Re: Just the song titles, ma'am

"Rough Detective" - The Dead Weather
"She Was a Hotel Detective" - They Might Be Giants
"Detectives" - Big Boys
"Magic Pig Detective" - The Melvins
"Watching the Detectives" - Elvis Costello
"The Events Leading Up to the Collapse of Detective Dulllight" - Of Montreal
"Blackout Detective" - Pink Razors
"Detective Song" - The Blue Aeroplanes
"Pete, King of the Detectives" - Big Black
"Detective" - No Doubt
"Bad Detective" - The New York Dolls
"Detective Tracy" - Poster Children
"Tracking the Detectives" - Darkblueworld
"Private Eye" - Alkaline Trio
"Day in the Life of a Private Eye" - The Aqua Velvets
"Private Eyes" - Hall & Oates
"Private Investigations" - Dire Straits

"(Watch You With My) Private Eye" the Hitmen
"Raymond Chandler Evening" - Robyn Hitchcock
"The Murder Mystery" - Velvet Underground

Just about anything off Beat Noir by Fingerprintz, though "Wet Job" and "Bulletproof Heart" on their earlier albums also have a crime novel vibe.



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"Murder, Tonight, In The Trailer Park," Cowboy Junkies

We Are Detective - Thompson Twins

"Looking for Clues"-Robert Palmer
"Sherlock Holmes" - Sparks
"Teenage FBI" - Guided by Voices
"Mulder & Scully" - Catatonia

Detective Agency - The Lucksmiths
Love Detective - Arab Strap
Sherlock Holmes - The Red Krayola
I Am The Law - The Human League

"L'Affaire Dumoutier" - The Box

Crime Scene Part One - Afghan Whigs.
Great Cop - Fugazi

Paul Weller - "Clues"

Police "Murder by Numbers"

Spiritualized - Cop Shoot Cop
Sylvain Sylvain - The Cops are Coming
John Maus - Cop Killer

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Spiritualized - Cop Shoot Cop

Isn't that song about the vicious cycle of heroin use?

1.) Cop
2.) Shoot
3.) See #1

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My only suggestion for this thread runs something like:

"Anything by Closeau" ... and/or maybe a few Henry Mancini tunes from the appropriate films of yesteryear.

I cannot get enough Belgian pop music.

Um. Don't Rock. Waffle.

Yeah, you're definitely right. It's Not about police at all.