# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/21 "2003-12-22T23:58:43Z")
I’d put _Revolver_ in. For no reason other than if it’s the last album/song I ever listen to, it better be the best damn album/song ever recorded. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/22 "2003-12-23T00:09:10Z")
“My Way” - Frank Sinatra The Sid Vicious version has its charm, but I think it would cheapen the occasion. ---
**Author:** ![Dizzy\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/23 "2003-12-23T00:11:41Z")
Bach’s Cantata BWV 82, “Ich Habe Genug.” ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/24 "2003-12-23T00:29:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Dress Rehearsal Rag , Leonard Cohen. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/25 "2003-12-23T00:39:43Z")
“Feelings” - Morris Albert “Honey” - Bobby Goldsboro “Disco Duck” - Rick Dees Preferably all three in some sort of twisted DJ house party mix. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/26 "2003-12-23T00:51:32Z")
“Goodbye, cruel world” - Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/27 "2003-12-23T00:56:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by neofishboy \* > \*\*“My Way” - Frank Sinatra > > The Sid Vicious version has its charm, but I think it would cheapen the occasion. \*\* And you’d have to killyour girlfriend first! ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/28 "2003-12-23T00:58:22Z")
No one has mentioned Don’t Fear The Reaper?! NOTHING by Ozzy. The poor guy would get accused and he doesn’t deserve that. Turn it around and make it something by Celine Dion"See! Her music causes suicides!!!" ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/29 "2003-12-23T01:15:04Z")
Here’s a [similar](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=222886) thread I started last month if you want more suggestions. Here’s some of my favorites, several of which I discovered from posts in that thread: Eels - “Electroshock Blues,” also “The Medication is Wearing Off” Assemblage 23 - “Cocoon” The Smiths - “Asleep” Dream Theater - “Hollow Years” Jimi Hendrix - “Castles Made of Sand” Joy Division - “Atmosphere,” “Love Will Tear us Apart,” and most of their other stuff; Ian Curtis was a _sad_ guy. Joe Satriani - “Cryin’” ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/30 "2003-12-23T01:23:25Z")
Not a song, but a piece of classical: [Adagio for Strings](http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/works/barber/adagio.html) Would even make Kathy Lee wanna jump (hey, I guess its not all bad ;)) ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/31 "2003-12-23T01:27:33Z")
Ice Ice Baby ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/32 "2003-12-23T01:30:51Z")
If I ever went, I’d be playing _Entry Of The Gladiators_ over and over, at full volume. Doot-doot dootle-ootle BANG!!! doot-doot doo-doo… ---
**Author:** ![Mott\_the\_Hoople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Mott\_the\_Hoople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mott_the_Hoople)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/33 "2003-12-23T01:58:57Z")
Mr.Lonely…Bobby Vinton “Lonely, I’m Mr.Lonely…I am So Lonely That I Could Cryyyyyy ah ayyyyyyy …I’m Mr. Loney” ``` BANG! ``` ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/34 "2003-12-23T02:03:23Z")
Noone’s mentioned my favorite: Suicide is Painless (Mash Theme Song) (Mike Altman and Johnny Mandel) Through early morning fog I see Visions of the things to be, The pains that are withheld for me, I realize and I can see… That suicide is painless, It brings on many changes And I can take or leave it if I please. Etc. [http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiSUICIDE.html](http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiSUICIDE.html) The song was sung only in the movie version, but the music started every TV MASH episode. ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/35 "2003-12-23T02:39:25Z")
Anything by Radiohead. That’s what it was intended for, right? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/36 "2003-12-23T02:57:22Z")
What no Suicide is Painless or Don’t Fear the Reaper yet? ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/37 "2003-12-23T02:59:09Z")
What about Lucky, or their cover of Rhinestone Cowboy, or Anyone Can Play Guitar, or Planet Telex, or Subterranean Homesick Alien, or You And Whose Army, or… I could go on. Look, not all of Radiohead’s stuff is depressing. But if you’re going to pick one song by them… Motion Picture Soundtrack. Even I, an athiest, believe that it’s the song that you hear when you’re going to the afterlife, no matter how your life ended. Harps. Organs that sound as old as time itself. Final lyric? “I will see you/in the next life.” It ends with a roar of noise, and then a few minutes of silence. An incredibly inspiring song. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/38 "2003-12-23T02:59:11Z")
Girl! I mentioned that! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/39 "2003-12-23T03:33:55Z")
Girl! I mentioned that! ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/40 "2003-12-23T03:51:13Z")
Alright, lemme think… Sarah MacLachlan - Angel (For intentional overdoses) Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely Cat Power - Water and Air Cat Power - Ice Water (I paraphrase some critic or another: “Giving a depressed person a Cat Power record would be like giving a suicidal person a gun.”) Marilyn Manson - Coma White Sarah MacLachlan - Sweet Surrender (DJ Tiesto Remix required) Placebo - My Sweet Prince LC [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522.md?page=3)