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What music do you think is best for when a loved one dies? No music? Upbeat music to try and cheer yourself up? Music that goes with how you feel? Somehow Devo just doesn't seem right.

― Erin Caruthers (maneki neko), Monday, 4 November 2002 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I suppose it's up to the individual, isn't it? I know when my much-loved grandfather died years ago, I popped a mixtape in the player on the drive back home days later and Daniel Johnston's "Hey Joe" unexpectedly sent me to the side of the road, blubbering. While I now always associate that song with him, I frankly could've done without the experience.

I hate to suggest, especially if you're asking for practical reasons, but I've been listening to Faure's Requiem lately. It is a bona fide requiem, and it is absolutely beautiful.

― Lee G (Lee G), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Akira Rabelais' Eisoptrophobia and the Beth Gibbons album have felt appropriate for a time of tremendous loss.

― Honda, Tuesday, 5 November 2002 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

The Durufle Requiem is also gorgeous (seeing how it is the Faure Requem done through a Durufle filter), but one of the most mounrful pieces of music ever written is the "Agnus Dei" of the Martin MAss for Double Choir.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 04:20 (twenty-three years ago)

the always acceptable answer for this question "dress sexy at my funeral" - smog

― Brock K. (Brock K.), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 04:31 (twenty-three years ago)

That Kevin Rowland album

― tigerclawskank, Tuesday, 5 November 2002 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

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