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I was telling

jaina that the theme song for The Sopranos would make good icons for Wolfwood and Trigun icons. I thought I'd share the song here, because I've been crushing on it anyway lately, even though I'm not a big Sopranos person.

This AtS Wesley vid I saw to it was kinda cool though.

When I was thinking about this for Trigun my first thought was Vash, but I think the tone of the song is distinctly too bad-ass for Vash. It's more up Wolfwood's morally ambiguous alley.

Alabama 3 - Woke Up This Morning (Right Click)

You woke up this morning
Got yourself a gun,
Your mama always said you'd be
The Chosen One

She said: You're one in a million
You've got to burn to shine,
But you were born under a bad sign,
With a blue moon in your eyes

When you woke up this morning
All that love had gone,
Your Papa never told you
About right and wrong

But you're looking good, baby,
I believe that you're feeling fine, (shame about it),
Born under a bad sign
With a blue moon in your eyes

Woke up this morning
Got a blue moon in your eyes
(so sad, goddamn, goddamn shame about it)
Woke up this morning
Got a blue moon in your eyes

See ya woke up this morning
The world turned upside down
Thing's ain't been the same
Since the Blues walked into town

But you're one in a million
Cause you've got that shotgun shine, (shame about it),
Born under a bad sign,
With a blue moon in your eyes

Woke up this morning
Got a blue moon in your eyes
(so sad, goddamn, goddamn shame about it)
Woke up this morning
Got a blue moon in your eyes
Just can't help yourself
Just can't help yourself

When you woke up this morning everything was gone
By half past ten your head was going ding-dong
Ringing like a bell from your head down to your toes
Like a voice telling you there was something you should know
Last night you was flying but today you're so low
Ain't it times like these that make you wonder if you'll ever know
The meaning of things as they appear to the others:
Wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers
Don't you wish you didn't function, don't wish you didn't think
Beyond the next paycheck and the next little drink
Well you do so make up your mind to go on,
'Cos when you woke up this morning everything you had was gone

Woke up this morning,
Woke up this morning,
You wanna be
You wanna be the Chosen One
Yeah you know it
You just can't help yourself

Woke up this morning,
Woke up this morning,
Woke up this morning,
And ya
Got yourself a gun
Got yourself a gun
Got yourself a gun.

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What category of music does this fall into? Is this song rap? I mean, it kinda has a rap-like part... but most of the song isn't very rap-like. More like evilly bluesy.

It's like that other song I like, "Appetite (For Dynamite)" by Citizen Cope, or that song "Diamonds and Guns" by the Transplants that was on the radio last year. Sort of sounds like rap or hip hop, but sorta doesn't really. That's something I like. I don't like rap generally, but if it's got an actual rhythm and even better if it has piano, then I can readily enjoy it.