Oh, good grief, David Geddes, "Blind Man in the Bleachers." Cheap sentimental tearjerker, but so very, very effective.
I don't really have a security blanket... unless you count Mr. Pointy.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Fred Pete - Jun 24, 2014 9:48:03 am PDT #5859 of 6436
Ann, that's a ferret.
billytea - Jun 24, 2014 11:17:51 am PDT #5860 of 6436
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Terry Jacks -- Seasons in the Sun
That was the very first one that came to my mind. Maybe also Dire Straits, "Brothers In Arms". Oh, and also their song from the same album, "The Man's Too Strong".
tommyrot - Jun 24, 2014 2:03:30 pm PDT #5861 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm not sure if I remember how to get in there, but sure! Thanks.
I uploaded it to:
[redacted]
I discovered that my .mp3 of Feed the Tree was 15 years old and 128 kbps. I uploaded that one and then managed to find the CD, so I uploaded it again at 203 kbps VBR.
Amy, let me know when you see this and I'll redact the account into.
tommyrot - Jun 24, 2014 2:07:07 pm PDT #5862 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, "Seasons in the Sun." God, I loved that song.
I loved that song when it came out (I was 7 or 8). That song has such strong associations with my childhood that I don't want to use it for this playlist.
Yet another example of me loving sad songs about death as a child.
DebetEsse - Jun 24, 2014 2:48:05 pm PDT #5863 of 6436
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Seasons in the Sun is taken from a Jacques Brel song, and he dealt with that sort of subject matter a lot. You might look at recordings of "My Death," though I don't have a specific one to point to.
Amy - Jun 24, 2014 2:51:04 pm PDT #5864 of 6436
Because books.
Got it, tommy! Thanks!
tommyrot - Jun 24, 2014 2:52:44 pm PDT #5865 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
You might look at recordings of "My Death," though I don't have a specific one to point to.
Ooh. I have a Bowie cover of that. Yeah, that might work.
And I never would have made that connection between "Seasons in the Sun" and "My Death".
DebetEsse - Jun 24, 2014 2:55:14 pm PDT #5866 of 6436
Woe to the fucking wicked.
The production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris I saw did the Seasons in the Sun song in French. It was the only song they did with no English.
tommyrot - Jun 24, 2014 2:56:34 pm PDT #5867 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Got it, tommy! Thanks!
You're welcome!
I just remembered that I had stopped listening to that album for years because I only had it in 128 kbps and was too lazy to find the CD. Which took less than five minutes.
(My playlist is in iCloud or whatever so it was using an AAC version.
DavidS - Jun 24, 2014 6:39:57 pm PDT #5868 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So many death songs! Murder ballads alone take up a serious chunk of my collection.
Let's see, notable "death" titles:
O Death - Ralph Stanley (used in O'Brother - same song as Camper Van, but better/scarier)
Country Death Song - Violent Femmes
Death by Misadventure - Ted Nugent (about Brian Jones)
Justice Delives Its Death - Sufjan Stevens
Death of a Disco Dancer - The Smiths
Slow Death - Flamin' Groovies
Needle of Death - Bert Jansch
Death is Hanging Over Me - Nikki Sudden
Goodnight Dr. Death - My Chem Romance
Creeping Death - Metallica
The Death of Ferdinand de Saussaure - Magnetic Fields
The Girl on Death Row - Sanford Clark (also Duane Eddy. Great creepy song)
Death of a Clown - Kinks
Death Trip - Iggy and Stooges
He Dines Out On Death - Cristina
Art of Dying - George Harrison
In My Time of Dying - Blind Willie Johnson
See That My Grave Is Swept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson (also a great rocking cover by Thelonius Monster I have, available upon request)
Dumb Ways To Die - Tangerine Kitty