I’m reading Pahluniak’s An Oral Biography of Buster Casey. Hysterical, man. Crazy.
Anyway, it brought up the idea of theme songs. Particularly the last song you think you should hear before or while you’re dying. What do you think your dying song should be?
I’d hope to be listening to Phil Collins’s No Jacket Required. And the song before I croak would hopefully be Sussudio. Call me nostalgic, but Phil is an awesome musician and I fell in love with his music when I was a wee lad. His and the rest of Genesis.
Of course I would probably have Modest Mouse on and Bury Me With It would be my dirge.
Famous Last Tunes: It’s been reported that Miles Davis was listening to “The Unforgettable Fire” by U2 when he passed away in hospital.
I can think of a number of answers to this question, from the ridiculous (“Kickstart My Heart” by Motley Crue? Only if I knew there was some chance of survival ... “That’s All Folks,” the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theme?) to the sublime.
My iPod Death Playlist:
“An Ending (Ascent)”/Brian Eno
“Fade Into You”/Mazzy Star
“It Was A Good Day”/Ice Cube
“Mansion On The Hill”/Bruce Springsteen
“Heard From Telegraph Lines”/Boards Of Canada
“Lay Me Low”/Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
“The Great Gig In The Sky”/Pink Floyd
“My City Was Gone”/The Pretenders
“Better World A-Comin’”/Woody Guthrie
“9th & Hennepin”/Tom Waits
“Aunt Avis”/Widespread Panic
“The Wanderer”/Johnny Cash
Soundtrack from “The Bourne Identity” by John Powell
“I Cover The Waterfront”/John Lee Hooker
and maybe a hidden bonus track, “Her Majesty” by The Beatles, thrown in after a 15-second pause after The End.
If I had to narrow it down to one, probably something pastoral, like the Springsteen or Boards of Canada tune up above. Or maybe Simon & Garfunkel’s “America.”
Colin Hay singing Overkill acoustically like on season 2 of Scrubs.
I would want to go at the very end where he repeats “Ghosts appear and fade away…”, then just fade away.
Dude! Great choice.
Hmmm…this is a weird thing to think about. Cuz you know that once you post the song you want to die to here, you’re just inviting the universe to kill you the next time you hear the song.
Hmmm…this is a weird thing to think about. Cuz you know that once you post the song you want to die to here, you’re just inviting the universe to kill you the next time you hear the song.
I’m not worried… the universe has never held me in high enough regard to be that poetic.
I’ll probably die to the tune of something like My Humps, or perhaps a KFC commercial.
I’s is ascared. You done sic’d dah Reaper up’n on my heiny. Why do dat? Dem shadows look’n thicker’n pitch. I be back tho’. Reaperman, him say, ‘Yo’s gonna die.’ Pointin’ his bone finger at me. But when he not lookin’ I slip ‘way wit a mad quickness. Like da lightn’n I slick out. But if’n he fin’ me and take me to his pits I’s gonna come back. I’s come back like ‘tard ghost and I’s a set to haunt’n yous for ‘ternity.
You’ve got a cover song for your deathbed anthem and then you quote William Sommerset from Se7en on what’s more or less an Ernest Hemmingway quote. But now that I think about it, that last little piece of the quote does change most of the message, so forget it. I didn’t meant to imply stupidity, man. Sorry if it came off that way.
You’ve got a cover song for your deathbed anthem and then you quote William Sommerset from Se7en on what’s more or less an Ernest Hemmingway quote. But now that I think about it, that last little piece of the quote does change most of the message, so forget it. I didn’t meant to imply stupidity, man. Sorry if it came off that way.
You didn’t say anything offensive, I just didn’t get what you meant. I do now, so… :D
I’d probably have to go with a high-falutin’ classical piece for my death song: “In Paradisum”, from Faure’s Requiem (I believe this was playing in 28 Days Later when they were driving into the city that was on fire).
BUT, at my funeral I would hope that someone would play “Dead” by They Might Be Giants.
I have to say that my favorite death/dying song would be Showbiz, by Muse. I really can’t say much more than that. It would be good for a dying montage. ya. I wish my death would be accompanied by a death montage, but that would never happen. how depressing.
