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spiderhead69 02-09-2008, 01:53 AM Everone's done the fav top 10 on a desert island, or songs to play at your funeral. But I searched and didn't find this topic so here goes...
You are terminaly ill and will die soon. What ONE song would you like to hear as you pass over into the other side.
For me I hope that song is Frank Zappa - Watermelon In Easter Hay.
Go...
Drybasement 02-09-2008, 02:02 AM Without haste...
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Probably my most favorite tune ever.
Cheers
Scuzzer 02-09-2008, 02:11 AM Hah! Funny you should start this thread. I just got done reading the desert island thread and my parting thought was "I wonder which song will be the last I hear". Slightly different from your thread title but similar enough that I'll go with the song I had in mind.
John Cale - Helen of Troy off of Circus Live
Hopefully then I'd die with a smile on my face.
BajaGringo 02-09-2008, 02:17 AM Porcelain by Moby.
It was a favorite of my daughter Olivia and I played it during the photo collage of her life at her funeral service. It's been almost four years and the song still brings tears when I hear it on the radio...
http://www.Baja-Websites.com/Photos/Olivia-Dad.jpg
Olivia Corinne Hoff
06/27/89 - 04/22/04
ampegdan 02-09-2008, 06:15 AM Either "The Mighty Quinn" or "Whiter Shade Of Pale".
Sandy G 02-09-2008, 06:22 AM What else ? "Piano Exit" from "Layla", of course...
ejguillot 02-09-2008, 06:43 AM For now, Metallica's Fade To Black.
JJJimmy 02-09-2008, 08:09 AM Boston's "Peace of Mind"...'nuff said.
jimfet 02-09-2008, 08:29 AM Angel, by Hendrix
Mystic 02-09-2008, 10:13 AM Porcelain by Moby.
It was a favorite of my daughter Olivia and I played it during the photo collage of her life at her funeral service. It's been almost four years and the song still brings tears when I hear it on the radio...
http://www.Baja-Websites.com/Photos/Olivia-Dad.jpg
Olivia Corinne Hoff
06/27/89 - 04/22/04
I'll bet it does. My belated condolences to you and your family, sir.
pmsummer 02-09-2008, 11:57 AM Porcelain by Moby.
It was a favorite of my daughter Olivia and I played it during the photo collage of her life at her funeral service. It's been almost four years and the song still brings tears when I hear it on the radio...
http://www.Baja-Websites.com/Photos/Olivia-Dad.jpg
Olivia Corinne Hoff
06/27/89 - 04/22/04
Here's to the time you'll listen to it together, in the future to come. Vaya con Dios, Olivia.
pmsummer 02-09-2008, 11:58 AM "Wondrous Love", as performed by Jean Ritchie with the Revels.
screenersam 02-09-2008, 12:00 PM 'Agnus Dei', Michael W. Smith.
BajaGringo 02-09-2008, 12:03 PM Thanks guys - for some reason she has been on my mind more than usual these past few days and the subject is really pulling at my heart right now. But don't let me pull this down - I really like the thread...
:music:
"Kind Of A Drag" - The Buckinghams
Saint Johnny 02-09-2008, 03:16 PM First Choice?
Live Forever-Oasis
Honorable mentions:
Shine A Light-The Rolling Stones
Just Wanna See His Face-The Rolling Stones
6thumbs 02-09-2008, 03:20 PM Can,t You here Me Knocking,,,, Rolling Stones
grateful 02-09-2008, 03:38 PM Mozart Requiem . My condolences also.
Excumbrian 02-09-2008, 04:21 PM What else ? "Piano Exit" from "Layla", of course...
The piano exit on Layla is a direct quote from Schumann's Romance in F (fyi)
Death bed: "We gotta get out of this place" : The Animals ;)
Funeral: "Elegy" by Jethro Tull and "The Dreamer" by Keith Emerson
VinylHanger 02-09-2008, 04:35 PM Death bed-Knockin' on Heavens Door, Dylan's version.
Funeral-Carefree Highway, Gordon Lightfoot.
scubaguy10 02-09-2008, 04:47 PM Kinda reminds me if the opening scene in the movie "The Big Chill" when one of the dead guy's friends sits down at the organ and plays a rather halting version of "You can't always get what You Want" by the Stones. Pretty good choice, actually.
chathamdad 02-09-2008, 04:57 PM "The Best Thing" by Richard Page, from his 1996 album "Shelter Me."
electronjohn 02-09-2008, 05:10 PM My wife is adamant: "Into The Mystic"...Van Morrison. Me? Someone'll have to flip a coin..either "Moonlight Mile" from the Stones or "Aja"...the ENTIRE album if you please.
bordeno 02-09-2008, 05:11 PM Elvis' (There'll Be) Peace In the Valley
Whom the Gods Love, Dies Young
Scorpion8 02-09-2008, 05:29 PM Scorpions ~ Rock You Like a Hurricane. Gotta let 'em know I'm coming in a big way .....
opt80 02-09-2008, 05:45 PM Lawyers,Guns and Money ~ Zevon
or
Movin' Out ~ Billy Joel
Andyman 02-09-2008, 06:14 PM What else ? "Piano Exit" from "Layla", of course...
Geez Sandy, now I'll be seein' you and dead "Goodfellas" everytime I hear that song.
My choice??? Haven't a clue. Maybe some Yoko Ono so I don't linger.........
ampegdan 02-09-2008, 06:48 PM My wife is adamant: "Into The Mystic"...Van Morrison. Me? Someone'll have to flip a coin..either "Moonlight Mile" from the Stones or "Aja"...the ENTIRE album if you please.
Do the Aja album THEN "Moonlight Mile"; that big G chord at the end would be a great fadeout.
Is that a Lockheed Constellation on your avatar?
Elfasto 02-09-2008, 07:02 PM Wild horses - The Rolling Stones
bordeno 02-09-2008, 07:20 PM Carmelita ...... Zevon
As more songs come to me, I'll post 'em.
Interesting thread/
Can't believe nobody has mentioned Led Zeppelin's "In My Time of Dying". Maybe not my first choice for a last song, but I still can't believe nobody mentioned it......
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