As you kill yourself, what album do you put on?

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So much to consider:

- do you want to be real depressed?

- do you want to be real pissed off?

- do you just want to hear some good tunes?

- do you need a long/short song because it will be a long/short death?

etc.

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Thursday, 21 April 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

My husbands cousin blew his head off with a shotgun to the sounds of Silverchair. How sad is that?

― Kate / Productive Pedagog (papa november), Thursday, 21 April 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

Sheez. Answer: very. (but maybe that is why he did it?)

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Thursday, 21 April 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

ME: "Tryin To Grow Me A Chin"...

"I WANNA BE DEAD IN BED PLEASE KILL ME CUZ THAT WOULD THRILL ME"

followed by a bunch of Rocky Horry songs just in case I'm not dead yet.

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Thursday, 21 April 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

Rocky Horry = Rocky Horror

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Thursday, 21 April 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

Swans, "God Damn the Sun."

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 21 April 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

oooh, that's a good tune!

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Thursday, 21 April 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't be able to decide on just one song or album, so I'd make a mix. When the time came, I'd play the mix, but of course I wouldn't be able to decide when to do the deed ... I mean, the mix is like 90 minutes long, and what's the point of killing myself in the middle of it? Then I'd never get to hear the second half, so what was the point of even putting those songs on the mix in the first place? So I'd reach the end of the mix and then it'd be all quiet and I'd think about how great all that music was and how much I'd like to hear it all again. Once in that frame of mind, I wouldn't have the heart to kill myself.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 21 April 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

Also, there *will* be a final song you hear before you die. Provided you don't off yourself, then it's unlikely that you'll be able to control what song it is. What if I'm innocently walking by a radio, Creed are playing, and I drop dead of a heart attack ten minutes later? How awful would that be? And if there's an afterlife, I'm fearful that the only music you'll hear will be whatever was playing right before you died. Can you imagine listening to nothing but Creed or Stone Temple Pilots for all of eternity? I worry about this shit.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 21 April 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

I'd make a mix then.

― jmeister (jmeister), Thursday, 21 April 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

be here now

― f-a-b-o-l-o-u-s (adamwest), Thursday, 21 April 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

be here now

Of course, but what about after?

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Thursday, 21 April 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

Something incredibly grating off the RRR500 closed loops record.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 21 April 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

that ilx album

― MURDERBALL OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS (deangulberry), Thursday, 21 April 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps a customised ipod playlist would do the trick.

My worst fear is what music will they play at my funeral.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 April 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

prolly like some arcade fire and shit or wolf eyes or something le tigre

― MURDERBALL OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS (deangulberry), Thursday, 21 April 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

The first time I heard "I hope you dance" was at my friend's mom's funeral. Next thing I know I get a job where they play that song at least once a day on the radio, ensuring that I'm weirded out four minutes every day.

― Heidy- Ho, Thursday, 21 April 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

As far as killing yourself, I think that it you couldn't play any music that you enjoy, because that would prompt an emotion that would make you reconsider your decision to end it all. So for me, a pop-punk cover of "happy together" would probably give me the incentive I'd need to pull the trigger.

― Heidy- Ho, Thursday, 21 April 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

Iggy Pop-- The Idiot.

― late adopter, Thursday, 21 April 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

No copycatting.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 21 April 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

in/humanity--"Teenage Suicide-Do It!"

― chupacabra, Thursday, 21 April 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

Sharon, write yourself a will and just say: "I want Fats Waller" or whatever.

Hmm, that's actually a really good idea . . .

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 21 April 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

Iggy Pop "Lust for Life"

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 21 April 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

All this talk of living wills, and music was the last thing I thought of... Rickey m'boy, yer a genioos!

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 April 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

Michael Sambella - Maniac

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 21 April 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden.

It's the aural equivalent of the oft-cited "White Tunnel".

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

Something messianic, like the last (or second last?) track from the Jesus Christ Superstar film soundtrack, the really trippy one where Jesus is on the cross going 'Father, why have you forsaken meeee!'

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

I'd prefer an ironic suicide. I'd have Oasis's Live Forever on repeat.

But really it'd probably be Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's Black

― Wolfgang Daniel, Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

I've thought about this a lot before.

I think pretty a pretty good soundtrack to suicide would be Songs: Ohia. I think of it from a degree of seperation, as if I was watching my suicide occur in a movie, and Songs: Ohia would be good accompaniment for the mood I'd be going for. It'd either be a song from Didn't It Rain or The Lioness. Not sure which.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

No wait, it's decided - I am sure now!

It'd be the first track off Songs: Ohia - The Lioness. "The Black Crow"

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Morphine "Do No Go Quietly Unto Your Grave" as I drive my car off the roof of a parking garage into rush hour traffic.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Nirvana's "I Hate Myself and Want To Die", huffing paint and giggling until my brain drowns in its own fluids.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

I thought about starting this thread, but then I thought, man, how "cry out for help" would that be?

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Mozart's Requiem would be pretty cool.

But then so would Joy Division, Closer.

― The Mad Puffin, Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Like a Prayer, Madonna !

― Poison(Ivy) (PoisonIvy), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

noones offered "asleep" yet?

id probably go with something by Vajra...the album with one track, thus preventing skipping around looking for the perfect choice.

― b b, Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

his name is alive "stars on esp"

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

A year ago: Joy Division, "Decades"

Today: Albert Ayler, "Change Has Come"

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

assuming i can die in the way i'd really like, which is being strapped to the outside of a rocket and blasted into space, then "lower your eyelids to die with the sun" by M83.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

the sarabande from bach's 5th cello suite.

― you will be shot (you will be shot), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

I'd point a gun to my chest and fire a blank to see whether I still wanted to live after that, first.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

It may be time to question your assumptions, simon.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

As for me, assuming I can die in the way I really like, which is being trampled underfoot by a home counties dance class while being filmed by a controversial young director, then 'Mambo Italiano' by Rosemary Clooney & The Mellomen.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

"You're Gonna Miss Me," just to be a dick.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Gavin Bryar'S "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet". I'd cackle "NOW it has!" ironically, then snuff it.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Wang Chung, "Everybody Have Fun Tonight."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

It may be time to question your assumptions, simon.

[clank, bash] ... wot? [hammer] hang on, just need to attach this booster unit to the thru ... [BLAM]

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

"To Forgive" by the Smashing Pumpkins -- my favorite depression song.

― Roadkill Bingo (Roadkill Bingo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Log Cabin Home In The Sky by The Incredible String Band

Now there comes a time to every man
When he must turn his back on the crowd
When the glare of the lights gets much too bright
And the music plays too loud
When a man must run from the deeds he has done
Recalling those days with a sigh
Now winter is nigh let us fly to my log cabin home in the sky

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

"Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult, or maybe "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" by Monty Python.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

I already have a mix. Eek.

As for an album, COME ON DIE YOUNG.

― Organized Crime (Leee), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

"Walking with Jesus" - Spacemen 3

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

big star "blue moon"

― ivy (ivy), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

sitting down on the grass outside

chris bell - i got kinda lost
don cherry - brown rice
dntel - umbrella
brian eno - golden hours

laying down in the bed

akira rabelais performing satie - gymnopedie no. 1
arvo part - cantuus in memory of benjamin britten

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

"Rocking Chair" by The Band ("oh to be home again, back in old Virginny" would seem nice...course I'm a wuss so it'd be strictly pillz-n-red wine style for me, nice and mellow)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

"big star "blue moon" - Ivy, have you heard the His Name Is Alive cover of this song? It's lovely!

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Leeee, your suicide mix is really cool. Except for the fact that suicide isn't cool. Bonus points, however, for including "Suicide".

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

"Rock the Shack"

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

i have not heard it but thanks for mentioning

― ivy (ivy), Friday, 22 April 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

"Don't Worry, Be Happy" on infinite repeat.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 22 April 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

I'd listen to A Silver Mt. Zion He Has Left Us... in case I lost the mood to do myself in. because shit, is that a depressing album.

― aaron fenwick (aaron ef.), Friday, 22 April 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Barry, your philosophy is compellingly cool.

― Organized Crime (Leee), Friday, 22 April 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Judas Priest. backwards!

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

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