# Songs to Commit Suicide To... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522 "2003-12-22T21:05:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![VivaEuropa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ed655f/32.png) [@VivaEuropa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VivaEuropa)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/1 "2003-12-22T21:05:25Z")
Alright. (This is pretty much my first post ever so hopefully it is okay.) You have the gun/rope/sleeping pills ready. There’s one last thing you must do before you take your own life: Decide which song to play as you do the deed. My #1 choice is Tom Petty’s Free Falling. Gonna free fall out into nothin’ Gonna leave this world for a while Isn’t that peaceful and perfect? What is your suicide song? ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/2 "2003-12-22T21:10:46Z")
What an unusually morbid OP… ---
**Author:** ![VivaEuropa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ed655f/32.png) [@VivaEuropa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VivaEuropa)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/3 "2003-12-22T21:15:07Z")
Yes, darling, but doesn’t everyone think about this at some point? ---
**Author:** ![hypnoboth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@hypnoboth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypnoboth)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/4 "2003-12-22T21:26:35Z")
I can see it now: 1. I suggest a song. 2. Someone puts it on, does the deed, and is found by a grieving neighbor. 3. Ol’ Hypnoboth is in court, sued for every penny he ever made. I’ll give this one a miss. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/5 "2003-12-22T21:53:37Z")
“No Depression” - Uncle Tupelo version “I’ve Had Enough” - The Who “I Can See Clearly Now” - Johnny Nash or Holly Cole Trio versions “Waterlow” - Mott the Hoople “Here Comes The Flood” - Peter Gabriel “Land Of The Sun” - Skip Spence “Destroying Angel (White Mushrooms)” - Pulnoc “Welcome Back Home” - The Byrds “Free” - Train “Trouble Man” - Marvin Gaye “Eleanor Rigby” The Beatles or Ray Charles versions “Misunderstood” - Wilco “Lazy Old Sun” - The Kinks “End Of The Season” - The Kinks “Demon” - Keith Richards “Drive On” - Johnny Cash “When I Get My Wings” - Billy Joe Shaver “Bank Vault In Heaven” - Richard Thompson “Suicide Chump” - Frank Zappa (just for the irony) “Key To The Highway” any of countless versions This list was too easy, good thing I took my pills today… ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/6 "2003-12-22T21:56:15Z")
Billie Holiday had a song called “Blue Monday” IMS, that is supposed to be a real downer. Several cases of suicide were attributed to it, back in the 40’s or 50’s. Sorry, no cite. Anyone got the SD on this, or is this just another urban legend? ---
**Author:** ![TheInterruptingCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9c0ed/32.png) [@TheInterruptingCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInterruptingCow)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/7 "2003-12-22T21:56:35Z")
“You’re Having My Baby” always makes me want to kill myself. Or, in keeping with the season, “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer”… ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/8 "2003-12-22T22:04:23Z")
“Rainy Days and Monday (always get me down)” by the Carpenters ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/9 "2003-12-22T22:05:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by VivaEuropa \* > \*\*Yes, darling, but doesn’t everyone think about this at some point? \*\* No? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/10 "2003-12-22T22:10:52Z")
Who Let the Dogs Out. Okay, just kidding. I’d put on Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler. Saddest song ever. ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/11 "2003-12-22T22:19:51Z")
Blasphemous Rumors - Depeche Mode ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/12 "2003-12-22T22:28:12Z")
Don’t Forget Your Second Wind - Billy Joel 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Carwash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carwash)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/13 "2003-12-22T22:31:01Z")
Wave of Mutilation by The Pixies ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/14 "2003-12-22T22:35:39Z")
[Mad World](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=230858) NB: Don’t kill yourself!!! Visit the thread , then listen to the Darkness instead 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/15 "2003-12-22T22:40:57Z")
_Lucy_, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ---
**Author:** ![domesticatedjunglefowl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@domesticatedjunglefowl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/domesticatedjunglefowl)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/16 "2003-12-22T22:48:43Z")
It really depends on the type of suicide. ‘‘Jingle Bell Rock’’ on vinyl - Hanging ‘‘I touch myself’’ or “Love Hurts” - Autoerotic strangulation ‘‘Jump!’’ on headphones - Off a building or bridge. ‘‘Say Goodnight (the party’s over)’’- pills and booze ‘’(you drive me) Crazy’’ by Britney Spears.- Stumbling out onto a poorly lit freeway on a friday night, bottle of Jack in one hand and a revolver in the other. Climax ensues by blowing head off one half second before a car hits you while staring at the unfortunate driver. _ **The aforementioned scenarios are in no way a description of past events or intended as inspiration for a psychotically mirthful or ironic demise. I just have a dark imagination.** _ Anything Depeche Mode for extended period of time would do me in, eventually. I don’t know what it is about Depeche Mode that makes me progressively sad, bored and angry all at the same time. Even on a normal and sober day any of his songs will turn my mood way south for a few hours. Dave Gahan, if you are out there, I will one day spend fifty bucks on a ticket so that I may jump stage and give you a swift, steel-toed kick to the shin and another to the groin…sorry about that diatribe there… As an aside, I never listen to DM voluntarily, I just have a friend who thinks he is greatest man ever to walk the earth. He subjects me to that crap and tries to change my mind about that crappy band. Funny thing is, we met at work on a smoke break when he overheard me saying my feelings on the band. ---
**Author:** ![penny\_dreadful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@penny\_dreadful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penny_dreadful)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/17 "2003-12-22T23:16:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by quiltguy154 \* > \*\*Billie Holiday had a song called “Blue Monday” IMS, that is supposed to be a real downer. Several cases of suicide were attributed to it, back in the 40’s or 50’s. Sorry, no cite. Anyone got the SD on this, or is this just another urban legend? \*\* Here’s more [info](http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/gloomy.htm) on various versions of the legend, though Snopes lists the status as “Undetermined”. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/18 "2003-12-22T23:17:49Z")
_Das Lied von der Erde_, by Mahler or if I was feeling ironic, _Going Underground_ by the Jam ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/19 "2003-12-22T23:20:29Z")
“Happy Happy Joy Joy” - Ren and Stimpy ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/20 "2003-12-22T23:35:26Z")
[bad taste] The _Stained Class_ album by Judas Priest, several times in a row. Play backwards, if possible. [/bad taste] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522.md?page=2)