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The Last Listen

Posted over 2 years ago
Here is a nice, positive post for your Monday ;-)I finished Truman Capote's 'In Cold Blood' over the weekend and the last quarter of the book deals heavily with capital punishment. Which got me to thinking about last meals...which got me to thinking about something even more important. If you KNEW you were going to die in a few hours...what record would you put on and listen to a few times before your departure?Would you pick something upbeat in an attempt to stay in denial? Would you choose an album that reminds you of a happy time in your life? Would you pick an album that reminds you of the love of your life? Which album would you choose to carry you into eternity?I think I would go with either Pearl Jam's 'Ten' or the Counting Crows 'August And Everything After'.
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  1. Anna
    Anna says Instead of picking one record to listen to a few times before my departure, I would pick several and listen to each one once ;) My criterion would simply be which albums I love the most (though trying to figure that out might eat up all my time!). You can pretty much guess that by now; Placebo, Joy Division, Muse etc.
    Permalink posted 10/08/2007
  2. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says Ok...so what song would be the last one you played...one song...no cheating on this one ;-)
    Permalink posted 10/08/2007
  3. msquared64
    msquared64 says very interesting subject matter on this Blair... tough call. The last song I played would probably be Iron & Wine's "The Trapeze Swinger." But for last album, I would have to go with Paul Simon's Graceland. My father played that thing to death when it first came out, which is when I was about 7 or 8, I loved it then, I love it now, so I think that would be one of the easiest choices I could make.
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  4. Anna
    Anna says aaaaaaaaaaaaa so hard. I think it would be Muse's Apocalypse Please. Declare this an emergency come on and spread a sense of urgency and pull us through And this is the end of the World it’s time we saw a miracle come on it’s time for something biblical to pull us through 'Cause I'm dramatic like that ;) (or Placebo's Every You Every Me 'cause it's my favourite song, or Joy Division's She's Lost Control just 'cause, or.........if we have multiple orgasms, can we have multiple deaths as well?)
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  5. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says Well...since you have an evil cat as an avatar...i guess technically you get nine lives...and nine deaths! Nice choice though...that is a seriuosly hard question!
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  6. Dale
    Dale says I think I've got this one sorted; I'd play Joy Division's album Closer, and I'd have it stop at "The Eternal": I can't think of a better way to usher in the eternities.
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  7. Iren
    Iren says I think that it would either be the Nuggets box set, or Somebody Down there Likes Me by The Forbidden Dimension... on the other hand I think I would want to hear so much stuff that I would be skipping around and listening to bits of tracks.... on the other hand Legal Weapon's Time Forgot You has always been a special track for me, and I might be more than tempted to just play that over and over... I don't think that I would want something sad and weepy, but something with energy and grit, something that would send me screaming into that unknown country with my middle fingers raised at death..... maybe Sonic Reducer... I don't know for sure... what I do know is that I would want Check Your Tears at the Door by Drivin'n'Cryin played right after I passed for my family and friends..
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  8. steve simon
    steve simon says blair, that is a tough one. let's go with either Live/Dead byt the GD or revolver maybe by the beatles
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  9. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says Sonic Reducer would be a great way to fade to black...and Steve...the Greatful Dead...now there is a poetic choice...i can totally imagine closing the curtain to 'what a long strange trip it's been...'
    Permalink posted 10/08/2007
  10. lucystarlite
    lucystarlite says your choice of august and everything after is tempting as i have so much love for that album, and it holds a great deal of significance to my life. hmmm... that said, i think it would turn out to be a tie between the cure's disintegration and new order's substance. that said, there is a part of me that would want to let loose and release with something like nine inch nails' pretty hate machine or the libertines up the bracket. most likely i'd want to lock myself in a room full of music and try to ingest as much as i possibly could, hopefully to take along with me wherever i was off to next... very keen question, blair. lucy.
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  11. contrabandwidth
    contrabandwidth says I might go the traditional gospel route and choose something like "Amazing Grace" or maybe The Eels album "Electro Shock Blues - No wait that or The Jayhawks "Tomorrow The Green Grass." Yeah, all of those.
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  12. Joxley
    Joxley says _The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)_ perhaps, or maybe something by The Men They Couldn't Hang..ahaa But seriously the last song is a tough choice...I don;t really know if I'd be in the mood for depressing tunes in that situation, but from this distance I think a combo of Elliot Smith, Bright Eyes and the Shins might be apt..unless Jenny Lewis was in the mood for a one on one concert
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  13. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says The very last song is tough...i think I would go for something that sort of sums up my time on earth...maybe this one
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  14. yrralmallik
    yrralmallik says Johnny Cash would be my choice.Thanks for the post.Your Mog Bro.~ (;Yrral Mallik;)
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  15. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says Can't go wrong with the man in black!
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  16. lucystarlite
    lucystarlite says blair...do you have a copy of ben lee doing in my life???? that song...it just means a lot right now to me...and i have not heard that version before. perfect last song choice. and this version is amazing. lucy.
    Permalink posted 10/08/2007
  17. Bartleby
    Bartleby says Your post reminds of a poll that the BBC holds every year about "The songs you'd like to be played at your funeral." Last year's edition can be viewed here. Before I die, I'm not sure what I want to listen to. Perhaps the last note of some Bach (The St Matthew Passion) or maybe something like this: When I'm dead, I wish I could hear her voice once again say those words lost in the limbo of time: I l o v e y o u
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  18. Rawkkiddoh
    Rawkkiddoh says Such Great Heights by the Postal Service........I think it would be nice to float to
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  19. Lizziegreeneyes
    Lizziegreeneyes says Grace ~ JBuckley CC ~ Recovering the Satellites Editors ~ The Back Room DM ~ 101 or my 80s compilation... sure there are others - but these were seminal
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  20. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says Grace...ah...can't believe nobody said that til now...good call lizzie
    Permalink posted 10/08/2007
  21. Lizziegreeneyes
    Lizziegreeneyes says & one of the Frames - probably Setlist/Burn the Maps or Fitzcarraldo... You know I gots to have my Buckely before I die... How did you find In Cold Blood - I read it last year - I am already ready for a reread !!!
    Permalink posted 10/08/2007
  22. Strawberry Street
    Strawberry Street says Love the question! I would have to stick with Lizzie's Buckley theme and go with Jeff's 'Last Goodbye' I could listen to this song over and over and always feel a warm happy glow inside even if it is a sad song. Haunting voice and amazing song. "You gave me more to live for, more than you'll never know..." "Kiss me, please kiss me..."
    Permalink posted 10/09/2007
  23. Lizziegreeneyes
    Lizziegreeneyes says _... kiss me out of desire baby not consolation"_ - that's the single best lyric about a break up for me !!! & you're right Strawberry Street - his voice - ahhhhhhhhh
    Permalink posted 10/09/2007
  24. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says what kind of world are we living in where Jeff Buckley was taken from us WAY too soon, yet Fred Durst and Kid Rock are still allowed to roam the planet and make music...what a cruel, cruel world
    Permalink posted 10/09/2007
  25. Lizziegreeneyes
    Lizziegreeneyes says I'd laugh if I wasn't so close to tears !!! I've never gotten that one either...
    Permalink posted 10/09/2007

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