKJoI

― charm/anti-charm annihilation (Sanpaku), Thursday, 21 November 2013 21:05 (twelve years ago)

One of the "Smoking Banana Peels" remixes mentions a Swimsuit Issue and a Videotape of the Kennedy Assassination

― Poliopolice, Thursday, 21 November 2013 21:06 (twelve years ago)

my longtime fave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9jAGtfi8S4

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 November 2013 16:21 (twelve years ago)

some pre- and post-Dallas JFK records here (at least one pro-segregation)

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/53286

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 November 2013 16:25 (twelve years ago)

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