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Been feeling a bit morbid lately, so I was thinking: what would I like to hear playing in my final minutes? Started with anything by Chopin -- nah, not exactly it. Then Jackson Browne's "For a Dancer" -- 10++, but not me. Then on the satellite radio I hear Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb". What an incredible piece of musical art. Roger Waters has to be our generation's Shakespeare.

"When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse, out of the corner of my eye

I turned to look, but it was gone

The child is grown, the dream is gone ..... "
 
I'll just cut to the chase and tell you you are currently unfit to fly. Kidding. Now go listen to some uplifting music, put on some metal and lift iron or punch the **** out of a bag, then more metal and go for a run or a bike ride. Stop listening to morbid crap and get away from the internet.
 
I HATE it when they play that sad, breathy voiced crap over the top of some death scene. It makes it... I dunno, obscene. Pornographic. it's like worshipping death, or the act of dying.

honestly, I hope I don't know when I die. If that happens, then I'm probably listening to whatever I enjoy at the time.
 
Pretty much anything by Pink Floyd. It's been labeled as suicide music by more than one person. OBTW, Sid Barrett started the theme, and Waters improved it.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~//\\~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

See Emily play
Put on a gown that touches the ground, ah ooh
Float on a river forever and ever, Emily
There is no other day
Let's try it another way
You'll lose your mind and play
Free games for may
See Emily play
 
really? I mean, imagine laying there... knowing you're dying, and listening to music that's making you feel like dying. That just seems like it would make it so much worse.

If you're a religious person, wouldn't uplifting gospel make more sense? Or maybe music that reminds you of people that have gone on before you? Or some happy time previous? Dying is sad enough without playing sad music.

(Obviously this is a very personal thing, and I respect your choices. But sad music while dying just gets to me in a way that's hard to explain. "I will not go gently into that good night.")
 
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas
 
Probably something like Boots Randolph's 'Rackety Sax' or maybe 'Corona' by The Minutemen ;)

...although if you can die from jamming chopsticks in your ears it will probably be something by Nicki Minaj or Lady Gaga. :mad2:

Nauga,
who is not Johnny Knoxville
 
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"All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be."
 
Metallica: "take a look to the sky just before u die, it's the last time u will...."
 
Take the carburetor out of my stomach.
Take the pistons out of my head.
Send what's left back to dear old mother,
Say that I am finally dead.

"The Dawn Patrol"
 
LoneAspen said:
If I'm on my deathbed, I think I'd prefer to hear this:

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Fade to Black.

No, I don't really want to hear this but it came to mind when I read this thread.
 
My dad died yesterday.

He loved Grace Moore (opera). there was a You Tube channel that had her on, so we played it.

Funny, I thought about "Do not go gentle" all weekend.
 
Anything from the movie The Departed... including Comfortably Numb Van Morrison version performed at the Berlin Wall

Jimmy Buffet He Went to Paris and a Pirate Looks at Forty
 
I don't know why this song comes to mind, but it does. Gives me chills just now hearing it again. Kind of the opposite of "Do not got gentle..."; "You can close your eyes, its all right."

 
I'm sorry to hear about your father.
Take care of yourself.
 
Stan Rodgers, "Cape St. Mary":

"Let me be a man, and take it
when my dory fails to make it...."

Ron Wanttaja
 
wanttaja said:
Stan Rodgers, "Cape St. Mary":

"Let me be a man, and take it
when my dory fails to make it...."

Ron Wanttaja
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Some how that is oddly appropriate seeing how Stan died in a plane (not a crash, but an on board fire which probably got him after landing).
 
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Cpt_Kirk said:
Hardly does something captivate me so much so that I give it all of my time and attention... But, that did.

Thanks for sharing.
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I gotta say, I really liked that song also so I watched a few other performances by Uncle Lucius too. Good stuff, all of it. I smell a flight to Texas coming up sometime in mid to late October to see these guys in concert. Right now their online schedule only goes out to Oct 3 which is the week after Gaston's...a bit too soon...too bad because that concert is in Marshall, about as close to Missouri as it gets for Texas.

I'll be keeping an eye out for add'l dates later in Oct and into Nov.

:thumbsup:
 
N801BH said:
We all came from the earth.............

We all return to the earth.........


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Heh, that's my cousin on violin/viola. He was classically trained, and got sucked into rock as an aside that paid well. I've heard him play Paganini's 24 Caprices before and it would make you cry.

BTW, the song came from a warm-up exercise for the guitarist.
 
timwinters said:
I gotta say, I really liked that song also so I watched a few other performances by Uncle Lucius too. Good stuff, all of it. I smell a flight to Texas coming up sometime in mid to late October to see these guys in concert. Right now their online schedule only goes out to Oct 3 which is the week after Gaston's...a bit too soon...too bad because that concert is in Marshall, about as close to Missouri as it gets for Texas.

I'll be keeping an eye out for add'l dates later in Oct and into Nov.

:thumbsup:
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On the live SoundCloud version he says it is a true story about his dad and he is in the audience.
 
KRyan said:
My dad died yesterday.

He loved Grace Moore (opera). there was a You Tube channel that had her on, so we played it.

Funny, I thought about "Do not go gentle" all weekend.
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Condolences, friend. I lost my Dad four years ago, miss him every day.

I raise a glass (OK, a cup, it's morning) in salute.

The torch passes, even when we do not want it!
 
SCCutler said:
Condolences, friend. I lost my Dad four years ago, miss him every day.

I raise a glass (OK, a cup, it's morning) in salute.

The torch passes, even when we do not want it!
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I too raise a glass. Lost my dad a few years ago. But really lost him 48 years ago when he left and never returned.

When he became to old to care for himself guess who he called. I could not turn my back and took him in.

He died a couple years later. I miss him everyday but have since I was 6. I got over it years ago when I was around 12.

I miss him but do not mourn for him.

Tony

P.S. When he died he had a will. He left everything he had to his brother...
 
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1600vw said:
I too raise a glass. Lost my dad a few years ago. But really lost him 48 years ago when he left and never returned.

When he became to old to care for himself guess who he called. I could not turn my back and took him in.

He died a couple years later. I miss him everyday but have since I was 6. I got over it years ago when I was around 12.

I miss him but do not mourn for him.

Tony

P.S. When he died he had a will. He left everything he had to his brother...
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That sucks man. You got dealt a s#itty hand.
That has to be tough.
 
KRyan said:
My dad died yesterday.

He loved Grace Moore (opera). there was a You Tube channel that had her on, so we played it.

Funny, I thought about "Do not go gentle" all weekend.
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Sorry to hear that. I lost my dad over 40 years ago and I don't remember him all that well, but when I hear certain pieces of music such as Ride of the Valkyries and The Longest Day (from the WWII movie) I am reminded of him since he played these pieces LOUD on the stereo on weekend mornings.
 
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