Song to run out the clock
 

I've just watched Don McKellan's "Last Night", a flick about how different people deal with the impending end of the world. At the end, Patrick, one of the characters, plays "Guantanamera", by Pete Seeger, as his last song before it all ends, as it's connected to his childhood. My question to you all: if you knew the end of the world was coming and decided to play a song right before it happened, which one would it be? I don't want to know about a mix or a series of songs, just ONE. The LAST one.

Mine would be "Life's what you make it", by Talk Talk. I was gonna put "May nothing but happiness come through your door", by Mogwai, but I'd probably be reflecting heavily on my life at that point, so Talk Talk's song is best.

What about you?

Oooh, good question.

I think as a last act of defiance, and because it's so fitting, I'd have to go with Exit Music (For a Film) by Radiohead.

Bethoveen's 9th. It's beautiful and also long, so I would have more time to live. :D

Johnny Pyro, you should ask for Wagner's Ring Cyle.... much longer.

Fantastic thread. 10/10


The song? The End, by the Doors.


Seriously. If I am dying from some crazy disease, I want this song playing at The End.

It's gotta be Europe - The Final Countdown.

Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"

My first instinct was to say "It's the End of the World As We Know It" by R.E.M., but that's not really what I would want to hear and sing along with right at the end. I'm going to have to go with U2's "Stuck in a Moment" because I think it would be the most satisfying way to end the world.

Might go with Only in Dreams by Weezer. Nice and long and soft and loud in parts, and awesome.

Definatly "Providence" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Perfect song, talks about the end of the world, and it's pretty lengthy (hopefully that's a word...).

Tool - Parabol. Not Parabola, just the intro track.

Brian Eno: An Ending (Ascent)
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John Cage's "As Slow As Possible"

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I may change that to Temporary Peace by Anathema. I was reading the songs that make you cry thread, and someone mentioned the song. I purchased one or two of their CDs and never really gave them an in-depth listen. All I can say is: Wow....

Just for emphasis here, Bob didn't say you get to listen to the whole song, then the world ends. He wants to know what song you want playing as it all goes down.
I plan to hand an entire gallon of ice cream to my three year old to keep him busy and happy, then take my wife to the bedroom for some last minute sex, so I need something to relax her. It'll be a specific song by Spirogyra.

Thanks Redlemon! You're right, I want a song that would be started before it all ended, but wouldn't necessarily be over by the time it happened. For example, if the world ended at noon, then what would you put on a few minutes before that? No cheating with 639-year songs!

A Tout a le Monde by Megadeth. It just seems like a fitting song.

First of all, MAN is Guantanamera not "by" Pete Seeger. He covered it in the 60s, but it's older than that and is probably the most patriotic song of the nation of Cuba. More info at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamera">Wikipedia</a>, of course.

I'd be liable to choose something like "Bohemian Rhapsody". May as well kick it off while rockin' out old school!

I stand corrected.


Jeez.

Stayin' alive, by the Bee Gees.

Agreed. I love Brian Eno and I was going to put End Credits but this one works too...

I'd also like to hear Disintegration by The Cure, lengthy and undescribable.

U2's Stuck in a Moment, as recorded by Scotch Tape.

Aww...

I'm not sure then. I think I'd just want silence.

Coma by Guns N' Roses

Beatles: Good Day, Sunshine!

At first thought "It's the end of the world as we know it" by REM comes to mind but I think I'd be playing "The end is the beginning is the end" by the smashing pumpkins.

Self Portrait in Three Colors-Charles Mingus

Although that suggestions just oozes style...

Sky, by Ra. No doubt in my mind...

"I shut my eyes, to not go blind,
The things I can't see, I see in my mind.
Oh now the passing clouds of rain,
Have surely passed us by...
Poor is the man, that believes his own lies"

Something by Weird Al Yankovic. Amish Paradise, maybe.

Either "On Earth as it is in Heaven" from "The Mission" Soundtrack, or "For the Love of God" - Steve Vai. I have no idea why people have to give all their really transcendent stuff churchy names (well, actually, I do, but I hope one day we'll get over it), but there you have it.

The RZA - Fatal

"pitter patter goes my heart" - broken social scene
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"a day in the life" - the beatles.

Time - Pink Floyd


Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I’d something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

"Eclipse" by Pink Floyd

tonight tonight - smashing pumpkins

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