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Bob Biter · 10-16-2005, 07:14 PM

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?

Anxst · 10-16-2005, 07:57 PM

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.

Johnny Pyro · 10-16-2005, 09:26 PM

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

Poppinjay · 10-17-2005, 09:53 AM

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

BigBen · 10-17-2005, 11:29 AM

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.

drainpipe · 10-17-2005, 11:29 AM

It's gotta be Europe - The Final Countdown.

God of Thunder · 10-17-2005, 11:43 AM

Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"

Supple Cow · 10-17-2005, 11:48 AM

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.

fightnight · 10-17-2005, 12:01 PM

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

muckluck · 10-17-2005, 12:03 PM

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...).

FoolThemAll · 10-17-2005, 12:31 PM

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

Salomon · 10-17-2005, 12:49 PM

Brian Eno: An Ending (Ascent)
<embed src="http://home.comcast.net/~karosyrup/An_Ending.mp3" autostart="FALSE">

cellophanedeity · 10-17-2005, 01:40 PM

John Cage's "As Slow As Possible"

Link

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The first notes in the longest and slowest piece of music in history, designed to go on for 639 years, are being played on a German church organ on Wednesday.

The three notes, which will last for a year-and-a-half, are just the start of the piece, called As Slow As Possible.

Composed by late avant-garde composer John Cage, who died in 1992, the performance has already been going for 17 months - although all that has been heard so far is the sound of the organ's bellows being inflated.

We started discussing - what is as slow as possible for the organ?

Hans-Ola Ericsson
Composer
The music will be played in Halberstadt, a small town renowned for its ancient organs in central Germany.

It was originally a 20-minute piece for piano, but a group of musicians and philosophers decided to take the title literally and work out how long the longest possible piece of music could last.

They settled on 639 years because the Halberstadt organ was 639 years old in the year 2000.

"We started discussing - what is as slow as possible for the organ?" Swedish composer and organist Hans-Ola Ericsson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"We, a group of theologians, musicologists, philosophers, composers and organists, met during a couple of years solely to discuss this question. It was rather wonderful to have one topic to discuss at length."

Hopefully the aesthetics and the ideas of John Cage will manage to survive

Hans-Ola Ericsson
"We came up with the answer that the piece could last for the duration of the organ - that is the lifetime of an organ."

Mr Ericsson said John Cage would have liked what they had done with it.

"It's a sound that we give to the future to take care of, and hopefully the aesthetics and the ideas of John Cage will manage to survive."

The first note is due to be struck at 1800 local time (1700 GMT) on Wednesday.

The performance follows a legal case in which composer Mike Batt was forced to pay a six-figure sum to Cage's publishers, who accused him of plagiarising a silent piece of music.

muckluck · 10-17-2005, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by muckluck

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...).

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....

Redlemon · 10-17-2005, 02:02 PM

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.

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Originally Posted by Bob Biter

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 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.

Bob Biter · 10-17-2005, 04:03 PM

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!

spectre · 10-17-2005, 05:03 PM

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

ratbastid · 10-17-2005, 08:50 PM

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!

Bob Biter · 10-17-2005, 09:01 PM

I stand corrected.

Jeez.

iblade · 10-17-2005, 09:29 PM

Stayin' alive, by the Bee Gees.

optik_nerve · 10-17-2005, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Salomon

Brian Eno: An Ending (Ascent)

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.

martinguerre · 10-17-2005, 10:33 PM

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

cellophanedeity · 10-18-2005, 01:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bob Biter

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!

Aww...

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

Catdaddy33 · 10-18-2005, 05:47 AM

Coma by Guns N' Roses

Leto · 10-18-2005, 06:03 AM

Beatles: Good Day, Sunshine!

catback · 10-18-2005, 06:16 PM

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.

alansmithee · 10-18-2005, 06:37 PM

Self Portrait in Three Colors-Charles Mingus

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Originally Posted by iblade

Stayin' alive, by the Bee Gees.

Although that suggestions just oozes style...

Shpoop · 10-19-2005, 04:38 AM

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"

vermin · 10-20-2005, 06:38 PM

Something by Weird Al Yankovic. Amish Paradise, maybe.

Tophat665 · 10-24-2005, 07:35 PM

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.

Philangicality · 10-27-2005, 06:17 PM

The RZA - Fatal

chelsea_9 · 11-08-2005, 05:47 PM

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

Fly · 11-09-2005, 06:10 AM

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.

Derwood · 11-09-2005, 07:37 AM

"Eclipse" by Pink Floyd

noahfor · 11-09-2005, 11:19 PM

tonight tonight - smashing pumpkins

(cool avatar bob biter)

10-16-2005, 07:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
Bob Biter Non-smokers die everyday Location: Montreal	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? __________________ A plan is just a list of things that don't happen.

10-16-2005, 07:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
Anxst Condensing fact from the vapor of nuance. Location: Madison, WI	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. __________________ Don't mind me. I'm just releasing the insanity pressure from my headvalves.

10-16-2005, 09:26 PM	#3 (permalink)
Johnny Pyro Hey Now! Location: Massachusetts (Redneck, white boy town. I hate it here.)	Bethoveen's 9th. It's beautiful and also long, so I would have more time to live. __________________ "From delusion lead me to truth, from darkness lead me to light, from death lead me to eternal life. - Sheriff John Wydell

10-17-2005, 09:53 AM	#4 (permalink)
Poppinjay You had me at hello Location: DC/Coastal VA	Johnny Pyro, you should ask for Wagner's Ring Cyle.... much longer. __________________ I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet

10-17-2005, 11:29 AM	#5 (permalink)
BigBen Comedian Location: Use the search button	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. __________________ 3.141592654 Hey, if you are impressed with my memorizing pi to 10 digits, you should see the size of my penis.

10-17-2005, 11:29 AM	#6 (permalink)
drainpipe Tilted	It's gotta be Europe - The Final Countdown.

10-17-2005, 11:43 AM	#7 (permalink)
God of Thunder Talk nerdy to me Location: Flint, MI	Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" __________________ I reject your reality, and substitute my own -- Adam Savage

10-17-2005, 11:48 AM	#8 (permalink)
Supple Cow Americow, the Beautiful Location: Washington, D.C.	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. __________________ "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." (Michael Jordan) Last edited by Supple Cow; 10-17-2005 at 11:50 AM..

10-17-2005, 12:01 PM	#9 (permalink)
fightnight Insane Location: The lovely Northeast	Might go with Only in Dreams by Weezer. Nice and long and soft and loud in parts, and awesome.

10-17-2005, 12:03 PM	#10 (permalink)
muckluck Psycho	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...). __________________

10-17-2005, 12:31 PM	#11 (permalink)
FoolThemAll Walking is Still Honest Location: Seattle, WA	Tool - Parabol. Not Parabola, just the intro track. __________________ I wonder if we're stuck in Rome.

10-17-2005, 12:49 PM	#12 (permalink)
Salomon Loser	Brian Eno: An Ending (Ascent) <embed src="http://home.comcast.net/~karosyrup/An_Ending.mp3" autostart="FALSE">

10-17-2005, 04:03 PM	#16 (permalink)
Bob Biter Non-smokers die everyday Location: Montreal	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 plan is just a list of things that don't happen.

10-17-2005, 05:03 PM	#17 (permalink)
spectre Junkie	A Tout a le Monde by Megadeth. It just seems like a fitting song. __________________ "Fuck these chains No goddamn slave I will be different" ~ Machine Head

10-17-2005, 08:50 PM	#18 (permalink)
ratbastid Darth Papa Location: Yonder	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!

10-17-2005, 09:01 PM	#19 (permalink)
Bob Biter Non-smokers die everyday Location: Montreal	I stand corrected. Jeez. __________________ A plan is just a list of things that don't happen.

10-17-2005, 09:29 PM	#20 (permalink)
iblade Crazy Location: Kyoto	Stayin' alive, by the Bee Gees.

10-17-2005, 10:33 PM	#22 (permalink)
martinguerre whosoever Location: New England	U2's Stuck in a Moment, as recorded by Scotch Tape. __________________ For God so loved creation, that God sent God's only Son that whosoever believed should not perish, but have everlasting life. -John 3:16

10-18-2005, 05:47 AM	#24 (permalink)
Catdaddy33 Psycho Location: TN	Coma by Guns N' Roses

10-18-2005, 06:03 AM	#25 (permalink)
Leto Junkie Location: The Danforth	Beatles: Good Day, Sunshine!

10-18-2005, 06:16 PM	#26 (permalink)
catback Psycho Location: North America	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.

10-19-2005, 04:38 AM	#28 (permalink)
Shpoop Curious Location: NJ (but just for college)	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"

10-20-2005, 06:38 PM	#29 (permalink)
vermin Indifferent to anti-matter Location: Tucson, AZ	Something by Weird Al Yankovic. Amish Paradise, maybe. __________________ If puns were sausages, this would be the wurst.

10-24-2005, 07:35 PM	#30 (permalink)
Tophat665 Minion of the scaléd ones Location: Northeast Jesusland	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. __________________ Light a man a fire, and he will be warm while it burns. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

10-27-2005, 06:17 PM	#31 (permalink)
Philangicality Crazy	The RZA - Fatal

11-08-2005, 05:47 PM	#32 (permalink)
chelsea_9 Crazy Location: somewhere i intend to leave	"pitter patter goes my heart" - broken social scene or "a day in the life" - the beatles. __________________ all good dreamers pass this way some day hiding behind bottles in dark cafes

11-09-2005, 06:10 AM	#33 (permalink)
Fly see the links to my music? Location: Beautiful British Columbia	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. __________________ BASTARD SterlingStudios

11-09-2005, 07:37 AM	#34 (permalink)
Derwood Who You Crappin? Location: Everywhere and Nowhere	"Eclipse" by Pink Floyd __________________ "You can't shoot a country until it becomes a democracy." - Willravel

11-09-2005, 11:19 PM	#35 (permalink)
noahfor Addict	tonight tonight - smashing pumpkins (cool avatar bob biter)