Songs to live (and die) for

  1. What song do you wish had played during your birth?
  2. What is the last song you want to hear as you finally breathe your last?
  3. Green Hornet Theme.
  4. Alice Cooper’s I’m Going Home.
  1. Free Bird
  2. Free Bird or Dixie
  1. Breathe Pink Floyd
  2. Eclipse Pink Floyd

Theme from Hawaii Five-O
Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture

Birth-Now I’m Here

Death-These Are the Days of Our Lives & The Show Must Go On

All by Queen

Birth: Breath
Death: Breath

both by Pearl Jam

Here Comes The Sun
In My Time of Dying

You don’t plan to go out quietly into that good night, do you? :smiley:

First thought:

Birth: Danny’s Song (punk version by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes)
Death: Over the Rainbow / Wonderful World (Israel Kamakawiwo’ole version)

I might change my mind after perusing my ipod though

Leontyne Price: “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess
A soft-voiced baritone singing “Beyond the Blue Horizon” followed by a very small group performing “The Humming Chorus”

Birth: True Faith New Order
Death: *There is a Light that Never Goes Out *The Smiths

Birth: Imperial Death March from Star Wars
Death: Alice’s Restaurant

Alternate birth- Revolution #9

Birth: Joanna Newsom, Sawdust and Diamonds

Mostly because of these lines:

I wasn’t born of a whistle
Or milked from a thistle at twilight
No, I was all horns and thorns
Sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright

That’s pretty much how I would want to enter this world

Death: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Lay Me Low

‘Flügelhorn’ is such an absurd word in English. And yes, they’re gonna have to sound one…

Birth: Mighty Mouse Theme Song
Death: The B-Side Suite from Abbey Road. Though I’d like to be dead before Paul ruins it with a cheeky little tune about the Queen.

Birth - Thirteen by Johnny Cash, written by Danzig.

Death - Tonight We Ride by Tom Russell

Yes, I’m a miserable bastard, an alcoholic, and a country fan.

Birth - Hello Hurray - Alice Cooper
Death a. Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits or
b. You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor

Birth - Welcome to the Machine
Death - God’s Gonna Cut You Down, although There is a Light that Never Goes Out is a solid pick too

Birth --* Born at the Right Time* (Paul Simon)
Death – Bright Eyes (From Watership Down and Sung by Art Garfunkel)

I want Always Look on the Bright Side of Life played at my funeral (and Girl Wonder says it won’t happen), so I think it would make an okay death song, also.

For my birth? Not that I’m a huge fan, but “Bad to the Bone,” while being cliche, would fit rather well. If not that, then Miserlou.