What song would you most want to "check out" to? (1 Viewer)

[Cage1]

If you had your choice, as the lights are going dim and your mortal coil is taking its final look around, what song is playing you off on your journey to the river Styx?

This is the song that I heard that inspired the thread.



But I think I gotta go with the obvious play here. It's an obvious choice for a reason. Kind of has it all.



I'm sure as I give it more than five minutes of thought, I'll think of some that would be a better fit.

 

[zeetes]

i was totally thinking at a store. not elevator music was my first choice.

 

[Saintman2884]

If you had your choice, as the lights are going dim and your mortal coil is taking its final look around, what song is playing you off on your journey to the river Styx?

This is the song that I heard that inspired the thread.



But I think I gotta go with the obvious play here. It's an obvious choice for a reason. Kind of has it all.



I'm sure as I give it more than five minutes of thought, I'll think of some that would be a better fit.

"The killer woke before dawn, he put his boots on!!" "He took a face from the ancient gallery and he walked on down the hall."

I've read The End is actually more of a poem written into a song based around Jim Morrison breaking up with one of his girlfriends (before he met Pamela Courson) in 1966, and then added more lyrics touching on loneliness, despair, insanity with a final Oedipal touch towards the end. It's arguably more centered around those other themes than death.

On the original master recording tapes, producer Paul Rothschild edited out Morrison's constant chants of "fork" and "Kill" so low listeners can't even hear it except for a few disconcerted break-ins and Morrison saying "Kill" maybe one last time as the song's double-time section ends. Also, future legendary actor Harrison Ford met Morrison and other Doors members a couple of times in L.A. while recording their debut album. IIRC, Ford was still a UCLA student at the time and was working as a courier delivering supplies to the studio one night.

 

[BlackandGoldXLIV]

Bob Marley - Three Little Birds

“Don’t worry. About a thing. Cause every little thing, gonna be alright.”

 

[TheRealJRad]

I don’t think I’ve ever listened to Mr Blue Sky without my mood improving at least a little

The song is ok too

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

Song was originally written by the late Warren Zevon, but Eddie nailed it.

 

[RazorOye]

"Tiger Striped Sky" by Roo Panes

 

[zatsnzapps]

"Tiger Striped Sky" by Roo Panes

The sharpness is back

 

[Booker]

The obvious choices…

 

[SystemShock]

"Tiger Striped Sky" by Roo Panes

Good to see you around.

 

[Crawdaddys]

 

[Booker]

Actually, I think this might be the winner…



...or this one...

 

[Madmarsha]

This. There is not one "feel" I don't feel when I listen to this.

 

[Bleu Raeder]

I hope the playlist at my funeral reflects what I listened to all of my life, and I hope my last days are filled with music as well.