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On his album Your Funeral... My Trial, Cave does a version of Tim Rose's "Long Time Man" - both are great.

Used to find this one, about a guy on death row, impossibly powerful and moving but now... seems praps a tad hokey?

Songs about prison.... Nick Cave had a fascination for crims (and acted in a film about prison, Ghosts... of the Civil Dead)

Ah, well this is a big one that I only just remembered - The Stones, "We Love You" - doesn't it start with the sound of the cell door being shut and locked? William Rees-Mogg's leader in the Times suggesting that the punishment did not fit the crime in the case of Mr. Jagger at least (Mr...

The Cramps at the mental institution is a good one...

They did actually write a song about being in jail - but much later (1986)

Ah, completely forgot - the drummer, Jet Black, wrote a monograph on their French stint en prison

Then a bit later the Stranglers got put away themselves - twice There was the incident in France where they were accused of fomenting a concert riot at Nice University and got thrown in the slammer for a few nights. And then Hugh Cornwell got done for drugs possession (smack if I recall right)...

The Stranglers played a gig at Chelmsford Prison too (with the Pistols playing there, it was almost a stop on the gig circuit)

Yeah I was thinking those could be a contender - "Folsom Prison Blues" etc There's an actor in Cool Hand Luke I always think is Johnny Cash

There's that bit in Neon Screams about an imprisoned Vybz Kartel doing his vocals for records via cellphone A student of mine did a paper on Drakeo the Ruler recording an album using the the prison phone service provider GTL and titling the record after it. In a completely different realm...

Once, calling a bank or some other institution in America, I was startled to hear the original music sampled on this - Not the whole track but a section of it with all the key "Information Centre" jazzy refrains. Round and round it went, brightening my purgatorial wait for a human assistant...

the fakesimiles are getting more and more convincing

A lot of these are - regardless of enjoyability levels, objectively speaking - When Belgium Didn't Rule the World or Just Before Belgium Ruled the World or When Belgium Ruled... Belgium

Bleep is actually the same - there's this moment of insane greatness 89 to end of '91 Then the people responsible dispersed stylistically and what they do next is not nearly as compelling Nightmares On Wax become trip hop, RHK goes more or less IDM, Rob Gordon does.... well I have this Rob...

Yes that's what puzzled me - like what happened after 92? It's like a really narrow moment of insane greatness - roughly 90-92. New Beat seemed fun at the time but can't listen to it now.