This is a really difficult one and one I am going to have to continue to contemplate and refine. Don't know if I can choose. However, as I've learned, no decision in the end is itself a decision.
Right now what comes to mind are:
Brendan's Death Song: Red Hot Chili Peppers
My Friends: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rivers and Roads: The Head and the Heart
Simple Gifts: Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krauss
Can't Stop: RHCP (again)
Just Breathe: Pearl Jam
The Weight: The Band
Time to Say Goodbye (Con Te Partiró): Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman (too much? maybe)
Anyway, great post Tyler. Kinda makes me want to have all the songs that have been mentioned on my list as well! I might want to add some high energy fun stuff in there as well I think, depends on physical and mental state toward the end. Like who wouldn't want to hear The Boys are Back in Town?!
Jul 2, 2023·edited Jul 2, 2023Liked by Tyler Jorgensen
I don't collect records - mostly b/c I'm afraid of the time and money I'll sink into it. My memories of albums were listening to my parents albums in the mid '70s. Englebart Humperdinck, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Linda Rostand, Star Wars.
As for my "deathlist" I've got a really weird one that I want played at my funeral/wake/memorial/or "on my way out":
The outro to Runaway by Kanye West.
I feel like it's Kanye West at his most vulnerable moment and somehow its universal....he is so misunderstood and no matter how hard he tries and the more and more he tries...the more distorted his words become and he never gets through to the listener.......but somehow, through this distortion of pleading and crying into the vocoder he is able to convey extreme emotion with notes of absolute greatness.
There is just something transcendent to this song that I'm not able to put in to words either.
I once told my daughter that this is the song I want played at my funeral and she immediately burst into tears.....at the thought....and at the emotion of the song....and now she can't listen to it.
This is a really difficult one and one I am going to have to continue to contemplate and refine. Don't know if I can choose. However, as I've learned, no decision in the end is itself a decision.
Right now what comes to mind are:
Brendan's Death Song: Red Hot Chili Peppers
My Friends: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rivers and Roads: The Head and the Heart
Simple Gifts: Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krauss
Can't Stop: RHCP (again)
Just Breathe: Pearl Jam
The Weight: The Band
Time to Say Goodbye (Con Te Partiró): Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman (too much? maybe)
Anyway, great post Tyler. Kinda makes me want to have all the songs that have been mentioned on my list as well! I might want to add some high energy fun stuff in there as well I think, depends on physical and mental state toward the end. Like who wouldn't want to hear The Boys are Back in Town?!
I don't collect records - mostly b/c I'm afraid of the time and money I'll sink into it. My memories of albums were listening to my parents albums in the mid '70s. Englebart Humperdinck, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Linda Rostand, Star Wars.
As for my "deathlist" I've got a really weird one that I want played at my funeral/wake/memorial/or "on my way out":
The outro to Runaway by Kanye West.
I feel like it's Kanye West at his most vulnerable moment and somehow its universal....he is so misunderstood and no matter how hard he tries and the more and more he tries...the more distorted his words become and he never gets through to the listener.......but somehow, through this distortion of pleading and crying into the vocoder he is able to convey extreme emotion with notes of absolute greatness.
There is just something transcendent to this song that I'm not able to put in to words either.
I once told my daughter that this is the song I want played at my funeral and she immediately burst into tears.....at the thought....and at the emotion of the song....and now she can't listen to it.
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKH02u-2I_Q
That’s such and amazing idea that you had and put into practice!!!
Your question is difficult. My initial thought is a medley of Beatles songs: Let It Be, Blackbird, In My Life, With A Little Help From My Friends.
But I’m sure there is so much more that I’d want for the final soundtrack.