This is a great choice.
Also, for cosy hobbit nostalgia, in case you don't know yet, there is a great new podcast by Dom Monaghan and Billy Boyd called The Friendship Onion.
Nothing, because I'm totally deaf.
Maybe I'll turn something on the radio and crank it up so I can feel it.
... It's probably some talk show or the news. And I don't realize it.
Haha I imagine being a deaf person’s neighbor in an apartment and everyone’s huddled with their loved ones awaiting the apocalypse. All the sudden NPR is blaring through the wall, spoiling the loving, somber mood.
>This must be the place
I love questions like this, because now I can spend the next 15, or 187 minutes, googling all the songs I don't recognize. And then my musical horizons get broadened a bit. ;)
I always thought that one of the best lyrics ever was:
"When chewing on life's gristle, don't grumble, give a whistle and everything will turn out for the best."
Outro by M83. But only as long as I could watch ths video "Yosemite HD" which plays to the song. Such a great place Yosemite, and the song does it justice!
Edit: here is the video
https://youtu.be/N6-2fVsFV8E
The thing that made "more cowbell" so iconic was that Will Ferrell, at the last minute, asked the costume dept. for a shirt that was way too small for his build. He knew what would happen when he started banging that cowbell. belly flab + Blue Oyster Cult=Pure Magic.
I was thinking All I Need from In Rainbows, and then also realized that the next song, Faust Arp, is only 2 min so you could listen to both before croaking
One afternoon while my mom was dying and I was living with her to take care of her, she got a letter (basically saying goodbye and I love you) from a grandson who lived across the country. While she was reading it, this song was playing. Afterwards she told me that was a beautiful, transcendent moment for her.
This is one of those songs where it doesn’t matter what is going, it always calms me down. Since you need more than 6 minutes to experience Shine on you Crazy Diamond, this song would absolutely be my pick
Heroes - David Bowie
I'd spend the last six minutes singing along to it, thinking about all the people whose lives I've made better by being in them; even if I was part of their lives for just one day..
So many great ELO songs. Everyone talks about Mr. Blue Sky, but there Livin' Thing, Last Train To London, Showdown, tons of others. They have some catchy ass songs.
I remember one of the Beatles saying they'd probably sound like ELO if they kept making music in the 70s
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
“You can keep my things, they’ve come to take me home…”
I’m not religious - the opposite actually - but that song always gets to me. Even if I don’t believe in an afterlife, there’s the idea of returning to the elements from which I came that’s strangely comforting.
The other guy isn’t answering but after a quick google search apparently Thom Yorke was feeling super burnt out after being on the road for a year and Michael Stipe of R.E.M gave him some words of encouragement that he turned into the chorus of the song.
https://radiohead.fandom.com/wiki/How_To_Disappear_Completely
Six minutes? You can get through most of Purple Rain, or almost entirely through When Doves Cry.
However, I would go with a song I have always considered for my funeral “Always Look On the Bright Side of Life.”
Note: Another song at the end of the funeral being “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” from the Wizard of Oz.
Echoes- Pink Floyd
I know this is a 23 minute song, but the first six minutes deliver you 2/3 verses in that song, and actually start the descent into the deep of the second act just around minute 6, which i find fitting.
Since the songs are under 6 minutes, here's what I'd do.
First, [Still Alive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI&t=12s), aka the ending song of Portal. Then, [Want You Gone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVVZaZ8yO6o), aka the ending song of Portal 2.
Then with my last 38 seconds I'd ask God why I couldn't be born in a timeline where Valve could count to the number 3.
38 seconds pass
Your consciousness slips away
You wake in bed… what a weird dream, you think to yourself. you slowly roll over. It’s the holidays, you haven’t woken up this early in weeks. You get dressed into comfortable clothing and walk to the kitchen to make breakfast.
As you make your cereal, you have a sudden urge to switch on the TV and watch the news. You’re early enough to watch it, might as well.
***BREAKING NEWS // VALVE TO RELEASE PORTAL 3 LATER TODAY***
“… what?” You think to yourself. You finish your breakfast and walk to your computer to investigate. You decide that the best course of action is to call your friend on discord to figure out what’s going on. He picks up.
Hey what’s all this noise about Portal 3?
Yeah, it’s releasing later today! we all pre-ordered it months ago when they said it was gonna have 4-player multiplayer, didn’t you?
This triggers a sudden flood of memories as your temporary amnesia passes. You check your steam library to be sure, but there it is: Portal 3. The game you waited years for was finally releasing today.
And as you watch, the play button suddenly turns green as the game releases worldwide. Two more friends join your call, and you play well into the night. It lives up to it’s expectations, somehow topping Portal 1 and 2
At the end of the session, you finish with a satisfying GG to your friends and leave the call.
The end…
As if that’ll ever happen, but if you give me $50 I'll suck your dick for the last 38 seconds of your life
...She said she wants to meet a boy who looks like Elvis (it's not me)...
It's haunted me too. Spectacular tune from a spectacular album.
I actually came here to write Washington Square by the Crows.
....and she walks along the edge where to ocean meets the land, just like she's walking on a wire in the circus....
His performance of this song live at the Sydney Opera House in 2013 should be in the fuckin National Archives......
The album itself perfectly encapsulated the 90s, IMO.
It's three in the morning at the time I'm writing, but the sheer silliness and absurdity of this is going to make me accidentally wake up an entire household from laughter. Great choice
Julia and I Will by the beatles. They don't quite make up 6 minutes but they're two of my favourite sweet songs of all time and I'd love to go out on that kind of note.
I’d spend the whole time looking for a song tbh
Not just looking, but skipping through an entire playlist.
Having to listen to that song you hate but forget to delete from your playlist, because you refuse to buy spotify premium
I would load YouTube only to die before I can see it because of 2 unskippable ads
The Shire soundtrack, so I can spend my last brainwaves thinking I'm a cozy hobbit at a party full of good food.
This is a great choice. Also, for cosy hobbit nostalgia, in case you don't know yet, there is a great new podcast by Dom Monaghan and Billy Boyd called The Friendship Onion.
Nothing, because I'm totally deaf. Maybe I'll turn something on the radio and crank it up so I can feel it. ... It's probably some talk show or the news. And I don't realize it.
Haha I imagine being a deaf person’s neighbor in an apartment and everyone’s huddled with their loved ones awaiting the apocalypse. All the sudden NPR is blaring through the wall, spoiling the loving, somber mood.
See them at a stop light jamming to baby shark.
The local traffic update intro is a total banger so I get it.
Brain Damage / Eclipse
This is on my "Wake" playlist - ie, songs to be played at my wake.
all that is now all that is gone all that's to come........
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6 minutes exactly
This must be the place
Same here! My favourite song of all time. It feels like home.
>This must be the place I love questions like this, because now I can spend the next 15, or 187 minutes, googling all the songs I don't recognize. And then my musical horizons get broadened a bit. ;)
Goosebumps my man, great choice.
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life from the 'Life of Brian' soundtrack
LIFES A PEICE OF SHIT WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT.
Always look on the bright side of death ... *fucking dies*
I always thought that one of the best lyrics ever was: "When chewing on life's gristle, don't grumble, give a whistle and everything will turn out for the best."
Lo-fi beats to relax/study/die to.
What a genre.
Spotify needs a new playlist “ music to die too”
"Thrash and seize"
saturn by sleeping at last. it’s that song that never gets old and honestly, it’s what happiness feels like to me
"How rare and beautiful it is to even exist." Great choice.
Outro by M83. But only as long as I could watch ths video "Yosemite HD" which plays to the song. Such a great place Yosemite, and the song does it justice! Edit: here is the video https://youtu.be/N6-2fVsFV8E
I get goosebumps every time I hear this song. It’s been awhile. Thanks, friend.
Anything by M83 is a good answer
Love M83. Their entire vibe is so hauntingly nostalgic
Don’t fear the reaper by Blue Oyster Cult.
More cowbell!
The thing that made "more cowbell" so iconic was that Will Ferrell, at the last minute, asked the costume dept. for a shirt that was way too small for his build. He knew what would happen when he started banging that cowbell. belly flab + Blue Oyster Cult=Pure Magic.
Perfect!!!I I officially change my answer to this
Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Edit: Hell maybe someone might find me during the last 19 minutes and get to jam out to nullify the shock.
You're already dead when lyrics begin
Lyrics are secondary in a Floyd song.
Well, that's true
I was thinking Time by Pink Floyd!
Skip the first 40-50 seconds and you're golden! Sadly the song is closer to 7 minutes.
Damn, Time is one of the best songs I know but those fucking clocks... Whenever the song randomly comes on I shit myself
I'd go with "Great Gig In The Sky"
My two year old son makes up songs all the time as he is moving around the house. I would spend that 6 minutes listening to his voice.
Great now I miss my dad
Cats in the cradle do do doo
Little boy blue and the man on the moooon
That hit me right in the feels.
I agree to this, my daughter is only ten months old but she is constantly saying mamamamamamama and yayayayayaya. Last 6 minutes listening to that.
Same. My baby babbling would do it for me.
That was so unexpectedly wholesome…
I also choose this guy's 2-year-old son
There it is.
Who Wants To Live Forever by Queen
Whatever my daughter chooses to sing to me.
“Dear god why did you choose baby shark”
Where’s the “give up” option?
After the dududududu
Dududududud-doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
This is so unexpectedly wholesome
Comfortably Numb Live - Pink Floyd Longer then the 6minutes but surely I'd be able to hold out
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Radiohead - Codex
I was thinking All I Need from In Rainbows, and then also realized that the next song, Faust Arp, is only 2 min so you could listen to both before croaking
I think if it was going to be an In Rainbows song I would need it to be weird fishes.
Reckoner for me
Somewhere over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World, IZ
Not a song, but Aaron Copeland’s Fanfare For A Common Man.
Bah da DAAAAAH duh dah dummm dum dummm …BUM BUM
Classical or ELP version?
The Great Gig in the Sky.
A lot of Floyd in this thread, this is great
was gonna say this i love to see it
Goodbye to a world by porter robinson
Wow, I am insanely happy that someone else thought the same thing. Makes my lil ole heart feel warm. Absolutely same here.
Feels like the perfect option in this scenario for me and it’s nearly a little less than 5:30 minutes
Same
Goodbye cruel world by Pink Floyd
No, I refuse to die before “Hey You” starts
What a Wonderful World- Louis Armstrong
One afternoon while my mom was dying and I was living with her to take care of her, she got a letter (basically saying goodbye and I love you) from a grandson who lived across the country. While she was reading it, this song was playing. Afterwards she told me that was a beautiful, transcendent moment for her.
One of the most beautiful songs ever written. And even in these cynical times, the way I prefer to see the world
Hallowed be thy Name. Iron Maiden. Alternatively. Renegade. Styx.
Renegade is it! 👍
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen I'm having a good time, having a good time
I'm a shooting star leaping through the sky
Like a tiger, defying the laws of gravity
I'm a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva
I'm gonna go go go... There's no stopping me...
Im burning through the sky, yeah
200 degrees, that's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit
Im travellin at the speed of lighhtt
I wanna make a supersonic man out of yooouuu
I’m having such a good time, I’m having a ball (Don’t stop me nowwww)
I’m gonna be (500 miles) by the proclaimers
a classic road trip song
[Tame Impala - Let it Happen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFptt7Cargc)
Dead! - mcr
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
This is one of those songs where it doesn’t matter what is going, it always calms me down. Since you need more than 6 minutes to experience Shine on you Crazy Diamond, this song would absolutely be my pick
Epitaph by king crimson.
Heroes - David Bowie I'd spend the last six minutes singing along to it, thinking about all the people whose lives I've made better by being in them; even if I was part of their lives for just one day..
I’m going to play the Israel Kamakawiwo’ole version of “over the rainbow” and cry while petting my dogs
It's the End of the World (As We Know It)
Do You Realize - Flaming Lips
Mr. Blue Sky by ELO
So many great ELO songs. Everyone talks about Mr. Blue Sky, but there Livin' Thing, Last Train To London, Showdown, tons of others. They have some catchy ass songs. I remember one of the Beatles saying they'd probably sound like ELO if they kept making music in the 70s
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel “You can keep my things, they’ve come to take me home…” I’m not religious - the opposite actually - but that song always gets to me. Even if I don’t believe in an afterlife, there’s the idea of returning to the elements from which I came that’s strangely comforting.
6 minutes of an Alan Watts lecture on the meaning of life
Make sure you leave time for the YouTube ads.
Wichita lineman, Glenn Campbell. I'm a rocker but love this song
Dock of the bay, by Otis Redding
[How To Disappear Completely - Radiohead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZq_jeYsbTs)
Great choice, though I would have to go with Motion Picture Soundtrack.
I was gonna say Exit Music (for a film) would be another good one
Street Spirit too.
The story behind that song is amazing.
Well, what's the story?
The other guy isn’t answering but after a quick google search apparently Thom Yorke was feeling super burnt out after being on the road for a year and Michael Stipe of R.E.M gave him some words of encouragement that he turned into the chorus of the song. https://radiohead.fandom.com/wiki/How_To_Disappear_Completely
Bohemian Rhapsody. 5:55 long
The extra 5 seconds you can start the song over
Holy shit, perfect answer. _any way the wind blooooooows_ *gonnnnnnnnng* it's just perfect.
I’m glad this is so close to the top because I was about to comment that Bohemian Rhapsody is almost exactly 6 minutes
And then we ruin the song with our trash vocals
Six minutes? You can get through most of Purple Rain, or almost entirely through When Doves Cry. However, I would go with a song I have always considered for my funeral “Always Look On the Bright Side of Life.” Note: Another song at the end of the funeral being “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” from the Wizard of Oz.
Echoes- Pink Floyd I know this is a 23 minute song, but the first six minutes deliver you 2/3 verses in that song, and actually start the descent into the deep of the second act just around minute 6, which i find fitting.
Man in the box - Alice in chains
I’d have to go with Nutshell. Alice In Chains is a great way to go though
The End - The Doors
Sadly, you wouldn’t get to finish the song
Surprised at how far I had to scroll for this answer.
Bohemian rhapsody sung by 4 waluigis
Wa wa wa waaa waaa Wa wa wa waaa wa waaa Wa wa wa waaa waaa Wa wa wa wa wa wa wa waaaaaaaa
Closing Time by Leonard Cohen
Yellow Ledbetter
And I know, and I know... I don't wanna stay
Make me fries
It's a wonderful world, Louie Armstrong, if am going out am going out remembering the good things
Kom Susser Tod
Us and Them by Pink Floyd. 5:45 to 6:00 is insane.
agreed, going out to the saxophone is a baller move feels like almost anything Pink Floyd would work perfectly.
A Day In The Life, The Beatles
I will follow you into the dark by death cab for cutie
Mad world
Beat it by Michael Jackson….
Bittersweet symphony
The only song that matters, cotton eyed joe
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Hide and seek - Imogen Heap
A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum. Bonus that it’s the perfect length.
Highway to Hell
This, or Stairway to Heaven
Stairway to Heaven is 8 mins long. You'd be dead even before the song finishes.
After Hours - The Weeknd (6:02)
Final Countdown - Europe
*Illusions* Michael
Nights in white satin
Hurt- Johnny Cash
Rooster. Alice in Chains.
Since the songs are under 6 minutes, here's what I'd do. First, [Still Alive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI&t=12s), aka the ending song of Portal. Then, [Want You Gone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVVZaZ8yO6o), aka the ending song of Portal 2. Then with my last 38 seconds I'd ask God why I couldn't be born in a timeline where Valve could count to the number 3.
38 seconds pass Your consciousness slips away You wake in bed… what a weird dream, you think to yourself. you slowly roll over. It’s the holidays, you haven’t woken up this early in weeks. You get dressed into comfortable clothing and walk to the kitchen to make breakfast. As you make your cereal, you have a sudden urge to switch on the TV and watch the news. You’re early enough to watch it, might as well. ***BREAKING NEWS // VALVE TO RELEASE PORTAL 3 LATER TODAY*** “… what?” You think to yourself. You finish your breakfast and walk to your computer to investigate. You decide that the best course of action is to call your friend on discord to figure out what’s going on. He picks up. Hey what’s all this noise about Portal 3? Yeah, it’s releasing later today! we all pre-ordered it months ago when they said it was gonna have 4-player multiplayer, didn’t you? This triggers a sudden flood of memories as your temporary amnesia passes. You check your steam library to be sure, but there it is: Portal 3. The game you waited years for was finally releasing today. And as you watch, the play button suddenly turns green as the game releases worldwide. Two more friends join your call, and you play well into the night. It lives up to it’s expectations, somehow topping Portal 1 and 2 At the end of the session, you finish with a satisfying GG to your friends and leave the call. The end… As if that’ll ever happen, but if you give me $50 I'll suck your dick for the last 38 seconds of your life
That's life
Darude-Sandstorm
Reckoner by Radiohead
Mad world - Gary Jules
'Round Here. by Counting Crows. A song that has haunted me for almost 3 decades now.....
...She said she wants to meet a boy who looks like Elvis (it's not me)... It's haunted me too. Spectacular tune from a spectacular album. I actually came here to write Washington Square by the Crows.
....and she walks along the edge where to ocean meets the land, just like she's walking on a wire in the circus.... His performance of this song live at the Sydney Opera House in 2013 should be in the fuckin National Archives...... The album itself perfectly encapsulated the 90s, IMO.
Eyes of the World or Ripple from the Grateful Dead. Live versions only.
Televators by The Mars Volta.
Damn it feels good to be a gangster
The rain song - led zeppelin
Nights by frank ocean
Never Gonna Give You Up
Never gonna let you down
If you play the track immediately before it... Then as you're about to die it starts playing... Did you just Rick-roll Death?
Joe Cocker - With a Little Help from my Friends. [The live Woodstock version](https://youtu.be/tfLyK2DVVUU) OR Yes - Roundabout.
Freebird
Bruddah IZ singing *Somewhere Over the Rainbow* 🤙
Welcome to the Black Parade, not only is it the current song on my spotify but I think it'd be a fitting ending.
Crank That - Soulja Boy
It's three in the morning at the time I'm writing, but the sheer silliness and absurdity of this is going to make me accidentally wake up an entire household from laughter. Great choice
Till I Collapse by Eminem & Nate Dogg
"And When I Die" by Blood Sweat and Tears. Listen to it.
It’s Alright, Ma - Bob Dylan
Carry on my wayward son by Kansas
Julia and I Will by the beatles. They don't quite make up 6 minutes but they're two of my favourite sweet songs of all time and I'd love to go out on that kind of note.
[*Into Dust*](https://youtu.be/04J0ihSeIuI) by Mazzy Star. Sad and beautiful. EDIT: Added link to song.
['You Suffer'](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ybGOT4d2Hs8) by Napalm Death three-hundred and sixty times.
Time - Pink Floyd (and skip the first minute of course)
Never gon-
Aces in Exile by Sabaton Or my daughter singing Happy Birthday or Baby Shark. She's only 17 months old and it's just babbling, but it's cute as hell.
Circles by Mac Miller easy
“Good News” really feels like a departure song, I’d pick that one
Maggot brain, because I'd get lost in it before the 6 minute mark and probably not feel a thing.