Top 5 songs about death

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  1. #1 MrGers, Sep 28, 2008
    watching high fidelity...
    top 5 songs about death(or to be played at your funeral)
    immediate disqualification for "you can't always get what you want" for it's association with "the big chill"
    1. I Shall Be Released - The Band
    2. Shine On - Jet (actually written while Jets lead singer dealt with his fathers death)
    3. Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
    4. Ooh La La - The Faces
    5. Brokedown Palace - The Grateful Dead


    I narrowed it down to the above songs plus all the ones below. I chose the ones on the above list because I thought for one reason or another they were more appropriate?

    Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp
    Dream On - Aerosmith
    Wreck On The Highway - Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen
    Catch the Wind - Donovan
    It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Bob Dylan
    Never On Sunday - Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass
    You're Gonna Need Me - James Gang
    Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
    The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd
    Naked And Famous - The Presidents Of The United States of America
    Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
    Rock and Roll Heaven - The Righteous Brothers
    End of the Line - The Traveling Wilburys

    What do you got? or is this too much of a morbid subject to discuss? waddaya think of my list?
     
  2. #2 DuKe420, Sep 28, 2008
    .45 by Shinedown.
     
  3. #3 zoranj, Sep 28, 2008
    Question! by System of a Down ????
     
  4. #4 mushroomsatsuji, Sep 28, 2008
    Call Upon Your Gods-Dark Lotus

    Or anything by Cradle of Filth
     
  5. #5 Weebie, Sep 28, 2008
    Gary Jules "Mad World"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIUc-H6EBEU
    I want this to be the first song played at my funeral.

    Followed by
    Nas Blunt Ashes.

    If not nas then another good song... Somethin fast like Motorhead Ace of Spades

    I don't want my funeral to be lame and incredibly sad. Fuck that I want to go out with everyone knowing I regretted nothing.
     
  6. #6 xcraighebert, Sep 28, 2008
    Everytime I die - She's my rushmore
    It dies today - The depravity waltz
    Maximum the hormone - Zetsubou billy

    All I got right now, I have so many.
     
  7. #7 zoranj, Sep 28, 2008
    ummm.. like 4 different Evanescence songs... for all the teenage girls out there. hahahahaha

    ...hope no one took me seriously with that one.
     
  8. #8 MrGers, Sep 28, 2008
    Nice! totally missed this one.
     
  9. #9 mushroomsatsuji, Sep 28, 2008
    Donnie Darko is the god damn shit and that song
     
  10. #10 Rhythm of Life, Sep 28, 2008
    I don't know songs about death?!!?!?!???

    Why would you want to listen to that? Way to depressing.
     
  11. #11 Orbit, Sep 28, 2008
    hammer smashed face - cannibal corpse

    :metal:
     
  12. #12 j0nes1n, Sep 28, 2008

    a little too much double bass for my taste in funeral
     
  13. #13 Foop, Sep 28, 2008
    King's Crossing- Elliott Smith

    Videotape- Radiohead

    The Drugs Don't Work- The Verve

    SRXT- Bloc Party

    Fond Farwell- Elliott Smith
     
  14. #14 xcraighebert, Sep 28, 2008
  15. #15 Iluvatar, Sep 28, 2008
    thats what i was thinking
     
  16. #16 chronicman00, Sep 28, 2008
    Feast of friends-The Doors.
     
  17. #17 kuruption253, Sep 28, 2008
  18. #18 head dead, Sep 28, 2008
    Don't fear the reaper (Blue Oyster Cult)
    Dust in the wind (Kansas)
     
  19. #19 LegitBaller, Sep 28, 2008
  20. #20 clashrocker, Sep 28, 2008
    My favorite has to be "An End Has A Start" by The Editors. The interlude still sends chills down my spine everytime I hear it.
     
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