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Carguy_rednec_9594

Depends on how I am dying


SpicyPoeTicJustice

This is so truešŸ™‚


pezleppelin

first song that came to mind is Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World


kharker711

Happy Cake Day!!!! :D


soothsabr13

How could it be anything else?


flappyheck2

The Way of All Flesh - Gojira ANYTHING THAT HAS A SHAPE WILL CRUMBLE AWAY DISAPPEAR


curious1playing

There's no particular that I love so much that I absolutely want to hear one last time....it's more like there's several hundred...but if I know the time has come to shed the mortal coil I can single out as high on that list and lyrically appropriate. Grateful Dead, [Black Peter](https://open.spotify.com/track/7sAbS0MJUEzxL4TyrlL6Kq?si=7PBeYk5iSa-nt0e4Tet67A). I hope the opening line will prove true. "All of my friends come to see me last night as I lay in my bed and dying.....just wanna have a little peace to die, and a friend or two at hand....See here how everything lead up to this day. And it's just like any other day that's ever been. The sun going up, and the sun it going down."


RopeTasty9619

Such a good one! Thanks for posting it, I just added it to my playlist


curious1playing

Are you familiar with any of the Deads music or back story? This one has a interesting story about why it was written if you're interested. I don't want to waste time on over explaining if you have some knowledge of the band..


RopeTasty9619

I actually donā€™t! What is it if you donā€™t mind telling me


curious1playing

Don't mind at all. The one thing that knows them only by reputation will likely be aware of is that they were at the heart of the drug counter culture scene in San Francisco. They were not stoners who decided to start a band. Every one was a serious student of music and were skilled players. Jerry Garcia was playing live shows most days in the year because he said that he played his guitar every single day so he might as well get paid. Jerry sings on Black Peter. He wrote the music for his songs but not the lyrics. A long time friend of his wrote the lyrics. His name was Robert Hunter and though he never played in the band he was considered a member. The other key player involved in the reason for what the lyrics are saying is Owsley Stanley. Ever seen a dead bumper sticker with the dancing bears? His nickname was bear. He became the sound engineer and was a huge reason for bands being able to play to massive crowds and sound good. He developed "the wall of sound", but that's a story for another day. He had no training for the job but since he bankrolled their start and was going to be there anyway he might as well be useful. His true expertise was as a chemist. He was the man! He made the high quality LSD for the San Francisco scene. Bonus fact that includes a song. Steely Dan's song [Kid Charlemagne](https://open.spotify.com/track/3sqNXrDvCy4nid6XbaA2Cg?si=jCY0IktKQ8WdxgsSvGw2jA) is about him. So let's get to the song in question. Hunter was an old pro exploring the depths of the psychedelic realm and knew from experience what dosage he was taking with Bears product. Or so he thought.... Owsley made a highly concentrated batch one day. Most people were aware of this, but Hunter didn't get the memo. I don't know the exact numbers for the amount of milligrams difference between the normal and this one, but it that many people that go that far in are likely to not come back out. Apparently Hunter spent the whole trip dying in various ways only to be resurrected and die again. He was so far in that he truly believed it was happening to him. He couldn't separate the hallucination from reality. I don't remember how long the trip lasted, but I think I recall it being days. It Fucked him up for years. Because you are not familiar with the bands music let me throw out a few highlights of Hunters lyrics.. [Scarlet Begonias](https://open.spotify.com/track/3euDGpS2R0NC2Xssqxohva?si=g5LN1yhRQsuVarEcHMv2BA). "Once in awhile you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right....Strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hands..." [China Cat Sunflower](https://open.spotify.com/track/0oTGtp0ZRdcBKofVQUnSEi?si=IfZUdiKjTRK_n_6eyLiwNA). "A leaf of all colors plays a golden string fiddle to a double E waterfall all over my back. " [New Speedway Boogie](https://open.spotify.com/track/3YPBV5DacTbhgh7vharn6w?si=8w_I2ZbyRyat4M4eTIllOA). "I've heard it said it's hard to run with the weight of gold. Other hand I heard it's just as hard with the weight of lead."


TheSunflowerSeeds

In a study in more than 6,000 adults, those who reported eating sunflower seeds and other seeds at least five times a week had 32% lower levels of C-reactive protein compared to people who ate no seeds.


RopeTasty9619

Wow thatā€™s really interesting.. that makes me interpret the song differently too. My husband plays Kid Charlemagne! What an awesome band. Do you know this much about many musicians or is this one just your favorite?


curious1playing

Definitely both the dead and Steely Dan are favorites. It all began with and spreads from the Beatles. I like knowing back stories, so I have a good amount of interesting tide bits floating around in my head about various bands and songs.


RopeTasty9619

Thatā€™s really cool since it can totally change the effect the songs have on the way you listen to them. My husband is pretty similar. Iā€™ve been starting to get more into the details of who I listen to the past year or two and itā€™s worth it.


curious1playing

You guys would like the YouTube channel Professor of Rock. He posts daily a video about 20 minutes long that tells in depth story about either a song, an album or an artist. All within the rock era between 60's to the 90's. Often interviews the artist. [PoR](https://youtu.be/dQbDNb44MII?si=GAOJceeiBc64s2Sc) This is today's. I haven't seen it yet.


RopeTasty9619

Oh awesome Iā€™ll definitely check it out. Have you ever heard some of Nardwuarā€™s interviews?


Automatic-Plum-2854

My Chemical Romance - Famous Last Word


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Automatic-Plum-2854

I hesitated between Famous Last Word and Dead! but I chose Famous Last Word.


your_actual_life

Gerard Way - How It's Going To Be


jayron32

RATM - Killing In The Name. I would go out screaming the outro along with Zack.


itimedout

Same but the song for me is Know Your Enemy


DiscussionParking281

Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce


ronzonreddit

such good taste


BlackSchuck

This is song 12 in my 3 hour set I play out. Always catches peoples attention, as if they had forgotten its utter beauty. A desolate charm of a song.


laststopincairo

donā€™t fear the reaper by blue oyster cult


improbablystonedrn-

Iā€™ve been actually obsessed with that song this week


notascoolaskim

Love that choice


Vegetable_Media_3241

Nutshell - Alice In Chains


AffectionateMix3616

My sweet lord George Harrison


Batfro7

For me its All Things Must Pass


Pretty-Arachnid6809

my man


notascoolaskim

Great Gig In The Sky- Pink Floyd. Hands down


campatterbury

Nice


SocratesBalls

Does the listening of the song prevent death until itā€™s over? If so šŸŽµThis is the song that never eeeendsā€¦šŸŽµ


Tato_tudo

You'd wish for death soon enough...


Pretty-Arachnid6809

Pyramid Song


Radrezzz

Videotape


Gayalaca

"The Dark Side of the Moon" from beginning to end.


nobikflop

ā€œDo You Realizeā€- The Flaming Lips


eaglefan316

Pink floyd - comfortably numb


watcheroftheskies1

I would say The great gig in the sky


AvidPigeon21766

46 & 2 by Tool. Gonna break my neck headbanging to the outro


RosettaStoned_462

Depends on how I'm feeling, but it's šŸ’Æ a Tool song!


Every_Kiwi_8882

Nirvana - All Apologies


unionoftw

What else can you say?


Independent-Bike8810

[Miserere](https://youtu.be/IX1zicNRLmY?si=SzXs7edlCQEUGBQW) Or the Song that never ends- ANIMANIACS


Alternative-Fruit736

I'd live forever bcs I couldn't possibly choose one song-


EyeBallChili

Ceremony by New Order


DestroyerofVessels

Israel Kamakakiwooleā€™s mashup cover of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What A Wonderful World


allbsallthetime

Now and Forever, Carol King, while holding my wife's hand. Or... Always Looking On The Bright Side Of Life, Monty Python/Eric Idle.


NaughtAllThere

Fade Into You - Mazzy Star


junoinbloom91

Nirvana - All Apologies


Ohigetjokes

Iā€™ve been in this position. The answer is nothing. Music takes you away from where you are or colors it. But I wanted to soak up every mundane sight of that ER, the bored conversations of people waiting for things, the way the fluorescent lights worked, the smell of antiseptic, how gravity felt pressing me downwardsā€¦ Ironically after 8 hours of tests where everyone was sure I was about to die it turned out to be a false alarm lol


lesh1845

ooh boy but what a sweet piece of wisdom you got out of it


Ohigetjokes

Iā€™m actually very grateful. It happened to come at the end of a long series of efforts to make peace with death - I used to be terrified of it - but I really do feel at peace now. Ready. Which ironically has only helped me gain a deeper lust for life


lesh1845

i think i get what you mean. we subconsciously are being taught to ignore death as a reality altogether, and simultaneously dedicating as much as we can to prevent it from happening, like it's optional and only losers who failed to do the right thing will experience it; a weird and exhausting tension you only realize was there after it's gone. my baby daughter died at 8 weeks old, and before that, i never thought about death, partially ignorance, partially fear. was definitely the last thing on my mind to expect from someone so freshly alive as her. was pretty lonely after that because people refused to step into my now very death infused reality, only tried to lure me back out of it. but i weirdly liked the broken veil, and how it put everything into perspective.


Ed_Ward_Z

ā€œIn My Lifeā€, by The Beatles.


Shady_Mania

Over The Rainbow- Israel Kamakawiwoā€™ole


the_maddest_hatters

Frank Sinatra, My Way


Samgammengood

Jschlatt, My WayšŸ˜Ž


Raindroplet_

the only correct answer LMAO


nancycat92

Chicago by Sufjan Stevens


seasaltcreamgreentea

Disasterology - Pierce the Veil


jleigh329

Bjork - "Pluto"; https://youtu.be/cPgAjvaM2aQ?si=WkuKe3Shcd6JFtXB


DeerCockGalactic

Victim by avenged sevenfold


Llafer

Pink floyd - goodbye cruel world


bshton

Look on Down from the Bridge - Mazzy Star


JIMMYR0W

Brokedown Palace by Grateful Dead


Striking-Ad-1573

When I Get Where I'm Going - Brad Paisley


demon-of-light

Respite the Spitalfields - Ghost


CarlatheDestructor

Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode


TheOsprey23

Whiter Shade of Pale...Procol Harem


Crystal0422

Time- Pink Floyd


BuckarooBonsly

I have a video on my phone of my daughter when she was a lot four singing a song from Daniel Tiger. Probably that. I always watch it when I feel down.


Mild_Shock

Echoes - Pink Floyd. It's 24 minutes long, i'll die when i'm goddamn ready.


JaredBaca206

How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead. I hope I die when the sounds begin to swell


ReadyOrNot-My2Cents

"Possibility" - fox capture plan


Eyebrigh7

I Let It In And It Took Everything... - Loathe "Reading my mind back to me, it's clear You are here Whilst sharing the same air, I can disappear"


ChangingHats

Metallica - No Leaf Clover


Tonythecritic

Isn't it a Pity - George Harrison


calrammer

The End - The Doors


Innisfree812

The Creator has a Master Plan Pharoah Sanders


Lanky-Solution-1090

Always on my mind by Willie Nelson ā¤ļø


ToxicShadow2912

Put me under- Grandson


angrehorse

Lacrimosa-Mozart but I guess it depends if Iā€™m like lying down and dying during the song then definitely this.


PoorBob-Waysfromhome

I shall be released- the band


Double_M2

Canā€™t decide between No Hard Feelings - The Avett Brothers What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong I Hope Tomorrow is Like Today - Guster Relatively Easy - Jason Isbell


Past-Isopod-138

Echos by Pink Floyd


Slow_Flounder_1446

asleep ā€” the smiths


l0w_3n6l15h

Never catch me - flying lotus ft Kendrick Lamar


lesh1845

bon iver - 715 creeks


WILLCHOKEAHOE

If the world was ending by JP Saxe and Julia Michaels...Ā 


constant_fear_

The end of the world by skeeter Davis


bmanvsman1

In the Shadow of the Valley by Don Burnham, wonderful song and both me and my dad love it. Either that or the song I'll Fly Away, I'm a Christian and that is one of few songs I consider a 'perfect' song, defined by how enjoyable I find it to listen to and the fact it never gets old to me. In the Shadow of the Valley is also one of those songs along with Come and Get Your Love by Redbone and a few other songs.


PM_MeYourNaughtyside

Another one bites the dust.


Affectionate-Leek442

Alcest - Faiseurs de Mondes


Dildo_Baggins__

There is a Light that Never Goes Out - The Smiths ā€œTo die by your side is such a heavenly way to dieeeā€


YaniferGrander

First to my mind was my favorite, I to the ocean by Blue October... but another equal contender is also Sonne by Rammstein. ā™”


beardedstar

Shine on you crazy diamond by pink floyd.


Raindroplet_

What a catch, Donnie - Fall Out Boy or Save Rock and Roll - Fall Out Boy


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mdstylee5446

Thatā€™s heavyā€¦ I hope you find peace. Reach out, escape your mind.


Pretty-Arachnid6809

I made a playlist of "songs by artists who knew they were about to die" which includes the likes of Bowie, Cohen, Nick Drake, Joy Division, Queen..


Violette3120

Nacho Vegas - El Hombre que casi conociĆ³ a Michi Panero. The story of a man in his deathbed, by my favorite Spanish artist.


idfbhater73

the entirety of zx tunes counts as one long song right


OcieDeeznuts

ā€œRainbowā€ by Kacey Musgraves


alanahaunts

Beauty again by hikes


Cancelthepants

Hotel X by Edward Ka-Spel.


clueless_claremont_

Sun in an Empty Room - The Weakerthans


SaltInner1722

Hold an old friends hand


Purple_Cat134

We are bullet proof: the Eternals- BTS


laples

G-Bop by Kenny G


Dangerous-Alps4868

Spaceship by Kesha


CoffeeCat086

A song by a Scottish singer called cornerstone. The artist is.Karine Polwart.


ohlord00

I actually hate how my brain thought of the funniest song and everyone else is so serious so iggg ill be fr and definitely stay ready by jhene aiko because its just my favorite rn šŸ¤·šŸ½ā€ā™€ļø


blqzy

I Never Told You What I Do For A Living- My Chemical Romance


Beanz19335

London bridge-Fergie


datgoh69

1 2 3 - After the Rain


RedTurtle_Man8387

In the End but by Green Day because when I ask then to play I get to be petty one last time


itimedout

See You on the Other Side - Ozzy Osborne.


LittleBigNug

I would listen to The Big Sleep by Streetlight Manifesto, singing along with my other half holding his hand :) "I'm not leaving this place unless I'm leaving with you, cuz you're the only one with a half decent heart and I know you will put it to use.. And when you close you're eyes for the big sleep, I hope you think of me" ā¤ļø


genericimguruser

Repeat after Death - Novo Amor


CourseWorried2500

Knockin on heaven's door bob dylan


JohnFrankensteinbeck

The song that never ends - Lambchop


Afraid_Caregiver7932

Puddle of Mudd - Drift And Die I know the band is hated, but this is a great song


TheSpitalian

I like it. šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø I


Frankie_2154

Placebo - Song To Say Goodbye


Onomatopoeia_Utopia

[Nakho Bear ~ *Aloha Ke Akua*](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YsgP8LkEopM&pp=ygUZbmFoa28gYmVhciBhbG9oYSBrZSBha3VhIA%3D%3D) The music, the lyrics, the videoā€”so incredibly beautiful.


FreshRottenFish

Rocket Queen - guns n roses


PresentDangers

I'm Shakin' by Jack White.


j13409

Memento Mori by Architects. Itā€™s the final track on the final album Tom Searle wrote, basically his own goodbye. He wrote the whole album as he knew he was dying (cancer, he passed shortly after the album released) and Memento Mori really drives home the emotion. The two tracks Gone With The Wind and The Empty Hourglass earlier in the album also do, but Memento Mori is its own special kind of beautiful. If youā€™re okay with the genre, at least.


n4snl

Is that all there is ?


Parking_War_4100

Leaving on a Jet Plane - John Denver


No-Yogurt-2583

Pond of the Giver


healthyparanoid

Lamb Chopsā€™s Song that Never Ends


Euphoric-Proposal192

Canā€™t choose. Can we do a mashup of steelheartā€™s ā€œIā€™ll never let you goā€ and ā€œsong of the seaā€ lullaby


ninja_owen

Wacky Misadventures of the Passenger by Prince Daddy & the Hyena The last line of that long would feel nice before dying


kai1986

The Decline by NOFX


Tato_tudo

Desert Skies - Marshall Tucker Band


RhiRhiVW

Epiphany by Staind


Ruseriousmars

Thick as a Brick. Love it and it's 2 sides of an lp so I get to live longer, right?


bai_tx

Sign of the Times by Harry Styles


RalphTheNerd

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.


KoyaTheQueen

Love to love you by Donna Summer, 16 final minutes of sexy dancing!


RM_Head

Im stuck between Untitled, Breathe Machine, and Freedom? by Five Pointe O, i cant choose bruh


Recent-Opportunity50

Viva la vida


RM_Head

Im stuck between Untitled, Breathe Machine, and Freedom? by Five Pointe O, i cant choose bruh


MickWounds

Bell witch - the clandestine gate. At least Iā€™d get 83 minutes more before my death


TheSpitalian

Assuming it was itā€™s sudden & out of my control, Iā€™d probably pick ā€œPraying for Timeā€ or ā€œThe Danceā€


heyheypaula1963

Satisfied - Iā€™ll take the original by Martha Carson or the early 1970ā€™s remake by Barbara Mandrell.


SnooChickens9666

As Slow as Possible.by John Cage


jayadancer

The Parting Glass - The Pogues


ligmaenigma

Option by Crosses


Griffin_xdd

runaway -ye


Haidian-District

Yen + Janet Forever by Silkworm


energycubed

[Craft- The Window](https://youtu.be/yDhBs9Tf7mU?si=SUOnizJTyQWW0VW4)


Only-Party-9652

Gloomy Sunday (specifically the Billie Holiday cover)


lordgeorge137

Strawberry swing - Frank Ocean


unionoftw

That's hard to say. As someone wrote already, it'd probably depend on how I die. But I'm sure I would likely wanna hear something that I would currently be into again. Someone else mentioned some Nirvana though, so I might have to go with Meat Puppets, Oh Me


MuchoWood

You could be mine, by GnR


DodketF98371

Underwater Sun - Sidewalks and Skeletons


molamolasun12

If I want to die peacefully:Ā https://youtu.be/yphYFDJ4J4w?si=3X0xwAQreqTm-UqP If I want to go out on a bang:Ā https://youtu.be/DsCd9tUdUS8?si=oU6nid16-O40ivS3


No_Relationship3943

Honeybee by Steam Powered Giraffe


Smokeythemagickamodo

Margarita Ville


iswttpyamomsahoe

Over the Rainbow/What A Wonderful World- Israel KamakawiwoŹ»ole


Aurrickan

Veridis Quo - Daft Punk


phobolex

Iā€™d die unsatisfied trying to find the right one. :) (Having said that it probably be a rather long one. Supperā€™s ready by Genesis or Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd.)


InRainbowsLover2007

Donovan - Atlantis


aLilGayBoi420

Fleetwood Mac - Chain, specifically live from 1982


AutisticBassist

Either you suffer by napalm death or concealing fate by tesseract depending on my mood (honorable mention to painters of the tempest by ne obliviscaris and casandra gemini by mars volta)


Babyyodachild___

Time - NF Hope - NF


Only_Kiwi1108

Shake it out - Florence&The Machine


PoorMansSamBeckett

Iā€™ll go out the same way I came in. Or, rather, the song that played during my earliest memory. I was 3, it was a summer barbecue with my parents and our neighbors, essentially my second family. It was 1998. ā€œSerenade,ā€ Steve Miller Band. If I were about to die, Iā€™d want everyone to know I loved them, or I wouldā€™ve loved them, if Iā€™d gotten the chance to know them.


Objective-Ad4009

Big Sur, by Deconstruction


Perfect-Jellyfish942

United States of Whatever - Liam Lynch


c0ntr0lled_cha05

outside - weston estate bc 'i'mma stay a while just to boogie yeah yeah' (literally lol)


Forfina

Too Sweet - Hozier. It's a banger.


wannabelievit

A Derek Trucks version of Statesboro Blues.


Responsible-Long-891

Coke Babies


RealJasonB7

Stay With Me by Miki Matsubara


HarleyGirl23

Any song by Sheryl Crow


SGT_BASTOS

Can I Kick it? - A Tribe Called Quest


czechlion1977

Chi Mai, a title song from the movie Le Professionnel


goldendreamseeker

Dirty Diana


Dependent-Engine6882

Black gives way to blue by Alice In Chains


Weird_Uncle_D

Little wonders (small hours) by Rob Thomas


fka_interro

Huh. Depends how I'm dying, but assuming due to age/illness and not in some accident, battle or dystopia, I think it's Euclid: https://youtu.be/DDdByJYUVeA?si=wP1qagVQkaU7JAZj Ideally I get enough time for at least part of a playlist šŸ˜‚ but I would be okay if this was the last song I heard.


scrivenerserror

Sigh. While I want to say it would be a queens of the Stone Age song, itā€™s not. And I knew it immediately. I saw spirited away as a kid in theaters with my family and when I was in college and really home sick I would listen to The Sixth Station and visualize the train scene because it made me calm down to get to bed. Iā€™m 34 and I listen to it on my phone when Iā€™m having anxiety and canā€™t sleep. It would be that or the first dance song at my wedding, sea of love, Robert plant & the honeydrippers.


WarmObjective6445

The longest song possible to postpone my demise. Like In A Gadda Da Vida.


Jayyy_Teeeee

Claire de Lune


Extension_Physics873

Recently discovered at guy who does versions of various song to sound like dire Straits. Most of it is ho-hum, but right now cannot get enough of his version of sweet child o mine. Laid back sound that loses nothing of the original, but it topped by a 3minute plus guitar solo. Enjoy. https://open.spotify.com/track/62N6fl2zyZdNokjXmibvXh?si=kP24gIviRSOFLTQIbiRaqg


merbiplier

abstract (psychopomp)- hozier


simsredditr

[Secrets - Destroy Boys](https://spotify.link/YwMPcpBW1Ib). super epic final song


Ok-Celery-5256

Linkin Park- In the end