Musical Murder Mysteries!
 

Here's the game:

Someone was just murdered... and it's your job to decode the mystery using your large wealth of music-related knowledge!

I will include a bunch of clues alluding to either artists, albums or songs. When these clues are decoded, they will answer the following questions:

- Who was killed
- Who the killer was
- Where the murder took place
- What weapon was used to kill the victim

You are the grand game master. Can't wait ti play.

The First Murder:
 

Here are the 4 clues for the first murder:

1. Lyle Lovett's novelty song about an eccentric orator
2. A live album by Green Day
3. Pioneer in the new wave of British heavy metal
4. Long-Island based band who have an obsession with the paranormal

Why thank you Conan. I feel very appreciated here, unlike in many other forums where I am shunned as a "trivial rabblerouser"

:P

NOTE: Please feel free to "think out loud" on here to get inputs from other forum members. I can't guarantee I will help you guys out with hints, but I want to see what conclusions you come up with.

I wonder if it's someone involved in a Live Green Day album? Can't be a title. Hmmm..

Well, lesse. In the spirit of thinking out loud...

"Bullet in a Bible" is a live Green Day album, so I'm going to guess the murder weapon was a gun. As far as Long Island bands with a paranormal fetish, BOC leaps to mind, although I'm not sure that's who you were going for or what to make of it if it is. The british heavy metal bit is also a bit vague as yet--assuming we're just dealing with the band name directly as the clue, maybe Saxon if it's one of the people involved.

The Lyle Lovett one has me stymied, though.

Well you got the BOC right and the "bullet in a bible" is not only in reference to the murder weapon, but also gives hints to who got killed. Think of New Wave of British Heavy Metal Bands with names that have to do with a bible...

I'm spoonfeeding you guys on this one because it's the first mystery.

Think of the connection between the "Blue Oyster CULT" and "Bullet in a BIBLE" and extrapolate from there.

OK, so we're not dealing with a strictly one-to-one relationship between clues and bits of information. That's helpful to know. I'm getting more impressed by how thought out this is.

One can assume that you're referring to Judas Priest then (although Satan and a couple others might also apply, JP seems the most obvious). And I'm guessing you're referring to "Church" by ol' Lyle, yes?

So a cult member shot (and possibly ate) a priest in a church? Maybe?

Yes, yes, yes. You're 100% right. I'll release the next mystery in a moment...

Next mystery...

Little known track from Motorhead's 1993 album
Rush album featuring their first UK hit
Muse album; one of its tracks rips off a chopin waltz almost note for note
The last track on the album that opens with “21st Century Schizoid Man”

I love how the only one I know is the The Resistance.

In The Court of The Crimson King(Including The Return of the Fire Witch and The Dance of the Puppets) is the 4th one. So there was some kind of resistance in a court?

Well, the first Rush single to chart in the UK was from "A Farewell to Kings," I believe.
And the track of "Bastards" (the Motorhead album in question) that seems to best fit this scenario is "I Am the Sword"

So I'm going to guess that a King was killed by the sword of a resistance member in his court.

This is fun.

Right again, my friend!

The third murder mystery!

Power metal band founded by ex-Helloweener
Pink Floyd’s most iconic album
Elton John hit; major themes expressed are estrangement and detachment
The creature that’s “hanging ten” in Joe Satriani's famous instrumental

Dark Side Of The Moon?
Rocket Man?
A space theme maybe?

Well, I was gonna give someone else a chance, but ok. It's been 2 days.

So the Joe Satriani clue refers to "Surfing with the Alien" I'm assuming. And I think the other clue refers to Kai Hansen's tenure in Gamma Ray.

So the only thing I'm unclear on is who murders whom here. But I'm going to guess that an Alien from the Dark Side of the Moon blasts an astronaut to death with radiation.

This one's gonna be more free-form. The clues won't point to specific events or individuals, but they will make sense in the end and will weave a setting and story from which you can extrapolate what happened.

Here it is:

- Billy Joel album from the 90's
- Genesis' most notable prog epic
- Opening cut from Panic! At the Disco's "Beatlesque" album
- Talking Heads Hit Single
- Erez Eisen's psychothropic eurodance project
- Song off "The Stranger"

Someone was killed by a Psycho Killer at Nine In The Afternoon.

Actually, Nine in the Afternoon isn't the FIRST track on Pretty Odd... There was an opening cut before it ;)

All right, going to take a stab at it...

At the "River of Dreams", they were told "Supper's Ready". They were excited for supper and said, "We're So Starving". They were killed by a "Psycho Killer" who fed them "Infected Mushroom"s. The identity of the "Psycho Killer?" "She's always a woman."

Or something.

Hmmmm...

Very close, but it didn't take place on a river bank. It was actually a "Scene from an Italian Restaurant". And the individual who was murdered was an "Innocent Man"... although I might have messed up there because I think that album's from the 80's. Oh well.

yeah you messed up because scenes from an Italian restaurant was on one of his albums from the late 70s actually. Off of the album The Stranger.

Actually, there were two Billy Joel albums - just picked the wrong song from "The Stranger" and the other album wasn't actually from the '90s, so I missed that bit.

I wasn't saying you messed up but the guy that put up the clues.