You're on your death bed, the end credits music to your life starts to play. What song plays?

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Always look on the bright side of life - Monty Python

Yakety sax.

Ha ha, that would be my choice too, to wind my friends up. That or Jeff Buckley singing Dido's Lament, everyone weeping into their hankies. "Remember me, remember me, but oh forget my fate...."

Nah, Yacketty Sax!

Well it's got to be Frank Turner's "Eulogy" innit?

Not everyone grows up to be an astronaut

Not everyone was born to be a king

Not everyone can be Freddie Mercury

But everyone can raise their glass and sing

Well I haven't always been a perfect person

Well I haven't done what mum and dad had dreamed

But on the day I die, I'll say at least I fucking tried

That's the only eulogy I need

Anything by tropical fuck storm. Maybe "it's getting boring by the sea" by blood red shoes.

Hm.

I don't think I can pick one. I don't know if that means I don't know myself or I know myself too well.

"The egg and I" by the seatbelts?

That's pretty good

Wow. I’ve never encountered someone mentioning tropical fuck storm in the wild.

I like to think that'll be the day the music dies, so I'll go with American Pie.

probably one of these

  • First love (young oceans)
  • ain't no grave (crowder)
  • well done (the afters)
  • the tired and the hurt (moby)
  • always look on the bright side of life (monty python)
  • hearing (sleeping at last)

My Grandad died while my uncle played it is well with my soul

Sigur Ros - Hoppipola

Fantastic song! Definitely end-credit music!

Love that one. I'm partial to Agætis Byrjun as a closing song. Despite what Agætis Byrjun means.

Also great :D
I could probably pick 10 songs that fit this category from Sigur Ros~
Scratch that I could pick all 11 songs from "Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust" alone

John Cage, 4'33"

The true answer.

Side note, there used to be a YouTube video of this song where the audio was muted for a copyright violation.

An old Mexican song, Guitarras, Lloren Guitarras., something like Guitars, Cry Oh Guitars. The music is fantastic and it seemed to me he wasn't singing about guitars at all.

Lyrics translation:

Guitarras, lloren guitarras,

Guitars, cry oh guitars

violines lloren igual;

violins you cry as well;

no dejen que yo me vaya

don't let me leave

con el silencio de su cantar.

with your song silenced.

Gritemos a pecho abierto

Let's yell with a full chest

un canto que haga temblar

a song to make tremble

al mundo que es el gran puerto

this world that is the great port

donde unos llegan y otros se van.

where some arrive and others go.

Ahora me toca a mí dejarlas,

Now it's my turn to leave you,

ahora me toca a mi marchar;

now it's my turn to part

guitarras, lloren guitarras

guitars, cry oh guitars

que ahí queda lleno de amor,

that there remains so full of love,

prendido de cada cuerda,

clinging to each string,

llorando a mares mi corazón.

crying oceans, my heart.

Body and blood by ghost.

It has nothing to do with my life, I just really like that song

I would hope it's something good, something with a nice beat and maybe a piano. A song I adore but haven't heard in a decade.

My grandfather died listening to Willie Nelson it was peaceful at least.

Thought Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve was the one that played for everyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M

George Harrison mortgaged a house to see this movie.

@NaibofTabr your comment led me to give op an up vote without listening because I knew exactly what song it was from yours!

@weirdbeardgame @FartsWithAnAccent

I've been reading Eric Idle's autobiography recently ("Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life") - you might enjoy it too. He talks a lot about his relationship with George.

One fun bit, they were in Tunisia filming Life of Brian at the same time that Star Wars was filming the Mos Eisley scenes, and the cast of both movies would hang out together.

Komm Süsser Tod - Evangelion

Black Hole Sun - Sound Garden

Evangelion

0.o

Komm, süßer Tod: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komm,_s%C3%BC%C3%9Fer_Tod,_komm_selge_Ruh

It's not that song, it's a song that plays during the climax of End of Evangelion and has very strong themes of suicide and loss, played over an upbeat, lively tune. Just imagine these lyrics over something reminiscent of a Beatles song circa Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band:

*I know, I know I've let you downz

I've been a fool to myself

I thought that I could

live for no one else

But now through all the hurt and pain

It's time for me to respect

the ones you love

mean more than anything

So with sadness in my heart

(I) feel the best thing I could do

is end it all

and leave forever

what's done is done it feels so bad

what once was happy now is sad

I'll never love again

my world is ending

It's one of my favorite scenes in animation, just because of how utterly fucked up everything is and how many layers there are to everything

Also orange juice... A whole Lotta orange juice. Like so much orange juice. But yes, this one xD

My Way - Frank Sinatra. I've always said if I were to follow through on my suicidal ideations I'd do a cover of that as my farewell to my loved ones.

Baby don’t do it - The Band

But then a mid-credit scene appears showing that it was all a plot and I faked my death, AND IM STILL HERE SUCKERS.

Videotape - Radiohead

No matter what happens now

You shouldn't be afraid

'Cause I know today has been the most perfect day

I've ever seen

Dirt in the Ground - Tom Waits

Failing that, either Heaven's Gonna Burn Your Eyes by Thievery Corporation or Hell is Round the Corner by Tricky.

Hopefully some song that will be written by someone who hasn't been born yet.

Somewhere In The Between by Streetlight Manifesto. One of my favourite songs for sure.

"So you were born, and that was a good day. Someday you'll die, and that is a shame. But somewhere in the between there's a life of which we all dream. And nothing and no one can ever take that away"

"Well someday soon my friends, this ride will come to an end. But we can't just get in line again..."

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It's been a long road, gettin from there to here... #ent

Afroman - Because I Got High

Or

Dr. Hook - I Got Stoned and I Missed It

Same song in two genres, really.

Eduard Khil - I am very glad, because I'm finally returning back home, also known as trololo song.

I'd prefer "Beloved" by Mumford & Sons, ideally. Though, I'd need someone to sing it for me, so... probably not. nice to think about though.

This is how you remind me

Nickelback

Or maybe My Own Prison by Creed

Every time I open spotify, I always start my music experience with one of 3 songs..

"Numb" by Linkin Park

"Complicated" by, Avril Lavigne

"Perfect Day" by Hoku (legally blonde soundtrack)

so probably one of those 3 songs

“The Soundtrack to the movie of my life” by Friendly. At least that’s what I imagined as a teenager lol.

Purple by Crustation as remixed by J Dilla (6:47)

and

"Lonely as the sound of lying on the ground of an airplane going down", the first three tracks off of He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms by A Silver Mt. Zion (19:54)

Jóga by Björk interpolated with the coda from Timabaland's video mix of Hit 'em wit da Hee by Missy Elliott. (about 6:28)

and

You Got Me by The Roots (4:19)

and

Roads by Portishead (5:03)

So... end credits for 42:31.

and, finally, after the credits

Last Donut of the Night by J Dilla; played on an hour-long loop. In my head canon, when he was in hospital, just before he died, this was the last track Dilla constructed.

Nothing because no one will be there to experience it. It’s kinda like the tree falling in the forest with no one around to witness it. Fade to black, this hermit bag of meat is gone.