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Name some pop songs about death.

― Michael Quinion, Friday, 21 February 2003 07:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Strictly pop? No rock songs?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 February 2003 07:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

eskobar - good day for dying

― Katja (blue), Friday, 21 February 2003 07:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

sophia - so slow

― Katja (blue), Friday, 21 February 2003 07:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes only pop. There are a million rock songs about death.

― Michael Quinion, Friday, 21 February 2003 07:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Saint Etienne - "Like a Motorway"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 07:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Didn't they do this in High Fidelity? And doesn't that make the question automatically cheesy, the same way that "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is automatically disqualified because of its relation to the movie The Big Chill?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 21 February 2003 08:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

"people who died"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 21 February 2003 08:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Seasons In The Sun - Brel (by way of Terry Jacks)

― jack battery-pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 21 February 2003 08:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

leader of the pack - tha shangrilas.

― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 21 February 2003 08:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't really think I'd call the Jim Carroll Band a "pop" band, jim.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 February 2003 08:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Curtis Mayfield Freddie's Dead.

― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Friday, 21 February 2003 08:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jan & Dean - 'Dead Man's Curve'

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 21 February 2003 09:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

nick lowe - marie provost

― brains (cerybut), Friday, 21 February 2003 09:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 21 February 2003 10:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

The collected works of Scott Walker... especially My Death, but I think that's a Jaque Brel (sp?) cover, isn't it?

Correct me if I'm all factually wrong, I've been hitting the lemsip,...

― kate, Friday, 21 February 2003 10:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

it is. and it has also been covered by marc almond.

― Katja (blue), Friday, 21 February 2003 10:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Teen Angel", "Tell Laura I Love Her", that sort of thing?

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 21 February 2003 10:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Shakespeare's Sister 'Stay' (deals with the prospect of death anyway)

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 21 February 2003 11:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Aaron Hall 'I Miss You' (cheesy Rn'B ballad)

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 21 February 2003 11:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bone Thugs / Blazin' Squad 'Crossroads'

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 21 February 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

United States of America - Love Song for the Dead Che (doesn't mention Che excpet for the title, instead a gorgeous and strange song about the tenderness of bereavement - pleas to the departed to return masquerading as unrequited love lyrics - it brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it)

― pulpo, Friday, 21 February 2003 11:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

bat out of hell - meatloaf.

― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 21 February 2003 12:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Tomorrow Wendy". That song always made me morally indignant. What if some 5-year-old girl named Wendy heard it and was traumatised for life?

― dave q, Friday, 21 February 2003 12:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Honey - Bobby Goldsboro (boo-hoo!)

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 21 February 2003 13:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Uh, Elton John to thread...

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 21 February 2003 14:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Do "I'll Fly Away" or "O Death" count? Both were covered on the _O Brother_ soundtrack, which was very "pop" (as in popular) indeed. Of course, country songs about death merit a whole separate thread...

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Eric Clapton - "Tears in Heaven"
James Taylor - "Fire and Rain"

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Screaming Jay Hawkins

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Norman Greenbaum - "Spirit in the Sky"

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Li'l theme here:

"The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia"

"The Night Chicago Died"

"In the Ghetto"

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I Shot Mr. Lee"--the Bobettes.

"No More the Moon Shines on Lorena" as interp. by Alex Chilton.

― frank p. jones (frank p. jones), Friday, 21 February 2003 18:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Copkiller" Body Count

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 21 February 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Can't Stand Losing You" - The Police

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 21 February 2003 18:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

man oh man does "Spirit in the Sky" kick ass!

― g.cannon (gcannon), Friday, 21 February 2003 18:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

bobbie gentry - ode to billie joe

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 21 February 2003 18:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

talking heads - "heaven"

― chris smith, Friday, 21 February 2003 18:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

cutting crew - (i just) died in your arms"

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 21 February 2003 18:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

how 'bout last kiss?

would you include tribute songs like american pie, martin john and abraham or even that puff daddy song about biggie (missing you?)?

― jq higgins, Friday, 21 February 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

"American Pie"-Don Mclean And "My Way"-Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, or Sid Vicious (all dead)

― Charles McCain, Friday, 21 February 2003 18:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oingo Boingo - "Dead Man's Party"

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

*dies*

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm still so fond of "Tomorrow, Wendy." Not nearly as taken with the "God got his ass kicked" line as I was when I was 13, but still awfully moved.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

There are innumerable raps about dead homies.

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 21 February 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

He said "pop" songs guys....

"This Ole House" Shakin' Stevens.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 21 February 2003 22:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

lush - "when i die"

― juice (juice), Saturday, 22 February 2003 05:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

happy bday JESSJESSJESS!

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 22 February 2003 05:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

man oh man does "Spirit in the Sky" kick ass!

Doctor and the Medics or Norman Greenbaum?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 22 February 2003 06:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

"My Coffin" by Quasi (and lots more besides)
"Princess And The Pony" by Sean Na-Na
"Your Day Will Come" by Minus 5

― wl (wl), Saturday, 22 February 2003 10:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

I thought it was agreed that there would be no more threads based on discussions from the movie HI FIDELITY.
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― Big Pooba, Saturday, 22 February 2003 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thank you for that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 February 2003 23:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

the book is called 'How To Cope With Losing Your Pants'

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 22 February 2003 23:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

What's Dust in the Wind (Kansas) about?
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Don't fear the reaper (Blue Oyster Cult)

― Big Blue Skies, Saturday, 22 February 2003 23:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I Shot The Sheriff" not mentioned yet?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 23 February 2003 00:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

pink frost - the chills.

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 23 February 2003 03:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

My list. I should've included "Pink Frost."

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 January 2019 03:33 (five years ago) link

My fave (also, the funniest): Dar Williams - "Alleluia"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZQeW6XPAE0

― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 20 January 2019 04:14 (five years ago) link

The Who - Little Billy
Richard & Linda Thompson - Wall of Death, When I Get to the Border

― Hideous Lump, Monday, 21 January 2019 02:18 (five years ago) link

ugh yes Richard and Linda

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 January 2019 02:27 (five years ago) link

two years pass...

Revive, cos my dear friend told me that a guy who raped her died, and we're trying to make a playlist so we can have a private laugh about it, like good riddance, you pig.

We came up with

"Don't Fear the Reaper"
"Highway to Hell"
"Hell's Bells"
"Candle in the wind"
"My Way"
"Leavin on a Jet Plane"
"The Queen is Dead"
"Fire and Rain"

― Cancel "Orangina", Please (I M Losted), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link

My personal favorite when someone I can't stand kicks the bucket:

"Almost Paradise" Ann Wilson and the dude with the headband from Loverboy.

― Cancel "Orangina", Please (I M Losted), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link

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