I offer up the entirety of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' album MURDER BALLADS
as another possibility (and talk about "Noir atmosphere": his song "Red
Right Hand.").
Brian
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Patrick King <abrasax93@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I maintain that the best noir song ever is Robert Earl Keen's "The Road
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> on Forever." A Gold Medal novel in 5 minutes. It even has a motel in it.
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> Come on! The greatest noir song of all time is POTTER'S FIELD from Tom
> Waits' 1977 release, FOREIGN AFFAIR, a collection of very noir songs:
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> "Buy me a drink and I'll tell you what I seen, I give you a bargain from
> the edge of a maniac's dream, about a black widow spider with a riddle in
> his yarn is clinging to the ferule of a blind man's brow. And I'll start
> talking from the brim of a thimble full of whiskey..."
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> Patrick King
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