Current Events: When Pirates Attack - Paste counts down the Top 20 Best Pirate Songs not appearing in a Disney movie or theme-park ride

17. "Seven Seas" - Echo & the Bunnymen

Most notorious this decade for the appearance of their creepy song, "The Killing Moon," in cult-classic film Donnie Darko, Echo & the Bunnymen's music is nicely suited to piracy, as illustrated by all the New Wave-copping "dance-rock" bands of the early aughties. Echo's music is also suited to another, more literal, kind of piracy, too, as this oceanic weeper attests. "Stab a sorry heart" indeed, just like a pirate would.

16. "Cross Bones Style" - Cat Power

Cat Power's Chan Marshall tells a tale of a damsel in distress, held captive against her will by some stuffy, pantaloon-and-powdered-wig-wearing commodore with strategic marriage intentions. She sings lonesomely, locked in her quarters, waiting for the sexy, black-clad pirate of her dreams to rescue her. At least that's how I read it.

15. "Blackbeard" - Flat Duo Jets

This plank-struttin' minor-key rockabilly nugget from Dex and Crow of the Flat Duo Jets gets inside the head of the most infamous pirate in history, Edward Teach... aka "Blackbeard," the very scoundrel Depp's Jack Sparrow was based on in the recent Pirates movies.

14. "Jolly Roger" - Adam & the Ants

This British band was part of the short-lived New Romantic scene, bridging the gap between early punk rock and New Wave. Here, they offer a proto-pirate-punk anthem in which they menacingly scream, "It's your money that we want, and your money we shall have!" Blackbeard also makes a cameo.

13. "Scurvy" - Captain Bogg

I stumbled across this pirate-punk gem while researching this mix. If you made a list of requirements for the perfect pirate-punk jam, this song would leave no box unchecked. Featuring awesomely stupid, unnecessarily shouted background vocals, poorly faked British accents, xylophone, "argh!"s, jigs, bones, peg-legs, pirate ships, cannonballs, gunpowder, limes, rum, scurvy and... bunny rabbits? Yes, bunny rabbits.