Which album would you choose to listen to if you only had one hour to live?

My last meal for the ears would be Talk Talk's [i]Spirit of Eden[i].

Yaz. Upstairs at Eric's

João Gilberto self titled

Happened to pick the music in each of my parents' last hours in 2020. Dad got Doc & Dawg, and Mom got Mahler Symphony No. 3 from public-radio classical station she loved.

probably Astral Weeks

An hour of nyan cat, please.

astral weeks is a great choice. another album which simply does not get used up by listening to it. it has this transcendental quality and is so warm and life affirming at the same time.

Slayer's Reign In Blood. And since it's only 28 minutes long, I'd have time for the Bad Brains' yellow tape, too.

Rachmaninov piano concertos 1-2-3

maybe 4 if there was time?

Or Isle of the Dead

Monoliths & Dimensions at the highest volume possible

^^^ not sure I would have got there, but like that one gman

Bruckner’s 8th

Or Ram Ranch

I should have a Playlist for my Death sorted by the time it's needed.

A short one like idk Fela Kuti - expensive shit and I'd then spend the remaining 35 minutes making my daughter laugh.

ok, skitsystem's enkel resa is less than 30 minutes, so surely then some erykah badu after, please

exile on main st with "sweet black angel" and "let it loose" left out to get it under an hour

maybe sade solder of love

honestly??? blue by third eye blind. a few years ago i listened to that record during a really turbulent flight and thought “i have to survive because i want to listen to this record more”

Can's Future Days, I think

I'd then spend the remaining 35 minutes making my daughter laugh.

now we're talking <3

I used to think about this question a lot on turbulent flights as a teenager, funnily enough
because I always had a discman with 5 or 6 cd's to get through it, and i'd survived a plane crash in my childhood so could be a nervous flyer

I wouldn't spend the hour listening to an album, of course, but hypothetically it would be World of Echo
that record has fulfilled its humanity and doesn't need any more time.

chemlab - exile on mainline

Maggot Brain but I’m actually going to listen to “Maggot Brain” 5.9 times.

Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire

Something fun. When I Was Born for the 7th Time?

exile on main st with "sweet black angel" and "let it loose" left out to get it under an hour

this is madness!

possibly seamonsters

Still Life by Van der Graaf Generator, which ends with Peter Hammill railing against the universe: "what waits for us is the cosmos compared to the dust of the past, in the death of mere humans life shall start."

There's no way it's not Dark Side of the Moon, but I would end the hour with the 2nd half of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," exhaling my last breath to Rick Wright's sad, serene keys.

Another Green World perhaps. The last 4 tracks would make for a good transition to whatever is next

metal machine music

I and i'd survived a plane crash in my childhood

Probably Hoedh - Hymnvs

As cheesy as it seems I'd spend the last quarter of an hour listening to Awaken by Yes, probably the version done with the Icelandic band Todmobile w/JA on vocals

Although maybe LMFAO - Sorry For Party Rocking, will depend on my mood

would change every day but i do like the suggestions of spirit of eden and monoliths & dimensions in this thread

will depend on my mood

Pink Floyd - Meddle
or maybe Joni Mitchell - Heijera idk idk

Pharoah Sanders - Karma possibly

Wait, what?

Yeah, are we just going to let that one pass by? Whoa!

Karma also a good call

maybe Special Wishes by Harvey Milk. i've already listened to it 3 times today.

speaking of death, this kid is so smart! i mean, he's 21 now. but what a smart little fella. i wish i had been that level-headed at that age.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG_jhSou0S4

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebore,_vol._2

Really loud, probably. And then when the music stopped I’d have ten minutes to hug and talk to my loved ones before I dropped dead.

it's probably better to talk to the loved ones before you do rebore. even if you leave 10 minutes for them at the end, you're gonna end up talking about rebore for at least half of that, possibly all of it. whereas if you talk beforehand, you can have a heart to heart and then cut it off with a direct "i have to go listen to boredoms now"

Monk's Dream

might just forget I'm about die when Monk get's his box of tricks out!

The thing about Astral Weeks is that it is an album that knows that you only have one hour to live, which might make it the perfect choice or might be disconcerting, it's hard to tell.

I think I might choose Highway 61 Revisited so that I could end with "Desolation Row," a song that always brings me a sense of deep calm and peace - not because the song itself is peaceful but just because I find how good it is reassuring.

ooh hwy 61 is a good call

Technique

Music for 18 Musicians

https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/--18

https://twinfreaxx.bandcamp.com/album/now-thats-what-your-parents-call-drone

Second choice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLEFlIFKSo8

I’ve thought it over carefully and I would listen to Mirror Might Steal Your Charm by The Garden, with a bit of time left over to reflect silently.

The Avalanches - Since I Left You

Gene Clark - No Other is how I'd go out. I get a little teary listening to that one even when I'm not on my deathbed. A very cinematic swan song.

If my one hour to live started right now, I'd go with Susanne Sundfør's Music For People in Trouble. I've been going through some shit lately, and that album has been my security blanket.

If it were my last hour and I didn't know it was my last hour, - like, I get hit by a bus or a tree falls on me or something - I'd want it to be something ridiculous and fun. Weird Al Yankovic In 3D, maybe? Ramones Too Tough To Die?

But if it were the last hour of my life, and maybe I'd had a long illness or was in hospice or something, and my family was all there? I'm really not sure.

Can't believe no one's said A Love Supreme, I would listen to that.

I should make a 57-minute playlist for this situation, just in case. (3 minutes silence at the end would be good.) It would have "Tighten Up," "Move On Up" and "Up With People" on it, but I'm not sure what else.

Songs in the Key of Life comes to mind, but it's way over an hour and I'd want to make sure I at least got to Saturn.

Would almost surely be a piano recording, as there's a peace there I'd imagine I want, even if it's intense. Money Jungle? Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou? One of Julius Eastman's long four-piano works? I've never heard Ellington's Live at the Whitney, recorded in the last year of his life. Maybe I should save it for that hour.

a good last piano recording would be Bill Evans "Peace Piece" with it's beautiful last chord

Along the lines of Weird Al and The Ramones, I'd be happy with Free to Be...You and Me because it has some primal childhood connections and also feels like the best intentions of anything I can think of, and is funny and human. Might as well end with a little party.

Sleep-Dopesmoker

depends on why I was dying

This is surprising easy Kaputt.