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Sailorasteroid · Post by **Sailorasteroid** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 1:57 pm

Hooray for necromancy!

Anthy stole my idea. Inna-gadda-da-vida was the first thing that came into my head.

Alternatively, I might request John Cage's 4'33" so I could forget about listening and wail about the fact that I'm going to die.

Or I could ask for Monty Python's "Always look on the bright side of life." Good death song.

But I think I'd go with Sinatra's "My Way." That would be a nice "fuck you" to the world I was leaving.

Sylphiel · Post by **Sylphiel** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 3:01 pm

"Surreal" by Ayumi Hamasaki.

Not only do I consider it my theme song, it's also my favorite song of all time. And dying knowing I have been true to myself, I will die happy.

In a non-existant place,
I stand as I am.

isaisa · Post by **isaisa** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 10:22 pm

Hmm...because I'd rather not be depressed when I die...I might pick Bidi Bidi Bom Bom by my girl Selena...haha. Or...maybe Teenage Wasteland by The Who. Hmm....there are so many choices.

Slrjoecool · Post by **Slrjoecool** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 1:49 am

Sailorasteroid wrote:But I think I'd go with Sinatra's "My Way." That would be a nice "fuck you" to the world I was leaving.

Heh. That song was played at my grandfathers funeral.

Hrm... tough choice. I would have to say "Now and Then" by Blackmore's Night.

Kameko · Post by **Kameko** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 8:25 pm

isaisa wrote:Or...maybe Teenage Wasteland by The Who. Hmm....there are so many choices.

The song is Baba O'Riley.

isaisa · Post by **isaisa** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:32 am

Really? Cool beans...people just told me it's called teenage wasteland. Thanks for correcting me.

Kameko · Post by **Kameko** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:49 pm

No problem. A lot of people seem to get the name of the song wrong. Baba O'Riley would be one of my choices for song. Just about any of Jethro Tull's songs would be a pick for me:
Heavy Horses - It's 9 minutes long and is a tribute to the plough horse with great lyrics:

Iron-clad feather-feet pounding the dust
An October's day, towards evening
Sweat embossed veins standing proud to the plough
Salt on a deep chest seasoning
Last of the line at an honest day's toil
Turning the deep sod under
Flint at the fetlock, chasing the bone
Flies at the nostrils plunder.

The Suffolk, the Clydesdale, the Percheron vie
with the Shire on his feathers floating
Hauling soft timber into the dusk
to bed on a warm straw coating.

Heavy Horses, move the land under me
Behind the plough gliding --- slipping and sliding free
Now you're down to the few
And there's no work to do
The tractor's on its way.

Let me find you a filly for your proud stallion seed
to keep the old line going.
And we'll stand you abreast at the back of the wood
behind the young trees growing
To hide you from eyes that mock at your girth,
and your eighteen hands at the shoulder
And one day when the oil barons have all dripped dry
and the nights are seen to draw colder
They'll beg for your strength, your gentle power
your noble grace and your bearing
And you'll strain once again to the sound of the gulls
in the wake of the deep plough, sharing.

Standing like tanks on the brow of the hill
Up into the cold wind facing
In stiff battle harness, chained to the world
Against the low sun racing
Bring me a wheel of oaken wood
A rein of polished leather
A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky
Brewing heavy weather.

Bring a song for the evening
Clean brass to flash the dawn
across these acres glistening
like dew on a carpet lawn
In these dark towns folk lie sleeping
as the heavy horses thunder by
to wake the dying city
with the living horseman's cry
At once the old hands quicken ---
bring pick and wisp and curry comb ---
thrill to the sound of all
the heavy horses coming home.

Thick as a Brick - Great song. It's one continuous song with a lot of musical variety in it that took up both sides of an album and is over half an hour long.
Other of their songs: Skating Away, Warchild Waltz, Bungle in the Jungle, Too Old to Rock 'n Roll:Too Young to Die, The Third Hurrah, Quartet, The Whistler, Locomotor Breath. I could go on and on.

Songs that are not Jethro Tull that I would consider: Comfortably Numb, Another Brick in the Wall Part 1/The Happiest Days of Our Lives/Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 (it's three songs but they are best played together), Stairway to Heaven, Night on Bald Mountain (13 minutes), Mountain Jam (30 minutes)

Neon Heart · Post by **Neon Heart** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 6:41 pm

My last song would probably be "Truth", from the Revolutionary Girl Utena soundtrack. Even though I wouldn't understand what they say... Still, it just would seem fitting for some reason.

NameGoesHere · Post by **NameGoesHere** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:18 pm

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. May as well go out with the best song ever, on the best instrument ever. It would sound good blasting from the speedboat I drive off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

RoastedTwinkies · Post by **RoastedTwinkies** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:38 pm

"With You in Your Dreams", a song that Hanson wrote in memory of their grandmother.

SeiUsa · Post by **SeiUsa** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:13 am

I'd say....Only Time, by Enya. I have no clue why, it just seems appropriate for me.