Ripper Related Songs!!!

[Ryan_Miller]

So... I've been tracking down some Ripper Related songs. Here is a list of a few I've found thus far, in alphabetical order by artist. Hope you like them. A few recommendations: AFI, Morrissey, the Horrors, and Macabre. The song by Macabre is actually a reading of the Dear Boss letter to music... When I say reading I mean screaming! Still awesome though and worth a listen. To listen to the songs for free visit youtube, or projectplaylist. Hope you enjoy!



Jack the Ripper - AFI
Tombstone Blues - Bob Dylan (Ripper Reference in the song)
Jack the Ripper - Casey Jones & the Governors
Jack - Iced Earth
Anthology of Evil - Infernal Majesty
Roland - Interpol
Nice Man Jack - John Miles
The Ripper - Judas Priest
Jack the Ripper - Link Wray
Blood Red Sandman - Lordi
Jack the Ripper (Identity Unknown) - Macabre
Jack the Ripper - Morrissey
Jack the Ripper - Motorhead
Jack the Ripper - My Chemical Romance
Jack the Ripper - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
I'm the Woman That Killed Jack the Ripper - Scary Bitches
Jack the Ripper - Screaming Lord Sutch
In the Mind of A Lunatic - Sigh
Jack the Ripper - The Fuzztones
Jack the Ripper - The Gruesomes
Jack the Ripper - The Horrors
the Death of Jack the Ripper - The Legendary Pink Dots
Jack the Ripper - The Phantoms
Jack the Ripper - The Revillos (The Rezillos)
Jack the Ripper - The Sharks
The Ripper - The Used
Jack the Ripper - The Vice Principals
Jack the Ripper - The White Stripes (Live)

[sdreid]

Mack the Knife-Bobby Darin and many others including Louis Armstrong
Lulu (opera)-Casts of many

[Jeff Leahy]

To songs with referance to the Hammersmith Nude Murders:

Black Sabbath = Fairies wear Boots
Foreheads in a Fishtank = Stripper

Pirate

[Magpie]

Anthology of Evil, by Infernal Majesty.

[Divakind]

Jack The Ripper at the Moulin Rouge -- John Cale

[sdreid]

How many bands have been named Jack the Ripper? There was one in this region about 15 years ago and I bet it wasn't the only. It might even be extant, I don't know.

[Howard Brown]

Dear Ryan:

The song by Morrissey is the theme song for Rippercast, in case you haven't heard the podcasts yet....

[Ryan_Miller]

Yeah, I love the song and was excited to hear it as the theme for Rippercast. It was actually the first time I heard the recorded version, because I have the live version of it from "My Early Burglary Years". The AFI version is pretty incredible, and if you get a chance highly recommend checking it out.

[Howard Brown]

Thanks for the link,Ryan. It didn't open up, but I'll see what I can do on my other computer with it

[Esther Wilson]

Thanks for the lists...I've heard some of the songs but didn't realize that there were so many. I'm going to have to try and track down some of these and have a listen. Thanks again.

[Hellrider]

in 1988, American epic metal band MANILLA ROAD did a song called "Whitechapel".

Lyrics:

Tonight's the night
I long to strike
The time is right
Ripper

Outside the law
I taunt them on
My blade is drawn
Ripper

It's the blood before my eyes
Bringing newborn life
To this tortured mind

I thrive and feed on fear
Come closer now my dear
Your Uncle Jack is here

The hunt is on
I'll R.I.P. them all
Sweet carrion
Ripper

Whitechapel's lights
Gleam off my knife
It's time to die
Ripper

Nightmare of slaughter
Come to the daughters
Who sell their wares

Sadistic visions
Bloody incisions
On bodies bared

Inside the chapel
Unholy chapel
The blood will flow

Streets stained in crimson
With blood of women
Whose souls I stole

No place to hide
That I won't find
I rule the night
Ripper

I've no remorse
Ripping your corpse
You filthy whore
Ripper

Oh, can't you see that I'm obsessed
It's like I've been posessed
I'll lay your soul to rest this night
With my knife

I've turned these streets to hell
The Demon's come to dwell
Tolling Death's Bell in Whitechapel,
Whitechapel, playground of The Beast

My friends just call me Jack

Inside the London fog
I stalk and slash my prey
I come to disembowel
And send you to your grave

Sinful souls shall perish
In the dead of night
Ripping of the flesh
Left breast removed by knife

I have come
The Beast of lore
To kill again
Now as before

One hundred years
Have now gone by
And once again
It's ripping time

Your Uncle Jack is back
Tonight, I strike

My scalpel sharp
Cuts to the heart
I love to carve
Ripper

Fit for The Beast
A royal feast
Of women's screams
Ripper

It's the blood before my eyes
Bringing newborn life
To this tortured mind

I thrive and feed on fear
Come closer now my dear
Your Uncle Jack is here

Jack The Knife

[Steelysama]

I think the first Ripper related song I have heard was Jack by Iced Earth. In that song, they seem to take the idea that Jack was the son of a prostitute - or that is how I interpret the line "conceived of a hundred men".

[kensei]

Haven't seen "The Ripper" by Lita Ford listed here yet. Though I generally like her music, I was actually kind of turned off by this song.

[Mr.Hyde]

Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages did a video of their JTR in the 1960s.
South Molle Island had a video jukebox circa 1968-it was one of the three most played clips.
Several later groups covered the song.

[John Malcolm]

"Welcome Back Victoria"(1991) by Jesus Jones has an overt reference to JtR also.