Talk:List of songs about or referencing serial killers

Gary Gilmore?
"Bring on the Night" is about Gary Gilmore? Can anyone find a citation? Bunnygod888 05:34, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I looked around the net a bit and found most were some copies of wikipedia. Discussion in a forum indicates that Sting spoke about this in an interview.  Folks in the forum have quotes and mention a source.  Anybody have access to these?  If not, I'd say remove it. -MrFizyx 15:17, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Second AfD
Also closed as no consensus. A strong point was made that this should be referenced more properly. Note, however, that the songs themselves act as primary sources so it's unfair to simply view the whole list as entirely unreferenced but the concerns about original synthesis need to be addressed further. Pascal.Tesson 19:21, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Recent cleanup
I alphabetized according to last name, per near-universal convention. Where the real identity of a killer is unknown, I listed according to the first main word in the popular name/pseudonym. For example, "Jack the Ripper" is listed under "J." When a duo was listed together, I alphabetized according to the last name of the member whose name comes first in the alphabet, so Eric Harris and Dylan Kliebold are listed under "H." Exception: "Bonnie and Clyde," who are overwhelmingly recognized according to that dyad of first names. A future improvement could list members of duos separately, with a "See X" direction (For example: "Clyde Barrow: See Bonnie and Clyde.").

Since this a list of songs, different covers of the same song need not be listed. If a song is popular enough to have multiple covers, it will (or should) have its own article, where those covers can be mentioned. Songs whose authors or performers are not notable should be excluded, to prevent this from becoming an indiscriminate repository for songs by countless local bands who aren't famous (yet).

Song titles should be followed by author, along with a citation of sheet music or a major recording of the song. Where a song's subject is not obvious from the song title, there should be citation and quoting of the pertinent lyrics. I'm not prepared to undertake this improvement at this time. I'm also not crazy about giving each killer their own heading, especially since a lot of them have only one or a few songs. We'll see if anyone else jumps in. Good luck to you. Nick Graves (talk) 05:24, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Title change
This page should be simply titled 'list of songs about or referencing to killers' as I think it was previously, many of the people listed are not serial killers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.175.143.16 (talk) 01:13, 14 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Seconding this. Several are murderers, not serial killers. andersole (talk) 21:50, 3 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Nobody will care about me but I was coming here to pitch the exact same idea. It could be changed to "referencing mass killers" "mass murderers and serial killers", etc. 174.56.14.108 (talk) 05:03, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

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This needs a section for songs about serial killers in general
The list as is only includes songs about specific killers; I feel it should also have a section listing songs about serial killers or serial killing in general, such as Psycho Killer by the Talking Heads or If I Was A Serial Killer by Insane Clown Posse — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.121.6.113 (talk) 22:32, 13 January 2018 (UTC)