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".

I'm not sure if I remember how to get in there, but sure! Thanks.

I uploaded it to:

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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.

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.

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.

Got it, tommy! Thanks!

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".

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.

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.

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

Goodnight Dr. Death - My Chem Romance

FYI, this is a spoken word piece from the character Dr. Death-Defying, and then goes into the Star Spangled Banner. So, possibly not what you're looking for.