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Last Active 02-26-12 7:42 pm
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| For A Deathbed
I'm not much the religious type, and all my most spiritual experiences have been with music, not with God. During the last hour of my life, I don't want any priest blessing me or promising me salvation. I just hope these songs are playing somewhere in the background. I have little hope for an eternal reward, but with Miles Davis accompanying my last breaths I can die happy. | | 1 | Bruce Springsteen
Jungleland | | 2 | The National
The Geese of Beverly Road
There are so many National songs I could have chosen here. "Abel" or "Mr. November" would give catharsis. "Apartment Story" would lift me into ecstasy. "Gospel" or "England" would take me gently back to dead long-ago romances. But in the end I'll go with "Geese of Beverly Road", with its muted emotions and shifting impressionist lyrics. It conjures up pictures and associations unlike anything else in music, like the bittersweet dream of a man who knows how much he's dying all the time. | | 3 | Sigur Ros
Untitled 1 | | 4 | Brand New
Jesus | | 5 | Radiohead
No Surprises | | 6 | Against Me!
Eight Full Hours of Sleep | | 7 | Jeff Buckley
Hallelujah | | 8 | Nick Drake
From the Morning
The closer to Drake's final album, "From the Morning" is one of the best epitaphs in musical history. The music is pure serenity, but Drake's abstractly evocative lyrics lend the song a gentle ecstasy. In light of Drake's own premature death, the song itself plays like the end of a life: a wistful remembrance of life's "morning", a few slow final breaths, and then the silence. | | 9 | Tom Waits
Time
For everyone I've ever loved. | | 10 | Streetlight Manifesto
The Big Sleep | | 11 | Miles Davis
Flamenco Sketches
Coming at the end of one of the most orgasmically perfect albums ever made, "Flamenco Sketches" plays like a train ride through life and memories, climbing over mountains and driving into canyons and finally giving a glimpse of that maybe-life after this one before touching gently back down to Earth with a muted trumpet note like a whispered breath. If there is any sound that could play along with my death rattle to convince me that I am not really at the end, this is it. | |
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05.21.11 | should be featured. its just "ros" in the database without the accent. | TheBalderdashMan
05.21.11 | Thanks. This is also a mix on 8tracks for anyone who's interested.
http://8tracks.com/valjester/mix-for-a-deathbed?mix_set_id=2320752
(Yes, I made the mix too.) | foreverendeared
05.21.11 | I would select Day is Done by Nick Drake. So fitting as well. | TheBalderdashMan
05.21.11 | True, but I think From the Morning seems to ascend to a more spiritual level, like a summation of life, while Day Is Done has a more earthly, temporary wistfulness. Both songs are amazing. | foreverendeared
05.21.11 | I guess. I mean it's definitely a personal thing, but I certainly feel transcended whenever I hear Day is Done. It just hits that spot for me. | TheBalderdashMan
05.21.11 | To be honest, I probably never would have said that about Day Is Done if I wasn't trying to explain why I picked From the Morning instead. I do agree that Five Leaves Left is a little better as an album. | foreverendeared
05.21.11 | Yeah that makes sense. The rest of your song choices though I definitely agree with although I haven't heard 6. | Blackbelt54
05.21.11 | this is an amazing playlist. and btw, foreverendeared, listen to 6, it's one of my favorite songs of all time |
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