One song before you died

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  • verbtotrust4130
    verbtotrust4130 Posts: 52
    Around the bend or Present Tense
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,386
    Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Probably something upbeat/uplifting that I could lose myself in for a while. Maybe a Phish jam like the Bathtub Gin from 8/17/97 or Chalkdust Torture from 7/10/99. Both peak in a beautiful way as the jams unfold and put me in my happy place every time.
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • Stonerlady
    Stonerlady Posts: 240
    My PJ fav: Rearviewmirror
    Kinda fits I think.
  • coltsman8989
    coltsman8989 Posts: 13
    Pearl Jam-Off He Goes
    Otherwise-Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man
  • acrossssSsssshittt
    acrossssSsssshittt Posts: 1,014
    present tense
  • vesuri
    vesuri Posts: 12
    Came across this thread and almost laughed out loud...

    Since I have lung cancer and apparently it is incurable, reading this kind of thread is, should I say, quite surreal. I'm doing ok, but there's also the inevitable...

    I knew that someone has very good sense of humor upstairs when I bought the new BACKSPACER album and listened to Just Breathe.... very mixed emotions with that song... Somedays I just can't listen to it at all. And other days it's so comforting and relaxing...

    I really do hope I still have days left to see my alll time favourite band live!!! Too bad their tour doesn't land anywhere near, so it might stay a dream unfulfilled.

    Anyways, all the best to you all good people!

    Jussi
  • acrossssSsssshittt
    acrossssSsssshittt Posts: 1,014
    vesuri wrote:
    Came across this thread and almost laughed out loud...

    Since I have lung cancer and apparently it is incurable, reading this kind of thread is, should I say, quite surreal. I'm doing ok, but there's also the inevitable...

    I knew that someone has very good sense of humor upstairs when I bought the new BACKSPACER album and listened to Just Breathe.... very mixed emotions with that song... Somedays I just can't listen to it at all. And other days it's so comforting and relaxing...

    I really do hope I still have days left to see my alll time favourite band live!!! Too bad their tour doesn't land anywhere near, so it might stay a dream unfulfilled.

    Anyways, all the best to you all good people!

    Jussi





    It's really touching to read your post and my heartfelt prayers are with you... from my experiences with loved ones who have been on their way home, I have come to see that they attain a sense of peace and wisdom which I can only aspire to and so sincerely respect... from reading your post, it appears and i would like to think that you too have found some peace... I truly believe diggin Pearl Jam (or at times not being able to dig because things get far too intense) will allow you to realize just completely, your every emotion and feeling, to appreciate the lows and the highs ... because for me, their music and words have made my life only too meaningful, and often the emotions felt are too much to bear.... but then this is our life and the deeper we get, the better I reckon...


    then again I'm sure you know all this and much more... take good care
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    "Don't fear the Reaper"
  • ColinAllCars
    ColinAllCars Waterbury, CT Posts: 54
    "dweller on the threshold" by van morrison
    10/2/96- Hartford, CT; 9/13/98- Hartford, CT; 9/15/98- Mansfield, MA; 9/4/00- Columbia, MD; 7/8/03- NY, NY; 7/9/03- NY, NY; 9/28/2004- Boston, MA; 5/4/06- NY, NY; 6/14/08- Manchester, TN; 6/27/08- Hartford, CT; 6/30/08- Mansfield, MA; 6/9/09- Albany, NY (Ed solo); 10/31/09- Philadelphia, PA; 5/15/10- Hartford, CT; 10/25/13- Hartford, CT
  • BLACK35
    BLACK35 Hanover, Ontario Posts: 22,977
    It would have to be Black
    2005 - London
    2009 - Toronto
    2010 - Buffalo
    2011 - Toronto 1&2
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit
    2016 - Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Ottawa, Toronto 1
    2018 - Fenway 1&2
    2022 - Hamilton, Toronto
    2023 - Chicago 1&2
    2024 - Las Vegas 1&2
  • eknuckles
    eknuckles Posts: 10
    If I died married with kids I would pick the end, and I would sing it to them all. If it were in my current state I would pick can't keep.
  • JC8074
    JC8074 Posts: 127
    Release

    ...crackling vinyl version.
  • Off He Goes79
    Off He Goes79 Posts: 14
    It would have to be Man of the Hour, that has always been a very emotional song for me. Especially after my grandfather died last year.
  • wildheartsandburningwaters
    wildheartsandburningwaters Posts: 18
    Tough choice... But prolly Release, it says everything about life and death.
  • Gerald Richey
    Gerald Richey Posts: 56
    Walk away by ben harper
    no more crowbars to my head
  • bec E
    bec E Posts: 40
    Another one bites the dust Queen.....not really lol Id probably go with Release :)
    He who forgets will be destined to remember....
  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    i am mine..
    wah
  • Break The Sky
    Break The Sky Posts: 1,276
    My friend passed away a few years back. . . he was 19. I didn't cry when I found out or at the funeral, I was mostly just angry.

    I got into my car after the funeral and took the long way home. I was so angry at god. I turned on the radio and Bargain by The Who came on. . . his favourite song. I screamed that song at the top of my lungs with tears rolling down my face. The sun came out from the clouds and I felt like that was how I said goodbye to him.

    If I have to go, I'm going to go loud. I would rather be ashes than dust, and Bargain would be my last song.
    If hope can grow from dirt like me ...
  • JP33
    JP33 Posts: 1,348
    Long Road

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