# What music do you want to die to? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** beer\ **Created:** [June 4, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204 "2025-06-04T20:44:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/1 "2025-06-04T20:44:55Z")
I’ve actually given this some thought. If I’m lucky enough to die in bed, alert and aware enough to hear music I’ve chosen… what would it be? I would really like to curate the last music I ever hear. Here’s what would be on the mix tape: [Blue Danube Waltz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZoSYsNADtY) Makes me think of the larger universe and the beauty of space [Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band -----\> With a Little Help From My Friends](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3DKACKz-jo) Sgt Pepper’s was the first album I owned [Blackbird](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htEyjImMGsg) I learned guitar just so I could play this song [Here Comes the Sun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5wGpK8eiWw) Again, the Beatles were my primary influence from a young age. I learned to fingerpick this one too. [Tiny Dancer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9ltlVvgIPo) I’m more of a music person, than a lyrics person. This song is lovely and seems to tell a story. It also reminds me of a favorite film (Almost Famous). [Eternal Flame](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-5ItBqlzyw) Another beautiful song, and it reminds me of an early love These two remind me of when I was a young athlete and could do some skillful things very fast: [Root Beer Rag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jml4uGHM8GI) [Misirlou](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6T23VRpGDU) [8 Miles High](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxyOhFBoxSY) I’ve spent a few thousand hours up there [God Only Knows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AifqxMaURFI) I’m not religious or spiritual, but I like this one all the same. And finally… If I time it right… I want to die just as this one ends: [Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1q5sn21ZkQ) Granted, difficult to die on cue. But I’ll give it my best shot. I’d like to see some other folks’ death playlists. Let’s say, an hour of music and you croak just as the last cut finishes ---
**Author:** ![Tokushizu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@Tokushizu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tokushizu)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/2 "2025-06-04T20:58:57Z")
“Deacon Blues” by Steely Dan. It’s the perfect song to me (from “Aja”, my choice for perfect album) AND some of the lyrics remind me of my life. ---
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/3 "2025-06-04T21:02:43Z")
I’d like to die listening to the Beatles _Abbey Road_, It’s the first music I remember hearing in this world, might as well go out that way. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/4 "2025-06-04T21:04:38Z")
Oh crap, I tried to edit after the time limit and then hit ‘discard’. I thought that would discard the edit, but it got rid of the whole post! Edit: Wait, it’s back. Stupid board software… And I just wanted to put a period at the end. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/5 "2025-06-04T21:12:06Z")
An hour of Weird Al. The problem is cutting it down to just an hour. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/6 "2025-06-04T21:28:13Z")
I’d like to go out laughing, so something by Slim Gaillard\*. Maybe [Momma’s In the Kitchen (But We’ve Got Pop On Ice).](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMSkFjwv0E4) \*To Slim Gaillard, life was on big O-Roony." –Jack Kerouac. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/7 "2025-06-04T21:29:03Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > [God Only Knows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AifqxMaURFI) > I’m not religious or spiritual, but I like this one all the same. I’m a dyed in the wool atheist but I think that’s the prettiest song ever put on record and would not be disappointed if that was the last song I heard before I become worm chow. As for the rest of the hour, just put (the nonsensically named) “Ballad of Johnny Horton” by Frank Black on a loop. Something about this instrumental just makes me think of all of the travels and adventures in my life. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qAQwoaAoTs4/maxresdefault.jpg "Ballad of Johnny Horton") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAQwoaAoTs4) ---
**Author:** ![sjankis630](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@sjankis630](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjankis630)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/8 "2025-06-04T21:37:16Z")
Tokushizu - can I assume that you plan to “die behind the wheel”? lol. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/9 "2025-06-04T21:39:10Z")
Nilsson’s “I’d Rather Be Dead” would fit the bill, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Tokushizu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@Tokushizu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tokushizu)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/10 "2025-06-04T21:40:48Z")
I hope not, but with the way my sister drives (I currently don’t have a driver’s license), that may be a possibility! Edit: On second thought, if she’s driving, it wouldn’t be me behind the wheel! ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/11 "2025-06-04T21:59:02Z")
> [@Tokushizu](#): > > (from “Aja”, my choice for perfect album) I’ve been told by audiophiles that Steely Dan is one of the go-to artists you play to test your new audio system (way beyond ear buds). Their attention to producing perfect sound was bordering on obsessive. Great music too. Maybe “The End” by The Doors for me. It’s not perfect for me lyrically but I do like the song and kinda seems on point. ---
**Author:** ![Tokushizu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@Tokushizu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tokushizu)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/12 "2025-06-04T22:05:53Z")
Aja is the only album I’ve ever bought, lost and repurchased (a total of 3 times.). I listened to it the other day for the first time in ages and it’s so good it had me in tears. Unfortunately with Walter Becker having passed away, I will never be able to see Steely Dan in concert (and as much as I love Donald Fagen, for me it would have to have been both he and Walter Becker together for a true Steely Dan concert.) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/13 "2025-06-04T22:20:06Z")
Zip City. Drive-by Truckers. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/14 "2025-06-04T22:21:32Z")
The Long And Winding Road - Beatles Blackbird - Beatles Feeling Good - Nina Simone’s version A Song For You - Ruby Wilson’s version At Last - Etta James version Beethoven’s 9th Symphony And finish with: Voodoo Child - Robert Randolph and The Family Band version ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/15 "2025-06-04T22:23:18Z")
Anything that bothers the people hanging around annoying me when I’m trying to die. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/16 "2025-06-04T22:25:11Z")
Mozart’s Requiem in D minor ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/17 "2025-06-04T22:43:30Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Anything that bothers the people hanging around annoying me when I’m trying to die. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pp0iQ9aoEug/hqdefault.jpg "The Breakers – Don’t Send Me No Flowers (I Ain’t Dead Yet) (1965)\*\*\*\*\*") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0iQ9aoEug) ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/18 "2025-06-04T22:51:40Z")
Spheres… [![](https://media.tenor.com/OMIoZmUp-_oAAAAM/coldplay-music-of-the-spheres.gif) ](https://media.tenor.com/OMIoZmUp-_oAAAAM/coldplay-music-of-the-spheres.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/19 "2025-06-04T22:55:11Z")
Aja is great to be sure but I certainly hope you have listened to some of their other albums. I might put “Can’t Buy a Thrill” ahead of Aja. “Pretzel Logic” has to be in the discussion too. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/20 "2025-06-04T22:55:15Z")
See Me, Feel Me from Live at Leeds. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/r6mvw2rpxuw/maxresdefault.jpg "2.24 See Me, Feel Me (Live at Leeds University, 1970)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6mvw2rpxuw) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204.md?page=2)