What Would Like To Listen to While You Die?

[Guest ariceffron]

DUDE THAT WOULD BE RAD IF U PLAYED THIS IS IT BY K.LOG AT YOUR FUNERAL.

[DTMX]

I don't want to hear anything. I want to die peacefully, in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers.

I hereby nominate this one for post of the year!

I don't want to throw cold water on anybody, but you do know that this is a Steven Wright quote, don't you?

I knew I'd heard it somewhere before - just didn't know where. And here I thought the only Wright I remembered was "You can't have everything. Where would you keep it?"

Steven Wright was great as the radio announcer in "Reservoir Dogs".

[rostasi]

NOT "Amazing Grace"

---

Now playing: Johnny Richards - Annotations Of The Muses (Part Two)

[Guest]

1) "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You", Louis Armstrong. Just cuz the reaction from the mourners would be priceless. There's just not enough ironic funerals anymore. And I'd want it played once an hour from the time the open casket time till when they put the casket in the ground.

2) "Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me" because of the last line.

3) "The Drum Also Waltzes", "For Big Sid", "Jas Me", by Max Roach, the godfather of all that is good in American drumming. At the very beginning and at the very end.

4) "Uncle Meat Variations", by Zappa & the Mothers cuz it's so jaunty and fun.

5) "I Will", by the Beatles cuz I'd like to think SOMEONE is thinking the same thing.

6) "Strawberry Fields Forever", the Beatles. Nice lyric. Lot's of Ringo.

7) "Nothing Is", by Sun Ra. Apropos title, the best "head" in the world, super drumming by Clifford Jarvis and drummer number #2 and cuz John Gilmore is outa this world as usual.

8) "Dust Blows Forth And The Dust Blows Back", Captain Beefhart and played at the same time the preacher is saying that "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" stuff.

9) "Blinky", by Joey Baron's Baron Down band. It's jaunty, snappy, and is one long unrepeated head with no solos for 3 minutes and 19 seconds. Long-ass solos are so over-rated.

10) "The Sheltering Sky", King Crimson. Sure seems right.

11) "The Unanswered Question", Charles Ives. What? Is there life after death? Why is that manequin tied to the post over there? What's the meaning of this nocturnal assignation?

12) The entire Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard (Spiritual, Softly As A.... Impressions,...) and the Coltane/Rasied Ali duo "Saturn" off the Interstellar Space recording cuz the drum solo is...too much for words.

13) It'd nice to have an Oriental guy at the food table ccoking up stuff in a big wok so that when the mourners at the wake get some wok-food, he could sing (as best he could with his poor command of English language pronunciation), "A Close Walk With Thee". Gawd, I wish I could hear that...but I'll settle for the mental image...

14) Fill up the rest of the time with King Sunny Ade, Koto music from Japan, Toure Kunda, People In Sorrow by the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Graham Haynes' Griot's Footsteps, and pop music from Zimbabwe/Zaire.

Life at its worst is still better than death at its best.

[Christiern]

I think Jimmy Yancey's "How Long" is a wonderful choice, but I think I would opt for Mozart's Requiem--Atheist though I am, the music is beautiful.

[Jazz Kat]

I KNOW! I KNOW!

"They'll be some changes made."

Jimmy Rushing and Dave Brubeck!!

[medjuck]

The Port of Harlem Jazzmen which I'd want one last taste of before I go.

As to my funeral: I've instructed my wife to play KOB while people are entering, The Byrds version of Turn, Turn, Turn before the Rabbi speaks-- since at the last couple of funerals I've been to the clergymen have begun by saying "For everything there is a season"-- and finally at the end of the service Warren Zevon's "Keep Me in Your Heart": a song so to the point I don't know why everyone doesn't have it played at their funeral.

Edited July 4, 2005 by medjuck

[alankin]

My doctor saying "Oops, I read the chart wrong! It's nothing serious after all."

[JSngry]

"Take Me to the Next Phase" by The Isley Brothers wouldn't hurt none. Might even help!

[Dennis_M]

So I would go out with the same song that Dizzy was listening to when he passed on-- Salt Peanuts (the recent Uptown release for me). That song always makes me smile, and it would not be so bad to go out with a smile on your face.