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Fatal Auto Collision Song
With your life ebbing away, do you really want the last song you ever hear to be something you hate? | |
I’ve been concerned about this for some time. The scenario is this: I’m driving along, typically and compulsively twirling the radio dial searching for a song I like. Suddenly – Crash! Swerve! Boom! Smoking remains of the car and me...
My blood is rapidly emptying itself onto the side of the
road. My vision is getting dark. This is it. Somehow the radio still works and my dying breaths are drawn while Barry Manilow’s “Copacabana” takes me off to the hereafter. “Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl,” etc., while my essence drifts away.
What an intolerable and undignified way to go! With Fatal Auto Collision Song, an audio device is wired into your car. When unsupportable body damage is done to the car, an override system goes into effect, canceling the currently chosen audio selection with the music you’d prefer to hear on your deathbed.
Perhaps Beethoven’s “Pastoral Symphony,” as in Edward G. Robinson’s “Soylent Green” death scene…
it's a polka, yay
[hob,
May 16 2009]
Last words generator
http://www.halfbake...20words_20generator
Perhaps these could be synched in some way </shameless plug> [-alx, Aug 29 2001, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Yamaha News
http://www.yamaha.co.uk/xg/html/h_new.htm
Look at the item "Mobile Tone?" about two thirds of the way down [mark_t, Aug 29 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
BBC on ECGs and mobiles
http://newsvote.bbc...d_553000/553969.stm
First heart monitor / mobile phone fusion thing [mark_t, Aug 29 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
ZDnet on ECG / mobiles
http://news.zdnet.c...0,,s2083922,00.html
And the second ... [mark_t, Aug 29 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Trying to stop subway suicides
http://news.excite..../08/odd-suicides-dc
Music to *stop* deaths [phoenix, Aug 29 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
GTKY
http://everything2....x.pl?node_id=812107
"What's your favourite Getting-To-Know-You node/idea?" [jabbers, Aug 29 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Another One Bites the Dust
http://www.adcritic...bites-the-dust.html
The song Another One Bites the Dust suggested by nick n uit on 29 Aug used in a commercial for AIWA car soundsystems. [rrr, Dec 15 2001]
Toyoto/Sony concept car
http://www.autorev....tokyo/tmc_dai.shtml
Toyoto/Sony concept car takes the driver´s pulse and measure his sweat. [rrr, Dec 15 2001]
Always look on the bright side of life.
http://www.geocitie...t_side_of_life.html
A tune from "The Life of Brian" film by Monty Python's Flying Circus [furmobile, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
BBC News Story
http://news.bbc.co....agazine/5402272.stm
News story on popular music choices for funerals [hippo, Oct 03 2006]
BANG A GONG!!
http://www.youtube....watch?v=5oGcfwKN5jY
Marc Bolan died in such a crash. [r_kreher, Aug 30 2008]
Stayin' Alive
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27221281/
[hippo] was absolutely on the beat [lurch, Oct 17 2008]
"Sleep"
http://www.ericwhitacre.com/main.html
Look/listen in/to the left-hand side MP3 player, it's there. [Gallus, Oct 19 2008]
Kebabs made as corpse lay nearby
http://news.bbc.co....idlands/7669625.stm
Eeeewwwww.... [8th of 7, Oct 21 2008]
Who Wants to Live Forever
https://www.youtube...watch?v=6c75cOL0G8I
[Dub, Feb 27 2020]
for [Dub]
https://www.fatcatf....com/music_page.htm
Kids music wriitten for adults. [wjt, Feb 27 2020]
Fatal Auto Collision Songs: the Spotify playlist
https://open.spotif...tm_source=copy-link
I got everything, except The Smiths because Morrissey is a racist and the music is bad [calum, Nov 03 2021]
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I think a long crescendo of something -- perhaps popcorn -- in a minor key. |
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Maybe, if the car could sense an impending crash, it could play something colossal, possibly Wagnerian. Then when the car collides with whatever object, it can play a scratching record sound for that comic twist -something amusing to take the edge off what would otherwise be a bit of a bummer. |
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The leader of the Pack (The Shangri-Las?) |
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No kiddin' huh. Once, when I was young and stupid - "Hang on, help is on its way" by Little River Band came on Radio as my dads pickup perched precariously on the lip of a dry riverbed - though I tried to get the emergency brake, brake, clutch and gas pedal along with a few angels to reverse myself out - I ended up in the sand below.
I'd choose:
In My Time Of Dyin'
by Blind Willie Johnson |
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snarfyguy, as much as you and many others here may not care to face the reality of it, there's something much worse awaiting you *after* your "essence" "drifts away." |
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You see a light in the distance, and you're drawn irresistably toward it. As you approach, the light overpowers you, and you're suddenly standing before the "pearly gates." The gates swing open, and there he stands: Barry Manilow. |
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"...With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there..." |
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moonlight sonata - beethoven |
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i won't even mention stairway to heaven :o) |
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Don't Worry (be doo doobie doo...)
Be Happy...
Alternatively, from 'Never Forget' by Take That: We've come so far and we've reached so high, and we've looked each day and night in the eye;
and we're still so young and we hope for more.
But remember this, we're not invincible... |
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"There is a light that never goes out" (The Smiths). For aptness' sake. |
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"Crash" by The Primitives
("...here you go, way too fast, don't slow down you're gonna crash. You should watch - watch your stay here, don't look out you're gonna break your neck...")
Lewisgirl! - a Take That fan! And you wear Miss Selfridge knickers! |
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"The End" by The Doors, for old time's sake. |
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"Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave, to get me in the mood for where I'm going. |
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I have a strong sense of irony, hippo. And ssssh, we can't have everyone seeing my knickers.
right now I'm listening to Gretchen Peters, a song called 'When you are old'. brings a tear to my eye, every time.
There's always room for a bit of Take That, though! |
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UnaBubba, don't you just love those old fashioned girls?
Just buy 'em a half dozen old fashioneds and they jump
right in the back seat... |
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[lewisgirl] Sorry I brought your knickers up... Before my office became really open-plan (we used to have my project in a separate room with lots of people and lots of shouting) our favourite working music was the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Ah, happy days...
<on-topic>Actually, "Stayin' Alive" would be a good Fatal Auto Collision Song</on-topic> |
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In addition to alx's Smiths suggestion, how about 'Girlfriend in a coma'?
(I know, I know, its really serious...) |
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Another One Bites the Dust
Highway to Hell |
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I must have serius problems: I'd want one of the 1/2 bakery songs... |
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But then maybe you'd spend the time lamenting the sadly unwritten "Half A Rap"... |
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Yeah! Far Away Eyes! Though I was unfortunate enough to grow up an hour north of Bakersfield, I love that song. |
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"Dead Man's Curve" - Jan and Dean |
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"…last thing I remember -- we were flying low, and hit something in the air." from D.O.A., early 1970s release by Bloodrock. Life has a three minute drop out spike before you are helpless in dead space--so I'd select something that won't have folks instinctively reaching for the control (Udu Wudu comes to mind). Also, does anyone else feel a weee bit disconcerted by Germanic ariels? You might be cut off by a BMW. |
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"Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel" by the Barenaked Ladies. Of course, falling asleep at the wheel means you wouldn't be awake to hear the music. |
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Tombstone Blues --- Bob Dylan |
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It strikes me that the car needs some pretty sophisticated sensors to determine which would be the best song to play. E.g. Hans's suggestion of "Girlfriend in a coma" would only be appropriate under certain, fairly obvious, circumstances, likewise FakeGreenDress's "Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel" and Tafkap's "Little Red Corvette". And how would it determine which song to play if you fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into a little red corvette, resulting in your girlfriend falling into a coma?
Q: Who sung "Red Light Spells Danger"? |
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<kaseykasem>After the maid cleaned out the tapioca bowls she informed myself and my lovely wife that our cat eats Cheetos cheese puffs, which reminds me - Red Light Spells Danger by Billy Ocean started out at #9 in the week of March 26 then went up to #5 the week of April 2 in 1977 on the NM Music Charts.</kaseykasem> |
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"Once in a lifetime" - Talking Heads |
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We've Got Tonight ("...who needs tomorrow?"), Bob Seger. Just because I'm wearing cowboy boots today. |
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alx, that was cruel... but even I thought it was slightly funny so I forgive you... actualy I was thinking of the Bubbahemian œRhapsody... |
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You car drivers are just so selfish. Why restrict it to cars? If you recorded your death song on tape, then had an implanted microchip to monitor your vital signs and a miniature tape player attached to your skull (just behind your ear would be a good place), you could hear it whenever your vital signs dipped below specified levels. If the player was adapted to run from your own bio-energy then you could listen to it fading out at the same rate as you were, wherever that happened to be.
beauxeault, if that's heaven what's hell like? I aint gonna be no sinner no more!
For my own death song I think I'd choose 'Give Me Just a Little More Time'. |
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you got lost, you drove too fast because you were a little bit scared and wanted to get fast out of a neighbourhood you didn't know, didn't feel comfortable in... you took a turning, you took another turning, you drove and drove... and flew off the end of an unfinished bridge, crashing to your death on the rocks below.
U2. Where The Streets Have No Name. |
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[lg] But it would have to be the Pet Shop Boys cover version, with "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" segued into it. |
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I'm a little surprised no one has suggested "O Fortuna." |
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can we have the Pretenders doing 'Angel of the Morning' too? |
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Ashes are Burning (Renaissance). |
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"Consider Me Gone", Sting; or ...
"My Way", Frank Sinatra; or ...
"All Apologies", Nirvana; or ...
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I'm making light of the idea, of course. My real choices would include U2's "Bad", or Billie Holliday singing "I'll Be Seeing You". Soppy, sentimental: that's me. |
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The original idea, actually, was to pre-program the music you'd like to hear upon your death, rather than the music most in keeping with the theme (of death). |
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There are lots of songs about death, but this idea allows you travel to the hereafter carried along by music that is truly meaningful to you. |
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Would you really want to spend yor last moments on Earth listening to "Tell Laura I Love Her?" |
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Although the Barnes & Barnes selection did crack me up... |
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In that case, I'll go for "Wish You Were Here" (Pink Floyd). |
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And that's my final answer. |
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UB - So you didn't see my April 6th annotation to TPPCPPCSL? Not quite as TPPCPPC-compliant as yours though... |
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Hatfield and The North had an album called: The Rotters Club.
There is a tune on that disk "Chaos at the Greasy Spoon" - put it on loop and it sounds like it may be appropriate for purgatory. |
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Dr Bob - Your idea is closer to reality than you might suspect.
I've seen two news pieces recently about mobile phones, one saying that Yamaha are mass producing synth chips to go in the next lot of mobiles which will be able to produce a much wider range of sounds than the current space invaders style "doo da da doo da da doo HELLO".
The second was about a company that is incorporating some sort of heart monitor thingy (sorry to get technical on you) into a mobile phone for cardiac patients - the idea being that if you feel a bit odd you use the phone to take a reading of your heart and if something bad is going on it calls the ambulance for you.
So, all it needs is a little bit of "logic glue" (i.e. kludging) between the two and you have pretty much what you've described. |
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I'd have "All the time in the world" by Louis Armstrong |
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"forever young" would have been perfect for james dean. |
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Double reverse pun: Portishead - Roads.
Plus it's quite an appropriate-sounding song. |
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Wow! Thanks, mark_t. I've never been at the cutting edge of technology before. |
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No, Pip Pyle (ex Gong), Richard Sinclair (ex Caravan). Canterbury-based band. Some connection with Matching Mole. |
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[mark_t] my Sony j5 has synth music for its ring tones. It's the Japanese influence, I'm sure. I have Pachelbel's Canon as the default tune, but only because it's the fifth variation (I think), the part halfway through where it gets all jolly and skippy. Otherwise it would be naff. |
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I'd have to vote for a John Prine tune that goes "please don't bury me / down in that cold, cold ground, / no, I'd rather have 'em cut me up and pass me all around..." |
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On the subject of great death-advice music, Tom Waits wrote a song called "Telephone Call From Istanbul". My favorite lines: |
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Never trust a man in a blue trenchcoat
Never drive a car when you're dead |
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Can't argue with that last bit of advice, can you? |
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Ack! A really weird thing happened last weekend. I was driving along, flipping around the radio dial, when the piece I selected in the idea came on - Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony" (per "Soylent Green"). |
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I didn't know whether to turn to a different station, drive extra carefully or simply crash the car into the nearest tree. |
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Note: Ian Dury's pre-Blockheads band was Kilburn and the High Roads. The idea of Ian Dury singing for the Hatfields is pretty funny, though... |
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Believe it or not I had this conversation with a passenger when I was out driving a few months ago. They promised to flick the radio onto an appropriate station on their way into the dashboard should the unthinkable happen. |
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"Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta," Geto Boys. |
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[UB]: Yay! The Manic Miner music. You could have a big foot come crashing down as well (actually, that must be the next stage, 3-d holographic video clips). |
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This could get pretty noisy in a 50-car pileup on a freeway... |
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And what about an advanced warning device? A computer to analyze conditions around you, and if a terrible accident was about to happen, something else would play, such as... say... the theme to Jaws. I mean, it would be kind of a bummer to drive your car off a 2000 ft cliff, and have no music on the way down - I doubt the radio would work after that landing. The advanced warning would be nice though... "Buckle up, buckle up for safety. and I don't mean maybe, you'd better buckle up..." |
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What about a prerecorded President or past President of your choice saying: "And now, let us have a moment of silence for *your name here* who is about to die..." |
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I like this idea, though I would hate to ever have to use it. |
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maybe it can play the sirens of an ambulance giving you the hope to survive and remember there is much more to do. |
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at the background, it also plays:
"i am a survivor"/destiny's child or "i will survive"/aretha franklin |
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Ironic if the rescue services missed your cries for help
hidden below the screeching of "Can't live if living is
without you..." |
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mp9man, the idea was for the music to start _after_ the crash, not before it. |
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If you don't like the ideas in this site, don't come here. |
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Interesting irony in your concluding sentence, UnaBudda. |
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Perhaps you need to consider placing mp9man in the Witless Protection Programme instead of losing your rag at him? |
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UB re:annotation preceding the last one. what song exactly do we sing to that |
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Back to the original idea, Alfred Bester in Golem-100 (excellent novel) half-baked the idea of little flying things that follow you around and play music. We'd just need to give them sensors for heat (fire) or the smell of blood and/or burning rubber. A flock of them could fly over the motorway system, spot likely accidents and zoom in to deliver an appropriate tune. They could be connected to a driver preference database (not sure how they'd identify you, but some vague pheromone detector or reading car number plates or something) to give you a pre-selected song, and if they found no entry they could just play the Last Post, or Hellbound by The Breeders. |
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mp9man, does your 5000lb truck come with side impact bars for when that 24 tonne 18 wheeler side swipes you on the interstae after suffering a blow-out? You can drive defensively all you like but something will always get you. If radios and CD's are so dangerous, why are they fitted as standard equipement? Surely ROSPA would have soething to say about this. I sure wouldn't want someone with your temper following me in a 5000lb truck with 60's brakes. |
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No need for little, flying things, pottedstu. Just fit all lawyers with a sound system. |
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(heh) The rant above is from a guy who elsewhere says refuses to wear a helmet while motorcycling. |
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Hmmm... you can't type, you have bad grammar, you can't take a joke, you love to boast about your skills with anything mechanical, and if anyone suggests that these skills are not perfect, that's a mental inch off the penis right there and you must defend yourself to the death. What interesting character traits-- will you be my friend? |
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<<on topic>> I can just picture someone driving home from getting it installed, looking forward to setting their song preference, and then getting into a crash and dying to some default song--
"...The Brady Bunch, do do-do doo, the Brady Bunch..." |
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mp9man... solid old vehicles have their advantages, and their charms, but appart from that point... lighten up. |
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Read this thread with a grain of salt. People here are not idiots. Most of us, anyway.
Please respect the spirit in which this conversation is being conducted. |
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As for MY choice... there was a Morphine number "Do Not Go Quietly Unto Your Grave" which was unfortunately all to appropos to the lead singer's fate... |
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Listen young people, I'm 74 and I plan to live 60 or 70 more. |
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I been all around and I've done a few things, and I spent a few nights on the floor. |
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I did everything wrong but I never got caught so of course I would do it all over again |
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I surpised many people who'd written me off years ago, now they're way underground. |
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Nobody asked me so here's my advice to a young man or woman who's leading this life: |
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In a world gone to Hell where nobody's safe, Do not go quietly unto your grave. |
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Well I learned a few tricks and I'll learn a few more, and I got enough bullets to fight a small war. |
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Nobody asked me so here's my advice... Do not go quietly unto your grave... |
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Do not go quietly unto your grave... |
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Do not go quietly unto your grave... |
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(Ok, so maybe *I* need to lighten up, but it's such a kick-death-in-the-teeth song, that I like it!) |
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Has anyone suggested Stockhausen, Harrison Birtwistle, or "Scooter & Jinx" by Sonic Youth? How appropriate to have a fatal auto collision song that sounds like a traffic accident. |
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Play a recording of Tibetan monks chanting the way they do in their deep voices in an enclosed space. That way, you might remember to try to heed the advice given in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and head for the strong, piercing light(s), not the pale blue light(s). Or it might alarm you enough that you'll fight to stay here for a little while longer. |
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how many lights are there to choose from? shit man, I don't want to spend my first ethereal moments being indecisive! |
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lewisgirl: just avoid the big red flames. |
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Oh child of a noble family.... |
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"Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House |
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"Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln!" |
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"Slow down! I see spots! The lines in the road look just like dots!" |
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"I'ma gonna pass a truck on the hill ahead-
(scrreeech-BANG!!tinkle)
Transfusion transfusion
My red corpsuckles (sic) are in mass confusion
Never never never gonna speed again
Pass the crimson to me Jimson" |
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Rather baked in the '50s. |
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Although I can't believe nobody mentioned 'Wipeout'... |
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why did you have that playing in the first place? |
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maybe a wee bit of carl orff, just to get the emergency service a bit tentative, as if ur some mystical body - i dunno, work with me ppl! |
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Actually Arlo Guthrie's Motorcycle song suddenly springs to mind: |
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This song is about the time that I was ridin' my motorcycle. Going down a mountain road, at 150 miles an hour, playin' my guitar. On one side of the mountain road there was a mountain, and on the other side there was nothin' - there was
a cliff in the air. |
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Now, when you're going down a mountain road at I50 miles an hour you gotta be very careful, especially if you're playin' a guitar. Especially if that guitar is an acoustic guitar. Because if it's an acoustic guitar, the wind pressure is greater on the box side than on the neck side, because there's more guitar on the box side. I wasn't payin' attention .. |
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Luckily I didn't go into the mountain - I went over the cliff. |
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I was goin' at 150 miles an hour sideways and 500 feet down at the same time. |
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I knew it was the end. I looked down, I said ''Wow! Some trip". I thought it...well I knew it was...I knew it was my last trip, and in my last remaining seconds in world,I decided to write one last farewell song to the world. |
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Put a new ink cartridge in my pen. Took out a piece of paper. |
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I sat back and I thought awhile. |
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I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy ...cle." |
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I knew that, it wasn't the best song l ever wrote, but I didn't have time to change it. I was comin' down mighty fast. |
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But as you all know, and as fate would have it, I didn't die. I landed on the top of a police car. And it died. I drove away on the road that he was on. I came into town at a screamin' 175 miles an hour, playin' the motorcycle song. |
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I came into town, I jumped off my bike, the bike went around the corner by itself, went up on the stand by itself, turned itself off. |
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I walked over to my friend. He was standin' there eatin' pickles. I said "Hi, what's happenin'?" He looked at me in the eye and said "Nothin'". |
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You gotta sing it with that kind of enthusiasm. Like you just squashed a cop... |
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I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy ...cle." |
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... Actually there's more lyrics to it than that, but seems like every version Arlo sung wuz kinda different in the interpretation you might say, and this is the nearest to the one I've heard. Anyhoo, I like to think that song would spring to mind if I ever went off a mountain side. |
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You'd need to make sure the police sirens and the ambulances harmonised properly, and kept the rhythm. |
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Heard "When Children Cry" by White Lion yesterday and for some reason made me think of this idea. |
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They Might Be Giants; "The End of the Tour" |
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On the appropriateness meter, Bloodrock's 'DOA' would certainly be up there but my final choice would be Rockpile's 'Crawling from the Wreckage'. |
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Hey, you gotta have dreams! |
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If one wants to be maudlin in a sort of 50-60s falsetto fashion, Last Kiss by the Cavaliers, I blieve, would work well... |
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Personally tho I'd go with one of Loreena McKennit's called, I think, Light the Candle John or somehting like... or Dante's Prayer. or something. |
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RobGraham: I think that was Dave Edmunds solo (what's the difference, anyway?), but that's a *really* good one! |
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Lizst, "Totentanz." Might as well do it right. |
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In time for Christmas, they are re-issuing "My Sweet Lord" |
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"Bang Bang" by B A Robertson. Or could I have "Music in 12 Parts" by Philip Glass, on the basis that even the Grim Reaper would get bored/fall into a deep hypnotic trance an hour or 2 into it? |
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I used to live just round the corner from the tree on which Marc Bolan (of T.Rex) met his death (in a Fatal Auto Collision, of course). Twenty years on, people still tied flowers and poems to the tree (and probably still do).
It's still a very dangerous combination of hump-backed bridge and blind corner - there's an embryonic HalfBaked idea there somewhere which involves car stereos playing a quick burst of "Get It On" as a reminder when people drive past the tree... |
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[snarfyguy}, I just red this idea (I realize that's kinda late), but it struck me. The thing is, two year's ago, aug 1999 I had this terrible accident with my first (and till now my last) car, a citroen 2cv. A car crossed the road from the left side, hit it, got launched and crashed into a parked car. When I got conscience again, blood was running down my face and body, the scent of wine was everywhere (very good french wine) and the discman we 'installed' was still playing... The song was Karma Police by Radiohead. I was terribly hurt (torn liver, internal bleeding, headwound), but this song kept on playing and it was kinda comforting. Despite my bad condition, I got relaxed by this song. If this idea is ever realised, I'm the first one to buy it and program Karma Police (and buy a car of course). |
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Well, it's even more unbelievable if you would see the picture of of the car after the crash... I can say, it's the most aerodynamic car i've ever seen. |
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Then you'll be a Mini Driver! |
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If you would use the remaining of my 2cv, you would be a Mini-driver as well! |
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"Close to the Edge" by Yes. |
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Yeah, I'm a prog rock weenie but it's a twenty minute song, and I get to keep living as long as it plays...right? |
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Oh, it's gotta be
Fish Heads, by Barnes and Barnes. |
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Ha! I like "They're Coming to Take Me Away". |
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<whispers> Zoom, zoom...</whispers> |
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My son singing me the Bob The Builder theme tune. |
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Anything by the Crash Test Dummies. |
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I knew someone who believed that nothing bad could happen whille a Led Zeppelin song was playing... |
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freakin' at the freakers ball..... |
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Time of your life - Green Day |
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"Hey look, there's my liver" - xrayTed and the Paramedics. |
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Call me geeky, but I would just play a soundtrack me screaming for help, reading my will or my medical records. |
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Jethro Tull, A Passion Play. |
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And let me wait and hear the whole thing before I go (forty-some minutes minus the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles story in the middle... please...). It begins: |
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Do you still see me even here?
The silver cord lies on the ground
And so I'm dead
The young man said
Over the hill not a wish away
And who comes here to wish me well?
A sweetly scented angel fell
She laid her head upon my disbelief
And bathed me with her ever-smile... |
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Just a thought
You could sell a box with a few wires comming out and a small grill for a speaker, with instructions on fitting, with not a single thing inside .........whose going to know if it works or not. and as it won't whose going to complain. |
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"Seasons in the sun" by Terry Jacks, or maybe the theme from "M*A*S*H" .... |
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Build the sound unit pretty much like a flight data recorder - hardened container with lots of padding. Flash memory for MP3 download of your current choice of music. Internal power supply, charged from the vehicle when idle. Triggered by the airbag system sensors. |
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Sunday Morning, from "The Velvet Underground & Nico." It just feels right. |
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Probably Engel by Rammstein (lyrics translate to 'God
knows I don't want to be an angel') |
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Alternatively, Si chio vorrei morire by Monteverdi. Not
only is it a beautiful song but it translates to 'Yes! I would
welcome death'. In either case, I'd probably be too busy
singing along to worry about my life slipping away... |
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Aha! But the two choirs that I attend have given me a
prediliction for early music (madrigals etc). |
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I also *love* the pastoral symphony that snarfy mentioned
originally. |
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Apparently there's some tribe somewhere who's favoured method of doing away with miscreants is beheading. However, they have added a strange, sort-of humane, twist. The head in question is attached to a bent-over sapling so, when the neck is severed, it flys up into the air. Apparently, the intention is to make the desceased think they're ascending to heaven. (I suspect however that the real reason is to make the spectacle more interesting for everyone else involved)
Thinking along these lines; how about a nice cloud of hallucinogenic gas that sprays from the steering column/airbag and a little picture of a tunnel with a light at the end that drops from the sun shade above the windscreen. The radio could be made to play the sound of choirs of angels or valkeries or something.
there should probably be some kind of inhibitor incase you crashed in a real tunnel, whichh would obviously be more realistic than some picture. |
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You would have to have this (the original idea that is, not the light at end of tunnel thing (above)) triggered on fading life signs rather than seriousness of crash. Otherwise Volvo drivers would start using it as a hand free way to retune their stereo to something they like. |
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"Dry The Rain" -- The Beta Band (provided I survive to the crescendo). |
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"Dying in the Sun" by The Cranberries. *grinn* |
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i'll have 'the song that doesn't end' from lamb chop's playalong. and i can't die until it's over. |
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Ring of Fire by Jonny Cash |
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They can't take that Away from me"- Frank Sinatra |
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There Is a Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths...but why limit yourself to just music? With a little adaptation and a handy mobile phone your loved ones could be alerted...your final glass of Dom Perignon could be chilled and winging it's way to you. The phone could also contain some preset messages for those you love or hate so you're able to make your peace/say your goodbyes automatically whilst listening to your favourite song |
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Killed by Death - Motorhead |
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(Brightboy)Why stop there.A last Will and Testiment texted to your nearest and dearest at the moment of your passing on to the great beyond. |
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"texted," the verb; another tremor in the tectonic plates of language. |
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In case any shred of Christianity is correct, which I doubt it is, I'd choose AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" 'cause that's where I'm headin'. |
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most people take life too seriously anyway. One of wierd
Al Yankovich's zaney polkas would wisk those dyin' blues
away. Incidently, the song would probably be a parody of
one of the songs that you may want to hear in the first
place. |
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No more like a collection of all of them. |
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"Come What May", Moulin Rouge. Or anything from Moulin
Rouge for that matter. |
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That would make me *want* to die. Interesting strategy... |
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"Machine Gun" Jimi Hendrix |
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If you hit water (happens often in Holland) a special water sensor is activated to play: "Yellow submarine". |
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One of the main factors in *surviving* a near-fatal accident of any sort is your will to survive, and your belief you're not ready to die. In this sort of a high-pressure situation, do you really want your car to tell you you're doomed, and play the sort of music you'd like to let go during or after? It really could make a difference. |
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It's still a beautiful idea, though. |
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Nowadays a TV-screen in a car is as common as a radio. So next to sound you could add some visuals to your last moments. |
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You could play a prepared video with best parts of your live (youth, family, mistresses). You could play an adult-movie. You could play the last episode of the soap: “Onderweg naar morgen”. |
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I think I'd be OK with the default setting (Copacabana)... |
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no, no, I've changed my mind... Delilah! |
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Good call AllenChristopher, I'd ditch "My Way" and "Monkey Gone to Heaven" and bring on "New York New York" and "Tame". |
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.. though if the car *really* knew you were *definitely* going to die,..... |
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"Stickshifts and safety belts" by Cake, or (and I would quite like this one anyway, in the original spirit of the idea) "I'm beginning to see the light" by Bobby Darin. |
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Yes, genius!! I did the same thing with my CD player alarm clock, so that the first song of the day that I heard wasn't catchy, and didn't get stuck in my head. |
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'Head on Collision' by Faith No More. |
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I can't drive 55 - Sammy Hagar |
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Ravel please. . (and not Bolero). If I thought the hereafter
resembled Pachelbel's (mind-numbingly boring) Canon in
any aspect, I would dive back down to my bed of pain,
and resume this life, however pointless. Ravel denotes an
at-least edgy future, which is preferable to P-bels,
novocained lobotomy. Wipe off the drool, squint like
Popeye, and die like an explorer. |
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"Blasphemous Rumors"-Depeche Mode
"I don't want to start any blasphemous rumors but I think that God has a sick sense of humor and when I die I expect to find him laughing."
Com'on this is great stuff. |
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definately Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs. go feel cool when whatever next comes up |
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On the same thread: I Burn for you. Never thought of Blue Oyster as funeralists, but there you go. |
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Hi everyone! When I first read the original idea, it reminded me of the last song that I heard playing from my car stereo when I was in a major accident a couple years ago. It was "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba. The guy that pulled me out of my car thought I had been dead for quite some time (the accident was in the middle of nowhere...). When I came to in the hospital though...the lyrics "I get knocked down, but I get up again" were stuck in my head for weeks. |
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If I had a choice, it would've been "Behind Blue Eyes"-The Who. |
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If you are going to die... what matters what song are you listening...the chances in such car accident are that if you are going to die you won't be able to hear anything. Or maybe if you could survive and you have that sound system.. after crash you'll say "fu*ing stereo shut yout fu**ing mouth up and please somebody helpme getting out of this %&#** of sh$%**!!!!!" and maybe you won't like to hear anymore that song. |
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.... we were discussing this fine idea in the office the other day. My boss suggests a personal vocal track saying : |
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"I'm over here.... yea... in the crashed car.... go easy, I might not be too well... call an ambulance, please...." |
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Help
You know I need somebody
Help
Not just anybody
Help
You know I need someone
He-e-elp. |
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I can't believe "It's the end of the world (as we know it)" by REM wasn't picked... |
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Pink Floyd´s Comfortably Numb !!! |
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22 seconds after I die, I want it to play "Her Majesty". |
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I quite like the idea of "pissing in the wind " by badly drawn boy. I'd still be concerned if it came on the radio randomly. It would appear as though the car had precognitive ability of certain doom. Ithink i'd have to pull over. |
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and reflect on how I could improve my life, focussing on charitable unselfish pursuits and stuff. A real reminder of mortality if it came on the radio. |
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Although I hate Copa Cabana, it would be surreal to hear it while dying, which would make it alright. Also if you picked out one of your favorite songs to be your death songs you would probably not like hearing it too much since it would remind you of your own mortality. |
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wow so many great ideas for songs to play while dying... i should make a list... definetly 99 Red Balloons and the Safety Dance. |
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if you guys are interested in "world" music, a good song suggestion would be "baladi," by an artist named dalida. i imagine she had the choice of her death song (since she commit suicide). great song though, i think the title is arabic for 'my country.' |
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How ironic. i just happen to go to
half bakery and see a fatal auto
collision posting the same day
most of my friends are off
morning someone who died in a
fatal auto collision. lifes funny like
that. |
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Besides, if i deid, i'd want "its a
small world" to play. not because i
like it, no, because nobody likes it.
i want the people who should have
saved my life to have to listen to it
the whole time they're pulling my
corpse out of the wreakage, thats
what they get for letting me die...
BWA HA HA HA HA! |
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longest idea annotation section ever??? |
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hmmm, I don't know if I wan't to check them out if their any longer |
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actually it probably wouldnt be that hard to program your MP3 player to go directly to a certain song on impact, while you're at it, add that same program to your cell to automatically dial 911 & next of kin along with some pre-recorded message "if you hear this..." |
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i think i would program my MP3 to *random*...i like surprises. |
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How about 'Always look on the bright side of life'
I dont know who its by though. |
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The idea wasn't really an invitation for people to contribute their selections (a la, "The Coolest Names of All Time"),it just turned into that. I think the idea is appropriate for the site, which I guess is why it's still here. |
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[EdZ]: it's a Monty Python song. |
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I always put thought into this whenever I heard a song that reminded me of death (esp. by car accident). I would think "Hey, I like this song, I should die now..." and then I thought "wait, why die now when I can get the 'Fatal Auto collision song' and die later" I would want "Bittersweet Symphony" by The Verve playing and then "The Scientist" by Coldplay. Actually I'd just install a projector to play The Scientist video when the medics approach. |
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"Cuz it's a bittersweet symphony this life..."
"I'm goin back to the start" |
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It's a small world after all sung by the chipmunks. |
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Christine's: Boney Mahoney, she's as thin as a stick of macaroni. |
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Was just thinking about this one yesterday while listening to "the night I feel asleep at the wheel" by the BareNakedLadies. |
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What, nothing by Meat Loaf? Surely he's got something appropriately histrionic... "Bat Out of Hell", or even "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", if only for the title alone. |
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Back (way, way back) about '79 or '80 the Cure had a catchy little tune called, I think, "Grinding Halt". |
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I was reminded very sharply of this idea today. I was having chest pains, and upon calling Ask A Nurse, they directed me to Urgent Care. Said it was possible I was having a heart attack. |
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In my roommate's car on the way to Urgent Care, the first song that played was Sonny and Cher, "The Beat Goes On." |
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Wasn't a heart attack, btw. |
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"On the Road Again" by Willie Nelson. |
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I don't love the song, but the counterpoint would be marvellous. |
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Beautiful, when I die I want to be listening to Carbon Leaf |
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I am reminded of the man who launched his Volvo into a canyon and remained trapped in it for 8 hours before he was found. |
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When this was breaking news, the state-of-the-art sound system was powered by the newly released auto-reverse cassette player. |
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He listened to "Wham!" doing "Wake Me Up, Before You Go-Go" for 8 hours......He said it was ok at first, bad after a couple of hours, and torturous after that. |
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"Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
or
"Ramblin' Man" by The Allman Brothers
or
"Black Waters"(aka Funky Dixieland) by the Doobie Brothers
or
one of Penderecki's more epic choral pieces. |
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Tip toe through the tulips. |
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What if there is more than one person in the car? A solution may be to provide karaoke to those in the car that don't know the words. It may help keep there minds off of their loved ones, and the dashboard in their chest. |
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Hi Guys! The idea is not as bad as morbid. I'm not sure about you, but if I would certainly know I'm dying - and I would, since the Device would tell me this pretty nice way -, I would not want to hear anything rocky and groovy, nor anything utterly sad. It's not a movie, where you want to make your watchers burst out in tears, you need to stay calm, quit panic, and leave this ghostworld in a peaceful, tranquil way. You gotta make your mood for the first moments in Heaven. I'd choose Computer Love from Kraftwerk, right off the Computer world LP, believe me, better than a dose of Seduxen:) |
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"Always look on the bright side of life."
by Monty Python's Flying Circus
from "The Life of Brian" film. |
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If you have a DVD player in your car, can you set this to watch a movie when you are dying? |
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Nearer My God To Thee, I think. + |
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Public Enemy's "911 is a Joke" playing on an endless loop. |
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How about an officially blessed
recording of the last rites.
And if you remember to only ever
fill your screen wash and radiator
with holy water, there's a good
chance of being sprayed in the
crash |
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"Dead Skunk in The Middle of The Road"... ??? |
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{swerve... screech... whap} |
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Or what about whatever was playing on the radio at the time, which would be so cool, because it'd provide you with a snapshot of your last sweet moments of mortality that you could carry with you into eternity... nice... very zen... mmm... |
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with zenn there is the possibility (since the beginning of this 3 yr topic) of Manillo singing something obnoxious. i mean, really... do you want a shitty song to be the last memory you have of this earthly life for the rest of eternity? |
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The Love Boat theme song, man... |
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Come Aboard, we're expecting you. |
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Love, life's sweetest reward. |
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Let it flow, it floats back to you..." |
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It will take your mind off the tragedy at hand as well as screw wildly with the heads of any rubberneckers within earshot. |
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I would myself like to hear Beethoven's 8th Symphony as I die. |
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I cant believe we have gone on this long and nobody has suggested 'Worms Life' by The Crash Test Dummies |
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Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz |
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ? |
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Perhaps if you guys had turned off the radio and paid attention you would have avoided the accident. |
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Whatever song they install in my car, it had better not be ANYTHING from "the sound of music"! |
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Dum de dum de dum (man humming) |
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"Arghh! Were going to crash!!!!" (man screaming) |
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"with the sound of music" |
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man expires in car while trying to shut off radio. |
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unfortunately in crashtime you are under stress and you do not notice what is going on your radio if it is working at all (brocken, baterry brocken, head... etc.). hope for you not to experience that. |
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You don't want the car to be mistaken, though... immediately after a crash, the car's assumption that you'd had it might kill you: |
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"I'm alive... oh no, that's Mozart's Toccata and Fugue in D Flat Minor... cancel the ambulance..." |
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Why stop there? There are
appropriate songs for all parts of
life. A few years ago I had my first
colonoscopy. On the drive home,
the song I heard (forget the name)
had one line that repeated over and
over, with an accent on a different
word each time..."I did not ASK for
the anal probe...I did not ask for the
ANAL probe..." |
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I would want it to be the song from "Remember the Titans" that they sing at the funeral. |
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Nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goo oood bye. |
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day |
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I seem to recall that the 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' was originally a song for the excellent 1984 Hanoi Rocks album 'Two Steps from the Move". It's not the same song, but I just think that Hanoi Rocks always deserve a mention. |
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Hell, I'd build my player out of a classic Nomad Muvo 128 of the indestructable sort -- can't remember how many times I dropped mine. I've got room for a whole playlist. The first half would be 'hang in there' songs and the second half 'you're screwed' songs. |
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Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayr |
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2 (Ranting-Gryphon.com) - Jaunt |
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Offspring - Leave It Behind |
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Rammstein - Engel (english ver.) |
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AFI - something from Sing the Sorrow, probably Death of Seasons or maybe Leaving Song pt.2 |
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Blue Oyster Cult - Dont' Fear the Reaper |
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Probably finish with 2 doing 'The dragon song;' the flute part from the halfway to the end is... beautiful, eerie, and appropriate. |
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"Mama's in a factory, she ain't got no shoes,
Daddy's in the alley, lookin' for food,
I'm in the kitchen with the tombstone blues..."
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I'm guessing right now I have a 1/30 chance of this being the one for me. I guess it'd be better than Like a Rolling Stone, which would just make me cry if it were the last song I heard. |
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"Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta," Geto Boys. |
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I haven't visited this idea for a while but I'm back thanks to the [Random] button!
I was trying to think of something a bit more upbeat and redolent of beginnings rather than endings and realised that "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Wagner would be ideal both for your final moments and for your funeral. |
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> I’m driving along, typically and compulsively twirling the radio dial searching for a song I like. Suddenly – Crash! Swerve! Boom! Smoking remains of the car and me... |
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If you'd pay attention to the road instead of fiddling with your radio, you wouldn't need a good-bye song, but instead a home-safely song. |
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Anything by Marc Bolan!!!! (Bang a Gong) Marc was terrified of cars, and knew he would die in a terrible crash. He never got his license because of that!!! |
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He was riding with his friend, and the car crashed and he died. It was a terrible crash!!! |
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BANG A GONG MARC!!!!! YOU'RE THE BEST!!!!! GET IT ON!!!!!! <link> |
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[r_kreher] Yes, indeed - see my 12/12/2001 anno |
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I must agree with UnaBubba. I would like to drift off to Pachelbel's Canon in D. |
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My only regret that I have but one bun to give. |
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I guess I could see your point, [rcarty]. |
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Slightly pertinent story: After a particularly unnerving fire-fight, I once tried to calm myself down with pachelbel's Canon on my iPod. I couldn't really groove with it though given how juxtaposed it was to my state of agitation. Eventually I pulled out the ear phones and started chain-smoking. |
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[MikeD] - if I may - I would suggest that you can't start with Pachelbel in such an instance - the music can't take you anywhere because it never drops by to pick you up. Try the final section of Disney's Fantasia (Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" segueing into Schubert's "Ave Maria") and you might have better luck. |
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And, if any haven't, do check out that link I just put up last night - the world is lagging *so* far behind us sometimes. :D |
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May I suggest Eric Whitacre's "Sleep"? It's seemingly appropriate, at least on the metaphorical level. |
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//Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" segueing into Schubert's "Ave Maria"// |
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I will indeed, lurch. (as if posting on HB isn't blatantly indicative of having nothing better to do.) |
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"Coming back to life" ~ Pink Floyd. |
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Or "God's LHC" ~ don't even know if the people that sang the song have a band. |
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// I once tried to calm myself down with pachelbel's Canon on my iPod. // |
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Try Ron Goodwin's "Battle of Britain" score. |
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[8th] if this is anything like your last suggestion (religio medici) I will have to listen to each movement 5 times consecutively before moving on to the next and eventually hearing the piece in it's entirety 3 or 4 times before I actually understand it. Thank you, however, for the direction. The first 15 pages are really turning out to be extraordinary. |
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The "Battle of Britain" music is, shall we say, a little more "accessible". Cracking film, too .... in which the plucky Brits hold off the massed might of the Luftwaffe with (amazingly) almost no help whatsoever from the Americans (Yes, some volunteer U.S. pilots flew in the RAF during the battle). |
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Mind you, watch some more recent Hollywood products and one might (strangely) gain the impression that U.S. forces were in the thick of it all half way though the first afternoon, rather than showing up over two years after it all kicked off ......... |
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But don't think the British are ungrateful. |
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They leave that sort of thing to the french ... |
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//Organ Doner//Is that the kind they sell in dodgy kebab shops? |
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No, that's what they sell in the GOOD kebab shops .... you really, really don't want to know what they do in the dodgy ones ..... <link> |
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//rather than showing up over two years after it all kicked off ......... // |
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It has been a while since I heard criticism of the U.S. for *not* getting involved. It's surprisingly refreshing. |
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//They leave that sort of thing to the French ...// |
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There are two kinds of people I can't stand; Those intolerant to other peoples culture ... and the french. |
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Satisfied Mind - Jeff Buckley |
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+ hey, I had never voted on this before...better do it before I die. |
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"Happy" by Pharrell Williams. |
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So many songs about dying! Screw that, I want to lighten the mood, if I'm dead anyway. |
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Baby Shark, loud on repeat. |
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The worst kind of Earworm, so you can have the last laugh and breath, at the same time. {Of course, the Emergency services will have to start wearing ear-defenders, or disinfect themselves by humming or modifying their sirens to the Mexican Hat Dance} Bohemian Rhapsody, We Are the Champions and Who Wants To Live Forever. |
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I just wanted to say how much I love this idea. Though it was
a list, it was an amusing and entertaining one. Classic. |
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I made a Spotify playlist of this thread [link]. I will say that if I was in a crash, I would rather die than listen to ten plus hours of the music in the list. A purgatorial experience if ever there was one. |
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20 years later & calum resurrects a thread in which I made a horrible generalisation about lawyers. I feel so ashamed! :(
On the internet, the past is always there to haunt you! |
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I didn't think Calum was old enough to have been baking 20
years ago. I thought he was still in diapers. But then I still see
myself as 20. |
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