Music to die to

Elgar - Sospiri

I'd still stick with Spike Jones as above or any groovy, swinging edition of "Hit the road, Jack ".

Songs by Enya.

another addition:

Pastor TJ Burnett & the Children for Christ Choir: "like a ship (without a sail)" ----remarkably uplifting, funky christian music, great choral arrangments. fantastic cut if you've never heard it (and i hate christian music generally, but this is more like christian music meets opera conducted by James Brown).

Trance inducing sounds intriguing; I might put it on my "death list".

If I wanted to go the way of the dark pagan spirits, Sunn 0)))

Plumbs the depths of the bass frequencies. Trance inducing stuff.

For burial ritual I would choose Miles Davis - Pangaea -.

I just read that there's a genre "Deathcore" perhaps some suitable selections. After the burial, isnt half bad at all

Gkella, interesting idea. And following this approach I would choose..how about..I don't really hate anything.

It would have to be something I hate so my time would seem slower..kind of like torture.
Maybe something from the ABBA collection.
Glen

Fields of the Nephilim- Love Under Will.

Lil Wing, Hendrix.
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Budapest Chamber Orchestra.
Human Nature, Miles Davis
Round Midnight, Monk
Kind Woman, Buffalo Springfield

Sure we can. We will all be dead soon enough and nothing of us will be left. So let's enjoy the music while we are still alive!

Metallica's Fade to Black

Mozart K.618 Ave Verum Corpus. It's short, appropriate and simply beautiful.

Ummmmm....can we not turn this into a discussion on religious/metaphysical nonsense. Let's keep it on music please.

I'll add one more to my original list, if I'm still around--Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna.

Not into nothingness - into another plane of existence. We are in essence immortal. The proof? Delve into your unconscious and you will know.

Well, as I have a trashed heart and need a transplant, I've actually given this some serious thought. My choice will be 'Master and Margherita' by Ennio Morricone. Can't imagine a more beautiful piece of music to fade into nothingness to. :-)

I mis-spelled the group "Tuatara". They have an album with a cut titled "Orpheus Must Die". I strongly beg to differ. The name of the CD is "East of the Sun". I will give it a listen.

Something that would put me to sleep.

Tuatera, "Breaking the Ethers", has anyone ever heard of "Tuatera"? They are my new groove.

Doesn't the correct answer depend on whether one wishes to ease or aggravate or speed or slow dying?

Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself Again.

It is the best guitar album period!
However it is a digital recording and quite old, so I have it on Japanese red label mastersound CD.

Inna, you will love Passion, Grace & Fire. The LP I have features John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, and Paco De Lucia. It is the best guitar album in my collection

Enjoy the music.

Mahler 3, last movement. Very consoling music, I feel.

Pink Floyd's
"The Great Gig In The Sky"

Back in Black - AC/DC

You were wrong. And there is at least one more - John McLaughlin himself. I read interviews with him.

I thought I was the only person on the planet who liked "Visions of the Emerald Beyond"

U2: in a little while. that's what joey ramone listened to when he died.

A Love Supreme.

"The One I Love" REM

Ralph Vaughan Williams-Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Felix Mendelssohn-Fingals Cave (Hebrides Overture)

No one for "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"?

Deodato's 'Pavane for a dead princess', or Jim Hall's 'Concierto de Aranjuez' which some have dubbed as quite possibly the finest piece of music ever written.

I wonder if anyone here has ever listened to either one of these pieces?

Queen's "another one bites the dust"

Schuman RECQUIEM.

Turn out the lights and listen to Paul Simon's "Quiet," it's the last track off the "You're the One" album and you'll have your answer. It's not necessarily a favorite, and certainly not widely known, but if it's a soundtrack for your departure that you seek, this one comes pretty close to being it.

But the audiophile Grim Reaper can't take me yet- my new Acoustic Zen Satori Shotgun cables are on order but haven't been delivered yet. I'd be so embarassed to die listening to my current cables that I could just- well you know, die!

HAHAHA... good one Viridian : ) Sean
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Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings"

KIRI TE KANAWA SINGING STRAUSS 'FOUR LAST SONGS'.

"We Bid You Goodnight", the Grateful Dead live!

Angels singing

Angels singing

If I die feeling sorry for myself, I'll have Allen Toussaint's mournful "Cruel Way To Go Down" (from Southern Night). I liked Garfish's Ry Cooder suggestion. If I'm feeling more hopeful, I'll gracefully slide out on Cooder's "Think It's Going To Work Out Fine" (Bop Till You Drop). Great topic!

"Time to Die" by Gary Numan

Metallica covering 'I did it my way'
(with san francisco symphony of course)